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John Bollwitt

@johnbollwitt.com
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Blogger, podcaster, photographer, coder, urbanism fan, Linux practitioner, open source enthusiast, futbol enjoyer, co-founder of sixty4media, husband to @Miss604.com, full-time broadcast engineer, Iowa born & raised, Canadian immigrant

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Rebecca Bollwitt @miss604.com · 21/09/2026
The Vancouver Park Board invites residents to experience ON UNCEDED TERRITORY, an exhibition celebrating the work of artists from the three local Nations: xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh).
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ON UNCEDED TERRITORY Exhibition
ON UNCEDED TERRITORY is a free exhibition celebrating the work of artists from the three local Nations: xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh).
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John Bollwitt @johnbollwitt.com · 05/09/2026
Hey, it's #BandcampFriday!
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Rebecca Bollwitt @miss604.com · 03/09/2026
Tonight in #Vancouver Outside BC Place after the Whitecaps tied with Montreal in the #CanChamp quarterfinal 💧 #canada #cities #rain #reflection #photography
Low point of view in front of a puddle in the middle of a closed road outside the stadium. It’s nighttime and raindrops form rings in the water that’s reflected red traffic lights and the blue-purple glow from the stadium as a crowd filters out of the plaza
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Brittlestar @brittlestar.com · 01/09/2026
It’s Nice To Be Disliked By One Of Those
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Rebecca Bollwitt @miss604.com · 27/08/2026
On this day 9 years ago we were in Ottawa to see @johnbollwitt.com's photo added to the permanent collection of the Canadian History Museum. We were invited to a long-table event on Parliament Hill that night and we toasted his Canadian journey. It was really special to see him accomplish this ❤️🇨🇦
A collage of photos: Across the top is a panorama with about 150 people sitting along a long table dinner setup in the middle of a closed street in front of the Canadian parliament buildings at dusk. The bottom left shows a champagne glass reaching out to cheers another, full of bubly, and a man in sunglasses holding that glass (I'm holding the other but out of view). The bottom, top right is of John standing next to his photo display in the Canadian Museum of History, looking up. The bottom, bottom right is a selfie of me in front of the longtable, with John in the background standing up from his seat, with the parliament buildings in the background.
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Bandcamp @bandcamp.com · 07/08/2026
Buying music on Bandcamp = supporting artists. Today is Bandcamp Friday! For 24 hours, we waive our revenue share, so even more of every purchase goes to the artists and labels behind the music. Go forth. The music is waiting. bit.ly/4pX3JPz
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Rebecca Bollwitt @miss604.com · 02/08/2026
Today in Vancouver #VWFC #VANvLAFC @whitecapsfc.com @southsiders.ca
View from the stands at a stadium before a soccer game starts with people holding up scarves that say Whitecaps FC. People are holding banners on the pitch as players line up for the anthems
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Rebecca Bollwitt @miss604.com · 18/07/2026
The Pride flags are back in the West End for the season #vancouver
A side street off Robson St in Downtown Vancouver. Bikes are parked on the left, and the street has a tall leafy canopy thanks to trees lining sidewalks on either side. From the canopy, rows and rows of colourful Pride flags are hung including the Asexual, Lesbian, Bisexual, Nonbinary, Pride Progress flag and more that have various combinations of colours.
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John Bollwitt @johnbollwitt.com · 23/06/2026
CBC posted this video recently, and since it’s warm in Vancouver this week, it’s good advice if you don’t have A/C, especially at night. It’s a method my Dad drilled into me as a kid, and I still use it to this day. youtu.be/4BLfYtE4Kow
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How to keep your house cool in the summer without AC
YouTube video by CBC News
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John Bollwitt @johnbollwitt.com · 14/06/2026
Went for a beautiful morning walk today in the West End. Turns out, so did Max Crepeau, Liam Miller, and a couple of other guys from the CANMNT.
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John Bollwitt @johnbollwitt.com · 14/06/2026
I’ve seen some online chatter asking, “What is Vancouver getting out of hosting the World Cup in terms of legacy infrastructure?” I would be more than happy for it to be this.
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Rebecca Bollwitt @miss604.com · 01/06/2026
BIG NEWS! I wrote a book with @johnleewriter.bsky.social and it’s on store shelves JUNE 23rd. We’re excited to share #FREECOUVER with you and spotlight 101 free things to do in and around Vancouver. It’s a very timely guidebook and we had such fun writing it 🇨🇦 📚 #Booksky Pre-order today:
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Freecouver - 101 Free and Fun Things to do in and Around Vancouver
101 Free and Fun Things to do in and Around Vancouver - Our new book, published by Tidewater Press, is available now!
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John Bollwitt @johnbollwitt.com · 25/05/2026
This 100%.
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Rebecca Bollwitt @miss604.com · 24/05/2026
I posted an Instagram story for my family with a montage of French strawberries and Sarah McLachlan “I Will Remember You” soundtrack. Also the #vegan food in Toulouse is outstanding. Photos soon.
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 22/05/2026
New York City's iconic pizzerias and bagel shops may soon be forced to update their long-standing baking practices after state lawmakers moved to ban a common additive.
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A proposed additive ban could change New York’s pizza and bagels, some say for the better
New York City's iconic pizzerias and bagel shops may soon be forced to update their long-standing baking practices after state lawmakers moved to ban a common additive.
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Rebecca Bollwitt @miss604.com · 24/04/2026
A reimagined version of The Tragically Hip’s iconic “Ahead By A Century,” produced by Boi-1da and featuring City and Colour (Dallas Green) and Ruby Waters is the latest single from Soccer Canada’s forthcoming album WHAT IF IT ALL GOES RIGHT? dropping June 5.
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The Tragically Hip, City and Colour, Ruby Waters, Canada Soccer, Boi-1da - AHEAD BY A CENTURY
Listen to AHEAD BY A CENTURY by The Tragically Hip, City and Colour, Ruby Waters, Canada Soccer, Boi-1da.
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John Bollwitt @johnbollwitt.com · 22/04/2026
This.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
This has been the GOP's "starve-the-beast" scheme for nearly 50 years. Meanwhile, millions suffer and struggle to get ahead as the rich get richer. See the problem here?
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Washingtonian @washingtonian.com · 13/03/2026
Many Washington Post readers have been notified via email that their subscription rates are set to increase. Nestled at the bottom of these emails, you’ll find an asterisk and the following: “This price was set by an algorithm using your personal data.”
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The Washington Post Is Using Reader Data to Set Subscription Prices. How Does That Work? - Washingtonian
If recent events have not compelled you to cancel your Washington Post subscription, then you might have been in for sticker shock at the dawn of your latest billing cycle. Many readers have been…
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
HOLY SHIT. A dark money group, hidden behind a bunch of shell companies, is paying influencers thousands of dollars PER POST to attack @katmabu.bsky.social on social media a month before her election. Thank you to the people who declined the money and went forward with this. So who's behind this?
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Dark money group offers influencers $1,500 for posts attacking Chicago Democratic primary candidate
Progressive House candidate Kat Abughazaleh told MS NOW the secretive campaign is “filled with false and defamatory claims.”
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John Bollwitt @johnbollwitt.com · 06/03/2026
Happy #BandcampFriday to all of those who observe! isitbandcampfriday.com All purchases on #Bandcamp today go directly to the artist. Will make some purchases later today and share a few selections on this thread.
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Is it Bandcamp Friday?
Is it?
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Rebecca Bollwitt @miss604.com · 04/03/2026
TransLink updates for the FIFA World Cup in #Vancouver - Only one pedestrian entrance to BC Place along the “Last Mile” walkway from Main Street-Science World Slytrain station - Weekend West Coast Express - Cute soccer buses… ⚽️🚌
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TransLink's FIFA World Cup Vancouver 2026 Plan
TransLink unveils its plans for FIFA World Cup 2026 Vancouver including updates to Bus, SkyTrain, Seabus, and West Coast Express Service.
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Penny Daflos @pennydaflos.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Who’s giving the mayor the advice to keep this very damaging (for him) issue on the front burner for another day? Was it his initiative? Vancouver politics is weird but this is terrible strategically, especially considering he took only a handful of questions www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/ar...
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Vancouver mayor says he made false drug claim about opponent based on photo
Vancouver Mayor Ken Sim told reporters Tuesday that he falsely claimed one of his council colleagues distributed illicit drugs after being shown a photo, and apologized for not verifying its authentic...
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Bill Corbett @billcorbett.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Not the same guy, you brick-brained clown. The one who came to power in 1979 died 10 years later in ‘89.
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John Bollwitt @johnbollwitt.com · 25/02/2026
Last week, we traveled to Whitehorse, Yukon to celebrate our 20th anniversary of getting married, and it was amazing. We chased the aurora, explored the town, and enjoyed the brutal beauty of subarctic Canada. I can’t imagine life without @miss604.com & am grateful for the one we’ve lived so far ❤️
Rebecca (right) and I (left) stand on the banks of a frozen Yukon River at the S.S. Klondike Historic Site in Whitehouse, Yukon. The flat, snow behind us is the frozen river with the sides of the river valley behind and a mountain further off in the distance. The sky is mostly blue and clear.
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John Bollwitt @johnbollwitt.com · 24/02/2026
It’s not the tariffs. It’s this rhetoric about our sovereignty that makes Canadians, like me, never want to step foot in the United States, where I was born. It’s egregious and embarrassing. These people just find a way to ruin everything.
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Brittlestar @brittlestar.com · 22/02/2026
HOCKEY and CANADA (if you look closely you can see my tears)
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John Bollwitt @johnbollwitt.com · 19/02/2026
I’ve found my spot in Whitehorse, YT
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John Bollwitt @johnbollwitt.com · 17/02/2026
Such an amazing experience. Found a seat to just stare at the amazing dome of stars when the aurora just came alive. Found a steady system of running back to the fire pit or cabin to warm up and go back out to see more. Gorgeous!
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John Bollwitt @johnbollwitt.com · 09/02/2026
Women's Big Air 🤯 #olympics #MilanoCortina2026
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John Bollwitt @johnbollwitt.com · 09/02/2026
This was so unsafe and ignorant of anyone else using Rawlings Trail. Several dozen groups of riders seemingly doing a circuit to Bridal and back up North Creek. One rider came around a blind corner and just missed us, shy of crashing into the bush. It’s a park trail. Not a cyclocross course
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John Bollwitt @johnbollwitt.com · 07/02/2026
Hey, it's #BandcampFriday! 🤘 100% of what you purchase on bandcamp.com goes to the artist. 👍👍👍 Will follow-up to this post later with some of my pickups from today.
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John Bollwitt @johnbollwitt.com · 01/02/2026
Oh look. Another February youtu.be/UxsqX824kxw
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Local H - Another February
YouTube video by Slimstyle Records
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Rebecca Bollwitt @miss604.com · 01/02/2026
Love Lights with @johnbollwitt.com at Capilano Suspension Bridge
Nighttime in the forest with a boardwalk between thick tree trunks. There’s a purple LED heart with LOVE inside it, more white lightbulb orbs hanging from the trees, and white lights in the ferns on the ground Nighttime, a person in a raincoat walks towards a light tunnel with red lights along a boardwalk People walking along a suspension bridge in the forest above a canyon at night. The bright is covered in white lights
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John Bollwitt @johnbollwitt.com · 26/01/2026
A clear, cold walk in the park was a great way to help clear the head this morning #vancouver #stanleypark
Looking north from the south end of Third Beach in Vancouver’s Stanley Park. The concrete, stone, and beach are coated in a layer of frost from below freezing temperatures overnight. A fallen tree trunk has a drawing of a mushroom where it was cut. Plant life and frost surround it. Tall trees line a trail in Vancouver’s Stanley Park. Mid-morning sun cuts in from the right, causing the trees to cast shadows over the trail. Sunlight warms an unmarked trail in Vancouver’s Stanley Park with a moss covered, low tree branch arching over the trail.
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Rebecca Bollwitt @miss604.com · 25/01/2026
Netflix trying to capitalize on the current popularity of hockey shows and also… a *tragedy that rocked our nation less than 10 years ago* “from what I can see online, they're trying to make some triumph out of tragedy, which for me … I'll never be able to find triumph in this tragedy”
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New Netflix series about a hockey team's bus crash hits a nerve in Sask. | CBC News
A new Netflix hockey series is in production, set in a working-class town where hockey is everything until a bus crash kills players and their coach. The similarity to the Humboldt Broncos' tragedy is...
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John Bollwitt @johnbollwitt.com · 25/01/2026
The Format > Fun
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John Bollwitt @johnbollwitt.com · 25/01/2026
youtu.be/WVJ-Wlacc-E
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King Missile - Jesus was way cool
YouTube video by martin venator
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Please share. 💔
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Micah @rincewind.run · 24/01/2026
Republicans: everyone must be able to carry any gun at all times, up to and including high powered rifles, to protect themselves against tyranny also Republicans, without batting an eye: carrying a gun is unquestionable justification for federal agents to shoot you dead in the street
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Man, I bet the NRA is going to be furious when they hear that jack-booted thugs from the federal government executed a law-abiding citizen for exercising his Second Amendment right to carry a handgun. Any second now, I'm sure. He was a white guy, if that helps? Hello? NRA?
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Nancy The Catgirl 😺she/her)🇨🇦🏳‍⚧⚧ @anekonamednancy.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
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CJ Fogler @cjzero.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
The whole interview is worth it
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 24/01/2026
Quick idea. For the righties defending the shooting, go into their profile, hit the search button, type in “second amendment” and then post some screenshots
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John Bollwitt @johnbollwitt.com · 24/01/2026
From the ruling party that champions states rights, sure sounds like, “some of you will die, but that’s a sacrifice we’re willing to make to get what we want.”
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Pam Bondi: Purchasing a gas mask is a sign that you're part of an organized resistance movement Reality:
Endless Amazon.com listings for "gas mask"Walmart options for "gas mask"Home Depot results for "gas mask"Lowes results for "gas mask"
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amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
This is why Minneapolis isn’t charging for towed vehicles due to ICE abductions. In Bloomington you can literally just sit at the speedway and wait, eventually you’ll see a car be abandoned at a gas pump.
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John Bollwitt @johnbollwitt.com · 23/01/2026
Like A Landslide. youtu.be/jT2T0rJi_1w
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The international noise conspiracy - "Like a Landslide"
YouTube video by Aritz Llantada
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John Bollwitt @johnbollwitt.com · 18/01/2026
Fogged in Burrard Inlet tonight means ships blowing their horns at regular intervals if they are in motion. Love the way the sound echos across the city. #vancouver
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John Bollwitt @johnbollwitt.com · 18/01/2026
It’s come to the point where, on Meta platforms, I’ve started talking in code with friends back in the states because I don’t want to jeopardize their safety or get them put on some sort of watch list. Sadly, they confirm a lot of what we’re seeing and hearing from afar. It’s unsettling.
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