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Josh Messmer 🐝☀️🇨🇦

@joshmessmer.com

Former Video & Web guy (ThisHereVancouver). Current Econ & Data guy advocating for better social infrastructure (CoFounder VisThinkCo). Future Coureur des bois. Langley, Metro Vancouver, 🇨🇦 bio.site/joshmessmer

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Jimmy Scrambles 🐞🤠🪩🚈 @razzberryyams.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

Collectivism is so dead that people think giving every individual a veto is the most collectivist you can be

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Josh Messmer 🐝☀️🇨🇦 @joshmessmer.com · 03/01/2025

imo, stations should default to the cross streets wherever possible, seconding to historic neighborhood or riverway names when crossstreets don’t make sense. Streetname order should be consistent: NS-EW or vice versa. That way you future proof the name in case of nearby

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Josh Messmer 🐝☀️🇨🇦 @joshmessmer.com · 02/01/2025

markdown omnia vincit

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Jennifer Maiko Bradshaw @amoralorealis.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

Yup. City planners literally printed this in an apartment open house I went to in Vancouver. An apartment as a “shield” for rich homeowners, from arterial noise and pollution. Hundreds of apartment renters used as human shields.

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Josh Messmer 🐝☀️🇨🇦 @joshmessmer.com · 28/12/2024

Now do speed cams

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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈 @maxdubler.com · 28/12/2024

Every news story about “San Francisco’s ‘war on cars’” is about drivers who are absolutely furious that they live in a city.

Venn diagram

One side: I want the kinds of amenities that are only feasible with urban density.

Other side: I want to drive everywhere without traffic and park for free

Overlap: does not exist

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Josh Messmer 🐝☀️🇨🇦 @joshmessmer.com · 28/12/2024

Trying to go back to my reply guy roots on this site, compared to my snarky quote tweet mode-of-late on X

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Josh Messmer 🐝☀️🇨🇦 @joshmessmer.com · 24/12/2024

Will be very interesting to see the results of this in ~5 years. I imagine the success/failure will have a lot to do with the social programs between the shelter rung and the social housing rung.

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Josh Messmer 🐝☀️🇨🇦 @joshmessmer.com · 24/12/2024

Using domains / dns verification as an open identity verification system is very clever.

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Josh Messmer 🐝☀️🇨🇦 @joshmessmer.com · 24/12/2024

Hello to old mutuals! I'm slightly concerned I've joined the lefty echo chamber app, here, but at this point I'm thinking that's better than whatever the hell's going on on the other site. My main use case has always been article filtering/sharing, so I'm hoping that works just as well. Tips?

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