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Mike

@halifaxrunner.bsky.social

Left leaning runner and photographer. Married, kids grown, bulldog aficionado. Go Chiefs/Habs/Blue Jays. Tarnished. Vault Hunter. Veteran. Really bad guitar player, wannabe amateur pundit. From Halifax, N.S.

created November 7, 2024

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Profile picture Mike (@halifaxrunner.bsky.social) reply parent

At least Rand was educated.

1/9/2025, 6:43:51 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Detroit Breakdown (@detroitbreakdown.bsky.social) reposted

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31/8/2025, 10:27:13 PM | 8656 1503 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike (@halifaxrunner.bsky.social)

Capture One oddly has priced itself out of serious competition. And frankly it’s buggy and has only mediocre support. Adobe will be keeping its monopoly in the near term.

31/8/2025, 5:04:08 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike (@halifaxrunner.bsky.social) reply parent

Good luck with that.

31/8/2025, 2:39:07 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike (@halifaxrunner.bsky.social) reply parent

No. Alberta is not Canada.

29/8/2025, 5:22:41 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike (@halifaxrunner.bsky.social) reply parent

Translation. I was so fucking high.

29/8/2025, 5:13:29 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike (@halifaxrunner.bsky.social) reply parent

International Coward Experts.

29/8/2025, 5:11:05 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike (@halifaxrunner.bsky.social)

Fuck right off Alberta, just fucking leave.

29/8/2025, 4:52:50 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike (@halifaxrunner.bsky.social) reply parent

LOL we're not old we're.... ya, we're old.

28/8/2025, 7:54:42 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike (@halifaxrunner.bsky.social) reply parent

Fuck her. Not literally, barf.

28/8/2025, 7:50:00 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike (@halifaxrunner.bsky.social) reply parent

Stay and fight??? Couldn't agree more. Working for toxic morons is like hitting yourself in the face with a hammer, it feels good when you stop. It's congress that should be fighting. But we already know about these fucking cowards.

28/8/2025, 7:45:37 PM | 6 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture The Lincoln Project (@lincolnproject.us) reposted

RFK Jr. will kill Americans, sure as death. You have the GOP to thank you for that.

28/8/2025, 4:11:26 PM | 7045 2800 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike (@halifaxrunner.bsky.social) reply parent

Don't forget logo changes.

28/8/2025, 7:42:00 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike (@halifaxrunner.bsky.social) reply parent

Nice.

28/8/2025, 7:40:00 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike (@halifaxrunner.bsky.social) reply parent

Fuck yeah

28/8/2025, 7:39:23 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike (@halifaxrunner.bsky.social) reply parent

FUCKKKKKKKK make it stop!!!!!!

28/8/2025, 4:00:56 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike (@halifaxrunner.bsky.social) reply parent

Oh how the mighty have fallen. Once respected, now just another useless click bait machine.

28/8/2025, 3:56:34 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike (@halifaxrunner.bsky.social)

It's not even a formal or organized boycott. We just don't want to fucking go.

28/8/2025, 3:54:15 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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28/8/2025, 1:23:53 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike (@halifaxrunner.bsky.social) reply parent

On this, I'm happy to be wrong.

28/8/2025, 12:46:56 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike (@halifaxrunner.bsky.social) reply parent

Profit over life. It's the conservative mantra.

28/8/2025, 12:26:02 PM | 2 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike (@halifaxrunner.bsky.social) reply parent

Found it on Apple. Will have a listen. Thank you.

28/8/2025, 12:17:14 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike (@halifaxrunner.bsky.social) reply parent

Expectations were low, but holy fuck......

28/8/2025, 12:01:14 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike (@halifaxrunner.bsky.social) reply parent

No more drinking in the morning. It will be nice to see......

28/8/2025, 11:59:53 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike (@halifaxrunner.bsky.social) reply parent

You realize it's people in those cars. People that might have mobility issues. People that pay taxes. People that live too far away to walk. People that need to take their children to doctor appointments. People that only can grocery shop once every 2nd week. People like me, I like to park then walk

28/8/2025, 11:56:21 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike (@halifaxrunner.bsky.social) reply parent

41 is young. Not a good example.

28/8/2025, 11:51:19 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike (@halifaxrunner.bsky.social) reply parent

Thanks, I'll give Krita a try. To be fair I haven't played with Linux in a while. Most of experience today is through SSH/bash. You forgot OS/2 :)

28/8/2025, 11:50:10 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike (@halifaxrunner.bsky.social) reply parent

This is getting interesting. I remain a little skeptical though. I've lived long enough to observe so many times we were going to get 12(or x number), but it never happens. The 280 class, then the City class, and talk of 12 nuclear subs(Mulroney years). The exception, small patrol ships.

28/8/2025, 11:47:22 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike (@halifaxrunner.bsky.social) reply parent

It will nice to wee the return of Canada's only remaining non-conservative party.

28/8/2025, 11:41:44 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike (@halifaxrunner.bsky.social) reply parent

I don't mind the browsers. I'm pissed at the search engines. They return page after page of crap before any useful results.

28/8/2025, 11:38:51 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike (@halifaxrunner.bsky.social) reply parent

The difficulty of Linux is directly proportional to your understanding of OSs and patience. I understand it, and am fairly patient. I've played with various distros for decades, starting with Slack. I administer Linux servers. I will never use Linux as a desktop. No point to it. No apps. GIMP LOLZ

28/8/2025, 11:36:54 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike (@halifaxrunner.bsky.social) reply parent

The U.S. values profit over life. Even the lives of children. It's just not the NRA and lobbyists, it's also the deregulation of the EPA. Nothing can stand in the way of profit.

28/8/2025, 11:31:45 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike (@halifaxrunner.bsky.social) reply parent

Maybe he meant costs are going up by 1400%, that is mathematically possible, and in grocery stores plausible.

28/8/2025, 11:29:52 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike (@halifaxrunner.bsky.social) reply parent

I don't think it can be. The cat is out of the bag :(

28/8/2025, 11:28:16 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike (@halifaxrunner.bsky.social) reply parent

Does anyone believe this is somehow going to end well??

28/8/2025, 11:22:04 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Lion Hunter Music (@lionhuntermusic.bsky.social) reposted

“I have the right to do anything I want to do. I’m the president of the United States" This is entirely on you Chief Justice John Roberts. And so is the collapse of our democracy.

27/8/2025, 1:35:43 AM | 982 347 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture GLAAD (@glaad.bsky.social) reposted

"We will continue to fight for justice, remembrance, and a world where such a tragedy can never be forgotten or repeated, where the lessons learned from hate are honored, and where the LGBTQ community is treated with the dignity and respect it deserves." - Florida state Senate Shevrin Jones

26/8/2025, 8:23:08 PM | 595 108 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike (@halifaxrunner.bsky.social)

Snotty punk continues to seek ways to monetize human suffering.

27/8/2025, 7:27:24 PM | 2 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike (@halifaxrunner.bsky.social) reply parent

Wrong. North Koreans are shot if they don't. This was completely volunteer.

27/8/2025, 7:05:13 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike (@halifaxrunner.bsky.social) reply parent

They could have just shrugged and went meh, a sandwich, but small men are easily triggered.

27/8/2025, 7:03:34 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike (@halifaxrunner.bsky.social)

Prayers from the guy who had a filibuster proof senate. Fuck him.

27/8/2025, 7:01:49 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike (@halifaxrunner.bsky.social) reply parent

Really? Because praying is obviously fucking useless. You had a filibusterer proof senate. That could have been more useful than fucking prayer.

27/8/2025, 7:00:29 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike (@halifaxrunner.bsky.social) reply parent

Driving is a privilege, weapon ownership is a right. Think I found the problem. Too much money involved, and too many wannabe cos playing idiots to fix it.

27/8/2025, 6:56:53 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike (@halifaxrunner.bsky.social) reply parent

The problem is less browsers, and more search engines. I'm old enough to remember when you got back useful results. Not page after page after page after page of ads and fake reviews. Browsers aren't ruining the Internet, business is. As usual. I go between FF and Edge. I know, I'm a bad person

27/8/2025, 6:51:31 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike (@halifaxrunner.bsky.social) reply parent

Worst dictatorship ever. At least other dictators had brains and some charisma. Holy eff U.S.A, well played.

27/8/2025, 6:33:11 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike (@halifaxrunner.bsky.social) reply parent

Translation. Keep doing what you're doing, we should expect different results any second now. FFS

27/8/2025, 3:36:18 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike (@halifaxrunner.bsky.social) reply parent

Two two things can't both be true. "Everybody sees this for what it is", and she keeps getting elected.

27/8/2025, 3:33:44 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Gil Greening (@gilgreen.bsky.social) reposted

Those Reform nutjobs reminded me: "Being British is about driving in a German car to an Irish pub for a Belgian beer, grabbing an Indian curry or Turkish kebab takeaway, then going home to sit on Swedish furniture & watch American shows on a Japanese TV, while being suspicious of anything foreign."

27/8/2025, 9:12:12 AM | 5782 1160 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike (@halifaxrunner.bsky.social) reply parent

THIS !!

27/8/2025, 3:20:49 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike (@halifaxrunner.bsky.social) reply parent

Why is Cali only adding 5 to match Texas? Time to go nuclear. For every GOP one, add two DNC. The Democrats are almost getting it. Not yet though.

27/8/2025, 3:03:57 PM | 4 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike (@halifaxrunner.bsky.social) reply parent

What am I going to do with all my F*ck Trudeau merch???? sarcasm.

27/8/2025, 3:01:57 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike (@halifaxrunner.bsky.social) reply parent

The answer is in the accompanying photograph.

27/8/2025, 3:00:26 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike (@halifaxrunner.bsky.social) reply parent

Not sure if it's more nauseating than stupid, or more stupid than nauseating.

27/8/2025, 2:41:17 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike (@halifaxrunner.bsky.social) reply parent

Fuck what a bunch of man babies conservatives are.

26/8/2025, 7:24:38 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike (@halifaxrunner.bsky.social) reply parent

The combined IQ in that room still doesn't approach room temperature.

26/8/2025, 7:24:02 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike (@halifaxrunner.bsky.social) reply parent

Bag licking level 9000.

26/8/2025, 7:22:59 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike (@halifaxrunner.bsky.social) reply parent

Whomever wrote this was going for hyperbole and attention. Not seriousness. I suspect the author isn't a researcher. They are someone that does some Google searches and calls it research. No peer review, no statistical modelling. I am not researcher, but I'm not pretending to be.

26/8/2025, 5:18:18 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike (@halifaxrunner.bsky.social) reply parent

The strongest country in the world brought down by an orange incompetent pedophile. Well played U.S.

26/8/2025, 3:47:39 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike (@halifaxrunner.bsky.social) reply parent

A quick Google search showed that this is a lie.

26/8/2025, 3:45:01 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike (@halifaxrunner.bsky.social) reply parent

State that consistently votes against its own self interest angered when their self interests aren't being served.

26/8/2025, 3:08:52 PM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike (@halifaxrunner.bsky.social) reply parent

Fuck off troll.

26/8/2025, 2:33:08 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike (@halifaxrunner.bsky.social) reply parent

Trump probably didn't get it.

26/8/2025, 11:53:33 AM | 13 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike (@halifaxrunner.bsky.social) reply parent

Often it's probably even simpler than that. They just want big guns and to cosplay.They would never make it in the military, so they create their own fantasy.

26/8/2025, 11:49:49 AM | 61 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike (@halifaxrunner.bsky.social) reply parent

Soooo when is the 2A crowd showing up to stop this tyranny.

26/8/2025, 11:45:04 AM | 165 5 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike (@halifaxrunner.bsky.social) reply parent

Hit a cop with a flag, that’s a pardon.

26/8/2025, 12:46:31 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture George Takei (@georgetakei.bsky.social) reposted

What happens when cruelty isn’t a byproduct of politics but the point itself? Enter Trump’s sadopopulism. Check out Jay Kuo's breakdown of this terrible ideology.

25/8/2025, 7:24:37 PM | 1548 487 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Caitlin Johnstone (@caitoz.bsky.social) reposted

Normal person: Genocide is bad Crazy person: Woah hey, let’s not get political

25/8/2025, 12:39:43 AM | 643 134 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike (@halifaxrunner.bsky.social)

There needs to be a setting where people that don't allow comments are auto blocked. I have no time for thin skinned people that want to talk but not listen.

25/8/2025, 7:50:09 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Leonard Pierce (@leonardpierce.bsky.social) reposted

I know this is not a unique observation but public health was basically created to deal with the Spanish flu, and then a century later COVID hit and killed twice as many people and our response was to destroy public health

25/8/2025, 4:32:53 PM | 7055 1878 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike (@halifaxrunner.bsky.social) reply parent

Sounds like a fucking toddler.

25/8/2025, 4:21:55 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike (@halifaxrunner.bsky.social) reply parent

How many 10s of millions is 23%

25/8/2025, 4:17:32 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike (@halifaxrunner.bsky.social) reply parent

Interesting, if there is ever another free election.

25/8/2025, 4:15:44 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike (@halifaxrunner.bsky.social) reply parent

Time for the world to put up, or shut up. Start sending troops. Even at 63 I would gladly go. He won't use nukes. If he does, oh well. Would you rather die on your feet, or live on your knees.

25/8/2025, 4:14:49 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike (@halifaxrunner.bsky.social) reply parent

We've seen ads here in Canada from some states. They are mocked.

25/8/2025, 4:11:13 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike (@halifaxrunner.bsky.social) reply parent

Way up in Canada. Thanks U.S.

25/8/2025, 4:10:29 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike (@halifaxrunner.bsky.social) reply parent

That's the frustration. Don't people understand bullies? They can't be appeased, they can't be reasoned with. They can only be punched in the face. Then they curl into a ball and cry like toddlers.

25/8/2025, 3:59:47 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike (@halifaxrunner.bsky.social) reply parent

Days.

25/8/2025, 3:57:07 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Carter P. Hayes (@allchronology.com) reposted

Neil deGrasse Tyson: “Imagine thinking scientists, historians, scholars, economists, and journalists devoted their lives to deceiving you — but a reality-TV star, proven in court to be a lying felon, is your beacon of truth and honesty.”

24/8/2025, 3:14:30 PM | 10500 3004 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike (@halifaxrunner.bsky.social) reply parent

It's like a liefest for hateful cunts.

25/8/2025, 3:51:53 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike (@halifaxrunner.bsky.social) reply parent

Blowing drizzle finally. Need a good downpour though.

25/8/2025, 3:45:48 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike (@halifaxrunner.bsky.social) reply parent

They are definitely dedicated to their hatred.

25/8/2025, 3:45:00 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike (@halifaxrunner.bsky.social) reply parent

It's all indoors at the White House. Emphasis on White.

25/8/2025, 3:43:53 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike (@halifaxrunner.bsky.social) reply parent

Under his eye.

25/8/2025, 3:41:19 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike (@halifaxrunner.bsky.social) reply parent

The U.S. didn't have a choice. Trump is so charismatic and genius. Anyone would have been fooled by him. Get your sarcasm scanners out.

25/8/2025, 3:39:23 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike (@halifaxrunner.bsky.social)

Fact of life number 378. Trump is a pedo and was on the Island. This will never be proven. The people that can prove it, work for Trump now.

25/8/2025, 3:38:01 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike (@halifaxrunner.bsky.social) reply parent

The fact Cuomo is making this close demonstrates NY must miss Trump.

25/8/2025, 3:26:51 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture George Takei (@georgetakei.bsky.social) reposted

We’re waiting, Jake.

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25/8/2025, 1:22:21 PM | 8989 1852 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike (@halifaxrunner.bsky.social) reply parent

Same in west Halifax. It' getting darker and a bit cooler. Still no rain.

25/8/2025, 3:19:38 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike (@halifaxrunner.bsky.social) reply parent

Oh good, Project 2025 will get handed over to competent hard core racists and bigots. Any second you feel like fighting back U.S.A. would be good.

25/8/2025, 2:29:15 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike (@halifaxrunner.bsky.social)

Fuck off CNN. This has nothing to do with crime. "For weeks, Trump has ramped up efforts to crack down on crime in Washington, DC, which has also included a federal takeover of the city’s police department and increased federal law enforcement presence."

25/8/2025, 2:27:32 PM | 1 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike (@halifaxrunner.bsky.social)

Fuck these cunts are getting exhausting. Fight back any second now U.S. FFS.

25/8/2025, 2:22:45 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike (@halifaxrunner.bsky.social) reply parent

Halifax, pay attention.

23/8/2025, 8:20:40 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike (@halifaxrunner.bsky.social) reply parent

OMG stop trolling. You can't be fucking serious. Just another fucking Nazi supporting hateful cunt. Have a nice day.

23/8/2025, 8:19:29 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike (@halifaxrunner.bsky.social) reply parent

That idiotic statement says more about you, than Biden.

23/8/2025, 7:56:04 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike (@halifaxrunner.bsky.social) reply parent

How could anyone in their right mind look up to this fucking imbecile.

23/8/2025, 7:53:44 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike (@halifaxrunner.bsky.social) reply parent

If they even ask for your email address in return for something, by definition that isn’t free. Only in the dishonest absurd world of marketing is it considered “free”.

23/8/2025, 2:33:06 AM | 9 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike (@halifaxrunner.bsky.social) reply parent

Oh for fuck sakes. The GOP will be in power forever. What a feckless bunch of weak losers. Avoiding words will have Trump terrified.

23/8/2025, 2:21:32 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike (@halifaxrunner.bsky.social) reply parent

Obviously.

22/8/2025, 10:44:33 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike (@halifaxrunner.bsky.social)

Mark Carney is a fucking pussy, and Poillievre is a youthful version of J.D Vance. Fuck we are so screwed.

22/8/2025, 4:36:35 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike (@halifaxrunner.bsky.social) reply parent

Well I tried to walk away. 1. People survive fascism. Some people thrive in it. Hyperbole is a weak debate technique. Technically what's happening isn't even fascism, read a history book. 2. Read up on logical fallacies before your next Internet argument with a stranger. You'll be happy you did.

22/8/2025, 4:27:13 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view