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.
As I used to say to a co-worker about his code “6 monkeys, 3 days.”
December 9, 2025 at 3:44 PM
As I used to say to a co-worker about his code “6 monkeys, 3 days.”
She’s Brian O’Banyon from Auntie Mame
December 9, 2025 at 5:40 AM
She’s Brian O’Banyon from Auntie Mame
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Every legal story now is either
Ancient Circuit Judge Delivers Crystal Clear 100 Page Rebuke To Trumpist Overreach
or
In Unsigned Shadow Docket Decision, 6-3 Majority Declares Trump Can Hunt People For Sport
Ancient Circuit Judge Delivers Crystal Clear 100 Page Rebuke To Trumpist Overreach
or
In Unsigned Shadow Docket Decision, 6-3 Majority Declares Trump Can Hunt People For Sport
October 3, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Every legal story now is either
Ancient Circuit Judge Delivers Crystal Clear 100 Page Rebuke To Trumpist Overreach
or
In Unsigned Shadow Docket Decision, 6-3 Majority Declares Trump Can Hunt People For Sport
Ancient Circuit Judge Delivers Crystal Clear 100 Page Rebuke To Trumpist Overreach
or
In Unsigned Shadow Docket Decision, 6-3 Majority Declares Trump Can Hunt People For Sport
The number of BuzzFeed alumni who have commented on Benny’s dalliances over the years is interesting - and as far as I know, unlike Benny, none of them have been fired multiple times for plagiarism or lying. 🤔
December 9, 2025 at 4:23 AM
The number of BuzzFeed alumni who have commented on Benny’s dalliances over the years is interesting - and as far as I know, unlike Benny, none of them have been fired multiple times for plagiarism or lying. 🤔
Canada’s Supreme Court has a mandatory retirement age of 75. So does our appointed, not elected, Senate.
December 5, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Canada’s Supreme Court has a mandatory retirement age of 75. So does our appointed, not elected, Senate.
Makes me a Xoomer. So I designed these – and for each year, I tried to use a font that was created or released in the same calendar year.
December 2, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Makes me a Xoomer. So I designed these – and for each year, I tried to use a font that was created or released in the same calendar year.
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@parkebench.bsky.social has swears! They've used 20 profanities in their last 442 posts.
🥇 "hell" (2 times)
🥈 "fucking" (2 times)
🥉 "damn" (2 times)
🥇 "hell" (2 times)
🥈 "fucking" (2 times)
🥉 "damn" (2 times)
December 1, 2025 at 3:03 AM
@parkebench.bsky.social has swears! They've used 20 profanities in their last 442 posts.
🥇 "hell" (2 times)
🥈 "fucking" (2 times)
🥉 "damn" (2 times)
🥇 "hell" (2 times)
🥈 "fucking" (2 times)
🥉 "damn" (2 times)
“Weebles wobble but they can’t fall down!”
And it’s amazing how so many short women project so much power and confidence that you don’t even see them as short. (Thinking particularly of my 5’2” sister.)
And it’s amazing how so many short women project so much power and confidence that you don’t even see them as short. (Thinking particularly of my 5’2” sister.)
December 2, 2025 at 8:24 PM
“Weebles wobble but they can’t fall down!”
And it’s amazing how so many short women project so much power and confidence that you don’t even see them as short. (Thinking particularly of my 5’2” sister.)
And it’s amazing how so many short women project so much power and confidence that you don’t even see them as short. (Thinking particularly of my 5’2” sister.)
Yeah, that’s only good for us 2-1-1 guys who almost never have sex. 🤷♂️
December 2, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Yeah, that’s only good for us 2-1-1 guys who almost never have sex. 🤷♂️
Vraiment?! I fucking never! Zut alors.
December 1, 2025 at 6:33 AM
Vraiment?! I fucking never! Zut alors.
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Driving at 10:00 pm in July: being out on a summer evening feels amazing
Driving at 5:30 pm in November: we must find shelter or the wolves will eat us
Driving at 5:30 pm in November: we must find shelter or the wolves will eat us
November 22, 2025 at 1:41 AM
Driving at 10:00 pm in July: being out on a summer evening feels amazing
Driving at 5:30 pm in November: we must find shelter or the wolves will eat us
Driving at 5:30 pm in November: we must find shelter or the wolves will eat us
Hall is spot on about the decline in the journalism sector, but he excuses Nuzzi throughout, as if she had no agency in her actions, as if she was lured, unwittingly, into unethical behaviour.
It’s a slap in the face to all the ethical reporters out there - and, cynical or not, there are many.
It’s a slap in the face to all the ethical reporters out there - and, cynical or not, there are many.
a couple of people sitting at a table with papers on it
Alt: A scene from the film All the President’s Men of Woodward and Bernstein sorting through records in the Library of Congress.
Not that Woodward has shined out as especially ethical in his later years.
media.tenor.com
November 21, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Hall is spot on about the decline in the journalism sector, but he excuses Nuzzi throughout, as if she had no agency in her actions, as if she was lured, unwittingly, into unethical behaviour.
It’s a slap in the face to all the ethical reporters out there - and, cynical or not, there are many.
It’s a slap in the face to all the ethical reporters out there - and, cynical or not, there are many.