Chris Alemany🇺🇦
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Welcome! I am: Dad, Husband, Tech.
Former #PortAlberni City Council.
Dual 🇨🇦🇪🇸. Speak English, French and Spanish in descending order. Climate and Decolonization are THE issues. Follow my @chrisblog@chrisalemany.ca
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Will post about cats, gardens, politics, sports, other random things. Socialist, anti-fascist, anti-racist, LGBTQ2S and Indigenous comrade.
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Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸New pinned post:
#icelist
F the Fascists and anyone who assists them, but especially corporate social media platforms….
#ICE #fascist #EndFascism #antifa #opensocial #socialweb
https://wiki.icelist.is/index.php/Main_Page
Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸New pinned post:
#icelist
F the Fascists and anyone who assists them, but especially corporate social media platforms….
#ICE #fascist #EndFascism #antifa #opensocial #socialweb
https://wiki.icelist.is/index.php/Main_Page
Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸Rubio’s statement was the most informative. Makes it clear this President is going to do whatever he wants to do. A warning for the world.
#theAmericanFascist will do what he wants.
Now he says the USA is in charge.
We’re going to run the country right. It’s going to make a lot of money. We’re going to reimburse people #corruption.
We are designating people…
He’s basically saying Venezuela is going to be run by people in the White House.
#uspoli #venezuela #world #un
Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸so. Funny story.
Last night, I get home from DoorDashing and I started doing a bunch of stuff to prepare for the fire and put away things. I turned the water on to finish filling the filter and the pump bay. Then I was setting up the sprinkler for the house. Then I got totally sidetracked by the fire stuff.
Fast-forward to this morning, and apparently we have a pool a little bit of ahead of schedule . 😂
💧
I mean, it was part of the contingency plan in case the fire came. It needed to be full so that the liner was not a fire hazard, but yeah, not what I expected when I walked out of the backdoor this morning lol
So it turns out it takes about 12 hours to fill it half full. So 24 to fill it completely I assume.
This changes the build schedule sort of. The rock lining of the pond is obviously not done. Nor is the bottom intake and sprinkler plumbing.
Sometimes fate takes the wheel. 🤷♂️
😂
Partner is excited. 🏊
#poolpond #oops #fire #diy #
Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸The first trickle from filter to pool pond.
The main pond is not quite 3/4 full, but I thought it was important to make sure the filter was completely full and ready to start filtering. So I have shored up the low edges of the filter, taken away the temporary stream, and now the water is starting to flow from filter to pond. In time it will connect with the pump bay. Then I can turn on the pump and start circulating for real.
😆
The reason this is happening now is not the best reason. Our view to the southeast is not encouraging.
😔
🔥
#poolpond #oops #fire #diy
Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸so. Funny story.
Last night, I get home from DoorDashing and I started doing a bunch of stuff to prepare for the fire and put away things. I turned the water on to finish filling the filter and the pump bay. Then I was setting up the sprinkler for the house. Then I got totally sidetracked by the fire stuff.
Fast-forward to this morning, and apparently we have a pool a little bit of ahead of schedule . 😂 💧
I mean, it was part of the contingency plan in case the fire came. It needed to be full so that the liner was not a fire hazard, but yeah, not what I expected when I walked out of the backdoor this morning lol
So it turns out it takes about 12 hours to fill it half full. So 24 to fill it completely I assume.
This changes the build schedule sort of. The rock lining of the pond is obviously not done. Nor is the bottom intake and sprinkler plumbing.
Sometimes fate takes the wheel. 🤷♂️ 😂
Partner is excited. 🏊
#poolpond #oops #fire #diy #
Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸Let's talk about what is “unprecedented”.
Coastal Fire Centre:
"I don't think I've seen a fire like this on Vancouver Island," Caranci said.”
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/vancouver-island-mount-underwood-fire-bc-august-13-2025-1.7607625
Comment:
In 2015 after the major (18 month) drought and 2014/15 Pacific “blob” (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Blob_(Pacific_Ocean)) and subsequent massive 2015 BC fire season, there was a fire in Squamish (on the mainland) which is in the Coastal Fire Centre.
I was City councillor in Port Alberni at the time and at that year's UBCM conference for all municipal officials in the fall, after the fire season, we received a presentation from BC Wildfire on a Squamish "Elaho” fire. (2015 not 2024). It was over 15,000 hectares before it was finally contained.
https://news.gov.bc.ca/releases/2015FLNR0217-001219
The same words were used “Explosive Growth”.
According to the BC Wildfire service at that time, it was the first time they had seen Rank 4 and Rank 5 fire behaviour anywhere in the Coastal Fire Centre. It was unprecedented.
This was the 'new normal' of human-caused climate change.
Only the drought conditions and extreme heat could have caused the temperate rain forests of Coastal BC to exhibit this behaviour.
Now this ‘unprecedented' behaviour is in the temperate coastal rain forests of Vancouver Island. This is, and was, predictable.
This is climate change. The “new normal” is Change.
It is getting worse because our CO2/GHG emissions continue to rise.
The only way to stop this changing normal is to end the use of fossil fuels and stop the emissions of greenhouse gases immediately.
#bcwildfire #BCPoli #CanPoli #Emergency #CliamteEmergency #EndFossilFuels
Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸Because burning down small towns is not enough, LNG Canada (part owned by Shell and Petrobras) are spinning up them turbines so a major City can be threatened in the 2040s!
#BCWildfire #EndFossilFuels #CanPoli #CdnPoli
https://www.thenorthernview.com/local-news/train-1-turbines-fully-online-as-lng-canada-moves-through-start-up-8188455?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸Folks on this Seattle Anchorage flight getting a serious view of the #underwood fire rn.
#Delta #AirTravel #BCWildfire
Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸Can anyone lend me a hand on why my preview cards are not showing up on posts at @alberniweather@socialbc.ca?
They were working correctly in the past. Featured images of posts were used as the preview image.
#MastoHelp #Fedihelp
Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸First Union Contract for the Alberni Golf Club groundskeepers. They had a 10 day strike.
"“I’ve been working here for 38 years,” said Ak Manhas, a groundskeeper. “I was only getting 17.5 days of vacation pay a year and no benefits. Now thanks to the union I get six weeks’ vacation pay and benefits, which will finally give me more time to spend with my wife and kids and pay for medical bills.””
#Unionize #Union #PortAlberni #Organize #Labour #WorkersRights
https://www.albernivalleynews.com/sports/alberni-golf-club-groundskeepers-end-strike-ratify-first-contract-8181591
Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸If it comes down to it and the fire is on our doorstep I am going to have to fill the #poolpond with water at least partially. The EDPM rubber liner may be flammable if exposed to a direct flame. A giant fire hole would not be good....
#underwoodfire