Chris Gibson
@gibber33.bsky.social
Dad to adult children. Husband. Engineer. Project Manager at a particle accelerator lab. Runner. No AI slop please
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I can't believe this sits on YouTube for more than a month
Wow. There is ALOT.
Start here:
The Nazi Groypers declared war on MAGA a few months ago for not being fascist enough.
youtu.be/j2Twh88BHD4?...
Start here:
The Nazi Groypers declared war on MAGA a few months ago for not being fascist enough.
youtu.be/j2Twh88BHD4?...
Groyper War 2 Announcement Trailer
YouTube video by Weaver Whiteheart
youtu.be
September 12, 2025 at 10:38 PM
I can't believe this sits on YouTube for more than a month
Sailing in 18knots of wind. Vancouver spring weather
May 5, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Sailing in 18knots of wind. Vancouver spring weather
Spring finishing up here in Vancouver
April 29, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Spring finishing up here in Vancouver
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For your pre-2025 listening consideration, @leilanifarha.bsky.social CBC Ideas talk: "There's No Place Like Home: Humanity and the Housing Crisis"
"...what happens when humanity is stripped out of housing — and what it means for us to collectively ‘return home.’"
www.cbc.ca/player/play/...
"...what happens when humanity is stripped out of housing — and what it means for us to collectively ‘return home.’"
www.cbc.ca/player/play/...
There's No Place Like Home: Humanity and the Housing Crisis
Our homes hold our memories and hopes for the future. But today, our homes have become commodities. Leilani Farha, the former UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Housing, considers what happens when...
www.cbc.ca
December 30, 2024 at 4:48 AM
For your pre-2025 listening consideration, @leilanifarha.bsky.social CBC Ideas talk: "There's No Place Like Home: Humanity and the Housing Crisis"
"...what happens when humanity is stripped out of housing — and what it means for us to collectively ‘return home.’"
www.cbc.ca/player/play/...
"...what happens when humanity is stripped out of housing — and what it means for us to collectively ‘return home.’"
www.cbc.ca/player/play/...
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Rest in peace President Carter. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
How a future U.S. president helped avert nuclear disaster near Canada's capital | CBC News
In 1952, an experimental nuclear reactor in Chalk River, Ont., about 180 kilometres northwest of Ottawa, partially melted down, becoming the world's first nuclear reactor incident. Disaster was averte...
www.cbc.ca
December 29, 2024 at 9:44 PM
Rest in peace President Carter. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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A lot of people still don’t realize that dramatic cost reductions in geothermal is something happening *right now*, not theoretically in the future.
Here is a look at the cost numbers published by NREL every year for Deep Enhanced Geothermal. A 50% improvement in 2024 with a lot more to come.
Here is a look at the cost numbers published by NREL every year for Deep Enhanced Geothermal. A 50% improvement in 2024 with a lot more to come.
December 12, 2024 at 1:57 PM
A lot of people still don’t realize that dramatic cost reductions in geothermal is something happening *right now*, not theoretically in the future.
Here is a look at the cost numbers published by NREL every year for Deep Enhanced Geothermal. A 50% improvement in 2024 with a lot more to come.
Here is a look at the cost numbers published by NREL every year for Deep Enhanced Geothermal. A 50% improvement in 2024 with a lot more to come.
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And in other odd schemes. Check out the latest in Alberta.
The latest scheme popping up in Alberta are plans by Kevin O'Leary to build an AI super centre in a park like setting where the deer and antelope roam. Seriously. @maxfawcett.bsky.social writes. www.nationalobserver.com/2024/12/10/o...
Kevin O’Leary is playing Alberta for a $70 billion fool
If something sounds too good to be true, it usually is. When it’s a $70 billion data centre called “Wonder Valley” that will supposedly be built from scratch in the middle of the northern Alberta wild...
www.nationalobserver.com
December 11, 2024 at 2:10 PM
And in other odd schemes. Check out the latest in Alberta.
Got to ride the Christmas bus
December 3, 2024 at 4:23 PM
Got to ride the Christmas bus
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Ah yes, "cyclists should just take the roads that run parallel to the main arteries"
November 23, 2024 at 6:59 PM
Ah yes, "cyclists should just take the roads that run parallel to the main arteries"
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Lines of cars just drive in the bus lane with impunity. The driver said he was told there would be an enforcement blitz this month but has seen nothing. It doesn't just slow buses, it causes loads of crashes with left turners. Automated enforcement now! #vanpoli
November 22, 2024 at 1:32 AM
Lines of cars just drive in the bus lane with impunity. The driver said he was told there would be an enforcement blitz this month but has seen nothing. It doesn't just slow buses, it causes loads of crashes with left turners. Automated enforcement now! #vanpoli
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Here, have some Agnes Obel.
Agnes Obel - Chord Left (Official Audio)
YouTube video by Agnes Obel
www.youtube.com
November 17, 2024 at 3:53 AM
Here, have some Agnes Obel.
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For decades, the prevailing mantra in housing has been that govs must prop up private developers and ask for some breadcrumbs in return. It doesn't have to be this way.
www.thestar.com/opinion/for-...
www.thestar.com/opinion/for-...
For decades we’ve been trying (and failing) to get builders to build affordable housing. There’s a better, simpler way
Non-market housing should be the norm, not the exception
www.thestar.com
November 15, 2024 at 9:20 PM
For decades, the prevailing mantra in housing has been that govs must prop up private developers and ask for some breadcrumbs in return. It doesn't have to be this way.
www.thestar.com/opinion/for-...
www.thestar.com/opinion/for-...
Haida Gwai August 2024
November 12, 2024 at 8:43 PM
Haida Gwai August 2024
Memories of a BC Summer
September 26, 2024 at 1:34 PM
Memories of a BC Summer