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🇨🇦 The Old Man 🇨🇦

@masqueradehfx.bsky.social
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Union officer; Public Employee; GenX contrarian; Angry Canadian (Caper living in Newfy = doubly surly); General pain in the ass. Sensibly left leaning. Fan of Dr. Maddow, Daily 🫘, and anyone with a 🧠.

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🇨🇦 The Old Man 🇨🇦 @masqueradehfx.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
So, how long is it before the IS starts attacking #Ukraine in order to “protect US fuel supply”?
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🇨🇦 The Old Man 🇨🇦 @masqueradehfx.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
It's high time the civilized world puts severe sanctions on the USA. NO ENERGY NO OIL NO POTASH NO METALS OF ANY KIND NOTHING IN & NOTHING OUT Hell I would block oxygen if I knew how!
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🇨🇦 The Old Man 🇨🇦 @masqueradehfx.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Ethnic cleansing, secret police making people disappear, destruction of democracy in favour of fascist ideology, and now public executions. The US is beyond a failed state. If Project 2025 was the blueprint, Mein Kampf was the source material.
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🇨🇦 The Old Man 🇨🇦 @masqueradehfx.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Over the past 15 years I’ve lost 125lbs. For 8 of those years I’ve been taking Ozempic. I sleep better. My BP is normal. My A1C is 6.2. I look better, which makes my mental health much better! There is no shame in taking the medication prescribed and enjoying the benefits.
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🇨🇦 The Old Man 🇨🇦 @masqueradehfx.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Well, today was a big day for me. I was elected as the National Executive Vice President for my Union, the Union of Veterans’ Affairs Employees #UVAE I am humbled and honoured to serve my members.
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🇨🇦 The Old Man 🇨🇦 @masqueradehfx.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
One thing about being in service to others is that sometimes to have to pinch your nose and wade into a cesspool to serve the folks in need on the other side. Giving the 🍊💩🤡 a photo op costs Mandami nothing, and keep his city out of the crosshairs of a mad king.
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🇨🇦 The Old Man 🇨🇦 @masqueradehfx.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
It’s obvious Americans have never had to take a Logic & Debate course in high school. Seriously, your gov really is moving into Sovereign Citizen territory.
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🇨🇦 The Old Man 🇨🇦 @masqueradehfx.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Bluesky reminds me of Canadian politics in the 80s - early 90s: we had Progressive Conservatives, Liberals, and the NDP. WE ALL agreed on the basic structure of a civil society, including universal healthcare, women’s rights, LGBTQ Rights. There was minor disagreement on economic policy. That’s it.
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🇨🇦 The Old Man 🇨🇦 @masqueradehfx.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I’m sure she is very concerned, Mike Johnson hasn’t heard a thing about it, and the preemptive pardon bribes are already being paid out.
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philsmithcross.bsky.social @philsmithcross.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
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🇨🇦 The Old Man 🇨🇦 @masqueradehfx.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Canada doesn’t care if US companies break their contracts and stop buying our potash. We have Asian buyers lined up 6 deep waiting and willing to buy all we can offer and at higher prices. Plus, Belarusian potash is incredibly low quality needing massive amounts of secondary processing. Good luck.
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🇨🇦 The Old Man 🇨🇦 @masqueradehfx.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Commodore 64 - I spent MONTHS as a teenager fighting WW3.
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🇨🇦 The Old Man 🇨🇦 @masqueradehfx.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
No. Absolutely not! You are not sending those mouth breathing idiots around the world like a cancer. You wall them in down south and keep the rest of us safe.
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Mark Carney @mark-carney.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Canada is building a deeper alliance with the EU so that we may write our own futures — with our values, and our ambitions.
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🇨🇦 The Old Man 🇨🇦 @masqueradehfx.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Ed Sheeran is experiencing in 2026 what corporations felt in 1986 during the South African Apartheid Boycott: silence gives consent. There is no neutral ground when it comes to genocide. There is no apolitical stance. You are either for it, and thus complicit in the atrocities, or against it.
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🇨🇦 The Old Man 🇨🇦 @masqueradehfx.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
In Newfoundland, Canada, we are paying $8.25/gallon ($2.20/litre). When Americans complain about their gas prices I just shake my head.
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🇨🇦 The Old Man 🇨🇦 @masqueradehfx.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Gremlin( aka That fucking cat!) and Ares doing their nightly battle. 
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🇨🇦 The Old Man 🇨🇦 @masqueradehfx.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The Israeli government needs to remember that when their grandparents said “Never Again!” They also meant “Never by Us.” What we are seeing in Palestine right now is the classic cycle of abuse. Abused children growing up to be abusers themselves. Break the cycle! Choose better.
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🇨🇦 The Old Man 🇨🇦 @masqueradehfx.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
We technically share 2 borders with the EU: Hans Island land border with Denmark, and a sea border with St. Pierre et Michelon.
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🇨🇦 The Old Man 🇨🇦 @masqueradehfx.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Himmler and Eichmann called it deportation too.
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🇨🇦 The Old Man 🇨🇦 @masqueradehfx.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
My biggest immediate fear over AI is pretty simple: In a world where an AI can escape containment, find Zero Day exploits, deceive humans to cover its tracks, and operate in ways the devs never conceived of, how can either side believe the outcome of an election run primarily on machine voting?
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🇨🇦 The Old Man 🇨🇦 @masqueradehfx.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
I’ve been watching a lot of 80s music videos. And I swear to god I’m only now discovering that the singer for “The Neverending Story” was a man. For 42 years I thought it was a woman. 😱
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🇨🇦 The Old Man 🇨🇦 @masqueradehfx.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
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🇨🇦 The Old Man 🇨🇦 @masqueradehfx.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
A criticism of a government’s policy or actions is not a criticism of its citizens, and certainly not of its dominant religion. The State of Israel is NOT “Judaism”. It is a country, a political global entity, and a government that commands a military. It is not equivalent to a religion.
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🇨🇦 The Old Man 🇨🇦 @masqueradehfx.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
That would explain Schrödinger’s Senator.
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TizzyEnt @tizzyent.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
First Dolly now Tim?
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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
“There’s this famous 80-year old we need to you to bring in.” Grim Reaper: “Done!” “Hold on, not that one. This one appeared in Home Alone 2.” Grim Reaper: “Done!” “Would you please stop and just listen to the rest of the instructions?”
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🇨🇦 The Old Man 🇨🇦 @masqueradehfx.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Ok, seriously. How hard is it for the Grim Reaper to get the right 80 year old!?
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🇨🇦 The Old Man 🇨🇦 @masqueradehfx.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
80% of all US Crude Oil Imports. 90% of US Potash Imports. 60% of eastern seaboard electricity imports. And the only friendly source for the Uranium needed by the nuclear plants being built for all those damned data centres. Tell me, Trump, who holds all the “Trump cards”?
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🇨🇦 The Old Man 🇨🇦 @masqueradehfx.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
It would hurt for the few hours it would take to load the oil on to trucks and get to the port of Vancouver for sale to China or India. The real pain for the US would come from a tax on electricity. Imagine the pain if there was not enough power to run the Wall Street computers.
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🇨🇦 The Old Man 🇨🇦 @masqueradehfx.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
It is safe to say that South Korea and Taiwan are on their own.
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Gotta love these 10 "Coward-in-a-Crate" memes!* *a/k/a "Bone-Spurs-in-a-Box" Collect 'em ALL!!! 😂 😍 😜 👍
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🇨🇦 The Old Man 🇨🇦 @masqueradehfx.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
On Babylon5 they called them “Slaver Gloves”, and they were illegal.
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🇨🇦 The Old Man 🇨🇦 @masqueradehfx.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Ok smart people explain this too me: My weather app is warning of severe thunderstorms this afternoon; but the radar is clear for the entire day. Don’t you need, oh, I don’t know, clouds for there to be lightning?
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🇨🇦 The Old Man 🇨🇦 @masqueradehfx.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
My father and I share the same name. He is Sr., I am Jr. I am 52; he was 74 when he died 14 years ago. I STILL have certain restrictions on my credit reports and accounts due to lazy debt collectors trying to saddle me with the debts the estate settled when he died.
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🇨🇦 The Old Man 🇨🇦 @masqueradehfx.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
2/X Instead their convention adopts a platform that includes abolishing police departments and other idiotic self-owns. The conspiracy theorist in me wonders if the #DSA was a GOP false flag ops to embarrass the Dems. It certainly did that job! The key to winning in 2026 is simple: do no evil!
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🇨🇦 The Old Man 🇨🇦 @masqueradehfx.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
The #DSA faction of the #DemocraticParty jumped from the plane while burning their own parachute. All they had to do was focus on the “Socialism” common in the rest of the western world: affordability, wages, union rights, education, and healthcare. They could have swept the board. 1/X
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 07/08/2026
Two different countries. Two different headlines.
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🇨🇦 The Old Man 🇨🇦 @masqueradehfx.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
I see a LOT of straight women of all ages drooling for the show, but crickets from my gay friends. So, opinions: should I soldier through my cringe on the promise of the story getting better, or do I need a menopausal uterus to enjoy this thing?
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🇨🇦 The Old Man 🇨🇦 @masqueradehfx.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Ok, so I decided to start watching Heated Rivalry. Is my gay broken? I got 20 minutes into it, right up to the first smut scene, and had to shut it off. Am I the only one who thinks this is just the smut dreams of what straight white women think gay life is like? Or am I being too critical? 1/2
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🇨🇦 The Old Man 🇨🇦 @masqueradehfx.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
I think a lot of things in the US would be quite different if they were subject to the International Criminal Court and the War Crimes Tribunal.
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🇨🇦 The Old Man 🇨🇦 @masqueradehfx.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
The really sad (and scary) part is that this is EXACTLY the QAnon “Pizzagate” conspiracy theory - except they had the political party wrong.
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🇨🇦 The Old Man 🇨🇦 @masqueradehfx.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Any time I am flying and there is a crying baby within sight I take it to be my personal side quest to get the baby laughing before the plane lands by any means necessary. When it comes to making babies laugh, there is nothing my ego or shame won’t allow.
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🇨🇦 The Old Man 🇨🇦 @masqueradehfx.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Did you see the Marfa Lights?
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🇨🇦 The Old Man 🇨🇦 @masqueradehfx.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
www.cbc.ca/news/politic... Canada needs to impose an Idiot Tax on the USA. Does the 🍊💩🤡 not understand how wind works? Wait … he thinks wind turbines cause storms … never mind.
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Trump threatens increased tariffs for wildfire smoke that has 'unnecessarily invaded' U.S. | CBC News
U.S. President Donald Trump is adding his voice to the chorus of Republican politicians who are blaming Canada for wildfire smoke drifting across the border.
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🇨🇦 The Old Man 🇨🇦 @masqueradehfx.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Let’s just call #ICE what they really are: Einsatzgruppen encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/a...
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Einsatzgruppen: An Overview | Holocaust Encyclopedia
Einsatzgruppen, often called “mobile killing units,” are best known for their role in the murder of Jews in mass shooting operations during the Holocaust.
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🇨🇦 The Old Man 🇨🇦 @masqueradehfx.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
They exist to make non-whites terrified to exist in the USA. They exist to make non-whites - even those born in the US - so afraid that they flee to other countries. Terror is their only mission; and murder is the ultimate tool of terror.
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🇨🇦 The Old Man 🇨🇦 @masqueradehfx.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
The Gestapo. The Stasi. The KGB. These authoritarian “law enforcement” agencies all teach us one very important lesson about #ICE . Death, cruelty, and fear ARE THE POINT. #ICE does not exist in its current form to remove those who entered the USA outside of the established legal process. 1/2
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🇨🇦 The Old Man 🇨🇦 @masqueradehfx.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
I would not describe either of them that way. I know men who are very interested in having sex with such an orifice. I cannot imagine anyone wanting to touch either of them.
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🇨🇦 The Old Man 🇨🇦 @masqueradehfx.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Sadly it’s more than likely that if poison is found🍊💩🤡 will blame Ukraine.
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