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Dan 🇨🇦

@veloveritas.bsky.social

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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. ✌️

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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

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Dan 🇨🇦 @veloveritas.bsky.social · 17h

But isn't the #wankpanzer rated for off road? Just because you can buy a vehicle with the kinetic energy of a combat vehicle doesn't mean you should.

Dan 🇨🇦 @veloveritas.bsky.social · 18h

😂 Texas, of course.

Dan 🇨🇦 @veloveritas.bsky.social · 18h

Autumn.

Ottawa Arboretum.

Dan 🇨🇦 @veloveritas.bsky.social · 18h

Your eldest is not wrong. 🙂

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Denial @denialbarbour.bsky.social · 21h

My eldest just arriving in Prague:

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Dan 🇨🇦 @veloveritas.bsky.social · 18h

Trump tried to pull the UAE investor towards him, but failed spectacularly. I am laughing my ass off at the stupidity of Trump's power plays.

What a #Moron.

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Michael de Adder @deadder.bsky.social · 1d

Peace, by @deAdder open.substack.com/pub/deadder/...

Peace

The Globe and Mail

open.substack.com

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Dan 🇨🇦 @veloveritas.bsky.social · 1d

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Dan 🇨🇦 @veloveritas.bsky.social · 1d

He is a fucking moron that nobody has ever seen before in human history. "Peace through strength?" Nah, ethnic cleansing through state sponsored violence. I am disgusted by this new crop of "leadership".

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darren32359.bsky.social @darren32359.bsky.social · 1d

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Eddie Smith @eddsmitty.bsky.social · 1d

⚠️WOKE CONTENT⚠️

🧵 Yesterday, was the 53rd anniversary of a race riot that took place on the USS Kitty Hawk on Oct 12, 1972. Would you believe me if I told you it started over a sandwich?

Yep.

#ProudBlue
#ResistanceRoots
#USDemocracy
#Voices4Victory

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Race riot at sea — 1972 Kitty Hawk incident fueled fleet-wide unrest

It was not a good time for the carrier Kitty Hawk as it steamed across the South China Sea toward Vietnam in October 1972. The ship already had been deployed for eight months, and was on track to spen...

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Charlie Austin @chuckles-s.bsky.social · 1d

APB

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Dan 🇨🇦 @veloveritas.bsky.social · 1d

A good day. I learned something new. 🙏🏻

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Dan 🇨🇦 @veloveritas.bsky.social · 1d

I've never eaten duck eggs. How do they compare to chicken eggs?

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Denial @denialbarbour.bsky.social · 1d

Right to left: chicken egg, duck egg, Pekin duck egg. :O

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Dan 🇨🇦 @veloveritas.bsky.social · 1d

Fashion Nugget.
#MiniaturePoodle

Dan 🇨🇦 @veloveritas.bsky.social · 1d

Truth Social, where truth goes to die and where the gullible are fleeced of their savings.

Dan 🇨🇦 @veloveritas.bsky.social · 1d

What tear? I don't see anything.

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Dan 🇨🇦 @veloveritas.bsky.social · 2d

😂🤣☠️👏🏻

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www.bbc.com/news/article...

Four killed in mass shooting after Mississippi football game

Twelve others were injured in the incident, which happened at around midnight.

www.bbc.com

Dan 🇨🇦 @veloveritas.bsky.social · 2d

A local bar with a sense of humour

Little Italy, Ottawa.

Dan 🇨🇦 @veloveritas.bsky.social · 2d

Happy Saturday, Al.

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Dan 🇨🇦 @veloveritas.bsky.social · 2d

What a fucking moron. His affect is that of a child who is well below the median on all behavioural and psychological indices known to mental health. I've never seen anything like it this century. What a fucking #moron.

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Dan 🇨🇦 @veloveritas.bsky.social · 3d

I have never seen a man of his age behave so expertly, and in a manner befitting an insecure child. He is perfect.

I got a failing grade in maths.
The teacher hates me.

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White House blasts Nobel Committee for not awarding Peace Prize to Trump

A spokesman says the Nobel Committee placed "politics over peace" in awarding the coveted award to Venezuela's opposition leader.