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Barry McLarnon 🇨🇦 @bdmclarnon.bsky.social · 20h

The FAFO chickens come home to roost.

Barry McLarnon 🇨🇦 @bdmclarnon.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Hydronym time! We have two small ponds in our yard, containing goldfish and water plants. Though neither of them contain scum, I'm hereby naming them the Trump Sucks Pond (backyard, facing south) and the Ford Sucks Pond (front yard, a bit smaller, facing north).

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𝚃𝚊𝚛𝚊𝚜 𝙶𝚛𝚎𝚜𝚌𝚘𝚎 🚇 @taras-grescoe.com · 31/08/2026

Sorry, but I'm going to have to agree with you, eh?

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Barry McLarnon 🇨🇦 @bdmclarnon.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Introduce yourself with 10 acts you've seen live: Jethro Tull Bob Dylan + The Band Crosby Stills Nash & Young Richard Thompson Fairport Convention Poco Van Morrison Joni Mitchell Bruce Cockburn Gordon Lightfoot

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Barry McLarnon 🇨🇦 @bdmclarnon.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

The war against truth rages on in Trumpland.

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Barry McLarnon 🇨🇦 @bdmclarnon.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Especially now that I'm entering my dotage, I have train dreams... but not to ride American trains, of course.

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Barry McLarnon 🇨🇦 @bdmclarnon.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

A shocking turnabout for a generally admirable country, demonstrating yet again the power of the oligarchs promoting continued extraction and widespread use of fossil fuels.

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Barry McLarnon 🇨🇦 @bdmclarnon.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

This is an essential listen for concerned citizens everywhere. It's becoming clear (to me, at least) that these "dry cooling" schemes are essentially scams on a similar level as carbon capture and storage. Some of them might work fairly well someday, but right now they are smoke and mirrors.

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Barry McLarnon 🇨🇦 @bdmclarnon.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

CCS is a scam, concocted to keep the fossil fuels flowing. We need more solar, wind, and batteries, post haste.

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Iris Gorfinkel, M.D. @drgorfinkel.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Expanding NUCLEAR power in Ontario costs over 3x what RENEWABLES would - for the SAME power …& this does NOT include the costs of ☢️ 🧐 Construction delays 🧐 Refurbishment 🧐 Decommissioning 🧐 Waste Storage/Cleanup 🧐 Water requirements 🧐 Shutdowns from global warming

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David Moscrop @davidmoscrop.com · 01/08/2026

I’m delighted when people buy my book, but infinitely happier when they read it, however they manage to get a copy. Public libraries are life!

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Barry McLarnon 🇨🇦 @bdmclarnon.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Exactly. Efforts to persuade the billionaire oligarchs to change their greedy ways are futile. We need to wield a big stick, not educate them. We must use all the tools we can muster (wealth taxes, boycotts, etc.) to rein them in.

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Barry McLarnon 🇨🇦 @bdmclarnon.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Drill, baby, drill -> burn, planet, burn. 😡

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Barry McLarnon 🇨🇦 @bdmclarnon.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

In my household, we're still trying hard to avoid buying American goods (and services too, including Amazon). We haven't set foot on US soil since Sept 2024, and have no plans to do so. But I fear the resolve of my Canadians to do likewise is weakening...

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Barry McLarnon 🇨🇦 @bdmclarnon.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

I just checked - right now, on a sunny and breezy July day in Ontario, 21.6% of our electricity is coming from gas, and a paltry 2.4% from wind and 1.9% from solar. The Ford government is in bed with the fossil fuel lobby, and has been an absolute disaster in our fight against climate change.

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Barry McLarnon 🇨🇦 @bdmclarnon.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Sometimes the simplest solution is also the best solution. If only the myriad other problems posed by climate change could be dealt with so easily!

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Barry McLarnon 🇨🇦 @bdmclarnon.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Here's a recipe for quickly assembling an effective low-cost air filtration unit for removing smoke particles (+ other airborne pathogens, including viruses!) from indoor spaces. If you want to take it to the next level (much quieter) I suggest checking out the CR box designs from North Box Systems.

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Barry McLarnon 🇨🇦 @bdmclarnon.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

It's the very people who are "struggling with affordability" who will bear the brunt of the public health disaster caused by poor air quality resulting from wildfires. It's time for @mark-carney.bsky.social to remove his blinders and back away from fossil fuel development.

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Scott Forbes🇨🇦 @theecologyprof.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

🧵👇

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Barry McLarnon 🇨🇦 @bdmclarnon.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

💯 There is absolutely no reason at this point in time to back away from #ElbowsUp.

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Barry McLarnon 🇨🇦 @bdmclarnon.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

I can't see the match, since I cut my cable years ago and only have OTA TV, but I'll be keeping an eye on the score and cheering them on!

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Barry McLarnon 🇨🇦 @bdmclarnon.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

It's a beautiful game, but at its apex it's under the control of some of the most corrupt people on the planet.

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Barry McLarnon 🇨🇦 @bdmclarnon.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

I'm one of the few who has not had it (unless I was asymptomatic), and I largely credit the early guidance from David Fisman, Colin Furness, and a handful of other visionaries. It was from them that I learned about the valuable work of the aerosol experts Linsey Marr and Kim Prather.

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Barry McLarnon 🇨🇦 @bdmclarnon.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Sensible advice for our chaotic times. Though I'm a bit of a news junkie compared with most people I know, I've been cutting back of late. Quite often of late, we've dropped our post-dinner habit of watching the 6pm news with our coffee, and instead sit on the deck watching the birds come and go.

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Barry McLarnon 🇨🇦 @bdmclarnon.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

It's bad enough that they have been continually bullshitting us since day one (long before they were first elected in 2018). That's what Cons do, but when they do it our taxpayer money, it's a crime.

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Barry McLarnon 🇨🇦 @bdmclarnon.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Who pays? The same people who paid for him to cancel wind farms and other renewable energy initiatives, rush to get booze sold in corner stores and grocery chains, funnel money to private health care, and a thousand other sins. We, the people of Ontario.

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Barry McLarnon 🇨🇦 @bdmclarnon.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

My wish for Ford is a long hot summer of unrest and discontent from the voters of Ontario.

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Solar is the fusion power that matters

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Barry McLarnon 🇨🇦 @bdmclarnon.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

There are still plenty of sane and reasonable people in Alberta (where I grew up)... the problem, as in Ontario (where I currently live), is corrupt government.

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Barry McLarnon 🇨🇦 @bdmclarnon.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Loads of excellent advice here! I haven't tried any nasal sprays yet but use N95/N99 masks strategically, and have two 2nd generation Corsi-Rosenthal type air cleaners running at home. I haven't been ill since 2019, except for a bout of suspected norovirus (possibly food poisoning) last year.

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Barry McLarnon 🇨🇦 @bdmclarnon.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

What she said. We have mob rule in Ontario. Only a small minority of eligible voters voted for this government, and the result was a corrupt autocracy.

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Barry McLarnon 🇨🇦 @bdmclarnon.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

The pervasive disease that lurks among us, affecting millions, that (almost) nobody wants to talk about.

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Barry McLarnon 🇨🇦 @bdmclarnon.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

If @erictopol.bsky.social is involved, I'm all ears... and getting the word out far and wide about aerosol transmission is vitally important.

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Barry McLarnon 🇨🇦 @bdmclarnon.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

When the sun goes down, the wind comes up The people gather round, and they all begin to shout Green energy!

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Barry McLarnon 🇨🇦 @bdmclarnon.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Something conservatives, with their knee-jerk aversion to taxes, will never understand.

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Colin Furness MISt PhD MPH @furnesscolin.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Sigh. After a few years of post-COVID peace & quiet, I did two hantavirus interviews today. So here I am. First, to be clear, human-human transmission of hantavirus has been reported several times, but NOT actually proven - in every case those people also had some other exposure in common. 1/7

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Barry McLarnon 🇨🇦 @bdmclarnon.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

A nice cinco de mayo sunset this evening at Britannia Beach in Ottawa, where there is still significant flooding.

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Barry McLarnon 🇨🇦 @bdmclarnon.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

I hope Gordon Lightfoot continues to rest in peace on that carefree highway - he died on May 1, 2023 (ok, I'm a day late, and definitely a dollar short). Here he is with two other departed Gords, and I see @ronsexsmith.bsky.social, or at least his paper proxy, looking over the shoulders of giants.

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Iris Gorfinkel, M.D. @drgorfinkel.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

This is what moral injury looks like My frail, 82-yr-old pt spent 2 nights on an ER gurney I've been told to “build a wall” between the suffering of my patients & me ...but not how to handle governments failing to hold up their end of the bargain @thestar.com www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

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Iris Gorfinkel: How Doug Ford’s health laws are breaking the nurses and doctors who care for you

I was taught to “build the wall” between my patients’ suffering and my own, but was never given guidance on how to handle governments that fail to uphold their end

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Barry McLarnon 🇨🇦 @bdmclarnon.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

An accurate summation of how the MSM has become subservient and complicit.

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Barry McLarnon 🇨🇦 @bdmclarnon.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

It's a beautiful sunny day in Ontario, except for the far north. At the moment, 23.4% of our electricity is being generated from natural gas and a paltry 0.8% from solar. This utter travesty is brought to you by the corrupt Ford government that is deep in the pockets of the fossil fuel industry.

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Barry McLarnon 🇨🇦 @bdmclarnon.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

I checked yesterday, when much of Ontario was sunny - only 1.7% of our electricity was coming from solar. Meanwhile, gas accounted for 18% - more than 10 times as much. The Ford government is in bed with the fossil fuel industry, and is mortgaging our future.

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Barry McLarnon 🇨🇦 @bdmclarnon.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Yet another reason for us to envy Europe.

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Barry McLarnon 🇨🇦 @bdmclarnon.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

Sunset admirers gathered at Britannia Beach on the Ottawa River tonight (photo taken with handheld camera phone, unprocessed).

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