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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 · 3h
This is not a patriotic selfie. But it is a the-separatists-can-go-pound-sand selfie.
Selfie of a guy in a ball cap with a Canadian flag in the background.
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Helen Day @lbflyawayhome.bsky.social · 6h
“Across this cloud-dappled sky skeins of wild geese are flying” (What to Look for in Autumn, 1960) Writer: EL Grant Watson Artist: CF Tunnicliffe
 a scene probably in East Anglia of flat fields, a distant windmill and farmworkers loading up root vegetables for the Winter 
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Stuart Somerville 🏴‍☠️ @stuthefarmer.bsky.social · 6h
The office this morning.
A group of red and white and black cattle standing in brown grass with a blue sky.
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Stuart Somerville 🏴‍☠️ @stuthefarmer.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Jesús wept
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Stuart Somerville 🏴‍☠️ @stuthefarmer.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Winter feed.
Image of corn plants chopped to make silage.
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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 12/10/2026
#OtD 12 Oct 1896 Portuguese anarchist union leader and rail worker, Mário Castelhano, died in the Tarrafal concentration camp, Cape Verde. Sent there by the far-right dictatorship for his role in a general strike, he died during an epidemic in the camp stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/7738...
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Stuart Somerville 🏴‍☠️ @stuthefarmer.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
As the many-times-great-nephew (by marriage) of Christopher Columbus, I grant you all full permission to hate the guy.
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Stuart Somerville 🏴‍☠️ @stuthefarmer.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
My 4th great grandparents. In Admaston, Ontario. Not sure when. I’m sure they were the life of the party- as were all mid 19th century Scottish Presbyterians.
Sepia toned image of seated man and standing woman in mid-19th century clothing.
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James Rebanks @herdyshepherd.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Don’t do much social media these days… but some images from the summer won’t hurt Hope you are all well
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History and Heritage Yorkshire @handhyorkshire.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
🧵“Tatie or Tattie Picking Week” was a familiar part of rural life with women and children, helping harvest the crop prior to the frosts. The October school break gave children the chance to help with the harvest, earning a bit of extra money. It was cold, muddy, back-breaking work:
An early 20th-century potato-picking scene at Mount Farm, Selby R Dunning.
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Stuart Somerville 🏴‍☠️ @stuthefarmer.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
And that, friends, is why I don’t especially care about other people’s religions. Their religion, or lack thereof, is an interesting fact about them. But a jackass is a jackass no matter what they profess.
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Stuart Somerville 🏴‍☠️ @stuthefarmer.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
I personally think it’s fascinating that so many judgemental, dogmatic, obnoxious Christians who find atheism end up being judgemental, dogmatic, obnoxious Atheists.
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Stuart Somerville 🏴‍☠️ @stuthefarmer.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
More people should learn about the Cristero Wars in the early 20th century. At the start, it’s really easy to side with either the Cristeros or the Federales, depending on your personal views. But you read a little more and you realize that both sides were…terrible.
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Stuart Somerville 🏴‍☠️ @stuthefarmer.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
It’s nice that you have a variety.
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Stuart Somerville 🏴‍☠️ @stuthefarmer.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Yeah, I only knew about it from Mexican news apps.
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Stuart Somerville 🏴‍☠️ @stuthefarmer.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
It’s partly the result of climate change. But it’s also because farmers can be a little bit chicken-shit about trying new things. We’re extremely good at finding reasons to not even try something different.
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Stuart Somerville 🏴‍☠️ @stuthefarmer.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
The corn is intended to be chopped for silage, but I’m convinced that in a very short time we will harvest corn for grain here. The standard wisdom was always that it’s too cold in central Alberta- but it was actually a coolish summer and fall and the corn has still done really well.
8 yellow ears of corn and their husks lined up on a tail gate. Cross section of corn cob showing starch and milk layers in the kernels.
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Stuart Somerville 🏴‍☠️ @stuthefarmer.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
What are your two primary settings? Mine:
Image of Shawn the Sheep with the farmer and dog and a few other sheep. Image of Subcomandante Marcos mounted and masked, smoking and armed.
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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 10/10/2026
#OtD 10 Oct 1937 fascist leader Oswald Mosley was knocked unconscious and hospitalised in Liverpool by a stone thrown by anti-fascists who attacked a Nazi meeting at which he had attempted to address the crowd stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8245...
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Canadian Paintings @canadianpaintings.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Escaping Residential School Jane Ash Poitras ~ Cree n.d.
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Michelle says: Be kind. Always. ❤️ @snarkysillysad.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Brooks The Baby Musk Ox From The Alaska Wildlife Conservation Center: #AGoodPlace
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Stuart Somerville 🏴‍☠️ @stuthefarmer.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Alberta Separatists are not great people, but their most annoying trait is definitely the “We’re Not The Ones Being Divisive” thing. Just watch- I guarantee you that at Thanksgiving dinner this weekend, the Separatists won’t be the ones biting their lip to keep the peace.
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Stuart Somerville 🏴‍☠️ @stuthefarmer.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Me gustan mucho los coyotes, aunque me roben las gallinas.
Un coyote al lado de la ruta.
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Helen Day @lbflyawayhome.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Other work by the Ladybird artists ‘October’ (From a 1958 calendar by the always fabulous Ronald Lampitt)
A cloudy day in October casts long shadows so it’s early or late. An allotment is busy with autumn activity and the plots are all super well-tended. 
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Stuart Somerville 🏴‍☠️ @stuthefarmer.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
*aren’t
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Stuart Somerville 🏴‍☠️ @stuthefarmer.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Doesn’t mean there aren’t problems everywhere. Doesn’t mean there are lots of great things in English speaking countries. But we’re going to get dragged down with the yanks whether we want to or not.
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Stuart Somerville 🏴‍☠️ @stuthefarmer.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
My unsolicited opinion is that the Anglosphere is cooked. The cultural influence of the US is too strong. It’s religion is too perverted. The capitalism is too deep. Other parts of the world are somewhat insulated by language. Anglophones are screwed.
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Stuart Somerville 🏴‍☠️ @stuthefarmer.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
(I think you’re going to find that your laws mean nothing.)
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Stuart Somerville 🏴‍☠️ @stuthefarmer.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I was just thinking this. It's insane.
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pmamtraveller.bsky.social @pmamtraveller.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Cat resting on a cross of Orthodox church in Perast, Montenegro.
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Stuart Somerville 🏴‍☠️ @stuthefarmer.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Inshallah it goes well.
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Stuart Somerville 🏴‍☠️ @stuthefarmer.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I just really, really need western leftists to understand that NATO can be a tool of capitalist imperialism AND Vladimir Putin and his government can be oppressive and evil at the same time.
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Stuart Somerville 🏴‍☠️ @stuthefarmer.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I would point out that the Cat Who Came To Stay looks an awful lot like the IWW General Strike! cat.
A small black cat in the sunshinePoster with image of a black cat on a background and the text General Strike
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Stuart Somerville 🏴‍☠️ @stuthefarmer.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Big trucks and idiot drivers.
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Radical Graffiti @radicalgraffiti.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
"This system is sick and you know it!" Seen in Vienna
"This system is sick and you know it!"
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Stuart Somerville 🏴‍☠️ @stuthefarmer.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Ok, what happened next, Mr. Carney? Because I feel like that’s worth remembering too…
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Stuart Somerville 🏴‍☠️ @stuthefarmer.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I think the cat distribution system reached my family. We found him in a parking lot. Very friendly. Very hungry. No one has claimed him.
A small black cat being held by someone in a maroon sweater.
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Stuart Somerville 🏴‍☠️ @stuthefarmer.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Sometimes I run into people I went to high school with and they’ve actually lost much much much more hair than I have. And then I feel silly that my own hairline bothers me.
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Stuart Somerville 🏴‍☠️ @stuthefarmer.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Something that I think Carney understand very well (and just about everyone else chooses to forget) is that his role is to protect the nation as an institution. The people and land and water and etc, etc are not really his problem. The whales serve no institutional purpose whatsoever.
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Stuart Somerville 🏴‍☠️ @stuthefarmer.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Oh, he is definitely one of the high priests of economics. But it’s a death cult: the gods of capitalism always need more blood.
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Stuart Somerville 🏴‍☠️ @stuthefarmer.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
There are a lot of antelope around right now.
A male pronghorn standing on a grassy hill under a blue sky.
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Stuart Somerville 🏴‍☠️ @stuthefarmer.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
El saltamontes en el maizal.
Foto de un saltamontes pequeño asiendo en una mazorca madura.
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Stuart Somerville 🏴‍☠️ @stuthefarmer.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I didn’t know that I was in the mood for norteño style System of a Down.
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Toxicity - EZ Band (System of a Down Cover)
YouTube video by EZ BAND
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El Diario de Nueva York @eldiariony.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Árbol centenario es talado en Arizona para construir el muro fronterizo pese al rechazo
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Árbol centenario es talado en Arizona para construir el muro fronterizo pese al rechazo
El álamo, conocido como ‘el árbol de la abuela’, estaba siendo cuidado por ambientalistas por más de dos meses en la frontera de Arizona con México
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Stuart Somerville 🏴‍☠️ @stuthefarmer.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Pollo con elotes.
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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 05/10/2026
The SPEAKER implies. The LISTENER infers. The DUDE abides.
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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
WATCH THE FULL VIDEO HERE: youtu.be/NwBGClVR9AQ?...
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A huge newspaper arguably THREATENED NDP Leader Avi Lewis. Why is no major media talking about it??
YouTube video by Rachel Gilmore
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Stuart Somerville 🏴‍☠️ @stuthefarmer.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Maybe the good ones, yes.
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Stuart Somerville 🏴‍☠️ @stuthefarmer.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I really can’t imagine having a pile of money and not using it to fix whatever problem I see.
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Stuart Somerville 🏴‍☠️ @stuthefarmer.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
A million dollars to the schools to feed kids; a million dollars to local groups helping the homeless; a million dollars to every women's shelter. If I still have lottery winnings left after a year, I'll have failed. (I'd make a terrible billionaire.)
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