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Victor Villas

@villasbc.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
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Born at 356 ppm CO₂ 🇨🇦 Living the good life in YVR 🇧🇷 Inner voice speaks in pt_BR 🧑🏽‍💻 Paying bills with software 🌉 bridged from ⁂ mastodon.social/@villasbc, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact

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GRIDS Vancouver @grids.reillywood.com · 17h
A quiet Tokyo (Adachi-ku) neighbourhood. You can have density with lowrises, but not with huge streets+setbacks www.flickr.com/photos/47741...
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Sieva 🚴🚇🏙️🌹 @anibyl.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 15h
Thanks to - allowing single stair buildings - transit-oriented development one can build a 6-storey apt building that fits on 1 single-family lot. *26* units, 6 of them are 3-bed, 18 are 2-bed. www.shapeyourcity.ca/2150-w-16-ave #CanadaHousingCrisis
a 6-storey apartment building surrounded by houses
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@grids.reillywood.com Not only that, they kinda prove that even the sidewalks are optional if car traffic is calm enough
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Victor Villas @villasbc.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/10/2026
Not a single ABC park board commissioner Not a single ABC school board trustee TEAM, Liberals, Vote, all eating into ABCs base I wish OneCity did better, though it’s nice to see Maloney comfortably reelected, I’m slightly worried with how this council will fare with housing, We _should_ take […]
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Vision Zero Vancouver @visionzerovancouver.ca · 18/10/2026
This election was about a lot of issues. But we're thrilled that 10/11 winners tonight endorsed our entire first-year platform, and that the only incumbents who won all scored between A- and A+ on our road safety report card. Vancouver made it clear: road safety matters!
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Victor Villas @villasbc.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/10/2026
Well actually it turns out that this month's $0 is actually 5% more than the $0 forecasted so maybe I should watch out
A screenshot of a billing dashboard that says:
Total forecasted cost for current month = $0.00
5% increase compared to last month's total costs
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Victor Villas @villasbc.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026
I love the concept that I'm halfway between zero and zero dollars in my October bill, which makes sense because it's about halfway through the month
A bar chart where the y axis starts on zero, and the maximum value on top of the graph is also zero; past months show a full height bar, current month show a 50% height bar; all saying that the total cost is zero.
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Victor Villas @villasbc.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026
TIL that in #Canada a business can refuse cash payments. Even though #Brazil is probably has a more modern “digital payments” infrastructure overall, there cash can’t be refused as a form of payment
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Victor Villas @villasbc.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026
@rmtransit.bsky.social Respectable commitment to a glass half full I would rather not see Waymo in my community, though
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Victor Villas @villasbc.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026
@rmtransit.bsky.social Urgh. One battle after another
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Victor Villas @villasbc.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026
Kareem Allam actually did pretty well in the interview with Stephen Quinn, if I didn’t know any better about his work in getting ABC elected in the first place it could have fooled me Pete Fry wasn’t amazing, but it’s always easier to poke the guy who’s walking a tightrope of representing the […]
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Victor Villas @villasbc.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026
You know, I could make fun of air-maneuvering cars all day; but ultimately I’m just bitter because the world’s douchebag-in-chief captures so much of humankind’s engineering talent. It it was Porsche doing this I’d be like “eh cool trick, must have been challenging” and not “dear lord protect […]
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Victor Villas @villasbc.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026
@felicitas.pojtinger.com No way, Vancouver Liberals is just ABC metastasizing. The only party that voted for the villages plan was OneCity
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Anthony Floyd @anthonyfloyd.ca · 15/10/2026
When you rip out bike lanes, all lanes become bike lanes.
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Victor Villas @villasbc.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026
10 lanes… I thought this was The Beaverton! So the plan is to merge 5 incoming into the 3 that exist at the end of that corridor? Go build a 10 lane bridge across your own damn city, which happens to be 500km away from here so of course this demon is […] [Original post on mastodon.social]
A bridge? A tunnel? A bridge?

The plan to replace the George Massey Tunnel, built in the 1950s, has changed under
successive governments.

And now, B.C. Conservative Leader Lorne Doerkson said he will build a 10-lane bridge
to replace the tunnel if his party forms government after the Oct. 24 election.
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Victor Villas @villasbc.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026
@grids.reillywood.com Rebates are against the people’s psyche, the loss aversion is first and stronger. I’d rather make owning expensive cars exponentially more expensive with direct taxes proportional to their value/weight/efficiency.
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Victor Villas @villasbc.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026
@crompsy.com Eh, I don’t know if we’re at a point where we can really trust anything these candidates wrote if had enough time to prepare a response. I think rapid fire questions from debates are more informative. Reading ABC promise the City will contribute financially to arts is laughable […]
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Victor Villas @villasbc.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026
Avi Lewis next PM here we go? One can dream
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Victor Villas @villasbc.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026
In any case, you read with exasperation or amusement the multiple errors in a story, and then turn the page to national or international affairs, and read as if the rest of the newspaper was somehow more accurate about Palestine than the baloney you just read. You turn the page, and forget what […]
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Victor Villas @villasbc.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026
“… the takeout number for Fine Dining stands at 18%, more that four times the pre-pandemic level.” www.nerd4cities.com/the-car-as-dini…
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The Car As Dining Room
If you spend any amount of time at all in American suburbs, you can't miss it: the ongoing proliferation of ever more ingeniously designed restaurant drive-thrus. Multi-lane Chick-Fil-As and In-N-Outs. Raising Cane's and Dutch Bros. drive aisles with iPad-wielding line attendants
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Victor Villas @villasbc.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026
@Tribear Heh love when a WarGames reference lands
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Victor Villas @villasbc.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026
Most fictional plot point is the US president using long and coherent sentences to admit consciousness of terrible acts @faraiwe mstdn.social/@faraiwe/1174125274980…
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Attached: 1 image Laugh, buuuuut..... #SMBC #TurdReich #USPol
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Victor Villas @villasbc.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026
@Tribear True, and it’s a catch 22 that the only way to make it less annoying is to use it more and make it more addictive. All in all, the only way to win is to not play.
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Victor Villas @villasbc.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026
@Tribear I think the only way to put yourself out of the right wing bubble is teach meta to put you in a different one. I follow and like a few cycling and environmentalism related posts from time to time and poof, the f150 ads and poilievre posts disappeared
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Ruofan 🚎 王若凡 @ruofan.ca · 07/10/2026
This is a HUGE red flag for transportation in Vancouver. Ken Sim is vowing to repeal Gregor Robertson's 2017 delegation of authority to the chief engineer on road allocation. This would mean that every single bike lane and traffic calming scheme has to go to council for a public hearing and vote.
ABC press release with highlighted text reading "Ensure that council has the authority to provide effective oversight of major changes, like the large-scale installation of banana barriers, within Vancover neighbourhoods"
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Victor Villas @villasbc.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026
Galera, deu ruim
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Stephen Rees :verifiedgreen: @stephenrees.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026
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Victor Villas @villasbc.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026
The founders of a Vancouver-based compassion club that sold uncontaminated drugs to its members have had their drug trafficking convictions stayed after they successfully challenged the constitutionality of Canada's drug laws. ✊🏽 […]
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Victor Villas @villasbc.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026
This post brought to you by the yearly surge of chronically online dudes that are uncomfortable with Truth & Reconciliation day but can't process it properly. That's the kind of people that love the "virtue signalling" concept. So they just wrap their discomfort with NDP-themed wrapping paper […]
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Victor Villas @villasbc.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026
Renewing my plea to progressive comrades to abolish the concept of "virtue signalling" from their vocabulary. That's a term trolls use when someone cares about a cause for which there's no real rational reason to be against; so the only option left is to deny that the caring is sincere. Sure […]
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Vision Zero Vancouver @visionzerovancouver.ca · 28/09/2026
*taps sign* Hey we hear there's a provincial election coming up. We also hear the cost of living is soaring. You know what would be a cool campaign promise? visionzerovancouver.ca/2024/09/22/b...
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Bring Back the BC E-Bike Rebate!
You Want an E-Bike? How about an E-Waitlist? In 2023, BC Provided tax rebates of $350 – $1,400 for e-bikes to low income earners. The budget was for 9,000 people to get e-bikes and the progra…
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Victor Villas @villasbc.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026
@grids.reillywood.com Might as well do it first and rename BC NDP to BC Liberals
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Victor Villas @villasbc.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026
Oct 3 is presidential election day in Brazil, first round. For properly registered voters in BC, the voting place will be the Pinnacle Hotel in downtown van. VIFF is also happening, so thinking of doubling the democracy party with a film party and watch a movie or two in the venues close by […]
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Victor Villas @villasbc.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026
@Anibyl No waaaaay this is amazing!
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Sieva 🚴🚇🏙️🌹 @anibyl.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026
Compass card can now be used for Mobi and Modo! buzzer.translink.ca/2026/09/compass…
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Victor Villas @villasbc.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026
Reminds me of this quote > Anyone who thinks they’re better than a rock should be turned into one —then they would find out they’re not that special, and they could finally be happy. Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World, Tyson Yunkaporta
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Victor Villas @villasbc.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026
As a young adult and fresh grad I got really excited about much of this stuff, and declared myself a rationalist sympathetic to effective altruism. A decade later, it just feels silly. I think of it as an overgrown delusion typical of a man-child, the ultimate consequence of letting oneself […]
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Victor Villas @villasbc.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026
I haven't been engaged with algorithmic fairness as much in the last few years but when @timnitGebru drops a banger like this, better late than never to give it a read The TESCREAL bundle: Eugenics and the promise of utopia through artificial general intelligence | First Monday […]
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Victor Villas @villasbc.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026
@anthonyfloyd.ca Dangerous tone though, as if we already have enough lanes
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Victor Villas @villasbc.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026
RE: glammr.us/@carkner/1172942317493979… At this point even if we don't get a snap election, just by forcing Cons to play musical chairs under pressure is great game from NDP. Rust's big circus tent didn't last long; how about a hastily improvised tent? Long live the Centrist party […]
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Vision Zero Vancouver @visionzerovancouver.ca · 12/09/2026
Are starter packs still a thing? Here is one for some of our favourite road safety voices in Metro Vancouver. Follow them for their endless wit, intellgience, and great takes! go.bsky.app/9ZG165u
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Vision Zero Vancouver @visionzerovancouver.ca · 10/09/2026
With road injuries & fatalities on the rise, the next Vancouver council must act to make our streets safer. We created a list of 10 actionable items for Year 1 of the new council and sent it to all the parties. Read the list, who endorsed, and who declined to do so: visionzerovancouver.ca/vote/
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Election 2026
We asked each party to commit to implementing key road safety measures if they form government, within their first year in office.
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Vision Zero Vancouver @visionzerovancouver.ca · 09/09/2026
Car crashes are the #1 source of preventable injury and death for Vancouverites, with the most vulnerable road users disproportionately affected. Ken Sim is hyper focused on "public safety," but is road safety on his agenda? 🤔 We speak to @cbcstephenquinn.bsky.social youtu.be/TeemN0rp950
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Is Road Safety on Ken Sim's Agenda? - Vision Zero Vancouver on CBC
YouTube video by Vision Zero Vancouver
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Victor Villas @villasbc.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/09/2026
RE: mastodon.social/@MatWright/11723664… Not that I think this was the intention, but at least all this kerfuffle gave Fry some extra media coverage that he might not have gotten if the “progressive primary” had resolved two months ago; they really milked it to the end
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Victor Villas @villasbc.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/08/2026
@Anibyl Big thumbs up. Hike property taxes for non residents, for people who own multiple properties, and stop putting the burden on new development.
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Victor Villas @villasbc.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/08/2026
It’s a bit sad but it’s so hard to empathize with people going into debt to get a truck they don’t need. I understand we’re in the same side of class warfare, but come on my brothers and sisters wake uuup, you’re a part of the problem! @ferricoxide blahaj.zone/notes/apx1smzz3ny0088q
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I don't understand buying a new vehicle before the old one is paid off, let alone when the loan balance is higher than the trade-in value. *f you're cycling through cars in shorter time than the loan term, that means you should be leasing. And if you're driving too many miles to lease, then you should be holding on to your car longer than the loan terms (because if you're driving too many miles to lease, your trade-in value is garbage at any rate). When it comes to cars, you need transportation not an always shiny trophy. https://youtu.be/TkiSzqx-8lY?si=D6Sn8VE1fssUTo8_
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GRIDS Vancouver @grids.reillywood.com · 25/08/2026
Fun little website. Vancouver results so far:
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That Old Guy with the Beard @ianamartin.thecanadian.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/08/2026
@anthonyfloyd.ca ISN’T IT AWESOME‽
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Victor Villas @villasbc.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/08/2026
Just watched PMMC speech on the trade deal. The man was so ready to go full realpolitik and compromise a lot, and yet here we go towards trade war. I have no doubt this was the right path; if anything, it took surprisingly long considering how long ago the US offence started. The US empire is […]
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GRIDS Vancouver @grids.reillywood.com · 22/08/2026
All the federal parties can agree on something, what a time to be alive www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...
Opposition parties expressed support Saturday for the Prime Minister’s decision to walk away from the negotiations.

What Trump’s new tariffs mean for Canada’s economy

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre released a statement Saturday morning expressing disappointment that the U.S. has chosen to impose further tariffs on Canada.

“Canadians must stand united to defend our country against these unfair attacks on our jobs and businesses. Canada cannot accept one-sided tariffs that will deindustrialize our country. Nor can we accept a bad deal. Instead, we must continue the fight for tariff-free trade,” he said, adding that he will be seeking a call with Mr. Carney.

“Conservatives support action to protect Canadians and our industries targeted by these unfair U.S. tariffs,” he said. “All Canadians must stand united for our workers, our businesses and our country.”

Bloc Québécois Leader Yves-François Blanchet expressed support for Mr. Carney’s plan to impose counter tariffs. He also said in a statement that the federal government should provide support for affected businesses and workers.

NDP Leader Avi Lewis said the Prime Minister was right to walk away from the negotiating table.
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