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Rob Cottingham @robcottingham.ca · 28/09/2026

Vancouver-area comedy show producers, take note!

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Rebecca Bollwitt @miss604.com · 28/09/2026

I am once again asking all event organizers to prominently display the DATE OF THE EVENT on their website. You'd be surprised how often I have to scour a site for an actual date. And if you put an animated COUNTDOWN instead? ☠️☠️☠️☠️

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Rob Cottingham @robcottingham.ca · 25/09/2026

Now searching "patrick stewart" "pixie cut"

News story: "All your favorite celebrities have tried a pixie cut at least once over the years"

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David M Willis! @damnyouwillis.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

this is like the ending to Watchmen but the giant dead psychic alien creature that brings the world together was Donald Trump

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BC Federation of Labour @bcfed.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

We're hiring a term full-time Executive Assistant! Know someone who'd be a great fit? This is a temporary, full-time, term backfill position, working four days per week, available immediately until December 31, 2026, with a possibility of extension. Full details at bcfed.ca/whats-happen... #BCLab

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Rob Cottingham @robcottingham.ca · 24/09/2026

I’m not saying Carney’s no different Poilievre. But if it was Poilievre doing the things Carney’s doing, a LOT of the people cheering right now would be howling in protest.

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Rob Cottingham @robcottingham.ca · 24/09/2026

The practical information they just don’t teach in your fancy “film school”

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Rob Cottingham @robcottingham.ca · 23/09/2026

Oh hey CNN has an update on the ballroom construction

Photo of an ancient stone fortress captioned "A dark fortress that time forgot is rising from the ruins of empires"

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Rob Cottingham @robcottingham.ca · 20/09/2026

BREAKING: KLF is not in fact going to rock you. #BCPoli

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Rob Cottingham @robcottingham.ca · 20/09/2026

"Findlay, pictured here describing how far her party's fallen in during her brief tenure,..." #BCPoli www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

CBC story on Findlay's resignation, with a photo showing her with her arms stretched wide apart

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Rob Cottingham @robcottingham.ca · 20/09/2026

And my arch is gonna have a LID and the LID's gonna OPEN and all these WASPS and POISON SNAKES and POISON EAGLES and a T-REX are gonna come out and

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Annie Wu @anniewu.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Batman Day isn't fun for everybody. Please check on your superstitious and cowardly loved ones today.

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Rob Cottingham @robcottingham.ca · 19/09/2026

The Great Renamer says the term "Artificial Intelligence," is inaccurate, and he's suggesting "Superior" or "Supreme" Intelligence. People... we have an incredible opportunity here. Convince him to call it Trump Intelligence. The whole sector would be bankrupt in a week.

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Rob Cottingham @robcottingham.ca · 19/09/2026

It would definitely be very wrong to refer to it as the Peter Principle Party. #BCLab

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Rob Cottingham @robcottingham.ca · 18/09/2026

I'd have more to say about the state of BC politics, except I get distracted every time someone refers to the opposition leader as KLF and my brain starts chanting "ANCIENTS OF MU MU" #BCPoli

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Rob Cottingham @robcottingham.ca · 18/09/2026

Sending up a last-ditch flare. My Threads account has been suspended with no meaningful explanation, and the appeal process is a perfunctory review (probably both AI-driven). If you're active there, I'd be grateful if you could tag at-threads and at-mosseri in a post asking for my reinstatement.

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Tod Maffin 🇨🇦 @todmaffin.com · 18/09/2026

For those of you confused by the current state of B.C. politics, here is a quick guide of where things stand. #bcpoli

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 18/09/2026

i am genuinely bewildered by people who say that the rise of white nationalism in the republican party is a response to the "woke left." like, did the woke left cause pat buchanan's 1992 presidential campaign? is the woke left why steve king had a long career in congress?

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Rob Cottingham @robcottingham.ca · 17/09/2026

If nothing else, today's given me the chance to revisit this cartoon from 13 years ago.

Nervous man in alley tells woman "I know it's just a glitch, and I'm sure they'll clear it up... but until the algorithm reinstates your account, I can't be seen with you."

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Rob Cottingham @robcottingham.ca · 17/09/2026

So Threads tells me it's permanent

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Rob Cottingham @robcottingham.ca · 17/09/2026

BREAKING: U.S. civic engagement soars as Martha's Vineyard and Greece close doors to visitors

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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 17/09/2026

A poor, infirm, weak, and despis’d old man

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Rob Cottingham @robcottingham.ca · 17/09/2026

Finding out in the same five minutes that I'd been a) reposted by @jerilryan.bsky.social on Threads and b) suspended from Threads for violating (unspecified) community standards is probably the peak Threads experience.

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William Gibson @greatdismal.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I’ve now lived so much longer than I would ever have expected to that I feel I’m living in the future. This is when I imagined Neuromancer happening. And now the creators of today’s AI warn us that it threatens humanity.

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Rob Cottingham @robcottingham.ca · 13/09/2026

The existence of gravitypope implies the existence of a Gravity Antipope, an Antigravity Pope and an Antigravity Antipope. #Vancouver

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Rob Cottingham @robcottingham.ca · 13/09/2026

This is a really good point. The right loves to reframe safety as a purely crime-related issue. And more serious threats to our well-being — including road safety — go unaddressed.

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Rob Cottingham @robcottingham.ca · 12/09/2026

Haiku 4.5 - Fastest for quick answers Sonnet 5 - Most efficient for everyday tasks Opus 5 - For complex tasks Fable 5.1 - For tough challenges Requiem 4.9 - For wiping humanity from the face of the Earth *Requires usage credits

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Rob Cottingham @robcottingham.ca · 12/09/2026

Please note that extinction-level capabilities are only available to our highest-tier users at the moment, and will be rolled out to general customers in the coming weeks.

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Rebecca Bollwitt @miss604.com · 11/09/2026

I also just found the prospectus and share purchase warrant for Vancouver Times Publishing Ltd. in my closet. 📰 (1963) montecristomagazine.com/community/gl...

Three documents layered on top of each other including
1. PROSPECTUS
VANCOUVER TIMES PUBLISHING LTD.
Incorporated under the laws of the Province of British Columbia on the 17th day of October, 1962, for the purpose of establishing and operating a daily newspaper,
under the name of "Vancouver Times'
Vancouver, British Columbia.

2. Founder subscriber certificate
3. Share purchase warrant

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Rob Cottingham @robcottingham.ca · 11/09/2026

Three years ago this week, scraggly white beard and all, I got back on stage doing stand-up again (with a set about where the Internet went so horribly wrong). Thanks to everyone who's come to a show, offered a kind word or shared a clip. Lots more to come!

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Rob Cottingham @robcottingham.ca · 11/09/2026

Space. L'ultima frontiera. Now where the hell's my maledetto parmigiano? youtu.be/skLAZPZsmTc?...

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Star Trek but it's an Unhinged Foreign Film (Bad Subtitles)

YouTube video by Picard Looking

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Rob Cottingham @robcottingham.ca · 10/09/2026

"Now we're giving you more reason to flush those toilets than ever before!"

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Rob Cottingham @robcottingham.ca · 09/09/2026

Any iPhone's a folding iPhone if you commit.

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BC Federation of Labour @bcfed.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

The needs of the many outweigh the greeds of the few. #StarTrekDay

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Rob Cottingham @robcottingham.ca · 09/09/2026

I didn't start off watching #StarTrek. I read it. Avidly. In Ottawa in the early-to-mid 70s without cable, nobody was showing the reruns — at least not as far as I knew, and definitely not at an appropriate hour for a middle-school kid.

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Rob Cottingham @robcottingham.ca · 08/09/2026

ATTENTION: Owing to resource demands on the servers running The Simulation, resolution will be reduced during times of peek demand for the next three weeks.

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Rob Cottingham @robcottingham.ca · 08/09/2026

Searching "are werther's toxic to dogs" and glaring at this mop-headed bozo.

Closeup of the face of a brown-and-white Lagotto Romagnolo

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Rob Cottingham @robcottingham.ca · 07/09/2026

Don't know how your evening's going, but I've just discovered bulk media downloads from Teams chats, and my subconscious is running blissfully through a meadow of wildflowers.

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BC Federation of Labour @bcfed.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

"If we want a robust economy that works for everyone, there can be no doubt over our best long-term strategy. "And that’s to invest in workers and their jobs." @susibcfed.bsky.social and Hermender Singh Kailley in today's Vancouver Sun: vancouversun.com/opinion/op-e... #BCLab #BCPoli #LabourDay

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Opinion: Workers are the real engine of B.C.’s economy — and our governments need to act like it

Best way to Trump-proof our economy is for governments to invest in working people and their jobs, and that includes buying Canadian

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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 05/09/2026

On a completely unrelated note, here is a photo of Elon Musk addressing an AfD rally last year

Elon Musk's call for Germany to
"move beyond' Nazi guilt is dangerous, Holocaust memorial chair says

Musk made a virtual appearance at a campaign event for Germany's far-right AfD party, saying "children should not be guilty of the sins of their parents."

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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 05/09/2026

Good morning to the maritimes and central Canada It’s Saturday afternoon in Magdeburg, Germany where thousands are gathering right now in Willy Brandt Platz for a large anti-AfD rally ahead of tomorrow’s election in Saxony-Anhalt

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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 04/09/2026

As one example, the AfD's "family festivals" seem largely designed soften the image of a party officially designated as an extremist organization by German intelligence They've got bratwursts, they've got dance music and yes – they've got bouncy castles Yes, bouncy castles Sound familiar, Canada?

AfD "family festival" in Schkopau, Saxony-Anhalt (Photo: Luke LeBrun)

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Rob Cottingham @robcottingham.ca · 04/09/2026

TIL that, while I was on holiday, EA was bought by one of the most brutal, repressive regimes on the planet.

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