Stanley Q Woodvine
@sqwabb
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Now homeless. Formerly not. Used to draw pics for a living. Now I collect refundable cans—weird huh? email: [email protected] ⬤ Mastodon: https://t.co/sHru2KxBrP
Vancouver, B.C. Canada
Joined January 2014
More light reading from #Vancouver recycling blue bin: Text for slide show on Tenant Protection Bylaw Authority. One resource it cites is @FirstUnitedDTES BC #Evictions Map - showing "17.5% of displaced tenants report $500-$1000 rent increase per month."
firstunited.ca
Have you been evicted? Complete the Eviction Mapping Survey to help us learn about the impact it had, and change laws to protect renters.
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Meanwhile, on the second floor of PCI's 1477 W Broadway development, shadowy workers plot their next move. #Vancouver #VanRE
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#PierrePoilievre and the #Canadian federal Conservatives have named their next campaign manager! Say goodbye to Jenni Byrne - the outgoing, losing campaign manager - and say hello to... Steve Outhouse. Really. I sh*t you not!
torontosun.com
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Spruce & Broadway Waves Coffee will be hosting another sqwabb "rescue" tree this #Christmas season. This one is tall and skinny. Provided lights seem mostly duds, so we'll go with last year's lights... when owners find them. #Vancouver
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Are #Vancouver businesses that restrict bathroom access to ONLY paying customers breaking BC law @Josie_Osborne? #BritishColumbia Health Act bans charging fee for toilet use: Public places can't req. payment for public toilet use, w/ "public place" = place public has access to.
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@josieosborne Here's the direct link to what I believe are the current relevant British Columbia regs.
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Considered offering shoeless dude my Keens & sockily pedaling to my storage locker in east Van where I'm sure I have extra footwear but it was 45 mins before my locker was scheduled to open. Instead I directed him to the free breakfast 8 blocks away & over an hour from opening.
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Sunday I did rare 7am outing from my parkade sleeping spot to pick up box of single-use handwarmers from follower & deliver to Sunday free breakfast in #Vancouver Fairview. Along way I saw many new #homeless peers; most I stopped to tell about the breakfast, incl 1 with no shoes!
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@DrEricDing I was set to start a clinical trial for a rare neurological disease only to be called and told the funding had been cut by RFK Jr. If it is ever funded again it will be too late for me. Trump and RFK Jr literally killed me. Actions have consequences and I am one of them.
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Went up to W Broadway & Granville at 7:30am to see a fender bender collision at the intersection. On way back to McD's I took this overexposed photo of the sunrise-in-progress visible over the low-rise 2500 block of South Granville. #Vancouver
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What @Mozilla is saying about AI: "Rewiring Mozilla: Doing for AI what we did for the web". Please #Mozilla, do what you want with #AI in #Firefox but please just let us turn if off if we want! https://t.co/qh0zoVT9FH via @firefox
blog.mozilla.org
AI isn’t just another tech trend — it’s at the heart of most apps, tools and technology we use today. It enables remarkable things: new way
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Noteworthy @Guardian headline: "A lot of axolotls: the amphibian-themed banknote #Mexicans don’t want to spend".
theguardian.com
Nearly 13m people are hoarding millions of dollars’ worth of the stylish 50 peso note, featuring Mexico’s cutest critter
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Nazis with a yen to go down to the sea in ships are again out of luck as #UnitedStates Coast Guard reverses course & again classifies swastikas & nooses as hate symbols.
washingtonpost.com
The new order came hours after The Post reported the service would instead classify such symbols as “potentially divisive” under guidelines set for release next month.
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As the brains behind a giant #Christmas mural in #London, #UK, discover, bad #art - especially bad #GenerativeAI art is in the (politically suspicious & jaundiced) eye of the beholder! (originally surfaced over on @joinmastodon.)
londoncentric.media
The bizarre story of why a much-talked-about creation is being torn down. Plus: Docklands Light Railway extension, giant laser stalks the night sky, and more tales of Android phone theft rejection.
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One of the overflowing alley #recycling bin sets on north side of 1200 block W Broadway, in #Vancouver Fairview. For 2nd or 3rd week a @WasteManagement collection truck driver has missed this alley block! WM collects under contract to @RecycleBC, with contract expiring in May(?).
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As a former longtime commercial illustrator, as well as a computer wonk, I'm interested in #generativeAI insofar as an illustrator *could* train an #AI entirely on their own work. Haven't seen anyone doing it but it would take a huge amount of data & lots of model training.
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After cashing out my pathetic binning take this morning I headed to friend's place in East #Vancouver to solve their inability to secure their old router against everyone in their building using it. Took me a minute. I believe problem was Microsoft Edge! #homeless #techsupport
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