Tim Dickinson

COVID + influenza immunizations done. ✅ 💉

Euonymus alatus, aka the Burning Bush, is native to Asia, but lots of them have been brought to North America over the last couple of centuries. I love watching this one, planted in my front yard, make its top-down colour change each autumn.

Last night's fire at the grain elevators at the Halifax dockyard - resolved now - appears to have only been in the tower at the far end of the conveyors, out on the dock, and not near any houses. The actual elevators of grain are far from the water's edge. #HaliSky

Hey Norwegians: Trump may call you the citizens of a "shithouse country" but you're welcome in Canada anytime. #HaliSky

Me, in several parts of south end Halifax today. It's gorgeous out there!

For those in #HaliSky with kids, or who love seasonal celebrations, festive autumn and Hallowe'en fun is being set up at the Queen's Marque.

I just finished Below, the Netflix aquatic monster miniseries set in a small Newfoundland outport. It wasn't bad. The first 2-3 episodes were good, then it got hokey. Josh Hartnett's Newfie accent was mostly just Irish. I bet it showed a lot of folks a culture they knew little about.

The Tower Road bridge over the train tracks is finally open. I just drove over it. #HaliSky

www.thebeaverton.com/2026/10/nati... 😆

It ain't Nassau. #HaliSky

Reddit knows just how to position an ad.

This cat in a house on Queen Street between Morris St and Spring Garden Road in Halifax has probably seen some shit.

Waterfront stroll. #HaliSky

Beside the Canadian Museum of Immigration in Halifax are several monuments honoring immigrants or Canadians overseas. British Home Children, Polish settlers, Polish navy and merchant seamen, soldiers who died at Gallipoli, Canadian soldiers who helped liberate the Netherlands & Lebanese immigrants.

Evil Dead Burn was a good horror film, but not a great Evil Dead film. It had fun ties to previous film Evil Dead Rise, and plenty of wild and innovative gore and violence, much of it practical. Camera work was really interesting. But a weak ending with even weaker CGI left me a bit meh.

Hopefully that's the last time I have to mow my lawn this year.

Okay, Backrooms was my kind of horror film. Very creepy and unsettling (I later learned it started as internet creepypasta videos), deeply weird, and not completely explained. A great debut: it's Kane Parson's first movie and is studio A24's highest grossing film!

It's always sourdough bread-making season.

I went to Mystic the other night. While this kind of dining isn't worth it for everyone, I thought that the waterfront restaurant demonstrated it deserved all its accolades. It's delicious, interesting, beautiful, experimental, hyper-local fine dining. mysticnovascotia.ca #HaliSky

My coffee machine has a pressure sensor for the milk jug, and it controls the amount of steam injected into the milk. While in a hurry this morning I didn't place the jug properly, the steam kept running, I wasn't paying attention, the milk overflowed, and I got a drawer full of steamed milk. ☹️

Went for a walk around the hill and saw young bears fattening up for the winter by feasting on the stray blueberries left behind after harvest.

Visiting my family farm in Cumberland County, Nova Scotia, for Thanksgiving.

Obsession wasn't a bad horror film, but it wasn't as good as the hype, either. It did a great job of setting up creepy scenes, and it makes use of common worries about unbalanced relationships, but some of it was hokey and ridiculous.

I'm happy that I can cycle through a variety of urban and rural spaces from my house.

How many more bike rides can I get in this year? #HaliSky

Six months ago:

Do you like birds, Halifax? This bird-themed art market is going on at the Brewery Market for another 2 hours. www.facebook.com/share/1F9Unr...

Now that was some thunder! #HaliSky

I saw Preeper-Rhaye-MacKay at a sold-out show at the Carleton last night. Great folk tunes as always, with guitar, banjo, and jokes from my cousin Sandy. #HaliSky

It's that time of year: the old SMU crew gathered at my place last night. We watched our alma mater crush Acadia at football, and then made a visit to the Split Crow. See you next year, boys! #HaliSky

Just watched Avengers Endgame: Encore in the theatre. This is a re-release of the last MCU Avengers film, with a couple of (very small) additional scenes to tease Avengers Doomsday, releasing at the end of the year. Fun to see it on the big screen again.

I finally finished the last season of The Boys. It ended with as much gore, foul language, and even more social commentary as before. No wonder the MAGA folks hated it: they leaned way in on skewering right-wing American politics and religion. Not remotely for everyone, but I enjoyed it.

Feeling like autumn by the water.

Barf. Saw this elsewhere, was convinced it must be a joke, then found it mentioned everywhere. If it's a joke it's a viral one.

As someone who can see the grain elevator from my house, and who is also a mechanical engineer, I found this 30-minute video an interesting watch. #HaliSky youtube.com/watch?v=ZWdy...

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has invited Canada to become the first-ever “associate member” of the European Union, as Canada and the rest of the world shift away from the U.S.

Let's do this! www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...

I spent the last week in Las Vegas for work. After all that intensely dry heat, wild swings of freezing cold air conditioning, and enclosed planes, I needed to take some deep breaths of salt ocean air. #HaliSky

Given Alien: Covenant, I have mixed feelings. www.yahoo.com/entertainmen...

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