Rob Cottingham

@robcottingham.ca

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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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Widget with the Firefox mascot, Kit, bouncing a soccer ball on their nose
Standup comic delivering a bit
Browser widget displaying the Spanish flag, the words "Spain: 2026 Champions" and Kit, the Firefox mascot, bounding a football on their nose
Two beavers discussing whether to turn off the Canadian wildfires. One says "No! Not until we've ruined the Americans' entire summer!" Caption: How MAGA thinks wildfires work
A cartoon showing smoke from Canadian wildfires drifting into the US, and smoke from an American dumpster fire drifting into Canada
Tobacco Industry's Poster Child: A teenage girl whose photo is overlaid with disturbing images showing the damage smoking is doing to her body
Computer sticker reading "Powered by ADHD"
"Craig Ferguson learns what makes America instantly recognizable from orbit"
CNN headline: "US releases official agreement with Iran. Read the 14-point text"
Duolingo screen saying "You have earned the Saudi Arabia suit for doing a lesson today!"
A handsome man in his early 60s delivers standup comedy
Steve Urkel saying "Did I do that?"
Rob trying to get a selfie with a cat that's darting under a parked car
Closeup of a male mallard duck with its bill open, apparently smiling
Star Wars cantina band
Workshop facilitator: "We're brainstorming here, and there are no bad ideas. But if we weren't brainstorming, that would have been a TERRIBLE idea."
Star Trek title card: "Star Trek title card: "So Here's Why Next Generation Could Never Have Happened In the Kelvin Timeline. Bear In Mind the Impact Successive Traumas of Attacks Like Nero's, Khan's and Krall's Would Have Had, Right? The Federation Would Have Become a Pete-Hegseth-style Militarized Nightmare More Like It Was In 'Yesterday's Enterprise.' And With Vulcan Destroyed, We Lose So Much Of The Federation's Ethos. Without That Philosophical And Ethical Compass, Starfleet Would Have Succumbed To Paranoia And Infighting—Yes, I'm Getting To My Point—Like We See In The Mirror Universe. In Fact, Exactly Like We See In The Mirror Universe. So I'm Saying This Timeline Creates An Opportunity For Further Timeline Fractures To Iterate Until They Create The Terran Empire Itself, The Same Way Worf Iterated Through
EVERY CONVERSATION ON A NEW SOCIAL PLATFORM (IF IT WAS A PARTY): Person 1: WE'RE AT THE PARTY! Person 2: IT TOOK FOREVER TO GET INVITED, BUT HERE WE ARE! 1. IT'S LIKE OTHER PARTIES, BUT ALSO UNLIKE THEM! 2. LET'S TALK ABOUT THEIR DIFFERENCES AND SIMILARITIES! 1. SOME NEW PEOPLE HERE AREN'T PARTYING THE RIGHT WAY! 2. THEY'RE RUINING IT! I LIKE THE WAY THE PARTY WAS WHEN I FIRST GOT HERE! 1. BUT ENOUGH ABOUT THE PARTY. CAN I SELL YOU SOMETHING? 2. WELP, IT'S GETTING LATE...
Star Trek TOS title card: "Prime directive, schmime directive"
Star Trek: TNG episode title: "Please Tell Me This One's Season 3 or Later"
Voyager episode title: "That nebular probably doesn't have any coffee either"
Honeybee gathering nectar from lavendar
Comedian delivers a joke: "You can have bad sex across the political spectrum. Although say this for New Democrats: You’ll be surprised how much attention they pay to your private sector."
CATNIP COMEDY JUNE 12th AT Slice of Life A Night of Cat Themed Stand Up Comedy! Carolynne Collyer Kara Isabel Shiller Jakey Bibbs Rob Cottingham Abdul Cheema Alex Mo
One worker on a laptop to a coworker: "I don't know that I'd call our work meaningful. But there are days when it's definitely meaning-adjacent."
Man asking his Amazon Echo “ALEXA, HOW MUCH TIME IS LEFT?” Echo replies “3 DAYS, 7 HOURS, 41 MINUTES AND 22 SECONDS.” Man says “I MEANT ON MY PASTA TIMER.” Echo replies “2 MINUTES, 39 SECONDS.” The man ponders the implications.
A photo of Rob seating near a tree. Three cartoon cats are drawn cuddling with him.
A comedian saying: You know 15-minute cities-the idea you should be able to live a 15-minute walk from the necessities of daily life? The right-wing conspiracy machine turned it into "The government won't let you go more than 15 minutes from your house." "And 15-minute cities are just a Trojan horse. You know what for, right?" "FOURTEEN-minute cities."
A dog on a computer, telling another dog, "On Facebook, 273 people know I'm a dog. The rest can only see my limited profile."
Comedian telling a joke: "When I was growing up, there were just three big conspiracy theories. They faked the moon landings... ...Elvis is still alive... ...Sports are interesting."
BBC headline: It's time for the Eurovision semi-finals - here's what you need to know
Two emoji combinations, each including a hammer and sickle
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Spelling Bee puzzle with the letters "HEIDCKL"
Screenshot of trending topics, with "White House Security" and "The Archers" circled
Customer to sales clerk: I have a nagging inner voice that says I'm trying to fill a profound spiritual void by buying more technology. Do you have a device that can shut that voice up?
An old businessman to a woman: "Suppose information doesn't want to be free? Suppose what information really wants is to be meted out in tiny, controlled doses at an outrageously high price?"
Threads screen grab: “The mission, of course, was named for the iconic Artemus Gordon.”
STAND UP COMEDY: Anaïs Audissian & Friends, at SLICE OF LIFE ART GALLERY 1636 VENABLES ST. VANCOUVER, 11 APRIL 2026, STARTING AT 07 PM TICKETS: bit.ly/anais-friends
Neo from The Matrix
Dr. Dick in front of a photo of a 19th-century factory floor
Ad for Cosmovistatours "Ultimate Canada City Escape" showing an impossible camera angle of the Parliament Buildings, with the Library in the front
Doctor Doom, scrolling on his phone
Happy Hour Comedy - HOSTED BY: PARIYA ZABIHI - A STAND-UP COMEDY SHOW - WEDS FEBRUARY 18TH 7:30 PM LITTLE MOUNTAIN GALLERY FEATURING OUR DAILY SPECIALS: (photos of five comics)
Sponsored LinkedIn message from Robert Kennedy College
Aaron Rupar tweet quoting Tim Walz: “If it was the intention of Donald Trump to make an example of Minnesota, then I'm damn proud of the example that the world is seeing”
"Leave X" but drawn like the SpaceX logo
Tech bro testifying: "With all due respect, Senator, you're clearly in the pocket of Big Human."
Chicken fighting a cat
A handsome man performing standup
A man delivering a standup set at Little Mountain Gallery
A standup comic on the stage at Little Mountain Gallery
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.
I'M PERFORMING! COME SEE! Wed. Dec. 10, 2025 / 9pm Little Mountain Gallery 110 Water St. / Vancouver, BC Tickets: bit.ly/4prou4V
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