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Barry McKinnon @rockyuphill.bsky.social · 12h

Worst case, if you can get a bus from Minnesota to Winnipeg at least you could fly back to the coast on a Canadian airline.

Barry McKinnon @rockyuphill.bsky.social · 12h

Absolutely positively fresh sounds... www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_dd...

SUPER SUNSHINE

YouTube video by BAND-MAID - Topic

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Barry McKinnon @rockyuphill.bsky.social · 14h

There was a photo posted of Hugh Jackman arriving in LAX wearing a mask, taken on Nov 5. So people who think seriously about their health are taking measures to protect it.

Hugh Jackman in airport with mask on Nov 5, 2025

Barry McKinnon @rockyuphill.bsky.social · 17h

Considering I almost voted for a real estate agent in the last provincial election... 😏 OK, maybe not quite that bad but the political signs looked like a real estate agent sign and they were all clustered together in the same spot.

Barry McKinnon @rockyuphill.bsky.social · 20h

Just be happy you don't live on the border between Greece and Albania... www.sciencealert.com/arachnid-meg...

Arachnid Megacity Discovered in Cave May Be World's Largest Spider Web

A cave straddling the border of Greece and Albania has just yielded an absolute treasure trove of spiders.

www.sciencealert.com

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Barry McKinnon @rockyuphill.bsky.social · 22h

Feeling better is the best reason to be working out. The trails through Pacific Spirit park are a great place to run or ride a bike (or even stroll along), almost for sure no large animal predators. Maybe a few coyotes.

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Barry McKinnon @rockyuphill.bsky.social · 23h

This is just so hard to hear of this sort of abuse for being conscientious. I hope you're able to stay healthy. 😷

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Barry McKinnon @rockyuphill.bsky.social · 1d

Just imagine how many crypto bros are whispering in his ear. In 2018 I was sitting at a coffee shop in between meetings and I had this view, while I was there a guy came in and wheeled this Bitcoin ATM machine out because it had already risen in value to be impractical as regular currency.

A Bitcoin ATM in 2018, minutes before it was removed.

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Barry McKinnon @rockyuphill.bsky.social · 1d

I've seen speculation about this on a few financial YT videos over the past month. You know that any decision implemented will optimize profit taking for the Trump family, and they don't give a flying duck about people's savings.

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Barry McKinnon @rockyuphill.bsky.social · 1d

Apologies for making assumptions. There's a reason that the word assumptions starts with an ass. 🤭🥺

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Barry McKinnon @rockyuphill.bsky.social · 1d

You might want to start pitching practice, the home plate and pitcher's mound are surprisingly far apart when you're standing there and you wouldn't want to throw a grounder or bean someone in the dugout for your big scout impression moment. 😏⚾

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Barry McKinnon @rockyuphill.bsky.social · 2d

It isn't widely publicized, but all the behind the scenes of current movie and TV production has the crew masked, as they can't afford to risk having the star talent get sick at the cost of production delay, and the well paid production staff don't want to get sidelined with illness either.

Cartoon showing the process of trying to stop person that comes to work sick to spread the disease around the office

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Barry McKinnon @rockyuphill.bsky.social · 2d

There's a strong Monty Python feeling to this. www.youtube.com/watch?v=piWC...

Monty Python - Self-Defense Against Fruit

YouTube video by Caio Badner

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Barry McKinnon @rockyuphill.bsky.social · 2d

I thought it would be a good SNL skit if people posing as ICE agents would start abducting ICE agents and sending them to 3rd world countries. 😒😏

Barry McKinnon @rockyuphill.bsky.social · 3d

Spiders are never the same after they read Tolkien. 😏🕷️

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Barry McKinnon @rockyuphill.bsky.social · 4d

That old saying about civilization only being three missed meals away from collapse? 🤔 While the great pumpkin is having a Gatsby themed ball. 😒

Barry McKinnon @rockyuphill.bsky.social · 4d

Some music for proper dilly-dallying www.youtube.com/watch?v=7gE2...

Dilly-Dally

YouTube video by BAND-MAID - Topic

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Barry McKinnon @rockyuphill.bsky.social · 4d

If you needed any evidence the covid is still around in adequate levels to be an issue, I keep seeing Paxlovid banner ads on the Weather Network website. They wouldn't be spending money on ads if it was rare or harmless. 😒

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Barry McKinnon @rockyuphill.bsky.social · 4d

I'd be happy with MS Word clipart rather than AI art. Even Clippy with a guitar.

Barry McKinnon @rockyuphill.bsky.social · 5d

When you look at the percentage of the population who just refused any mitigations at the very start, whether that was masks or distancing, and then refused vaccinations, it's very apparent that even if covid was as deadly as Ebola, there's still 25-30%of the population that would do nothing.🙄

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Barry McKinnon @rockyuphill.bsky.social · 6d

You know that RFKjr will just say it's because the mothers took Tylenol while sick with Covid. 🙄😠

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Barry McKinnon @rockyuphill.bsky.social · 7d

Are elephants following orcas on social media? This can't be a coincidence. 🤔

Barry McKinnon @rockyuphill.bsky.social · 7d

You can do another one laying on the Library floor with an empty bottle of rye whiskey... Catcher Deep in the Rye. 🥴

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Barry McKinnon @rockyuphill.bsky.social · 7d

Social justice and equity, two things that have apparently gone completely out of fashion in the last 17 or so years (like effective public health agencies). And it was not all that fashionable before 2008 either. 😟🥺

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Barry McKinnon @rockyuphill.bsky.social · 7d

My grandfather would have used a bottle of rye whiskey. 😏

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