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Bob Wehädababeitsaboy

@jokingguy.bsky.social

Things we might have in common: •Toronto-Based Complaining •Speculative Fiction of all types •Book Collecting •Food and Drink of almost any variety •Being "Left" in a way that doesn't mean "Centrist"

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Firmly and permanently on the "Great Film, Let's Never Watch It Again" shelf.

17.02.2026 06:03 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

As a millenial male of a certain complexion, let me tell you all about my on again off again relationship with Sigur Ros...

09.02.2026 10:37 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

(middle aged white dude) i hadn't heard of hime til last year, when he was most streamed artist or somesuch.

i asked my colombian coworker about him: "not my style music but, man, you (gestures at skin and language) have no idea how big he is"

09.02.2026 09:20 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Image of Bad Bunny giving his Grammy to young Liam from Minnesota.

Image of Bad Bunny giving his Grammy to young Liam from Minnesota.

Cause that's what heroes do.

09.02.2026 01:35 — 👍 4636    🔁 835    💬 51    📌 196

@toronto.ca Got a notification for Early Local Registration for spring programs, but despite living across the street from a participating community centre, it says my address is not eligible.

Is this an error? Literally can't be more local.

06.02.2026 09:43 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

as someone currently experiencing australian "sushi" regularly, this but with mayonnaise. everything mayonnaise.

03.02.2026 06:41 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

They can teach you how to control a skid all they want, but until you've done a successful 360° on a side street in East York, you'll never know...

30.01.2026 08:54 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

literally turned on my laptop yesterday to:

- take this windows 11!

- no, thank you

- take this windows 11 so you can use copilot!

- extra no thanks

- you can't use copilot properly without windows 11!

- oh, i see, thanks (clicks decline a third time)

30.01.2026 00:44 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

No measurement, in this context, that isn't horrifying.

28.01.2026 07:21 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Nevermind "screen time epidemic" or "young male loneliness" or "I can't tell what a scam looks like".

The greatest test of our times is "I make jokes apply to my niche online obsessions, therefore they aren't funny".

looking at you #resistblue

27.01.2026 09:50 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

My Dinner with Big Naturals

22.01.2026 01:17 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

meh, i don't know. it's sort of a bait and switch? and also a first world problem.

sounded like a side salad on the card, and it wound up being various pastes. in another situation, if I meant to order it, I probably wouldn't mind.

21.01.2026 03:33 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

"fried field mushrooms on in house sourdough, comes with beetroot! (sauce) avocado! (sauce) goat cheese! (sauce)" and so on...

21.01.2026 02:34 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0

We had breakfast last week and my mushrooms on toast came out on a giant plate with ~7 loonie sized dollops of different sauces. This is 9am.

Even my partner, who is no big foody, was confused. I told her someone had taken a fancy cooking class 20 years ago and didn't care how it tasted.

21.01.2026 02:34 — 👍 10    🔁 1    💬 2    📌 0

Reporter: "What will the President's schedule be tomorrow?"

Trump spox: "First of all, how dare you..."

19.01.2026 09:37 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

As a bonus, if you had tied on a few too many the night before and dragged yourself in after 10am, you had the option for lemony greek-style potatoes over hash browns with your breakfast.

My god, I'm salivating.

19.01.2026 09:22 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

An early covid loss for us was The New York Café, in Toronto. A greek diner that was my favourite greasy spoon for at least a decade, though it was around much longer. The eggs benedict and spinach and feta omelettes will live forever in my memory.

19.01.2026 09:22 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

nevermind, i see now

18.01.2026 05:58 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

sorry, you can get suspended from substack for a comment like that?

18.01.2026 05:57 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

As a Blue Jays fan, I thought this was a very belated playoffs rant.

18.01.2026 01:13 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Marcia Lucas - Wikipedia

If you haven't read about her, Marcia Lucas, or rather her absence, is the number one reason the films fell off a cliff.

The podcast What Went Wrong has some fun episodes on all the films, as well as other Licas ventures, and she features prominently.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcia_...

15.01.2026 06:19 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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The CBC has just posted a transcript of my recent As it Happens interview about X and Grok. I’m posting a couple of screen shots here - since they are a bit too long for alt text, I’ll post the link to the full transcript below. #cdnpoli #X #Grok #yeg #CSAM

11.01.2026 21:36 — 👍 800    🔁 335    💬 61    📌 34
11.01.2026 21:47 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

"reducing car dependency" should be read as "Imagine how much more money you'd have without lease, fuel and insurance payments", nevermind maintenance

I don't understand people who demand to drive 30min each way for groceries

Especially when that's not being outlawed, just giving you an option

31.12.2025 22:26 — 👍 7    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

What the hell is Gen Z starin' at!!!

30.12.2025 07:11 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Seek it out, if you can. iirc, Tim Curry played his "nemesis".

30.12.2025 07:11 — 👍 9    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

mmm, forbidden meringue

29.12.2025 21:19 — 👍 7    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Council and bylaw will come down swiftly on this one I'm sure. Can't have people enjoying food in a park...

27.12.2025 23:02 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

A straight shot from the Punch Dimension

27.12.2025 10:13 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

"Did you see what Mark Cuban posted? Oh did you see the clapb—"

You shake yourself awake in the cold North Atlantic water. You are not online. It is July of 1858. You are a baleen whale, and you have changed your mind. The future most not come to pass. The telegraph cable must break.

27.12.2025 02:15 — 👍 16133    🔁 3304    💬 69    📌 42

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