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canadian,,, election and transit nerd

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siraaaa.transit @sirawx.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
#vancouver
RV driver allegedly accidentally loses control and hits group of people marching for Truth and Reconciliation day at Tsawwassen Mills.
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siraaaa.transit @sirawx.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
just insane readings coming up on hurricane #polo recon NHC has gone 155kt/892mbar for special advisory
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Congressman Greg Casar @repcasar.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
The horror has come to our city: ICE has shot a person in Austin this morning. As the facts emerge, I am demanding a full, independent investigation, immediate release of the body camera footage, and accountability for any ICE officer who broke the law.
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 11/09/2026
Ted Cruz: "When Mamdani says he wants to seize the means of production, he means it." Crowd: "HE SHOULD BE SHOT!" Cruz: "When Abdul El-Sayed says he has an obligation to Sharia Law, he means it." Crowd: "HE SHOULD BE SHOT!"
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siraaaa.transit @sirawx.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
trying to speedrun through crimson flower before fefw and school :3
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siraaaa.transit @sirawx.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
beat verdant wind
Linhardt proposing to Male Byleth with a ring
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siraaaa.transit @sirawx.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
DONALD TRUMP SIGNS EXECUTIVE ORDER TO RENAME LAKE ONTARIO TO LAKE AMERICA #onpoli #canpoli via CTV
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siraaaa.transit @sirawx.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
What are we doing? #canpoli #onpoli
Trump floats renaming Lake Ontario to Lake America
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siraaaa.transit @sirawx.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
and a brief review of the route: (1/2) this was a 100 to 22nd St Station on the Trapp routing. - lot of stopping for drop off/picking up pax, agree with the TSPR proposing an extension to the 80, for pax wanting to get from suburb to suburb (marine to New West) - runtime was allocated fine
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siraaaa.transit @sirawx.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
a brief review of my first time on @translink.ca's LFSe+ BEBs: (1/?) - noticeably smoother acceleration compared to the XN40s (I rode an XN right after to compare and it jerks during acceleration) - significantly quieter than XN40s (less ac/HVAC noise, less rattling/loose bus components) #transit
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siraaaa.transit @sirawx.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Can we deport JJ? #bcpoli
From JJ: The press should listen to what Carney actually said about pulling out of trade talks. He cited unfair auto tariffs and external trade deals. but he also said the real poison pill was US asks involving Canada's weird and kinda unpopular media and language policies. That's kinda nuts.
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siraaaa.transit @sirawx.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
gosh I can hear strikes every 5-20 secs
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siraaaa.transit @sirawx.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
woah, severe tstorm watch in effect for metro van seems like an active cell drifting east
A lightning map showing large amounts of lightning occuring over the Strait of Georgia and the Sea to Sky Corridor
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siraaaa.transit @sirawx.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
FUCK YOU DONALD!!
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siraaaa.transit @sirawx.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
you can see the growth of the Ainslie Creek fire on the alexandria bridge camera #bcwildfire
White smoke from a mountainside filled with trees, with a bridge and truck in the front
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siraaaa.transit @sirawx.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
nice clickbait bro
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siraaaa.transit @sirawx.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
finally finished my first #fe3h run w/ azure moon
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siraaaa.transit @sirawx.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
fly high, beth
A tweet from Chuck Grassley mentioning Beth, his vacuum cleaner, is now producing sparks and is no longer safe for use.
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siraaaa.transit @sirawx.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
inAccuWeather is now using AI slop for their graphics... incredible way to nuke your (already in the hole) reputation #accuweather #wx #weather #earthquake
An AI generated graphic depicting the 10 7+ magnitude earthquakes so far in 2026 - with errors because, of course, it's AI
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siraaaa.transit @sirawx.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
global tetrahedron needs to buy this now
A google search listing pictures and maps of tetrahedron provincial park
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Global News BC RSS Feed (Unofficial) @globalnews-bc-un.yvr.whims.io · 09/08/2026
RCMP report a possible fatality from massive Summerland fire
globalnews.ca
RCMP report a possible fatality from massive Summerland fire
RCMP said officers continue to provide emergency response and assistance following the Bald Range fire that grew quickly and forced thousands to flee their homes.
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siraaaa.transit @sirawx.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
it's gonna be a long night. please stay safe y'all
An evacuation order containing Western Summerland, faulder for the Bald Ridge fire
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siraaaa.transit @sirawx.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
new #bcfire start, west of summerland bc. burning at rank 5 intensity - active crown fire. please stay safe
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siraaaa.transit @sirawx.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
#belcarra #bcfire is now being held -- thank you first responders!
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Man charged with arson in Spokane, Washington, told police he planned wildfire for weeks and waited for ideal weather
apnews.com
Man charged with arson in Spokane, Washington, told police he planned wildfire for weeks
A Spokane County detective who interviewed the man accused of starting one of the city’s wildfires says the man confessed, described his planning process and explained how he created a device to ignit...
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siraaaa.transit @sirawx.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
blue checkmark #fireemblem discourse is melting my brain. go outside
woke culture war bullshit about fire emblem selecting avatar forms instead of male/female
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siraaaa.transit @sirawx.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
good drop for Steyer #michigan
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siraaaa.transit @sirawx.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
gun gauntlets? in MY fire emblem?
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siraaaa.transit @sirawx.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
What the fuck.
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siraaaa.transit @sirawx.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Is Emergency Info BC using AI for their post graphics???? Do I need to say why this is a really bad idea? #bcstorm #britishcolumbia #bcwildfires
A graphic telling people at spuzzum first Nation to evacuate. The graphic has multiple errors and fuzzy text. These are common marks of AI generated images.
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Ryan Voutilainen @yvrwxwatcher.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
A new fire start just south of Boston Bar and the Brunswick Complex Wildfire exhibiting extreme fire behaviour this afternoon — As a result the associated pyrocumulus smoke plume easily visible on radar. #BCwildfire #BCwx #BCstorm #BCwildfire
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Texas Tribune @texastribune.org · 07/07/2026
New: Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton appears to have used an address where he did not live while voting in six elections in the past two years — despite his warning voters that “it is illegal to misrepresent your residence on election records.”
texastribune.org
Ken Paxton’s voter registration may violate Texas election law - The Texas Tribune
The Texas attorney general appears to have used an address where he did not live while voting in six elections in the past two years — despite his warning voters that “it is illegal to misrepresent yo...
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 22/06/2026
In April 2025, a school bus driver dropped off 5-year-old Lens Joseph on the wrong side of the street, then ran over the kindergartner. Reporter Willoughby Mariano shows how Lens’ death — and dozens of others — is missing from the federal crash record of the city’s school bus contractor, Transdev.
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Governor Tim Walz @governorwalz.mn.gov · 14/06/2026
We miss you, and think of you often. Session is wrapped. Spring is in bloom. I’m retiring soon. You two would have thrived in retirement. I trust you’re living it now. We have our arms wrapped around your kids. They’re remarkable. We love them.
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Pew Research Center @pewresearch.org · 10/06/2026
82% of LGBTQ Americans say they first felt they might be lesbian, gay, bisexual, queer or transgender before age 18.
Chart showing 58% of LGBTQ Americans thought they might be LGBTQ before age 14, but far fewer came out to someone when they were that young.
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siraaaa.transit @sirawx.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
#Translink 2009 Mark II (313-314-325-326) on the Millennium Line Evergreen Extension. 2009 Mark IIs rarely run on the Millennium Line anyway, let alone a 4-car Mark II (the M-Line almost never runs 4-cars in regular service, barring snow or delays). #skytrain #vancouver #mytranslink
Vancouver Skytrain 2009 Bombardier ART Mark II train 313-314-325-326 at Moody Centre Station Outbound, with 326 leading.
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siraaaa.transit @sirawx.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
ten million purple hearts 💜💜💜 #JibJab
JibJab political animation "This Land" reaches 10 million views on YouTube.
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siraaaa.transit @sirawx.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
Kerry Lynne Findlay is the next leader of the BC conservatives. #bcpoli
Elliot 49%
Findlay 51%
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siraaaa.transit @sirawx.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
KLF 38.6% Elliott 31.3% Black 30%
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siraaaa.transit @sirawx.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
32.2..? percent
BC con results
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siraaaa.transit @sirawx.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
#bcpoli Round 1 results: Milobar is OUT (source: Global TV on cable)
Bc conservative round 1 results
Milobar 10.5%
13% Fulmer
20.3% Black
25.8% Elliott
30.5% Findlay
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siraaaa.transit @sirawx.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
#Vancouver #SkyTrain Mark V train 621-622 testing at Moody Centre, signed for VCC-Clark #MyTranslink
SkyTrain mark v 621-622 at moody centre station with doors open
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Denis Agar (he/him) @denisagar.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Of all the North American cities studied, Vancouver's buses have the second highest variation in travel time throughout the day. This should set off alarm bells that we have a lot of work to do when it comes to making buses reliable.
Here is the verbatim text from the image, followed by a detailed description of the bar chart.

Verbatim Text
"However, the speed variation throughout the day is not as pronounced across all jurisdictions. The following chart illustrates the Median Absolute Deviation (MAD) of the half-hourly rolling average for each city between 7 am and 8 pm. The MAD is a measure of statistical dispersion that indicates how much the half-hourly rolling average deviates from the median for each city. The value is expressed as a percentage of a city's median speed to control for differences in baseline speeds across cities. This measure is a synthetic indicator of the daily variability of transit running times during the core of a weekday, excluding the early morning and late evening service hours which tend to have much faster service.

Munich, Vienna, Zurich, Bologna, and Eindhoven exhibit the lowest relative MAD, indicating that their scheduled speeds are more consistent throughout the day, suggesting that surface transit in these cities is less affected by recurrent sources of delay, such as longer boarding times and congestion during peak hours. In contrast, cities like Birmingham, Boston, Auckland, and Vancouver exhibit higher MAD values, indicating greater variability in average speed throughout the day and suggesting that their surface transit is more sensitive to factors that cause delays and increase running times (and thus reduce speed) during peak hours."

Bar Chart Description
The image features a horizontal bar chart titled "North America" that ranks 13 cities based on their relative Median Absolute Deviation (MAD). The bars represent the level of transit speed variability; a longer bar indicates higher variability (less consistent service), while a shorter bar indicates lower variability (more consistent service).

The cities are ranked from highest variability to lowest variability as follows:
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 09/05/2026
JK Rowling is now represented by a trans person in the Scottish parliament. Absolutely incredible.
Two transgender MSPs elected to Holyrood in first for Scottish parliament
Dr Q Manivannan and Iris Duane secured regional list seats for the Scottish Green Party.
David Young
Friday 08 May 2026 17:52 EDT
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siraaaa.transit @sirawx.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
was on #translink bus 16045 today - was detouring due to the may day parade 3 deadheading ops joking with pax about this being the "160 express"🤣
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siraaaa.transit @sirawx.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
#translink #mytranslink #skytrain #vancouver mark v 611-612 doing some sort of testing at lafarge lake today. saw like 7-8 stas moving the train back and forth along the platform, opening and closing the doors. came back an hour later and the stas were gone, but the train was still there
skytrain mark v unit 611-612 sitting at platform 2 at lafarge lake douglas
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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
the Washington Post has become the New York Post thanks Jeff Bezos
Washington Post Opinions • topp
@PostOpinions
X.com
In Washington D.C., taxpayers who don't take the train or bus are increasingly subsidizing those who do, and it's not sustainable. @DominicJPino explains why.
Read more: wapo.st/42nR90k
Opinion
The problem with
D.C. transit
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siraaaa.transit @sirawx.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
#translink celebrating my ban fron tvan
translink mark v 6105 exiting moody center station
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siraaaa.transit @sirawx.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
incredible things happening down south
Graham Platner's twitter account replying to a ruling stating Virginia's supreme court has struck down the new 10-1 congressional map, with platner suggesting dems should just ignore them, like Ohio
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National Weather Service @nws.noaa.gov · 04/05/2026
The best time to prepare for hurricanes is BEFORE hurricane season begins. Avoid having to rush through potentially life-saving preparations by waiting until it’s too late. #HurricanePrep #HurricaneStrong noaa.gov/prepare-before-hurricane-season
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