Stuart Somerville 🏴☠️ @stuthefarmer.bsky.social · 2hThe Threshing Crew's Lunchbreak by William Kurelek, 1970. 020
Reposted by Stuart Somerville 🏴☠️Ireland against Fascism @irlagainstfascism.bsky.social · 7hThis aerial shot tells you all you need to know about the support the Garvaghy Road has. The residents and their supporters, which include Catholics, Republicans, real Nationalists (not far-right plastic 'patriots') and others all stood shoulder to shoulder today against orange order loyalists. 712325
Stuart Somerville 🏴☠️ @stuthefarmer.bsky.social · 15hI’m begging people to please stop throwing the word ‘narcissist’ around. 010
Reposted by Stuart Somerville 🏴☠️The Beaverton @thebeaverton.com · 02/10/2026Carney announces $1.2B investment to protect oceans from his own climate policythebeaverton.comCarney announces $1.2B investment to protect oceans from his own climate policyVancouver, BC – Prime Minister Mark Carney has announced more than one billion dollars in federal funding to keep the ocean safe from the consequences of his own actions. 23569186
Stuart Somerville 🏴☠️ @stuthefarmer.bsky.social · 02/10/2026I’m simply very tired of selling oil in a slightly different direction being framed as ‘diversifying our economy.’ 083
Reposted by Stuart Somerville 🏴☠️United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 01/10/2026SOLIDARITY! On International Coffee Day - and every day - farm workers stand with Starbucks workers in their struggle! Just like many farm workers, @sbworkersunited.org is fighting back against greedy employers for the contract they deserve. #NoContractNoCoffee 328086
Stuart Somerville 🏴☠️ @stuthefarmer.bsky.social · 02/10/2026I really like this. Mutual Aid by N.O. Bonzo. 030
Stuart Somerville 🏴☠️ @stuthefarmer.bsky.social · 02/10/2026The other black gold on the prairies. 181
Stuart Somerville 🏴☠️ @stuthefarmer.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Cool cool cool. A pipeline that industry doesn’t care about enough to pay for that will almost certainly end in environmental catastrophe because to hell with the regulations.cbc.caWest Coast oil pipeline becomes 1st project designated in national interest | CBC NewsThe federal and Alberta governments have announced that a proposed pipeline carrying one million barrels of oil a day from Alberta to the B.C. coast has become the first project designated in the nati... 171
Reposted by Stuart Somerville 🏴☠️Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 01/10/2026#OtD 1 Oct 1937 print worker and anarcho-syndicalist Anna Götze was arrested for the second time by Nazi authorities for her anti-fascist activities. She was sent to a concentration camp with her daughter but they escaped stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8150... 16925
Stuart Somerville 🏴☠️ @stuthefarmer.bsky.social · 01/10/2026October 1: Pokrov (the Feast of the Intercession of the Mother of God). Whoever you are and wherever you are and whatever you believe, I hope the Mother of God watches over you too. 020
Stuart Somerville 🏴☠️ @stuthefarmer.bsky.social · 29/09/2026The highway near our house is covered with snakes in September. It’s a terrible place to sun yourself, but the snakes don’t know that. I head out from time to time to shoo them out of harm’s way. It probably breaks some kind of law, but I’m a natural born outlaw, so… 061
Stuart Somerville 🏴☠️ @stuthefarmer.bsky.social · 29/09/2026I spent the day with this herd of pronghorns. 060
Stuart Somerville 🏴☠️ @stuthefarmer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Sometimes the corn field feels a little spooky. 060
Stuart Somerville 🏴☠️ @stuthefarmer.bsky.social · 27/09/2026No government has ever handed unions new leverage on purpose.cbc.caUnions have new leverage, not less, under Liberals' new major projects bill: jobs minister | CBC NewsThough organized labour is pushing back against the Carney government's latest major projects bill — which aims to amend a controversial portion of the Labour Code — Jobs Minister Patty Hajdu says uni... 010
Stuart Somerville 🏴☠️ @stuthefarmer.bsky.social · 27/09/2026I’m a Black Army admirer, myself, but this is cool (but if I share it on my other social media, the amateur theologians in my life will accuse me of blasphemy). Text says “glorious red army” and “listen, worker, the war has begun.” (Or something like that my Russian isn’t perfect.) 020
Stuart Somerville 🏴☠️ @stuthefarmer.bsky.social · 27/09/2026I used to dance to this with my kids in the kitchen. They don’t want to dance with me anymore. But maybe one day they’ll want to again.youtube.comDance MedleyYouTube video by The Flying Bulgar Klezmer Band - Topic 030
Stuart Somerville 🏴☠️ @stuthefarmer.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Today just feels like a good day for klezmer.youtube.comAlle BriderYouTube video by The Flying Bulgar Klezmer Band - Topic 000
Stuart Somerville 🏴☠️ @stuthefarmer.bsky.social · 27/09/2026The other thing people forget is that Mamdani’s successes have been achieved within an existing legal framework. If he suddenly rebels against that existing framework, it becomes much more difficult to maintain his success. 161
Reposted by Stuart Somerville 🏴☠️Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 27/09/2026there is a certain undercurrent of something that can only be described as puritanism on this site, where understanding a bad thing must mean you're into that thing because apparently the only way to battle bad things is to yell loudly they are very bad someone else better fix them but not like this 1345163
Stuart Somerville 🏴☠️ @stuthefarmer.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Today I learned that a gay Jewish man from Brooklyn became a successful bullfighter in Mexico and Spain in the 1920s. He went by the nickname El Torero de la Torah. He wrote an entry on bullfighting for the Encyclopedia Britannica. 030
Reposted by Stuart Somerville 🏴☠️Julie S. Lalonde @julieslalonde.bsky.social · 25/09/2026The literacy crisis is not just referring to people's ability to literally read and write. It's also people's inability to read for context. I've been a public educator for over 20 years and I have never, ever seen it this bad. 8146841172
Stuart Somerville 🏴☠️ @stuthefarmer.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Лис Микита Едвардові Козака Mykyta the Fox by Edward Kozak. 031
Stuart Somerville 🏴☠️ @stuthefarmer.bsky.social · 26/09/2026I end up at the hospital once a twice a year for various reasons. It’s amazing how much worse it gets every time I come. Thanks UCP…you bunch of numpties. 160
Stuart Somerville 🏴☠️ @stuthefarmer.bsky.social · 26/09/2026If you’re going to be a pedant, at least try to be a consistent pedant. 120
Stuart Somerville 🏴☠️ @stuthefarmer.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Here’s a question: why did “they’re bison, not buffalo” catch on but “they’re wapiti, not elk” did not? 321
Stuart Somerville 🏴☠️ @stuthefarmer.bsky.social · 25/09/2026static.klipy.comLittle Princess Says 'How Dare You!'ALT: Little Princess Says 'How Dare You!' 000
Stuart Somerville 🏴☠️ @stuthefarmer.bsky.social · 25/09/2026I coughed so hard that it threw my back out. Just finish me off if you see me. It would be the kind thing to do. 000
Stuart Somerville 🏴☠️ @stuthefarmer.bsky.social · 25/09/2026If you ever feel dumb, just remember: there are people in the world who admire and trust Benjamin Netanyahu, so at least you’re not doing THAT bad. 050
Stuart Somerville 🏴☠️ @stuthefarmer.bsky.social · 25/09/2026I don’t think the mighty guard dog has noticed. 020
Reposted by Stuart Somerville 🏴☠️👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 24/09/2026what’s amazing to me, always, is how many people will be like “ugh I hate fascism, the far right is evil, etc etc etc” and then in the next breath say “but people should only have human rights and dignity if they’re on my side and I like them” 1226330
Stuart Somerville 🏴☠️ @stuthefarmer.bsky.social · 24/09/2026youtu.be/YAPuJ8tG9qI?...youtu.beHistoria contra historia:¿Realmente se puede ser neutral o apolítico?YouTube video by AJ+ Español 000
Stuart Somerville 🏴☠️ @stuthefarmer.bsky.social · 24/09/2026I think a lot of people are labouring under the illusion that, if Donald Trump were to suddenly not-be-president tomorrow, everything would go back to the way things were before. It won’t happen. Because a) the damage is too deep; and b) the problem was never just Donald Trump. 2320942
Stuart Somerville 🏴☠️ @stuthefarmer.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Families weren’t begging for the gas tax to go away. They were begging for things like lower insurance premiums and lower power bills and for hospitals and schools to get funded properly. 240
Reposted by Stuart Somerville 🏴☠️Ximena González @ximenaka.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Anyway, i don’t think we should be using people’s contribution to the economy to determine their value. 14111
Stuart Somerville 🏴☠️ @stuthefarmer.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Canada Strong means it’ll be easy to build pipelines but don’t worry your little head about clean water and air and labour rights and agricultural research.nfu.caGovernment Turns its Back on Committee Report to Save Agricultural Research Centres | National Farmers UnionSept. 22nd, 2026, Ottawa – The Agriculture Union and the National Farmers Union are deeply dismayed by the federal government’s lack of action on a unanimous committee report… 020
Stuart Somerville 🏴☠️ @stuthefarmer.bsky.social · 23/09/2026I would like to float the idea of setting Alberta’s premier (and cabinet, too) adrift on an iceberg in the rapidly warming ocean. It would solve REAL problems in a timely, cost effective manner. It’s worth your consideration.cbc.caAlberta premier floats charging temporary residents $1,900 to access public health care | CBC NewsThe figure comes as Albertans will vote in the Oct. 19 referendum on charging certain non-permanent residents a "reasonable fee or premium" for access to Alberta's health care and education systems. 140
Reposted by Stuart Somerville 🏴☠️Sèafra @woodward.ca · 22/09/2026The very metal, Icelandic Sheep of Ribstone farm, in dramatic black and white for #MonochromeMonday. 0141
Stuart Somerville 🏴☠️ @stuthefarmer.bsky.social · 22/09/2026A few years ago, a very nearly applied for the job of farm manager at the Ukrainian Cultural Heritage Village. It’s a little far from home, but I’m a farmer, I have an Ed degree, and I speak Ukrainian. I’m not unqualified for the job. And I’m interested in that sort of thing. 150
Stuart Somerville 🏴☠️ @stuthefarmer.bsky.social · 21/09/2026My sister works security part time at a synagogue in Victoria. I don’t think she’s especially in danger…but I did think of her as soon as I read this story.cbc.caSuspect, police officer wounded in shooting outside Belleville, Ont., synagogue ID'd | CBC NewsInvestigators have identified the wounded suspect in the shooting incident that unfolded near a Belleville, Ont., synagogue Sunday night, and the local police officer who was also wounded. 030
Stuart Somerville 🏴☠️ @stuthefarmer.bsky.social · 21/09/2026My unsolicited opinion of the day is that maybe we shouldn’t wait until we’re as miserable as 18th century French peasants to revolt. 0207
Stuart Somerville 🏴☠️ @stuthefarmer.bsky.social · 21/09/2026And now you know.medievalists.netThe earliest use of the F-word - Medievalists.netAn English historian has come across the word 'fuck' in a court case dating to the year 1310, making it the earliest known reference to the swear word. 000
Stuart Somerville 🏴☠️ @stuthefarmer.bsky.social · 21/09/2026This fella was living in our house this morning. 030