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Leo McKay Jr.

@leomckayjr.bsky.social

Anti-fascist Writer of fiction Teacher of students Inhabitant of Nunavut He/him.

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That's the reason why root beer is my second favourite kind of beer.

06.03.2026 11:13 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

This budget doesn't just impact artists.

06.03.2026 11:11 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

β€œPeople sleep peacefully in their beds at night because I shot my fucking dog.”

05.03.2026 23:44 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Sorry to be dejected on main but man it is really a time of disappointment in people hey!

So many people with whom I thought I shared a worldview and felt camaraderie with, and I was totally wrong, they just don't really share that worldview.

05.03.2026 11:34 β€” πŸ‘ 252    πŸ” 36    πŸ’¬ 17    πŸ“Œ 4

The thing about a person having a Nazi tattoo that all of us should keep in mind is that the people who use Nazi imagery willingly use it to convey not only hatred for Jews, but other deep hatreds as well - misogyny, anti-Black racism, ableism.

05.03.2026 12:22 β€” πŸ‘ 92    πŸ” 18    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 1

Ha ha ha! It was.

05.03.2026 11:49 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Hagman was unaffected by kitschy Get Smart nostalgia.

05.03.2026 11:48 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

That's what I've referred to it as all these years. And that's sort of what it brought to mind while standing near it.

05.03.2026 03:39 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

And when I started university in the early 80s, the percentage of university revenues that came directly from government was way higher than today, and tuitions were low. Tuitions were reasonable. You could pay off the debt of a degree in a reasonable time frame.

05.03.2026 03:37 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

As a Canadian watching this slide into fascism, it's interesting to me that I'm old enough (60ish) that I can remember when Canada's government was pretty significantly more socialist than the US, or at least had a significantly better social safety net.

05.03.2026 03:37 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I was part of a team that acquired a cold war era listening-device-proof room from the East German Embassy in Tokyo and attempted to sell it to TV star Larry Hagman.

05.03.2026 03:07 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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This is for Ben and All Nova Scotia.

Try better next time. #nspoli

05.03.2026 01:13 β€” πŸ‘ 20    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Thousands take to streets to protest cuts to N.S. arts grants | CBC News About 2,000 people gathered outside Province House in Halifax to let the Houston government know cuts to arts, tourism, culture and heritage sectors would cause irreparable harm to their industries.

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

04.03.2026 23:12 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

Look for the helpers.

04.03.2026 23:22 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Spanish PM SΓ‘nchez responds to Trump:

"Spain is against this disaster... Govts are here to improve people's lives... It is absolutely unacceptable that those leaders who are unable to fulfill that mission use the smoke of war to hide their failure, and in the process, fill the pockets of a few."

04.03.2026 11:24 β€” πŸ‘ 8254    πŸ” 2850    πŸ’¬ 200    πŸ“Œ 447
a person in a spongebob costume is walking on a field . Alt: a person in a poptart costume is walking on a field .
04.03.2026 14:20 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Seeing Mark Carney’s sad flip-flopping responses to the terrorist attacks on Iran is an important part of waking up to what Canada is and has always been.

04.03.2026 13:29 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Can you believe that some people think wealth inequality is bad?

04.03.2026 11:53 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

People said I looked like a teenage Jimmy Page.

04.03.2026 11:26 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Time flies when you’re drunk.

04.03.2026 01:47 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

THIS IS TYPICAL BEEF-A-RONI SHAMING BULLSHIT

04.03.2026 01:29 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

β€œWhy have you pulled me over, officer?”

β€œThis is for someone else to adjudicate, but your drunkenness is inconsistent with the law.”

03.03.2026 23:58 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

If you were Prime Minister and you issued a statement that *many* (including all national media) are taking to mean you support an illegal war started by the person who has been threatening your country, would you issue a clear, unambiguous statement that you do *not* support that war, or nah?

03.03.2026 17:47 β€” πŸ‘ 109    πŸ” 26    πŸ’¬ 8    πŸ“Œ 0

Saint Maud

03.03.2026 23:43 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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a young man is playing a guitar in a band Alt: a young man is playing a guitar in a band
03.03.2026 23:01 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

it's crazy how the Right was like "we want to destroy DEI" but instead they just invented affirmative action for racists and pedophiles

03.03.2026 14:37 β€” πŸ‘ 930    πŸ” 138    πŸ’¬ 13    πŸ“Œ 0

Nobody is asking me any questions. Should I answer anyway?

03.03.2026 01:12 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

β€œThese cuts appear to target the most vulnerable Nova Scotians,” Dr. Aaron Bates writes.

β€œThese harms were preventable. The 1 percentage point cut in the HST will cost Nova Scotia $265 million this year. Reversing this tax cut will nearly negate the chaos caused by this decision.”

03.03.2026 00:25 β€” πŸ‘ 36    πŸ” 17    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

I don’t know who needs to hear this.

03.03.2026 00:02 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

The U.S. is so lucky that everywhere it goes to enforce democracy it finds plenty of oil

02.03.2026 22:57 β€” πŸ‘ 41    πŸ” 13    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 1