Parker Benchley 🇨🇦
@parkebench.bsky.social
Catcher Block in my own imagination, somewhat less impressive in reality. 🇨🇦🏳️🌈☘️⚜️ West Coast slacker in BC. Perpetual Student: ⚖️📈📰💻. Software Developer with awesome estimating skills.
Yup, that quote fits a lot of us broken people.
We kind of live our lives metaphorically hopping up and down trying to hear where the broken pieces are, and hoping they’ll somehow fall out or drop back into place.
We kind of live our lives metaphorically hopping up and down trying to hear where the broken pieces are, and hoping they’ll somehow fall out or drop back into place.
February 18, 2026 at 8:21 PM
Yup, that quote fits a lot of us broken people.
We kind of live our lives metaphorically hopping up and down trying to hear where the broken pieces are, and hoping they’ll somehow fall out or drop back into place.
We kind of live our lives metaphorically hopping up and down trying to hear where the broken pieces are, and hoping they’ll somehow fall out or drop back into place.
The whole anti-trans panic has been manufactured by platforming bad-faith nutjobs who posit unproven talking points, and appear aghast as gender affirming care, but think nothing of teens getting breast augmentation or men taking testosterone supplements as a fitness regime.
February 18, 2026 at 8:15 PM
The whole anti-trans panic has been manufactured by platforming bad-faith nutjobs who posit unproven talking points, and appear aghast as gender affirming care, but think nothing of teens getting breast augmentation or men taking testosterone supplements as a fitness regime.
What’s even worse is that some Democratic candidates are uncomfortable countering their anti-trans positions, far more in fact than those who had issue with their anti-abortion position.
Which is, no question, absolute bullshit.
Which is, no question, absolute bullshit.
February 18, 2026 at 8:15 PM
What’s even worse is that some Democratic candidates are uncomfortable countering their anti-trans positions, far more in fact than those who had issue with their anti-abortion position.
Which is, no question, absolute bullshit.
Which is, no question, absolute bullshit.
It’s an issue they can use to rile up their base, and, like anti-abortion, it provides a convenient smokescreen as the public face of their activism that obscures their real motivation which is to elect republicans.
February 18, 2026 at 8:15 PM
It’s an issue they can use to rile up their base, and, like anti-abortion, it provides a convenient smokescreen as the public face of their activism that obscures their real motivation which is to elect republicans.
Absolutely. I was part of tech boom and bust then and it gave me that same “one-eyed man in the land of the blind” feeling that AI is giving me now. You can only operate on endless venture funding for so long before you have to make it pay for itself or accept the market’s not ready for it yet.
February 17, 2026 at 3:52 AM
Absolutely. I was part of tech boom and bust then and it gave me that same “one-eyed man in the land of the blind” feeling that AI is giving me now. You can only operate on endless venture funding for so long before you have to make it pay for itself or accept the market’s not ready for it yet.
But unfortunately we keep forgetting that and, for no reason whatsoever, keeps substituting lacrosse into that small corner of our brains dealing with Canadian pastimes.
February 17, 2026 at 3:41 AM
But unfortunately we keep forgetting that and, for no reason whatsoever, keeps substituting lacrosse into that small corner of our brains dealing with Canadian pastimes.
While everyone else was emulating the 1966 film the Russians are coming! the Russians are coming!
“Emergency, emergency! Everybody to get from street!”
“Emergency, emergency! Everybody to get from street!”
February 17, 2026 at 3:37 AM
While everyone else was emulating the 1966 film the Russians are coming! the Russians are coming!
“Emergency, emergency! Everybody to get from street!”
“Emergency, emergency! Everybody to get from street!”
Perhaps you recall Stockwell Day, consulting to Telus at the time, paddling madly trying to to convince everyone that Huawei wasn’t an issue, and everybody should relax, and also move along there’s nothing to see here.
a man in a suit and tie is standing in front of a destroyed building and says please disperse
ALT: a man in a suit and tie is standing in front of a destroyed building and says please disperse
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February 17, 2026 at 3:37 AM
Perhaps you recall Stockwell Day, consulting to Telus at the time, paddling madly trying to to convince everyone that Huawei wasn’t an issue, and everybody should relax, and also move along there’s nothing to see here.
Neither of which is terribly unusual in products that can require original manufacturing support. But the political overtones made it almost untenable at the time, much to the dismay of Telus which had already bought and installed quite a few. I worked with them in that period.
February 17, 2026 at 3:37 AM
Neither of which is terribly unusual in products that can require original manufacturing support. But the political overtones made it almost untenable at the time, much to the dismay of Telus which had already bought and installed quite a few. I worked with them in that period.
And the Huawei issue was also about having a key component of our 5G backbone supported by hardware and software that did have some service backdoors and potentially a tendency to “phone home” with some of its chips.
February 17, 2026 at 3:37 AM
And the Huawei issue was also about having a key component of our 5G backbone supported by hardware and software that did have some service backdoors and potentially a tendency to “phone home” with some of its chips.
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When my parents turned 80, they worked out a deal with my older sister for her to buy their house (which we all coveted) over time, and in exchange she'd help them stay in it as long as they could.
After they inked the deal, Dad said, "Thank God! Now I don't have to clean up the place!"
After they inked the deal, Dad said, "Thank God! Now I don't have to clean up the place!"
February 13, 2026 at 10:23 PM
When my parents turned 80, they worked out a deal with my older sister for her to buy their house (which we all coveted) over time, and in exchange she'd help them stay in it as long as they could.
After they inked the deal, Dad said, "Thank God! Now I don't have to clean up the place!"
After they inked the deal, Dad said, "Thank God! Now I don't have to clean up the place!"
I had it mostly figured out but it took me a few to realize “settlement” was being used not in the legal sense but in the colonizing sense.
February 15, 2026 at 4:05 AM
I had it mostly figured out but it took me a few to realize “settlement” was being used not in the legal sense but in the colonizing sense.
I had to let my distinctly québécois French accent come out deliberately, or reference things in metric measurements rather than sew a Canadian flag on my clothes. One borderline rude retailer in Monaco apologized when I reference a neck size in cm: “I’m so sorry, I thought you were American!”
February 15, 2026 at 3:52 AM
I had to let my distinctly québécois French accent come out deliberately, or reference things in metric measurements rather than sew a Canadian flag on my clothes. One borderline rude retailer in Monaco apologized when I reference a neck size in cm: “I’m so sorry, I thought you were American!”
I think it also varies with the current political climate. I was in Paris and Monaco during the “Freedom Fries” era and encountered a certain amount of disdain above the normal tourist-level disapproval. Which was doubly frustrating because I’m Canadian.
February 15, 2026 at 3:52 AM
I think it also varies with the current political climate. I was in Paris and Monaco during the “Freedom Fries” era and encountered a certain amount of disdain above the normal tourist-level disapproval. Which was doubly frustrating because I’m Canadian.
That’s great. I’d love a banjo but I’m not allowed one until I master a taropatch ukulele (8 strings, not just 4).
February 15, 2026 at 3:29 AM
That’s great. I’d love a banjo but I’m not allowed one until I master a taropatch ukulele (8 strings, not just 4).