Stuart Somerville 🏴☠️
@stuthefarmer.bsky.social
Farmer on the dusty prairie; a dad; a bagpiper; a school teacher; a yeoman; a Luddite; a Ukrainian-Catholic Celt. Possibly a Viking.
Trying to live in a good way.
Treaty 6 and 7.
Trying to live in a good way.
Treaty 6 and 7.
Pinned
“When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a communist.”
Dom Hélder Câmara
Dom Hélder Câmara
This cactus is doing its best to keep spirits up around here.
November 9, 2025 at 11:23 PM
This cactus is doing its best to keep spirits up around here.
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no amount of state propaganda will ever convince me this man is my enemy
November 9, 2025 at 3:05 PM
no amount of state propaganda will ever convince me this man is my enemy
Instagram’s algorithm is absolutely convinced that I need to know about every Mexican themed event in Southern Ontario.
It’s an interesting choice because I live about 400km closer to actual Mexico than I do to Southern Ontario.
It’s an interesting choice because I live about 400km closer to actual Mexico than I do to Southern Ontario.
November 9, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Instagram’s algorithm is absolutely convinced that I need to know about every Mexican themed event in Southern Ontario.
It’s an interesting choice because I live about 400km closer to actual Mexico than I do to Southern Ontario.
It’s an interesting choice because I live about 400km closer to actual Mexico than I do to Southern Ontario.
The Alberta government is considering raising the speed limit on some highways to 120km/hr.
I guess far too many people were surviving.
I guess far too many people were surviving.
November 8, 2025 at 1:02 PM
The Alberta government is considering raising the speed limit on some highways to 120km/hr.
I guess far too many people were surviving.
I guess far too many people were surviving.
Big news from the elementary school today.
Someone stole 28 urinal pucks.
The motive is unknown. The culprit remains at large.
Absolute legend.
Someone stole 28 urinal pucks.
The motive is unknown. The culprit remains at large.
Absolute legend.
November 8, 2025 at 12:07 AM
Big news from the elementary school today.
Someone stole 28 urinal pucks.
The motive is unknown. The culprit remains at large.
Absolute legend.
Someone stole 28 urinal pucks.
The motive is unknown. The culprit remains at large.
Absolute legend.
CBC news is, for the most part, trash.
And their online news is a festering heap of trash.
And their online news is a festering heap of trash.
November 7, 2025 at 8:01 PM
CBC news is, for the most part, trash.
And their online news is a festering heap of trash.
And their online news is a festering heap of trash.
It’s hard to pinpoint the exact moment when I gave up hope that society could be saved, but I think a flock (herd?) of BC ostriches becoming a cause celebre may have been the point that I couldn’t hold it together anymore.
November 6, 2025 at 5:41 PM
It’s hard to pinpoint the exact moment when I gave up hope that society could be saved, but I think a flock (herd?) of BC ostriches becoming a cause celebre may have been the point that I couldn’t hold it together anymore.
The six year old told me her SCATHING opinion of kids saying “6 7” yesterday.
I now feel comforted that she is unlikely to ever get peer pressured into…anything.
(But she may not, however, be widely appreciated…)
I now feel comforted that she is unlikely to ever get peer pressured into…anything.
(But she may not, however, be widely appreciated…)
November 5, 2025 at 8:22 PM
The six year old told me her SCATHING opinion of kids saying “6 7” yesterday.
I now feel comforted that she is unlikely to ever get peer pressured into…anything.
(But she may not, however, be widely appreciated…)
I now feel comforted that she is unlikely to ever get peer pressured into…anything.
(But she may not, however, be widely appreciated…)
November 5: let us remember this day Guy Fawkes, the last man to enter parliament with honest intentions.
(This is usually where some Englishman jumps in and scolds me for celebrating a terrorist Catholic.
But are we sure that disappearing the ruling class in an instant is such a bad idea?)
(This is usually where some Englishman jumps in and scolds me for celebrating a terrorist Catholic.
But are we sure that disappearing the ruling class in an instant is such a bad idea?)
November 5, 2025 at 3:06 PM
November 5: let us remember this day Guy Fawkes, the last man to enter parliament with honest intentions.
(This is usually where some Englishman jumps in and scolds me for celebrating a terrorist Catholic.
But are we sure that disappearing the ruling class in an instant is such a bad idea?)
(This is usually where some Englishman jumps in and scolds me for celebrating a terrorist Catholic.
But are we sure that disappearing the ruling class in an instant is such a bad idea?)
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“If that was an animal shelter, crowded with the filth that we hear is in there, it would be closed down. It’s inhumane.” #PrayForAmerica chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
Religious leaders' request to give communion to detainees at Broadview facility is denied again
Organizers said they followed Department of Homeland Security protocol and formally requested access more than one week ahead of the Mass. The request was denied, according to a statement from the vil...
chicago.suntimes.com
November 3, 2025 at 4:21 AM
“If that was an animal shelter, crowded with the filth that we hear is in there, it would be closed down. It’s inhumane.” #PrayForAmerica chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
La ofrenda. Saturnino Herrán. 1913.
November 3, 2025 at 2:09 AM
La ofrenda. Saturnino Herrán. 1913.
It’s going to shock a lot of people to hear me express a thought about professional sports- but I’m actually pretty sad the jays didn’t win last night.
November 2, 2025 at 7:03 PM
It’s going to shock a lot of people to hear me express a thought about professional sports- but I’m actually pretty sad the jays didn’t win last night.
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"The poor are not there by chance or by blind and cruel fate. Nor, for most of them, is poverty a choice. Yet, there are those who still presume to make this claim, thus revealing their own blindness and cruelty." #PopeLeoXIV #DilexiTe #RememberThePoor
November 2, 2025 at 1:53 PM
"The poor are not there by chance or by blind and cruel fate. Nor, for most of them, is poverty a choice. Yet, there are those who still presume to make this claim, thus revealing their own blindness and cruelty." #PopeLeoXIV #DilexiTe #RememberThePoor
Any minute now, Pierre Poilievre will find a way to blame the Jays’ loss on immigration.
November 2, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Any minute now, Pierre Poilievre will find a way to blame the Jays’ loss on immigration.
There’s that whole “punks are nice people pretending to be bad and hippies are bad people pretending to be nice” thing.
And, in my experience, it’s 100% true.
Don’t be a hippie, kids: be a punk.
And, in my experience, it’s 100% true.
Don’t be a hippie, kids: be a punk.
November 1, 2025 at 4:11 PM
There’s that whole “punks are nice people pretending to be bad and hippies are bad people pretending to be nice” thing.
And, in my experience, it’s 100% true.
Don’t be a hippie, kids: be a punk.
And, in my experience, it’s 100% true.
Don’t be a hippie, kids: be a punk.
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F. Scott Fitzgerald: In my book I invented Gatsby lifestyle as a cautionary tale
The president: At long last, we have created the Gatsby lifestyle from the classic novel The Great Gatsby
The president: At long last, we have created the Gatsby lifestyle from the classic novel The Great Gatsby
November 1, 2025 at 4:48 AM
F. Scott Fitzgerald: In my book I invented Gatsby lifestyle as a cautionary tale
The president: At long last, we have created the Gatsby lifestyle from the classic novel The Great Gatsby
The president: At long last, we have created the Gatsby lifestyle from the classic novel The Great Gatsby
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A look at the devastating power loss across Jamaica following the historic crossing of Hurricane Melissa, captured by NOAA-21.
October 30, 2025 at 6:27 PM
A look at the devastating power loss across Jamaica following the historic crossing of Hurricane Melissa, captured by NOAA-21.
It’s not cowardice: it’s disdain. She’s not scared of teachers (or Albertans in general); she just thinks they don’t matter.
Treat her like the arrogant, entitled, disrespectful, petty tyrant that she it.
Treat her like the arrogant, entitled, disrespectful, petty tyrant that she it.
Danielle Smith is a coward.
She refused to negotiate in good faith with teachers, refused to end this strike by offering a fair deal, and, worst of all, she violated Albertans’ Charter rights without even showing up for debate.
She refused to negotiate in good faith with teachers, refused to end this strike by offering a fair deal, and, worst of all, she violated Albertans’ Charter rights without even showing up for debate.
October 30, 2025 at 10:58 PM
It’s not cowardice: it’s disdain. She’s not scared of teachers (or Albertans in general); she just thinks they don’t matter.
Treat her like the arrogant, entitled, disrespectful, petty tyrant that she it.
Treat her like the arrogant, entitled, disrespectful, petty tyrant that she it.
It’s super neat that this comment could, at this very moment, be fairly applied to multiple jurisdictions around the world.
October 30, 2025 at 6:17 PM
It’s super neat that this comment could, at this very moment, be fairly applied to multiple jurisdictions around the world.
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The nuns say Pope Leo spends most of his day holding up various baseball jerseys
October 30, 2025 at 4:26 PM
The nuns say Pope Leo spends most of his day holding up various baseball jerseys
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These terrifying bats are looking forward to #Halloween 🦇🦇🦇😱
Bodl. Library MS. Ashmole 304; 13th century; England, St. Albans; f.47v @bodleian.ox.ac.uk
Bodl. Library MS. Ashmole 304; 13th century; England, St. Albans; f.47v @bodleian.ox.ac.uk
October 29, 2025 at 10:06 PM
These terrifying bats are looking forward to #Halloween 🦇🦇🦇😱
Bodl. Library MS. Ashmole 304; 13th century; England, St. Albans; f.47v @bodleian.ox.ac.uk
Bodl. Library MS. Ashmole 304; 13th century; England, St. Albans; f.47v @bodleian.ox.ac.uk
Every day I think to myself that I should just write a letter to my MLA (the Honourable Nate Horner) and calmly explain that he and his government are doing…poorly.
But I think it would be a complete waste of time. A pile of dogshit in front of his office door would get the point across better.
But I think it would be a complete waste of time. A pile of dogshit in front of his office door would get the point across better.
October 29, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Every day I think to myself that I should just write a letter to my MLA (the Honourable Nate Horner) and calmly explain that he and his government are doing…poorly.
But I think it would be a complete waste of time. A pile of dogshit in front of his office door would get the point across better.
But I think it would be a complete waste of time. A pile of dogshit in front of his office door would get the point across better.
Watch as Nicolaides blames teachers, the feds, immigrants, and kids who don’t fit the norm for the poor, helpless UCP having no choice but suspend constitutional rights and impose a contract.
I actually don’t have the words to describe the disdain I have for that political party.
I actually don’t have the words to describe the disdain I have for that political party.
'Prolonged outages affect students academically': Alta. minister on ending teachers strike
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October 29, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Watch as Nicolaides blames teachers, the feds, immigrants, and kids who don’t fit the norm for the poor, helpless UCP having no choice but suspend constitutional rights and impose a contract.
I actually don’t have the words to describe the disdain I have for that political party.
I actually don’t have the words to describe the disdain I have for that political party.
My unpopular pedagogical opinion is that Alberta students missing 15 or 16 days of instructional time isn’t that big of a deal- that time will be pretty easy to make up.
Crowded classrooms and demoralized teachers, and a belligerent government on the other hand…
Crowded classrooms and demoralized teachers, and a belligerent government on the other hand…
October 29, 2025 at 12:47 PM
My unpopular pedagogical opinion is that Alberta students missing 15 or 16 days of instructional time isn’t that big of a deal- that time will be pretty easy to make up.
Crowded classrooms and demoralized teachers, and a belligerent government on the other hand…
Crowded classrooms and demoralized teachers, and a belligerent government on the other hand…
I would like to invite Danielle Smith and, well, her entire caucus really, to take a long walk off a short dock.
October 28, 2025 at 12:22 AM
I would like to invite Danielle Smith and, well, her entire caucus really, to take a long walk off a short dock.