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Dennis Van Staalduinen

@denvan.bsky.social

Ottawa guy. Hating the Musky stench on Twitter. Kinda liking Threads (www.threads.net/@denvangram), but I’m app-ing around. Say hi if you know me from @denvan on Twitter… or IRL.

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Latest posts by denvan.bsky.social on Bluesky

Naturally… wait… you DON’T?!?!?

28.08.2025 19:02 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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That moment you realize we’re just one small comma away from having centaurs.

28.08.2025 00:02 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

I feel bad for the growers.... but otherwise?
It couldn't happen to a nicer trading partner.

09.06.2025 17:58 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

My absolute pleasure! Thanks for coming along for the ride.

05.05.2025 16:28 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Had such a great time leading two walks for @janeswalkottawa.bsky.social this weekend: 1) a re-walk of my Unbuilt Ottawa walk, and 2) my brand new walk MANIFEST DISCREPANCY - Ottawa's complicated history with Americans. Both were big hits, and the weather?!? Mwah! Chef's kiss!

05.05.2025 13:32 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
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Amid my LONG hours with Elections Canada this week, I snuck in a CBC Radio interview to promote my Jane’s Walk next weekend - called Manifest Discrepancy - about Ottawa’s complicated history with the United States.

All in a Day with Alan Neal: www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...

24.04.2025 12:53 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

CANADAAAAAAA!!!!!

24.03.2025 00:02 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Hoping for some poetic justice for Team Canada. The USA lost to *Panama*, and if they lost to Canada too? Mwah! Chef's kiss! The only thing better would be if they also lost to Greenland and Mexico as well.

23.03.2025 23:09 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Really enjoying a day of international soccer. First the just-ended Netherlands vs. Spain game (sadly a loss for the Oranje) and now catching the second half of the Canada/USA third place Nations League game. GO CANADA!

23.03.2025 23:05 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Poilievre’s broken slogan generator to blame as he vows to “Dink the Rink” and “Slime the Grime” Lethbridge, AB - Conservative party leader, Pierre Poilievre, spoke to a mystified crowd of supporters as he promised to go to Ottawa and “Dink the Rink” while standing in front of a banner emblazoned...

Poilievre’s broken slogan generator to blame as he vows to “Dink the Rink” and “Slime the Grime”

www.thebeaverton.com/2025/03/poil...

18.03.2025 22:05 — 👍 780    🔁 180    💬 38    📌 16

Right?!?! What terrible thing have I done in my life to deserve this?!?!

21.03.2025 14:00 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0
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Uh, thanks for the recommendation LinkedIn...
(jumps off bridge)

21.03.2025 13:51 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Brilliant explainer. Please watch and learn.

03.03.2025 19:58 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Apparently those who said the problem with annexation was that the price wasn't high enough, were the problem

24.02.2025 14:00 — 👍 33    🔁 9    💬 5    📌 1
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Well, to be fair, math is hard…

20.02.2025 00:40 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Normally, I'm in favour of careful proofreading of photo captions... but in this one case...

20.01.2025 18:42 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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After Donald Trump pledged to "pursue our Manifest Destiny into the stars... (and) plant the stars and stripes on the Mars".

20.01.2025 17:37 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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That hat.

20.01.2025 17:08 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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I see Melania dressed in her most festive outfit for the occasion.

20.01.2025 16:31 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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That feeling you get when the worst humans are having a happy Monday.

20.01.2025 16:22 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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I keep hearing American newscasters going on about the dangerous, record-breaking cold weather in Washington DC for today's presidential inauguration.
IT'S ONLY FREAKING -3 CELSIUS YOU WIMPS!!!

20.01.2025 14:50 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Brilliant.

18.01.2025 17:38 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Welcome to the Blue Side(tm).

15.01.2025 11:39 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

To be fair though, the super rich will now be able to buy a LOT more eggs. That’s just math.

14.01.2025 18:10 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

You misspelled "malediction".

13.01.2025 22:03 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

"People" is generous...

13.01.2025 21:59 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Collective. Insanity.

13.01.2025 21:58 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Finally!! My $300 Million payment has come through from the "SCAM VICTIMS COMPENSATION FUND"!

12.01.2025 19:57 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

To that point. bsky.app/profile/denv...

08.01.2025 21:48 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Hey Americans.
Stop this crap about Canada as a "51st State". It shows you don't comprehend some basic facts:
1) Canada as a whole is significantly larger than the USA;
2) Fully SEVEN of the top ten largest North American states or provinces are Canadian;
3) We're not bloody interested. Not ever.

08.01.2025 21:47 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 1

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