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Dan Hayward @danielhayward.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

I know that none of the edgelords coming up with these memes have much historical knowledge, but if they watched 300 to the end they may realize that they are implying the US military should sacrifice all of its soldiers in a losing battle with Persia/Iran.

A post from Donald J. Trump with the text No More Mr. Nice Guy!, an American flag emoji, and an illustration showing Trump dressed in modern body armour and carrying a M-16 rifle, standing next to actor Gerard Butler playing King Leonidas of Sparta in the movie 300 and wearing classical Greek armour and a red cape. A tattered flag bears the slogan This Is Iran.

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Dan Hayward @danielhayward.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

So pleased to have Bill Gaventa's new book, Preaching Disability: A Resource for Pastors, arrive today from my friends at the Faith Inclusion Network in Texas. Great reading, and pondering, ahead.

A paperback book with a white cover, the text Preaching Disability: A Resource For Pastors by Bill Gaventa, and illustrations of various disability and church symbols in white within coloured circles. Light blue, a church building. Red, hands signing. Orange, a figure walking with a cane. Magenta, an eye with a line through it to signify blindness and low vision. Dark blue, a figure using a walker. Green, a hand touching Braille dots. Purple, an ear with a line through it to signify Deafness. Yellow, a figure in a wheelchair. Light blue, a church pulpit with a microphone.

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Dan Hayward @danielhayward.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

John Milbank, leading light of Radical Orthodoxy as a theological movement, cavalierly dismisses "something called 'disability theology'." /

Post from John Milbank: "We are actually NOT in the image of God *insofar* as we are physically and mentally impaired, as something called ‘disability theology’ wants to claim. It thereby actually impairs our human sense of the need to help and heal people! Only natural positive excellence images God." A reply is added from himself: "That's to say, disabled people are as much in the image of God as anyone else simply because they are human rational animals as the tradition has always had it."

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Dan Hayward @danielhayward.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Tim Hortons Camp Day is a Canadian institution.

A red paper coffee cup with an orange circle, an illustration of an archer with a bow shooting an arrow into a target, and text in white and blue Tim Hortons Foundation Camps and Tim Hortons Camp Day July 15th.

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Dan Hayward @danielhayward.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Posted by the Belgian national team after scoring their fourth goal against the US.

Romelo Lukaku wearing his number 9 light blue and pink shirt for the Belgian national men's soccer team. A white box displays the text "Belgian Red Devils" and "Overturn this."

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Dan Hayward @danielhayward.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Drinking from my RCMP mug today on the 153rd anniversary of the force. On July 4, 1873 the Dominion of Canada established the North-West Mounted Police.

A cobalt blue mug with a silver Royal Canadian Mounted Police badge of a bison head surrounded by maple leaves and a crown. The mug is on a wooden table with a Canadian flag in a clear vase behind it.

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Dan Hayward @danielhayward.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

Made a green smoothie for St. Patrick's Day, with milk, plain Greek yogurt, spinach, avocado, kiwi fruit, banana, and green grapes.

A Vitamix blender container full of green liquid, on a kitchen counter with a glass kettle and the Vitamix blender base in white and black.

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Dan Hayward @danielhayward.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

Quick photo as Christmas Eve worship was set to begin at Wall Street United Church in Brockville ON. Worshipers were still arriving as the band and singers took their places to proclaim that unto us in the city of David a Saviour is born, who is Christ, the Lord.

A church sanctuary with cream-coloured walls and wood panelling, congregants seated in pews, band and singers standing on the chancel platform in front of a grand piano and the pulpit.

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Dan Hayward @danielhayward.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

The Franklin the Turtle children's books are Canadian, by Paulette Bourgeois (Winnipeg) and Brenda Clark (Toronto). Our Christmas wish list includes the American Defence Secretary, who posted this illustration, taking Franklin's name out of his mouth.

A copy of a Franklin the Turtle book cover, with the title Franklin Targets Narco Terrorists and an illustration of a green turtle wearing body armour and a helmet while standing on the skid of a military helicopter and firing a rocket launcher at small boats laden with cargo and crewed by two armed men each. One of the boats is exploding.

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Dan Hayward @danielhayward.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

We have not been to Tim Hortons for a couple of weeks, apparently, as we have the Christmas Santa-Claus-playing-hockey cups for the first time.

A Tim Hortons disposable coffee cup with a white lid and a dark blue body depicting a hockey rink as children play against Santa Claus, who has a hockey stick.

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Dan Hayward @danielhayward.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

My father, Ivan Hayward, at one of the anti-aircraft guns on board the destroyer HMCS Huron, in the Sea of Japan off Korea, 1953.

A young sailor, wearing a light-coloured shirt, dark jacket and ball cap, looks through the scope of an anti-aircraft gun on board a ship, with the sea visible behind him.

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Dan Hayward @danielhayward.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

My great uncles Walter and Sandy Hayward joined the Royal Canadian Artillery in 1915 but were sent to infantry battalions. Sandy was wounded and gassed, and suffered from PTSD. Walter was killed at Cambrai in September 1918 and is buried at Aubigny, France.

Black and white photo of two young men in Canadian Army uniforms of the First World War, sitting underneath a pennant for the 104th Artillery Battery.

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Dan Hayward @danielhayward.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

On VJ-Day, one of the chapel murals made with scrounged materials by Stanley Warren, one of the Commonwealth PoWs held by the Japanese at Changi Prison in Singapore.

Jesus appears wearing only a white cloth around his waist, appears to his friends, displaying the wounds of his crucifixion in his hands. A scroll reads "Go and teach the nations I am with you."

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Dan Hayward @danielhayward.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

Mallard duck hen has made a nest and laid her eggs in the neighbour's garden. She is walking around, uncomfortable with these people being nearby, so I took a photo and went inside.

A garden bed of dark brown dirt, with a shallow depression lined with twigs and white duck down and filled with nine cream-coloured eggs.

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Dan Hayward @danielhayward.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Canadair CT-133 Silver Star, which flew frequently over our house in Dartmouth NS when I was a boy.

Canadair CT-133 Silver Star fixed-wing jet aircraft, stationary on tarmac with the cockpit canopy raised, painted in grey and green camouflage with Canadian flag on the tail and Royal Canadian Air Force roundel on the fuselage.

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Dan Hayward @danielhayward.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

My favourite Cerebral Palsy Awareness Day graphic is from Wales.

A dark green background with a lighter green ribbon, and the text in English and Welsh, Cerebral Palsy Awareness Day, 25th March 2025.

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Dan Hayward @danielhayward.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Lots of Americans responding to news that Prime Minister Trudeau will meet the King with statements like "America doesn't have a king" and "we don't listen to kings." Let me remind you of this post from the official White House X account:

A fake cover of Time magazine, with the headline Trump: Long Live the King, and a painting of Donald Trump against the New York City skyline, dressed in a dark suit, white shirt and red tie, and wearing a gold crown.

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Dan Hayward @danielhayward.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

The Netherlands is also not Canada, yet First Canadian Army liberated the country from the Nazis, whose salutes the Trump fans are bringing back into fashion.

Screenshot of a Twitter/X post which says "Ukraine is not Canada. No Canadian tax dollars or military resources should be flowing to Ukraine. Here's a simple map for visual learners." Map labels each country in Europe as Not Canada and Not Our Concern.

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