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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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Live feed from the OneBC caucus meeting

#bcpoli
December 16, 2025 at 5:11 AM
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We love to dunk. A lot. Maybe a little too much?

#standup #standupcomedy #socialmedia

(From my Dec. 2025 set at Little Mountain Gallery, hosted by the mighty and marvellous Sasha Mark of Blind Tiger Comedy)
December 14, 2025 at 1:24 AM
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Mark Carney: comedy goldmine or colossal disappointment? OR PERHAPS BOTH?

From earlier this week at Vancouver's Little Mountain Gallery.

#cdnpoli #canadianpolitics #standup #markcarney
December 13, 2025 at 12:41 AM
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Behold my learnèd discussion of bad sex across the Canadian political spectrum. Note I make not one but TWO electoral system jokes.

Thanks Sasha Mark and Blind Tiger Comedy for a great show at Little Mountain Gallery! #cdnpoli #standupcomedy
December 13, 2025 at 12:31 AM
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This landed hard: "Nothing is more enervating, demoralizing or hopeless than being the upholders of the proprieties of a vanquished order."
All of these ideas have the standard mix of insight and self-glorification. The exhaustion of the old order is the part of this constellation of ideas that seems the firmest ground to me. A few months ago, I said that the greatest proof case for Trump's claims about the corruption of the American elite was the ease with which he plowed through it. This isn't just a bit of clever inversion or word play. It's foundational to understanding everything. There's also a greater clarity now, one of the few saving graces about Trump's reelection and his campaign of destruction over the course of 2025. The old system, whatever its merits, is clearly and unequivocally broken and something new has to be built in its place. Something stronger, something more ready to use and comfortable using political power. This is why, whatever the outcome in seats, Democratic governors rushing to meet Republicans in their gerrymandering push has been one of the most positive developments in politics in the last decade. Nothing is more enervating, demoralizing or hopeless than being the upholders of the proprieties of a vanquished order. Simple rule-following or, even worse, norms-following is simply too thin a reed for any political movement or political party. We have laws not simply to have laws but because the law is the only possible brake on the strong trampling over and exploiting the weak. And if some people become too strong, it becomes impossible for any of us, individually or collectively, to be truly free. This could scarcely be more relevant to an era in which the rest of us appear to live more or less at the sufferance of a few handfuls of centi-billionaires who have graduated beyond the obstacles of consequences or law.
December 13, 2025 at 12:13 AM
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I'll be performing all-new material this Wednesday at Little Mountain Gallery along with my fellow participants in Blind Tiger Comedy's political standup workshop, led by the wonderful Sasha Mark.

Tickets are still available at bit.ly/4prou4V. Hope to see you there!
I'M PERFORMING! COME SEE! Wed. Dec. 10, 2025 / 9pm Little Mountain Gallery 110 Water St. / Vancouver, BC Tickets: bit.ly/4prou4V
December 9, 2025 at 5:26 AM
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Glad to see this cartoon is making the rounds on Bluesky, bringing joy and dread to all www.robcottingham.ca/cartoon/arch...
2-panel cartoon: First panel shows a man holding a measuring cup, and speaking to an Amazon Echo: "Alexa, how much time is left?" Alexa: "3 days, 7 hours, 41 minutes and 22 seconds." Man: "I meant on my pasta timer." Alexa: "2 minutes, 39 seconds" Second panel shows the man as the penny drops
November 28, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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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