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Tim Dickinson @timinator.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

It's that time of year: the old SMU crew gathered at my place last night. We watched our alma mater crush Acadia at football, and then made a visit to the Split Crow. See you next year, boys! #HaliSky

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Tim Dickinson @timinator.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Just watched Avengers Endgame: Encore in the theatre. This is a re-release of the last MCU Avengers film, with a couple of (very small) additional scenes to tease Avengers Doomsday, releasing at the end of the year. Fun to see it on the big screen again.

Avengers Endgame: Encore movie poster, all the black and white superhero heads

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Tim Dickinson @timinator.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I finally finished the last season of The Boys. It ended with as much gore, foul language, and even more social commentary as before. No wonder the MAGA folks hated it: they leaned way in on skewering right-wing American politics and religion. Not remotely for everyone, but I enjoyed it.

Prime movie poster for The Boys, with Homelander and other supes

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Tim Dickinson @timinator.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Feeling like autumn by the water.

Me, standing in shorts and a blue hoodie, on the Halifax Harbourfront boardwalk

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Tim Dickinson @timinator.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Their lyrical focus is clear when you look at a copy of last night's setlist.

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Tim Dickinson @timinator.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Swedish power metal band Sabaton played Halifax today, and although I'm not really a fan my cousin and his grandson had an extra ticket, so along I went. And it was a fun show! All their songs are about military history so of course the stage had tanks.

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Tim Dickinson @timinator.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Back at badminton this evening.

My face, behind the strings of my badminton racquet

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Tim Dickinson @timinator.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I spent the last week in Las Vegas for work. After all that intensely dry heat, wild swings of freezing cold air conditioning, and enclosed planes, I needed to take some deep breaths of salt ocean air. #HaliSky

Me, smiling, at the waterfront with the harbour and some docked sailboats behind

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Tim Dickinson @timinator.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

And it makes for a pretty disgusting film. 😄

Movie poster for Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead

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Tim Dickinson @timinator.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I'm visiting my folks. The number of birds has decreased, as has their frequency of feeding, but there are still 6-10 hanging around.

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Tim Dickinson @timinator.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

I was giving my bike tires a bit more air before a ride today when a hornet stung me on my calf. I ignored that sign from the universe and pumped through the pain.

My Garmin map and stars for my 40km rude around Halifax

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Tim Dickinson @timinator.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

I finished watching Fallout season 2 a little while ago. I'm really enjoying this series too, and like the way they expanded the world this season. A good balance of sci-fi, grotesquerie, humour, relationships, revenge, and all delivered with a sense of fun, somehow.

Poster for Fallout season 2 on Prime. Main characters posing with guns in front of a Vegas sign.

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Tim Dickinson @timinator.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Did the 10KM Not Since Moses Run in Five Islands, NS, Canada, this morning. It was my third time, and it was fantastic! Great weather, an amazing vibe, fantastic volunteers, and so much *mud*! 3 of 3

Me over the finish line with other muddy runners

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Tim Dickinson @timinator.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Did the 10KM Not Since Moses Run in Five Islands, NS, Canada, this morning. It was my third time, and it was fantastic! Great weather, an amazing vibe, fantastic volunteers, and so much *mud*! 2 of 3

Runners ahead of me on the sandy ocean floor

Solo runner and cliffs with layers of exposed sediment

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Tim Dickinson @timinator.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Did the 10KM Not Since Moses Run in Five Islands, NS, Canada, this morning. It was my third time, and it was fantastic! Great weather, an amazing vibe, fantastic volunteers, and so much *mud*! 1 of 3

Runners prepare for start on a dramatic beach

Me and the other 10km starters in a group on the beach

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Tim Dickinson @timinator.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

It's been a few years since I ran the Not Since Moses Run, but I'm doing it again this year: a 10km run across the ocean floor at low tide in the place that has the highest tides in the world. And they have a fun shirt this year!

t-shirt with a huge red octopus image on it, and the text "The ocean floor awaits"

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Tim Dickinson @timinator.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Say hello to my little friend.

Close up of the underside of a large fly on my car window

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Tim Dickinson @timinator.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

South End deer: Driving on Inglis, close to Beaufort, about 4:30pm today and I saw three young fawns eating people's lawns. #HaliSky

Young spotted deer munching on people's yards

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Tim Dickinson @timinator.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

More animation: I caught up on Invincible seasons 3 and 4 recently. Great story, amazing character development, passable animation, and ludicrous violence. It's a lot of fun if you're a fan of superhero comics or adult sci-fi.

Poster for Invincible season 4, with many characters

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Tim Dickinson @timinator.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Went for a run early. I wanted to go before it got hot, but it stayed hot and humid all night. #HaliSky

me, in the park, with the harbour behind

my running route around Point Pleasant and the piers

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Tim Dickinson @timinator.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Morning bike ride before it gets hot. It was sunny and low tide, so the seals were on their rock off the south end of Point Pleasant Park. #HaliSky

me, sitting beside my bike, with a rocky beach and the harbour behind me

a few seals sunning themselves on rocks at low tide, a ways offshore in Halifax Harbour

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Tim Dickinson @timinator.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

I finished the first season of Widow's Bay, and I quite enjoyed it. It's like Jaws + The Fog + Northern Exposure + The Shadow Over Innsmouth, but funny as well as spooky. And all anchored by an excellent performance from Matthew Rhys.

Poster for the show, a pile of actor heads in front of an island with moody skies behind

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Tim Dickinson @timinator.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Saw Spider-Man: Brand New Day with my kid last night. Better than most of the recent Marvel bloat. Some good emotional notes, and cool action. Some fun crossover setup for Avengers: Doomsday. Nothing will match Raimi's first two Spider-Man films, but this was still quite good.

Movie poster: Spider-Man leaping towards a group of red-robed Hand ninjas

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Tim Dickinson @timinator.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Motorcycle v car has the bottom of Barrington St, by the Tim's, closed down. Police diverting traffic. #HaliSky

Car and motorcycle, both with damage, at the entrance of a Tim Horton's

Police cars and tow trucks on a blocked street

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Tim Dickinson @timinator.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

It's been ages since I've checked out the finger-pickin' blues of Garrett Mason at Bearly's. He hasn't lost a step. #HaliSky

Garrett on stage with an acoustic guitar

Garrett on stage with an electric guitar

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Tim Dickinson @timinator.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Season 9 of Rick & Morty released its final episode last night. This season was quality: funny, disturbing, and with lots of wacky high-concept sci-fi rigmarole. It's up there with seasons 1-3.

Image promoting the most recent season of Rick & Morty: giant Rick head wired into the image frame while the rest of the family prepares for battle on their sofa in a lake of lava.

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Tim Dickinson @timinator.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

I just watched The Odyssey. It was fantastic. It was an epic telling of one of the original and greatest epics. He shot this film entirely on 70mm IMAX film, not digital. And Halifax has one of just 41 projectors in the world that can show that format, so I saw it here. It looked amazing.

Giant movie poster for The Odyssey in 70mm IMAX

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Tim Dickinson @timinator.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Ok, let's go. Spain v Argentina. #WorldCup What I want: Argentina to win, but Messi can't get more than 1 goal.

TV screen with the football (soccer) match on

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Tim Dickinson @timinator.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

I just finished the third season of Primal, which was released earlier this year. It's incredible, emotional, wildly fantastical, incredibly violent, adult animation. This, and Samurai Jack, show how visionary and talented Genndy Tartakovsky is. Epic in every sense. www.imdb.com/title/tt1033...

An epic still image from the animated show Primal: a cartoon of Spear, a Neanderthal, riding Fang, a T-Rex, while a volcano erupts behind them

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Tim Dickinson @timinator.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

The Aisle24 self-serve always-open store on Robie St in Halifax has been closed since May due to a rent owing dispute. That's a shame. This store has saved me a couple of times.

Letters in a store front window saying they're temporarily closed, and a rent overdue notice.

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Tim Dickinson @timinator.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Local strawberries look really good right now.

A bowl of plump, shiny, red strawberries

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Tim Dickinson @timinator.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Culturally-appropriate opener.

Bottle opener shaped like a Mexican Lucha libre wrestler atop a bottle of Corona Cero.

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Tim Dickinson @timinator.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Damn: I saw that goal coming.

Morocco player ready to score against Canada

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Tim Dickinson @timinator.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

At first I thought I was back in Australia with a giant spider in my lampshade. Then I realized it was just the setting sun making interesting shadows.

Blue lamp by my sofa, with a large shadow on the inside of the lampshade that looks a great deal like a huge, long-legged spider

Shot looking down into the lampshade, showing that it's just the light bulb and the wires holding the lampshade up making the shadow

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Tim Dickinson @timinator.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Canada v South Africa, the only #worldcup match today! C'mon, Canada!

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Tim Dickinson @timinator.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Sunday morning stroll: the Halifax waterfront, newly-developed Cogswell District, and cricket on the Common.

Benches on a paved space surrounded by bushes with white flowers, between Hollis and Water Streets

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Tim Dickinson @timinator.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Current Halifax epidemic: city sidewalks that need trees and bushes trimmed 5o be comfortably usable by most folks.

Sidewalk stretching ahead with a row of leafy tree branches hanging below head head

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Tim Dickinson @timinator.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

The Independence of the Seas, currently docked in Halifax, was the largest cruise ship in the world when it launched in 2008. It's now somewhere between the 30th and 40th largest.

Large cruise ship docked in Halifax, behind the pier buildings

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Tim Dickinson @timinator.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Perhaps you've seen "Little Library" boxes around Halifax and other towns where people can donate and pick up books. Well, this house in my neighborhood has expanded on that idea.

Box mounted on a post in someone's front yard. inside are 5 tennis balls. the top lid has "Little free ball library (woof woof ball woof)" carved on it

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Tim Dickinson @timinator.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Today's breakfast #vinyl Mezzanine by Massive Attack

Album cover, close up of a huge beetle head

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Tim Dickinson @timinator.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Seawolf started out as a heavy-duty, ocean-going tugboat. It was later converted into a luxury yacht. It's in Halifax right now, presumably for the #SailGP races. www.superyachttimes.com/yachts/seawo...

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Tim Dickinson @timinator.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Staging is going up for the Sail GP this weekend in Halifax. sailgp.com/races/2026/c...

Stadium seating going up at the Halifax waterfront

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Tim Dickinson @timinator.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Had friends over, so I smoked some pork ribs today! 6 hours. See the stages.

2 racks of ribs placed on my smoker grill, not yet cooked

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