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Occasional adventure writer, frequent #ultrarunner, #UI/#UX dev-signer, former Director of #ProductDesign & CTO. Builder of software that helps people.

vancouver,bc
Joined March 2007
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Are @SpaceX 's recent #Starship failures, a sign of #MUSKresistance within the company? @elonmusk's @Tesla & SpaceX are complex, fragile and vulnerable systems. Individuals in these companies, have huge levers, that nudged subtly can have massive consequences.
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Remember the good old days, when we only joked that @elonmusk was becoming a #BondVillain? #CallICE #deportelonmusk
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New phrase of the day, "That's not ugly, that's @realDonaldTrump ugly."
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Sometimes you just need to draw a public domain character getting back to basics... like punching a fascist. #cdnpoli #CanadaStrong #jonnycanuck @realDonaldTrump
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30 Days to forge trading alliances with the other countries countries in Trump-trariff crosshairs... go. We need to Trump-proof as much of our economy as possible, while paying lip service to bullshit about fentanyl and borders. #cdnpoli
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Canada's "big lever" option, nationalize oil (a la Norway). literally take the companies from the US holders, and cut off supply to the US. With Russian oil not flowing to the EU, we start shipping. This hits the US at two levels, hard.
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So @realDonaldTrump is taxing American's 25% on Canadian goods. If Canada retaliates, he increases that tax on the people who voted for him. We provide 60% of oil to the US, so Canada's been handed a big lever to cause short term pain. Bully's only understand pain. #cdnpoli
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Goodbye Twitter... You're just another X now. #capitalismfails
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Suspiciously masculine @ABDanielleSmith lashing out at trans folks. Maybe she's just scared of being mixed in.
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“Skin in the game”, the little blue dot is my sister’s place. I started the day answering folks if their homes were still there. While my sister’s place is the verge per BCFireMap.com Now the wind is shifting. I want my map to be wrong. #BCWildfires
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"Active Perimeters", Ethics, and Why the Lake is on Fire - a blog post about BCFireMap.com and using real-time data: ko-fi.com/post/Active-Perime…
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Active Perimeters - BCFireMap.com now pulls near real/time @NASA fire hotspots, aggregates it, then creates perimeters. Giving a sense of the most active areas of fire growth. The delay is anywhere from 1 to 30 minutes after a satellite flyover. #BCWildfires
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Watching the #WestKelownafire and the #BCWildfire closing Highway 1 via an experimental "active perimeter" layer that pulls @NASA FIRMS direct transmission satellite hotspot data. Stay safe everyone. @GlobalBC @cbcnewsbc
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Just looked at the latest NASA satellite pass of the #CraterCreek #wildfire outside #Keremeous looks like it may have jumped the road? Definitely quickly growing outside the official perimeter. #BCWildfire
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Looks like @NASA FIRM Hotspot detection is down. This is drives a lot of #wildfire fighting resources. Hope it's up and running again soon.
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Watching the @NASA VIIRS Hotspots for the #Osoyoos #EagleBluff #Wildfire vs the official perimeter looks like N-NW movement. My heart goes out to those folks evacuated.
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