Varada
@varada.bsky.social
The guy who came up with but failed to monetize "danger flutes." I’m a fan of the Senators from Ottawa and I have a Substack about bin-diving for records at rabbitholerecords.substack.com
It’s early August, a time to reconnect with family, and with nature, to slow down and find a nourishing place to recharge and center oneself, restoring perspective and balance in one’s daily life. Sens accounts on instagram: “WHY did Staios pay TOO MUCH for a DEPTH PLAYER a couple of years ago???”
In terms of things to love about French, it’s really a dead heat between French being like “four twenties and ten and nine” when trying to say “99” and French being like “Bits and Bites translates into Meli Melo, words that don’t mean anything, even in French.”
Look, I tend to be skeptical of romanticizing old world Europe, thinking it escapism that’s uninterested in how these countries are often quite a bit poorer and more broken than we understand, but also, sometimes you go to Spain and they’re like “here’s a tomato” and it does change your life.
tutorials like this are so funny. so you have a blob right? the next step is easy, you just fucking do it dumbass
Big fan of seeing a grown ass man walking down the street solo with an ice cream cone. Fuckin right, dude, you know the good stuff.
I feel like the NDP platform should be admitting that many white collar jobs involve maybe a few hours of actual work and a lot of fooling around on the internet to look busy and working from home does away with the theater, and that’s not a problem, it’s a tangible improvement in quality of life.
I’ve been participating in endurance sports for many years, but this July is the first time I’ve ever gone running every single day. And I can now say, on day 30, that there’s a kind of fatigue that exists on the other side of daily exercise that feels like an ancient mummy’s curse.
The Athletic model values Jordan Spence as an $11.6M player. If that’s reasonable, we’re not talking enough about how Staios traded a third and a sixth for a franchise player in a premium position and re-signed him to term for less than half his worth.
Gotta say, if Celebrini is getting $18M+ on his first extension, Ottawa would have had to pay Brady in that ballpark to keep him, and I would rather have Eklund at $5.6M + $12M of other stuff.
To the people who create social media reels that are like “BREAKING” with a picture of Yakemchuk and the story will be that he’s chosen a jersey number: you’re adding a lot of value, thank you for all you do.
I called a restaurant in France this morning to make a reservation, in French, while driving on the highway with the 100lb dog, who kept trying to crawl into my lap, and on a separate Zoom call. I can’t imagine what it was like to get that phone call.
Lol, congratulations Toronto, he was a PR hire for the new owner and you’re doing him a favor by hiring him away
Senators Aggregator@senatorsaggr.com · 2w agoTHE HOCKEY NEWS Senators Won't Be Replacing Daniel Alfredsson On Their Coaching Staff By Steve Warne https://thehockeynews.com/nhl/ottawa-senators/latest-news/senators-wont-be-replacing-daniel-alfredsson-on-their-coaching-staff
Big thanks to @domluszczyszyn.bsky.social, whose new post for the Athletic perfectly supports my article, suggests Jake Sanderson has the second best contract in the league, and will be worth $19M+ in 2031.
Varada@varada.bsky.social · 2w agoI wrote a post on WTYKY about the current state of the Ottawa Senators. Yes, I quote Kipling. welcometoyourkarlssonyears.com/2026/07/21/w...
I wrote a post on WTYKY about the current state of the Ottawa Senators. Yes, I quote Kipling. welcometoyourkarlssonyears.com/2026/07/21/w...
Where Do the Ottawa Senators Go from Here? The Next Season, the Next Decade
Offseason Recap In: William Eklund, Andre Burakovsky, Samuel Ersson Out: Brady Tkachuk, Lars Eller, James Reimer I won’t relitigate it too much: Brady Tkachuk’s a good player, he’ll do well i…
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The United States are being such assholes to Canada you could get political support for transforming the economy into the equivalent of a maker fair just to no longer have to do business with these people.
People on the right will always find something to freak out about when it comes to something popular simply because they are irrelevant and want to be included. The best response is not to engage them but to do what you do with losers, which is not invite them to anything.
Scrolling past that Ottawa Senators “real media members” thing like:
Sens should do the classy thing and play a boilerplate thank you video for Brady when he’s back at the CTC in the first five minutes of the game and then every period of every game for the next several years lean into all of the Sloth memes.
Thinking about the person inside the Sparty costume at Tim Horton's Camp Day as the fiberglass head slowly fills up with wildfire smoke.
If Sens re-sign Batherson at $10M, Kleven at $4M, Zub at $7M, & let all other UFAs over 30 walk, they're at ~$92.2M against a 2027-2028 $113.5M cap, or just shy of $21.5M in cap space with all core players locked up and only depth signings and a Yak contract to consider. That's...really good???
The biggest disconnect between hockey management and hockey fans has got to be that hockey fans assume that management makes decisions about player value based on their performance, while management determines that value based on the craziest things other managers have done.
I wonder if Tim Stützle looks at the money Leo Carlsson is making and thinks “god fucking damn it.”
I’m rooting for Tyler Boucher. It’s not his fault Pierre Dorion took shrooms on the draft floor and took him 10th overall.
There's only one rational response to Daniel Alfredsson becoming a Leafs coach, and that's to make Wendel Clark Night Mayor of Ottawa.
Here’s a game that should help Sens fans determine how mad they should be about losing Alfie as an assistant coach: without looking any up, how many other assistant coaches can you name?
Sens lose Tkachuk and Alfredsson but make a free Dylan Cozens smart phone wallpaper.
Alonzo Mourning and Gary Payton on Miami Heat Bench
ALT: Alonzo Mourning and Gary Payton on Miami Heat Bench
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