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JW Roulston 🇨🇦🇳🇿🇮🇪

@ottawakiwi.bsky.social

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Lawyer, social worker, teacher, and writer working where law meets conscience. Montreal born, Ottawa based. Citizen of Canada, Ireland, and New Zealand. Bilingual/bilingue. Pro Oxford comma. ☘️🍁🥝 Saoirse don Phalaistín 🍉

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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 7h

whoever did this little bit of magnificence, take a bow

satire: a spirit halloween costume that’s a “violent antifa terrorist” and includes:
- inflatable frog suit
- cape
- pepper spray filter
- a thirst for the blood of the innocent
- air pump

batteries and Molotov cocktails not included

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JW Roulston 🇨🇦🇳🇿🇮🇪 @ottawakiwi.bsky.social · 3h

It’s divine

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JW Roulston 🇨🇦🇳🇿🇮🇪 @ottawakiwi.bsky.social · 3h

The first time I had treatment, I had to get a couple of biopsies and a bunch of cauterizing. Got the laser after that healed. Then some more cauterizing and another wait, then this.

JW Roulston 🇨🇦🇳🇿🇮🇪 @ottawakiwi.bsky.social · 3h

Touching some grass

JW Roulston 🇨🇦🇳🇿🇮🇪 @ottawakiwi.bsky.social · 4h

Day 4 - post laser skin treatment. Still swollen but starting to look normal. Heavy coat of paint and I can appear in court tomorrow
#recovery #rosacea

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👣COCA👣 🇺🇦 🐸 @nortygirl.bsky.social · 1d

A very happy birthday to AOC ....we all appreciate you so much....

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JW Roulston 🇨🇦🇳🇿🇮🇪 @ottawakiwi.bsky.social · 19h

Jet-lag of the soul: Ottawa insomniac hours meet Aotearoa morning scrolls. Someone’s always up in the whānau of time zones 🌏🌙✨
#Aotearoa #Ottawa #diaspora #insomnia #whānau #NewZealand

JW Roulston 🇨🇦🇳🇿🇮🇪 @ottawakiwi.bsky.social · 1d

Children cannot be criminals. Wtf is the matter with people who charge or - god help us - handcuff or zip tie children

JW Roulston 🇨🇦🇳🇿🇮🇪 @ottawakiwi.bsky.social · 1d

Enjoying the post-dinner Bushmills whiskey buzz that’ll start off the work week (admittedly braced to wake up a bit parched and all). No dishes #DinnerAtSomeoneElsesHouse

JW Roulston 🇨🇦🇳🇿🇮🇪 @ottawakiwi.bsky.social · 1d

I should’ve hung onto that. Also, let’s not forget New Zealand and Australian products

JW Roulston 🇨🇦🇳🇿🇮🇪 @ottawakiwi.bsky.social · 1d

a cartoon of snoopy making a heart with his finger

ALT: a cartoon of snoopy making a heart with his finger

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JW Roulston 🇨🇦🇳🇿🇮🇪 @ottawakiwi.bsky.social · 1d

Started sampling with Derek Roulston

JW Roulston 🇨🇦🇳🇿🇮🇪 @ottawakiwi.bsky.social · 1d

Day 3 after laser treatment for rosacea. All those little scabs like freckles. But the swelling is going down.
Thanksgiving dinner with people who’ll likely not be horrified!

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JW Roulston 🇨🇦🇳🇿🇮🇪 @ottawakiwi.bsky.social · 1d

A nice Scotch to nourish those planter roots

JW Roulston 🇨🇦🇳🇿🇮🇪 @ottawakiwi.bsky.social · 1d

Appreciated. The diaspora panel remains divided

JW Roulston 🇨🇦🇳🇿🇮🇪 @ottawakiwi.bsky.social · 1d

Which Irish whiskey pairs best with pavlova and fruit salad for Canadian thanksgiving?
Prime diaspora dilemma.
#aotearoa #newzealand #ireland #canadianthanksgiving

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JW Roulston 🇨🇦🇳🇿🇮🇪 @ottawakiwi.bsky.social · 1d

Pavlova about to go in the oven.
Prime diaspora experience - pavlova for Canadian thanksgiving
#newzealand #ireland #diaspora
#thanksgiving

JW Roulston 🇨🇦🇳🇿🇮🇪 @ottawakiwi.bsky.social · 1d

why does the Toronto Star persist in sending me baseball news? I promise that you are unlikely to find someone who cares less about organised sport.

JW Roulston 🇨🇦🇳🇿🇮🇪 @ottawakiwi.bsky.social · 2d

It’s an isolated island, beautiful but harsh.

JW Roulston 🇨🇦🇳🇿🇮🇪 @ottawakiwi.bsky.social · 2d

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JW Roulston 🇨🇦🇳🇿🇮🇪 @ottawakiwi.bsky.social · 2d

Été 2024 à Grosse Île

JW Roulston 🇨🇦🇳🇿🇮🇪 @ottawakiwi.bsky.social · 2d

John Whelan’s gorgeous piece, a lament for Grosse Île, the quarantine island in the St Lawrence near Quebec City where so many people fleeing the Famine were received, and where so many died from the diseases that ravaged their hunger-weakened bodies
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Grosse Île

YouTube video by John Whelan - Topic

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JW Roulston 🇨🇦🇳🇿🇮🇪 @ottawakiwi.bsky.social · 2d

last time it looked pretty normal within a week, and much better within four weeks. Some of the rosacea and sebaceous hyperplasia is gone for good, I hope.

JW Roulston 🇨🇦🇳🇿🇮🇪 @ottawakiwi.bsky.social · 2d

All those F*** Trudeau signs they posted everywhere, and now they're upset someone is following their instructions?

Nick Runyeard @nicker.bsky.social · 2d

Canadian political discourse this Thanksgiving weekend: The far right in Canada and the US are fuming over...

* Checks notes

... a shirtless Justin Trudeau (Liberal PM 2015 - 2025) kissing Katy Perry?

#CDNPoli #ViveLeCanada #Justy

Photo: Daily Mail

JW Roulston 🇨🇦🇳🇿🇮🇪 @ottawakiwi.bsky.social · 2d

Breathtaking everyday life in Ottawa