Dan 🇨🇦
@veloveritas.bsky.social
Retired executive with 🇨🇦's federal public service. Full-time cyclist. Here on Bluesky looking for sensible perspectives on the existential threats facing us all.
Ottawa. 🏳️🌈 ally always. ✌️
Ottawa. 🏳️🌈 ally always. ✌️
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Dan 🇨🇦
@veloveritas.bsky.social
· Nov 18
An introduction: I grew up in Hamilton, not far from the steel mills. My dad provided for a family of four working three shifts at International Harvester before the company offshored its manufacturing. My opportunity to find work as a labourer evaporated when conservative neo-liberalism… 1/8
One should never experience joy at the downfall of another. There is one exception though:
Canadians don’t want a petulant Maple MAGA Prime Minister who will kiss Donald Trump’s ass.
“The Liberals enjoy an 11-point lead over the Conservatives as approval of Pierre Poilievre falls to an all-time low.”
November 30, 2025 at 12:21 AM
One should never experience joy at the downfall of another. There is one exception though:
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Donald Trump orders purported Venezuelan drug boats blown up, yet pardons a former Honduran president convicted of drug trafficking. Try to make sense of this.
November 29, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Donald Trump orders purported Venezuelan drug boats blown up, yet pardons a former Honduran president convicted of drug trafficking. Try to make sense of this.
With mixed feelings we're saying goodbye to our neighbourhood of Little Italy.
November 29, 2025 at 5:46 PM
With mixed feelings we're saying goodbye to our neighbourhood of Little Italy.
Trump, the socialist. 🙄
The US is where the pharmaceutical industry pays customers for the prescription meds they use.
The US is where the pharmaceutical industry pays customers for the prescription meds they use.
November 29, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Trump, the socialist. 🙄
The US is where the pharmaceutical industry pays customers for the prescription meds they use.
The US is where the pharmaceutical industry pays customers for the prescription meds they use.
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ok, they're really trying to get people back to malls...
November 28, 2025 at 9:05 PM
ok, they're really trying to get people back to malls...
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Happy Thanksgiving, y'all.
Today, don't talk about politics with your family, enjoy each others company and time together. Eat a lot, laugh a lot, and make a lot of good memories together. Enjoy the good times so you can withstand the bad times. Stay blessed, America.
November 27, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Happy Thanksgiving, y'all.
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If a phone still works fine, it’s not “device hoarding” to keep using it. It’s common sense.
November 27, 2025 at 3:58 PM
If a phone still works fine, it’s not “device hoarding” to keep using it. It’s common sense.
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Denmark sets up ‘night watch’ to monitor Trump after Greenland row - The Guardian
November 27, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Denmark sets up ‘night watch’ to monitor Trump after Greenland row - The Guardian
Fun fact: Tardigrades can dehydrate themselves, a process known as entering the "tun" state, which allows them to survive extreme dryness and the vacuum of space.
Also fun fact: Tardigrades play tiny cellos for Trump and his failing brand.
#Moron
Also fun fact: Tardigrades play tiny cellos for Trump and his failing brand.
#Moron
November 27, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Fun fact: Tardigrades can dehydrate themselves, a process known as entering the "tun" state, which allows them to survive extreme dryness and the vacuum of space.
Also fun fact: Tardigrades play tiny cellos for Trump and his failing brand.
#Moron
Also fun fact: Tardigrades play tiny cellos for Trump and his failing brand.
#Moron
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If one Afghan nationalist shooter means all Afghan nationalists are evil, wait until I tell you about white male shooters.
November 27, 2025 at 11:04 AM
If one Afghan nationalist shooter means all Afghan nationalists are evil, wait until I tell you about white male shooters.
We're busy packing for our move, and we come across this long-forgotten wool blanket. The T. Eaton Company Limited of Canada was a retail institution founded in 1869 and operational until its bankruptcy in 1999.
November 27, 2025 at 1:34 AM
We're busy packing for our move, and we come across this long-forgotten wool blanket. The T. Eaton Company Limited of Canada was a retail institution founded in 1869 and operational until its bankruptcy in 1999.
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bottom line:
Two National Guard troops would be home with their families tomorrow if trump had obeyed the Law.
Two National Guard troops would be home with their families tomorrow if trump had obeyed the Law.
November 26, 2025 at 9:40 PM
bottom line:
Two National Guard troops would be home with their families tomorrow if trump had obeyed the Law.
Two National Guard troops would be home with their families tomorrow if trump had obeyed the Law.
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How sad is this? I thoroughly enjoyed his book, Inconvenient Indian. I honestly thought he was of Indigenous ancestry.
www.cbc.ca/news/indigen...
www.cbc.ca/news/indigen...
Indigenous writers, academics say they aren’t shocked to hear Thomas King’s not Cherokee | CBC News
After author Thomas King's revelation Monday that he is not part Cherokee, some Indigenous writers and academics say the statement was a good first step, while others believe it lacks accountability.
www.cbc.ca
November 26, 2025 at 3:26 PM
How sad is this? I thoroughly enjoyed his book, Inconvenient Indian. I honestly thought he was of Indigenous ancestry.
www.cbc.ca/news/indigen...
www.cbc.ca/news/indigen...
A grim scene in Hong Kong. Eight apartment blocks - home to four thousand residents - are in flames.
www.cbc.ca/news/world/l...
www.cbc.ca/news/world/l...
Hong Kong fire in highrise housing complex leaves 13 dead | CBC
www.cbc.ca
November 26, 2025 at 2:59 PM
A grim scene in Hong Kong. Eight apartment blocks - home to four thousand residents - are in flames.
www.cbc.ca/news/world/l...
www.cbc.ca/news/world/l...
Post a famous bathroom scene.
November 26, 2025 at 1:58 AM
Post a famous bathroom scene.
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Trump became president to stay out of jail, make money and deport ALL brown people.
Not to lower prices, improve healthcare, fix the housing crisis, create jobs, repair infrastructure, or end wars.
It’s why we see his presidency
crumbling with the help of his corrupt family and inept Admin.
Not to lower prices, improve healthcare, fix the housing crisis, create jobs, repair infrastructure, or end wars.
It’s why we see his presidency
crumbling with the help of his corrupt family and inept Admin.
November 25, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Trump became president to stay out of jail, make money and deport ALL brown people.
Not to lower prices, improve healthcare, fix the housing crisis, create jobs, repair infrastructure, or end wars.
It’s why we see his presidency
crumbling with the help of his corrupt family and inept Admin.
Not to lower prices, improve healthcare, fix the housing crisis, create jobs, repair infrastructure, or end wars.
It’s why we see his presidency
crumbling with the help of his corrupt family and inept Admin.
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Hey, Ontario, repeat after me: Doug Ford is a total asshole.
November 25, 2025 at 12:30 AM
Hey, Ontario, repeat after me: Doug Ford is a total asshole.
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Comey: "I'm grateful the court ended the case against me, which was a prosecution based on malevolence & incompetence... I was inspired by the career people who refused to be part of this travesty. It cost some of them their jobs, but it preserved their integrity, which is beyond price"
November 24, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Comey: "I'm grateful the court ended the case against me, which was a prosecution based on malevolence & incompetence... I was inspired by the career people who refused to be part of this travesty. It cost some of them their jobs, but it preserved their integrity, which is beyond price"