Raincouver Millennial
@raincouver.bsky.social
Mom, Vancouverite, Math — following illustrators & authors makes me happy :)
My 14yo stayed up past midnight last night on devices…
wrote code to clean data from a soccer website and created a formula to calculate a team’s effectiveness post red card and created a forecast model then ran it against excluded data and it was being sometimes accurate
she just wanted to finish
wrote code to clean data from a soccer website and created a formula to calculate a team’s effectiveness post red card and created a forecast model then ran it against excluded data and it was being sometimes accurate
she just wanted to finish
January 21, 2026 at 4:08 PM
My 14yo stayed up past midnight last night on devices…
wrote code to clean data from a soccer website and created a formula to calculate a team’s effectiveness post red card and created a forecast model then ran it against excluded data and it was being sometimes accurate
she just wanted to finish
wrote code to clean data from a soccer website and created a formula to calculate a team’s effectiveness post red card and created a forecast model then ran it against excluded data and it was being sometimes accurate
she just wanted to finish
It’s 7:30 AM can I be done for the day?
January 21, 2026 at 3:33 PM
It’s 7:30 AM can I be done for the day?
There’s an interesting thing happening online. People reading things.
Just videos of people reading the constitution, the red words (in the bible), passages of 1984 and the diary of Anne Frank as if they are current events.
I approve this form of protest.
Read the things.
Just videos of people reading the constitution, the red words (in the bible), passages of 1984 and the diary of Anne Frank as if they are current events.
I approve this form of protest.
Read the things.
January 21, 2026 at 8:18 AM
There’s an interesting thing happening online. People reading things.
Just videos of people reading the constitution, the red words (in the bible), passages of 1984 and the diary of Anne Frank as if they are current events.
I approve this form of protest.
Read the things.
Just videos of people reading the constitution, the red words (in the bible), passages of 1984 and the diary of Anne Frank as if they are current events.
I approve this form of protest.
Read the things.
This warms my soul
Alaska’s passive-aggressive map of the United States
January 21, 2026 at 7:56 AM
This warms my soul
Canada Flexes on Global Stage With an Eye to Its Own Survival
www.nytimes.com
January 21, 2026 at 7:44 AM
Found one closed captioned and in full
Just put it on and let it wash over you like a balm. Intelligent. Very choice words. Even what wasn’t said resonated loudly. It was a relief.
AI cannot do that.
www.youtube.com/live/JtF630g...
Just put it on and let it wash over you like a balm. Intelligent. Very choice words. Even what wasn’t said resonated loudly. It was a relief.
AI cannot do that.
www.youtube.com/live/JtF630g...
PM Carney delivers special address at World Economic Forum
YouTube video by CTV News
www.youtube.com
January 21, 2026 at 5:07 AM
Found one closed captioned and in full
Just put it on and let it wash over you like a balm. Intelligent. Very choice words. Even what wasn’t said resonated loudly. It was a relief.
AI cannot do that.
www.youtube.com/live/JtF630g...
Just put it on and let it wash over you like a balm. Intelligent. Very choice words. Even what wasn’t said resonated loudly. It was a relief.
AI cannot do that.
www.youtube.com/live/JtF630g...
Grades are dumb
They cannot be a way of providing feedback from teacher to student about how much they understand or can perform AND represent overall mastery of the subject AND be used as tickets to pass gates for higher level learning.
Also homework AND f**king highschool applications for 12yos
They cannot be a way of providing feedback from teacher to student about how much they understand or can perform AND represent overall mastery of the subject AND be used as tickets to pass gates for higher level learning.
Also homework AND f**king highschool applications for 12yos
January 21, 2026 at 4:31 AM
Grades are dumb
They cannot be a way of providing feedback from teacher to student about how much they understand or can perform AND represent overall mastery of the subject AND be used as tickets to pass gates for higher level learning.
Also homework AND f**king highschool applications for 12yos
They cannot be a way of providing feedback from teacher to student about how much they understand or can perform AND represent overall mastery of the subject AND be used as tickets to pass gates for higher level learning.
Also homework AND f**king highschool applications for 12yos
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“We know the old order is not coming back. We shouldn’t mourn it. Nostalgia is not a strategy… The powerful have their power. But we have something, too: the capacity to stop pretending.”
— Canadian PM Mark Carney at Davos, basically announcing divorce from America and receiving a standing ovation
— Canadian PM Mark Carney at Davos, basically announcing divorce from America and receiving a standing ovation
January 20, 2026 at 11:41 PM
“We know the old order is not coming back. We shouldn’t mourn it. Nostalgia is not a strategy… The powerful have their power. But we have something, too: the capacity to stop pretending.”
— Canadian PM Mark Carney at Davos, basically announcing divorce from America and receiving a standing ovation
— Canadian PM Mark Carney at Davos, basically announcing divorce from America and receiving a standing ovation
Except sometimes you want to distribute first. Don’t have kids practice something that isn’t always true.
Just teach BEDMAS. Patterns are lighter on the brain.
Just teach BEDMAS. Patterns are lighter on the brain.
January 21, 2026 at 12:18 AM
Except sometimes you want to distribute first. Don’t have kids practice something that isn’t always true.
Just teach BEDMAS. Patterns are lighter on the brain.
Just teach BEDMAS. Patterns are lighter on the brain.
I am wildly far too excited to be invited by my kid’s highschool’s robotics club to teach them how to sew.
Sewing and robotics, throw in some 3D modelling and it’s like all my hobbies in one
Sewing and robotics, throw in some 3D modelling and it’s like all my hobbies in one
January 20, 2026 at 4:16 AM
I am wildly far too excited to be invited by my kid’s highschool’s robotics club to teach them how to sew.
Sewing and robotics, throw in some 3D modelling and it’s like all my hobbies in one
Sewing and robotics, throw in some 3D modelling and it’s like all my hobbies in one
I have to learn how to use spices in my cooking. This is clearly the most distinct marker that I am now officially middle-aged
Not the gray hair
Not the stiff joints
Not the romance novels
Not the true crime podcasts
But the fact that my taste buds have decayed enough that I am now spice curious
Not the gray hair
Not the stiff joints
Not the romance novels
Not the true crime podcasts
But the fact that my taste buds have decayed enough that I am now spice curious
January 19, 2026 at 9:12 PM
I have to learn how to use spices in my cooking. This is clearly the most distinct marker that I am now officially middle-aged
Not the gray hair
Not the stiff joints
Not the romance novels
Not the true crime podcasts
But the fact that my taste buds have decayed enough that I am now spice curious
Not the gray hair
Not the stiff joints
Not the romance novels
Not the true crime podcasts
But the fact that my taste buds have decayed enough that I am now spice curious
If you haven’t subscribed to @todmaffin.com, your emotional support Canadian, go do so now. He’s on all the socials, but I prefer the YouTube.
Also, please tell me that Canadian accent isn’t native to Nanaimo, do all West Coasters sound this Canadian?
youtube.com/@todmaffinvi...
Also, please tell me that Canadian accent isn’t native to Nanaimo, do all West Coasters sound this Canadian?
youtube.com/@todmaffinvi...
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January 19, 2026 at 8:56 PM
If you haven’t subscribed to @todmaffin.com, your emotional support Canadian, go do so now. He’s on all the socials, but I prefer the YouTube.
Also, please tell me that Canadian accent isn’t native to Nanaimo, do all West Coasters sound this Canadian?
youtube.com/@todmaffinvi...
Also, please tell me that Canadian accent isn’t native to Nanaimo, do all West Coasters sound this Canadian?
youtube.com/@todmaffinvi...
I think the problem with reporting on improvement is that providing that data allows everyone to claim credit with no evidence that would hold up scientifically.
Much more context and analysis is required otherwise the conversation devolves into misinformation very quickly.
Much more context and analysis is required otherwise the conversation devolves into misinformation very quickly.
Thought experiment: if it is "technically true" that something was improving, but you never hear about it because it's a less interesting/visual story in the media, gets less engagement on social media, and advocates (reasonably) still want improvements, what would an average person end up thinking?
January 19, 2026 at 7:34 PM
I think the problem with reporting on improvement is that providing that data allows everyone to claim credit with no evidence that would hold up scientifically.
Much more context and analysis is required otherwise the conversation devolves into misinformation very quickly.
Much more context and analysis is required otherwise the conversation devolves into misinformation very quickly.
January 19, 2026 at 5:20 AM
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A very Vancouver moment is scraping your windshield with a credit card because your Evo doesn’t have a snow brush.
January 18, 2026 at 6:53 PM
A very Vancouver moment is scraping your windshield with a credit card because your Evo doesn’t have a snow brush.
Me at yaletown mom group: oh lovely playmat, did you knit that?
oh no, this was made by my great grandmother for when I was a baby. The wool is from the sheep they raised in Ireland on the family farm
Me: oh. mine is a torn up old bed sheet. of mine, not my grandma’s
www.bbc.com/news/article...
oh no, this was made by my great grandmother for when I was a baby. The wool is from the sheep they raised in Ireland on the family farm
Me: oh. mine is a torn up old bed sheet. of mine, not my grandma’s
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Toxic mums' groups: I left after I'd had enough of being judged
Women describe experiences dealing with ostracisation and toxic behaviour from other mothers.
www.bbc.com
January 18, 2026 at 11:43 PM
Me at yaletown mom group: oh lovely playmat, did you knit that?
oh no, this was made by my great grandmother for when I was a baby. The wool is from the sheep they raised in Ireland on the family farm
Me: oh. mine is a torn up old bed sheet. of mine, not my grandma’s
www.bbc.com/news/article...
oh no, this was made by my great grandmother for when I was a baby. The wool is from the sheep they raised in Ireland on the family farm
Me: oh. mine is a torn up old bed sheet. of mine, not my grandma’s
www.bbc.com/news/article...
ZERO means zero water safety lessons for kids. ZERO means zero chance of getting off a waitlist for lessons. ZERO means zero after sunset physical activities for families. ZERO means zero tournament ready facilities.
ZERO means zero.
vancouver.citynews.ca/2026/01/17/v...
ZERO means zero.
vancouver.citynews.ca/2026/01/17/v...
Kerrisdale Pool closed until further notice
Previously scheduled to reopen next week, the Kerrisdale Pool will remain closed for the foreseeable future following an unforeseen maintenance issue.
vancouver.citynews.ca
January 18, 2026 at 3:53 PM
ZERO means zero water safety lessons for kids. ZERO means zero chance of getting off a waitlist for lessons. ZERO means zero after sunset physical activities for families. ZERO means zero tournament ready facilities.
ZERO means zero.
vancouver.citynews.ca/2026/01/17/v...
ZERO means zero.
vancouver.citynews.ca/2026/01/17/v...
I went to alter a T-shirt that didn’t fit me quite right, and what in the black magic? There were like practically no seams. How on earth you attach a sleeve that is a tube to a shirt with no side seems?!?! My brain is broken.
January 18, 2026 at 3:59 AM
I went to alter a T-shirt that didn’t fit me quite right, and what in the black magic? There were like practically no seams. How on earth you attach a sleeve that is a tube to a shirt with no side seems?!?! My brain is broken.
Go and block the obvious one from this list to increase the statistics.
Search, block, done.
Search, block, done.
January 17, 2026 at 5:13 PM
Go and block the obvious one from this list to increase the statistics.
Search, block, done.
Search, block, done.
Autocorrect needs to learn how to spell Zohran Mamdani… because clearly my fingers never will.
January 17, 2026 at 5:11 PM
Autocorrect needs to learn how to spell Zohran Mamdani… because clearly my fingers never will.
Researching how potential new provinces could join confederation…
January 17, 2026 at 6:17 AM
Researching how potential new provinces could join confederation…
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From Sesame Street
January 15, 2026 at 6:25 PM
From Sesame Street
The BC finance minister talked at my kids highschool this week
Me: oh yeah? How was that?
“Well, it was 1000 times better than Ken Sim’s that’s for sure, but that’s not hard to surpass”
Me: oh yeah? How was that?
“Well, it was 1000 times better than Ken Sim’s that’s for sure, but that’s not hard to surpass”
January 17, 2026 at 1:58 AM
The BC finance minister talked at my kids highschool this week
Me: oh yeah? How was that?
“Well, it was 1000 times better than Ken Sim’s that’s for sure, but that’s not hard to surpass”
Me: oh yeah? How was that?
“Well, it was 1000 times better than Ken Sim’s that’s for sure, but that’s not hard to surpass”
Can you imagine what traffic would be like in a city where parents could be certain children could make their way to and from school completely safely on their own?
It isn’t even that hard.
It isn’t even that hard.
This year I have come to appreciate that
this is a tool
for childhood independence
and parental freedom
this is a tool
for childhood independence
and parental freedom
January 16, 2026 at 9:43 PM
Can you imagine what traffic would be like in a city where parents could be certain children could make their way to and from school completely safely on their own?
It isn’t even that hard.
It isn’t even that hard.