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Richard Lam

@rickyslams.bsky.social
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Actor / musician / conflict manager / labour rights fan / transformative mediation enthusiast / Irish Bouzouki noodler / reluctant theatre optimist / secret gamer / extremely slow distance runner - Toronto, ON, Canada Co-founder of www.groundfloorteam.com

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Hannah Vardit @hannahvardit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
i worry that men think being A Good Guy is dramatically and heroically intervening on behalf of an endangered woman and then being publicly rewarded on a grand scale when actually being A Good Guy is just usually saying, “hey man that’s not funny” or “wow that’s fucked up” and there is no reward
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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 26/09/2026
this is why I ride for bluesky and the AT Protocol
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Anna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
NEW: I came across a bookseller who was afraid that a mysterious company trying to buy some of his rarest books was going to use them to train AI models. I went down the rabbithole with him, and was confused and altogether existentially weirded out by what I found www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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A bookseller confronts a mysterious company hunting his rarest books
Was a Kentucky retailer targeted by a destructive AI "predator"?
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gamera obscura @ohrobin.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
incredibly well-done resident evil teaser from a movie theater
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Stephanie 🍉 @ageofoddish.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
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the slut gnomes of false berlin jeopardy bluesky posttoday's jeopardy categories. the last 2 are "false berlin" and "bizarre little men"
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huck mason @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 23/10/2023
when wikipedia launched, the idea that an encyclopedia could be reliably maintained by the public was a joke. now, it's a marvel, a remarkable resource, virtually the only website that remotely delivers on its potential and practically the last pleasant browsing experience on the internet.
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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I challenge the BBC to hire me as the showrunner: I whose only familiarity with the characters or the storyline is having played the pinball game a lot and almost certainly being better at it than anyone you know
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Dan Sheehan @dansheehan.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
PULITZER PRIZE WINNING JOURNALIST: is it possible that, with this technology’s rapid advancement, you could someday share a glass of red wine with a human being like me TILLY NORWOOD: [long pause followed by laugh] Anything is possible! JOURNALIST: My. My, my!
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Shawn Micallef @shawnmicallef.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Not a soul on the mayoral election campaign tail is breathing a word of this. No member of the establishment. No board of trade serious person. Fantasyland.
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Explosive corruption allegations within the Toronto Police Service detailed in newly unsealed court records
A thwarted assassination attempt of a jail official helped break open one of the biggest police corruption scandals in the city’s history.
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Nicolas Hénin @nicolashenin.net · 17/09/2026
Nice campaign by the Norwegian Consumer Council about the declining lifespan of products. Enjoy!
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John Michael McGrath @jm-mcgrath.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
"The self-response rate also reached a new record of 91.2%." oh my homeland, my beloved nation of dork keeners, I love you so much
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alber @captainacabairbud.myatproto.social · 05/09/2026
oh you like jazz? scat for 10 minutes without saying a slur by accident right now
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gamera obscura @ohrobin.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Dudes rock, Sunday night edition. (Goodnight)
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Richard Lam @rickyslams.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Urge to trad…rising…
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Mr. Joshua @pantspants.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Ballpoint pen, copic marker, & a bit of crayon.  A fully grown man is in a tree fort high above the ground. A pack of river beavers have circled the tree and are beginning to chomp. He pleads with the beavers. “Beavers,” he says. “Let’s talk. I can get you logs.” It’s doubtful that a deal will be made. These beavers have had their sights set on this tree and there’s no guarantee that this man can deliver on his log promise. Big tree fall hard. Artist’s note: I like how the leaves turned out here.
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Museum of Twitter @museum-of-twitter.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
@SoliSolstice

what blows my mind about everybody neglecting human experiences in favor of being on their phone 14 hours a day is that like 95% of you suck at being on the phone. can’t post for shit, 100 unread wikipedia articles in your tabs, getting groomed on discord. you are not good at it
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Rob Delaney @robdelaney.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Initially I was frustrated with the rise of self-checkout but I appreciated how stores passed the savings on to me rather than pocket the money, fire armies of workers & make me do a job I suck at. It’s also why I’m optimistic about AI! I have been kicked in the head by several horses.
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Mike X. Nichols @mikexnichols.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Thinking about this exchange today
A YouTube video for the Water Temple in The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time. The comments section has an exchange as detailed below. “@TheMrdangles16 • 11y ago: 
i hate the water temple... too confusing :(“ “@KeithHalsell • 2y ago: 
it's been 9 years, i hope you are doing great in life now.” “@TheMrdangles16 • 2y ago: it couldn't be going worse Keith.”
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Alona Ferber @aloner.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Haaretz reporting that France and Canada are set to ban trade with Israeli settlements alongside the UK, amid failed attempts at an EU ban: “The U.K. reportedly seeks to limit the measures' impact on its ties with Israel and manage a backlash from Washington” www.haaretz.com/west-bank/20...
haaretz.com
France and Canada set to join U.K. in sanctioning Israeli settlements
The move comes amid a stalemate in a French-Swedish initiative to impose EU sanctions on products from the settlements. The U.K. reportedly seeks to limit the measures' impact on its ties with Israel ...
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Bethany Black @bethanyblack.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
What is consciousness? What is sentience? These are philosophical question that have been asked since the dawn of time. How lucky we are to live in a time where 7 people in Northern California realised the answer is “being able to predict the most statistically significant next word in a sentence”
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Football is here Dan @jacketdan.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Okay wut
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ℳatt @matttomic.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
I've seen everyone sharing that US Dialect Quiz so I decided to make my own, much crappier, CANADIAN DIALECT QUIZ to guess where in Canada you're from
A flow chart I have created with multiple questions and the answers determine where you're from.

Question 1 is do you call it a hydro bill (which then branches down to ON, QC, BC, MB) or an electric bill (which then branches down to SK, AB, NS, NB, PEI, NL)

Question 2 is do you call it a cabin (BC, MB, AB, SK) cottage (ON and atlantic) camp (northern Ontario) chalet (QC) or bungalow (Cape Breton)

To delineate BC from MB: do you call it dinner or supper

To delineate southern Ontario rural or big city: have you heard of a stag & doe

To delineate SK from AB: do you call a hoodie a bunnyhug

And finally to delineate NL from the other atlantic provinces: whaddayat? (Correct answer: dis is it b'y)
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Aaron Huertas @aaronhuertas.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Shoutout to all the phoning it in boyfriends and husbands out there. You’re really making the guys who do chores and can name more than six emotions look like god’s gift.
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Michael DeForge @michaeldeforge.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
I guess boycotting Harry Potter feels pretty trivial to me, because I'm an adult. if someone told me I shouldn't eat Gerber's baby food, I'd be like, that is no problem. I'm way ahead of you
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Linda Holmes @lindaholmes.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
The beginning of a Bruce Springsteen song right here
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sweetie π @sixfeetofcandy.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
doth your raven even quoth, bro
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Aurora @vegapunk-aurora.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
*Mr Beast voice* I HELPED THIS WOMAN TURN A ROOM FULL OF STRAW INTO GOLD USING ONLY A SPINNING WHEEL! IF SHE CAN'T GUESS MY NAME IN THREE DAYS, I'M TAKING HER BABY!
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 26/08/2026
They disinvented the VCR. You might think that the reason we don't have VCRs anymore is because VCRs were supplanted by DVDs, PVRs and streaming, but that's not the case. They had it in for the VCR from the very start, and they never stopped trying to kill it. Eventually, they succeeded. 1/
A 1960s family living room in which a mom, dad and two kids are mesmerized by a cabinet-style TV. The image has been altered. The TV has an early 1990s VCR atop it. The TV screen is displaying a cross-sectioned human head with brains and spine on display. A huge fist has materialized in the room, with bloody spiked knuckle-dusters, smashing into the VCR. The oil painting over the sofa has been replaced with a pulp image of a male head, its cranium removed and replaced by a dome. Inside the dome is a red eight-segment VCR clock, displaying 12:00. The background in the painting is a tangle of cassette tape. The whole image's colors have been boosted, giving it an overexposed look.
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Rob Tyers @thexclaim6.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Chaotic fish and chip shop naming choice
Frying Nemo
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Richard Lam @rickyslams.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
It’s my day off, it’s pouring rain and this just found its way into my feed?? Are you kidding me???
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beetle moses @beetlemoses.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Three panel comic. Panel 1: in a diner, a waitress looks over her shoulder to watch a TV mounted on the wall. A news reporter is one screen, surrounded with text that reads FOUR DEAD and DEVELOPING STORY. The reporter says, “please be advised— the murderer is still at large.” Panel 2: the reporter continues, “here’s their photo.” He gestures with his pen towards a photo next to him. The photo is a guinea pig wearing a multicolored propeller hat. Panel 3: the waitress watches the TV pensively. Behind her at the diner counter is a guinea pig in a propeller hat, seated before a plate with an entire head of lettuce. This may be the murderer in question but at this stage I’d only be speculating.
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Frovo @frovo.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
zzz  <⌒/ヽ-、___ /<_/____/  ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄    ∧_∧  people are just    ( ・ω・) organ burritos   _| ⊃/(___ / └-(____/  ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄  <⌒/ヽ-、___ /<_/____/  ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄
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Normal Guy @guy-normal.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
I recently interviewed a traveller from an antique land. Their experience in arid environments with sizable, defunct monumental sculpture (sans torso) stuck with me. While they didn't get the position, here's three key takeaways they taught me about the fleeting nature of earthly power 👇
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draculaderonda @scanningtwo.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
The videogame guy I'm controlling? That's not me; I'm me. The main character in a novel I'm reading isn't me either. More and more I feel like this is an unusual attitude towards art.
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orinoco bro @nocontroller.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
David Lynch
@DAVID... Jun 18,2010 V
This weekend I'm going to try to find out if I'm connected to the moon.
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I'm pretty sure I'm connected to the moon.
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Haus of Decline @hausofdecline.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
A man is lying on the ground. Another man cradles him and shouts "Oh GOD! He's dying!" He appeals to two other men "someone do something! quick!" One of the other men panics "uh..uh.." and starts sting "Imagine there's no heaven."
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Canadian History Ehx @cdnhistoryehx.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Before Europeans arrived, these were some of the names for The Great Lakes: Superior: gichi-gami (great sea) Erie: erielhonan (long tail) Michigan: michigami (long body of water) Ontario: Ontarí'io\kanadario (great lake\beautiful water) Huron: karegnondi (fresh water sea)
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Thought Slime’s monster @slimemildred.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Hello, I recently came across your content, I love the way it mixes themes and ideas. Would you be open to a brand collaboration for a new app that teaches children how to smoke?
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Kenny Logins @kennylogins.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
DVS
@DVSblast
MUSIC JOURNALISM TRY 2 TRICK U BY SAYIN SHIT LIKE "folkpop trio Fitzhugh's latest outing is a sleek romp" INSTEAD OF "BAND SUCKS & IS NERDS"
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Carolyn 🇨🇦 @carolynp.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Meme from Lord of the Rings. Gimli: never thought I’d die fighting side by side with Doug Ford. Legolas: I’m gonna rip out all the bike lanes. Gimli: Christ alive you’re the worst.
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Richard Lam @rickyslams.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
the Dora awards changes don’t go far enough. there should just be one Dora award every year and every person who worked on a play in toronto should be nominated for it. playwrights should be nominated against their plays, directors against their actors, just a toronto theatre thunderdome
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kottke.org @kottke.org · 24/08/2026
Meat proxy (noun): “A person who forwards AI-generated text, code, or other output without reading, understanding, or validating it. The person acts only as a relay between the AI system and the intended recipient.” [sfisms.org]
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Meat proxy
A person who forwards AI-generated text, code, or other output without reading, understanding, or validating it. The person acts only as a relay between the AI system and the intended recipient.
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big tiddy Rebell @rebell.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Uncle Gandalf got aura
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Kenny Logins @kennylogins.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
kenny gesserit @KennyGesserit • 2022-06-22
When people talk about hot dogs this is all I think about
[screenshot of a photo or video still of a supermarket hot dog display with an augmented reality cgi little hot dog guy with headphones on dancing on the hot dogs, with the caption “stand in the ashes of a trillion dead souls and ask the ghosts if honor matters”]
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mr. cannoli @boner.ink · 23/08/2026
chuds, romans, chopped uncs, lend me your ears
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
They didn't like Aaron Swartz's goals (making scientific knowledge more accessible to the public) and they do like the LLM companies' goals (permanently crushing the labor market for knowledge workers)
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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Let me introduce the crew. *points to enormous muscular guy.* This is Big Dog, we call him that because he's huge, ha ha! *points to slim average looking guy* and this is Medium Dog. I'm sure you can guess why! That's right — he communes with the spirits of the departed
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Richard Lam @rickyslams.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
I played this today - it’s a fantastic free game experience, highly recommend it!!
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Assignment Understander @90sslowjamz.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
The Anakin/Padme meme with Anakin saying “Well, here we are in the catacombs.” And padme says “For the Amontillado?” And Anakin looks back at her and she is partially covered by a brick wall
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Travis comma bitch @prof-hinkley.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
I hope my use of made-up words doesn't make you...discomfortable
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