Richard Dettman
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Richard Dettman
@rwdettman.bsky.social
Vancouverite. Radio lifer, most recently 680 NewsRadio Toronto & 1130 NewsRadio Vancouver. RTDNA Lifetime Achievement award. YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@FamilyWheels. Former blue check.
🦋12/23
Reposted by Richard Dettman
There are a lot of things to be nostalgic about journalism, but seeing a shitfaced editor come back from lunch, grab your story off the pile and wildly mark up your copy is not one of them.
December 22, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Even if they go unread I will be submitting my garbage opinions.
December 22, 2025 at 6:17 PM
A Backbreaking Work of Shoveling Genius
December 21, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Is that a Getty Images photo of:

-generic German AfD member
-American White Nationalist
-Manifesto-writing hermit
December 20, 2025 at 5:50 PM
See also:
Effect, Streisand. Masnick, Michael. 2005.
December 20, 2025 at 4:59 PM
All staff: please stop sub-posting content from “Gunther Eagleman” on other platforms. He’s very successful at triggering decent folk and likely sees each angry response as a win. It’s all in bad faith, so why keep supplying him with oxygen? Unless of course you’re a rage farmer.🧑‍🌾
December 20, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Okay now try #trumpstein 🤔
December 20, 2025 at 2:10 AM
They’ll do anything to protect the ephebophile-in-chief. #trumpstein
December 20, 2025 at 2:01 AM
Mmm, ida know. Balances out kinda like a man-purse and an Italian sport coat OH NO USB-C HAS TURNED ME EUROPEAN.
December 18, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Coupla much-loved Cadillacs, tho.💕
December 17, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Reposted by Richard Dettman
There’s a great expression from Argentinian Spanish about someone who’s sticking their oar in that goes vos no te peinés que no salís en esta foto. It means “don’t comb your hair because you don’t appear in this photograph.”
December 17, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Disagree. He removed the knob that does its job.
December 16, 2025 at 5:47 PM