Stuart Somerville 🏴‍☠️

It could never be a fair fight anyway, with the poor South Saxons forced to fight both the Kentish Men and the Men of Kent.

Yeah. It’s truly bizarre. But I think their entire logic is that, if they break things badly enough, people will accept their extreme solutions.

But if there’s even a hint of blame being placed on fossil fuels and climate change, they’ll do anything to deny it.

It doesn’t seem especially practical to me.

It would probably be hard-wearing, but it’s not the sort of thing that needs to be!

It’s bizarre how hard some people will work to deny the existence of ongoing drought!

And unfortunately, there’s a(n) (anecdotal) correlation between conservativeness and dismissal of drought.

All they know how to do is alienate and destroy.

A photo of a large, bright lime-green sign with handwritten text that reads: "TRUMP LIKES STORE-BOUGHT FLOUR TORTILLAS

LOL this sign #NoKings

I loathe this government with the burning hatred of a thousand suns.

I have a kilt that I’ve never worn.

Some friends gave it to me.

It was purchased for the husband but was always too big for him.

They brought it saying that it’s unspeakably large but maybe it will fit me.

I’ve never brought myself to try it on.

I don’t really want it to fit.

It’s understandable. It’s a big stretch without much variation.

Yeah, Alberta would probably make sense to someone from Finland. Just imagine the True Finns running things and that’s more or less what it’s like.

A bird leg sitting on top of a lichen-crusted fencepost.

Signs of life and death on the fenceline.

It seems the UCP have no intention of actually negotiating with the ATA- they’ll just legislate them back to work when it’s convenient.

Much democracy. Very small government.

I’d like to start the day with a gigantic Fuck You to the Government of Alberta and Swim Alberta for insisting that we declare our six-year-old’s gender at birth to take part in swim meets.

You’re a mob of cowardly, bigoted numpties.

“The Pope from Chicago quoted Hannah Arendt on fascism, who herself long taught at University of Chicago‘s Committee on Social Thought,” is an amazing true sentence.

Irony is not dead…

Inside the Right-Wing Attack on Alberta's Public Education | The Tyee MAGA’s Project 2025 has become a blueprint for undermining Canada’s schools in the name of profit and privilege.

I began writing this story with a naive question in mind: What do we lose when public education is privatized? A lot, actually.

By following the MAGA playbook, the UCP’s push against public education not only undermines democracy, it jeopardizes the possibility of a better future for all Albertans.

Just found out that a girl I taught died in a car accident a few days ago.

That makes four of my former students gone: two in car accidents; one by firearm; one by alcohol poisoning.

I’ll delete the post then as it’s not meant to demoralize.

(The fact that the ATA doesn’t picket is probably a bigger problem, though. It’s giving up the opportunity to build up the will to fight and win.)

I mean, no praises Columbus and looks good doing it.

But geez, something about an Irish-Swedish-Canadian guy doing it seems especially boneheaded.

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When you see high school friends posting praise for Christopher Columbus…

We still use some tillage on our farm, so we’re never going to have as big a problem as some people do.

But really, as long as people keep using short rotations and glyphosate for everything, we’ll just see more and more weeds like this.

Prairie farmer concerned about food production as invasive weed spreads | CBC Climate Change News Harvest is close to done on the Prairies, but some farmers' crops are being overrun by kochia, an invasive weed. They hope scientists can stop the spread before food production is affected forever.

We fight kochia on our farm.

The thing that the article doesn’t seem to just come out and say is that kochia is a prime example of the agricultural community as a whole making bad decisions and suffering for it.

Abolish Columbus Day graphic

Christopher Columbus actually appears in my family tree.

Not as a direct ancestor (*sigh of relief*) but he was married to my direct ancestor’s sister.

So as Columbus’ great-great-great-etc grand nephew (through marriage) I’d like to take this opportunity to say you shouldn’t celebrate the guy.

"12th of October, Nothing to Celebrate!”
Anti-Columbus Day mural in Girona, Spain

Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”

I totally had that jacket!

Pope to Chicago Labor Leaders: “Please know of my appreciation for your welcome of immigrants and refugees, especially your support of food pantries and shelters….I encourage you to continue to advocate for society to respect the human dignity of the most vulnerable.” www.vatican.va/content/leo-...

Amén!