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doc shartman @docshartman.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

[under breath] holy fuckin shit

Cinemagic theatre with three movies on the marquee: starship troopers, mars attacks and tremors

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Angri Bundel @anibundel.com · 11/05/2026

We lost Douglas Adams 25 years ago today. This has made a lot of people very sad and has been widely regarded as a bad move.

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beany tuesday @beanytuesday.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Social Media in 2035

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Rob Teszka @robteszka.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

"Hot eats and cool treats!", as their old slogan used to go. The answer: soft serve ice cream prepared in various delicious manners. I'd guess the Blizzard is most popular--but I prefer their more unusual offerings, like the Peanut Buster Parfait or the Treatsa Pizza I swear I'm not paid by DQ

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Rob Teszka @robteszka.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

I think if there was a Dairy Queen between the Skytrain and my apartment I would be so much fatter

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Stram @strampunch.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

sharing this... for reasons

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Rob Teszka @robteszka.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

what a delightful surprise to discover upon logging back into bluesky after too long! <3 thank you for sharing all of these!

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Rob Teszka @robteszka.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

Excellent! May more hyper-niche essays hit your Venn bullseye.

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Rob Teszka @robteszka.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

I think it would be pretty fun if, whenever someone would write "THIS" underneath a post they vociferously agreed with They instead wrote "Quite."

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Rob Teszka @robteszka.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

"Some mornings it just doesn't seem worth it to gnaw through the leather straps." - Emo Phillips Just been thinking about this line more and more, recently...

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Rob Teszka @robteszka.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

This article for @thetyee.ca is fantastic and wonderfully timed as I have just been thinking about how Vancouver seems to be afraid of standing out, fashion-wise--and yet whenever I'm out and about in period dress after a tour, so many people enjoy the hat & bow tie. Wear what makes you smile!

thetyee.ca

Look Out, Vancouver! I’m Dressing for Joy | The Tyee

Regional blandness was getting me down. Here’s how I turned things around.

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Rob Teszka @robteszka.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

I am genuinely offended that Spotify's discovery playlist keeps recommending me electroswing no matter how much I don't listen to it

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Mary Gillis @marygillis.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

I genuinely think the reason execs were so certain AI could replace other workers is that they know it could replace them and they just assume everyone else does as little real work as they do.

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Rob Teszka @robteszka.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

We all agree that we like arts spaces & they make communities feel good & neighbourhoods nice to live in. Right? And yet: look at what happened to The Giggle Dam in PoCo. And what happened to the Opening Nite Theatre in Mission. Landlords and city halls shouldn't be able to kill venues so easily.

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Rob Teszka @robteszka.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

Would that even be possible? Would the landlord just be able to say "no. Dollarama will make me more money."? Would Pitt Meadows City Hall just say "that sounds like it'd be too much paperwork. denied."? And if so: how the fuck are community-owned arts & culture spaces supposed to exist?

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Rob Teszka @robteszka.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

Ive been wondering: what if the community got together and raised funds to buy the Hollywood 3 and run it as a co-op performance venue? Keep one of the screens, convert the others into a stage for local theatre and/or a cabaret for comedy, improv & music. Apply for a grant, try and make it work...

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Rob Teszka @robteszka.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

The landlord is demanding an unreasonable amount, forcing them to close. And what for? To put in another fucking Dollarama! I don't need to tell you this, but *we, as a society, need to decide we want to protect independent businesses, especially arts & culture spaces*

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Rob Teszka @robteszka.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

Oh hey, a petition to save one of vanishingly few independent cinemas in the Vancouver metro area: chng.it/HmbZ8pzrYV The Hollywood 3--previously Harris Road Cinemas--fuckin *rules*. A local, independent, second-run house with cheap popcorn! Guess what?

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Sign the Petition

Save Hollywood 3 Theatre in Pitt Meadows

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Rob Teszka @robteszka.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

I love this quote from the article: "But the best ideas often come from wandering, from play, from slowness. Real understanding takes time. Sometimes, it takes failing. Sometimes, it takes boredom." You cannot replace the process!

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Rob Teszka @robteszka.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

It is yet another way we are willingly giving up control to some other corporate-owned interest. They tell us its empowering: "anyone can make anything now!" Meanwhile, it's terribly, insidiously the opposite: nobody knows how to do it themselves.

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Rob Teszka @robteszka.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

...a capitulation. It's giving in to the corporate, industrial, product-oriented mindset. The only thing that matters is how much *stuff* gets done. But in so doing, we abandon understanding of the process, curiosity for other approaches, care for the people involved, and the benefits of learning.

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Rob Teszka @robteszka.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

This isn't a "but we have calculators so we dont need to do math"situation. Calculators don't replace problem solving. You still have to think about and understand the problem in order to deploy the calculator. The enthusiastic uptake of LLMs by students and academic institutions is...

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Rob Teszka @robteszka.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

Having curiosity and working through a problem or trying to create something yourself are *vital* in not just learning things, but also--and I genuinely believe this--in having a full and complete human experience.

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Rob Teszka @robteszka.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

Like, there might be a way we could make it more energy-efficient, teach people to expect inaccuracy, make sure only people who consent have their data used, etc etc But ultimately, it's still cutting out such a crucial element of learning

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Rob Teszka @robteszka.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

(AKA fancy autocorrect) which is that it's designed and encouraged to be used as a replacement for *process*. All of the other ills are potentially fixable (barring the will of corporate interests preventing anything that harms their bottom line):

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Rob Teszka @robteszka.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

I think, from now on, every time someone mentions "AI" I'm gonna go "oh, fancy autocomplete?"

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Rob Teszka @robteszka.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

This thought brought to you by some magic I saw performed recently

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Rob Teszka @robteszka.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

But eventually, if you stick with it and care enough about it, there'll be some you -don't- like. And that's the start of developing your taste.

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Rob Teszka @robteszka.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

This is not necessarily a bad thing! Folks new to a hobby all start here, I reckon. Everything is new and wonderful!

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Rob Teszka @robteszka.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

An idle thought on the way to a haircut: If you like everything, you have no taste.

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Rob Teszka @robteszka.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

This popped up in my RSS feeds and I have been thinking about it. I think efficiency and streamlining are antithetical to creativity and learning. The latter are messy, non-linear; the former, too focused on just one thing.

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Rob Teszka @robteszka.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

"Big breakthroughs, big changes, always come because at some moment you are taking yourself out of your comfort zone, and this will never be an optimization process. Optimizing everything results in missing opportunities sometimes." - Alessio Figalli

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Amanda Mull @amandamull.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

I have an essay in this week’s @bloomberg.com Weekend Edition about ticket stubs and memory and how the ways we catalog our own pasts have been changed by the internet. I’m really proud of it and I hope you’ll read it. Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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What We Lose When Our Memories Exist Entirely in Our Phones

The act of putting something aside is an exercise in remembering.

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Rob Teszka @robteszka.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

I ate them occasionally when I was still living in the UK, but not since then. Allison found a recipe and made some this morning, which prompted my little rhyme

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Rob Teszka @robteszka.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

How doth the welsh-cake function? The welsh-cake functions thus: t'is fried in pan upon the hob, with a minimum of fuss.

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Canadian History Ehx @cdnhistoryehx.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

In 1890, the Tariff Act came into place in the United States. It placed tariffs on imports of up to 50%. While touted as a way to build American industry, there was also the hope it would force an annexation of Canada. It backfired. Let's learn more. 🧵1/10

The image is a black-and-white political cartoon depicting a man in a suit standing behind a counter labeled "Republican Platform." He is holding a bottle labeled "Untaxed Whiskey, 20¢ Gal." in one hand and a piece of cloth labeled "War-Taxed Common Cloth, Tariff 84%" in the other. Above the counter, a sign reads, "If you don’t see what you want, ask for it." The cartoon, signed by W.A. Rogers, appears to satirize the Republican Party's economic policies, highlighting the disparity in taxation between luxury items like whiskey and essential goods like cloth.

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Rob Teszka @robteszka.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Actually, while we're on the subject, Matt Disero had some stuff to say and he's bloody right. There's an incredible amount if homegrown talent in Canada. "Buy Canadian" isn't just for groceries.

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Rob Teszka @robteszka.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

One particular peeve of mine: it's -ridiculous- how hard it is to discover shows. "Local" arts coverage seems to be up mostly about whatever's touring nationally or globally, leaving producers with only pay-to-play outlets. Surely there's a way for arts orgs to join up and make something better.

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Rob Teszka @robteszka.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

How hard would it be to show people the truth? To remind the Canadian public that the arts are not only vital, but that they already and always are a part of our lives. We just need to look in the right direction, to go out and participate.

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Rob Teszka @robteszka.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

It's not like the government doesn't have form: remember heritage minutes? Of course you fucking do, if you're my age, you've joked about having a stroke whenever you smelled burnt toast.

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Rob Teszka @robteszka.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

I think about this a lot. I see basically zero promotion of the arts from anywhere other than desperate arts organizations, as we all drop one by one like victims in an Agatha Christie play. Surely there is a way to have national advertising campaigns for things that are good for everyone.

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Rob Teszka @robteszka.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

"It’s time for a sustained communications campaign that shows people that art and culture matter — to the individual, to human flourishing and to the well-being of communities — as much as health, education and the environment."

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Rob Teszka @robteszka.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

The arts in Canada have a marketing problem, argues Max Wyman in the Tyee: thetyee.ca/Culture/2025... "Right now, nobody cares."

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To Save the Arts, Blow Up the Old Ways | The Tyee

It’s time to publicly reimagine what the sector can really do, and why it matters.

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Paul Tobin @paultobin.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

The caption for this photo just said "Man and owl, 1920's, Sweden," but I know a warlock when I see one.

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