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22.10.2025 13:27 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0@stuthefarmer.bsky.social
Farmer on the dusty prairie; a dad; a bagpiper; a school teacher; a yeoman; a Luddite; a Ukrainian-Catholic Celt. Possibly a Viking. Trying to live in a good way. Treaty 6 and 7.
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22.10.2025 13:27 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Was just sent a photo of the middle child sparring with a world champion kick-boxer.
Itโs very cool.
Iโm also super-wary of what portal this is going to open upโฆ
Iodine would probably make the chicken taste funny anyway.
22.10.2025 00:00 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0More likely from eating lots of corn.
And some breeds of chicken are more yellow than others.
The Assumption of the Virgin, by Guido Reni, 1597, ๐ธ via @RoysEnergy
21.10.2025 03:27 โ ๐ 2635 ๐ 545 ๐ฌ 10 ๐ 18Bryce Canyon NP, Utah
#RockinTuesday #NationalParks #BryceCanyon #Utah #EastCoastKin #BlueSky #blueskyphotography #photography #landscapes #landscapephotography #nature #naturephotography #sunset #hiking
Voting in rural Alberta municipal elections is purely an exercise in determining who you think will make things the least awful.
21.10.2025 01:01 โ ๐ 7 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0It could never be a fair fight anyway, with the poor South Saxons forced to fight both the Kentish Men and the Men of Kent.
19.10.2025 13:14 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Yeah. Itโs truly bizarre. But I think their entire logic is that, if they break things badly enough, people will accept their extreme solutions.
19.10.2025 01:37 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0But if thereโs even a hint of blame being placed on fossil fuels and climate change, theyโll do anything to deny it.
19.10.2025 01:36 โ ๐ 4 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0It doesnโt seem especially practical to me.
It would probably be hard-wearing, but itโs not the sort of thing that needs to be!
Itโs bizarre how hard some people will work to deny the existence of ongoing drought!
And unfortunately, thereโs a(n) (anecdotal) correlation between conservativeness and dismissal of drought.
All they know how to do is alienate and destroy.
19.10.2025 00:00 โ ๐ 3 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0A photo of a large, bright lime-green sign with handwritten text that reads: "TRUMP LIKES STORE-BOUGHT FLOUR TORTILLAS
LOL this sign #NoKings
18.10.2025 23:39 โ ๐ 23 ๐ 3 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0I loathe this government with the burning hatred of a thousand suns.
18.10.2025 23:18 โ ๐ 22 ๐ 10 ๐ฌ 2 ๐ 0I have a kilt that Iโve 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 itโs unspeakably large but maybe it will fit me.
Iโve never brought myself to try it on.
I donโt really want it to fit.
Itโs understandable. Itโs a big stretch without much variation.
17.10.2025 00:49 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0Yeah, Alberta would probably make sense to someone from Finland. Just imagine the True Finns running things and thatโs more or less what itโs like.
16.10.2025 23:19 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0A bird leg sitting on top of a lichen-crusted fencepost.
Signs of life and death on the fenceline.
16.10.2025 18:49 โ ๐ 4 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0It seems the UCP have no intention of actually negotiating with the ATA- theyโll just legislate them back to work when itโs convenient.
Much democracy. Very small government.
Iโd 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-oldโs gender at birth to take part in swim meets.
Youโre a mob of cowardly, bigoted numpties.
โThe Pope from Chicago quoted Hannah Arendt on fascism, who herself long taught at University of Chicagoโs Committee on Social Thought,โ is an amazing true sentence.
13.10.2025 19:00 โ ๐ 660 ๐ 133 ๐ฌ 10 ๐ 5Irony is not deadโฆ
13.10.2025 23:55 โ ๐ 15 ๐ 5 ๐ฌ 2 ๐ 0I 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 UCPโs 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.
Iโll delete the post then as itโs not meant to demoralize.
14.10.2025 16:12 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0(The fact that the ATA doesnโt picket is probably a bigger problem, though. Itโs giving up the opportunity to build up the will to fight and win.)
14.10.2025 15:31 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0I mean, no praises Columbus and looks good doing it.
But geez, something about an Irish-Swedish-Canadian guy doing it seems especially boneheaded.
When you see high school friends posting praise for Christopher Columbusโฆ
14.10.2025 13:30 โ ๐ 4 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 2 ๐ 0We still use some tillage on our farm, so weโre 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, weโll just see more and more weeds like this.