iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Melissa Hogan 🇨🇦 @melissahogan.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

A true sign of a dying mall is when there's consistently enough open hall space because of lack of shoppers to drive a go kart down them. In other news, Stuffy Riders is opening at the Village Mall this weekend.

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Melissa Hogan 🇨🇦 @melissahogan.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

If I had a penny for every time I’ve done this, I could afford a tank of gas.

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Melissa Hogan 🇨🇦 @melissahogan.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

People lining up for an hour to save 7% off a single tank of gas is a bit wild. With what other product would someone inconvenience themselves so much to save $7-$10?

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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

Never pick a fight with a country who’s origin was having to work together to survive the elements. Collectivism is in our nature.

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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 · 26/08/2026

Don't need that silly potash either. They don't need fertilizer to grow things. 🙄 They have no idea.

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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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Melissa Hogan 🇨🇦 @melissahogan.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Urban Market in St. John's is looking to buy if you wanted to get back into it. Just bring them to their shop Mon-Fri between 8am-4pm.

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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 · 12/08/2026

Newfoundland already has many unincorporated communities with no municipal government. I'm not sure how zoning would work in those areas but I volunteer them as tribute. :P

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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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Melissa Hogan 🇨🇦 @melissahogan.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Wages have absolutely not kept up with inflation but I also think people would rather buy 5 poor quality shirts for $20 each than 1 high quality shirt for $100. People value low prices.

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Melissa Hogan 🇨🇦 @melissahogan.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Onitsuka Tiger also sells higher quality, made in Japan shoes that showcase craftsmanship. Of course, their cheaper mass produced shoes are more popular.

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Melissa Hogan 🇨🇦 @melissahogan.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Just looking into it and it seems that BIXI birthed the Toronto Bike Share when it launched in 2011, but it got taken over and rebranded 3 years later. Love a good active transit system that doesn't require ownership either way.

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Melissa Hogan 🇨🇦 @melissahogan.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

How would you compare it to BIXI in Montreal? I know Toronto is a bigger city and all.

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Melissa Hogan 🇨🇦 @melissahogan.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Is there a way to get around the cookie banner? I thought it was European law?

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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

Be the content you want to see in the world.

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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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