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Ben Watts

@benwatts.me
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Runner, lifter of heavy circles, baker, cocktail enthusiast, product designer in Ottawa. 🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈

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Ben Watts @benwatts.me · 08/10/2026
There really is no floor for how barbaric these people can get. Death by firing squad as a public spectacle? Insane.
theguardian.com
Hegseth says execution of Fort Hood shooter will be a public event
Officials clarified execution by firing squad of Nidal Hasan, army psychiatrist who killed 13 people, will be livestreamed
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Ben Watts @benwatts.me · 30/09/2026
Is it just me or is setting a simple timer with the new Siri AI considerably slower than it used to be? 🤦‍♂️
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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 26/09/2026
Tech companies suddenly decide they can, in fact, moderate content on their platforms after all
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Ben Watts @benwatts.me · 25/09/2026
This year I learned squirrels can chew through flashing 🥲
A photo sticks its head out of a hole it chewed into my roof
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Ben Watts @benwatts.me · 25/09/2026
I really slept on iOS's "call screening" feature. It has been a game changer for avoiding spam calls
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andrew.ottawa 🇨🇦 @ottawandrew.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Opinion | My convoy buddies didn’t pay for on-street parking so why are you, you dumb chumps? By Alex Lawson
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Robert Komaniecki @komaniecki.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
How do I explain to small business owners that the menu on the left is one billion times more appealing than the one on the right
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Ben Watts @benwatts.me · 16/06/2026
Getting quotes to replace my roof, and the sales guy is telling me how wind resistant the shingles are. I mention that seems like a good thing, since we’ve been getting more tornadoes in recent years. He decided to let me know that climate change is left wing hoax. Interesting sales tactic. 😐
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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
The Enhanced Games are bullshit. They’re still banning runners from competing using the most powerful drug of all: being in a car
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It's Jamie @sjamieit.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
The City of Ottawa posted the raw speed data from before and after Doug Ford banned speed cameras and the effect is so obvious it's not even necessary put a line marking when that happened. This chart shows the percentage of drivers going 15km/h or more over the posted limit.
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mattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 03/05/2026
i see a horse has won the kentucky derby again. this is beginning to feel rigged
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Ben Watts @benwatts.me · 28/04/2026
The world of bathroom hardware is insane. In what world does a single towel hook have a MSRP of $269.00??
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Ben Watts @benwatts.me · 15/04/2026
I'd like to announce that I too am pivoting to AI. Money pls 🫴
cnbc.com
Struggling shoe retailer Allbirds makes bizarre pivot from shoes to AI, stock explodes more than 700%
Allbirds announced a deal with American Exchange Group to sell its intellectual property and other assets for $39 million in March.
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Ben Watts @benwatts.me · 24/03/2026
Spring is refusing to arrive with any haste, so I’ve been learning glass blowing in the hot shop at the Ottawa Glassblowing Co-op this week. 🥵 Two days in: zero burns! ✅
It’s me, standing next to our glassblowing instructor. I’m using some shears before knocking a lil vase off of the blowpipe
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Ben Watts @benwatts.me · 12/03/2026
Tfw when the city unexpectedly shows up to replace your water shutoff valve for some reason.
Two workers clearing a hole in my driveway to the waterline
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Ben Watts @benwatts.me · 11/03/2026
I wish the dog could understand that if it's raining in the backyard, it'll be raining if we leave through the front door on a walk 😂. He was super reluctant to go into the rain to pee in the backyard, but thinks it will somehow be better on a walk (...we didn't make it far)
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Huw Bowen / Sundog @huwbowen.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
This is the warning on the blood pressure monitor my dad just got. Exceptional work. Anybody know what the fuck it’s supposed to mean? Last line is especially ominous
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Ben Watts @benwatts.me · 04/03/2026
I'm not gonna pretend I knew tobi well during the decade I was at Shop, but jfc I don’t recall him being this juvenile? I *generally* thought he was a reasonable person (tornadoes™ notwithstanding). So this comment feels suuuuper offbeat to me. Billionaires, man... *yeesh*
A screenshot of tweets wherein the posters describe people who use Bluesky as crazy and horrible.
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Ben Watts @benwatts.me · 03/03/2026
Hate this intersection in Gatineau sooo much. Truck: ignores the no right on red. Two cars turning left: at least one runs a red #autowa
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Ben Watts @benwatts.me · 18/02/2026
Sat down at my desk and... there's definitely something scurrying in the wall/ceiling right now. It's all I can hear. There goes focusing on anything else today.
media.tenor.com
a picture of a raccoon with its mouth open and the words aa aa aa aa aa
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Dex Anderson @dexanderson.com · 09/02/2026
i just saw someone say "Kid Rock makes music for the people who have tattoos of their kids but not custody" and hol up i need a minute
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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Let’s be honest: in many of these winter Olympic “sports”, the snow is doing most of the work. An unexpected thaw would expose these so-called athletes for the frauds they are
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Stellbound: Stellraiser II @antlervel.vet · 06/02/2026
Already reposted the quoted post but just started cracking up all over again because I can’t believe we saw a wholesome example of this exact format in the wild
Reddit post: 

r/AskReddit
u/PreOpTransCentaur • 9y
NSFW
You can have sex with one real person from all of human history - who is your ultimate lay?

phil8248 • 9y
I'd like to have sex one more time with my wife who passed away from cancer 9 years ago. My body yearns for hers. The ultimate downside to finding "the one" is she may die young and leave you wanting.

somethingobscur • 9y
I also choose this guy's dead wife.
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Ben Watts @benwatts.me · 03/02/2026
Weird #autowa moment while on a run today. Car at a stop sign stopped just as I was about to enter an intersection. Window rolled down, he sticks his hand out and yells at me to wait (presumably so he can turn). I remind him of the stop sign and tell him to fuck off. 😅
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Ben Watts @benwatts.me · 02/02/2026
My mental health hinges on the prediction of this sea bug (I’m done with clairvoyant rodents) www.ctvnews.ca/atlantic/nov...
ctvnews.ca
Nova Scotia’s Lucy the Lobster predicts an early spring
Lucy the Lobster has predicted an early spring after failing to see her shadow Monday morning.
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Ben Watts @benwatts.me · 30/01/2026
RIP Catherine O’Hara 🪦
media.tenor.com
a woman in a black and white polka dot shirt says someone slap me .
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bart @bartsmith.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
The wrong Home Alone 2 actor died.
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Ben Watts @benwatts.me · 29/01/2026
The wind today is awful 🥶
It’s me, wearing a jacket, neck tube, hat? And sunglasses. I’m grimacing as I run
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Ben Watts @benwatts.me · 27/01/2026
I’ve been passively interested in taking up xc skiing, but some groups I’ve joined are seemingly just to complain about trail conditions and etiquette. It’s pushing me away. I question how fun it would be if trail conditions are so easily ruined …maybe next year 😂
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Ben Watts @benwatts.me · 23/01/2026
Why do these renders always include unrealistic landscaping? There's probably gonna be like 12 trees total, not these dense mini-forests 😂 www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
cbc.ca
NCC unveils latest designs for the rooftop park at Dow's Lake | CBC News
The National Capital Commission (NCC) has shared new designs for the rooftop park that will crown the parking garage at The Ottawa Hospital's new Civic campus at Dow's Lake.
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Ben Watts @benwatts.me · 22/01/2026
Suddenly feeling old 😂
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
My man looks like an Oompa Loompa elder at an open casket.
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Ben Watts @benwatts.me · 21/01/2026
He doesn’t even know what country he’s threatening to conquer. It blows my mind that people still think he’s fit for office
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Basic Apple Guy @basicappleguy.com · 13/01/2026
Apple Creator Studio Icon History
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Ben Watts @benwatts.me · 20/01/2026
Ordered 3 cheap ethernet cables. The merchant is shipping each cable individually AND requiring signatures...🤦‍♂️..... there's no way they're making money on this order.
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Ben Watts @benwatts.me · 19/01/2026
This is so far beyond the pale that I’m starting to wonder if I’m in a coma or something… WWIII because he didn’t get a peace prize? The man is completely senile. www.bbc.com/news/article...
bbc.com
Trump ties Greenland demands to Nobel Prize in message to Norway leader
The US president says he no longer feels obliged to think only of peace, after not being awarded the annual prize.
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Ben Watts @benwatts.me · 15/01/2026
It’s snowing…
French bulldog wearing a coat, with a snow-covered face
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depths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
it's the big day
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Ben Watts @benwatts.me · 14/01/2026
Fun facts about humans • Peeling off too much skin can kill the human Via the ON Ministry of Natural Resources page about White Birch trees... www.ontario.ca/page/white-b...
A screenshot that reads: Fun facts about white birch
Peeling off too much white birch bark can kill the tree.
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Ben Watts @benwatts.me · 14/01/2026
This is a first. Ordered some lights direct from Philips Hue, and the product that arrived in the correct, sealed box is completely wrong. I hope support believes me 🫠🤞
A photo of an opened box. The side of the box shows a product photo, in front of it is the light that arrived. The two products don’t match.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
She had stuffed animals in her glove box.
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"fart" @jonhendren.com · 07/01/2026
i bought the domain ohhh.lol a while back just because and the other night i noticed it gets like 100-150 unique hits a day from people typing it in their posts and group chats where it tries to load the url preview. so i hope this annoys some people while they're trying to get their mack on
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Ben Watts @benwatts.me · 28/12/2025
Heh, how does this happen?
A big pile of snow in the middle of the streetA big pile of snow in the middle of the street
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Ben Watts @benwatts.me · 26/12/2025
Wtf. 😂 ottawacitizen.com/news/kiweki-...
ottawacitizen.com
Kìwekì Point damage caused by school bus driving along pathway
The NCC confirmed that a rogue school bus driver drove on the path illegally causing damage to the wooden panels of the structure.
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Ben Watts @benwatts.me · 26/12/2025
It's funny to hear a chainsmoker talk about how smelly and revolting cannabis smoke is. The lack of self awareness is... breathtaking 😅
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Ben Watts @benwatts.me · 18/12/2025
Watched the first episode of Fallout s2 last night. SO MANY ADS. We've gone full circle back to cable 🥲
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Ben Watts @benwatts.me · 10/12/2025
This is not a country run by serious people. 😂
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David Reevely @davidreevely.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
Everything else aside, a veteran politician wrote a whole op-ed about how the failures of city policies he identifies are the fault of the people who, unlike him, vote against those policies.
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Ben Watts @benwatts.me · 05/12/2025
Century homes are fun, until you consider the random assortment of rocks your house sit on aren’t amazing insulators when it’s -20° 🥲
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Ben Watts @benwatts.me · 02/12/2025
The mysterious and always-closed game shop near Preston & Elm has become… 🥁 …another vape shop!
Photo of a storefront of a vape shop, between a convenience store and housing
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