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Melissa Hogan 🇨🇦

@melissahogan.bsky.social
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World travelling web developer & entrepreneur who loves shoes, fashion, and the Cincinnati Bengals. Living on a rock in the North Atlantic. 🇨🇦

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Ken Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Canada is maybe the best country. I love Canada so much that when I listen to Sloan I don’t even skip the drummer’s songs.
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Melissa Hogan 🇨🇦 @melissahogan.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
You know what's even better than cancelled social plans? Cancelled Zoom meetings.
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Melissa Hogan 🇨🇦 @melissahogan.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I don't know whether to love or hate the JAG Soundhouse. They're bringing in all my favs. October 23 - Wide Mouth Mason & Big Sugar October 24 - The Sheepdogs November 21 - The Trews December 18 - Arkells Feburary 21 - Hey Rosetta Yay! but... $$$ All we need now is Sloan to announce a show in Jan.
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Melissa Hogan 🇨🇦 @melissahogan.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
It's not all Americans who book a Newfoundland Food Tour when they're in Saint John, New Brunswick... but it's always an American.
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Melissa Hogan 🇨🇦 @melissahogan.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
If someone had the skills and an entrepreneurial spirit, I'd suggest becoming a cobbler and opening your own shop. The two we have in St. John's can't keep up with demand. Meanwhile we have about 86 coffee shops and bakeries with more coming.
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Melissa Hogan 🇨🇦 @melissahogan.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
It's so odd to me that people book a vacation, book outings, and then be completely unreachable to the people they booked with.
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Melissa Hogan 🇨🇦 @melissahogan.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Name a non LOTR character who could resist the one ring.
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Melissa Hogan 🇨🇦 @melissahogan.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Which ticket do you feel better about? A) $32.97 with $0 delivery fee & order charge or B) $26.56 plus $3.91 processing fee & $2.50 service fee? They both come out the same on the credit card but I know which one makes me feel better.
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Goodnews @goodnews.computer · 04/09/2026
Take a break from being depressed that everything you love is being destroyed by slop for a moment and let me tell you about the beautiful symbiotic relationship between graffiti writers, train yard workers, and model train enthusiasts.
A hand holding a model train with a replica of the same graffiti on the full scale train car behind it.A model train with two graffiti pieces on opposite sides.
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Melissa Hogan 🇨🇦 @melissahogan.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
It seems the local Marriott and Doubletree are not allowed to display rack cards or advertising for local tourism businesses (even the gov org's tourist map & guide) because it goes against corporate design standards or something. Rack cards can be given to hotel guests but only if they ask first :\
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Melissa Hogan 🇨🇦 @melissahogan.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
It is diabolical that the premier of Ontario can just force the city of Toronto to remove bike lanes.
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Melissa Hogan 🇨🇦 @melissahogan.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
I need Ernie Clement and Brett Bateman to start in a 90s-style buddy movie. Maybe they miss the flight to Cleveland and have to planes, trains, and automobile it there. Cameo by Davis Schneider’s moustache.
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Melissa Hogan 🇨🇦 @melissahogan.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Needed something for work. Local Walmart said they had it in stock. I ordered it Wednesday for same day pick-up. Joke's on me. They're shipping it from Mississauga and I'll get it next Saturday. Ugh.
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Melissa Hogan 🇨🇦 @melissahogan.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Thanks to me being a pack rat and keeping ticket stubs and baseball-reference.com for keeping all the stats I just realized today that Darrin Fletcher was the home team catcher at both my first Expos game in 1993 and my first Blue Jays game in 1998. Both teams won their games 3-1.
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Melissa Hogan 🇨🇦 @melissahogan.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
If you're a gluten-free vegan, why oh why would you book a food tour? I hope they at least understand that nothing they'll be served is our normal tour food and not connected to our stories but they'll be fed.
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Melissa Hogan 🇨🇦 @melissahogan.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
If I ever come into a big windfall of money, I'm going to pay someone to make dinner decisions for me. One of the worst parts of adulting (aside from having 5 kinds of insurance) is having to decide each day what I'm going to eat. I know Hello Fresh and Factor exist but not sustainable right now.
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Al Kennedy @alkennedy.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Technically, "Mark Carney" is an oxymoron
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Melissa Hogan 🇨🇦 @melissahogan.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Cleaned out a junk drawer last night and found, among other things: a ticket to the Jays vs White Sox from 2016, a Samsung flip phone, 16 pens, 4 power banks, 2 Fitbits, a Valentine's card from my mom to my dad, my boarding pass from a flight to Japan in 2012, and an iPad2. Why am I like this?
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Melissa Hogan 🇨🇦 @melissahogan.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
About to purchase my 6th vehicle and never before have I researched where my car was assembled. This time I just wanted to make sure it wasn't the USA.
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Melissa Hogan 🇨🇦 @melissahogan.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Without downloading any new pics, where are you at mentally?
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Melissa Hogan 🇨🇦 @melissahogan.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Moving Andrea Barbour out of the tourism portfolio was a good move…but to make her Environment Minister tells me just what the PCs actually think of the environment. 🤦‍♀️
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Dan McQuillan @danmcquillan.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Text: Treat your body like a data centre. Consume as much water and literature as possible. Upset local city councils with your existence. 
Background image: a bearded man putting up the frame of aparge tent in a muddy field with trees in the background.
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Melissa Hogan 🇨🇦 @melissahogan.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Even libraries are struggling with this current housing crisis... vocm.com/2026/08/17/3...
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In Limbo: Michael Donovan Library Homeless After RFP Fails to Gain Interest
The vice-chair of the advisory group Friends of St. John's Public Library is disappointed that no solution has...
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Melissa Hogan 🇨🇦 @melissahogan.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Just watched my Gen Z neighbour drive away without noticing that there's a big yellow ticket on her windshield. 🤦‍♀️ That doesn't bode well.
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Melissa Hogan 🇨🇦 @melissahogan.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
“Daddy Snacks” just took the baby seat off his bike and I must now acknowledge the cruel march of time.
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Melissa Hogan 🇨🇦 @melissahogan.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Midweek holiday + summer Fridays off = super productive Thursday or mentally absent Thursday? We'll find out tomorrow.
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Melissa Hogan 🇨🇦 @melissahogan.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
And speaking of saxophones, what was with that brief swing revival in the 90s? Was it all because of a Gap commercial?
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Melissa Hogan 🇨🇦 @melissahogan.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Potentially unpopular opinion but we need to bring back sax solos in pop songs.
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bikebike @bikebikeyyc.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Cody, drops a truth bomb - "The cyclist’s sin is not that they slowed you down. Their sin is that they demonstrated the trip could be made without the two-ton machine, in front of witnesses." #yycbike medium.com/@cody.little...
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We Don’t Have a Culture of Convenience in North America. We Have a CULT of Convenience.
And you can tell the difference by what happens when you question it.
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Melissa Hogan 🇨🇦 @melissahogan.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Is this a midlife crisis? Asking for a friend.
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Melissa Hogan 🇨🇦 @melissahogan.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
If you don't eat meat, why on earth would you book a food tour but not let them know in advance that you have dietary restrictions? Make it make sense... do most tours not pre-order their food?
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Melissa Hogan 🇨🇦 @melissahogan.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
The venue owner last night really said “stage lights? Never heard of ‘em”. 😆 The stage lighting for Joey McIntyre was two work lights. What an odd spot (small industrial building in East York) but what a special show.
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Melissa Hogan 🇨🇦 @melissahogan.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Came to Toronto for a show (solo gig by a New Kid on the Block) and wound up sitting next to another person from St. John’s. What are the odds?
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Melissa Hogan 🇨🇦 @melissahogan.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
I think an excellent workout would be whatever the Jays hype squad are doing before the game next to the DJ. I’m tired just watching them but it looks fun.
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Melissa Hogan 🇨🇦 @melissahogan.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Come From Away is great and has done good thing for Newfoundland tourism but... it has led many people astray... into thinking that Gander is a vacation destination. :P
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Melissa Hogan 🇨🇦 @melissahogan.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
I need to know if Trey Yesavage chose Meghan Thee Stallion’s Savage for his strikeout song or if the stadium DJ did or what. I mean…I get it. Good choice.
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Melissa Hogan 🇨🇦 @melissahogan.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Ok cool kids…am I supposed to take this sticker off or leave it?
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Melissa Hogan 🇨🇦 @melissahogan.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Not so much a smoke-free campus today. Just a wee bit hazy…
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Melissa Hogan 🇨🇦 @melissahogan.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Again…to a few people in particular…St. John’s, NL != Saint John, NB 🙄
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Melissa Hogan 🇨🇦 @melissahogan.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Newfoundland in summer... just had to send a note to my tour guides with a reminder to dress warmly for today's tour with the wind and rain. Feels like 8C.
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Melissa Hogan 🇨🇦 @melissahogan.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
“I have an e-reader. It’s not even an American product, but for some reason — I assume tied to the payment — I’d purchase books, I’d start to read them and then they’d disappear,” www.ctvnews.ca/canada/artic... @mtamblyn.bsky.social I assume she has a Kobo - would this be bc it uses something US?
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Canadian ICC judge says Trump’s sanctions won’t stop her from doing her job
When Kimberly Prost goes on vacation, she needs to phone hotels in advance to explain that she can’t pay for a room with a credit card — because she’s been sanctioned by the Trump administration.
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Melissa Hogan 🇨🇦 @melissahogan.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Yesterday I learned that our tourism minister can't pronounce Beaumont Hamel. In a speech on Canada/Memorial Day...in France... she called it (with much stumbling) "Bo Haunt Ma Hamel". Maybe she has a learning disability, I don't know, but that speech really needed to be practiced.
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Melissa Hogan 🇨🇦 @melissahogan.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
These days it seems like one day on Facebook you're seeing someone's Just Married post & photos and the next day they're listing all of the decor they bought on Temu for sale on Facebook Marketplace. Something out it puts me off. Is it the overconsumption? Consumerism?
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Melissa Hogan 🇨🇦 @melissahogan.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Roller skating in jeans when it’s a humid 20C out was not a smart move…
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Melissa Hogan 🇨🇦 @melissahogan.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
A 6:30pm nap feels glorious at the time but will fuck up your night. I’d do it again though.
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Melissa Hogan 🇨🇦 @melissahogan.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Hot take: unless you really seek out special experiences or are willing to cook it yourselves, Newfoundland is not a seafood destination for tourists. Now if you want cod... watch out. #LobsterRollsAreForTourists
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Melissa Hogan 🇨🇦 @melissahogan.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
There are two cruises ships docked in St. John's today and the sun is splittin' the rocks. I have 6 guides on the streets today operating 8 tours with over 100 guests. I'm doing the coordinating and I kind of feel like the Wizard behind the curtain. lol Feeling good going into year 5 of business.
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Melissa Hogan 🇨🇦 @melissahogan.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
The city installed a new cross button and lights…great. But don’t you think they could have removed the Tyvek and posters first? 🤦‍♀️
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Melissa Hogan 🇨🇦 @melissahogan.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
I have been wrestling with Google Data Studio for two solid hours trying to figure out how to do some basic math on two filtered metrics. At this point I would spend less time just manually doing the math each month at report time. My programmer brain just wants to store the numbers in variables.
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Urban Land Rent 🇸🇴🚰 @urbanlandrent.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Okay but he was really cooking here. This is a great way to think about the good life. Hitting at least 3 of the 9 delights makes for a great day.
Brooks Otterlake lifestyle philosophy tweet: the 9 delights

1. Walking around
2. Fellowship.
3. Deliciousness
4. Transcendence 
5. Goofing
6. Amelioration
7. Coitus
8 Enthrallment
9. *WILDCARD*
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