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Rob Richard @rlrichard.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

So the World Cup really is just rigged, eh? The play is amazing, but the sport deserves better than fifa.

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Matt Elliott @graphicmatt.com · 03/09/2025

My @thestar.com column: sure, the identity of the Parkside Drive speed camera vandal is intriguing, but here’s the real mystery: why is it taking Toronto city hall so damn long to redesign this street? On the city’s incredibly slow response to a speeding problem. www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

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Matt Elliott: Toronto’s hunt for the Parkside camera vandal has come up empty-handed. But here’s the real mystery

It's a mystery why the heck is it taking so long for Toronto city hall to deal with the real, underlying issue on Parkside Drive.

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Troy Goodfellow @troyg.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

Thing is, most Liberal voters aren’t ride-or-die for the Liberal party. They want competence above all, and with Carney already backtracking on promised spending, he wasn’t going to solidify a political base by siding with the country’s second most hated company. (Rogers probably number one?)

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Rob Richard @rlrichard.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

I escaped a heat wave in Toronto, went to New Brunswick, where it is like half the temp… and still got a sunburn that would embarrass a lobster. Turns out the sun is also a giant ball of fire here.

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Rob Richard @rlrichard.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

Why does the TTC use artificial voices for stop announcements? I genuinely feel like a real human recording would feel so much better. Finite number of stops…

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Rob Richard @rlrichard.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

Canadian/American relations right now feel like a divorce, long in the making. I hope that in years to come, we can be friendly again, but I think we’re done. And we’ll be better for it.

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Rob Richard @rlrichard.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Just finished reading @mikeduncan.bsky.social ‘s history of the beginning of the end of the Roman republic last night. Fascinating and a fun read, though this year has the Pompey quote ‘cease quoting laws to those of us with swords’ sounding pretty loud.

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Rob Richard @rlrichard.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

Placing VS on a monitor that requires me to always be looking slightly to my left has apparently not been great for my neck.

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Rob Richard @rlrichard.bsky.social · 10/11/2024

Wasn’t necessarily expecting the most interesting summation of the last week to come from a podcast after a discussion of the movie The Saint, but I guess that’s what I like about Unclear and Present Danger, ha.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 06/11/2024

i really thought this country would say no. instead, it shouted yes

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Rob Richard @rlrichard.bsky.social · 19/10/2024

I only listen to Turkish rap now.

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Brian Bilston @brianbilston.bsky.social · 22/04/2024

I’m fed up with people pointing out all the mistakes in my poetry so I’ve written them this poem; it’s called ‘Pedant’s’.

Pedant’s

Foot soldiers in the War on Error,
They’re here to save us from ourselves,
With Fowler’s Modern English Usage
(first edition, nineteen twelve).

They scrutinise each word we write
For typos, gaffes, et cetera,
Correcting all the dumb mistakes
To make our grammar betterer.

They sigh and tut and tell us off
For the rules we have forsaken
And chart this nation’s steep decline
By the care we should of taken.

Custodians of the King’s English,
They merely serve to keep it pure
And restrict, they hope, the ignorant
To three mistakes or less.

And in doing so, they hold no fear
they will deprive a thing of life:
for it’s not important what is said,
what matters is that its right.

Brian Bilton

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Rob Richard @rlrichard.bsky.social · 21/04/2024

I will be so sad if my kiddo ever stops saying ‘oopsidentally’ instead of accidentally.

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Rob Richard @rlrichard.bsky.social · 04/04/2024

GO trains really need to work on their boarding. Feels like it is still built around the assumption that people are only travelling in one direction? Instead you get a flood of people trying to board while people from the second level are still coming down the stairs, and everyone gets stuck.

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Rob Richard @rlrichard.bsky.social · 22/03/2024

Tip if you’re working on a AAA game - mute its name on social media until it’s out. Avoids a lot of frustration, ha.

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Helen Rosner @hels.bsky.social · 05/03/2024

Making sure everyone has read Kate Wagner’s absolutely terrific — like a genuinely all-time, Grantland, SBN-in-its-heyday, talk about it 10 years later-style joy to read — F1 article that was mysteriously removed from the Road & Track website shortly after publication web.archive.org/web/20240301...

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Behind F1's Velvet Curtain

If you wanted to turn someone into a socialist you could do it in about an hour by taking them for a spin around the paddock of a Formula 1 race. The kind of money I saw will haunt me forever.

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Rob Richard @rlrichard.bsky.social · 25/02/2024

Realizing that if you aren’t hearing music, you’re going the wrong way really helped navigate Quake 2.

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Rob Richard @rlrichard.bsky.social · 08/02/2024

The noclip doc on Return to Monkey Island is well worth a watch. The game is also well worth playing! I feel like a bunch of people who I know would love it missed it on release?

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Rob Richard @rlrichard.bsky.social · 24/01/2024

Okay, fine, choosing an espresso-based dessert wasn’t the best idea I’ve had recently.

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jam @socialistboat.dad · 21/01/2024

the collapse of google search as a useful source of accurate information is a boon to screenwriters everywhere. "why didn't they just google the house to see if it was haunted" they did and the top ten entries were identical automatically generated real estate ads on different seo-scumming websites

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Rob Richard @rlrichard.bsky.social · 13/01/2024

A side benefit of deciding to wear a mask heading into Toronto today is that my nose isn’t freezing off my face.

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Rob Richard @rlrichard.bsky.social · 08/01/2024

I was trying to think of why I don’t walk home from work more often. Did it tonight and remembered it’s because of the whole ‘not wanting to be run over by drivers doing 80+ and die’ thing. I really hate Oakville.

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Rob Richard @rlrichard.bsky.social · 05/01/2024

Can I just blast sort of depressing but bouncy electronic music in my office? Really the biggest perk of work from home. I swear my code is better this way….

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Rob Richard @rlrichard.bsky.social · 05/01/2024

It is going on several years of Frank Black’s discography on there also showing a recording of what seems to have been the NBC orchestra in the 1930s, conducted by a very different Frank Black…

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Rob Richard @rlrichard.bsky.social · 05/01/2024

Spotify seems incapable of distinguishing between a bunch of musicians I like and random other stuff, so I was pleasantly surprised to see that a new TR/ST track actually is the one I like…

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Rob Richard @rlrichard.bsky.social · 31/12/2023

Alternatively, I could try walking around without headphones in my ears all the time, but … that might be too far.

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Rob Richard @rlrichard.bsky.social · 31/12/2023

Time to cut back on my podcast diet again. While I do enjoy all of the ones I still subscribe to, they don’t stir creativity or thought as much as just listening to music. They fill the time - pleasantly, but I don’t think that’s what I need right now.

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Rob Richard @rlrichard.bsky.social · 30/12/2023

It’s been a long time since I really wrote much. Feeling that itch again - time to find a nice notebook to fill with random crap….

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Rob Richard @rlrichard.bsky.social · 29/12/2023

The holidays in Quebec City are truly wonderful. My kiddo’s review: “If we lived here, it would be a lot easier to convince me to go on walks….” Which is impressive given the hills.

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