There might be an affordable housing crisis in BC
https://globalnews.ca/news/12058572/unique-houseboat-questions-surrey-nicomekl-river/
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mastodon 4.6.9Hi! I am a member of the team that runs the new social web space at SocialBC.ca. Please let me know if you have any questions or concerns! Posts here are instance and BC related. Mostly politics and some weather.
You can see my personal account at @chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.ca with much more varied content, I also run @alberniweather@mstdn.ca.
Profile picture is me dramatically eating a cookie.
Header is the SocialBC Logo. A Mammoth walking in front of a triangular mountain over "SOCIAL"
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First Nations Traditional Territory:
Tseshaht :cisaaath: and Hupacasath :hupacasath:
City:
Port Alberni :portalberni:
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RE: https://zirk.us/@impermanen_/116839087894914100
Free daytime electricity.
Free
Freeeeeeeeee
Not in BC though because we need more dams and natural gas and shit like that from the 19th century.
#bcpoli #electricity
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Australia is introducing free daytime power in July. They’ve installed so much #solar that the challenge is to use it effectively. People who can shift their electricity usage to the day (think retirees or people that work from home) can save a lot even if they don’t have solar. Anyone with a battery or two installed could see their power bill for many months go to almost zero.
Batteries are the key to having an economy that can run on solar and wind all the time.
https://lenergy.com.au/free-daytime-electricity-is-coming-heres-how-it-actually-works/
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@sleepy62@social.vivaldi.net @dyckron@cosocial.ca awesome! How was the drive around? How were the chargers? How was the FERRY? :)
Good comments here from BC Premier Eby on the way that Carney is kowtowing to Alberta Premier Danielle Smith and “rewarding bad behaviour" by doing pipeline and carbon emission deals just with Alberta while setting "national policy”.
As promised, I have implemented the suspension/block on mastodon.cloud. Folks on #SocialBC will not be able to interact with accounts on that server.
This was done due to ongoing issues with spam and un-moderated user additions from that un-regulated and defunct server.
The negative impact should be minimal as very few people followed accounts there or vice versa.
#MastodonCloud #FediBlock #Fediverse #moderation #OpenInstance
Congrats to Mayor @silas@socialbc.ca and the @TownofGibsons@socialbc.ca for their restoration of the Persephone! It was the little work boat on The Beachcombers.
Such a great show. I used to watch it all the time.
Pretty cool that BC Ferries contributed $25,000 to the restoration as well. But the amount of hours required to restore it would have been enormous!
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/where-is-the-persephone-boat-in-gibsons-9.7207444
TIL Nova Scotia makes wine!?
Miss California? nope.
”I think we're making some gorgeous, gorgeous wines here in Nova Scotia and so I wouldn't hesitate to recommend a Nova Scotia wine," said Reynolds, who used to work for the provincial wine association in the early 2000s.
“"I think some Ontario wines are fabulous and British Columbia wines, if you can get your hands on any of them, are gorgeous, so I don't think we're losing much by giving up California wines.””
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/american-alcohol-boycotts-bans-canada-trade-war-nslc-nova-scotia-9.7194289?cmp=rss
#boycott
RE: @cbcbc_mirror@mastodon.hongkongers.net
Could we soon see the first fully electric passenger ferry on the BC Coast? @TownofGibsons@socialbc.ca :gibsons:, Bowen Island and Vancouver? 
#BC #BCPoli #Electrification #Vancouver #BowenIsland
It’s not broken, it has completely disappeared.
First job?
Impossible.
Saving for education? Better get a loan.
Rent an apartment, with 4 friends, or live with your parents.
Down payment? Only if you have parents with the means.
When an “old boy” thinks he can "SLAPP” a sexual harassment accusation made on a Facebook group... but then... FAFO bites.
"A B.C. mayor's lawsuit against a resident who claimed the mayor had sexually harassed a local resident has been dismissed by a B.C. Supreme Court judge who found sufficient evidence that the sexual harassment did in fact happen.”
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/bc-mayo-defamation-suit-9.7195913
Guys. It's the far side of the moon!!
It's the second week of May. Wildfire season in Alberta and NE BC has begun.
Concerning fire near Whitecourt, AB.
(NW of Edmonton)
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/alta-wildfire-woodlands-county-whitecourt-9.7196552
#BCWildfire #ABWildfire #ClimateEmergency #ClimateChange #Fire
"The Americans are setting conditions before negotiations begin," said one high-ranking individual familiar with the matter.
Three sources used the term "entry fee" to describe concessions the U.S. administration is seeking before formal trade talks begin.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/washington-demanding-entry-fee-from-ottawa-before-trade-talks-sources-9.7172340
#CanPoli #CdnPoli #USA #CUSMA #USMCA
If Nuclear can't function in a warmed world, and we have not acted fast enough to prevent that world, than it is not really a global warming solution.
#Renewables #Nuclear #CanPoli #CdnPoli
https://www.rfi.fr/en/france/20260626-punishing-heatwave-exposes-cracks-in-france-s-nuclear-power-fleet-reactor
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“what are you trying to do now?”
you might be asking.
Colima on macOS Ventura and later uses the Apple-supplied 'vz’ engine.
#newOldiMac is running Ventura.
So maybe docker was interacting poorly with that engine, especially because it was the first macOS version with it… maybe it's buggy?
So I'm installing ‘qemu', which is the native colima engine on all pre-Ventura Macs and Linux.
building it is taking a bit…
#selfhost #footiMac #newOldiMac #mastoAdmin #qemu #colima #cantHelpMyself
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@timixretroplays @socialmedia can someone please end the tyranny of the “open registration” instances on Mastodon? The amount of spam generated is unacceptable.
only in Nanaimo at VIU can you count more than 10 tiny nearly identical bunnies in all of 10 minutes.
one new clutch of 5 perfectly black, tiny guys were munching grass in no more than a 10ft space just now. Multiple students were just standing quietly watching them like 🥹🥹🥹
this tiny fluffball was eating under the protection of a tree in the japanese garden this morning. there was a grey friend nearby.
truly a hard life for bunnies
#VIU #BunnyLife #animals #bewareTheRaptors
Ever since I got my home router and put the Telus/ISP service on "bridge mode" I have been getting a constant merry-go-round of IP addresses that I think has been wrecking havoc with my home lab and wifi.
This morning I woke up to no internet connection because the IP had changed yet again to an entirely different subnet. Everything eventually came back on its own.
Currently on support-chat with Telus to try to get a Static IP. We'll see if I can convince them...
Great news for travellers to the Island, #PortAlberni, #Tofino #Ucluelet, and the West Coast!
#Tseshaht 
#Hupacasath 
and #Huuayaht :huuayaht: are partnering to build the first new hotel built in Port Alberni since the Best Western Barclay in 1980!
It'll be a Wyndham microtel similar to the one just north of Ladysmith with a small pool and waterslide. It will be located next to #BCHwy4 at Walmart.
I would prefer if they were on a smaller island, maybe Cortez or Texada.
Pay the existing residents to go on vacation for the next 45 days…
P.S. yesterday I was told about a hantavirus related anti-semitic facebook post from a person who I would have pre-COVID considered a good person.
The COVID Pandemic and Facebook have really really destroyed people's minds and brought out the worst in many. :(
Almost Victoria Day Long Weekend!
ie. the “unofficial" start of the summer travel season. So that means, BC Ferries news! 😂
This is a good article with good data.
The takeaway for me: there is a big old boat deficit at BC Ferries.
IMO
a) it *should* be fixed.
b) all new ferries should be 100% electric ready.
c) electric terminal infrastructure starting *now*.
d) time to look at fixed links where possible.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/bc-ferries-deep-dive-2026-9.7193809
#bcpoli #bcferries
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it always takes so much longer than you want…. lol zzzzz #newOldiMac #selfhost #footiMac #newOldiMac #mastoAdmin #qemu #colima #cantHelpMyself
Ah darn. :(
Mr Garrett was a great color guy and a mediocre goalie. (said with a wink and a smile that he would very much appreciate and chuckle at. :+))
RIP Cheech, thanks for the memories!
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@ChrisIstace@socialbc.ca for sure. Port Alberni has benefitted greatly over the past 10 years from building development initiated by many of the Nuu-cha-nulth and Maa-nulth Nations including Tseshaht, Hupacasath, Huuayaht, Uchucklesaht, and Ditidaht. At least 5 major housing projects that I can think of plus office space and community spaces. And now this. All very positive!
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New emergency communications system nd operations centre opens in the Capital Regional District!
There is a very cool seasonal work-from-home job for someone who loves their bicycle and getting other people excited to go biking and rolling in BC!
#GoByBikeBC is hiring for a "Community Animator”!
https://ca.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=a71c619f4b291102&from=shareddesktop_copy
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@michaelrussell@mas.to @calvin@fedi.sphericalcow.space seems that both change regularly!
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@GuillaumeRossolini@infosec.exchange in other words, wind continues as expected (yes the wind comes and goes... you design/build for this).
And yes, electronics can suffer during a heatwave... but an electronics box shorting out is a little different from having to take an entire nuclear power plant offline.
These are not in any way close to equal situations
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@fname@socialbc.ca I am indeed using DDNS and have it set in the router to update automatically, but it seems to be changing so frequently that it's actually messing up the regular devices on the network!
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@GuillaumeRossolini@infosec.exchange just because it didn't take out more this time does not mean it wont next time. There is an obvious flaw here.
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@GuillaumeRossolini@infosec.exchange lol. News flash, the wind does not blow during high pressure heat dome events.
Wind farms are built and designed to take into account lulls in wind activity.
You should stop being obtuse and just admit that nuclear has a problem.
Missing Person. Clement. He is Indigenous. 5’5”. Black hair brown eyes.
"He was wearing a black ball cap, dark blue puffy vest, grey long sleeve shirt, blue jeans, black runners and wearing a black backpack and a lanyard with possibly an ID holder at the end.”
May have taken the ferry from Victoria to Vancouver or Nanaimo to Vancouver on Sunday or this week.
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@GuillaumeRossolini@infosec.exchange wow.
"based on arbitrary laws that may or may not have the perfect limits”
"our rivers haven't shown to be in danger”
you're in a dream world.
Reality:
"In 33 years of low-water level support, it has never been done this early," said Franck Solacroup, director general of the Garonne Gascogne and Pyrenees Tributaries Public Establishment. Like the Garonne, many rivers across mainland France have been weakened by the heat and lack of rain.”
https://www.lemonde.fr/en/environment/article/2026/06/25/water-shortages-and-heat-waves-france-on-track-toward-severe-summer-drought_6754873_114.html
Bye
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@GuillaumeRossolini@infosec.exchange oh by the way... here's some science for your “arbitrary” nonsense in our own context locally of coho salmon.
"None of the 28 streams Cunningham and his colleagues studied hit summertime highs warmer than 25.9 C, the point where warming water can become lethal. But in four rivers, temperatures climbed past 20.3 C, the threshold where some have found juvenile coho stop growing. "
https://www.timescolonist.com/local-news/how-logging-is-heating-up-bcs-salmon-spawning-rivers-6738136
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@ChrisIstace@socialbc.ca how long does it take you to bike into downtown from HS Bay? (E-assisted?)
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@ChrisIstace I cringe whenever I hear the word LNG, but that’s a whole separate issue. Saw an LNG “make canada stronger" ad on one of the RDN buses today. 🤮🤬
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@ChrisIstace@socialbc.ca beautiful! makes me excited for GBBW next week! Need to dig my ride out and give it a cleaning and tune up. One of the big drawbacks of commuting between PA and Nanaimo is not being able to ride my bike all these years but I’ll try to get a few rides in from Woodgrove next week