#VictoriaBC

#BikeTooter #VictoriaBC #entitleddrivers

3 days ago

My wife tells me the idiot hate-mongers are overwhelmed by supportive folks in downtown #VictoriaBC.
#NoSpaceForHate

Kevin Smith

4 days ago

I'm sure Bob is also one of those people who complains that cyclists should only use bike lanes, and there shouldn't even be bike lanes because no one uses them.

Huge white pickup truck belonging to Bob's Plastering parked in a buffered bike lane on Jutland Road.

Huge white pickup truck blocking the bike lane on Jutland. Besides blacking traffic, Bob also does plastering and stucco.

bntly

4 days ago

i really love fernwood. #yyj #victoriabc

Chris Tihor :pmgpurple:

5 days ago

Had a fantastic weekend at the Rifflandia festival in Victoria, BC. So many great performances from the likes of Iggy Pop, Suicidal Tendencies, Marc Rebillet, Mavis Staples, Salt N Pepa, Herbie Hancock and, of course, Melanie C. I'm still mentally processing all the awesomeness.
#photography #PhotoMonday #festivals #Rifflandia #YYJ #victoriabc #MelanieC

Photograph of a concert stage showing Melanie C on stage in the distance DJing. On one side is a larger projection of the Spice Girl and in the foreground is a little girl wearing an orange shirt with bubbles floating around her head.

CautionWIP🏳️‍🌈🇨🇦🕎

5 days ago

Hey #VictoriaBC and also #Canadian folks in general!

This Wednesday the anti-trans/queer MAGA-#Canada types are holding a big thing at multiple government buildings around the country. Counter-protests are being organized at as many as possible. If you live in Victoria, I’ve included the two separate actions in-town below. If you’re from anywhere else, a comprehensive-as-possible list of trans+/anti-hate actions/locations is being maintained at https://docs.google.com/document/u/0/d/1N7E__H3s_PDxnyBxKuHzgSqPkiV3d52oycPJynyirko/

There’s also a Facebook group at https://www.facebook.com/groups/325603693311023/ where people are listing their local stuff.

Please attend one of at all possible. And show these #%*^ers they’re not the majority. Regardless if you can attend, boost this please, ffs, don’t like it and move on. 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈💙

Counter Protest
Victoria BC
Sept 20th 2023

Where: Victoria Legislative grounds
Time: 12 pm we meet on the grounds near the protest look for pride flags.

We will Counter the 1 Million march 4 children and then after meet up with the 3 pm group.

Please bring flags, signs and masks

Trans rights are human rights

September 20 | 3:30-5:30 PM
Bc legislature

on unceded lekwunger > territory

in response to the anti-trans protests in so called
"canada"

3:00-3:30 beforehand
sign making

CautionWIP🏳️‍🌈🇨🇦🕎

6 days ago

If you’re in #VictoriaBC, this is your reminder that today is the #StarusForAll rally at the #BC Legislature at 11:00am! Please come show your support and demand normalization for the people who do so much to keep this country running.

#NDP #BCNDP

@victoriabc

Visiting from #Vancouver? It’s your province as well, c’mon down!

Boost babies, boost!

#YYJ #VictoriaBC #Photography

Misty day of the Salish Sea. Olympic Mountains from the Ogden Point Breakwater.

Misty mountains in the far background loom over a rough sea watched over by a lighthouse

Fasting Fridays for Future

David Suzuki Speaks at the Global Mobilization to Fight Fossil Fuels in #VictoriaBC: https://youtube.com/watch?v=uoh9C_ngM9Q

Video Credit: @rulebreakersbc
#ClimateAction #ClimateActionNow #ClimateJustice #climatemarch #EndFossilFuel #EndFossilFuels #EndFossilFuelsCanada #FastFairForever

Kevin Boyd

#yyj #abandonedPhotography #photo #flickr #Photography #VictoriaBC https://flic.kr/p/2p2UoNN

"pristine condition"

Old abandoned car wreck at Thetis Lake Park, Victoria, BC, Canada

#YYJ #VictoriaBC #Photography

Hey there spider bud. Stearling service, feel free to take on more projects. All mosquito related initiatives considered rubber stamped.

Side view of a large garden spider hanging upside down

Later we see a layer of altocumulus appear and disappear. There are bands across the layer where local convection is organised (or there are shorter wavelength waves travelling in that layer).

Finally, we see some strong, shallow convection in a layer of altocumulus. We can see fall streaks, cloud pulled down in a stream of cold air and raindrops, that quickly evaporate in drier air below.

#UVIc #VictoriaBC
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CautionWIP🏳️‍🌈🇨🇦🕎

@victoriabc #Canada #TransRightsAreHumanRights

Hey #VictoriaBC :

Counter-protest against anti-trans/SOGI education agitators Sept 20th, at the Legislature, 3pm for sign making and general organizing, then getting down to it at 3:30 when the fash start fashing.

You in #BC? #Vancouver? Know folks that are? Boost this, please. Hard as you can.

#MSTDNCA folks particularly please boost! 👍

Poster

Trans rights are human rights
September 20 | 3:30-5:30 PM
BC legislature on unceded lekwunger > territory in response to the anti-trans protests in so called "canada"

3:00-3:30 beforehand sign making

Alan McConchie

#SalishSea #SanJuans #WashingtonState #Cascadia #PugetSound #GIS #Lummi #SanJuanIsland #OrcasIsland #VictoriaBC #maps #cartography

Beautiful #map of the #bathymetry of the #SanJuanIslands made by Gerry Gabrisch, GIS Manager at #LummiNation. Created completely with the #OpenSource software program #QGIS (@qgis).

Original post: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/gerry-gabrisch-gisp-2aa3263b_linkedin-often-features-memes-that-mock-qgis-activity-7102411473771003904-b8A1

A minimalist map of the San Juan Islands in northwest Washington State, showing the land and terrain in shades of gray, and the depth of the seafloor in graduated blue/gray tones.

Greater #VictoriaBC #cycling. If you enjoy the new fixed #LochsideTrail at the Heritage Society, thank me (and the #CRD 😜). I chased down an employee and asked them to check it and fix it. I'm also responsible for the repaired manhole at the S-bend north of Borden and McKenzie. That one took a lot of complaining (#Saanich's manhole, CRD trail). Remember, the trail network is the transportation network. Don't let municipalities ignore them.

The newly paved trail. I went from witnessing a crash in a group straight to the CRD and they fixed it!

Brad Koehn

@ike #VictoriaBC is lovely and has plenty of coffee shops et al. If you go up-island you can see a stunning array of micro-climates and lots of parks. My brother lives in Duncan and we need to get back there again.

Ike

#VictoriaBC #Canada #BritishColumbia

I'm going to be going on a short visit to #Victoria BC this month.

Any particular recommendations for a random internet dude you know almost nothing about?

I like coffee shops, bookstores, local's favorite's greasy spoons, and micro brew. A nice park or forest to hike or run through is great too. If it is a thing in Canada, farmer's markets are cool.

#YYJ #VancouverIsland #VictoriaBC #Photography #BloomScrolling #Florespondence #Fedibee

Still kinda summer.

A bee comes in for a landing on a deep orange poppy

https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/covid-vancouver-island-no-outbreak-1.6959369

Public health in the 21st century, #VictoriaBC #CRD. It seems the Health Authority has a new way to manage 'outbreaks' without calling them 'outbreaks'.

The new approach may be reasonable and based on the best science but even the staff at the hospitals appear not to know about it.

"It is very clear that the word 'outbreak' has very negative connotations to the public and would have media attention..."
#IslandHealth

Ms. Opossum graphs COVID data.

https://anarchodelphis.tumblr.com/BCWastewater

UPDATED: Island & Interior Health wastewater #SARSCoV2 signal & estimated new #COVID19 cases.

#Kelowna #Penticton #Kamloops #VictoriaBC #Nanaimo #Comox #Courtenay 1/2

Mastodon Juan :donor:

@TwraSun Anyone in #VictoriaBC going?

#YYJ #VancouverIsland #VictoriaBC #Birbs

There’s Great Blue Herons and then there’s a greatly blue heron under a blue-lit bridge.

A great blue heron looking extra blue under the Johnson Street Bridge in Victoria, BC.

A replacement “blue bridge” it’s actually painted white and light with saturated blue light at night.

A Greatly Blue Heron as it were.

Hey #Saanich #VictoriaBC. It can be done. Eliminate #AirBnB.

Kevin Boyd

#FoodPhotography #yyj #VictoriaBC #flickr https://flic.kr/p/2p1m32K

Baked Potato Poutine at L'Authentique in Victoria, BC

(My very delicious lunch :) )

Wastewater #COVID surveillance in #VictoriaBC. Numbers are up. We'll have to wait a week or more for the latest numbers because even though samples are collected three times per week they are only reported every two weeks (apparently).

It's back to school so wear a mask. Do not contribute to the ongoing spread of this disease.

It looks like 10% of infections lead to lasting harm and this is still a leading cause of death for all age groups, even children.

Two charts from the BC CDC. The top graph is a time-series of Load per Capita against date. The y-axis scale is poor for the data shown, it rises to 600 units but these data only reach 200 units. The bottom chart is a column graph of percent change against data. It shows that in August the amount of SARS-CoV-2 E gene in wastewater has been increasing.

@MatWright

Wear a mask #VictoriaBC #UVic

https://www.timescolonist.com/local-news/avoid-busiest-travel-times-on-the-malahat-this-weekend-ministry-advises-7489423

#BC Ministry of Transport says the quiet part out loud:

Drivers are the congestion they themselves decry.

#VictoriaBC #Saanich

Here's the Month in a Minute sky video from #UVic for August. There's some missing data this month. This camera looks north and records an image every five seconds. These are converted to daily videos and uploaded to youtube here https://www.youtube.com/@victoriaweathercam/videos

#Saanich #VictoriaBC

A grid of daily sky videos arranged in rows of six days. Each video shows the changing sky as the day progresses. The whole month of videos is synchronised so that they show the same moments of the each day. This month there's a real mix of clear blue sky and clouds. Later in the month some days are tinged with orange (sepia) because of wildfire smoke.

PSA #UVic

Classes resume next week. Do not drive to campus if you have any other way of getting here. You will be happier if you don't drive your own vehicle.

#VictoriaBC #Saanich

As I travelled home, cycling, I passed a soccer camp with small children out in a large playing field. Lighting wasn't striking nearby but that's actually not a good indicator of safety. We don't get many thunderstorms in Greater #VictoriaBC, not even one per year on average. As a result people are simply not aware of the danger and of the simple rules to follow. A soccer camp should have moved indoors, or been cancelled while the storm was active. Lightning can kill. #Saanich 3/3

#VictoriaBC rarely sees a thunderstorm. The frequency is less than one per year. So, when one passes over we notice! Thunderstorms are accompanied by strong vertical motion, and vertical motion changes the air pressure so we can record it on a barometer. I measure pressure at one minute (averaged) intervals at #UVic. Here's what I recorded over night on 2023-08-29.

That first pulse of pressure measures a change of more than 3 hectopascal over 24 minutes. That's a huge change. 1/3

A time-series chart of pressure against time of day. Midway along there a series of rapidly changing pulses are seen. The pressure rises and falls again, nine times in quick succession.

4 weeks ago

Finally, here's an animation of the annual pattern of insolation at #UVic. Yellower colours are higher intensity than orange, white is highest, black is zero, or missing data. Each day of the year is a vertical stripe. Time of day is shown on the vertical axes in hours or minutes. #VictoriaBC

Summer days are a lot 'longer' than winter days!

This is an animation of the annual patter of incoming solar radiation (insolation) in watts per square metre. The pattern is narrow in the winter and broadens in the summer. Days are longer in the summer so there are more minutes per day with sunlight. The intensity also increases in summer. The sun is higher in the sky (at noon) in summer so it is more intense. Some days are seen to be dark. These are cloudy days.