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Rob Cottingham

@robcottingham.ca

Leadership communications for great causes and big ideas. 🌹BCFED Communications Director 🗣️Speechwriter and speaking coach 🎤Voice actor repped by Connekt Creative 😂Standup comic ✒️Noise to Signal cartoonist 🖖Star Trek nerd

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Mike Caulfield@mikecaulfield.bsky.social · 2d ago

Almost *everything* you see in this format, whether infinite power cubes or solar powered houses for the homeless that fold out of suitcases or French "bread libraries" for the poor is liberal catnip bullshit by content farms. Stop being idiots. Thank you.

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John Rogers@johnrogers.bsky.social · 6d ago

After my parents were visiting set for the first time, I asked my dad what he thought. He said “I didnt realize, it’s like you’re building a house, and once an hour good looking people run in and put on a play for five minutes. Then they leave and you go back to construction.”

Alvaro M. Bedoya@bedoyausa.bsky.social · last wk.

People think "Hollywood" is rich and famous. The reality? Film and TV is a national industry. It's a blue collar industry. And it is an industry free fall. My latest for @newrepublic.com on how the Paramount merger would crush blue collar workers who can not afford it newrepublic.com/article/2136...

Quinn Slobodian@quinnslobodian.com · last wk.

Might not want to lose track of the absolute jarring strangeness of the fact that—as pastimes—Richard Branson had kitesurfing Larry Ellison had sailing, Mark Zuckerberg had Brazilian jiujitsu and Elon Musk has...fomenting racial conflict overseas.

Rob Cottingham@robcottingham.ca · last wk.

This is one of only two results in a search on CBC.ca/news for headlines containing the word "smithereens." Is the other about... a) what a supernova teaches us about dark matter b) firefighter car-rescue training c) the band by that name?

CBC headline: "Science: Orcas filmed smashing dead sunfish to smithereens - July 24"
Parker Molloy@parkermolloy.com · 2w ago

The anti-trans group LGB Alliance posted this to Twitter, and I find it genuinely funny. Once you read the methodology section on their survey, it's clear that this survey only tells you that people who already support this group... agree with the group.

LGB Alliance "We surveyed lesbian, gay and bisexual people. 94% felt uncomfortable being categorized under the LGBTQ+ umbrella. 87% felt uncomfortable being categorised as "queer.""SURVEY METHODS Sample: On 4th May 2023, a link to a Google Form survey was emailed to 7,021 LGB Alliance supporters. These were individuals who subscribed to the LGB Alliance newsletter, had attended one or more LGB Alliance events or who had made donations to the charity. 2,133 responses were received. This response rate of 30% is reasonable for a survey of this type. Questionnaire and screening: The landing page explained the survey was for lesbian, gay and bisexual supporters of LGB Alliance. The aims were described as, ‘to help us understand the attitudes that LGB Alliance supporters have around common terms used to categorise LGB people. The findings of this survey will help us advocate more effectively for the needs of LGB people.’ It was explained that the survey would be kept confidential in accordance with GDPR, and that their personal information is protected by law. A contact email was provided for those who wanted more information. The first two questions were screening questions. Non-supporters were screened out at Q1: ‘This survey is for LGB supporters of LGB Alliance. Before we start the survey, can you confirm you are a supporter of LGB Alliance?’ Those who indicated they were not a supporter, didn’t know, or preferred not to say were screened out. A scan of responses to the open-ended questions suggested there were a tiny number of individuals who appeared to be detractors rather than supporters of LGB Alliance who continued with the survey. All those who answered ‘yes’ at Q1 were included in the analysis as they would not have altered the results due to their very small numbers. Q2 screened out those who were supporters of LGB Alliance but who we
Rebecca Solnit@rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 2w ago

just heard a foundation declare its mission as reducing "polarization" as though there's some sweet spot halfway between white supremacy/radical inequality/climate denial and the opposite we should all aim for. There isn't. Been railing against it forever.

Stop glorifying ‘centrism’. It is an insidious bias favoring an unjust status quo | Rebecca Solnit

The notion of a neutral and moderate middle is a prejudice of people for whom the system is working, against those for whom it’s not

theguardian.com

Rob Cottingham@robcottingham.ca · 3w ago

Tired: Cropping the cartoonist’s name off the cartoon before posting. Wired: Cropping the cartoonist’s name off the cartoon and then having an AI lightly redraw it so you can say you “made it” before posting.

Rob Cottingham@robcottingham.ca · 3w ago

More than 30 years ago I worked on this project with NOW Communications for the BC Ministry of Health, and built the first youth-oriented anti-tobacco website — while, it turns out, cancer was quietly preparing to take both of my parents.

Tobacco Industry's Poster Child: A teenage girl whose photo is overlaid with disturbing images showing the damage smoking is doing to her body
Olivia Hill@machineiv.bsky.social · 3w ago

I genuinely hate the push to make smoking a thing again. I have watched so many drawn out, ugly, painful deaths from smoking. It makes everything disgusting. It enslaves us to the worst kinds of corporations. There’s ZERO positive here.

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Rob Cottingham@robcottingham.ca · 3w ago

California: So listen, Canada, we were hoping you could see your way clear to selling our delicious wines again. (sees map Trump just posted online) How ‘bout we circle back in a few months?

Social Media Lab@socialmedialab.ca · 4w ago

Fear and courage ... A look behind the photo. "Man in viral D.C. Metro photo says he was ‘terrified’ as masked white nationalists surrounded him" www.advocate.com/news/people/...

Man in viral D.C. Metro photo says he was ‘terrified’ as masked white nationalists surrounded him

Roswell Encina, a gay Filipino American civic leader, said the Fourth of July encounter with Patriot Front was frightening and impossible to separate from American history.

advocate.com

Rob Cottingham@robcottingham.ca · 4w ago

Superb work by CBC News' @daveseglins.bsky.social Kathleen Coughlin and Ariel Tozman. StubHub's CEO's side hustle sells MILLIONS in scalped tickets... on StubHub. www.cbc.ca/news/investi...

StubHub's 'marketplace for fans' is run by a mass scalper, SEC filings reveal | CBC News

A CBC investigation has found that behind StubHub’s marketing claims that it is simply a "marketplace for fans to buy and sell tickets," the online ticket company is run by a mass scalper and helps to...

cbc.ca