Robyn
@robynmchan.bsky.social
Fighting back against the Karens (actually in this case the Myrnas) with art. Look for these and others to be posted around Olympic Village!
January 28, 2026 at 7:46 AM
Fighting back against the Karens (actually in this case the Myrnas) with art. Look for these and others to be posted around Olympic Village!
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BREAKING: Another rapid response action! Indivisible Vancouver is leading a protest rally THIS FRIDAY January 30 against Jim Pattison, who is planning to sell one of his warehouses in Virginia to DHS/ICE to become a human processing facility. #boycottpattison #ice #iceraids #protest
January 28, 2026 at 1:06 AM
BREAKING: Another rapid response action! Indivisible Vancouver is leading a protest rally THIS FRIDAY January 30 against Jim Pattison, who is planning to sell one of his warehouses in Virginia to DHS/ICE to become a human processing facility. #boycottpattison #ice #iceraids #protest
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Obviously all of these efforts gained visibility & power & funding online but none of it works without that offline community.
If you care about this work, the most basic & profound thing you can do is figure out how to plug in to your community
If you care about this work, the most basic & profound thing you can do is figure out how to plug in to your community
January 27, 2026 at 4:04 AM
Obviously all of these efforts gained visibility & power & funding online but none of it works without that offline community.
If you care about this work, the most basic & profound thing you can do is figure out how to plug in to your community
If you care about this work, the most basic & profound thing you can do is figure out how to plug in to your community
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I keep thinking about something that people on so many sides of this have pointed out: the protests in Minnesota worked because of on-the-ground organization that built on existing, off-line connections. This should be tremendously instructive to all of us.
January 27, 2026 at 4:00 AM
I keep thinking about something that people on so many sides of this have pointed out: the protests in Minnesota worked because of on-the-ground organization that built on existing, off-line connections. This should be tremendously instructive to all of us.
The long-awaited school in Olympic Village is going to City Council for public hearing on February 12!
If you have five minutes, please consider writing in support of the school: vancouver.ca/your-governm... (Choose CD-1 (454) Text Amendment: 215 West 1st Avenue)
If you have five minutes, please consider writing in support of the school: vancouver.ca/your-governm... (Choose CD-1 (454) Text Amendment: 215 West 1st Avenue)
Contact City Council about public hearing agenda items (rezoning and heritage)
Tell City Council what you think about rezoning applications or heritage designations being considered at public hearings.
vancouver.ca
January 26, 2026 at 7:48 PM
The long-awaited school in Olympic Village is going to City Council for public hearing on February 12!
If you have five minutes, please consider writing in support of the school: vancouver.ca/your-governm... (Choose CD-1 (454) Text Amendment: 215 West 1st Avenue)
If you have five minutes, please consider writing in support of the school: vancouver.ca/your-governm... (Choose CD-1 (454) Text Amendment: 215 West 1st Avenue)
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Vancouver, pay attention.
Hootsuite provides social media and surveillance tools to ICE. Their CEO has doubled down on the contract.
Monitoring dissent. Tracking public reaction. Managing PR for a violent agency.
This is complicity. @hootsuite.com
Hootsuite provides social media and surveillance tools to ICE. Their CEO has doubled down on the contract.
Monitoring dissent. Tracking public reaction. Managing PR for a violent agency.
This is complicity. @hootsuite.com
January 23, 2026 at 7:00 AM
Vancouver, pay attention.
Hootsuite provides social media and surveillance tools to ICE. Their CEO has doubled down on the contract.
Monitoring dissent. Tracking public reaction. Managing PR for a violent agency.
This is complicity. @hootsuite.com
Hootsuite provides social media and surveillance tools to ICE. Their CEO has doubled down on the contract.
Monitoring dissent. Tracking public reaction. Managing PR for a violent agency.
This is complicity. @hootsuite.com
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no yeah something is happening
January 25, 2026 at 4:51 AM
no yeah something is happening
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People should not have to be perfect victims to not be murdered by the state or by a racist game show host and his lawless den of jackals and elite pedophile cover up conspiracists, but still HOLY SHIT MAN
New: Alex Pretti, the man killed by the Trump-Vance mob of agents was an outdoorsmen, a mountain biker, an ICU nurse who "would go out of his way to help," say Veterans Affairs colleagues.
Cheerful. Funny. Gentle.
And still, per sources, Trump officials are urging staff to call him a "terrorist."
Cheerful. Funny. Gentle.
And still, per sources, Trump officials are urging staff to call him a "terrorist."
DHS Shooting Victim in Minneapolis Was a ‘Sweet’ and ‘Principled Person’
Zeteo spoke with two doctors who worked with Alex Pretti, a nurse who is the latest victim of Trump’s violent invasion of Minnesota.
zeteo.com
January 24, 2026 at 11:20 PM
People should not have to be perfect victims to not be murdered by the state or by a racist game show host and his lawless den of jackals and elite pedophile cover up conspiracists, but still HOLY SHIT MAN
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When they lie this obviously & shamelessly about their murder victim, a neighbour who was helping his neighbours and was attacked for it, when there’s video EVERYWHERE showing the ridiculousness of their lie, then you know for sure that they’re lying about literally EVERYTHING they say.
Everything.
Everything.
Noem lies shamelessly: "An individual approached order Patrol officers with a 9mm semi-automatic gun. The officers attempted to disarm this individual, but the armed suspect reacted violently. This looks like a situation where an individual arrived to inflict maximum damage and kill law enforcement"
January 24, 2026 at 10:42 PM
When they lie this obviously & shamelessly about their murder victim, a neighbour who was helping his neighbours and was attacked for it, when there’s video EVERYWHERE showing the ridiculousness of their lie, then you know for sure that they’re lying about literally EVERYTHING they say.
Everything.
Everything.
If you want to sign up to speak in support of the long-awaited and finally-funded Olympic Village School, the public hearing is currently scheduled for February 12!
The Olympic Village Save-On Foods has come out in support of the NIMBYs opposed to the long-promised but unbuilt Olympic Village Elementary School.
January 19, 2026 at 10:01 PM
If you want to sign up to speak in support of the long-awaited and finally-funded Olympic Village School, the public hearing is currently scheduled for February 12!
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@saveonfoods.bsky.social This is a bad look. One of your stores is supporting a NIMBY movement against a school. Why? Is it corporate policy that schools in growing neighbourhoods are bad for the neighbourhood?
January 18, 2026 at 4:20 AM
@saveonfoods.bsky.social This is a bad look. One of your stores is supporting a NIMBY movement against a school. Why? Is it corporate policy that schools in growing neighbourhoods are bad for the neighbourhood?
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Jimmy Fallon would host the Hunger Games.
December 9, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Jimmy Fallon would host the Hunger Games.
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as @cityofvancouver.bsky.social mulls removing change tables for budgetary reasons (?), a reminder that my husband and I have been mapping crowdsourced change table locations for the last two years for "fun!" vancouverchangetables.com
November 13, 2025 at 3:21 AM
as @cityofvancouver.bsky.social mulls removing change tables for budgetary reasons (?), a reminder that my husband and I have been mapping crowdsourced change table locations for the last two years for "fun!" vancouverchangetables.com
Dipping in and out of watching the Council meeting today, but caught Nan with a soft spoken banger of a speech.
Nan Gregory, an older Point Grey resident, voiced what she wants her city to be. She’s opposed to the proposed property tax freeze, as all speakers so far have been.
November 12, 2025 at 11:53 PM
Dipping in and out of watching the Council meeting today, but caught Nan with a soft spoken banger of a speech.
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Breaking: ABC Vancouver just voted unanimously against a staff recommendation to finance a DTES Community Land Trust and aquire an SRO building under community control, against the requests of community members and advocates.
This is going to make homelessness worse.
#vanpoli
This is going to make homelessness worse.
#vanpoli
November 6, 2025 at 12:24 AM
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The American empire that has sheltered capital for so long is starting to crack. This is a moment of opportunity as well as of peril. A little bit of optimism of the intellect is called for, if only to jump-start the optimism of the will.
newleftreview.org/issues/ii152...
newleftreview.org/issues/ii152...
David Harvey, On Sraffa’s Trail, NLR 152, March–April 2025
David Harvey recalls a lifetime of encounters, actual and intellectual, with the enigmatic Piero Sraffa. Interlocutor of Wittgenstein, Keynes and Robinson; devastating critic of neoclassical economics...
newleftreview.org
May 24, 2025 at 3:58 PM
The American empire that has sheltered capital for so long is starting to crack. This is a moment of opportunity as well as of peril. A little bit of optimism of the intellect is called for, if only to jump-start the optimism of the will.
newleftreview.org/issues/ii152...
newleftreview.org/issues/ii152...
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and to people, events and political currents that open doors to new ways of thinking, hopefully more adequate to confront the central contradictions of our times. It is, however, one thing to open doors but quite another to pass through en masse, to explore what might exist on the other side.
May 24, 2025 at 3:58 PM
and to people, events and political currents that open doors to new ways of thinking, hopefully more adequate to confront the central contradictions of our times. It is, however, one thing to open doors but quite another to pass through en masse, to explore what might exist on the other side.
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For anyone aware of the tragedy at Vancouver Lapu Lapu festival, here's a thread of GoFundMe's available to help support the many victims. (copy pasted from my friend 'J' in the Vancouver Filipino community)
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April 29, 2025 at 5:53 PM
For anyone aware of the tragedy at Vancouver Lapu Lapu festival, here's a thread of GoFundMe's available to help support the many victims. (copy pasted from my friend 'J' in the Vancouver Filipino community)
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Poilievre vows to stay on as party leader for reasons of being otherwise unemployable #CanadaVotes #cdnpoli
April 29, 2025 at 5:16 AM
Poilievre vows to stay on as party leader for reasons of being otherwise unemployable #CanadaVotes #cdnpoli
Pierre Poilievre has a face that needs glasses.
April 29, 2025 at 4:56 AM
Pierre Poilievre has a face that needs glasses.
Sean Fraser is toning down his Nova Scotia accent on CBC right now, and I'm upset!
April 29, 2025 at 4:10 AM
Sean Fraser is toning down his Nova Scotia accent on CBC right now, and I'm upset!
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Wade Grant won! Musqueam nation - hən̓q̓əmin̓əm̓ speaker (a Salish dialect, the Native language most of Metro Vancouver). The first Coast Salish person in parliament, AFAIK.
April 29, 2025 at 3:54 AM
Wade Grant won! Musqueam nation - hən̓q̓əmin̓əm̓ speaker (a Salish dialect, the Native language most of Metro Vancouver). The first Coast Salish person in parliament, AFAIK.
We should all be thanking Chrystia Freeland, yes?
April 29, 2025 at 3:39 AM
We should all be thanking Chrystia Freeland, yes?
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I check the little screen, I check the big screen, I check the watch screen, I check the tablet screen. I check the screen that reminds me of the good times, I check the screen that reminds me of the better times.
April 29, 2025 at 3:09 AM
I check the little screen, I check the big screen, I check the watch screen, I check the tablet screen. I check the screen that reminds me of the good times, I check the screen that reminds me of the better times.