@StephenRees@mas.to2025-05-26 23:58:09
The BC Ministry of Transport has an album of all the pictures they have been taking of the Broadway Subway project. This can be found on flickr at
https://www.flickr.com/photos/tranbc/albums/72157706275278374/
@wfryer@mastodon.cloud2025-06-24 01:01:14
(1/3) Our daughter, Rachel, participated in a podcast last week in Colorado Springs at the “Innovation Hub” where she has been working in an internship as an astronautical engineering major, “doing Space Force things.” Check it out:
“That's So Cadet with Rachel Fryer and Lucan Keyser, USAFA CSRP Interns®”
https:/…
@Stomata@social.linux.pizza2025-06-20 18:33:13
It's one of those " I told you! " moment.
They Trusted ChatGPT To Plan Their Hike — And Ended Up Calling for Rescue - The Trek
https://thetrek.co/they-trusted-chatgpt-to-plan-their-hike-and-ended-up-calling-for-rescue/
@bici@mastodon.social2025-06-08 21:33:45
"Vancouver has 22 civic libraries. Victoria has 12. The streets of these two cities, however, have well over 1,000 unincorporated “little libraries”. You’ve seen them, of course. Those quaint little bird-house structures, placed along sidewalks, usually with a glassed-in front to keep the contents safe from the elements. Inside these little boxes there is always the oddest selection of books, and almost always something that will pique your interest. "
@gray17@mastodon.social2025-06-15 18:38:27
The Soul (緝魂) (2021) is a bleak near-future sci-fi-ish mystery.
In the year 2031, the CEO of a Taiwanese biomedical corporation is found bludgeoned to death in his bedroom, with an occult symbol carved into the door. The obvious culprit is the estranged son, upset that dad had something to do with mom's death.
The prosecutor Wen-chao is not so sure. Wen-chao suspects the CEO's second wife, who seems harmless but might be possessed by the vengeful spirit of the first wife.…
@StephenRees@mas.to2025-06-12 22:57:05
Newly daylighted Canyon Creek brings lost habitat back to Spanish Banks
A long-hidden urban stream in Spanish Banks Beach Park has been brought back to the surface thanks to efforts by the Vancouver Board of Parks and Recreation.
Local Nations, community members and elected officials gathered today to celebrate the public opening of Canyon Creek, a previously buried waterway that ran through Pacific Spirit Regional Park and under the western parking lot at Spanish Banks
@pre@boing.world2025-05-18 09:15:53
So, we have a song-contest blighted by a genocidal unethical corporate sponsor, with the remnants of the wiped-out race threatening a revenge genocide of their own.
Unusually political with the allegory there then.
Great looking scene when the roof was blown open, thousands of people all being sucked off! Looked great, but what a body count?! And the Doctor and his Tardis both sucked off too! He's frozen.
"The Mavity Shell is still open." Lol. Still doing that then.
Susan is here! His granddaughter. Just in visions though, not actually really there. She looks older now. Sixty years on. She's like 80 years old now. "Find me" she says. Not this season though I suspect.
I liked him using the Confetti Cannon to fly though space. Peter Davidson used a cricket ball to bounce off a space ship when he was stranded in outer space. And Peter never froze.
Also a great prat-fall after landing, pointing and gasping and then just toppling.
Silly muppets-aliens song was fab.
Anti-gambling fraud laws prevent calling for help. Brilliant.
Expected that hair to be hiding a set of horns, not that she'd have cut them off.
The Doctor has ice in his heart now, more angry than we've seen Nchuti's Doctor. Trillions gonna die, Belinda dead, Tardis lost. Almost genocidal himself. Certainly vengeful. Timelord victorious.
Belinda is scared too: "If he's angry, this whole world is going to shake", but it ain't a world is it? It's a space station. Much easier to shake 😝
Explosion breaking through the Tardis doors near the end is quite a cliff hanger, but not even actually the end.
Because Mrs Flood is the Rani, finally! Every mystery character has had the fans hoping it's the Rani for years. Like it never being Lupus for the other Doctor: Doctor House. Finally it is Lupus, I mean the Rani.
Not sure I like this bi-generation again though. It's supposed to be rare, but now it feels like it's every time. Still, at least it keeps Miss Flood there as Rani's lackey.
Who actually was the Rani again?
She's from the first McCoy episode: she tries to build a time control device by gathering geniuses from time and blowing up a planet. Pretends to be Mel, the Doctor's companion at the time, to fool McCoy into hhelping. So interesting that her new regeneration looks a little like Belinda. 🤨🤔
I figured Mrs Flood was just Missy, the female Master. But then The Rani was always just a female version of The Master before Transsexual Regeneration was a thing anyway.
Well, just the double finale left then. Exciting.
#watching #tv #doctorWho #interstellarSongContest
@bici@mastodon.social2025-06-08 20:58:38
Welcome to Italian Day on The Drive 2025
#CommercialDrive #vancouver
@arXiv_astrophGA_bot@mastoxiv.page2025-06-11 10:01:35
Deriving physical parameters of unresolved star clusters. VIII. Limits of aperture photometry for star cluster studies
Karolis Daugevi\v{c}ius, Eimantas Kri\v{s}\v{c}i\=unas, Erikas Cic\.enas, Rima Stonkut\.e, Vladas Vansevi\v{c}ius
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08674
@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.ca2025-06-10 21:41:25
#EndFossilFuels #ClimateAction
Fact: Taking a BC Ferry from Metro Vancouver to Vancouver Island is a High CO2 experience, though if it's a full ferry, it's not terrible (~5kgCO2/passenger)
By 2031, BC Ferries will have replaced 18 ferries (big and small!) in 15 years, and nearly all will be 100% electric-ready.
They just announced they're doing the big ships next.
"Built with diesel-battery hybrid propulsion systems and designed with the capability to operate on full electric power in future, the NMVs are expected to significantly reduce greenhouse gas emissions, improve fuel efficiency, and lower underwater radiated noise to better protect marine life. With greater capacity than the vessels they replace, the NMVs will offer more space for vehicles and passengers and upgraded amenities, supporting a more reliable and comfortable travel experience.”
The age of fossil fuels is ending. Any politician or lobbyist who says otherwise is either not paying attention, or bought.
#BCPoli #CanPoli #CdnPoli #ClimateEmergency #SalishSea #BCFerries
https://www.bcferries.com/news-releases/bc-ferries-selects-shipyard-to-construct-four-new-major-vessels