Stuart Somerville 🏴☠️
@stuthefarmer.bsky.social
Farmer on the dusty prairie; a dad; a bagpiper; a school teacher; a yeoman; a Luddite; a Ukrainian-Catholic Celt. 1% Portuguese. Basically a Viking. Trying to live in a good way. Treaty 6 and 7.
#OtD 12 Oct 1896 Portuguese anarchist union leader and rail worker, Mário Castelhano, died in the Tarrafal concentration camp, Cape Verde. Sent there by the far-right dictatorship for his role in a general strike, he died during an epidemic in the camp stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/7738...
As the many-times-great-nephew (by marriage) of Christopher Columbus, I grant you all full permission to hate the guy.
My 4th great grandparents. In Admaston, Ontario. Not sure when. I’m sure they were the life of the party- as were all mid 19th century Scottish Presbyterians.
Don’t do much social media these days… but some images from the summer won’t hurt Hope you are all well
🧵“Tatie or Tattie Picking Week” was a familiar part of rural life with women and children, helping harvest the crop prior to the frosts. The October school break gave children the chance to help with the harvest, earning a bit of extra money. It was cold, muddy, back-breaking work:
I personally think it’s fascinating that so many judgemental, dogmatic, obnoxious Christians who find atheism end up being judgemental, dogmatic, obnoxious Atheists.
More people should learn about the Cristero Wars in the early 20th century. At the start, it’s really easy to side with either the Cristeros or the Federales, depending on your personal views. But you read a little more and you realize that both sides were…terrible.
The corn is intended to be chopped for silage, but I’m convinced that in a very short time we will harvest corn for grain here. The standard wisdom was always that it’s too cold in central Alberta- but it was actually a coolish summer and fall and the corn has still done really well.
#OtD 10 Oct 1937 fascist leader Oswald Mosley was knocked unconscious and hospitalised in Liverpool by a stone thrown by anti-fascists who attacked a Nazi meeting at which he had attempted to address the crowd stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8245...
Escaping Residential School Jane Ash Poitras ~ Cree n.d.
Brooks The Baby Musk Ox From The Alaska Wildlife Conservation Center: #AGoodPlace
Alberta Separatists are not great people, but their most annoying trait is definitely the “We’re Not The Ones Being Divisive” thing. Just watch- I guarantee you that at Thanksgiving dinner this weekend, the Separatists won’t be the ones biting their lip to keep the peace.
Me gustan mucho los coyotes, aunque me roben las gallinas.
Other work by the Ladybird artists ‘October’ (From a 1958 calendar by the always fabulous Ronald Lampitt)
My unsolicited opinion is that the Anglosphere is cooked. The cultural influence of the US is too strong. It’s religion is too perverted. The capitalism is too deep. Other parts of the world are somewhat insulated by language. Anglophones are screwed.
(I think you’re going to find that your laws mean nothing.)
conifergirl.bsky.social@conifergirl.bsky.social · 4d ago
I just really, really need western leftists to understand that NATO can be a tool of capitalist imperialism AND Vladimir Putin and his government can be oppressive and evil at the same time.
I would point out that the Cat Who Came To Stay looks an awful lot like the IWW General Strike! cat.
"This system is sick and you know it!" Seen in Vienna
Ok, what happened next, Mr. Carney? Because I feel like that’s worth remembering too…
Mark Carney@mark-carney.bsky.social · 5d agoThree years ago, the terrorist organisation Hamas perpetrated the worst attack against Jewish people since the Holocaust. My statement:
I think the cat distribution system reached my family. We found him in a parking lot. Very friendly. Very hungry. No one has claimed him.
Sometimes I run into people I went to high school with and they’ve actually lost much much much more hair than I have. And then I feel silly that my own hairline bothers me.
Oh, he is definitely one of the high priests of economics. But it’s a death cult: the gods of capitalism always need more blood.
Rachel Gilmore@rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 7d agoCanadians will officially never recoup the costs of ***TMX*** and the government is going to drive the orcas to extinction for ANOTHER oil pipeline. Isn’t Carney supposed to be a great economic brain or something?? Why are we killing the whales for nothing?!
There are a lot of antelope around right now.
I didn’t know that I was in the mood for norteño style System of a Down.
Toxicity - EZ Band (System of a Down Cover)
YouTube video by EZ BAND
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Árbol centenario es talado en Arizona para construir el muro fronterizo pese al rechazo
Árbol centenario es talado en Arizona para construir el muro fronterizo pese al rechazo
El álamo, conocido como ‘el árbol de la abuela’, estaba siendo cuidado por ambientalistas por más de dos meses en la frontera de Arizona con México
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