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Barry D🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇨🇦
@bigbangbear.bsky.social
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Stay-at-home dad after years of teaching.

Fan of triathlon, cycling, Celtic, TFC, Jays, Raptors and Tempo (when they start)

Hoping we can right the ship on climate, disease and wars
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The X link looks something like this:
Screencap used to show previous message sent in BlueSky to petition against Bill 5.
May 24, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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The list is pretty broad for who is eligible for a spring booster based on high risk groups, so shouldn’t be too hard to justify I would think.
List of underlying medical conditions associated with more severe Covid-19 disease from Canada.ca that Shoppers Drug Mart links too. Shoppers Drug Mart listing of people at high risk of complications from Covid-19: - Adults 65 years of age or older - individuals 6 months of age or older who are/have: — residents of long-term care homes or other congregate living settings — pregnant — from First Nations, Métis and Inuit communities — members of racialized and other equity-deserving communities — underlying medical conditions (other menu links to Canada.ca list) that places them at higher risk of severe COVID-19, including children with complex health needs
May 24, 2025 at 1:34 AM
bigbangbear.bsky.social
Right before that they describe the population they studied. It was those with new symptom(s) at least 3 months post-covid infection.
Highlighted section “…pooled prevalence data from 483 531 adults and children with new or persistent symptoms at least 3 months after their confirmed SARS-CoV-2 infection”
April 24, 2025 at 6:13 PM
bigbangbear.bsky.social
Pretty good month of gaming in March and now half way to completing my 10x10 challenge.

#games #soloboardgames #boardgames
Graphic showing the box covers of board games played (Tiny Epic Galaxies, Kingdomino, Friday, Gloomhaven Buttons and Bugs, Under Falling Skies, Bonsai, Final Girl: Happy Trails, Star Trek: Captain’s Chair.
April 3, 2025 at 2:27 PM
bigbangbear.bsky.social
Finished my first Lego set in a while today. Fun build. Lots of little pieces to build it up. Really like the size because never have the space for a larger scale or afford it. #Lego #StarWars
Finished Lego build of the Star Wars Executor on its stand with the plague for Return of the Jedi 40th anniversary.
March 23, 2025 at 12:10 AM
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Pretty good month of audiobooks and books. Like the summary from @thestorygraph.com .

#books #audiobooks
Image from The StoryGraph of my audiobook listening and reading for February. 9 Books; 239 pages; 60.5 hours; Av Rating 3.0.
March 9, 2025 at 5:01 AM
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It is. Despicably, Apple Maps and I think Google have “Gulf of Mexico (Gulf of America)” when viewing their maps in app from Canada.
Screen capture of Apple Maps showing the “Gulf of Mexico (Gulf of America)” label on the map
February 25, 2025 at 1:19 AM
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Just found out about @bgstatsapp.bsky.social in January. Wish I had found it out sooner because I really like the tracking and challenges. 2025 I was committing to playing my games regularly finally and it is helping with that.

#boardgames #soloboardgames #games

Here is my January summary:
Summary of my January Board Game playing from Board Game Stats. Images of Friday, Bonsai, Under Falling Skies, Gloomhaven: Button and Bugs and Final Girl. I completed 13 plays on 5 games with an H-index of 3.
February 7, 2025 at 4:47 AM
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Got my first win at Under Falling Skies😀 Have a bit better idea how to approach it now after being nowhere close the first few times.

#soloboardgames #games #UnderFallingSkiesGame
Board for Under Falling Skies with the rooms and Sky with the Alien Mothership almost at the end. Green token on the last research level to win.
February 7, 2025 at 3:40 AM
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Just finished muddling my way through first game of Star Trek:Captain’s Chair. Lot of fun and like the variety of options in how to play. Got a score of 74 in the Ensign play so not bad for first try.

#soloboardgames #games #StarTrekCaptainsChairGame
Table scoring play of Star Trek:Captain’s Chair. Glory tokens =19 Tokens on neutral locations = 2 Endgame operations = 3 VP on cards = 36 Research focus = 10 Influence focus = 3 Military focus = 1 Completed missions Total =74
February 6, 2025 at 3:46 AM
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Started my first go at Star Trek:Captain’s Chair. Took longer than I hoped to figure out setup and how things kind of work, so will have to finish tomorrow. Really like the attention to ST universe.

#soloboardgames #games #STCCboardgame
Layout of cards and other items for the board game Star Trek:Captain’s Chair
February 5, 2025 at 5:54 AM
bigbangbear.bsky.social
So close, but came up short winning for the first time playing Friday. Need to get rid of more zero cards next time I think. #soloboardgames #Fridayboardgame #games
Layout of cards fighting second Pirate in a game of Friday.
January 26, 2025 at 2:38 AM
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Fun first game of Final Girl using Laurie. Was thinking I was doing okay until rolls on every attack were terrible. Like the organization and rule book is pretty good. #soloboardgames #FinalGirlBoardgame #games
Boards, meeples and some cards laid out for Final Girl: Camp Happy Trails.
January 25, 2025 at 4:44 AM
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Spent a nice night watching Smackdown while trying my first game of Friday. Think I have a better idea of how it works now. Should be fun to play with more strategy second go.

#soloboardgames #boardgames #FridayBoardGame
Box cover for the board game Friday made by Friedemann Friese with the subtitle A Solo Adventure. Shows an illustrated Robinson Crusoe on a beach with sunk ship in the water.
January 18, 2025 at 3:57 AM
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First go at Under Falling Skies. Quite like it. Easy to setup and a game is pretty quick. Didn’t pay enough attention to the ships and got burned, but was still fun.

#boardgames #UnderFallingSkiesgame #games #sologames
Board layout showing the base, city (Roswell), sky and mothership for a playing of Under Falling Skies. Base has icons for energy, fighter jets, AA guns and research. Sky with icons for various enemy ship moves.
January 13, 2025 at 3:21 AM
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Just got Under Falling Skies delivered today😀 Looking forward to getting into it tomorrow.

Also found Ark Nova for $50 at calendarclub.ca , so pretty good week for games.

#boardgames #games #sologames #UnderFallingSkies
Box cover for Under Falling Skies board game showing characters fighting an alien invasion. Image showing the order to open Under Falling Skies with the layers of starting components and campaign.
January 8, 2025 at 2:58 AM
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Kids got creative finding a way to organize tiles for our second go round with Bonsai.

#boardgames #games #bonsaiboardgame #familygames
The Bonsai board game with tiles organized in toy kitchen pots, pans and bowls.
January 5, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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It will then appear in your feed list:
Image of the feed bar on Bluesky to show where the Pin feed appears
November 30, 2024 at 3:42 AM
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I just use the thumbtack Emoji and then added the thumbtack into my list of feeds.
Image showing the feed bar to illustrate that the Thumbtack can be added to find bookmarks easily.
November 7, 2024 at 2:28 PM
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Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #2,060,445!
September 16, 2024 at 9:49 PM
bigbangbear.bsky.social
This is what I came to say. Grew up watching that so that resonated more than Richard Scarry for me.
Image of Postman Pat, his cat and his Royal Mail van.
September 13, 2024 at 1:19 PM
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Went to the bad place for a minute and saw this from Canada Strong Masks:
Tweet from Canada Strong Masks stating that “Rapid test sales have spiked in the last 14 days. Not good.”
September 8, 2024 at 2:25 AM
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Took this on a hike with my family today. Really liked that the shadows looked like steps in the water.
Picture of three tree shadows on the water taken during a hike that looked like stairs.
August 30, 2024 at 10:57 PM
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Not a lot better in the Toronto Star from this headline:
Article from Toronto Star - Article raises concerns of swing to far left after blocking far right included is a picture of a French flag being waved
July 9, 2024 at 3:01 AM
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Wow. Hadn’t seen that.

The Lake Laurentian Conservation Area had a peacekeeping mission with a(some) beaver(s) at one of their bridges on the trails. Entertaining to see for a few years.

Right is after a fence was put up to finally end the beaver war. Now beavers and water snakes living in/on it.
A picture of a trail bridge that has a beaver house next to it in the water and branches across the bridge from the beaver working. Picture of a beaver house with multiple water snakes living on it too.
February 8, 2024 at 2:45 AM