@wljackson.bsky.social
Retired Ontario educator and life long learner. Travel, books, theatre. Left leaning dog lover. Don’t post much but I listen well. I worry a lot.
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02.02.2026 14:20 — 👍 150 🔁 29 💬 7 📌 1Don’t forget the Guardian: “Melania review – Trump film is a gilded trash remake of The Zone of Interest”
30.01.2026 23:54 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I came to Minneapolis to report on what's going on, and one of the main questions I showed up with is "just what is the scale of the resistance?" After all, we're all used to the news calling Portland a "war zone" or whatever when it's just some protests in one part of town.
22.01.2026 03:58 — 👍 15511 🔁 5791 💬 141 📌 1563Switching the lever in the VW beetle over to the reserve gas tank because there was no gas gauge. Same car had virtually no heat in it.
11.01.2026 19:09 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Answer: no.
21.12.2025 14:35 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I’m finding myself torn between a “Try to find the humour in it all” and a “This looks like a good place to start digging my bomb shelter” mindset so I might try writing some satire while on my breaks from mixing cement.
01.03.2025 01:32 — 👍 5967 🔁 464 💬 143 📌 24
Source: Toronto Star Thursday November 20, 2025. You know what sounds like diverse? Divest.
20.11.2025 14:23 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Every single woman you know has had this happen to her. Even the goddamn president of Mexico.
06.11.2025 02:27 — 👍 4304 🔁 1148 💬 43 📌 27Apparently it was the show This Hour has 22 Minutes that filmed a segment at the Halifax Pier as the cruise passengers got off with this guy greeting them. Hilarious and a nice poke at you know who.
17.10.2025 12:52 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
My sister in Halifax sent this pic she took of a guy greeting tourists down at the Halifax pier! We’re Nice!
17.10.2025 11:47 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Silhouetted remains of the High Court Banksy
creating a curiously medieval quality...as if depicting Thomas a Becket being attacked in the crypt
'It is dangerous for men in power, if no-one dares to tell them when they go wrong'
Thomas A Becket 1118-1170
One of those days when you tune in and discover you’re at war with Eastasia.
30.07.2025 22:33 — 👍 19 🔁 3 💬 2 📌 0Oh man - so sad - how the hell do you check on their emerging literacy skills if you don’t read together - helping them with the decoding, checking for comprehension, sharing emotional responses to what is going on in the story - crucial for parents to model what fluent readers do. With voices!
02.05.2025 17:49 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Golden retriever on a picnic table. She likes to do parkour.
Shared.
02.05.2025 15:34 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Passive voice - refuge for the mealy mouthed and those who look to shift responsibility from themselves.
25.04.2025 14:06 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0This is a wonderful piece that shows the absolute courage of this girl and her family and team. The viciousness of anti trans hate, particularly from Christian organization is astounding. Thank you @brucearthur.bsky.social for not being a bystander to hate and bullying.
20.04.2025 15:11 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I’m sorry but I don’t remember. Now that you mention it, I just screen grabbed it and gave no attribution - probably not a cool thing to do.
19.04.2025 22:46 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Went to a Liberal rally tonight. Heard prime minister Carney speak. He is very human and funny in his stump speech. The last liberal rally I attended was for Pierre Elliot Trudeau. Kinda dates me. I’ve mostly voted NDP in the interim but not this time. #elbowsup.
18.04.2025 23:22 — 👍 20 🔁 5 💬 2 📌 0Voted!
18.04.2025 22:30 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Not the first time I've said it, but I do think we should sit with the fact that the folks likeliest to have predicted we'd elect a reality TV president who'd create a fascist police state where people would be put into unmarked vans for criticizing Israel have been widely ridiculed my entire life.
11.04.2025 23:39 — 👍 4707 🔁 793 💬 43 📌 53Rick Steves travel shows on PBS.
11.04.2025 23:19 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0The face of evil right out in the open. Human trafficking like delivering “stuff”. Human beings reduced to … I have no words. This is monumentally terrifying.
09.04.2025 18:20 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Buy-Canadian wave turns Belleville canning factory into a household name —Sprague Foods #Sprague #Canada #BuyCanadian #BuyLocal 🍁💪🏻
These are the only soups I buy now
farmersforum.com/buy-canadian...
I had 10 accounts from Turkey follow me in the last 39 seconds - they looked like porn or spam or both - anyway I can prevent this? I have blocked them all.
07.04.2025 22:24 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
On the Trail of Pierre the 'Ripper' via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/Culture/2025...
04.04.2025 15:57 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Is anyone else still enraged from watching CBC Katie Simpson interview of people in Tennessee last night? Their casual indifference to & lack of empathy for Canada & the chaos caused by their country to ours. Also their blindness to the rushing slide to authoritarianism in their country. #elbowsup
01.04.2025 11:50 — 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1People gotta remember this stuff! He is maple Maga!
30.03.2025 22:22 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 020 Lessons on Tyranny by Timothy Snyder - everyone should read this; follow this advice and share this widely. This is where we are.
lawlatte.com/wp-content/u...
PP is like Trump, Musk, Peterson - a big danger to Canada.
27.03.2025 23:14 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
