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Barry McLarnon 🇨🇦 @bdmclarnon.bsky.social · 1h

The MOH embraces her new role as MOP (Minister of Propaganda) as the MMB (Mute Mob Boss) looks on.

Barry McLarnon 🇨🇦 @bdmclarnon.bsky.social · 8h

Here's a photo we took when we visited in February 2008 (crooked horizon, but can't be bothered to fix it now). Sad to see it disappear, but it was inevitable, though its demise was likely hastened by climate change.

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Barry McLarnon 🇨🇦 @bdmclarnon.bsky.social · 23h

This X-ecrable excuse for a human being needs a one-way ticket to Mars.

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

Damn. I'll bet someone influential convinced him that he was helping Olivia Chow by bleeding votes from Bradford.

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Barry McLarnon 🇨🇦 @bdmclarnon.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

As hitchhikers go, they are relatively safe to pick up.

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Barry McLarnon 🇨🇦 @bdmclarnon.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

If paid at all (the chances of which are vanishingly small), it would be paid in valueless Trump Coins. In any case, it depends on the Repugnicans retaining control of the House, which by all accounts will not happen unless they do it by force, and then all bets are off.

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Barry McLarnon 🇨🇦 @bdmclarnon.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Too many generations of inbreeding. Biodiversity is the secret of success in keeping a planetary ecosystem healthy.

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Barry McLarnon 🇨🇦 @bdmclarnon.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Just look at the company he keeps, such as execrable Brian Lilley, and you know he is bad news.

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Barry McLarnon 🇨🇦 @bdmclarnon.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Too bad that requires leadership from the province. If you live in Ontario like I do, don't hold your breath. We don't have enlightened leadership, we have a corrupt kleptocracy.

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Barry McLarnon 🇨🇦 @bdmclarnon.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The FAFO chickens come home to roost.

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Barry McLarnon 🇨🇦 @bdmclarnon.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I dunno... Linux is my "daily driver", but I'm not what you'd call a power user I guess, and driving it seldom involves any drama - it just works, and it's free, and also AI-free.

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Barry McLarnon 🇨🇦 @bdmclarnon.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

And it looks like the AI may have confused Gatineau with Greenland!

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Barry McLarnon 🇨🇦 @bdmclarnon.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I never had the slightest interest in Rush, but Jethro Tull is an entirely different story (but nothing to do with codpieces). My first big arena rock concert experience was seeing them on their Thick as a Brick tour. IMHO Ian Anderson is one of the most talented musicians on the planet.

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Barry McLarnon 🇨🇦 @bdmclarnon.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Logic? Who needs that? This is social media, where anything goes...

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Barry McLarnon 🇨🇦 @bdmclarnon.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Maybe she'll bring this one back: bsky.app/profile/tara...

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Barry McLarnon 🇨🇦 @bdmclarnon.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

In the photo, Doug Ford appears to be emitting a plume of toxic fumes. That symbolism fits him like a glove.

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Barry McLarnon 🇨🇦 @bdmclarnon.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

On the other hand, some species (sharks, bears, leopards,...?) probably have a colour named "human", and it's a really bright red.

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Barry McLarnon 🇨🇦 @bdmclarnon.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I recently spent two weeks in Alberta (I grew up in Edmonton), and I saw plenty of trains. All freight, sigh. I still have fond memories of taking the train to Edmonton when we moved from Winnipeg, when I was 6.

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Barry McLarnon 🇨🇦 @bdmclarnon.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The Holy Bile Jaw Lol Ta Madame Ovary All Quit on the Western Front The Unbearable Lightness of Bing I was tempted to drop an "o" from The Count of Monte Cristo, but I somehow resisted...

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Barry McLarnon 🇨🇦 @bdmclarnon.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I've never been there (too far from Ottawa), but I know someone who says exactly the same thing. He's been going there every year for decades.

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Barry McLarnon 🇨🇦 @bdmclarnon.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Look up "everbearing strawberries". Strawberries of that type produce a second crop in early fall.

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Barry McLarnon 🇨🇦 @bdmclarnon.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

$2.5-million payments? I think the operative word is "bribes".

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Barry McLarnon 🇨🇦 @bdmclarnon.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

This is not mere stupidity - it's far worse. It's class warfare, and it's vindictive. It's akin to Trump trying to destroy everything accomplished by his more liberal predecessors.

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Barry McLarnon 🇨🇦 @bdmclarnon.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

I used to follow Kinsella on Xitter, but I eventually realized that he was an asshole, and I dumped both him and that toxic platform.

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

Of course, he can and will backslide when he gets his mitts back on his phone... unless Jesus also installs a tiny demon in the phone that only allows installation of public news sources such as CBC, BBC, and NPR.

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

In contrast to his claim that he has "skin like an alligator", Ford is actually very thin-skinned. He's a small-minded grifter who'll go out of his way to punish anyone he perceives as an enemy, and he cares not a whit about the working class - his is a government by the wealthy, for the wealthy.

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

It's hard to fathom how so many people get taken in by Ford's folksy fake tough guy bluster. I can only conclude that these people are too shallow and lazy to pay attention to the real issues beneath the sound bites and headlines. You can fool some of the people all of the time.

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Barry McLarnon 🇨🇦 @bdmclarnon.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I'm not sure my imagination can stretch that far... it seems more like an impossible dream at this point in time.

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Barry McLarnon 🇨🇦 @bdmclarnon.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

The subs they should be worried about are their own - the edible ones containing lettuce and other ingredients that could be laced with pesticides and/or pathogens.

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Barry McLarnon 🇨🇦 @bdmclarnon.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Why is this not headline news? Because nearly all of our MSM is owned by American hedge funds or Canadian oligarchs, all in cahoots with the corrupt Ford gov't. Our local CTV outlet ran a fluff piece tonight showing teachers getting supplies ready for opening day, with nary a mention of Staples.

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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 · 31/08/2026

The submarines he should fear are the local sandwiches containing US lettuce and other veggies laced with pathogens.

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Barry McLarnon 🇨🇦 @bdmclarnon.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

If you're as clueless as I was and have never encountered the word "giss" before, there's a nice Wikipedia page that explains: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jizz_%2... The alternate spelling of "jizz" seems to be preferred, but for me at least, it has an unfortunate and inappropriate connotation!

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Jizz (birding) - Wikipedia

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Barry McLarnon 🇨🇦 @bdmclarnon.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

I browsed the list and got the result I fully expected to get: absolute zero. Life is good!

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

That's the one my wife and I use. It only comes in one size and it's a bit snug on me, but that may be a good thing since I have a beard. For longer duration use (e.g., travel by air), we switch back to our tried-and-true 3M Aura headband masks.

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

We humbly apologize for our moronic Premier and his dumb theatrics... to make matters much worse, he is also a corrupt grifter like your POTUS, whom he greatly admired until Trump made it clear that the admiration was not mutual.

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

And yet, we still haven't discovered a way to teach stupid, thoughtless people to think.

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

🎯 We're in a serious trade war, but we keep shooting ourselves in the foot when we could be making major gains in our economy that don't involve dealing with the Mad King wannabe south of the border.

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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 · 29/08/2026

It will be a start, but the evil oligarchs who engineered this authoritarian takeover of the US will not quietly slink back into their bunkers. I predict extreme messiness, and no return to anything resembling the way things were before the ascendancy of Trump.

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Barry McLarnon 🇨🇦 @bdmclarnon.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

I'm taking poke as the edible stuff (which I love), but it's generally already pretty low in fat.

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Barry McLarnon 🇨🇦 @bdmclarnon.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

I try to boot in safe mode, but it doesn't always work out that way. It helps to stay in the home zone, but that's not infallible either.

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

The only reason to wish for an extended lifespan for Teflon Don is the hope that a regime change will happen in 2028, and he'll be swiftly prosecuted and incarcerated. But it's a faint hope... I'll gladly settle for an early demise.

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

Good plan (and risk assessment)... we always try to time our boosters to be a month or two before significant travel (i.e., by air). We're heading for Alberta in early September and got our last booster (Covid jab #12, but who's counting anymore?) at the end of June.

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

It's still a kakistocracy in its toxic core, but it's wrapped in a shitocracy, which is in turn wrapped in a clownocracy.

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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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