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Public Universal Friend (they/them)
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climate comms | outside learning about nature whenever possible | used to write about the toxic drug crisis, still carry that

photographer. trans. still masking. trying to be useful.


let's chill...in the comments or among the wildflowers
Follow Stephanie! She just got here and she's fun and funny and I know her from the bad site.
December 19, 2025 at 6:59 AM
All I want for Christmas is someone to admit to being the one who put PCP in the lobster chowder on the set of Titanic in Halifax.
December 18, 2025 at 10:01 PM
OneBC is DoneBC. #bcpoli #happyholidays #gtfo
December 17, 2025 at 5:39 PM
BC, we did it. We're famous on Jerry's internet.
wow had they had tractors in 27 BC??
27 B.C. communities experience warmest Dec. 15 on record
December 16, 2025 at 6:39 AM
One more for ya @jstewgie.bsky.social (and anyone else who doesn't want to go to X to scrounge for hot mess scraps to sustain you.)
December 15, 2025 at 6:27 AM
I know very few people care, but the infighting happening with BC's far right being so extremely public on Twitter with dueling long posts and press releases is truly going to help me survive the last week until solstice. I cannot believe how little shame these people have.
December 15, 2025 at 5:03 AM
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Dallas Brodie has apparently been removed as leader of far-right splinter party OneBC
December 14, 2025 at 8:32 AM
Alert alert, #bcpoli drama continues!

Brodie has been removed as party leader and is trying to redirect people to email her at a Gmail address. Apparently a caucus of two was too much for OneBC. Do the math.
December 14, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Inside baseball #bcpoli CW:

About 2 weeks ago, my pal overheard Dallas Brodie ranting about "tearing Tim a new asshole".

Today I hear Tim Thielman is out as her CoS and I'm laughing thinking of Rustad trying to find his mole while Dallas is out here yelling her own business in busy coffee shops.
December 13, 2025 at 2:43 AM
Imagine being the kind of person who could do one single pull up. (If you're one of them, please completely stay out of this.)
December 13, 2025 at 1:47 AM
Sometimes I just feel like a middle-aged non-binary person trapped in the body of...well, a middle-aged non-binary person and I gotta say it's not ideal.
December 12, 2025 at 6:26 AM
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Pierre Poilievre right now:
December 12, 2025 at 12:21 AM
Quebec extremely jealous rn.
Didn’t even have a referendum
SouthWestern BC is currently cut off from the rest of Canada
December 11, 2025 at 3:35 PM
My Aurora app just notified me NOAA has forecast a chance of seeing Aurora if the sky is clear.

If. The. Sky. Is. Clear.

*Laughs in atmospheric river*
December 11, 2025 at 12:35 AM
So, the Market Garden in Vic West is expanding to have a larger location where The Bay/Eaton's used to be in the Bay Centre. I love their og shop and my partner used to work there but I have a hard time imagining how it would be feasible/sustainable to operate a shop with that kind of sq footage?
December 10, 2025 at 6:52 PM
There have been a lot of good rainbows in #yyj over the weekend! #gaybikelife #cargobike
December 8, 2025 at 4:52 AM
How come when it snows everyone posts on social media but it's really windy right now and no one cares? Ok, I just wrote this out and I think I get why. But seriously, it's pretty windy.
December 6, 2025 at 6:45 AM
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Premier Eby will have announcement tmrw about "strengthening access to involuntary care for young people."

CMHA: "lack of evidence to support effectiveness of involuntary treatment for substance use disorder... evidence suggests it leads to an increased risk of death..."
bc.cmha.ca/news/involun...
Involuntary Care Already Exists in BC, But Is It Working? - CMHA British Columbia
VANCOUVER, BC – (September 18, 2024): On September 15, 2024, Premier Eby announced that his government is expanding involuntary care for people with brain injury, mental illness, and severe addiction....
bc.cmha.ca
December 4, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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Pantone announces white as color of 2026
Pantone announces white as color of 2026
www.avclub.com
December 4, 2025 at 9:31 PM
We all know how this one goes. Not looking forward to the inevitable photo of them kissing on Prince Harry's yacht.
December 4, 2025 at 8:17 PM
This person saying something isn't eugenics and then clarifying what it is by describing eugenics...

and people say there isn't a diversity of opinions on Bluesky.
December 4, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Fall session wrapped a day early in the B.C. Legislature. Hallelujah, we have now officially entered "circle back in the new year" territory.
December 4, 2025 at 2:18 AM
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John Rustad is Schroedinger's leader at the moment. He both is, and is not still leading the BC Conservative Party.
December 4, 2025 at 12:09 AM
New reality show idea inspired by Ryan Painter desperately trying to have some king of a career with whoever will have him: Conservative Makeunder
December 3, 2025 at 11:16 PM
Rustad is finally out and it's feeling anticlimactic. Ended with a whimper, not a bang, etc. etc. #bcpoli
December 3, 2025 at 8:56 PM