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bigbenchrob 🍁🇨🇦 @bigbenchrob.bsky.social · 4h

Well, it could have been written "provided your kids with a fun experience at no cost to them" but that would have been unnecessarily clunky, no?

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bigbenchrob 🍁🇨🇦 @bigbenchrob.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I wish I had game like that yogurt playah

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bigbenchrob 🍁🇨🇦 @bigbenchrob.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I remember there were some beautiful ones with beavers and whatnot in Montreal I used to step over.

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bigbenchrob 🍁🇨🇦 @bigbenchrob.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Left to its own devices, LLMs would never have invented PCR. Because nobody had invented it yet.

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bigbenchrob 🍁🇨🇦 @bigbenchrob.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

PCR, a technique that has changed the world, was invented by a guy driving in the mountains under the influence of LSD. The principles on which it is based are simple and had been known for decades. Yet nobody had come up with it before. This is the spark of human intelligence.

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bigbenchrob 🍁🇨🇦 @bigbenchrob.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

(or, more accurately, what we *think* we know!)

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bigbenchrob 🍁🇨🇦 @bigbenchrob.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

A useful approach to the limitations of LLMs trained on what we already know. That the DOGE punks confidently gutted science because "AI will cure cancer" incenses me. Science advances precisely at the margin between what we know and what we don't -- any real advance depends on a *surprise*.

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bigbenchrob 🍁🇨🇦 @bigbenchrob.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

"Canadian quarters" is a punch line guaranteed to kill

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bigbenchrob 🍁🇨🇦 @bigbenchrob.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

That was taught to me by an employee and I have used it successfully ever since. Also, I look like the Rock so it was predestined.

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bigbenchrob 🍁🇨🇦 @bigbenchrob.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Buy 40 Creek. Aged in sherry barrels. Trust me!

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bigbenchrob 🍁🇨🇦 @bigbenchrob.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Intelligent leaders are the direct result of an intelligent electorate.

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bigbenchrob 🍁🇨🇦 @bigbenchrob.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

This. Marshall your resources. Make a decision as to your editorial slant regarding the facts reported at noon. Reconvene (I have no idea how this works) at 5:00 p,m. Update. There. We have stability and sober analysis.

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bigbenchrob 🍁🇨🇦 @bigbenchrob.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

"You really knocked something loose there, Tiger!"

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bigbenchrob 🍁🇨🇦 @bigbenchrob.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Perfect group for Afrakaaner style favoured refugee status to the US. White, stupid, crusty, already accept all the tenets of MAHA, fully behind mass deportations, and they HATE ONTARIO! Sir, Sir, excuse me…

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bigbenchrob 🍁🇨🇦 @bigbenchrob.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

"Yeah, so buddy over here decides his truck belongs in my space…" [RUN FAST]

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bigbenchrob 🍁🇨🇦 @bigbenchrob.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

There must be a word for that feat, other than awesome. It will come to me. But well done!

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bigbenchrob 🍁🇨🇦 @bigbenchrob.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

I still have to think every time I write "renege". It seems so wrong. Yet as a grammar Nazi it is my sworn duty to defend it as it stands. Such are the mantles we assume.

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bigbenchrob 🍁🇨🇦 @bigbenchrob.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

It occured to me that, when Doug Ford turns off the electricity and Trump asks the Secretary of War to prepare an invasion plan for Canada how does that play out? To turn the switch back on means they need to assume the reins of Canadian government. And understand details. Not gonna happen.

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bigbenchrob 🍁🇨🇦 @bigbenchrob.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Best sentence, so true: "It’s funny to wake up relieved that you’re about to take a beating."

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bigbenchrob 🍁🇨🇦 @bigbenchrob.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

I've lived here for fifty and never seen a thunderstorm like this

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bigbenchrob 🍁🇨🇦 @bigbenchrob.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Take the potash, aluminum, energy with you as you walk away and say "Sorry, Donald, we tried, but as you said you don't need anything we have so I'm sure there are no hard feelings..."

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bigbenchrob 🍁🇨🇦 @bigbenchrob.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

I think it is worth a trip to personally witness that wonder!

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bigbenchrob 🍁🇨🇦 @bigbenchrob.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

IMHO the problem is that Americans are brainwashed from birth to believe that a President is the superhuman embodiment of everything that makes America the greatest nation in the history of the world. So they lard him with more and more power -- far more than any mortal fallible leader should have.

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bigbenchrob 🍁🇨🇦 @bigbenchrob.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Nothing personal, good people of BlueSky

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bigbenchrob 🍁🇨🇦 @bigbenchrob.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Good luck with that, as you prepare to fuck over your northern neighbour. We are not going to forget this. Ever.

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bigbenchrob 🍁🇨🇦 @bigbenchrob.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Also, after hearing an interchange between her and her daughter everybody would conclude they were both on speed and planning to ensnare the town and its youth in their drug distribution network.

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bigbenchrob 🍁🇨🇦 @bigbenchrob.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

(Granville St. Bridge (in the foreground) is okay too, but there's no contest, especially when it's lit up at night.

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bigbenchrob 🍁🇨🇦 @bigbenchrob.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

My favourite bridge (Burrard Street) ❤️

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bigbenchrob 🍁🇨🇦 @bigbenchrob.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

"SIR, Sir! Did you cower 'like a bitch' or 'like a dog'?

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bigbenchrob 🍁🇨🇦 @bigbenchrob.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Ahem -- I believe you forgot about Cardi B's WAP, which will be fondly remembered by tattooed geriatrics in 60 years.

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bigbenchrob 🍁🇨🇦 @bigbenchrob.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

That would be extremely useful but I don't want to distract them from making excellent software enhancements like stuffing Photos with automatically curated collections like "Pet Friends Through the Years" and "Home Depot Discoveries"

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bigbenchrob 🍁🇨🇦 @bigbenchrob.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

I can tell you it's pretty much what you'd guess, heavenwaiting-53.

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bigbenchrob 🍁🇨🇦 @bigbenchrob.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Every episode, 40 female audience members falling deeply in love with him and cursing Treena

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bigbenchrob 🍁🇨🇦 @bigbenchrob.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Like, seriously, what else would you call a bandaid that wouldn't sound awkward and dorky like "bologna" or "catsup"?

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bigbenchrob 🍁🇨🇦 @bigbenchrob.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

I am fully behind this. No cap on god frfrfr

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bigbenchrob 🍁🇨🇦 @bigbenchrob.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Yeah, but did they have non-woke testosterone fuelled warfighters?

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bigbenchrob 🍁🇨🇦 @bigbenchrob.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Confessions of a Crap Artist, also non-SF, is worth a read.

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bigbenchrob 🍁🇨🇦 @bigbenchrob.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Why hasn't she moved to Texas or Florida already?

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bigbenchrob 🍁🇨🇦 @bigbenchrob.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

As a large white guy your comment makes me feel seen. Also I think I deserve cake. Because children get cake and I do many things children can't do! So I should get cake.

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bigbenchrob 🍁🇨🇦 @bigbenchrob.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Thirteen years of post-secondary education failed to drive out my instinctual appreciation of jokes like this that are most excellent!

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bigbenchrob 🍁🇨🇦 @bigbenchrob.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

When Skippy had to manipulate something, like, say, open a door latch, the camera zoomed in to a pair of obviously taxidermied forelimbs being manipulated by someone out of the shot using them like they were a pair of chopsticks. I'm sure they thought they were going to get away with this.

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bigbenchrob 🍁🇨🇦 @bigbenchrob.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

🇮🇷 The Supreme American Death Warrior has arrived at the front line to lead his men as they engage in hand to hand combat with us. -- Should we be worried? Just watch his legs. -- What do you mean? You'll see.

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