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John in Halifax

@john-in-halifax.bsky.social

From soldier to the world of tourism. I draw stuff, I read (try to write), and love most creatures great & small. Very much into history.

created November 12, 2024

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Profile picture John in Halifax (@john-in-halifax.bsky.social) reply parent

A traditional dessert from my neck of the woods. www.food.com/recipe/best-...

8/9/2025, 9:05:51 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture John in Halifax (@john-in-halifax.bsky.social) reply parent

Russia would bleed itself white before her tanks ever reached Paris or Berlin. That, or those tanks wouldn't be crewed by Russians.

8/9/2025, 4:22:56 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture John in Halifax (@john-in-halifax.bsky.social) reply parent

Democracy only works when the government is afraid of the people, not the other way round.

6/9/2025, 9:02:15 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture John in Halifax (@john-in-halifax.bsky.social) reply parent

I- interest C- comprehension E- emphasis P- participation A- accomplishment C- confirmation The principles governing the delivery of lectures/instruction/presentations in the Canadian Forces.

6/9/2025, 8:05:24 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture John in Halifax (@john-in-halifax.bsky.social) reply parent

They should not leave. Surround the White House with a human fence 100-people thick. And stay. Elsewhere, flood the halls of congress. Fill the corridors & block the office doors.

6/9/2025, 6:40:24 PM | 14 3 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture John in Halifax (@john-in-halifax.bsky.social) reply parent

The president of The United States is a 14-year-old mean girl.

6/9/2025, 5:53:18 PM | 6 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture John in Halifax (@john-in-halifax.bsky.social) reply parent

Into the mist my guardian prows put forth, Behind the mist my virgin ramparts lie, The Warden of the Honour of the North, Sleepless and veiled am I! Halifax, from Kipling's "Song of the Cities."

6/9/2025, 12:47:56 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture John in Halifax (@john-in-halifax.bsky.social) reply parent

It's a broken theme park from a horror movie.

5/9/2025, 9:53:22 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture John in Halifax (@john-in-halifax.bsky.social) reply parent

My brother was an alcoholic. He died a few years ago from laryngeal cancer.

5/9/2025, 9:25:43 PM | 6 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture John in Halifax (@john-in-halifax.bsky.social) reply parent

That face reminds me of...

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5/9/2025, 9:22:59 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture John in Halifax (@john-in-halifax.bsky.social) reply parent

Umm... You didn't really win in 1812 because really, you didn't win.

5/9/2025, 8:43:22 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture John in Halifax (@john-in-halifax.bsky.social) reply parent

At this point the US is just a broken theme park out of a horror movie.

5/9/2025, 8:17:02 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture John in Halifax (@john-in-halifax.bsky.social) reply parent

Un-fucking-believable.

5/9/2025, 6:37:45 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture John in Halifax (@john-in-halifax.bsky.social) reply parent

If anal incontinence had a face.

5/9/2025, 4:55:54 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture John in Halifax (@john-in-halifax.bsky.social) reply parent

What an absolute idiot.

5/9/2025, 2:08:46 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture John in Halifax (@john-in-halifax.bsky.social) reply parent

Gonna be 1984 shortly.

5/9/2025, 1:08:19 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture John in Halifax (@john-in-halifax.bsky.social) reply parent

Being a resident of New Scotland, I will tell you that bagpipes are the link between sound and noise.

5/9/2025, 12:33:39 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture John in Halifax (@john-in-halifax.bsky.social) reply parent

I'd rather have a free bottle in front of me than a free frontal lobotomy.

4/9/2025, 9:54:46 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture John in Halifax (@john-in-halifax.bsky.social) reply parent

What do you call a dog with no legs? Nuthin'. He's not gonna come to ya anyway.

4/9/2025, 9:53:47 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture John in Halifax (@john-in-halifax.bsky.social) reply parent

Said it before; I'll say it again: Every day that trump continues to draw breath will be worse than the day before it.

4/9/2025, 7:04:35 PM | 11 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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4/9/2025, 5:35:57 PM | 8 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture John in Halifax (@john-in-halifax.bsky.social) reply parent

America could so benefit from a parliamentary system of government. You could've gotten rid of trump so easily.

4/9/2025, 4:30:17 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture John in Halifax (@john-in-halifax.bsky.social) reply parent

Florida ya say.

3/9/2025, 6:30:57 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture John in Halifax (@john-in-halifax.bsky.social) reply parent

Eeeyup.

3/9/2025, 6:29:29 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture John in Halifax (@john-in-halifax.bsky.social) reply parent

Disclaimer: Nagel Farage should be thrown into an open cesspit. As a veteran, Remembrance Sunday should take priority over anyone's protest. Would the free speechers in the US be cool with a protest at the tomb of the unknown soldier on Veterans Day?

3/9/2025, 5:38:08 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Insta Science (@instascience.bsky.social) reposted

The rarest big cat on Earth β€” the gorgeous Amur leopard (Panthera pardus orientalis)

18/7/2025, 8:21:13 PM | 800 156 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture John in Halifax (@john-in-halifax.bsky.social) reply parent

Agreed.

3/9/2025, 12:50:38 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture John in Halifax (@john-in-halifax.bsky.social) reply parent

It is an act of war.

3/9/2025, 12:49:56 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture John in Halifax (@john-in-halifax.bsky.social) reply parent

Killing 11 Venezuelans in a boat in international waters is probably -- and extremely so -- an act of war.

3/9/2025, 12:49:10 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture John in Halifax (@john-in-halifax.bsky.social) reply parent

Nighthawks is one of my favourite paintings.

3/9/2025, 12:42:26 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture I Post Animal Vids... 😊 (@realjfairclough.bsky.social) reposted

Cows don't just give milk, they give good vibes! 😊 #bluesky #nature #animals

3/9/2025, 10:08:21 AM | 9986 1396 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture John in Halifax (@john-in-halifax.bsky.social) reply parent

I don't think that reader would be, right.

3/9/2025, 12:35:07 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture John in Halifax (@john-in-halifax.bsky.social) reply parent

The audacity of the US never ceases to amaze me.

3/9/2025, 12:01:04 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture John in Halifax (@john-in-halifax.bsky.social) reply parent

Like veterinarians doing brain surgery on humans.

2/9/2025, 8:54:28 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture John in Halifax (@john-in-halifax.bsky.social) reply parent

Donald trump is like a barking cat: At first, a funny and bewildering quirk of nature. But in the end, a grotesque abomination.

2/9/2025, 8:05:23 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture John in Halifax (@john-in-halifax.bsky.social) reply parent

That motherfucker hasn't done a truth in his whole miserable life.

2/9/2025, 7:48:16 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture John in Halifax (@john-in-halifax.bsky.social) reply parent

I agree. And it's "toe" the line.

2/9/2025, 7:37:17 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture John in Halifax (@john-in-halifax.bsky.social) reply parent

Aliens would be like, "Yeah, nah."

2/9/2025, 4:10:50 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture John in Halifax (@john-in-halifax.bsky.social) reply parent

That's cool and all, but I don't think any of us are surprised a book on math history is still on the shelf...πŸ™‚

2/9/2025, 4:09:14 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture John in Halifax (@john-in-halifax.bsky.social) reply parent

That boy's uglier than a bag of broken hammers.

2/9/2025, 1:57:40 PM | 1 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture I Post Animal Vids... 😊 (@realjfairclough.bsky.social) reposted

Sheep dog puppy's first day on the job... πŸ˜ŠπŸ‘ #dog #dogday #bluesky

2/9/2025, 1:36:25 PM | 1251 168 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture John in Halifax (@john-in-halifax.bsky.social) reply parent

I cannot take seriously any man with a beard like that.

2/9/2025, 1:39:01 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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2/9/2025, 12:18:08 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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2/9/2025, 12:13:29 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture John in Halifax (@john-in-halifax.bsky.social) reply parent

Man... what a damn shame.

2/9/2025, 1:00:59 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture John in Halifax (@john-in-halifax.bsky.social) reply parent

If I had any say in how kids are homeschooled I would insist on: Submitting a monthly "class" schedule. Submitting a curriculum for approval. Periodic & unannounced home visits. Completed tests kept available for viewing. Exams overseen by outside proctor. But that's just me.

1/9/2025, 8:40:14 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture John in Halifax (@john-in-halifax.bsky.social) reply parent

Just practicing what Putin told them.

1/9/2025, 8:20:27 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture John in Halifax (@john-in-halifax.bsky.social) reply parent

bsky.app/profile/trum...

1/9/2025, 6:52:37 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture John in Halifax (@john-in-halifax.bsky.social) reply parent

Yeah that ain't right. But good to see.

1/9/2025, 5:02:57 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture John in Halifax (@john-in-halifax.bsky.social) reply parent

Likewise.

1/9/2025, 1:12:27 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture John in Halifax (@john-in-halifax.bsky.social) reply parent

So do I.

1/9/2025, 1:12:13 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture John in Halifax (@john-in-halifax.bsky.social) reply parent

Had I been here 22 minutes ago, I could have saved you a lot of wear & tear on your keyboard. I was tour guide here in Halifax for 15 years, routinely doing tours to Lunenburg. I know all about Bluenose; her skipper Angus Walters & what William RouΓ© did to make her so fast.

1/9/2025, 12:53:08 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture John in Halifax (@john-in-halifax.bsky.social) reply parent

It usually is :)

1/9/2025, 12:20:49 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture John in Halifax (@john-in-halifax.bsky.social) reply parent

Of her losses? Well, she lost the Lipton Cup to a schooner out of Gloucester Mass. named the Gertrude L Thebaud, and the UK race was against yachts built as schooners were. The race was part of celebrations for George V's silver jubilee. Bluenose came third.

31/8/2025, 11:38:05 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture John in Halifax (@john-in-halifax.bsky.social) reply parent

Well, "they" would be wrong. She lost the Lipton Cup race in 1930, and a race against schooner-yachts in the UK in 1935.

31/8/2025, 11:15:02 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture John in Halifax (@john-in-halifax.bsky.social) reply parent

Nice go-go boots.

31/8/2025, 9:22:45 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture John in Halifax (@john-in-halifax.bsky.social) reply parent

It's getting hard to find the words to adequately describe the level of crazy in the trump administration. They're turning America into a broken theme park al a Something Wicked This Way Comes.

31/8/2025, 9:09:52 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture John in Halifax (@john-in-halifax.bsky.social) reply parent

Seven shades of bullshit.

31/8/2025, 8:32:38 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture John in Halifax (@john-in-halifax.bsky.social) reply parent

As an old soldier, there are two -- among many -- things that piss me off. One, is saluting without a headdress, and the other, is civilians/people in civilian clothes saluting.

31/8/2025, 8:26:06 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture John in Halifax (@john-in-halifax.bsky.social) reply parent

lol... I got excited when I saw the word "trivia," so I added some. I wouldn't have if I fully understood the context of your post. I blame the drugs.

31/8/2025, 7:14:45 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture John in Halifax (@john-in-halifax.bsky.social) reply parent

Who was Zichmni?

31/8/2025, 5:25:35 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture John in Halifax (@john-in-halifax.bsky.social) reply parent

If Kristi Noem were Pinocchio, she could go fuck herself with her own nose.

31/8/2025, 2:48:22 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture John in Halifax (@john-in-halifax.bsky.social) reply parent

Gorkha's one of those fuckers you'd love to grab by the tie knot and just start punching.

31/8/2025, 1:30:36 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture John in Halifax (@john-in-halifax.bsky.social) reply parent

Nice to hear.

30/8/2025, 4:20:58 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture John in Halifax (@john-in-halifax.bsky.social) reply parent

Oh you have no idea. I spent time up north -- several occasions -- when I was in the army, and I've seen a few polar bears. They are huge, majestic, and deadly. They will hunt you.

30/8/2025, 2:53:48 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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30/8/2025, 2:24:55 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture John in Halifax (@john-in-halifax.bsky.social) reply parent

Appreciate it.

30/8/2025, 2:22:09 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture John in Halifax (@john-in-halifax.bsky.social) reply parent

www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Inl...

30/8/2025, 2:19:33 PM | 1 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture John in Halifax (@john-in-halifax.bsky.social) reply parent

In Churchill Manitoba, there is an unwritten rule that you do not lock your car at night, to give people a refuge should they encounter a Polar Bear on the walk home.

30/8/2025, 1:28:13 AM | 6 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture John in Halifax (@john-in-halifax.bsky.social) reply parent

America is a ship without a rudder, and one fuck of a rocky shore awaits.

29/8/2025, 11:31:30 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture John in Halifax (@john-in-halifax.bsky.social) reply parent

Yes, yes we do.

29/8/2025, 4:35:56 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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29/8/2025, 2:03:46 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture John in Halifax (@john-in-halifax.bsky.social) reply parent

Dat bitch gotta go.

29/8/2025, 12:58:34 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jonathan Slater (@jonathanslater.bsky.social) reposted

Galago core

28/8/2025, 8:49:14 PM | 455 78 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture John in Halifax (@john-in-halifax.bsky.social) reply parent

Thoughts and prayers when the horse has already left the barn.

28/8/2025, 6:53:56 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture John in Halifax (@john-in-halifax.bsky.social) reply parent

Things will have to get a whole lot worse before they start to get better.

28/8/2025, 2:40:58 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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27/8/2025, 9:50:38 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture John in Halifax (@john-in-halifax.bsky.social) reply parent

No, it's not kinda like Gaza or Ukraine. It's kinda like Nazi fucking Germany.

27/8/2025, 5:00:23 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture John in Halifax (@john-in-halifax.bsky.social) reply parent

Nothing will change until the 2nd amendment is amended.

27/8/2025, 4:06:13 PM | 7 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture John in Halifax (@john-in-halifax.bsky.social) reply parent

So would I. And I'd take every fucking one of them with me.

26/8/2025, 6:40:14 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture John in Halifax (@john-in-halifax.bsky.social) reply parent

That's some Olympic-level sycophancy right there.

26/8/2025, 6:39:12 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture I Post Animal Vids... 😊 (@realjfairclough.bsky.social) reposted

Cleopatra or TutanCatmun?? #cat #catday #bluesky

26/8/2025, 6:30:40 PM | 346 51 | View on Bluesky | view

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26/8/2025, 5:13:17 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture John in Halifax (@john-in-halifax.bsky.social) reply parent

Harris could have turned a new page in America's story.

26/8/2025, 5:12:10 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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26/8/2025, 4:47:18 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture John in Halifax (@john-in-halifax.bsky.social) reply parent

I see those kind of posts as the battle cries of mental Pygmies. I like playing with them sometimes. I can watch stupid people smash their heads into brick walls all day long.

26/8/2025, 4:17:53 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture John in Halifax (@john-in-halifax.bsky.social) reply parent

Idiot.

26/8/2025, 3:43:15 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture John in Halifax (@john-in-halifax.bsky.social) reply parent

Those "lot of people" are all in that room.

25/8/2025, 7:56:43 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture John in Halifax (@john-in-halifax.bsky.social) reply parent

lol... I just addressed step 1. Please pay attention. It was crisis that gave rise to Hitler. Yeah he did that other shit, but 'ol Adolph was hardly the first to demonize a political opponent(s). Some of the points are accurate, others not so much.

25/8/2025, 5:20:10 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture John in Halifax (@john-in-halifax.bsky.social) reply parent

And they're all in that room.

25/8/2025, 3:20:29 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture John in Halifax (@john-in-halifax.bsky.social) reply parent

"Special assistant to the president." Skank du jour.

25/8/2025, 2:25:12 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture John in Halifax (@john-in-halifax.bsky.social) reply parent

Oh yeah.

25/8/2025, 1:56:48 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture John in Halifax (@john-in-halifax.bsky.social) reply parent

When Hitler tried to seize power he was thrown in jail. When the Nazis won the 1933 election, Hindenburg appointed Hitler chancellor. Germany was in a crisis.

25/8/2025, 1:34:59 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture John in Halifax (@john-in-halifax.bsky.social) reply parent

www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNT8...

25/8/2025, 12:43:22 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture John in Halifax (@john-in-halifax.bsky.social) reply parent

Man, I wish that when people start using Hitler as a reference they'd have the facts down first.

25/8/2025, 12:39:02 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture John in Halifax (@john-in-halifax.bsky.social) reply parent

Yes, he absolutely failed upwards. But he became president because Americans worship celebrity, especially the stupid ones. It's why Regan was elected; it's why Schwarzeneggar was elected.

25/8/2025, 12:31:45 PM | 39 2 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture John in Halifax (@john-in-halifax.bsky.social) reply parent

Peggy's Cove, Nova Scotia.

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24/8/2025, 9:58:21 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Glorious.

24/8/2025, 9:56:28 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture John in Halifax (@john-in-halifax.bsky.social) reply parent

Smelania.

24/8/2025, 9:55:38 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view