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EUMETSAT @eumetsat.int · 29/03/2025

A stunning view of the partial #SolarEclipse from #space! 🌒 Captured by @eumetsat.int's Meteosat-12 satellite, you can see the Moon’s shadow sweeping across Earth between 06:00 - 12:30 UTC. 🛰 Unlike a total eclipse, part of the Sun remained visible - did you catch it from the ground? 👀

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Harry's Last Stand @harryslaststand.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

On the eve of war in 1914 or 1939, western civilization had revolutionary alternatives to the status quo and totalitarian alternatives. 2025 has none that are deeply rooted in ordinary people.

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Mike Gerald Gibbs @mikeggibbs.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

So Nazism is merely "controversial" now? As a person who would definitely be among the first to be condemned to "relocation" never to be seen again, I find that rather distressing.

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Mike Gerald Gibbs @mikeggibbs.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

I just voted! I rendered my verdict. I find the Ford Government GUILTY of: EXTREME CORRUPTION EXTREME INCOMPETENCE REPEATED LYING DERILICTION OF DUTY CAUSING DEATHS SEVERE CRUELTY AGAINST THE MOST VULNERABLE As such I voted to fire Doug Ford and elect #TeamBonnie!

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Mike Gerald Gibbs @mikeggibbs.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Today I feel good about humanity because neighbours are helping neighbours who need it without them having to ask for help. That's what our street does. I needed help with the snow today and my neighbours were there for me. I'm proud to call my neighbours my friends. ❤️

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Mike Gerald Gibbs @mikeggibbs.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

It is URGENT the rest of the planet treat RFK. Jr's confirmation as a full scale global public health emergency. The US govt is a hostile evil agent. It must be resisted. It must be isolated. It must be aggressively countered & outfunded with truth. The rest of the world must step up to lead

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Mike Gerald Gibbs @mikeggibbs.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

How was your week? Me: Pleasant. Very chill. Except a terrorist organization [Proud Boys] made a meme attacking ME and distributed it. So yeah except for the terrorists...just another week.

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a man in a suit and tie is giving a thumbs up sign

ALT: a man in a suit and tie is giving a thumbs up sign

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Mike Gerald Gibbs @mikeggibbs.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

CANADIAN🇨🇦 POTATO CHIPS *OLD DUTCH* [they are literally the best chips you can get, way better than American chips] CANADIAN🇨🇦 POP: PRESIDENT'S CHOICE JONES SODA DOUGIE DOG PIC A POP POP SHOPPE JUST CRAFT SODA TEMAGAMI GINGER ALE SCOTCH CREAM ALE HARVEY AND VERNS 1642 COLA BEC

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Mike Gerald Gibbs @mikeggibbs.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Dear rest of Planet Earth: Please show your support for Canada, Panama, Denmark and Mexico. As of today do not purchase ANY American products or services. And cancel all travel to the United States or any travel using US based airlines. 🚫🇺🇲🚫 #FuckTrump #BoycottUSA #CanadaStrong

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Mike Gerald Gibbs @mikeggibbs.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

These are the stars in the sky above us right now. Never ending. It feels like a metropolis of stars. The opposite of lonely. So much life? Until you think about interstellar travel and light speed. *We can't ever talk to them or visit.* We're alone even if we're not.

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Mike Gerald Gibbs @mikeggibbs.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

Laura is bang on. Also for 30+ years I've followed and studied Ontario politics. Yes there is a curse on provincial parties after their federal cousins win federally. Ontarians ALWAYS choose to divide power. I think this year is unique: Ford could win after a CPC win BUT not with an early election

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Mike Gerald Gibbs @mikeggibbs.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

So I literally got frostbite to take this long exposure picture. 🤣 It's a beautiful starry night. This is looking south facing the Winter side of the Milky Way, which is the dimmer outer parts of our galaxy.

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Mike Gerald Gibbs @mikeggibbs.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

I saw it. We all saw it. Elon gave a Nazi salute. I'm still gasping from the horror of that sight on my television screen.

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Mike Gerald Gibbs @mikeggibbs.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

I remember the lessons passed down to me by my grandparents who risked their lives and endured horrors to stop Hitler. That's why today I am not swayed by fascist rhetoric and I can identify it when I see it. We must not take our freedom for granted in Canada. We must guard it at all costs.

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Mike Gerald Gibbs @mikeggibbs.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

What the hell is up with that hat?

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Mike Gerald Gibbs @mikeggibbs.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Happy Inauguration Day, Americans. Long Live Canada and her freedom. 🇨🇦

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Mike Gerald Gibbs @mikeggibbs.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

Just got word from our neighbour that a giant Hawk or Eagle was bathing in the pond yesterday! It was drinking water, bathing AND leisurely sitting on the bench! It even posed for the cameras! People stopped in their cars to take pictures! And I missed the whole thing! 🤣

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Mike Gerald Gibbs @mikeggibbs.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

My parents will be saying this affirmation out loud every morning: "Our son Michael knows what he's doing. Everything he does is for our safety, comfort & pleasure. I shall not offer comments unless requested & constructive. I will not yell unless I'm dying or literally on fire." #Caregiving

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Mike Gerald Gibbs @mikeggibbs.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

Dear Americans: I've seen your apologies. I get you're sorry. But it's not good enough. I don't know if I can ever forgive Americans for letting this happen. I don't think you're the right people to lead the world anymore. I've lost faith in America. A Canadian

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Mike Gerald Gibbs @mikeggibbs.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

No one is talking about the NDP. They are also facing a catastrophic electoral outcome. It's 1993 except this time it's a blue landslide which means it could be even worse than 1993. Traditional NDP voters, except higher educated, are going Blue. NDP support could evaporate. .../

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Mike Gerald Gibbs @mikeggibbs.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

And just like that, it came and was gone in just 20 minutes, Mother Nature decides to change our world with a Lake Effect snow squal. Yay let there be snow! #ONstorm

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Mike Gerald Gibbs @mikeggibbs.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

The dude with "Fuck Trudeau" sprawled on the front window of his house a block away still hasn't taken it down. It makes me so angry. Kids don't need to see that every day on their walk to school. We don't need politics in our face like that. It is so disrespectful of everyone who lives here.

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Mike Gerald Gibbs @mikeggibbs.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

We have a government and a Prime Minister. Until further notice, the Prime Minister is Justin Trudeau. No one can negotiate for Canada and no one speaks for Canada unless they are authorized by the govt of Canada. Period.

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Mike Gerald Gibbs @mikeggibbs.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

This is what our winter pond looks like. That corner is managing to stay ice-less even on the surface as long as pumps are running. Local wildlife are very happy, foxes and birds are using it for drinking water. We'll probably be iced over until February. #ONstorm

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Mike Gerald Gibbs @mikeggibbs.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

Trump today: "I don't care if he (Pierre) wins. I don't care what he says." Trump shot down Andrew Scheer's messaging today that CPC will somehow gain Trump's favour bc they're Conservatives.

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Michelle J @maej43.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

First death. I pray it will be the last, but I don’t think it will. Man, I miss Mike Gibbs’ messy ass. We used to have great chats about viruses. First US bird flu death is announced in Louisiana - The Canadian Press

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Mike Gerald Gibbs @mikeggibbs.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

I know the world feels bleak right now. But remember this: if Pierre wins, as it seems he will, especially in a landslide... It means Doug Ford will lose the next election and someone else will be governing Ontario. Ontario never, ever, votes Blue after going Blue federally. Never.

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Mike Gerald Gibbs @mikeggibbs.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

#CharlieForNDPLeader One can dream and hope? Jagmeet: time to go. Charlie: please step up. You're the right leader for this moment.

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Charlie Angus @charlieangus104.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

I deal wth heartbreaking cases of refugees who can't get admitted to Canada. And then I learn that this shit bird from the Jan 6 mob is snowboarding in Canada instead of reporting for jail. He wants us to grant asylum. Boot his arse back to the States. www.thestar.com/news/canada/...

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He faces jail time in the U.S. after the Jan. 6 Capitol riot. Instead, he’s snowboarding in Canada

Antony Vo, from Indiana, has travelled across Canada as he awaits a pardon from President-elect Donald Trump for participating in the Capitol riots four years ago.

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Mike Gerald Gibbs @mikeggibbs.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

Today should be about thanking Justin Trudeau for his service to the nation. He steered the ship well. He made good calls and appointed good people. He showed us that crying is okay from men, so are hugs. That was an impt cultural moment. The current popular mood is unfair & undeserved.

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Mike Gerald Gibbs @mikeggibbs.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

This was Betelgeuse [pronounced "Beetlejuice" by some] last night from my telescope. QUESTION: Hypothetically, if Betelgeuse has already gone Supernova bc we see it on Earth 642 years in the past, will evidence of the explosion be visible to us BEFORE the explosion is? #Astronomy

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Mike Gerald Gibbs @mikeggibbs.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

Seven Sisters Star Cluster from my telescope last night. Baby stars clustered together in what basically is a nursery. Our Sun and all existence on Earth as we know it originates from something like Seven Sisters. When you see it you are looking at Creation itself or Genesis.

The Seven Sisters Star cluster imaged from my telescope, an 8 inch Dobsonian. 5 very fast high exposure images stacked.

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Theo Moudakis @theomoudakis.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

Please enjoy my cartoon in today's Toronto Star

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Mike Gerald Gibbs @mikeggibbs.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

Happy New Year! May it be peaceful. Your time on Earth is brief and can stop any second of any day. Live in the moment, the present, instead of the past or obsessing over the future. Right now is all there is. "Life is what happens to you when you're making other plans".

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Mike Gerald Gibbs @mikeggibbs.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

This was Mars from my telescope yesterday. Normally bc Mars is so small, smaller than Earth, it's only visible as a tiny dot even thru a Barlow Lens. Right now Mars appears as a planet looking object bc we are nearing our closest distance which only happens once every two years.

An image of Mars from an 8 inch Dobsonian telescope taken with a Canon EOS R7 on December 31 2024 at 6:30 AM Eastern. The Martian polar ice cap is faintly visible in the top right corner.

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Mike Gerald Gibbs @mikeggibbs.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

Bravo to the beautiful people, and sled dogs, of Churchill Manitoba. They participated in a BBC doc on Churchill which is a stunningly beautiful portrait of the town that leaves you in tears. That's how moving they were to this BBC reporter. Just watched it I'll post some clips.

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Mike Gerald Gibbs @mikeggibbs.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

Wayne Gretzky is a traitor. Rescind the Order of Canada.

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Mike Gerald Gibbs @mikeggibbs.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

There is almost nowhere in Canada today that isn't horrible weather for traveling. Stay off the roads if you can. There's black ice in pretty much every part of Canada. Stay where you are and delay your Xmas gathering if you have to. Don't risk your life for it!

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Mike Gerald Gibbs @mikeggibbs.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

I hope once Trump's trade war hits and we're thrown into an ugly recession that people will reflect on what kind of govt they want when they're unemployed or facing layoffs. Do you trust the Conservatives to help Canadians survive a recession when they urgently need income supports to eat?

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Blackfoot Niitsítapi🪶🇨🇦🇺🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️💙🌎🌲🌳🔥🐾🐾🐝🦋🦅🦬🦫🐋🦆🦉🐧🐦‍⬛🐻🦊 @thoughtsnations.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

Though I don’t celebrate any religious holidays, I do hope every single one of you has a safe, joyous & peaceful time. Thinking of those less fortunate-those impacted by war. The children to the elderly, animals, pets & wildlife who never asked for this. Peace on earth seems further away. 🪶🙌🏽❄️🇺🇦🇵🇸🇮🇱

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Mike Gerald Gibbs @mikeggibbs.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

If you use recreational drugs and plan to use during the Holidays, try to not use alone and have a supply of Naloxone. PLEASE REMEMBER: It is now the law in Canada that police cannot charge you with any drug offense if you call 911 because you or someone else needs medical attention.

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Mike Gerald Gibbs @mikeggibbs.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

It's a white Christmas here in Ajax with a snowstorm and we are kicking it old style with some Anne Murray! Merry Christmas everybody peace and love to ALL. #ONstorm

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Mike Gerald Gibbs @mikeggibbs.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

I'm seeing a lot of people driving around with upside down Canadian flags. That is supposed to signal actual distress. An emergency. A cry for help in a storm. Abusing it to make a crass political statement is just plain wrong.

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Mike Gerald Gibbs @mikeggibbs.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

I want to profusely thank the caretakers at Carruthers Creek Public School for using pet friendly anti-icing! My dog Tia is grateful. This is the first time I've noticed a public institution using animal friendly anti-icing on sidewalks. @TownOfAjax #ONstorm

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Mike Gerald Gibbs @mikeggibbs.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

I am flabbergasted as how well this platform seems to function. It's thriving! And demonstrating that keeping hate away and polite, civil but vigorous debate isn't just possible it's pretty simple and uncomplicated to administer. Bc we all know what decency and right and wrong is.

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Mike Gerald Gibbs @mikeggibbs.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

Mom is extremely sick with walking pneumonia or something similar it's going to be a quiet Xmas over here. I doubt they'll even get to see their grandchildren for yet another yr. I feel so sorry for my parents being so isolated. But they got me 24-7? I make for good company don't I? I try. 🤣

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Mike Gerald Gibbs @mikeggibbs.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

I've only been here an hour but I must concede you all were right and I was dead wrong. Bluesky is leaps and bounds superior to every other twitter alternative attempt which were complicated and served only elites. Bluesky is sticking with core 🐦fundamentals. It's accessible. Engaging. Easy to use

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John Roscoe @johnroscoe.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

It was a ding-dong miracle in 1610 and it still is now.

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