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Matt MacIntyre
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code. music. coffee. climbing. bikes. outdoors.

unapologetic gif responder.

staff developer, drupal dept at VERB Interactive.

📍#Kjipuktuk #Halifax #NovaScotia #BikeHfx #HaliSky

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My neck hurts a bit from the stargazing... #fundy #stars
A bonfire-lit field of evergreen trees is seen from below against a very starry night sky.
October 11, 2025 at 11:42 PM
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It's such a bummer that this used to be one of the most recognizable photos of Andy when he was an MP... the mask is truly off.
A photo of current Halifax Mayor Andy Fillmore, riding a bike on a Halifax street, smiling and waving at the camera.
August 26, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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The math checks out 🦝
A screenshot of a manipulated Wikipedia article on Transitive Relation, with the word relation changed to raccoon.
August 14, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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Today I rode from Halifax (Coke Plant) to Graves Island provincial park.

While I’ll make some different choices next time, I’m immensely glad I came, and am thoroughly enjoying my time

#bikepacking #trackpacking #bikecamping #camping #bikehfx
A bike leans against a wooden fence. There’s a water view on the left, then a road, then a path on which the bike will travel, lined by forest. A bike leans against a tree on a pine-lined gravel path. There’s dappled sun shining through the canopy. A bike leans against a picnic table on a wooded campsite. A squirrel leans on the top tube of a bike, which is leaned against a picnic table. The squirrel is surveying the scene.
June 1, 2025 at 11:34 PM
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I am reading this during my first overnight-by-bike to Graves, from Halifax. It’s just lovely here… this is the only pic that matters to me now.
A bicycle stands against a picnic table, and a squirrel is leaning on the top tube surveying the scene.
June 1, 2025 at 11:27 PM
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After loaning it to a friend nearly two decades ago and not receiving it back, I put Douglas Coupland’s Microserfs on a wish list a while ago and received a new copy as a gift.

Just last night, I started reading it and am finding myself just as engaged by the story as the first time I read it.
A white man’s hand holds a book in the centre of the frame. The photo is portrait style with the book in sharp focus and the remainder of the photo in soft blur. The background of the photo is a bed and a closet, washed in reddish light. The spine of the book reads “microserfs Douglas coupland”. The cover of the book is a pattern of pixel art people in white briefs.
February 17, 2025 at 12:22 AM
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The new coffee carafe has arrived. Such a huge quality of life upgrade for me.

No more chopsticks balancing on a French press 😅
A white desk with a coffee mug and black coffee carafe sit in the foreground. In the background are some desk accoutrements, notebooks, and a bicycle on a wall/bulkhead in the background.
January 9, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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You’ve been kidnapped. The characters from the last TV show you watched are trying to rescue you. Who is coming to save you?
A black man—Andre Braugher as Detective Frank Pembleton—sits at a desk with a pen in his right hand. He’s wearing a lightly coloured shirt, a dark tie, and is wearing a gun harness. In the background are three people, occupied with newspapers and paperwork.
January 6, 2025 at 1:33 AM
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About a month off due to illness, travel, holidays, etc. Feels good to be back.

I’m absolutely gassed after a few tough climbs but I haven’t lost any grades so pretty happy about that.

This is the way.
A point of view of a man sitting in a bouldering gym. His feet are outstretched in front of him, with black and white climbing shoes on his feet. The gym floor and mats stretch out in front, and in the background is the climbing wall with holds and problems of differing difficulty.
December 30, 2024 at 3:29 PM
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I smashed my range server by accident and this is my interim pourover coffee setup. 😅

It works, but feels pretty clunky. Excited to get a new carafe.
A pourover coffee maker sits precariously atop a pair of chopsticks, which are in turn on top of an orange cast iron French Press. The whole assembly sits on a bamboo cutting board on a grey kitchen counter.
December 30, 2024 at 11:20 AM
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A real bright spot this week: the lovely selection of books we received as a draw prize from the season end of #KidicalMassHfx.

A is really into books right now - the biggest hit is Go, Bikes, Go!, by Addie Boswell.

Big thanks to this whole group and to @bikehfxlobby.bsky.social for the delivery!
The view is from above and slightly behind. A man sits cross legged with a small child sitting in his lap. The child has a red crayon clutched point up in her right hand. An array of books in front of them on a black and grey damask rug.
November 29, 2024 at 1:37 AM
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Strange how the mind has trouble placing what's missing when a building is demolished.

Resorted to Google Maps to see the building that was recently taken down on Creighton.

Fairly nondescript, except this beautiful wall. If you happen to have photos of this wall Halifax Halisky please share them.
The wall of a 2 storey office building is filled with vibrant graffiti. The art appears to span multiple styles and times, and is very well done. There are two vehicles parked near the wall.
November 1, 2024 at 12:37 PM
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My favourite note-taking pen right now is a $1.75 Japanese classic, the Mitsubishi Boxy 100.

I'm using a modded Uni Jetstream D1 refill (a bit of tape to simulate the flange on the just-ok S-7S refill that the pen comes with) in black ink.

Rhodia dot grid journal.

✍️
A black pen with the text Boxy 100 rests on an off-white page from a dot grid notebook. The ribbon bookmark from the notebook is strewn between the pen and the page.
November 1, 2024 at 11:55 AM
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Not sure if your app supports them, but there depending on where you are there may also be a PWSWeather station you can get data from. There's one on the peninsula and a handful in Dartmouth. Maybe closer than the Stanfield or Shearwater stations the app is likely pulling from.
A map of a section of the Halifax Regional Municipality, including Dartmouth and the Halifax peninsula. There are four pins showing PWSWeather stations.
October 30, 2024 at 9:46 AM
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Great time at the last #KidicalMassHFX of the season this morning.

Huge thanks to the organizers, volunteers, and participants that make these rides so much fun! A won a prize 🎉
A white family (mother, father, daughter) is on bikes as part of a larger group in an urban setting. The daughter is in a bike trailer.
October 20, 2024 at 3:55 PM
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Related - are there details on the (what appears to be bike) infrastructure in the upper right of this photo? There’s a caged / roofed structure that I’m sure I’ve seen holding bikes. I don’t see it mentioned in literature and I can’t find a labeled architectural diagram on my phone, apparently.
An aerial view of the Halifax Commons Aquatic Centre. It’s a multi structure facility with a pool top left, a splash pad bottom left, and entry / exit points to the right. To the top of the frame is an adjacent street.
August 22, 2024 at 1:59 AM
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First of many Kidical Mass rides today!

A slept through the last half of the ride and the first half of the post-ride social time, but overall a great success.

Was nice to see everyone and meet a few folks in person. We'll be back!

🚲 KidcalMassHfx BikeHfx KidicalMass HaliSky
3 people facing the camera on a sunny day. From left to right they are a man, a woman, and a small child. They are wearing bike helmets and smiling for the camera and standing on a residential street. A large group of citizens of the city of Halifax, Nova Scotia are on bikes on a city street. There are many children among them. The sun is coming through the trees.
August 11, 2024 at 7:11 PM
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Two of my north end favourites from the recent mural festival here in Halifax.

Love seeing such beautiful art in my daily life.
2 large murals on the side of a 2 storey greyish-blue building, viewed from the adjacent alley. The sky is blue. The mural on the left has a black background with multicoloured text at the top that reads "I'm so glad you're here", and flowers on the bottom in the same colours as the text. The mural on the right is puffins against an illustrated background with shades of blue and a pink circle. A mural on the side of a building viewed from across the street. It appears as a large window on the side of the building, revealing a woman inside looking at something on a table in front of her. The window is framed with shades of green and citrus trees, and covers the entire side of the 2-storey building.
July 24, 2024 at 8:13 PM
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Haven't played a platformer as challenging or satisfying as Celeste is since You Have to Win The Game.

Really enjoying the fact that gamepass works on an iPad with a controller 👌
A photo of a room dimly lit with reddish light. In the foreground is an Xbox controller in front of an iPad. On the screen of the iPad is the video game Celeste.
July 24, 2024 at 12:48 AM
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One of my favourite app discoveries in recent memory is one called Literature Clock.

It's what it says on the tin: literary passages that denote the current time... or as close to current as the database allows for.

Which is perfect.
A screenshot of an iOS widget provided by an app called Literature Clock. The text says "This is the evening. This is the night. It's is New Year's Eve. In about twenty-eight minutes it will be midnight. I still have twenty-eight minutes left. I have to recollect my thoughts. At twelve o'clock I should be done thinking."
July 20, 2024 at 2:37 AM
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Ten to Nine and it's already hot and humid out there.

Seek the shade and stay hydrated today, Halifax.
A screenshot of the app Carrot (a weather app various Apple operating systems). It reads: Partly cloudy for the hour. Temperature 21 degrees. Feels like 28 degrees. Wet bulb 19 degrees. Precipitation chance 0. Precipitation past hour 0. Wind speed 5km/h southerly. Wind gusts 0km/h. UV Index 1. Humidity 88%. Dew point 19 degrees. Pressure 101kPa. Cloud cover 40%.
July 15, 2024 at 11:53 AM
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Me, searching Brazil nuts after eating 4 of them and eyeing up a fifth... 👀
A screenshot of a web search about Brazil nuts that reads: People also ask How many Brazil nuts should you eat a day? A Quick Review Eating too many Brazil nuts can lead to selenium toxicity, which has symptoms like diarrhea, nausea, and a metallic taste in the mouth. Limiting intake to about one to three Brazil nuts per day is best.May 26, 2024 Brazil Nuts: Benefits, Nutrition, and Risks - Health
July 9, 2024 at 11:49 AM
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Most TT helmets look like something out of a sci-fi movie, but this year's Team Visma helmets are just something else...
A professional cyclist dressed all in yellow against a yellow background wearing a futuristic looking helmet.
July 5, 2024 at 3:00 PM
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Street view corroborates:
A screenshot of Google Street View showing the Charles and Creighton Street intersection in Halifax, Nova Scotia. It's a classic cross-shaped intersection, where 2 one way streets intersect. There's colorful art on the pavement in the middle of the intersection. The green grass lining the sidewalks suggests that it's summer time. The sky is overcast, and residential buildings line the streets in view.
June 13, 2024 at 3:21 PM
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This sucks.

I've had my share of road rage encounters, but I've also spoken candidly with a number of drivers that just get genuinely nervous and think that a honk is a good indication that they're about to overtake. It's--shockingly--actually recommended by the RMV handbook.
A screenshot of the Nova Scotia registry of motor vehicles driver handbook, illustrating various methods by which a driver should signal their intention.
June 5, 2024 at 2:59 PM