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Tim B

@nomoon.phoebus.ca
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Game Dev, Programmer, former PhD candidate, and other things. Games + Social Justice + Sanskrit + More. In Vancouver (for now). He/they. 🏳️‍🌈

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David Moscrop @davidmoscrop.com · 20/09/2026
Another resignation for Kerry-Lynne Findlay as Kerry-Lynne Findlay resigns.
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mcc @dryad.technology · 17/09/2026
Some people may be confused by the recurring conflict between the transgender community and Bluesky moderation staff. So here's a quick explainer: Every single decision, since day one, that the Bluesky staff ever made has been wrong
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Tim B @nomoon.phoebus.ca · 17/09/2026
“We attempt to put in the most naïve bare effort, where it occurs to us in the context of our biases to do so”
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Wobbly "Cheap Date" Python @wobblypython.northsky.social · 17/09/2026
This is the guy who banned me for posting a gif of a person putting a child in a pool, but telling people to "enjoy the camps" is fine. I think it's pretty safe to say that the presence of this man on staff makes this a nazi bar.
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Brian Honan @brianhonan.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Happy Skynet day to all those who celebrate
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KO_OP: 🪐 Wishlist Young Suns on Steam! @ko-op.com · 27/08/2026
Our booth is at S24 in the Indie Arena booth in Hall 10.2! 💫
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KO_OP: 🪐 Wishlist Young Suns on Steam! @ko-op.com · 27/08/2026
We're at Gamescom! Swing by to say hi, check out a demo of Young Suns, and nab a sticker sheet and postcard that's out of this world! 🤩🚀
Our key art of a lightskinned person in a spacesuit smiling and looking over their shoulder into the camera. They're carrying a wrench on their shoulder and have a large backpack. The sky is swirls of purples and pinks. There's a white vertical divider with another section of our key art of two people in the distance waving toward the person in the foreground. The text on it reads: We are at Gamescom. Map of Gamescom, showcasing where our booth is with a pink arrow and our game logo.
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Tim B @nomoon.phoebus.ca · 24/08/2026
Made it to Köln. I am very tired and it’s not even 5pm.
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Owen @oweninvan.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Remember that by killing the Villages Plan, Sean, ABC, & "Green" Pete Fry scuttled Complete Communities, an essential Big Move of the Climate Emergency Action Plan. 1000s will commute in cars from exurbs & fossil gas will heat more homes, regardless of what CoV rules say.
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Remember as your eyes burn from the smoke today, Ken Sim and ABC voted to allow fracked gas in new builds, cancelled $8 million in climate retrofit grants; voted against funding for cooling kits for people in the Downtown Eastside; and got rid of the climate justice charter.

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Keith Stack-o'-lantern @keithstack.com · 01/08/2026
It’s pretty funny how whenever Nintendo has the most successful console, everyone just kinda pretends it doesn’t count as a real video game system.
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Alyssa_Jayne @alyssajayne.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
ABC told planners what to do, the planners did it well, and they changed their mind and used them for political bait. The Villages plan is in the approved Vancouver plan ffs! I hope Josh White and other senior leadership quit. This is why good planners no longer work in the City of Vancouver.
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Justin McElroy 🇨🇦 @jmcelroy.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
If the plan that Ken Sim personally promoted for years "disrespected Vancouverites and the process itself" then I wonder who Ken Sim is going to hold accountable for such a disrespectful action
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Peter Waldkirch 華彼德 @pwaldkirch.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
The Vancouver Villages plan was defeated. This is a huge blow to housing policy in the city. This was the easiest part of the Vancouver Plan to implement; Ken Sim directed staff to prioritize it. If we can't pass this, what's the point of any of it? All housing policy work here is in limbo.
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Justin McElroy 🇨🇦 @jmcelroy.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
For as long as I’ve been a reporter in this city the complaint has been that we build too many giant luxury condos in a few places and not enough medium density housing across neighbourhoods. But this week reaffirmed why that approach is so baked into the DNA and political culture of Vancouver.
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GRIDS Vancouver @grids.reillywood.com · 28/07/2026
ABC deserves more blame for this outcome than anyone; it was their policy and they dropped it like a potato at the first opportunity. Also it was very, very dumb to have this vote so close to the election. Not sure who's most to blame for that.
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GRIDS Vancouver @grids.reillywood.com · 28/07/2026
Grab bag of thoughts re: the Villages I think the last few years have shown us that the wave of support for more housing was... not illusionary exactly, but people don't feel strongly enough about it to counteract very concrete+organized NIMBY opposition. Grim.
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Justin McElroy 🇨🇦 @jmcelroy.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
I hate seeing another bad local day in my industry every six months and feeling the need to write down my thoughts about it. I am so lucky that a lot of people really appreciate what I do. But I am continually sad about what's happened around me.
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Tarnjit Parmar @tarnjitparmar.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
One employee was driving to work when the station went off air. He heard the recorded message saying it was over. That’s how he was informed he lost his job. Some found out when other media began reporting it. These employees deserved dignity and respect & Rogers chose not to provide that.
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stephanie wilson | windward antifascist @windward-afa.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
So...VPD posted an AI slop photo of a drug bust, deleted the post, and reposted a 'corrected' version of the photo. Thankfully the Tums turned into coins and the bills look more like legal tender. Cops using AI to generate politically-motivated content seems like a pretty big deal.
Original version of a photo of money and drugs from VPD showing signs of generative AI, particularly garbled amounts of bills.Corrected photo from VPD showing money and drugs.Tweet from VPD

#VPDNews: The Vancouver Police Department (VPD) has made significant progress in disrupting drug trafficking and street disorder around the Commercial–Broadway corridor during welfare cheque‑issue week.

In the past 24 hours, the VPD has made nine arrests for possession for the purpose of trafficking and seized more than 114 grams of packaged drugs, along with over $3,000 in cash. This announcement comes one day after VPD issued a public warning following seven overdose incidents occurring at the same time near East 10th Avenue and Broadway.

Officers have been conducting targeted enforcement around Commercial Drive and Broadway, an area that historically sees spikes in drug activity, violence, and overdoses during welfare cheque‑issue week.

When VPD officers attended one of the overdose incidents yesterday, they located multiple weapons, including a samurai sword and several knives.

“Our teams have been working tirelessly to curb drug trafficking and disorder in the Commercial–Broadway area during this high‑risk period,” says Acting Inspector Astrid Bonter, District three Commander. “The arrests and seizures made over the past day reflect the dedication of our officers and our commitment to reducing overdoses and disrupting the flow of toxic drugs through this corridor.”

Vancouver Police will continue targeted enforcement to enhance public safety and reduce harm in the community.
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Peter Waldkirch 華彼德 @pwaldkirch.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
ABC just voted to gut the Vision Zero Safe Mobility Plan. This was a critical, evidence-based package of reforms that would have saved lives and had virtually unanimous public support...but they voted to kill the most important part. And they used shameless spin to justify it. Unacceptable!
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Vision Zero Vancouver @visionzerovancouver.ca · 10/06/2026
BREAKING: Mayor Ken Sim's ABC majority voted not to reduce speed limits on major roads, despite 93% of all road fatalities in Vancouver happening on arterials. This was one of the most important Near-Term Actions in the entire plan, because roads will never be safe until people drive at safe speeds.
Graphic that reads "BREAKING NEWS: Mayor Ken Sim's ABC rejects safer speeds on the most dangerous roads"
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Mike W @gekido.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
This is absolutely unacceptable - for Canada or any country Contact your MP! dontsurveil.me/c22.html
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Canada is about to end private digital conversation — Bill C-22
Bill C-22 would force every messaging app in Canada to build a backdoor — and track all your activity for one year. Apple says no. Signal says they'll leave.
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օttr @fangfluff.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
reference.mp4
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Robert Jago @rjjago.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Visited senakw today - omg. It’s pretty epic, and cheap for the location.
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Michèle Champagne @michelechampagne.com · 10/05/2026
Okay but the Carney government also awarded American-owned Ford $464M to make trucks in Oakville and The Canadian Press never reported on those funds as a “handout” to keep it “afloat”.
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Feds greenlight $673M to keep Canada Post afloat this year | CBC News
The federal government is handing hundreds of millions of dollars to Canada Post to keep the money-bleeding mail service afloat for the current fiscal year.
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Penny Daflos @pennydaflos.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
East Vancouver is the best neighbourhood in Canada I will fight you
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final girl austin @8kbps.com · 07/05/2026
stupid people close all the bus services, consumption sites, warming shelters, community shelters, and then they're all like "ewwww why are there visible homeless people and visible drug users", even as said stupid people loudly drink booze in homes and bars before hopping behind the wheel
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William Azaroff @wazaroff.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Today, Ken Sim and ABC killed an overdose prevention site that Vancouver Coastal Health has been working towards for years. (1/6)
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Jason Anderson @jasondcsoccer.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
Wes gets it. I don't think MLS has known where to go for a few years now, or how to even define success. The World Cup has developed into something grotesque rather than "rocket fuel," Messi hasn't been the breakthrough, and dumping a team like the Whitecaps give away the game.
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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
Honking animation effect from the Untitled Goose Game.
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Khelsilem @khelsilem.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
The FN Leadership Council is calling on all MLAs in BC to vote against Premier Eby's bill to suspend the Declaration Act. They've offered alternatives. Every one was rejected. Eby declared suspension "non-negotiable" & then accused FN of refusing to compromise: khelsilem.substack.com/p/first-nati...
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First Nations Leadership Council Urges BC MLAs to Vote Down Declaration Act Suspension Bill
BC's Premier facing growing backlash for his attacks on Indigenous Rights
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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
It’s profoundly ignorant to suggest that the Pope should be fighting crime on behalf of the Catholic Church. Anyone who was remotely familiar with Roman Catholicism would know that that’s what Daredevil is for
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ExecutiveOtaku @executiveotaku.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
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ceej @ceej.online · 08/04/2026
my daughter and her stuffed raccoon have been reunited thanks to the miracle power of the us postal service. thank you to grandpa and everyone who was praying for reccy’s safe return
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Cohen is a Ghost @skullmandible.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
people will scold you for joking around when things seem really scary and fucked up. brother, those are the times what we invented joking around for
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Chris Franklin @errant-signal.com · 06/04/2026
V8s. Let me tell you how much I've come to love V8s since I began to shop Chevy. There are 387.44 million miles of road that fill this country. If the word 'V8' were written on each nanoangstrom of those hundreds of millions of miles it would not equal one one-billionth of the appreciation I feel fo
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Melissa Barber @mbarber.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Today, MSF is going public with something we've been fighting behind closed doors for months: Gilead will not sell us their new HIV drug, lenacapavir. The sticking point isn't even price, they just refuse to sell. Open letter linked + explainer 🧵1/ www.doctorswithoutborders.org/latest/gilea...
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Gilead refuses to sell groundbreaking HIV prevention drug to MSF
Blocking humanitarian organizations from accessing a medical breakthrough puts vulnerable people across the world in danger.
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Tim B @nomoon.phoebus.ca · 13/03/2026
Bittersweet at missing GDC this year. It had to happen for a number of reasons, but I’m still a bit bummed because I always connect with so many cool people.
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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
I want to reassure my followers that even though Bluesky has a new CEO, I still remain 100% committed to my mission of making your experience of using this website as unpleasant as possible
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Cat Manning @catacalypto.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
it's on miro. it's literally on figma. you have to log into okta. it's in jira. it's on zoom. it's on pureref. it's on flow. it's on perforce. it's on slack. you can find it on slack. you can go to slack and find it. log onto slack right now. you can slack it. slack has it for you. it's on slack.
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Work With Indies @workwithindies.com · 03/03/2026
Chronograph Games is hiring a Senior Sound Designer to help shape the audio for their hand-drawn 2D fantasy soulslike, Project Hourglass! 📍 Remote, Contract (ET ±4h) 🎧 Made in Unity & Wwise 🗓️ 4–8 weeks, $8k CAD ⤵️
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Chronograph Games is hiring a Senior Sound Designer (Unity & Wwise)
Chronograph Games is looking for a senior sound designer to help us ship a prototype of our CMF-funded Project Hourglass, a hand-drawn 2D fantasy soulslike metroidvania.
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COPE: The Coalition of Progressive Electors @copevancouver.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
"Increasingly, the landscape for large-scale events, particularly community events, has been changing." Ken Sim and ABC found $1 million for a sign and $2 million for fireworks after pushing through a brutal austerity Budget. Surely we can save Car Free Days! www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/ar...
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Vancouver Car Free Days cancelled for 2026
A popular annual festival that saw Vancouver streets closed to traffic and opened to vendors, performers and crowds of pedestrians has been called off for 2026.
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Bruno Dias @brunodias.dev · 03/03/2026
sure you should check the food bowl and all but riffing is typically a sign that you're housing your writers in an overstocked tank. you're going to need a bigger enclosure and/or to rehome some writers. otherwise they'll get their plots tangled together and form a "writer king"
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Tim B @nomoon.phoebus.ca · 03/03/2026
Watching people play Outer Wilds for the first time produces every good brain chemical.
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nat. @natclayton.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
I might be new here, but I think a city that fosters community, local business and arts festivals is a better one to live in than a city where, if you say it should be for anyone other than tesla-driving real estate investors, the mayor will call you a drug dealer.
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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Has liberating a country through bombing their children to death ever worked?
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Vincent Driessen @nvie.com · 18/02/2026
I wrote a few words last night. nvie.com/posts/15-yea...
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15+ years later, Microsoft morged my diagram
How Microsoft continvoucly morged my Git branching diagram.
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Andrew Longhurst 🇨🇦 🍉 @alonghurst.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
Key areas are given very small increases, which mean real cuts to services. The gov’s tax increases will hit low- to moderate income households. The budget lays the burden of austerity on the poorest in BC, while abandoning key investments in the care economy, including $10day child care 5/ #bcpoli
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Iglika Ivanova @iglikaivanova.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
The BC government says the budget has to be "tough" to tackle large deficits. But we can’t talk about deficits without talking about revenues. And BC’s revenue as a share of our economy is much lower than it was before the deep tax cuts of the early 2000s. #bcpoli #BCBudget2026
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Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · 17/02/2026
PS C:\git>git morg --continvoucly
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