Rob Cottingham (OLD ACCOUNT)

@robcottingham
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Now at @robcottingham! Leadership communications for great causes and big ideas.
📢 BCFED Communications Director
🎤 Speechwriter and speaking coach
🎙Voice actor repped by Connekt Creative
✑ Noise to Signal cartoonist
🖖 Star Trek nerd in high school, and ever since
☝ He/him
The universe is a spheroid region, 705 meters in diameter.
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Rob Cottingham (OLD ACCOUNT)Feb 12, 2024
“That’s why we created Bell Let’s Talk Day, so that Canadians can talk openly about their mental health challenges — for example, like no longer having workplace insurance to pay for therapy, or having to sell one’s house due to a sudden loss of income.” @TheBeaverton https://www.thebeaverton.com/2024/02/bell-cuts-4800-jobs-to-create-more-participants-for-next-bell-lets-talk-day/
Bell cuts 4800 jobs to create more participants for next Bell Let's Talk Day

TORONTO - Following the news that Bell Canada Enterprises Inc. is cutting over 4800 jobs, as well as shuttering many local newscasts and radio stations, Bell has assured Canadians the move was intended to create more candidates for Bell Let's Talk Day.

The Beaverton
Rob Cottingham (OLD ACCOUNT)Feb 9, 2024
Premier David Eby is the G-rated @pluralistic we didn't know we needed. #crapification
Rob Cottingham (OLD ACCOUNT)Feb 9, 2024
Molly WhiteFeb 9, 2024

Motherboard found that firms linked to a16z and general partner Chris Dixon bought numerous copies of his new book promoting cryptocurrencies, which became an NYT Best Seller.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/n7emkx/chris-dixon-a16z-read-write-own-nyt-bestseller

#ChrisDixon #andreesenhorrowitz

How Tech Firms Made a Crypto-Boosting Book an NYT Best Seller by Gaming the System

Motherboard found that firms linked to a16z and general partner Chris Dixon bought numerous copies of his new book promoting cryptocurrencies, which became an NYT Best Seller.

Rob Cottingham (OLD ACCOUNT)Feb 9, 2024
dannysullivanFeb 9, 2024
All my Space: 1999 Eagle variants arrived today. Let’s give it up for one of the best SF spacecraft ever. From left-to-right, Lab Eagle, VIP Eagle, Transporter Eagle, Rescue Eagle & Freighter Eagle (with nuclear waste pod!) #space1999
Show threadRob Cottingham (OLD ACCOUNT)Feb 8, 2024
From this story on today's layoff, selloff and general vandalism: https://vancouversun.com/news/local-news/not-a-viable-business-anymore-bell-media-selling-21-b-c-radio-stations-amid-layoffs
| Vancouver Sun

B.C. Premier David Eby slammed Bell Media over the "catastrophic layoffs," calling the cuts a "crapification of local news." Read more.

Vancouver Sun
Rob Cottingham (OLD ACCOUNT)Feb 8, 2024

David Eby unloads on corporations like Bell that “have overseen the assembly of local media assets that are treasures to local communities. They bought them up like corporate vampires, they sucked the life out of them, laying off journalists.

"They have overseen the crapification of local news by laying off journalists and now they say it’s no longer economically viable to run these local radio stations. It’s no longer economically viable to have investigative news." #BCPoli

Rob Cottingham (OLD ACCOUNT)Feb 5, 2024

As disturbed as I am by the growing concentration of wealth in fewer and fewer hands, I'm sure it's being used in productive, useful w

https://mcmansionhell.com/post/741171396971053056/weve-found-it-folks-mcmansion-heaven

we've found it folks: mcmansion heaven

Hello everyone. It is my pleasure to bring you the greatest house I have ever seen. The house of a true visionary. A real ad-hocist. A genuine pioneer of fenestration. This house is in Alabama. It was...

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Rob Cottingham (OLD ACCOUNT)Feb 2, 2024
Show threadhalas 🇵🇸🇺🇦🇪🇺Feb 2, 2024
@grammargirl the year is 2164, "Whatsap fuckers" I say politely, if a bit archaically, while entering my grandparents house.
Rob Cottingham (OLD ACCOUNT)Feb 2, 2024
Mignon FogartyFeb 2, 2024

I was organizing files on my desktop and came across a screenshot of this old post about an 1884 usage guide that still makes me laugh:

"Don't say ‘gents' for 'gentlemen, nor 'pants' for 'pantaloons.’ These are INEXCUSABLE VULGARISMS. (emphasis added)

Rob Cottingham (OLD ACCOUNT)Jan 31, 2024
Elmo’s pretty sure it was like that when Elmo got there.