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Trevor Bennett @tgabben.me · 17/09/2026

this is an interesting exchange, and I think it says a lot about the american psyche. i think it's the false equivalence of 'theoretical exceptionally nice things which are available to certain individuals' with the actual conditions on the ground for all.

A social media exchange on BlueSky.
a post by rax 'levon honkers' king that reads:
"'oh so you want china to beat us' bro what the hell do i care leave me alone to the humble life i am trying to build for myself"
is quote tweeted by A.R. Moxon with the text
"Same people who seem to think it's bad for China to beat us at AI are perfectly fine with China beating us at high speed rail, solar energy, wind energy, shall we go on".
First reply from Creighton reads
"We aren't allowed to have good things in this country so it's only unacceptable if China beats us in something that fuckin sucks"
and a poster whose details have been readacted replies, to argue:
"We do have good things. Don't let the constant doom and gloom bombardment convince you otherwise."

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Trevor Bennett @tgabben.me · 21/07/2026

Eby very much does not get everything right, but damn, he can drop a quote: “I feel sorry for the Americans. If you can’t be friends with Canada, then you almost certainly do not have a friend anywhere in the world - and that is a very lonely place to be.”

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Trevor Bennett @tgabben.me · 13/07/2026

for any chickenshit elected official who's afraid that not pretending that lindsay graham wasn't an enthusiastic force for evil will reflect poorly on them, somehow, may i suggest simply saying nothing? the people you're trying to impress also thought this was very cool, actually:

A tweet from sitting president Donald Trump, dated March 21, 2026:
"Robert Mueller just died. Good, I'm glad he's dead. He can no longer hurt innocent people! President DONALD J. TRUMP"

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Trevor Bennett @tgabben.me · 23/03/2026

the bugger of is that bootlicking could actually be in his job description:

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Trevor Bennett @tgabben.me · 25/02/2026

i see your precious pups and raise you a little lion man.

a flamepoint ragdoll cat hangs his arms over the side of a cat tree.

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Trevor Bennett @tgabben.me · 23/02/2026

I do! I can imagine how DPNs would make it a little easier when it comes time to close up the tube, but it also feels like you're introducing a bunch of different points of failure and I'm absolutely shit at recovery if I slip a stitch.

a glass table top with a number of knit, pastel-coloured, preemie-sized toques on it in yellow, purple and green.

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Trevor Bennett @tgabben.me · 20/02/2026

UPDATE: we a have 'flat tax rate' bingo, folks!!!!!! ...who the fuck is putting words in your mouth now, Andy?

That’s why I put forward a motion asking staff for more information on reducing municipal wages and compensation costs over the next three years by up to 7%. This would not apply to frontline positions in transit, fire, and police.
Unfortunately, my Council colleagues did not support that motion.
As a result, it has become clear that holding a flat tax rate this year would instead require significant cuts to core, frontline services residents rely on - transit, fire, and police. And I am not willing to do that.

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Trevor Bennett @tgabben.me · 20/02/2026

WHOOP! I have 'flat tax rate' bingo! you know, the term he got shitty about YESTERDAY because he claimed that people were putting words in his mouth? ...the line is right there in his release.

As a result, it has become clear that holding a flat tax rate this year would instead require significant cuts to core, frontline services residents rely on - transit, fire, and police. And I am not willing to do that.
I'll be bringing today's wage and compensation reduction motion back to Council in advance of next year's budget to give my colleagues and staff more time to consider its necessity.

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Trevor Bennett @tgabben.me · 19/02/2026

it is incumbent on the municipality to be thoughtful about raising the revenues needed to cover the costs we are incurring. we live in a society and that means we should all contribute within our means such that we all benefit. there is necessarily a ceiling to 'do more with less', and we've hit it.

A three-panel cartoon strip.
A sad-looking dog with a ball in his mouth says "please spend?"
When a hand attempts to take the ball from the dog's mouth, his face becomes angry and he says "NO TAX".
Zooming in on the dog's angry face with the ball still in his mouth, he says "ONLY SPEND".

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Trevor Bennett @tgabben.me · 06/11/2025

The totally cool and not at all cult-y Conservatives are trying to keep their MPs from crossing the floor by threatening them with blackmail/oppo. "Nice little political career you've got here. Would be a shame if anything... happened to it."

A screenshot of a tweet from @msSharanKaur that reads:
"Been speaking to a lot of CPC insiders and MPs who say @PierrePoilievre keepers are threatening to ruin anyone thinking of crossing the floor - digging up personal dirt, blackmail, the works. For a party that preaches "freedom," they sure act like thugs. Pretty disgusting."

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Trevor Bennett @tgabben.me · 26/10/2025

Late, but magnificent.

A flamepoint ragdoll cat sits in a small blue tent covered with the word 'Love' - the 'o' of which is a heart, in alternating rainbow and trans flag colours. He is magnificent.

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Trevor Bennett @tgabben.me · 10/10/2025

Gnocchi doesn't even know what day it is, but you're gonna need to find somewhere else to toss that laundry

a flamepoint ragdoll cat looks nonplussed as it occupies an empty laundry basket

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Trevor Bennett @tgabben.me · 09/10/2025

generational haters big papi and vladdy junior sing ‘da jankees lose’ on live television on front of A-Rod and Jeter. it’s not *all* bad.

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Trevor Bennett @tgabben.me · 24/09/2025

Fucking based, actually.

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Trevor Bennett @tgabben.me · 15/09/2025

Our strong mayor, heavily implying the pro-Palestinian movement are responsible for the absolutely despicable and antisemitic vandalism over the weekend. Couldn’t possibly be the violent anti-immigration white supremacists, better not outwardly condemn that hateful bullshit.

A screen cap of an instagram text post from Andy Fillmore, Mayor of Halifax:

I AM APPALLED BY THE ANTISEMITIC GRAFFITI
DEFACING THREE HALIFAX SYNAGOGUES LAST NIGHT.

ATTACKING PLACES OF WORSHIP IS UNACCEPTABLE.
IT HAS NO PLACE IN HALIFAX.

WE ARE LIVING IN A TIME WHEN CONVERSATIONS ABOUT
IDENTITY, HISTORY, AND JUSTICE CAN FEEL OVERWHELMING
AND DIVISIVE, BUT WE CANNOT ALLOW THAT COMPLEXITY TO
COLLAPSE INTO HATE HERE AT HOME.

THERE IS NO PATH TO PEACE ANYWHERE THAT INCLUDES
BRINGING FEAR AND DIVISION TO HALIFAX.
WE ARE BETTER THAN THIS.

ANDY FILLMORE
MAYOR OF HALIFAX

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Trevor Bennett @tgabben.me · 09/09/2025

i love that word refooooooooooooooooooooooooooorm

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Trevor Bennett @tgabben.me · 08/09/2025

I admit, I have been intimidated by many of the 4-5 ingredient classic Italian pastas because it’s so simple it kinda feels like a trap, you know? Dear reader - I did not fuck up on this day. Pulled off a very tasty pasta al limone. Follow your dreams, especially if they involve citrus.

Mis-en-place: a small number of ingredients sit on a quartz counter next to a stovetop. A package of spaghetti, a salt cellar filled with kosher salt, a dark wooden pepper grinder, and small bowls of grated Parmeggiano Regiano, grated garlic, lemon zest, and lemon juice.

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Trevor Bennett @tgabben.me · 07/09/2025

Twinsies! I meal prepped my lunches for the week and I also did a red lentil dal (and jeers rice and kachumber salad)

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Trevor Bennett @tgabben.me · 01/09/2025

My word, he’s not but floof. She doesn’t know what to think. #catsofbluesky #dogsofbluesky

A labradoodle lays on a hardwood floor looking confused while a ragdoll cat splays out in front of her in his back with his stomach exposed. He also likes to live dangerously.

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Trevor Bennett @tgabben.me · 22/08/2025

It’s Friday. Look at this idiot. There was a catnip toy the dog tore open (while other story) on this counter not long ago, and he waaaaaaaaaants it, precious.

A cat with wide eyes lies on its side on a quartz countertop and is probably gazing into forever or something.

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Trevor Bennett @tgabben.me · 21/08/2025

Send help, the little hats are multiplying. Also, having to worry about stripes and multiple colours and tension and jogs is new and vexing, y’all. ..but they’re so wee. 🧶

A collection of baby-sized knit beanies on a desk. Two are lilac in colour, one positioned to show the heart shapes purled along the side of the hat, and one positioned to show the stripe pattern on the top of the hat as a result of the reduction in stitches to ‘close the tube’. There is a yellow beanie, also with hearts on the side, and a lilac-and-yellow striped beanie which is not my finest work.

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Trevor Bennett @tgabben.me · 20/08/2025

WALL-E returns home after feeding. It becomes harder and harder to sate his hunger.

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Trevor Bennett @tgabben.me · 19/08/2025

“Naw, dog, we didn’t bother to do any contingency planning to ensure our customers got the service they paid for, because we were confident that government would step on the neck of organized labour for us and we’d get everything we want without a single concession. Why negotiate at all, amirite?”

A screenshot of a CUPE tweet:

Air Canada CEO Michael Rousseau joins BNN
Bloomberg to discuss the impact of the strike.
Timing - 2:35
bnnbloomberg.ca/video/shows/tr..
9 ...
BNN
Bloomberg
AIR CANADA CEO
MICHAEL ROUSSEAU
joins BNN Bloomberg to discuss the impact of the strike

Reporter: "you didn't make any_provisions before [the strike] to ensure the passengers, or at least some of them, would get to where they're going?"
Rousseau: "Well, we thought, obviously, the Section 107 would be enforced, and that they wouldn't illegally avoid section 107".

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Trevor Bennett @tgabben.me · 14/08/2025

It is, unfortunately, industry standard practice. Airlines justify it by citing high hourly wages, but it sure does feel like wage theft when the hours in which you're earning that pay are fixed - but the hours in which you're diluting your hourly wage with unpaid labour are extremely variable.

A graphic showing a day in the life of a flight attendant, enumerating tasks between the early hours of the morning until late in the evening, and highlighting that flight attendants are only actually paid while the plane is in the air.

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Trevor Bennett @tgabben.me · 05/08/2025

Uh oh. He found an adorable pattern for a wee little baby-sized beanie. 🤷🏻‍♂️ 🧶

A baby-sized knit hat. The yarn is lavender in colour, and the side of the hat has hearts knitted into it.

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Trevor Bennett @tgabben.me · 30/07/2025

After a couple of scarves and a whole whack of dishcloths, behold: baby’s first foray into - knitting in the round with circular needles, - then reducing stitches and getting frustrated - but kind of sort of getting the whole ‘magic loop’ thing sorted (almost too late). A first attempt. 🧶

A teal beanie is held out for the camera. It’s not much to look at, but it’s a first attempt.

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Trevor Bennett @tgabben.me · 05/07/2025

I got to enjoy it for all of a couple of days, and then Gnocchi happened. My boy. Look how they massacred my boy.

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Trevor Bennett @tgabben.me · 27/06/2025

In a highly dramatic, week-long production, my Monstera is, quite literally - turning over a new leaf. Delightful.

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Trevor Bennett @tgabben.me · 23/06/2025

me, too, pal. doin' my bit with good vibes and cat pics:

a flamepoint ragdool cat lays on his side on a rug

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Trevor Bennett @tgabben.me · 15/06/2025

Buried in the middle of this story about a pathetic old man and his delusions of grandeur is yet another example of JD Vance as the latest in a long line of absolutely spineless, miserable Republican men.

A screenshot of a Rolling Stone article:
"After two hours, the event reached its logical conclusion: political speeches. J.D. Vance briefly went first. “June 14 is of course the birthday of the Army,” Vance said. “It is, of course, the birthday of the president of the United States. And Happy Birthday, Mr. President.” He delivered the laugh line of the night. “It’s also my wedding anniversary,” he said before immediately leaving the stage."

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Trevor Bennett @tgabben.me · 11/06/2025

uh-oh. Andy's been 'doing his own research'.

mayor andy fillmore sits in the driver's seat of a car parked in downtown halifax, recording a video for social media.

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Trevor Bennett @tgabben.me · 11/06/2025

I was made to understand we were going to watch blue jays and cardinals. I see no birbs on this television. cc: @clareblackwood.bsky.social #catsofinstgram

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