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Rob Cottingham
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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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The dark mode I grew up with
Green MS-DOS prompt on a black screen
November 17, 2025 at 12:53 AM
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I can only assume my caption was so awesome it broke their server.
A New Yorker caption contest cartoon, with an error message reading "Captions aren't available right now. Come back later to rate them."
November 12, 2025 at 4:08 AM
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I don’t mean to tell @bcferries.bsky.social their business, but this room would be great for a buffet.
Long stainless-steel tables in a large room
October 31, 2025 at 4:18 AM
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I have just enough time between meetings to drop in on some old friends.

(Taken at Ross Bay, Victoria)
Three male harlequin ducks on a calm grey sea
October 30, 2025 at 9:35 PM
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Fixed it, CNN.
CNN headline "Canada’s ‘boycott America’ movement is hurting innocent bystanders" corrected to read "Trump's reckless attack on our largest trading partner is having completely predictable results"
October 14, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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Entire country of innocent bystanders: 👀
CNN headline: "Canada's boycott America movement is hurting innocent bystanders"
October 14, 2025 at 3:58 AM
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Thank you. And here's your change.
Two red-crested cardinals on a patch of grass, with two zebra doves behind them
October 11, 2025 at 1:09 AM
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So basically if you played the first one but not the second
"You have died of dysentery" screen on Oregon Trail game Terminal screen showing the 1971 Star Trek game
October 9, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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Alternate title:
NYT Connections screen with "hipster, boxer, brief, thong"
October 2, 2025 at 10:35 PM
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John le Carré estate: "We've found a previously undiscovered sequel to Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy."

Publishers: "Oh? What's it called?"
NYT Connections puzzle with highlighted words flapper, punk, bohemian, hipster
October 2, 2025 at 10:29 PM
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Or even...
A panel from The Watchmen in which Ozymandias is speaking to an employee he has just poisoned, saying "TODAY. THAT CONQUEST BECOMES ASSURED, IN WHICH YOUR UNQUESTIONING ASSISTANCE HAS PROVEN INVALUABLE DO YOU COMPREHEND THE TRIUMPH TO WHICH YOU HAVE CONTRIBUTED, THE SECRET GLORY THAT IT AFFORDS? DO YOU UNDERSTAND MY SHAME AT SO INADEQUATE A REWARD?"
September 28, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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I really wish I wasn't.
CNN news quiz result: "You got 10 out of 10. Great job! You're really on top of your news."
September 20, 2025 at 4:06 AM
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#LinkedIn "and its affiliates" will now use your content and data to train its AI, unless you tell it otherwise: www.linkedin.com/mypreference...
Screenshot: Data for Generative Al Improvement: Can Linkedin and its affiliates use your personal data and content you create on Linkedin to train generative Al models that create content? Use my data for training content creation Al models: Off When this setting is on, Linkedin and its affiliates can use your data and content to train content-generating Al models that are used in product features. The data we use for this purpose does not include your private messages.
September 19, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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I'll be doing a Blind Tiger Comedy show with some lovely folks this 9:00 pm on Wednesday, September 24 at China Cloud Studios in Chinatown! Tickets have just gone on sale — I'd love to see you there. Get yours early (these often sell out fast) at www.eventbrite.ca/e/blind-tige...
Blind Tiger Comedy Stand Up 3 COMEDY SHOWCASE: Aron MacDonald, Hortense Lingjaerde, Dr. Marissa Lithopoulos, Waqas: The Little Brown Man, Maggie Naylor, Rob Cottingham and Your host: TODDY, SEPTEMBER 24, 9 PM, CHINA CLOUD STUDIOS Tickets: $15 bit.ly/BTCSU3-Sep25
September 11, 2025 at 5:56 AM
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To think Khan went to all that trouble to lay his hands on the Genesis Device, when he could have just bought it at auction. propstoreauction.com/auctions/inf...
A page from an auction catalog featuring lot 330: Full-size light-up Genesis device from Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982)
September 5, 2025 at 1:07 AM
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There's never a track star around when you need one.
Still from Apple's "1984" ad with a young woman in track shorts and a tank top running with a hammer in her hand
August 28, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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Another precedent comes to mind.
Benito Mussolini
August 27, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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Cracker Barrel logo with the name replaced by the text "This barrel is the only thing holding me up"
August 27, 2025 at 12:14 AM
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Desperate for a new metaphor, a nation turns to its non-hockey-fans
CBC News headline: "Unfortunately, there may not be a hockey analogy for the challenge Canada faces"
August 24, 2025 at 10:17 PM
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Trump cap bearing the words "Those who forget history are condemned to repeat it. At least, that's what we're hoping."
August 24, 2025 at 3:26 AM
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Now why do you think they're trying to rehabilitate slavery's reputation?
A Trump-style cap that reads "Those who forget history are condemned to repeat it. At least, that's what we're hoping."
August 21, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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"The Constitution of the United States divides the federal government into three branches: legislative, executive, and judicial. This ensures that no individual or group will have too much power."

Anyone wondering how much longer before this page gets an edit? www.usa.gov/branches-of-...
Screen capture: Branches of the U.S. government Learn about the executive, legislative, and judicial branches of the U.S. government. The Constitution of the United States divides the federal government into three branches: legislative, executive, and judicial. This ensures that no individual or group will have too much power.
August 20, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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Some people just want to watch the world burn.
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August 18, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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Prompt: What's another word for what you've drawn here? ChatGPT: What l've made here is essentially a locator map - a simplified geographic map that shows the position of specific places (in this case, capitals) without all the topographic or political detail of a full map. You could also call it: • a point map • a dot map • a schematic map • or, less formally, a sketch map If you want something more polished and geographically accurate, we'd step up from this locator map to a proper thematic map with province boundaries. Prompt: Let me ask another way: What would you call a visual representation of numerical information for a series of data points along a vertical and horizontal axis? Five letters, starts with G. ChatGPT: Ah - you're talking about a graph.
August 15, 2025 at 1:08 AM
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Good news! ChatGPT fixed their map-drawing bugs.

...Sort of.
Screenshot of a ChatGPT prompt "Can you draw a map of Canada with the national, provincial and territorial capitals?" and the result: a graph labeled "Canada: National, Provincial, And Territorial Capitals" with latitude on the vertical axis and longitude on the horizontal axis, and the various capitals positioned accordingly.
August 15, 2025 at 1:03 AM