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diluez! diluez! ok! @tds.xyz · 13/10/2026

public transit: Stimulate Vitality of the City and Civil Life (sincere)

a display ad in the Xi'an metro promoting the Xi'an metro featuring the quoted text over an abstract image

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diluez! diluez! ok! @tds.xyz · 13/10/2026

I, for one, am constantly saying

Flowers in front of a banner reading, in part, "today's flower also drove well"

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diluez! diluez! ok! @tds.xyz · 13/10/2026

found Pete Fry's place in Xi'an

Mall shop called THE GREEN PARTY PRO. It sells toys and miscellaneous goods?

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diluez! diluez! ok! @tds.xyz · 12/10/2026

I expected problems accessing Western social media from China but this (while using a US-based eSIM) was unexpected. And GPS doesn't work on the bullet trains!

Hey there!

You are accessing Bluesky from a region that legally requires us to verify your age before allowing you to access the app.

Based on your network, we think you're in Texas, United States. This estimate may be inaccurate if you're using a VPN. Tap here to update your location with GPS.

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diluez! diluez! ok! @tds.xyz · 12/10/2026

Used Alipay to order milk tea from a stall in a high-speed rail station our train to Xi'an was transiting. It came to our seats a few minutes after the stop. Would have been a real five star experience if only we had more customization options for the teas 🥺

Train tray tables with milk tea cups on them.

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diluez! diluez! ok! @tds.xyz · 12/10/2026

北京 urbanism: these electric scooters are ubiquitous and most of them have quilted windbreakers attached.

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diluez! diluez! ok! @tds.xyz · 09/10/2026

Beijing highlight: the Liangmahe is a river with a nice reclaimed green bank and a pedestrian path. Along one section, a bunch of guys were standing around with boats they'd inflated on the spot, offering rentals. Lots of young people splashing around amid bored looking security guards.

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diluez! diluez! ok! @tds.xyz · 02/10/2026

according to nhlscorigami.com, the nhl last saw a 9-7 scoreline in 1992

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diluez! diluez! ok! @tds.xyz · 02/10/2026

i'm not watching this game, but i do live next to the stadium, and, usually, hearing the Canucks goal horn this many times would have implied a more victorious milieu

score card: Oilers 8, Canucks 5, 15:17 remaining in the third period

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diluez! diluez! ok! @tds.xyz · 21/09/2026

And I closed out the festival with SOLOVELA, WALK OF SHAME, and CULTS. 25 shows! A rich harvest of Fringe. Grateful to all the artists, volunteers, staff, donors, and patrons for another great festival!

Tim in a headset, wearing a Fringe t-shirt under a jacket and over a shirt and tie for some reason, sitting in front of Arts Umbrella.

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diluez! diluez! ok! @tds.xyz · 20/09/2026

MoonSwine: To-Dance-To-Dream-To-Poem-To-Pig: Surreal, existential, oblique, unexpected; the rewards versus the mortifying ordeal. I wish I could put this one in a box and take it with me. I felt like it was speaking directly to me, in a language I mostly understood. A real gift. #VancouverFringe

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diluez! diluez! ok! @tds.xyz · 15/09/2026

Science World soccer ball looking like an r/bald advice post

A large geodesic dome is wrapped in panels that look like the world cup soccer ball. The panels on the crown of the dome have been removed, exposing the silvery surface underneath.

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diluez! diluez! ok! @tds.xyz · 13/09/2026

LUCKY LIFE OF A BLACK CAT: Is it self-indulgent to build a Fringe show around a slideshow of your dead cat? What if the costumes are genuinely great and the actors really sell it? What if I'm wearing this shirt?? #VancouverFringe

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diluez! diluez! ok! @tds.xyz · 11/09/2026

Kicking off the #VancouverFringe, over the river and through the woods to the studio at Arts Umbrella!

Empty theatre stage, seated patrons seen from behind in foreground. Photo of Tim Felton in last year's SOFTIE is projected on the screen.

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diluez! diluez! ok! @tds.xyz · 30/08/2026

In Vancouver I bought a boredom beer while waiting half an hour for lukewarm Dutch Street Festival bitterballen. A guy across the street is playing a hurdy-gurdy. Not great, not terrible

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diluez! diluez! ok! @tds.xyz · 23/08/2026

The cats are intrigued but not alarmed

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diluez! diluez! ok! @tds.xyz · 20/08/2026

Finally saw The Odyssey last night

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diluez! diluez! ok! @tds.xyz · 01/08/2026

claude rolling its eyes at me when i give it little encouraging interjections in my prompts

She's so crazzzzzzzzy! Love her!!! meme of a woman with a bag of chips on her head

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diluez! diluez! ok! @tds.xyz · 28/07/2026

vancouver city council: lucy maloney and ten cowards

vote card for final passage of the villages plan. lucy maloney in favour, everyone else in opposition

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diluez! diluez! ok! @tds.xyz · 20/07/2026

Maybe a little hazy but not too bad at ground level after all

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diluez! diluez! ok! @tds.xyz · 20/07/2026

Excited to be reading my first book of this, the current year, 2027 😄 @grimalkina.bsky.social

... First edition published 2027
... (C) 2027 Cat Hicks

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diluez! diluez! ok! @tds.xyz · 17/07/2026

i was curious if the thunderstorm would bother the cats and these crosstown kids could not have cared less

two cats sleeping in a cat tree next to a window. they are unbothered

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diluez! diluez! ok! @tds.xyz · 17/07/2026

infinite jest-ass timeline

Republican members of U.S. Congress are slamming Canada's federal and provincial governments over what they claim is inaction in preventing the wildfires currently spreading smoke and poor air quality across much of the northeastern U.S., in addition to Central Canada.

The criticism comes in a sharply worded letter from four Michigan members of the House of Representatives, addressed to Prime Minister Mark Carney.

It accuses Canada of failing to conduct adequate forest maintenance to reduce the risk of wildfires and warns that the U.S. "will look elsewhere, and act on our own" if more action isn't taken.

"This is the third consecutive year we have had to write to Canadian officials about a crisis that Canada has the tools to prevent and has chosen not to," write the four Michigan Republicans — John James, Jack Bergman, John Moolenaar and Lisa McClain — in a letter dated Wednesday.

"Our hospitals are once again treating children, dialysis patients and older residents for the effects of smoke that did not originate anywhere near them."

The Republican lawmakers say they are "done accepting apologies in place of action," and float the idea of taking cross-border fire prevention into U.S. hands.

passage from Infinite Jest:

It’s a herd of feral hamsters, a major herd, thundering across the yellow plains of the southern reaches of the Great Concavity in what used to be Vermont, raising dust that forms a uremic-hued cloud with somatic shapes interpretable from as far away as Boston and Montreal. The herd is descended from two domestic hamsters set free by a Watertown NY boy at the beginning of the Experialist migration in the subsidized Year of the Whopper. The boy now attends college in Champaign IL and has forgotten that his hamsters were named Ward and June.

The noise of the herd is tornadic, locomotival. The expression on the hamsters’ whiskered faces is businesslike and implacable—it’s that implacable-herd expression. They thunder eastward across pedalferrous terrain that today is fallow, denuded. To the east, dimmed by the fulvous cloud the hamsters send up, is the vivid verdant ragged outline of the annularly overfertilized forests of what used to be central Maine.

All these territories are now property of Canada.

With respect to a herd of this size, please exercise the sort of common sense that come to think of it would keep your thinking man out of the southwest Concavity anyway. Feral hamsters are not pets. They mean business. Wide berth advised. Carry nothing even remotely vegetabalish if in the path of a feral herd. If in the path of such a herd, move quickly and calmly in a direction perpendicular to their own. If American, north not advisable. Move south, calmly and in all haste, toward some border metropolis—Rome NNY or Glens Falls NNY or Beverly, MA, say, or those bordered points between them at which the giant protective ATHSCME fans atop the hugely convex protective walls of adonized Lucite hold off the drooling and piss-colored bank of teratogenic Concavity clouds and move the bank well back, north, away, jaggedly, over your protected head.

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diluez! diluez! ok! @tds.xyz · 04/07/2026

Taking in the game from the Grouse chalet

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diluez! diluez! ok! @tds.xyz · 04/07/2026

Thought I was taking a cool GoPro video on the Grouse Grind. Took a single photo instead

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diluez! diluez! ok! @tds.xyz · 02/07/2026

@gandersocial.ca btw your "about us" page renders poorly in firefox

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diluez! diluez! ok! @tds.xyz · 22/06/2026

oh, this is good organizing

Poster advertising a Vancouver Anticapitalist Film Club screening of Brazil

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diluez! diluez! ok! @tds.xyz · 21/06/2026

Hope you get some sleep tonight

Made over 100 replies yesterday
No break greater than 4 hrs yesterday

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diluez! diluez! ok! @tds.xyz · 15/06/2026

closing slot at the fan festival on the 26th has Metric and Broken Social Scene... playing on separate stages 🥲

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diluez! diluez! ok! @tds.xyz · 13/06/2026

I'm a big FIFA hater but the Granville activation is a lot of fun. Good work everyone, let's do this more often #vancouver

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diluez! diluez! ok! @tds.xyz · 12/06/2026

submarine cert expiration strikes again 🥲

What happened?
Benchling’s search system went down on June 8th at 8:04pm PT across many search
clusters, caused by an expired inactive root certificate in our search infrastructure. This
triggered a loss of quorum in some clusters, making them unavailable and requiring a full
rebuild from backup. That restoration took far longer than anticipated due to the size of the
data being restored and several technical roadblocks we ran into along the way. Once
backups were restored, we reindexed all data created or updated since the backup was
taken. All functionality has since been fully restored.

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diluez! diluez! ok! @tds.xyz · 09/06/2026

I know this comes from a place of support but I hate to contest each other's status as humans worthy of equal treatment on the grounds of its effect on quarterly earnings

Screenshot of an announcement for an online event from Endpoints

The economic case for LGBTQ+ inclusion in biopharma

A difficult political climate has pushed many DEI efforts to the sidelines, but the economic case for LGBTQ+ inclusion hasn't gone anywhere.

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diluez! diluez! ok! @tds.xyz · 03/06/2026

quiet, please, we are studying the histories

Q: which Pope was most like Twitter user dril, and why

A: Stephen VI, no contest, and it comes down to one thing: the Cadaver Synod of 897.

For those unfamiliar — Stephen VI had a grudge against his predecessor Formosus, who was already dead. A normal person lets that go. Stephen had the corpse exhumed, dressed in papal vestments, propped on a throne, and put on trial, with a deacon assigned to stand behind it and answer questions on the dead man's behalf. He found the body guilty, annulled all its acts, hacked off the fingers it had used for blessings, and chucked it in the Tiber. This is the single most dril thing any human being has ever done. It is "im not owned! im not owned!!" rendered as ecclesiastical law. The defining dril move is the inability to let a feud die even after the other party has, in the most literal sense, logged off forever.

The other beats line up too. The theatrical overkill, the confident escalation of a petty grievance into a formal Decree, the total absence of an off-ramp. And the ending is pure dril karma: the synod caused such public outrage that Stephen was deposed, thrown in prison, and strangled within months. He posted through it, got ratio'd by history, and deleted his account involuntarily.

Runner-up is Boniface VIII purely for the bull Unam Sanctam, which is basically a thousand-word tweet declaring that everyone on Earth is, in fact, owned by him.

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diluez! diluez! ok! @tds.xyz · 26/05/2026

personal computing had a pretty slow start, didn't it?

Apple Computer ad featuring Ben Franklin sitting at a console next to a kite: "What kind of man owns his own computer?"

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diluez! diluez! ok! @tds.xyz · 24/05/2026

Signing up for the hot new beta

Message from Skipper Otto: join the turbot early access list! Be the first to know when turbot lands.

Photo of a guy holding a fish captioned "an exciting new product is coming to to the dock. We're so excited to share that, for the first time, turbot is on its way to Skipper Otto members!"

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diluez! diluez! ok! @tds.xyz · 16/05/2026

I have been selected by our wise leader to participate in completely voluntary retraining in Taylor Swift Thought. I look forward to reentering society in three to six months with a more harmonious understanding of the master's works, including but not limited to Life of a Showgirl.

Sign reads TAYLOR SWIFT EDUCATION CENTER, on the side of the Country Music Hall of Fame. A black stretch limo is parked in the foreground.

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diluez! diluez! ok! @tds.xyz · 16/05/2026

imagine a thoughtlessly canned beer 😔

Beer can in foreground in front of a stage where a band is playing cumbia. Can reads
THOUGHTFULLY BREWED
AND CANNED IN NASHVILLE, TN
BEARDED IRIS
INDIA PALE ALE

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diluez! diluez! ok! @tds.xyz · 10/05/2026

this cat (foreground) will Not let me pet him when he is out and about in our apartment the same cat jumps into my lap whenever i sit at the computer and then rubs his face on me until he gets scritches i respect it i guess

webcam photo of me at a computer holding a black cat with white paws. in background is a cat tree with a tabby cat with white chest

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diluez! diluez! ok! @tds.xyz · 07/05/2026

this AFP photographer must be a redditor

looks like a MarineTraffic display of traffic in the strait of hormuz on a LCD screen with a silhouetted finger pointing at a ship near the chokepoint

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diluez! diluez! ok! @tds.xyz · 29/04/2026

Well, Benny has a favourite #OneCity Park Board candidate

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diluez! diluez! ok! @tds.xyz · 21/04/2026

sir, you are an attorney, an officer of the court. you are almost fifty years old. this is an election for the united states congress. what are you doing.

**** ***** PARTY: NONE
Attorney AGE: 47
Vote *****—Protect California and your family!
We need to be tough against Washington right now.
They're pushing California around. They're laughing at the people
here. Treating us like garbage. Acting like family means nothing.
They steal our tax dollar. Leave us hungry. Leave us practically
begging. Its disgusting!
We need someone tough and very strong and honorable to protect
California right now.
Someone powerful. Someone like *****!
***** is a powerful attorney.
His track record is wins and success and honor!
He is so powerful he is called "The Czar!"
Other lawyers fear him and learn from him.
***** is strong and brave enough to protect our families!
He will end the corruption. He will win for the people!
***** is very honest. You can trust *****.
He never speaks off a teleprompter. His words are true!
Visit his YouTube channel (@*****ForAmerica) and see.
***** has nothing to hide. He's a winner. He loves America and
the people!
***** cannot be bought—he’s already rich!
He cannot be bullied—he’s the toughest lawyer out there!
Trump will respect ***** and want to make good deals with
him!
Trump will treat California right when ***** is there.
Good deals for California!
***** will be very tough but also very fair to the people here
in District 47.
The people trust him. ***** protects small businesses.
Protects rights. Protects families.
***** is very smart and very tough.
He will protect us from Washington.
America deserves to win!
*****

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diluez! diluez! ok! @tds.xyz · 17/04/2026

Vancouver's most reflexively cynical municipal affairs reporter?

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