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Mat Wright
@MatWright@mastodon.social
mastodon 4.8.0-nightly.2026-10-06Fighting dystopia grimly, but with hope
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Joined July 04, 2023
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Nanaimo, Canada
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@heidilifeldman@mastodon.social shamed into it - and Cornell needs to be sued
Essays as punishment for rape? C'mon
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Just when I thought we had reached peak absurdity, along comes....
Yuch - heavy smoke for South BC, Vancouver, Vancouver Island and Western Washington tomorrow
Wear a mask, it looks ugly
Explain to me like I'm 4 years old why the hell we are building more oil and gas pipelines
#BCstorm #Wildfires #BCpoli #Climate #ClimateChange
Sure, let's build new LNG and oil pipelines through all this - fucking insanity
Vote Liberal, get and get an insider lobbyist for climate destruction as PM
#Wildfires #USpol #USpolitics #CDNpoli #BCpoli #ABpoli
For those celebrating Carney's idiotic pro-nuclear announcement - a reactor in France had to shut down in the heatwave as the river that supplies cooling water is too hot. Let alone the expense, waste issues, security concerns etc. - climate change itself makes the entire program a truly awful idea
#CDNpoli #Climate #ClimateChange
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All of Spokane area under imminent threat - evac orders will be updated soon - the city itself is 200K people, wider area is over 600K
Absolute shitshow, and the winds are increasing and driving fires and embers into residential and commercial neighbourhoods
#Spokane #Wildfires
Oh hell, just no to this - regulate the platforms, not the kids
It's grossly STUPID policy
https://cheknews.ca/rob-shaw-b-c-interested-in-social-media-ban-for-kids-following-manitoba-1321264/
Wow - just saw something explode over us - not a meteor, more like space debris
@sundogplanets@mastodon.social#Nanaimo
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Spokane VA hospital being evacuated (which is a nightmare scenario), no route out but east, fire spreading - almost all north city neighbourhoods being evacuated, which is going through another fire
Thousands of people and cars trying to get out
Look how close the fire is in this video, just blowing up right behind a line of vehicles
#Spokane #Wildfires #USpol #USpoli #CLimate #CLimateChangehttps://bsky.app/profile/cwebbonline.com/post/3ms2szw7ci22k
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@QasimRashid@mastodon.social Canadian here - but basically anyone accepting AIPAC or MUSK money should be called out
we have groups here in Canada and BC following the cash - they will get outed
#CDNpoli #BCpoli #USpol #USpolitics
The worst merger decision in Canadian history (and there have been many) must be allowing Roger's to buy SHAW - now not only are they considering selling the mobile division to a US private equity group, but they have shut down vital news radio stations across the country
If you hear any politician claiming competition is key, never believe them - we need to own public interest, not make monopolies
RIP News 1130 Vancouver
#CDNpoli #BCpoli #Media
Throwing things and swearing a lot - our son's nurse called from Nanaimo hospital, new patient in his room under 'droplet' protocol and would it be ok for him to wear a mask (as an FYI, hardly anyone masks there)
Won't say if it's Covid, but likely
1: Droplet protocol is gaslighting, anything respiratory is aerosol
2: Why isn't that patient isolated?
I'm fuming
#Covid #Covid19 #Nanaimo #BCpoli
Two older women just wandered down our front path, well into our property and started picking from our blackberry and blueberry patch - like WTAF?!
Well dressed Lululemon types thinking it's just fine to trespass and steal our fruit
Seen some weird behaviour last few years from people who appear normal, but that was stunningly audacious - total breaking of social norms, and illegal
#Nanaimo #BCpoli
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@crispius@mstdn.fname.ca plus 10% of current Canadian ER physicians are thinking about quitting or retiring early - and we aren't replacing newly retired docs - it will only get worse
Own goal for Tim Hortons - imagine any marketing team thinking this was in anyway a good idea
#CDNpoli #BCpoli #LGBTQhttps://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/tim-hortons-harry-potter-jk-rowling-9.7287100
Photo of the day via Reuters - masked Nazis riding the train to Trump's event in Washington DC surrounding a lone black woman
#USpol #USpolitics
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and in France where over 100k have been evacuated, the fire near Bordeaux has grown massively and is now into the suburbs, heading east towards the city center
#France #Bordeaux #Wildfires
Every year, every single year, the Tour de France gets slammed by a 'mystery' illness
They NEVER learn
#Covid #Covid19https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/jul/23/tour-de-france-stage-18-report-tadej-pogacar-team-illness-richard-carapaz
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embers flying into the Spokane downtown area - it's a nightmare
#Spokane #WIldfireshttps://www.spokesman.com/stories/2026/aug/01/fast-moving-fire-breaks-out-in-airway-heights-area/
Cry me a river - Kenney was the one who got rid of the Alberta Elections oversight board, and literally set up the Smith regime
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@blogdiva@mastodon.social so there actually is a level of corruption that goes too far - hilarious
Canadian government wasting dollars advertising on all the sports channels about how this country is leading in renewable energy - which actually shows nuclear plants (nerp, dangerous, expensive and def not renewable) - while proposing 3 new massive tax payer funded bitumen pipelines, along with all the LNG shit in BC
It's pure gaslighting (pun intended) and actually breaks CRTC advertising rules
#CDNpoli #BCpoli #Climate #ClimateChange
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@tewha@appdot.net the new leader of the BC Conservatives is a woman - Kerry-Lynne Findlay
although SCOTUS did uphold birthright citizenship (for now), the dissenting asshat judges seem to think a president can decide on a whim who is a citizen or not - they have clearly demonstrated a total fascist, white supremist ruling regime is not imagination, it is a fact
#USpol #USpolitics
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@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.ca there's a lovely irony of a thousand MAGA climate denying nuts taking shelter from a huge storm in the Museum of African American History
Bizarrely still little information from authorities on the sunk 'charter' vessel with 6 missing and 4 rescued - but the former boat owner has come forward with interesting information
That boat seems far too small for 10 people, and the operators had a run in with Fisheries and Oceans for illegal fishing
Seems like an unsafe, unlicensed cowboy operation
#BCpolihttps://vancouversun.com/news/vessel-that-sank-off-bc-coast-had-been-impounded-last-year-for-illegal-fishing-former-owner-says
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@feisty_lemming@zeroes.ca bit of both - I know people in Vancouver area who would go weekly for gas/shopping, stopped simply horrified at what Trump was doing - and yes, others, truly afraid what might happen to them at the border
This is one of the worst boating disasters in recent BC history, and yet the lack of information is excruciating - which charter? who are the missing? how did the vessel just disappear? why no life jackets or deployment of a life boat? why call off the search so soon? why aren't the survivors speaking?
Betting FIFA is screaming at authorities to downplay this
#CDNpoli #BCpoli #FIFA #WorldCuphttps://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/livestory/boaters-missing-off-coast-british-columbia-9.7252866
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@giflian@techhub.social besides, we have a deal with the neighbourhood kids - they pick and get half, and one of the mothers makes the most amazing black berry pies, so that's a win
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@giflian@techhub.social there is no way to mistake our property as anything but a single family home - still stunned by this, what kind of mindset with 2 people thinks this acceptable?
Even the nearby street people are better, ask if we have fruit or veggies to share (always do in season)
It's just a growing extension of the breakdown - like people in the grocer blocking aisles with shopping carts, or getting way too close at the checkout, blowing stop signs - I hate going out
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@tantramar@zeroes.ca literally the theme since 2020 (well, one could back decades) - but Covid, Climate, growing fascism.... we are sooooo deep into the FO mode
Angine de Poitrine is the only thing that makes sense in this mad world
Prove me wrong
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@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.ca I spent 3 decades as a polic comms advisor, they ALL need editors - should be assigned one automatically when announcing a run for office - taxpayer funded literacy program
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@tod go to the Nanaimo Hospital staff parking area - so many US plates - getting hired, accredited and working before they can transfer vehicles to BC registration
What do you do when trying to care for our son in Nanaimo hospital, and the nurses and health aides are too busy to change his diaper for 2 hours?
You raid the supply cabinet, do it yourself - and they fucking call security
so now I'm a hospital threat - fun
#BCpoli
No way Nanaimo air quality is 'Good' at 24 - light is yellow, we can smell the smoke, skies are covered
#Nanaimo #BCpoli #BCstorm #Wildfireshttps://www.iqair.com/air-quality/canada/british-columbia/nanaimo
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@fname@kamloops.social all our pension plans - no private equity will touch this project, and it's uninsurable