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Bob Makichuk 🇨🇦
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Edmonton guy in Ottawa. Also a hack guitarist, reformed journalist, and a GC head of comms.
Views expressed in posts are mine.
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Making the pivot from the dirty bird. Bear with me while I boot up this feed. Appreciate follows as I reconstitute ten years in the other place and revel in some sanity here.
You can always catch the more professional side of my life over on Li. @BobMakichuk
a cartoon of snoopy and woodstock saying welcome home !!
ALT: a cartoon of snoopy and woodstock saying welcome home !!
media.tenor.com
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Most Calgary Transit posts on X seem to report between 600 and 2000 views at this point, despite 126K followers.

If you're in Calgary, following them here will likely help to move their attention over here a little more. #yyc
We’ve arrived on Bluesky! No fare needed, just follow along for service updates, tips, and a peek at how we keep Calgary moving. #CTRiders
February 2, 2026 at 8:15 PM
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Q: Do you plan on tearing the Kennedy Center down and how much will all of the renovations cost?

TRUMP: Probably around $200 million. I'm not ripping it down. I'll be using the steel. So we're using the structure. We're using some of the marble.
February 2, 2026 at 9:46 PM
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February 2, 2026 at 9:48 PM
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February 2, 2026 at 9:30 PM
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On Trump, Epstein, and their social circle of pedophiles. From HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT, written in 2019, before Epstein was indicted.

"The story of Jeffrey Epstein is one that will define our era..."

us.macmillan.com/books/978125...
February 2, 2026 at 9:05 PM
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CNN is reporting the real reason Trump is closing the Kennedy Centre for two years is not for renovation: “the Kennedy Center does not have a 2026/2027 season. There would not have been any programming to announce."
February 2, 2026 at 7:45 PM
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Professional athletes are being advised not to leave the hotel or go anywhere without their passports while visiting Minnesota.

This is not a country that can safely host international events like the World Cup.

Boycotting is not even a political question anymore. It is a basic issue of safety.
The Montreal Canadiens are playing the Minnesota Wild in Minneapolis tonight. The players have been recommended to stay in/eat at the hotel, take the team bus to the arena, and carry passports.

Perhaps we shouldn't be hosting the World Cup and the Olympics...
February 2, 2026 at 6:15 PM
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MPs agree to fast-track bill to implement GST relief with aim of passing it this week
GST credit: MPs agree to fast-track relief bill
The boost to the federal GST credit Prime Minister Mark Carney promised Canadians last week is one step closer to being enacted.
www.ctvnews.ca
February 2, 2026 at 6:40 PM
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The biggest crybaby in all of human history.👇
February 2, 2026 at 12:57 PM
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We remember Wayne Kramer, co-founder and guitarist of the influential Detroit hard rock band MC5, who passed away two years ago today.

MC5 - Ramblin' Rose - Live Tartar Field, Detroit 1970

#Protopunk #KnowYourRoots #WayneKramer #RipWayneKramer #MC5 #History #PunkRockHistory #otd
February 2, 2026 at 4:02 AM
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Billie Eilish: "No one is illegal on stolen land"
February 2, 2026 at 3:15 AM
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Whether it's Hillary Clinton writing "pls print" 35 times in emails on a private server or Donald Trump being mentioned 38,000 times in the emails of a notorious sex trafficker, both candidates had a fraught relationship with electronic communication.
February 2, 2026 at 4:17 AM
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As fell Kennedy, so falls the Kennedy Center: Taken down by a babbling conspiracy theorist, besotted then humiliated by Russia, standing alone at a window, oblivious to any wider context
February 2, 2026 at 4:20 AM
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I accidentally stumbled upon Vivian Maier several years ago in a doc that aired on TVO in Canada. It is streaming now. A must-see about this previously unheralded genius shooter.
www.imdb.com/title/tt2714...
February 1, 2026 at 3:20 PM
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Hopefully he'll remember this more than the trauma as he grows up.
February 1, 2026 at 10:13 PM
It's called flooding the zone, and apparently it works.
February 2, 2026 at 4:06 AM
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2 years ago today 😢

Wayne Kramer, co-founder and guitarist for the influential Detroit hard rock band MC5, died of pancreatic cancer at the age of 75.

Photo by Doug Fulton

#protopunk #knowyourroots #waynekramer #RipWayneKramer #MC5 #history #punkrockhistory #otd
February 2, 2026 at 3:31 AM
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Starting to get worried about Alberta separatists? Overlook Saskatchewan at your peril, says Dale Eisler. That should be a Canadian political truism.
The Volume is Rising on Trump’s Threat to Canadian Unity
Saskatchewan joins Alberta as a Trumpian object of desire
open.substack.com
January 30, 2026 at 4:57 AM
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Liam is Home💙
February 2, 2026 at 2:17 AM
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February Moon
Betty Albert ~ Cree
n.d.
February 2, 2026 at 12:00 AM
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read online that someone set-up a premium rate phone number where callers get charged $3.99/ min. then they posted flyers in their neighborhood that said "call this number to report illegal aliens," but the number just puts them on hold with music. so far, they've made $17,000
February 1, 2026 at 8:28 PM
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Full Bad Bunny speech
February 2, 2026 at 2:25 AM
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February 2, 2026 at 1:18 AM
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I once had a dream that went like this
A mother’s confession on SNL😂👇
February 2, 2026 at 2:34 AM
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resorts casino, atlantic city, new jersey, 1985
February 2, 2026 at 2:36 AM