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Michael

@garrattguy.bsky.social
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Retired 🇨🇦 stage tech. I designed & made Neil Peart’s rotary drum riser (Rush). Learning about here. OCWGA (old cis white guy trying hard to be ally). Model engineer, amateur machinist, steam, trains, boats. Living afloat in Toronto.

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Michael @garrattguy.bsky.social · 15h
especially when you need to drive it along a bit while elevated! 😳😬
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Michael @garrattguy.bsky.social · 15h
Only if you write in American Mike. The z is correct hereabouts.
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Stephen Lautens @stephenlautens.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Canada - are you listening? #F35 #cdnpoli
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Michael @garrattguy.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Its in the books. Christopher Robin played it with Pooh Bear.
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Michael @garrattguy.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Stand on a bridge over running water. Contestants each drop a stick into the water on upstream side, run over to downstream side and watch. First stick out wins. Best played on small footbridge with no traffic. Very exciting for small children and ancient relatives.
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Michael @garrattguy.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
But Columbus discovered North America! Oh. Wait. Hang on a minute.
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Michael @garrattguy.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Pooh sticks! Yes! I did that with my grandson when he was little. Great fun.
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Michael @garrattguy.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Tired: The shore power is off this morning for four hours for a scheduled wiring upgrade. Wired: We are on onboard genny power now but it seems a bit weird to be running a 6kw diesel gen-set to run a few lights and the coffee machine but … coffee! Yay! 😆 Also wired: it’s not January!
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David Hamer @davidhamer1951.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
As a 🇨🇦Liberal and supporter of this government, one agrees with Mr. Picard. 🍁🍁🍁🍁🍁🍁🍁
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Michael @garrattguy.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
a profile view of snoopy with his tongue hanging out saying BLEAH!
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Michael @garrattguy.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
I listen to a radio DJ who regularly uses the phrase “we will continue on with …”. Drives me crazy. “We will continue with …” is sufficient. “On” in this sentence is superfluous. Cc @fuzzywuzzyto.bsky.social
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Michael @garrattguy.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Nice!
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Michael @garrattguy.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I voted yesterday and I saw stickers. Was not offered one and was not swift enough to ask! 🙄
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Michael @garrattguy.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Love how he pulls her out and she’s perfectly coiffed with hat pinned in place. 😳👍😁
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Michael @garrattguy.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Am guessing that officer at the foot of the steps is there to break his fall if he misses a step.
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Michael @garrattguy.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Read Alex 👇👇👇
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Michael @garrattguy.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Guy seems like a real bag o Schmitt!
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Michael @garrattguy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I still think - based on no inside information whatsoever - that Harper has kept PP in place precisely because he is unelectable which has strengthened Carney’s hand to implement policies and projects Harper couldn’t. C is, after all, a Progressive Conservative pm, not a dyed in the wool Liberal.
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Michael @garrattguy.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Viewed from the Toronto waterfront last night we briefly had sunset-illuminated red clouds across 180 degrees. Glorious.
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Richard, Toad the Just, Earl of Sausagetoad 🇬🇧 🇺🇸🌊 @richardlordtoad.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
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Michael @garrattguy.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I realize you are thinking long term but in the short term you know I’m only an hour away and could help if needed. You did ride with me once before and survived the experience. 😉
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Michael @garrattguy.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
They don’t just want to be racists - they want to be real gennwine gun-totin racists. (In masks they refused to wear in a pandemic.)
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Michael @garrattguy.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Its a self-serving BS argument anyway. In the event of a successful US invasion these people will fall over themselves to join the fascists and be 🇨🇦 Iceholes terrorizing and killing people whose skin colour they don’t like.
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Michael @garrattguy.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
🎯🎯🎯
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Michael @garrattguy.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The problem with books is that one does spend an inordinate amount of time reading them! May I recommend #Enshittification by @doctorow.pluralistic.net ? It is an eye opener into a world I use every day yet know nothing about. #BookSky
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Raywat Deonandan 🍁🇨🇦 @deonandan.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Posted this morning by my good friend and celebrated writer Allan Stratton.
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Michael @garrattguy.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Is it appropriate to let us know upon which “little ship” you travel?
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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Oh to be a little Tardigrade walking around a microscopic volvox algae colony. 🫧🐻🧪
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Stephen Lautens @stephenlautens.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Okay - this made me snort...
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Michael @garrattguy.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The day has no right starting at five am. I mean. Seriously. Five am? Get a grip, even the sun knows 5am is too early! My name is not @fuzzywuzzyto.bsky.social so I shouldn’t have to do it. Hmpf.
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Michael @garrattguy.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
A lovely place. I took my sailboat in there in 1997 during the Cabot celebrations. A very deep harbour as I recall. Very welcoming people.
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Michael @garrattguy.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Yep, 🇨🇦 Canadians are “fantastically” unimpressed with the orange imbecile #PedophilePresident
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Michael @garrattguy.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
If #AI is going to kill off all of us in the next decade (new #virus?) who is then left to keep the data centre lights on? Wouldn’t they have to build a race of super humanoid robots first? Robot games showed a whole lot of progress is needed there. Would “we” notice or care or just help build ‘em?
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Michael @garrattguy.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
paywalled.
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Michael @garrattguy.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
How about something moderate that Trump would understand? Oh, I dunno, what about maybe a 50% export tax on energy? Oil, gas and electricity? To start?
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Michael @garrattguy.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
If the same kind of stupids who brought us climate change are now bringing us uncontrollable computer “thinking” with autonomy, this theory is undoubtedly correct and humans will not be travelling to the stars to contact anyone else out there.
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David Hamer @davidhamer1951.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
We are so fortunate in having @mark-carney.bsky.social at the tiller. Imagine, a national leader who thinks and speaks in full sentences and resists the temptation of all politicians to appeal to emotions and prejudices rather than reason. O Canada🇨🇦 Well worth a watch 👇🏻 youtu.be/eYAwioM3RQI?...
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Forward Guidance: A Stronger Canada
YouTube video by Mark Carney
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Michael @garrattguy.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Those hoodie things I have known for decades as a “fuzzy binkie” but in my defence (as an Ontario city boy) I was taught that by a girl from Nova Scotia.
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David Hamer @davidhamer1951.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
So, Prime Minister @mark-carney.bsky.social, Trump says the 🇺🇸USA doesn’t need 🇨🇦Canada, and that must include our buying fighter jets from him. So let’s get on with the Swedish Saab Gripen project. Just do it! 🍁🍁🍁🍁🍁
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Michael @garrattguy.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
All these guys seem to need to be in a mental institution with bars on the windows.
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Mr. Spock 🖖 @spockresists.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Gather 'round, because it’s time for a deep-dive exposé on the greatest religious heist in history. Let’s talk about how corporate titans literally bought, repackaged, and completely manufactured the "Christian America" brand we see today.
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David Hamer @davidhamer1951.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Oh, @deadder.bsky.social just made our weekend. 😏🤭😂
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Michael @garrattguy.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
First time I watched lawnmower man, my land line phone rang at the same instant as all others in the last scene. I was alone in a remote location. Was incredibly weird. @tabathasouthey.bsky.social
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Michael @garrattguy.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Expensive water that. Good luck fencing it.
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Stephen Lautens @stephenlautens.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Dear fellow Canadians - you know Trump's stunt about "re-naming" Lake Ontario is just that. A stupid stunt to distract from all the real and important issues between our countries where Trump is failing so miserably. It's arguing with Grandpa. Don't waste your time. #cdnpoli
Keep calm and Canada on.
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David Hamer @davidhamer1951.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Do please watch Ms Maddow put the boots to 🇺🇸Nazi Trump, linking his failure in Iran to his transparent distraction via an attack on 🇨🇦Canada. Lots of quotes from our 🇨🇦Prime Minister. 🍁🍁🍁🍁🍁🍁🍁🍁 youtu.be/fLzg4EO5bDg?...
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Maddow: Trump learns the hard way, 'incompetence has consequences'
YouTube video by MS NOW
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Michael @garrattguy.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Get stuffed Barron. You have no clue.
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Michael @garrattguy.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Fraud has no idea what he is doing with that oxyacetylene torch. He sure isn’t “welding” anything, nor even cutting anything the way he’s holding it.
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Michael @garrattguy.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Damn they look young in this but it was forty years ago! Insane musicianship.
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