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Alex Handyside 🌈 🇨🇦/🇬🇧⚽

@arachnius.bsky.social
3K followers 3.6K following 920 posts

just a regular, semi-retired, double-decker drivin', cancer-survivin', volunteerin', leftie-leanin', radio-broadcastin', philanthropin', feministo, RCAF/RN Veteran, bi, pagan, Rotarian, LFC Red, man-about-world, Crim-head, husband & Dad. YNWA in Halifax NS

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Alex Handyside 🌈 🇨🇦/🇬🇧⚽ @arachnius.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I dunno, Michael @deadder.bsky.social , what's pouring out of him isn't brown enough..... #DumpTrump
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Alex Handyside 🌈 🇨🇦/🇬🇧⚽ @arachnius.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Our 🇨🇦 very own Michael @deadder.bsky.social hits the 🇺🇲 bullseye again! C'mon 'Merica, wake the fuck up!! #DumpTrump
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Alex Handyside 🌈 🇨🇦/🇬🇧⚽ @arachnius.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
It's happening.... (Fortunately 🇨🇦 has an adult in charge of its asylum...!) #DumpTrump
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Alex Handyside 🌈 🇨🇦/🇬🇧⚽ @arachnius.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Lookin' good, Canada...!!
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Alex Handyside 🌈 🇨🇦/🇬🇧⚽ @arachnius.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Seen at Halifax's Old Burying Ground. #HaliSky (fwiw, MajGen Robert Ross burned down the White House in Aug 1814 during the War of 1812. He died a month later during the Battle of Baltimore. His final wish was to be buried on British soil: so he was repatriated in a barrel of rum.)
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Alex Handyside 🌈 🇨🇦/🇬🇧⚽ @arachnius.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
That Michael @deadder.bsky.social knows a lyin' twat when he sees one.... #TrumpLies #EpsteinFiles
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Alex Handyside 🌈 🇨🇦/🇬🇧⚽ @arachnius.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
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Alex Handyside 🌈 🇨🇦/🇬🇧⚽ @arachnius.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
A good reason to continue boycotting American produce and products. Go Canada! #HaliSky
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Alex Handyside 🌈 🇨🇦/🇬🇧⚽ @arachnius.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Credit to Michael @deadder.bsky.social - and Donny Diaper, of course! Yay, Canada! #HaliSky
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Alex Handyside 🌈 🇨🇦/🇬🇧⚽ @arachnius.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Tru Dat!!
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Alex Handyside 🌈 🇨🇦/🇬🇧⚽ @arachnius.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
That damned Michael @deadder.bsky.social nails it again! Steinbeck's "full of piss & vinegar" describes Diaper Donny quite well! #impeachtrump #RESIST
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Alex Handyside 🌈 🇨🇦/🇬🇧⚽ @arachnius.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Hit 'em where it hurts, eh...? . "Paper products are among the hardest-hit sectors, with Canada threatening to put tariffs of between 25% and 50% on toilet paper"
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Alex Handyside 🌈 🇨🇦/🇬🇧⚽ @arachnius.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
If only escaping the #EpsteinFiles were that easy....! (Michael @deadder.bsky.social thinks not)
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Alex Handyside 🌈 🇨🇦/🇬🇧⚽ @arachnius.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Bummer....
bbc.com
UFC White House: UFC loses $30m staging Freedom 250 event at White House
UFC owners lose $30m (£22m) staging the Freedom 250 event, which was attended by US President Donald Trump, at the White House in June.
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Alex Handyside 🌈 🇨🇦/🇬🇧⚽ @arachnius.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Ouch! That Michael @deadder.bsky.social has a sharp pencil!! #EpsteinFiles #JusticeForSurvivors
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Alex Handyside 🌈 🇨🇦/🇬🇧⚽ @arachnius.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Winnipeg, eh? Maybe they didn't buy enough Jim Beam....
ctvnews.ca
U.S. to close consulates in Canada, other countries, Reuters sources say
The U.S. State Department has notified Congress that it plans to close five foreign missions in a rare downsizing of America’s global diplomatic footprint, according to people familiar with the notice...
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Alex Handyside 🌈 🇨🇦/🇬🇧⚽ @arachnius.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Hey Hali-Peeps, I thought this was a useful graphic - so you can complain to the *correct* politician or civil servant! #HaliSky #NovaScotia
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Alex Handyside 🌈 🇨🇦/🇬🇧⚽ @arachnius.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
“For the first time in the history of the North Atlantic Alliance, #Ukraine ‘s Navy has been granted the authority to command #NATO forces…. Ukrainian sailors spent three years preparing for this milestone, taking all necessary steps to meet NATO standards.”
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Ida B Wells' Winchester Rifle @dytsras.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Black kids protecting their Latino neighbors from ICE
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Alex Handyside 🌈 🇨🇦/🇬🇧⚽ @arachnius.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
That's my club!!!! (That's me on the left) I was one of the hosts for our SA visitors. And happy to do so, because we were SO well looked after when we had our RFE in S Africa in '24. Interested? Ask me!! #ServiceAboveSelf #NovaScotia #Rotary #District7815 #HaliSky
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Alex Handyside 🌈 🇨🇦/🇬🇧⚽ @arachnius.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
We like Michael @deadder.bsky.social - his crayons think like we do!! #halisky #Canada
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Alex Handyside 🌈 🇨🇦/🇬🇧⚽ @arachnius.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
US, you have been warned....
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Alex Handyside 🌈 🇨🇦/🇬🇧⚽ @arachnius.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
That's my club....!!!!!! . (And yes, that's me in the orange pants on the left)
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Alex Handyside 🌈 🇨🇦/🇬🇧⚽ @arachnius.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
All puppets, lackeys & brown-nosers! According to our wonderful (& 🇨🇦), Michael @deadder.bsky.social ...!
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Alex Handyside 🌈 🇨🇦/🇬🇧⚽ @arachnius.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
That's our wonderful Nova Scotia Premier, eh? Always looking out for his rich friends/donors! (And for his next cushy job, of course!) #HaliSky #nspolitics Well said, Danny Cavanagh.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
MARCO RUBIO: “Let me explain this in simple English: Iran is run by lunatics, religious fanatic lunatics.’ IRAN: “Let me explain this in simple English: The United States is run by lunatics, religious fanatic lunatics.”
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Alex Handyside 🌈 🇨🇦/🇬🇧⚽ @arachnius.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
In heavily booze-regulated England, this is a Big Thing. The govt has exhibited an uncommon amount of common sense about the issue, now & for future football games. #ThreeLions #WorldCup2026 www.bbc.com/news/article...
bbc.com
World Cup: England fans can stay in pub for full Norway game - even if kick-off delayed
The extended hours means fans can watch the entire game, even if the start is delayed.
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Alex Handyside 🌈 🇨🇦/🇬🇧⚽ @arachnius.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
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JewelzinAZ @jewelzinaz.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
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Alex Handyside 🌈 🇨🇦/🇬🇧⚽ @arachnius.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
I'm shocked!!
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California Dreamin’… 😎 @jerasikehorn.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Any Questions?! 👇
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Alex Handyside 🌈 🇨🇦/🇬🇧⚽ @arachnius.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Misinformed could possibly be excused. But this is totally unhinged and delusional. And hilarious. All because the US lost a football game *after* they were caught cheating!?! #EpsteinFury
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Alex Handyside 🌈 🇨🇦/🇬🇧⚽ @arachnius.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Michael @deadder.bsky.social is a very talented Canadian political cartoonist. #fifa #worldcup #corruption
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Alex Handyside 🌈 🇨🇦/🇬🇧⚽ @arachnius.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
'nuff said....
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Alex Handyside 🌈 🇨🇦/🇬🇧⚽ @arachnius.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
“The United States of America, established to overthrow a mad king, has elected, 250 years later, a mad king of its very own. America is setting itself on fire at its birthday party.” #DefendDemocracy
theguardian.com
America is destroying itself. It’s no surprise | Stephen Marche
Scholars will someday wonder how the richest country in history chose to throw it all away. But the crisis has been there since the beginning
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Alex Handyside 🌈 🇨🇦/🇬🇧⚽ @arachnius.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
#HaliSky !!!
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Alex Handyside 🌈 🇨🇦/🇬🇧⚽ @arachnius.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
USA = full blown Dystopia! “The Trump administration quietly declared frozen embryos to be children.” “… the Dept of Health & Human Services referred to frozen embryos using the terms “child” & “children”… “…. refers to frozen embryos as “children who already exist & are in need of a family”.”
theguardian.com
The Trump administration is calling frozen embryos children | Moira Donegan
A document on an embryo adoption program may be marginal – but it marks an escalation in the pursuit of fetal personhood
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Alex Handyside 🌈 🇨🇦/🇬🇧⚽ @arachnius.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
And now the entire world knows the word 'asshole' in Italian....
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Alex Handyside 🌈 🇨🇦/🇬🇧⚽ @arachnius.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Green with envy?? Michael @deadder.bsky.social
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Alex Handyside 🌈 🇨🇦/🇬🇧⚽ @arachnius.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
That's my club!!! #YouthAreOurFuture !
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Alex Handyside 🌈 🇨🇦/🇬🇧⚽ @arachnius.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Tru Dat! All the bad stuff is now *designed* to be addictive!
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Alex Handyside 🌈 🇨🇦/🇬🇧⚽ @arachnius.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Way to go, Nova Scotia! Thanks, Tim Houston! "Fixed term leases are driving up the cost of housing in [NS] by forcing people to move more often. Rents increased 29% last year for renters who moved into a new apartment. That’s 6x higher than the Houston government’s 5 per cent rent cap" #HaliSky
halifax.citynews.ca
Nova Scotia highest in Canada for average apartment rental rates
According to a new report, Nova Scotia is the most expensive province when it comes to average asking rents for apartments in the country. Rentals.ca and Urbanation released its June report, which sho...
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Alex Handyside 🌈 🇨🇦/🇬🇧⚽ @arachnius.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Free for the billionaires! (Michael @deadder.bsky.social on point!)
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Alex Handyside 🌈 🇨🇦/🇬🇧⚽ @arachnius.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Way to go, Nova Scotia! Yes, it could be worse, but not by much! Tim Houston has much to answer for. Let's tell him how much at the ballot box, eh? #HaliSky www.thecoast.ca/news-opinion...
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God @thegodshow.com · 01/06/2026
Netanyahu cannot let peace occur because then he will be prosecuted for his crimes.
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Alex Handyside 🌈 🇨🇦/🇬🇧⚽ @arachnius.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
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Alex Handyside 🌈 🇨🇦/🇬🇧⚽ @arachnius.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Michael @deadder.bsky.social does it again!
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WomenRiseUp2026 @womenriseup2026.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
🤔 #Epstein
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Alex Handyside 🌈 🇨🇦/🇬🇧⚽ @arachnius.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
It's the law in Canada. #CdmPoli #HfxSky
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Alex Handyside 🌈 🇨🇦/🇬🇧⚽ @arachnius.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
Canada is at war, and they're attacking our minds. Albertans beware!! This is unbelievably scary! #CdnPoli #HaliSky
open.substack.com
The New Battlefield Is Your Mind
Foreign interference, AI persuasion, leaked voter data, and Alberta’s separatist crisis are converging into a test of Canada’s cognitive sovereignty.
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