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elmo (she/elle) 🍁🇨🇦✊

@elminowski.bsky.social
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Teacher, interrupter, parent, traveller, foodie. A queer, white, educated, non-visably disabled, cis-woman on Indigenous land trying to (un)learn my ways. I also cuddle my pets, paint my nails, and post funny shit 🇨🇦

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elmo (she/elle) 🍁🇨🇦✊ @elminowski.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
Fun performance of #SKATEPARK by Mette Ingvartsen at the #NAC 🛹 🛼🎸 #theatre #Ottawa #skateboarding #NACdance
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elmo (she/elle) 🍁🇨🇦✊ @elminowski.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
#capitalism 101
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elmo (she/elle) 🍁🇨🇦✊ @elminowski.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
🌕 #moonrise & ☀️ #sunrise in #Jasper, #BC, as taken by my eldest ❤️🏞️ 📸 #RockyMountains #nature #photography #landscapes #Canada #November
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elmo (she/elle) 🍁🇨🇦✊ @elminowski.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
This really captures the flow and cause & effect of what's going on. This is a systematic, hostile takeover, no matter how much the head seems like a clueless baffoon. Credit to @gandersocial.bsky.social #democracy #fascism #authoritarianism #capitalism #colonialism #nokings #privatizedsoveereignty
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elmo (she/elle) 🍁🇨🇦✊ @elminowski.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
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How many Trump supporters does it take to change lightbulb? None. Trump just says he fixed it, and they all stand around cheering in the dark
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elmo (she/elle) 🍁🇨🇦✊ @elminowski.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
English is a cruel mistress 👅 #wordoftheday #lisp #English @merriam-webster.com
A post by Merriam-Webster stating, "It's a little cruel that there is an 's' in 'lisp.'"
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elmo (she/elle) 🍁🇨🇦✊ @elminowski.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
Proudly "neighboUrs" with a U 😉🇨🇦 Credit to @meanwhileincanada.bsky.social #CANpoli #Canadian #elbowsup #never51 #nokings
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elmo (she/elle) 🍁🇨🇦✊ @elminowski.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
Happy snugglebutt morning ❤️🐾 #catsofbluesky #dogsofbluesky #petsofbluesky #Foleyet #Yuri #mornings #cuddles #Russiantoy #catsanddogs #orangecat
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elmo (she/elle) 🍁🇨🇦✊ @elminowski.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
"Withstanding" by @shanekoyczan.bsky.social #teachers #Alberta #notwithstandingclause #inequity #students #education #ABpoli #classes
Wanted to post something for the #teachers in #Alberta who are having their rights violated by their own government and being forced back to work. Smaller class sizes allow teachers to focus on a students needs and insure a higher quality education. This is an excerpt from a piece I wrote called “Withstanding” 
It is not problem solving
to demand that those with little 
continue to do more with less 
until less finally equals 
the nothing more they can do
the cost of living goes up
when the fine to withstand 
starts adding rights to the billwhen the penalty to resist 
is more per day 
than the years long work 
that pays their rent 
or their mortgage 
or their bills 
or their or 
              or 
              or 
and the so much more of it
that touches down like lightning 
each time life happens 
which is as often and unrelenting 
as it is always
pick on someone your own wage
instead of voting up your own worth 
trying to make gravity another law 
you can afford to break thinking you can live above the people 
instead of beside them 
your job is to serve the people 
not amputate their legs 
from under them
to stand behind the people
and be trusted 
not to aim at their backs 
down the barrel of an economy 
watching them drop in the muck 
that hasn’t yet touched your own boots
when the assignment is to face the music
you won’t even show up for attendancebut somehow expect gold stars 
and a passing grade
for the test you are failing
the homework you have now 
will come from the blaring thunder
of a textbook crashing against the desk 
it will account for 100% of your grade
because the lesson is heavy
and failure is the strictest teacher.
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elmo (she/elle) 🍁🇨🇦✊ @elminowski.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
#capitalism #colonialism #privilege #letthemeatcake #nokings #epsteinballroom Credit to @elleisanisland.bsky.social
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elmo (she/elle) 🍁🇨🇦✊ @elminowski.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
With credit to @francescapsychology #community #connection #boundaries #ittakesavillage
Everyone wants to be a village, but no one wants to be a villager. That means people want a strong community for support, but they are not willing to put in the effort and sacrifice required to be a part of it.Being snowed is the price we pay for connection and community. It can mean sharing space when it's inconvenient, showing up when you'd rather stay home, or hosting when you're tired.Somewhere along the way, our fear of discomfort turned into hyper-independence - strict boundaries, perfect routines, and no interruptions. But when our boundaries become too rigid, they stop protecting us and start isolating us. They become walls.And we wonder why we feel so lonely. We're paying for convenience with disconnection. We traded the messiness of community for the ease of solitude and lost something vital along the way.
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elmo (she/elle) 🍁🇨🇦✊ @elminowski.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
#fascism #oppression #privilege #history #nokings #antifa
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elmo (she/elle) 🍁🇨🇦✊ @elminowski.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
This is what #privilege looks like 🧡🪶✊ #idlenomore #landback #Indigenous #indigisky
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elmo (she/elle) 🍁🇨🇦✊ @elminowski.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
With credit to Stevie Bees #resist #dontobey #portland #antifa
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elmo (she/elle) 🍁🇨🇦✊ @elminowski.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
I love when he uses the curb like it's his own pint-sized sidewalk ❤️🐾 #Yuri #dogsofbluesky #Russiantoy
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elmo (she/elle) 🍁🇨🇦✊ @elminowski.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
Need a shave? ✏️😂 #comics
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elmo (she/elle) 🍁🇨🇦✊ @elminowski.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
With credit to At Random #Comics ❤️🐾
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elmo (she/elle) 🍁🇨🇦✊ @elminowski.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
When you have don't have enough leftover #fajitas for a full serving, they make a great salad! #foodie #leftovers #Mexican
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elmo (she/elle) 🍁🇨🇦✊ @elminowski.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
Things are getting spicy again this fall 😉 #pumpkinspice @offthemarkparisi.bsky.social
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elmo (she/elle) 🍁🇨🇦✊ @elminowski.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
Gapped out here for a while 🤷‍♀️ Going to try again. Meet Yuri ❤️🐾 #dogsofbluesky #esa #russiantoy
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elmo (she/elle) 🍁🇨🇦✊ @elminowski.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Tell me you're on a liquids-only diet without telling me you're on a liquids-only diet 😂🥄🥄🥄 #surgery #medicaldiet #spoontheory
The cutlery served with a trayed meal consists of three white plastic spoons wrapped up in a napkin. A bowl of carpet soup, a paper cup & straw, a mug of tea, and a small carton of milk are out of focus on the background.
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elmo (she/elle) 🍁🇨🇦✊ @elminowski.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
Big snuggles for a Monday morning. I go for surgery at 6am tomorrow, so I'm soaking up all the feline lovin' I can ❤️🐾 #Foleyet #CatsOfBluesky
Woman in red glasses with curly brown hair in a ponytail smiling from behind a sleeping orange car curled up on her chest. He is wearing a dapper multicoloured plaid bowtie collar.
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elmo (she/elle) 🍁🇨🇦✊ @elminowski.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
This is what #cisprivilege looks like 🩵🩷🤍🩷🩵 It's about the threats and barriers we don't have to face on a daily basis. #DEI #transrights
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elmo (she/elle) 🍁🇨🇦✊ @elminowski.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
Tesla Model 3 crushed by an Olmec statue By Mexican sculptor Chavis Marmol 🇲🇽 #streetart #Mexico
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elmo (she/elle) 🍁🇨🇦✊ @elminowski.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Painted on a bridge in downtown #Calgary 🇨🇦 #streetart #graffiti #elbowsup #never51
An American flag is painted on a wall with a large red circle and slash through it. The text beside it reads, "THERE IS NO ENEMY LIKE A FRIEND BETRAYED"
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elmo (she/elle) 🍁🇨🇦✊ @elminowski.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Memories of March Break 2018 in #Lisbon, #Portugal (artist unknown) #streetart #art #raccoon
Large graffiti mural of a raccoon on the side of a large factory building
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elmo (she/elle) 🍁🇨🇦✊ @elminowski.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
Happy International Women's Day to all those who identify as #women, some or all of the time, who fight the #patriarchy, rise to the occasion, #resist the #oppression, and smash the glass ceiling 💕✊♀️ #internationalwomensday #noterfs Art credit to the talented @karenhallionkenney.bsky.social
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elmo (she/elle) 🍁🇨🇦✊ @elminowski.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
I can't recommend #TedLasso enough ❤️⚽💎🐾☕🎶🍺❤️ In fact, I just got this delivery 📖
Photo of the cover of "Believe: The Untold Story Behind TED LASSO, the Show That Kicked Its Way into Our Hearts" by Jeremy Egner
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elmo (she/elle) 🍁🇨🇦✊ @elminowski.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
🇨🇦 #Canada has a federal election this fall - let's learn from other's 🇺🇸 mistakes. #neverpoilievre #populism #elbowsup #CanadaStrong
"Choose your leaders with wisdom and forethought.
To be led by a COWARD is to be controlled by all that the coward fears.
To be led by a FOOL is to be led by the opportunists who control the fool.
To be led by a THIEF is to offer up your most precious treasures to be stolen.
To be led by a LIAR is to ask to be told lies.
To be led by a TYRANT is to sell yourself and those you love into slavery."
- Octavia E. Butler, "Parable of the Talents"
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elmo (she/elle) 🍁🇨🇦✊ @elminowski.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
🚫🚫🚫 "Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!" NOPE! Not anymore 🗽🤦🏻‍♀️🧳 #TVBoy #StreetArt
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elmo (she/elle) 🍁🇨🇦✊ @elminowski.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Temptations treats are not only #Foleyet approved, but they're also made in my hometown of #Bolton, #Ontario, #Canada! 🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦 #buyCanadian #catsofBluesky
Orange cat licking a puree treat from a red lid, with someone holding up the treat packaging in the foreground
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elmo (she/elle) 🍁🇨🇦✊ @elminowski.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
“If Russia stops fighting, there will be no war. If Ukraine stops fighting, there will be no Ukraine." - Estonian Foreign Minister Margus Tsahkna “I stand with you Ukraine” mural painted in Cardiff by English Street Artist @mydogsighs.bsky.social #ukraine #istandwithukraine #nowar #streetart
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elmo (she/elle) 🍁🇨🇦✊ @elminowski.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Every little bit counts! On this day of massive 🇺🇸 boycotts, remember that these kinds of actions make a difference every ✊🏿 single ✊🏽 day ✊🏻 #disrupt #organize #activism #unlearn #solidarity
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elmo (she/elle) 🍁🇨🇦✊ @elminowski.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Mmmm... Delicious 🇻🇪 arepas pabellon with shredded beef, feta cheese, black beans, plantain & coriander sauce 🍽️ #gooneysottawa #ottawa #foodie #Venezuelan
Two pocket sandwiches stuffed with shredded meat & a white sauce, served in baskets lined with newsprint
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elmo (she/elle) 🍁🇨🇦✊ @elminowski.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
United We Stand ✊ Divided We Fall
A series of walls lined up like dominoes labelled Trans Rights, Gay Rights, Women's Rights, Free Speech, Freedom of Religion, and so on, upheld by many small people working together to hold them up
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elmo (she/elle) 🍁🇨🇦✊ @elminowski.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Be the one to stand up; you could change history ✊📸 ("Cybertruck Man" by editorial cartoonist @zezvaz.bsky.social) #neverforget #activism #tiananmensquare
Black & white cartoon of a person standing in the way of a lineup of Tesla cyber trucks, modeled after the famous photograph of a protester standing in the way of tanks in Tiananmen Square in June 1989.
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elmo (she/elle) 🍁🇨🇦✊ @elminowski.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
For real? It's legit, yet I still can't believe it 🤯 This is ACTUALLY on the books! 🇺🇸 Americans, please explain this to me, as I hope I'm just grossly misunderstanding your political system 🤦‍♀️ #fakenews? #Trump #Greenland #NATO
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elmo (she/elle) 🍁🇨🇦✊ @elminowski.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
Today's word of the day is ⭐ BAMBOOZLE ⭐ As in, "Don't let the media bamboozle you!"
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elmo (she/elle) 🍁🇨🇦✊ @elminowski.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Power in numbers! ✊ The 1% are vastly outnumbered, and we can achieve so much by WORKING TOGETHER ❤️ #DEI #collectivism #activism #vote #unlearn #resist
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elmo (she/elle) 🍁🇨🇦✊ @elminowski.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
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elmo (she/elle) 🍁🇨🇦✊ @elminowski.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
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elmo (she/elle) 🍁🇨🇦✊ @elminowski.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
BUY CANADIAN! "Made in Canada is good: "Product of Canada" is even better 🇨🇦 I'll also add a plug for #FarmBoy & #GiantTiger 👍 both Cdn (ON) chains and carriers of locally made products. And don't forget your #farmersmarkets! #buycanadian #shopcanadian #notariffs
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elmo (she/elle) 🍁🇨🇦✊ @elminowski.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
Hoomans of the world! Rest assured that if a piece of string should ever attack us, I will be there to defend... Wait, where'd it go?! #Foleyet #CatsOfBluesky #orangecat
Orange cat claws at a piece of string on someone's lapOrange cat looks anxiously for the string, which is right underneath them
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elmo (she/elle) 🍁🇨🇦✊ @elminowski.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Exercise your right to vote; it is an honour and a privilege many do not have. #ONpoli While you're at it, be wise with your vote - don't be fooled by scare tactics from our own populist leader #NoDoFo
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elmo (she/elle) 🍁🇨🇦✊ @elminowski.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
That's not wildlife; I AM WILDLIFE!! #Foleyet #CatsofBluesky
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elmo (she/elle) 🍁🇨🇦✊ @elminowski.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
🇵🇭🍽️🤤 #Filipino deliciousness at new (to us) restaurant, Sanduk, in Ottawa: Balasenas, Bistig, Ginisang Gule, & Adobung Manuk #foodie #foodsky
Balasenas
Pan-fried eggplant slices. Served with bagoong (sautéed shrimp paste) and diced tomatoes and onions.Bistig
Thinly sliced beef sirloin marinated and stewed in a salty but slightly tangy sauce primarily made of soy sauce.Ginisang Gule
Sautéed bok choy with garlic topped with fried tofu cubes.Adobung Manuk
Chicken thighs and drumsticks marinated and simmered in soy sauce and vinegar with garlic, bay leaves, and peppercorns.
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elmo (she/elle) 🍁🇨🇦✊ @elminowski.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
As posted by 🇨🇦 @meanwhileincanada.bsky.social #ONpoli #NoDoFo Remember the difference between federal and provincial jurisdiction, and don't be fooled into voting for DoFo as a populist hero against Trump 🤬
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elmo (she/elle) 🍁🇨🇦✊ @elminowski.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Hoomans, please stop. Your hate and divisiveness are worse than when you get up right after I've gotten comfy on you. #Foleyet #CatsOfBluesky
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elmo (she/elle) 🍁🇨🇦✊ @elminowski.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
This is for the 🇨🇦 #CDNfeds who are forced to report to 🏢 an office (even a remote, unrelated, shared office space), despite ⏰ time wasted, 🚗 #traffic congestion, 🌏 #environmental impact, and 🧠 #mentalhealth, just to work online!
Not allowed to work from home, so I don't...
My job told me that even during a snowstorm, I'm not allowed to work from home at all. Even though I work in IT and do everything remotely, they want me in the office.
So I deleted Teams & my email off my phone. I am no longer available after hours.
My boss tried to call me for something urgent last night and couldn't reach me. He asked why today and explained to him what I was told...
"I am not allowed to work from home."
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elmo (she/elle) 🍁🇨🇦✊ @elminowski.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
As posted on FB by @amightygirl.com, this sermon to Trump about mercy is direct and sincere, yet I fear it fell on non-listening ears 😓 I'm not a religious person, but this is just general human decency ❤️
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