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Stuart Somerville 🏴‍☠️

@stuthefarmer.bsky.social
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Farmer on the dusty prairie; a dad; a bagpiper; a school teacher; a yeoman; a Luddite; a Ukrainian-Catholic Celt. 1% Portuguese. Basically a Viking. Trying to live in a good way. Treaty 6 and 7.

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Stuart Somerville 🏴‍☠️ @stuthefarmer.bsky.social · 2h
The Threshing Crew's Lunchbreak by William Kurelek, 1970.
Imagine of a group eating and drinking in a grainfield.  There are wagons of grain and a tractor and a threshing machine.
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Ireland against Fascism @irlagainstfascism.bsky.social · 7h
This 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.
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Stuart Somerville 🏴‍☠️ @stuthefarmer.bsky.social · 15h
I’m begging people to please stop throwing the word ‘narcissist’ around.
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The Beaverton @thebeaverton.com · 02/10/2026
Carney announces $1.2B investment to protect oceans from his own climate policy
thebeaverton.com
Carney announces $1.2B investment to protect oceans from his own climate policy
Vancouver, 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.
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Stuart Somerville 🏴‍☠️ @stuthefarmer.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Current mood.
Image of a wooden shoe crushing a capitalist. 

The text reads “ Sabotage means to push back, pull out or break off the fangs of capitalism.” W.D. Haywood
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Stuart Somerville 🏴‍☠️ @stuthefarmer.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I’m simply very tired of selling oil in a slightly different direction being framed as ‘diversifying our economy.’
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Stuart Somerville 🏴‍☠️ @stuthefarmer.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Anarchy explained to children.
Cover, in Spanish, of Anarchy Explained to Children, depicting the various virtues of anarchy.
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United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
SOLIDARITY! 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
A farm worker at the side of a field wearing a face mask holding a sign saying farm workers support Starbuck workers #nocontractnocoffee
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Stuart Somerville 🏴‍☠️ @stuthefarmer.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I really like this. Mutual Aid by N.O. Bonzo.
Image of man and woman shaking hands. 
The woman is holding a sickle and the man is holding a pitchfork. They are dressed in traditional working clothes. There are leaves and vines around them and a sheaf of wheat in the background.  The text at the bottom says Mutual Aid.
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Stuart Somerville 🏴‍☠️ @stuthefarmer.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The other black gold on the prairies.
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Stuart Somerville 🏴‍☠️ @stuthefarmer.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Cool 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.ca
West Coast oil pipeline becomes 1st project designated in national interest | CBC News
The 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...
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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...
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Stuart Somerville 🏴‍☠️ @stuthefarmer.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Всім доброго ранку.
Image of combine silhouetted by sunrise.
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Stuart Somerville 🏴‍☠️ @stuthefarmer.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
October 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.
Eastern icon of the mother of God spreading her mantle over a variety of people.
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Stuart Somerville 🏴‍☠️ @stuthefarmer.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The 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…
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Stuart Somerville 🏴‍☠️ @stuthefarmer.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I spent the day with this herd of pronghorns.
A small group of pronghorn antelope in a field of stubble. The sky is very blue.
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Stuart Somerville 🏴‍☠️ @stuthefarmer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I just think it’s a cool crop.
Photo of a variety of yellow cobs of corn laid out on a tailgate. Photo of a hand holding a corn cob broken in half.
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Stuart Somerville 🏴‍☠️ @stuthefarmer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Sometimes the corn field feels a little spooky.
Black and white image of tall corn.
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Stuart Somerville 🏴‍☠️ @stuthefarmer.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
No government has ever handed unions new leverage on purpose.
cbc.ca
Unions have new leverage, not less, under Liberals' new major projects bill: jobs minister | CBC News
Though 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...
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Stuart Somerville 🏴‍☠️ @stuthefarmer.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I’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.)
Image of Red Army soldier in style of an orthodox icon. There is a hammer and sickle to each side of the soldier and he’s holding a book of Lenin’s writing.
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Stuart Somerville 🏴‍☠️ @stuthefarmer.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
* Exit, pursued by a fucking bear*
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Stuart Somerville 🏴‍☠️ @stuthefarmer.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I 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.com
Dance Medley
YouTube video by The Flying Bulgar Klezmer Band - Topic
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Stuart Somerville 🏴‍☠️ @stuthefarmer.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Today just feels like a good day for klezmer.
youtube.com
Alle Brider
YouTube video by The Flying Bulgar Klezmer Band - Topic
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Stuart Somerville 🏴‍☠️ @stuthefarmer.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The 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.
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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
there 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
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Stuart Somerville 🏴‍☠️ @stuthefarmer.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Today 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.
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Julie S. Lalonde @julieslalonde.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The 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.
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Stuart Somerville 🏴‍☠️ @stuthefarmer.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Лис Микита Едвардові Козака Mykyta the Fox by Edward Kozak.
Image of a fox smoking a pipe and dressed in Hutsul clothes.
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Stuart Somerville 🏴‍☠️ @stuthefarmer.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I 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.
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Stuart Somerville 🏴‍☠️ @stuthefarmer.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
If you’re going to be a pedant, at least try to be a consistent pedant.
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Stuart Somerville 🏴‍☠️ @stuthefarmer.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Here’s a question: why did “they’re bison, not buffalo” catch on but “they’re wapiti, not elk” did not?
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Stuart Somerville 🏴‍☠️ @stuthefarmer.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
static.klipy.com
Little Princess Says 'How Dare You!'
ALT: Little Princess Says 'How Dare You!'
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Stuart Somerville 🏴‍☠️ @stuthefarmer.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I 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.
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Stuart Somerville 🏴‍☠️ @stuthefarmer.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
If 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.
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Stuart Somerville 🏴‍☠️ @stuthefarmer.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I don’t think the mighty guard dog has noticed.
A brown and white dog looking towards the camera while a moose walks past in the background.
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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 24/09/2026
what’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”
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Stuart Somerville 🏴‍☠️ @stuthefarmer.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
youtu.be/YAPuJ8tG9qI?...
youtu.be
Historia contra historia:¿Realmente se puede ser neutral o apolítico?
YouTube video by AJ+ Español
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Stuart Somerville 🏴‍☠️ @stuthefarmer.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I 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.
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Stuart Somerville 🏴‍☠️ @stuthefarmer.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Families 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.
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Ximena González @ximenaka.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Anyway, i don’t think we should be using people’s contribution to the economy to determine their value.
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Stuart Somerville 🏴‍☠️ @stuthefarmer.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Canada 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.ca
Government Turns its Back on Committee Report to Save Agricultural Research Centres | National Farmers Union
Sept. 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…
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Stuart Somerville 🏴‍☠️ @stuthefarmer.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I 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.ca
Alberta premier floats charging temporary residents $1,900 to access public health care | CBC News
The 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.
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Sèafra @woodward.ca · 22/09/2026
The very metal, Icelandic Sheep of Ribstone farm, in dramatic black and white for #MonochromeMonday.
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Stuart Somerville 🏴‍☠️ @stuthefarmer.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
A 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.
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Stuart Somerville 🏴‍☠️ @stuthefarmer.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The view behind the combine.
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Stuart Somerville 🏴‍☠️ @stuthefarmer.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The combine at rest.
A combine harvester parked at night with stars visible above.
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Stuart Somerville 🏴‍☠️ @stuthefarmer.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
My 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.ca
Suspect, police officer wounded in shooting outside Belleville, Ont., synagogue ID'd | CBC News
Investigators 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.
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Stuart Somerville 🏴‍☠️ @stuthefarmer.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
My unsolicited opinion of the day is that maybe we shouldn’t wait until we’re as miserable as 18th century French peasants to revolt.
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Stuart Somerville 🏴‍☠️ @stuthefarmer.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
And now you know.
medievalists.net
The earliest use of the F-word - Medievalists.net
An 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.
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Stuart Somerville 🏴‍☠️ @stuthefarmer.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
This fella was living in our house this morning.
A pair of hands holding a grey and orange moth.
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