Billy
@billyidles.bsky.social
Vancouver. Local Politics. Less Local Politics. Tech stuff.
I took this photo in a bookstore in 2018, just because I thought it was such a wild juxtaposition. Feels worse coming across it in my photos now.
November 8, 2025 at 6:59 AM
I took this photo in a bookstore in 2018, just because I thought it was such a wild juxtaposition. Feels worse coming across it in my photos now.
I think it is bad when someone tries to ratfuck the only viable left-of-centre political party in the province.
November 5, 2025 at 7:16 AM
I think it is bad when someone tries to ratfuck the only viable left-of-centre political party in the province.
Platner is a millennial. A regrettable tattoo of a skull you get while drunk should be Jack Skellington, not a totenkopf.
October 21, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Platner is a millennial. A regrettable tattoo of a skull you get while drunk should be Jack Skellington, not a totenkopf.
This chart shows that they’re in the black for chips they made available last year, but not ones that just became available this year.
That seems… normal?
That seems… normal?
October 17, 2025 at 3:24 AM
This chart shows that they’re in the black for chips they made available last year, but not ones that just became available this year.
That seems… normal?
That seems… normal?
This is a powerful image
October 11, 2025 at 5:51 PM
This is a powerful image
The Canadian military should get a few of these just to intimidate him.
September 30, 2025 at 7:15 PM
The Canadian military should get a few of these just to intimidate him.
This got into the weeds and this person eventually blocked me but lol.
September 25, 2025 at 4:38 PM
This got into the weeds and this person eventually blocked me but lol.
Every time I encounter a troll or just someone unpleasant on Bluesky I think about the New Yorker cartoons re-captioned with “Christ, what an asshole!”
June 12, 2025 at 12:37 AM
Every time I encounter a troll or just someone unpleasant on Bluesky I think about the New Yorker cartoons re-captioned with “Christ, what an asshole!”
lol he is a co-chair of COPE.
!["I feel like there's just something really refreshing about a person who is not one of these polished, political test tube babies who's been practicing their Obama impression since they were eight years old," Shawn Vulliez, COPE's co-chair, said.
"One of the things that is amazing is just seeing how much [this victory] meant to people, not just here in the city, but from elsewhere. When you stand up and fight against mayors like Ken Sim and the billionaires who back him. I've been brought to tears multiple times seeing what this win meant to people. You feel so inspired to keep up the fight and push to win," Vulliez said.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:dh4mkvxmw52taazfbk4ylrng/bafkreia6iqwubbrg6be36xpgzpoatomaleztazfh5rrdlp4cn3da6yhm4y@jpeg)
June 12, 2025 at 12:01 AM
lol he is a co-chair of COPE.
I wonder what gave them that impression
June 11, 2025 at 5:23 PM
I wonder what gave them that impression
The funny thing is that this was a case where the media got it right.
June 11, 2025 at 2:29 PM
The funny thing is that this was a case where the media got it right.
I have solved the flag debate
June 8, 2025 at 3:07 PM
I have solved the flag debate
This maybe isn’t the worst but I have been nearly hit crossing the slip lane at 29th and Boundary a number of times.
May 7, 2025 at 11:05 PM
This maybe isn’t the worst but I have been nearly hit crossing the slip lane at 29th and Boundary a number of times.
Anyways this was the first post in this saga I saw and even on the most generous reading I can give this it is simply wrong, everything since then has appeared to me to be goalpost shifting to try to make it seem more reasonable.
April 22, 2025 at 2:01 AM
Anyways this was the first post in this saga I saw and even on the most generous reading I can give this it is simply wrong, everything since then has appeared to me to be goalpost shifting to try to make it seem more reasonable.
Genuinely wasn't expecting to see a flame war about historiography on here. Folks, read some theory. Will is not being unreasonable about this.
April 20, 2025 at 11:06 PM
Genuinely wasn't expecting to see a flame war about historiography on here. Folks, read some theory. Will is not being unreasonable about this.
Folks, this is too many letters to work in the song.
April 20, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Folks, this is too many letters to work in the song.
April 20, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Amazing example of AI slop over on Facebook. Someone posts asking who a character is in a Simpsons Jigsaw puzzle and the AI seems to be convinced that Jigsaw is a character from the Simpsons.
April 18, 2025 at 5:17 AM
Amazing example of AI slop over on Facebook. Someone posts asking who a character is in a Simpsons Jigsaw puzzle and the AI seems to be convinced that Jigsaw is a character from the Simpsons.
Quote post a photo from your phone when you search for Canada
March 24, 2025 at 8:18 AM
Quote post a photo from your phone when you search for Canada
Doug Ford said touch the stove
March 6, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Doug Ford said touch the stove
Climate change is killing more people every year. It isn’t symbolic to try to reduce pollution it has a real impact on the world. Also a municipal bylaw isn’t federal jurisdiction.
March 2, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Climate change is killing more people every year. It isn’t symbolic to try to reduce pollution it has a real impact on the world. Also a municipal bylaw isn’t federal jurisdiction.
Framing shipping homeless people off to reserves as a pro-reconciliation move is extremely grim.
February 23, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Framing shipping homeless people off to reserves as a pro-reconciliation move is extremely grim.
![Populism, to me, is not a right-wing phenomenon.
It is a type of politics that recognizes that there's a small elite which is screwing everybody else. I call that [having a critique of] capitalism. The right wing calls that the "woke mob," but we don't mean the same things at all. It's the same diagnosis.
I think that on the left, we have a correct structural diagnosis of why butter is $10 and rents are unhinged in the city, and we know and we have solutions about what to do about them, and they speak to a vision of government that actually confronts power rather than serving it.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:dh4mkvxmw52taazfbk4ylrng/bafkreidddd6d7gt57xu5mhxasxcqh2kfaz5utcx5ptul4q7sn6carv4yfi@jpeg)
