Sometimes you just want to make a new map with some fun colours Here is a map of the community gardens of the City of North Vancouver Tried to find a balance between simple and informative. Not sure I hit the mark, but was still fun to make as a side project

Two news stories next to each others 1. Thousands of additional deaths in France due to a heat wave which couldn't have happened without climate change 2. Canada pledges $150 Billion in commitments to support the building of a new oil pipeline

Name a TV show you're positive no one remembers but you. This one is so obscure, according to Lost Media Wiki, over a quarter of the episodes are lost media, and the only poster I could find is small and blurry

"The Trump administration announced on Monday the establishment of a $1.776 billion fund to compensate people who claim they were targeted by the Biden Justice Department, creating a potential pipeline to funnel taxpayer money to his allies and supporters."

"... Eichmann, despite his rather bad memory, repeated word for word the same stock phrases and self-invented clichés [ ] each time he referred to an incident or event of importance to him." - Hannah Arendt

Feels weird being in a world where the App Store promotes the AI, rather than the women leading the companies/apps, especially on International Women's Day

And now a 1 vote difference!

Of course it is Cannon again

Had a bit of fun updating an old map of mine of the Mackenzie River Basin

The Ancient Greek Cynics were more hardcore than I initially appreciated, and in this era of widespread capitulation to far-right forces, they are resonating with me more and more

Got a hold of the Canada Post stamp set for graphic artists, Kate Beaton, Jimmy Beaulieu, Guy Delisle, Julie Doucet, Bryan Lee O’Malley and Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas Very cool And apparently very popular, they were sold out at the previous three locations I went to

Huh The way I see 'common sense' used a vague, reactionary rhetorical device makes me a bit wary, but describing 'common sense' as a "counterhegemonic knowledge built on workers' embodied understandings and 'good sense'" is really interesting as a new concept for me

CNV Library just received a new copy after I requested one Excited to start reading "... the Capacitor Collective has conducted eleven illuminating interviews with platform workers and organizers whose efforts ... imagines new ways to produce knowledge with and for the movement." #booksky

My personal favourite is the Wishbone episode

Map of drivers Looks like it is pretty popular in most place, but the farther you get, especially at UBC, the more popular driving becomes, as a percentage Might change soon with the new SkyTrain along the corridor

Map of Pedestrians Looks like this mode is most popular, as a percentage downtown Which makes sense, because of the density and sidewalks, it is easy to move around just by walking

Cycling Map Looks like it might be more popular as a percentage on the periphery of downtown, but not too far out

Made some new maps of the City of Vancouver (and UBC), comparing commute modes in small localized areas with the city-wide average. Was fun to make, and you can see that depending on the area and the distance from downtown, it can really impact the proportions of commute modes #rstudio #vanpoli

As I recover from a terrible cold, I thought I’d share my top books for the year I grouped them into categories My theme for 2025 was the Environment and Climate Change, so it gets its own category

Wow Reading "Last and First Men," by Olaf Stapledon and the foreword, by Gregory Benford, recommends skipping the first four chapters, because it is critical of the capitalism of the US, which, by the 1987 when the foreword was written, means the book is "startling off base" and "antique."

Jarrett Walker, in Human Transit, makes this related point, though from the other side

Map of the Road Network of Kelowna Made using R Studio

Cleaned up my code a bit for this map of the Road Network in North Vancouver

My reading theme for the year is the environment, which I chose so I could understanding why we commit to fossil fuel extraction in the face of climate change Here is one of the best arguments I've heard, from Wim Carton and Andreas Malm

Had a bit of fun making a new map of the False Creek area Still a work in progress, but I like the direction #rstudio #rayshader #vancouver

I made a new kind of map This one is of the City of North Vancouver, with City Hall right at the centre Still a work in progress, both in understanding the code and in the design Big thank you to @milos-makes-maps.bsky.social who made a great tutorial video and shared his code! #rstats #rayshader