Mikey of Yaletown @hewhomikes.bsky.social · 06/12/2025So I just saw Predator:Badlands…did anyone else think that to make Elle Fanning into the villain they just gave her the Kristen Bell hairstyle? 000
Mikey of Yaletown @hewhomikes.bsky.social · 22/05/2025Wow I wonder how good these rookies Nathan Eovaldi and Carlos Rodón will be lol 010
Mikey of Yaletown @hewhomikes.bsky.social · 09/05/2025TIL that Florida has a criminal charge on the books for “throwing deadly missiles” because of course it does 120
Mikey of Yaletown @hewhomikes.bsky.social · 28/04/2025The Costco in Vancouver has had fire sales on KitchenAid products over the past few weeks, and I think I just realized why 081
Mikey of Yaletown @hewhomikes.bsky.social · 27/04/2025I’m always a little hopeful, but deep down I know Trump sees learning as beneath him and a job for other people - anyone following the war even casually would have realized no later than the day Prigozhin’s plane went down that Putin is on a one-way trip www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...theguardian.comAmid plea to build bridges at papal funeral, Trump has a revelation – about RussiaUS president’s epiphany that Putin may not want to stop Ukraine war follows ‘symbolic’ talk with Zelenskyy in St Peter’s Basilica 030
Mikey of Yaletown @hewhomikes.bsky.social · 26/04/2025Movie you’ve watched more than six times using gifs. (“Hard mode” no Star Wars, Star Trek, or LOTR)media.tenor.coma man in a purple shirt is sitting at a table in a restaurant .Alt: John Cusack is sitting in a restaurant booth making every facial expression imaginable in this scene from High Fidelity 010
Mikey of Yaletown @hewhomikes.bsky.social · 26/04/2025Whichever brain trust decided it was a good idea to all but shut down Granville St at the bridge on a Friday at rush hour deserves a good Karening or twelve 000
Reposted by Mikey of YaletownCentral NJ Yimby 🏗️🚲🚇🇺🇸 @princetonyimby.bsky.social · 25/04/2025In 2015 I wrote a blog saying that we should allow Uber to operate in Princeton because taxicab companies were totally ripping us off. We did allow Uber, and now, mysteriously, the fares charged by traditional taxicab companies have dropped a lot. Interesting!! walkableprinceton.com/2015/01/08/p...walkableprinceton.comPrinceton Should Take A Light Touch On ‘Uber’-style Car ServiceSince Uber quietly launched in New Jersey last year, an increasing number of local residents are finding that it offers a very interesting alternative to traditional cab companies. Users can reserv… 162
Mikey of Yaletown @hewhomikes.bsky.social · 23/04/2025And I’m so happy that the First Nations involved have stuck with the plan through years of BS opposition (not a small amount of it coming from folks who virtue signaled about unceded land while also fighting essentially any use of this returned territory) 050
Mikey of Yaletown @hewhomikes.bsky.social · 22/04/2025Michael Bay is really leaning hard on those Family Guy manatees for new movie franchise ideas 110
Mikey of Yaletown @hewhomikes.bsky.social · 21/04/2025How sporting of cities to suddenly prioritize transit before a big event (In Canada, Edmonton LRT: ‘78 Commonwealth Games Vancouver SkyTrain: Expo ‘86 Canada Line: 2010 Olympics Montreal Metro: Expo ‘67/1976 Summer Olympics CTrain: Stampede/1988 Winter Olympics) 082
Mikey of Yaletown @hewhomikes.bsky.social · 15/04/2025Anyone else noticing that clips of The Majority Report are just one camera focused on Emma lately regardless of who’s speaking? 000
Mikey of Yaletown @hewhomikes.bsky.social · 12/04/2025I’m not a fan of Scheer or this ad, but I respect the director for correctly capturing that Scheer is a 6’4” man who desperately wants to wake up 5’5” one day 000
Mikey of Yaletown @hewhomikes.bsky.social · 09/04/2025I don’t know what corruption even means to these voters if the numbers aren’t over 90% all around 130
Reposted by Mikey of YaletownI’m Gonna Be A Barley Boy🇺🇦 @crucialcaveat.bsky.social · 07/04/2025How come no one asks these people what trade school their children and grandchildren are attending? 021
Mikey of Yaletown @hewhomikes.bsky.social · 07/04/2025Someone at Google is emphasizing the wipeout with long, relentless lines, and I’m 100% in support of that choice 050
Reposted by Mikey of YaletownTurgid Jacobian @trgdjcbn.bsky.social · 05/04/2025Instructions: taunt small child 083
Mikey of Yaletown @hewhomikes.bsky.social · 04/04/2025Seriously, if you live in Vancouver, please vote tomorrow…and please consider voting for Lucy, because we genuinely need progressive voices of reason on city council! 0175
Reposted by Mikey of YaletownGRIDS Vancouver @grids.reillywood.com · 04/04/2025omg www.reddit.com/r/vancouver/... 1307
Mikey of Yaletown @hewhomikes.bsky.social · 03/04/2025Idk AP… I think a 40-58 split on the economy is a clear enough unfavorable opinion for most people 010
Reposted by Mikey of YaletownBrandon Hardin @hardin.bsky.social · 03/04/2025Cackling madly at this 062
Reposted by Mikey of YaletownDoomer VonDoomington 🇺🇦 @doomervon.bsky.social · 03/04/2025In the event y'all didn't know. The Canadian government buying billboard space in Florida. I've seen two of these in south Florida. 131
Mikey of Yaletown @hewhomikes.bsky.social · 03/04/2025The photos of Trump playing with the tariff chart are giving this (and are arguably even less serious) 000
Mikey of Yaletown @hewhomikes.bsky.social · 02/04/2025Fun fact: Babe Ruth hit at least 11 inside-the-park home runs Yes, parks were bigger. Yes, gloves got better. But the fact remains that this big dude swinging a three-pound bat scored on a fair ball more often than Mantle, or Mays, or Rickey Henderson (who only hit one IPH in his career) 020
Mikey of Yaletown @hewhomikes.bsky.social · 02/04/2025Just in case this hasn’t been said 940,000 times already: the Trump admin made a deliberate choice to announce the tariffs tomorrow, not today, because the whole scenario sounds too much like an April Fool’s prank as it is 010
Mikey of Yaletown @hewhomikes.bsky.social · 01/04/2025www.nytimes.com/2025/03/28/w... Masterful gambit Mr. Trumpnytimes.comAirlines Cut Seats to the U.S. as Canadians Stay Away (Gift Article)Several airlines have reduced the number of seats on U.S.-bound flights in April, while industry data shows that bookings have declined significantly. 021
Mikey of Yaletown @hewhomikes.bsky.social · 31/03/2025TIL that the Mets scored 25 runs in its first three games of the season twice (‘95 and ‘04) and still lost two of the three games The Mets are also 1-2 so far this season, but in this case they’ve only crossed the plate five times 000
Mikey of Yaletown @hewhomikes.bsky.social · 30/03/2025Until AI cures cancer, we’ll have to settle for AI being our low-rent, personalized McSweeney’s 010
Mikey of Yaletown @hewhomikes.bsky.social · 26/03/2025God you need GP referrals for everything these days 010
Mikey of Yaletown @hewhomikes.bsky.social · 24/03/2025The twist is that even though the diner makes Folgers the old-fashioned way, it’s only nine years old 000
Mikey of Yaletown @hewhomikes.bsky.social · 21/03/2025It sounds to this untrained ear like the US Secretary of Commerce is trying to unalive his mother in law (Sorry about everyone else who might die in the process, but) 030
Reposted by Mikey of YaletownKevin Wilson @kwilsonhfx.bsky.social · 21/03/2025open.substack.com/pub/missingm...open.substack.comCanada Needs to Build 3 Million Homes in 10 Years to Solve the Housing CrisisThis number is lower than previous estimates, due to recent immigration policy changes 021
Reposted by Mikey of YaletownJonathan Berk 🏠 @berkie1.bsky.social · 20/03/2025The New York City Subway is a backbone of the U.S. economy. 🚇 💼 3.5 million+ riders rely on it daily. 🌎 Without it, NYC, accounting for 7.4% of annual U.S. GDP, would grind to a halt. 🚇 The subway isn’t just a train system... it’s an engine of American prosperity. 2518
Mikey of Yaletown @hewhomikes.bsky.social · 19/03/2025Since housing is on a lot of minds today, I’d like to add that 1. I will always be amazed that this is all Vancouver allowed on the Cambie corridor after years and years 2. When the MST First Nations put forth a more forward-thinking plan for its land, the inclination at City Hall was to fight it 110
Mikey of Yaletown @hewhomikes.bsky.social · 18/03/2025Eric Levitz is the only person for whom two impostor accounts followed me on the other site After this story I don’t think it matters anymore…not following any of them now 010
Reposted by Mikey of Yaletowncollie.bsky.social @collie.bsky.social · 17/03/2025Do not give them ideas 0557
Mikey of Yaletown @hewhomikes.bsky.social · 17/03/2025My ex hated when I joked that Canada is a country that started as a department store But it really isn’t every day that a 354-year-old company closes its doors. Hell, the previous King Charles granted the royal charter 020
Mikey of Yaletown @hewhomikes.bsky.social · 16/03/2025Reasons Western Civilization died: 1. Spray-tanned septuagenarians with nuclear footballs 2. Unelected autocracy by manchild whose ancestors moved to South Africa because Canada wasn’t racist enough > > > 37,845. Pokémon Go 37,846. Rich a-holes divorcing 010
Mikey of Yaletown @hewhomikes.bsky.social · 15/03/2025The New York Times used a photo from Toronto’s airport to illustrate a story about the US travel ban - because NYC famously has no airports of its own 010
Mikey of Yaletown @hewhomikes.bsky.social · 15/03/2025I don’t know if it’s ironic (tell me what you think) or just messed up, but even though annexation would make my life so much easier in so many ways, this issue is not difficult for me. Rational people just don’t invade other sovereign nations without serious provocation 000
Reposted by Mikey of YaletownFlying Mezerkis @bananapantz.bsky.social · 14/03/2025media.tenor.coma red white and blue canadian flag with a maple leafALT: a red white and blue canadian flag with a maple leaf 093
Mikey of Yaletown @hewhomikes.bsky.social · 13/03/2025I wonder if there’s a 28-acre plot of land that could have solved this problem when it was suggested in the 90s and again in 2005 Oh well, I guess NYC didn’t need the Olympics anyway 000
Mikey of Yaletown @hewhomikes.bsky.social · 11/03/2025Just watched a YouTube video about how medieval knights didn’t really quest. I thought it was just common sense that Indiana Jones spent most of his time teaching…but I guess gaming is coloring historical perspective 000
Reposted by Mikey of YaletownJake Berman @lostsubways.com · 09/03/2025i made a map of every active major league #baseball team's relocation history. check it out! 413529
Mikey of Yaletown @hewhomikes.bsky.social · 09/03/2025I was in Florida twice in January (my non-Canadian parents live there) and Ron’s take is complete desperate spin. Ron wouldn’t be so desanctimonious if he were honest about how many Canadian-plated cars were on the Turnpike or I-95 headed north in the middle of snowbird season 110
Mikey of Yaletown @hewhomikes.bsky.social · 07/03/2025Again, I love my city, and I think it’s hilarious that we now have to sink the Mark I trains as reefs or something, when Toronto easily could have picked them up for roughly $35 and a discounted subscription to Maclean’s 000
Mikey of Yaletown @hewhomikes.bsky.social · 07/03/2025I have given up on avoiding widows in my skeets - until Bsky lets you edit (and I’m fine if they don’t), you’re all going to have to deal with words dangling at the end. Believe me, this hurts me more than it hurts you 110
Mikey of Yaletown @hewhomikes.bsky.social · 05/03/2025What’s up babe? You’ve barely touched your Wrigley’s Lettuce Gum 010
Mikey of Yaletown @hewhomikes.bsky.social · 01/03/2025I’m curious to know which borough most NY Times readers actually thought Wu-Tang came from, because 14%… are you kidding? 020