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Parker Benchley 🇨🇦 @parkebench.bsky.social · 1h

Though if fertility is your goal, boxer shorts may be a better option.

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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 10h

JOINT STATEMENT OF THE FOREIGN MINISTERS OF CANADA, DENMARK, GERMANY, FRANCE, ITALY, JAPAN, THE NETHERLANDS, UNITED KINGDOM "As committed supporters of the ICC we regret and strongly disagree with the announcement of sanctions to be imposed upon the Court by the United States."

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Euan MacDonald @euanmacdonald.bsky.social · 6h

Context: 300k tonnes of diesel = 93 million gallons. US uses 160 to 170 million gallons per day - so 300k tonnes would last 13-14 hours. Total order of 1.8 million tonnes = ~82 hours of US use = ~3 days 10 hours. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Trump announces deal for Russian diesel as Zelensky criticises 'gift to Putin'

Ukraine's president said allowing Russia to sell petroleum products would prolong a war that must be ended.

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Parker Benchley 🇨🇦 @parkebench.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I’ve always liked it. It has that delightful mid ‘60s odour about it. Plus Julie Andrews still has the same teased hairdo she had in The Americanization of Emily!

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Parker Benchley 🇨🇦 @parkebench.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I did what I thought was a very wry and funny spreadsheet joke, and it seems to have fallen completely flat among my colleagues and coworkers. It’s either too nerdy or just to close to the truth amongst our overworked team of business analysts and developers.

Two spreadsheet cells.
One says Work/Life Balance:
The other has #DIV/0! Which is the Microsoft Excel error flag for a division by zero error.

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Parker Benchley 🇨🇦 @parkebench.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

“They want that I should launch a fooking aircraft carrier?! I don’t care about fooking aircraft carrier!”

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Parker Benchley 🇨🇦 @parkebench.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Jesus, that’s a little patronizing, isn’t it? “Poor little woman can’t help how she looks!” As if she had absolutely no agency in her own life nor any possible responsibility for making the dozens of plastic surgery choices that brought her to this point. It not like a congenital condition.

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Parker Benchley 🇨🇦 @parkebench.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Oh, I’m with you. I’ve always been in awe of the Bletchley Park crew myself. I’m a software developer and work in a field where women software engineers might outnumber men: banking and fintech software. And let’s not forget all those ferry pilots flying aircraft from Canada to the UK.

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Parker Benchley 🇨🇦 @parkebench.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Secret agent ma’am, Secret agent ma’am, They’ve given you a number, And taken away your name. youtu.be/6iaR3WO71j4?...

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JOHNNY RIVERS - Secret Agent Man 1966

YouTube video by boybblue

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Parker Benchley 🇨🇦 @parkebench.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

“It’s going to be a long night. And I don’t particularly like the book I’ve started. If you know what I mean.”

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Parker Benchley 🇨🇦 @parkebench.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

And please, no blue eye shadow! (I was just a baby consultant in the late ‘80s but I well remember the peacock tail hairdos, & the makeup applied with a trowel. I had a legal type-setter working for me who left a film of foundation on the keyboard from absently touching her face while she worked!)

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Parker Benchley 🇨🇦 @parkebench.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

For me it was Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less and The Prodigal Daughter. And a bit later First Among Equals. But yes he was a piece of work and perhaps only his later jail time could put a dent in his political nonsense and his Boxing Day shepherds pie and champagne parties.

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Parker Benchley 🇨🇦 @parkebench.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

During particularly bad Junes, called Junuary here, we’ve had to ask the building to relight the boiler for the radiators. Brrrr 🥶

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Parker Benchley 🇨🇦 @parkebench.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I’m in Vancouver and am probably near that same set point, but it takes a while to hit that indoor temp here. I have 3 suites below, 2 above, and my windows face southwest and are wall to wall in every room for 68+ linear feet. We call this 1956 apartment “The Kiln” for a reason.

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Parker Benchley 🇨🇦 @parkebench.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

It’s slid a little on one side over the last two years so I’ve bought a ceiling hook that I’m going to mount in the middle for extra stability.

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Parker Benchley 🇨🇦 @parkebench.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

You know what I did? I bought a super heavy-duty shower curtain/drapery tension rod long enough to span from one side of my kitchen to the other. Then I got a bunch of purse-hanger hooks that go over the rod and have the lower hook turned 90° so I can hang all my pans in a row facing the sides.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Apropos of nothing, I get a lot of mileage out of this meme.

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Mary Gillis @marygillis.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I understand why they're doing this, but fuck them. These mayors can't guarantee the safety of their own citizens from ICE, and they sure as hell can't guarantee the safety of Canadian visitors. Also, North Dakota, where 2/3 of voters voted for Trump, wants foreigners to come back? Fuck them twice.

globalnews.ca

U.S. mayors ask Canadians to reconsider U.S. travel boycott - Winnipeg | Globalnews.ca

Some American mayors are trying to encourage Canadians to reconsider boycotting travel across the border.

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Parker Benchley 🇨🇦 @parkebench.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Somehow, despite hope, I fear apathy and the market will pull us back into the same trap next time they have a sane president, and we’ll learn the lesson all over again when, after that, they elect another right wing demagogue. 🤷‍♂️

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Parker Benchley 🇨🇦 @parkebench.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

It’s frustrating because we still need the US market for our goods, and we import a lot if perhaps a little less now, and it will be years before we can diversify enough away from the US. I just hope we’ve learned our lesson to never depend or rely on the US again.

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Parker Benchley 🇨🇦 @parkebench.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

It’s like someone is taking crazy pills. Trump’s “manifest destiny” drive is forcing him to aggressively try to control countries in the North American hemisphere. Tying an exemption from our bilingual language laws and a veto over our other trade agreements to a US trade deal is not normal. At all.

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Parker Benchley 🇨🇦 @parkebench.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Which is absurd because the only reason we have a balance of trade issue with the US is because they buy a lot of our oil, gas and other energy resources. With everything else, including services, the US sells Canada far more than Canada sells to the US.

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Parker Benchley 🇨🇦 @parkebench.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

But Trump can dig in like a bulldog if he’s confronted or told he is forbidden from doing something. When SCOTUS blocked his emergency tariffs, he pounced on the never-used Smoot-Hawley tariffs from the ‘30s and decided to make Canada his whipping boy.

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Parker Benchley 🇨🇦 @parkebench.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Not to mention try to rile us up with all his 51st State BS, then throwing a bunch of illegal tariffs on us. PM Carney circulated the bond selling idea among the allies and of course they made sure it leaked. TACO Trump backs down when someone on his team tells him what he’s risking.

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Parker Benchley 🇨🇦 @parkebench.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Canada pushed back on Trump because the US is our largest trading partner, and we had just been through another trade agreement cycle in 2019 when Trump signed and promoted “The greatest trade deal ever!” with Canada and Mexico and we couldn’t believe what he was now proposing.

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Parker Benchley 🇨🇦 @parkebench.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Of course it’s not - it’s a tax in the importer and will be passed on the the eventual consumer, as a regressive tax. It can be offset somewhat if the exporter drops their prices, but it tends to raise domestic prices even on non imported goods. I’m sure you know all this explicitly.

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Parker Benchley 🇨🇦 @parkebench.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The thing is Trump has always had a 19th century view and understanding of tariffs, viewing as a source of income that could replace income tax. I mean yes, it can be that, but he firmly believes, or projects to his followers, that its income gathered from the foreign exporter.

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Parker Benchley 🇨🇦 @parkebench.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The original ‘90s free trade agreement with the US did enough of a number on our manufacturing and over the years we’ve slid into more of a raw materials position in trade. The automotive sector is still large and has been entwined with the US’s since agreements in the ‘60s.

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Parker Benchley 🇨🇦 @parkebench.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

My genetic testing results came back and basically said “Lol. Buy large print and learn to like dogs unless you want to try training a seeing eye cat!” I’m in the 90+% range having several recessive gene pairs for it. My theory: grey/blue eyes don’t filter out all the crap as well as darker eyes.

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Parker Benchley 🇨🇦 @parkebench.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I haven’t advanced to doing the bright light therapy process yet. I’m reluctant only because my doctors put me through years of that in the ‘90s for seasonal affective disorder and they started to fret that they were pushing my macular degeneration risks.

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Parker Benchley 🇨🇦 @parkebench.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Did you ever have a chance to explore if you have DSPD? I’ve been having some luck microdosing melatonin. 10mg ruins my next day, even 1mg messes everything up, but 300 mcg added to my 9:30pm pills has helped shift my average usual bedtime to 1 am +/- an hour from 3am +/- an hour.

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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

i thought about this old tweet tonight and how nothing has ever aged better

@Merman_Melville • Jan 24, 2019
Being a billionaire must be insane. You can buy new teeth, new skin. All your chairs cost 20,000 dollars and weigh 2,000 pounds. Your life is just a series of your own preferences. In terms of cognitive impairment it's probably like being kicked in the head by a horse every day

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Parker Benchley 🇨🇦 @parkebench.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Right now Canada is actually the fifth largest US government debt holder, at a time when Trump and his team are constantly working extra hardy to paint us in the most disparaging way possible. I don’t know, it might not prove to be the best move on his part. 🤷‍♂️

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Parker Benchley 🇨🇦 @parkebench.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This was from April 2025. Carney participated in a number of meetings with our European and Asian allies where the strategy of gradually dumping US bonds was suggested as a bargaining chip to deal with Trumps original tariffs. deanblundell.substack.com/p/carneys-ch...

deanblundell.substack.com

Carney’s Checkmate: How Canada's Quiet Bond Play Forced Trump to Drop Tariffs

Carney, Japan And The EU proved America's Idiot Emperor Has No Clothes

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Parker Benchley 🇨🇦 @parkebench.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

No, but perhaps he can call off his trickle bond-selling posse. He’s the one who promoted that move with like minded countries as a way to get Trump to back away from his insane “liberation day” tariffs in 2025.

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NightOwl @festgirl.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

And let’s see the names of every Chi Phi brothers who received the text, and did nothing to warn or stop this crime. Because that’s a skill set every future employer should know about.

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🌈Dr. Frizzle @swilua.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

We can learn from our queer elders 🫶🏻

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when my masc lesbian aunt died, women just kept coming, screaming, crying, and saying they were her wives. Eventually we just had to start telling them to join the others. They were all devastated to learn about each other. Except for one who came in, kissed her dead mouth and showed us all that they had matching tattoos. She actually won all the mourning wives over and they all agreed she was the wife. It was so weird.

Did not expect more than a few people to see this but yes it really happened, yes it was insane

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They also ALL read love letters at the podium. It was painful and awkward but the final gift my aunt gave the family

from my mom

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How many crying wives were at
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I need a final count
I think 5 maybe 7 why

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And a couple girlfriends she was a popular and very liked lol

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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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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 26/09/2026

Does my Speak-n-Spell feel pain when I type O-U-C-H? The jury is out. Philosophers and neuroscientists say that's fucking stupid, but I called a guy from the Center for Pretending that Household Electronics Are Sentient and he said there's no way to know for sure.

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Parker Benchley 🇨🇦 @parkebench.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The group is TIGHAR (The International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery), and they are a whole other can of worms. 🙄

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Parker Benchley 🇨🇦 @parkebench.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Tim Mellon is almost certifiably insane. I had some dealings with him on the fringes of this scammy non-profit, and even they eventually had to distance themselves from him despite the money because he was making them a laughing stock even in their own reality avoidant world. So he sued them.

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Bart⚓️ @bartgonnissen.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The Facial Expressions of Tethys by artist Julius von Bismarck. A suspended high-sea buoy that moves in real time. Sensors on a twin buoy out in the Atlantic Ocean send live satellite data to motors inside the museum. This makes the indoor buoy copy the exact, real-time movements of the ocean waves.

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