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BGMcKay 🇨🇦

@bgmck.bsky.social

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Married for 20+ years to my best friend. He/him/Hey you Old truck mechanic, recently retired. Living in BC for a couple of decades, imported from Ontario. I grow food and flowers. Learning about native plants to help the bees. Solitaire witchy, pagan.

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BGMcKay 🇨🇦 @bgmck.bsky.social · 2h

After 2 weeks of travel and hotel food, I'm sooo looking forward to my annual exam this week.
But doc, I had lost 20 lbs in the 4 months before the trips.

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Princess Vimentin PhD | Cancer Biologist @princess-vimentin.bsky.social · 4h

Good Morning Jaye. Love this

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BGMcKay 🇨🇦 @bgmck.bsky.social · 14h

Have you heard Whitney Island 911 on 92.9 KISM?

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dindin6.bsky.social @dindin6.bsky.social · 15h

To ensure that our elections produce DEMOCRACY FOR ALL, we must overturn CITIZENS United & get big money out of our Elections. The Supreme Court's disastrous ruling in CITIZENS UNITED made clear that a constitutional amendment would be required to address the outsized role of money in politics!

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Raw Story @rawstory.com · 23h

A Donald Trump-appointed judge showed everyone how this president should be handled, according to a conservative analyst Sunday.

'A Trump appointee said no': Conservative flags the moment president's 'con' was 'exposed'

A Donald Trump-appointed judge showed everyone how this president should be handled, according to a conservative analyst Sunday.New York Times columnist David French, a former writer for the conservative National Review, wrote an article Sunday explaining how, in his view, the president's appointed ...

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Kathleen 🌲 @mossgatherer.bsky.social · 1d

I imagine it's still suffering from the Harper years when there was a decade of direct attacks on science, scientists, science education, and science funding. It isn't always about the US.

academicmatters.ca/harpers-atta... (2013 article)

Harper's attack on science: No science, no evidence, no truth, no democracy - Academic Matters

Science—and the culture of evidence and inquiry it supports—has a long relationship with democracy. Widely available facts have long served as a [...]

academicmatters.ca

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BGMcKay 🇨🇦 @bgmck.bsky.social · 15h

I showed my wife so she could have a laugh

BGMcKay 🇨🇦 @bgmck.bsky.social · 15h

Thanks for the reminder.

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Dii Moffatt @diimoffatt.bsky.social · 1d

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BGMcKay 🇨🇦 @bgmck.bsky.social · 15h

Yea. Today’s had a profile picture of cleavage but no posts. Instablock

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Fighting Liberal Texas Dem🌈🌊💙🦋Congress Switchboard 202-224-3121 @fightingliberal.bsky.social · 19h

'A huge problem': DOJ may have withheld evidence suggesting Letitia James’ innocence...

www.alternet.org/lindsey-hall...

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🇨🇦DUNK🇨🇦 (Proud Old White Hippie) @noofieninja.bsky.social · 20h

This is friggin awesome eh... So glad it's catching on...

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 21h

Chicago not letting Portland have all the fun 🐧

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Juni! 🥰 @literallyjustadog.online · 1d

yall there's a gay biking group in my normal Cafe right now and there are bears bullying twinks while they're all wearing the cutest and tightest little biking clothes I'm so normal

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BGMcKay 🇨🇦 @bgmck.bsky.social · 1d

It’s amazing the number of foreign nationals that are involved in the America First rhetoric.

BGMcKay 🇨🇦 @bgmck.bsky.social · 1d

How does trump know which puppet master to obey when?
Vought, Theil, Putin, the Saudi’s all pulling the strings.
Do the GOP not realize they are expendable once they are no longer needed?

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Bluesky Fanatic @blueskyfanatic.bsky.social · 1d

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Veronica (Vera) 🏳️‍⚧️ @veronica-atchley.bsky.social · 1d

I’m still teary after watching that ad. Jesus. (from @katelynburns.com)

www.burnsnotice.com/you-have-to-...

You Have to See This Mamdani Ad

I wasn't planning to post anything today. I dislike working and writing on weekends in general, but this was too important to ignore. You have to see this Zohran Mamdani campaign ad that came out this...

www.burnsnotice.com

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Erin 🇨🇦 @spicyerin.bsky.social · 1d

Pulled up to an early voting location only to see a line up AND a forever Canadian petition. Great job Edmonton!

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BGMcKay 🇨🇦 @bgmck.bsky.social · 1d

What a great thread to start my day. I’m a no ironing, don’t properly sort colours unless it’s a new item, wash in cold or warm water kinda guy who does his own laundry.
Cea’s methods may differ from mine. She also cleans the washing machine every weekend with vinegar.

BGMcKay 🇨🇦 @bgmck.bsky.social · 1d

It is good for my energy to have my 2 month old grandson sleeping in my arms, up against my chest.

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Chantal James @chantalalive.blacksky.app · 2d

No seriously read on Christopher Columbus & you will be like this evil mf! And cheering for his downfall.

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BGMcKay 🇨🇦 @bgmck.bsky.social · 2d

We are in a rental Jeep Grand Cherokee with good tires and I grew up in Ontario.

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Sista Cate Ruth ♿ @sistacatruthpurry.bsky.social · 2d

Stephen Miller... contest everything he does and says. Because – while this may be hard to fathom – if the US ends up with Miller as its dictator, we are in even deeper trouble than we are with Trump, and it could last a lot longer.
~Judith Levine (Brooklyn journalist).

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BGMcKay 🇨🇦 @bgmck.bsky.social · 2d

I hope the snow stays north as we are on the way to Castlegar for the weekend. Back to the lower mainland via highway 3 on Monday

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BGMcKay 🇨🇦 @bgmck.bsky.social · 3d

No real ow. More like uncomfortable and tender.