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. 1% Portuguese. 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
A pint of stout in the Paris of the Prairies.
February 2, 2026 at 2:24 AM
A pint of stout in the Paris of the Prairies.
Cerdito sorprendido.
February 2, 2026 at 12:05 AM
Cerdito sorprendido.
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Lots going on here
February 1, 2026 at 2:56 AM
Lots going on here
Trying not to hate people.
Failing terribly.
Failing terribly.
January 31, 2026 at 7:22 PM
Trying not to hate people.
Failing terribly.
Failing terribly.
Because I have a teenager’s sense of humour.
January 30, 2026 at 3:12 PM
Because I have a teenager’s sense of humour.
So, it’s really common to hear farmers and ranchers get upset about labels on food, like GMO free or antibiotic free or grass fed, etc. on the grounds that the labels are misleading.
As for myself, I couldn’t care less. I just want to get paid fairly and produce the product I’m being paid for well
As for myself, I couldn’t care less. I just want to get paid fairly and produce the product I’m being paid for well
January 30, 2026 at 2:30 PM
So, it’s really common to hear farmers and ranchers get upset about labels on food, like GMO free or antibiotic free or grass fed, etc. on the grounds that the labels are misleading.
As for myself, I couldn’t care less. I just want to get paid fairly and produce the product I’m being paid for well
As for myself, I couldn’t care less. I just want to get paid fairly and produce the product I’m being paid for well
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A house is abandoned. There is the date. And you can see the beauty of the roof.🫠
January 29, 2026 at 5:08 PM
A house is abandoned. There is the date. And you can see the beauty of the roof.🫠
I keep going to cattle business related events hoping to learn something new.
I’m not an especially well connected or well informed cattleman- but you wouldn’t believe how rarely anyone shares new information with me.
It’s just the same dozen or so points over and over and over again.
I’m not an especially well connected or well informed cattleman- but you wouldn’t believe how rarely anyone shares new information with me.
It’s just the same dozen or so points over and over and over again.
January 29, 2026 at 5:35 PM
I keep going to cattle business related events hoping to learn something new.
I’m not an especially well connected or well informed cattleman- but you wouldn’t believe how rarely anyone shares new information with me.
It’s just the same dozen or so points over and over and over again.
I’m not an especially well connected or well informed cattleman- but you wouldn’t believe how rarely anyone shares new information with me.
It’s just the same dozen or so points over and over and over again.
I don’t know who needs to hear this, but, in a western Canadian context, at least, “Grassroots” just means conservative/right wing.
January 29, 2026 at 3:10 PM
I don’t know who needs to hear this, but, in a western Canadian context, at least, “Grassroots” just means conservative/right wing.
Update: I’m now trying to explain to this friend that one poll showing that up to 3 in 10 Albertans supporting separation does not equal “more than 1/3 of Albertans in favour of independence.”
I shouldn’t HAVE to have this conversation…
I shouldn’t HAVE to have this conversation…
I’ve got a friend upset with me for comparing Alberta separatism in Canada to Donbas separatism in Ukraine. He’s tells me they’re not the same at all.
Meanwhile, the Ukrainians we both know are saying “yes, these two things are basically the same.”
Meanwhile, the Ukrainians we both know are saying “yes, these two things are basically the same.”
January 29, 2026 at 3:24 AM
Update: I’m now trying to explain to this friend that one poll showing that up to 3 in 10 Albertans supporting separation does not equal “more than 1/3 of Albertans in favour of independence.”
I shouldn’t HAVE to have this conversation…
I shouldn’t HAVE to have this conversation…
I’ve got a friend upset with me for comparing Alberta separatism in Canada to Donbas separatism in Ukraine. He’s tells me they’re not the same at all.
Meanwhile, the Ukrainians we both know are saying “yes, these two things are basically the same.”
Meanwhile, the Ukrainians we both know are saying “yes, these two things are basically the same.”
January 29, 2026 at 2:46 AM
I’ve got a friend upset with me for comparing Alberta separatism in Canada to Donbas separatism in Ukraine. He’s tells me they’re not the same at all.
Meanwhile, the Ukrainians we both know are saying “yes, these two things are basically the same.”
Meanwhile, the Ukrainians we both know are saying “yes, these two things are basically the same.”
My favourite genre of human being is people who accuse you of virtue signalling and then are all like, “so there I was, giving alms to the poor and waiting for my turn in the confessional….”
January 29, 2026 at 2:21 AM
My favourite genre of human being is people who accuse you of virtue signalling and then are all like, “so there I was, giving alms to the poor and waiting for my turn in the confessional….”
Saddened to learn that my 8th great grandfather being Portuguese does not entitle me to Portuguese citizenship.
January 29, 2026 at 1:02 AM
Saddened to learn that my 8th great grandfather being Portuguese does not entitle me to Portuguese citizenship.
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ICE Agent Stuffs Sock Under Mask To Give Himself Chin
January 28, 2026 at 9:00 PM
ICE Agent Stuffs Sock Under Mask To Give Himself Chin
I already knew that Saint Olga of Kyiv was my distant ancestor many times over (she shows up as ancestor to all my grandparents) but today I learned that she’s considered to be the patron saint of vengeance.
Which is probably canonically dodgy, but a fun idea all the same.
Which is probably canonically dodgy, but a fun idea all the same.
January 28, 2026 at 12:38 AM
I already knew that Saint Olga of Kyiv was my distant ancestor many times over (she shows up as ancestor to all my grandparents) but today I learned that she’s considered to be the patron saint of vengeance.
Which is probably canonically dodgy, but a fun idea all the same.
Which is probably canonically dodgy, but a fun idea all the same.
Virtual fencing for cattle seems like a pretty good idea (building fence is slow and expensive, and it litters the countryside with fence lines).
But it doesn’t look very cool. Poor cows, looking all dorky with their clunky zap collars…
But it doesn’t look very cool. Poor cows, looking all dorky with their clunky zap collars…
January 27, 2026 at 6:48 PM
Virtual fencing for cattle seems like a pretty good idea (building fence is slow and expensive, and it litters the countryside with fence lines).
But it doesn’t look very cool. Poor cows, looking all dorky with their clunky zap collars…
But it doesn’t look very cool. Poor cows, looking all dorky with their clunky zap collars…
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January 26, 2026 at 1:54 PM
Listening to a guy talk about cattle prices and the risk of prices dropping.
He shares the opinion that US and Canada will always have high-ish cattle prices because South America can’t produce high-grade beef.
And I think that attitude is going to get our asses handed to us.
He shares the opinion that US and Canada will always have high-ish cattle prices because South America can’t produce high-grade beef.
And I think that attitude is going to get our asses handed to us.
January 27, 2026 at 5:29 PM
Listening to a guy talk about cattle prices and the risk of prices dropping.
He shares the opinion that US and Canada will always have high-ish cattle prices because South America can’t produce high-grade beef.
And I think that attitude is going to get our asses handed to us.
He shares the opinion that US and Canada will always have high-ish cattle prices because South America can’t produce high-grade beef.
And I think that attitude is going to get our asses handed to us.
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#MedievalMonday Two ribbed spiral columns from the original Romanesque church that is now Norwich Cathedral, founded by the Normans in 1096
Together they mark the spot where the original Norman altar once stood
📸 Mine
#history #archaeology #photooftheday 🏺
Together they mark the spot where the original Norman altar once stood
📸 Mine
#history #archaeology #photooftheday 🏺
January 26, 2026 at 6:03 PM
#MedievalMonday Two ribbed spiral columns from the original Romanesque church that is now Norwich Cathedral, founded by the Normans in 1096
Together they mark the spot where the original Norman altar once stood
📸 Mine
#history #archaeology #photooftheday 🏺
Together they mark the spot where the original Norman altar once stood
📸 Mine
#history #archaeology #photooftheday 🏺
I’ve got people in my social media looking at stuff going on in the US right now and saying things like “I still prefer it to China” and I just…I dunno dude… feel like that’s how you end up dismissing atrocities.
And that’s ignoring the faint whiff of implied racism and prejudice…
And that’s ignoring the faint whiff of implied racism and prejudice…
January 26, 2026 at 7:00 PM
I’ve got people in my social media looking at stuff going on in the US right now and saying things like “I still prefer it to China” and I just…I dunno dude… feel like that’s how you end up dismissing atrocities.
And that’s ignoring the faint whiff of implied racism and prejudice…
And that’s ignoring the faint whiff of implied racism and prejudice…
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People are right to be incensed, but there are more names to uplift. ICE killed an immigrant man named Silverio Villegas González in Chicagoland. He had children. Victor Manuel Diaz was kidnapped in Minneapolis and died in ICE custody on January 14. Their names deserve to be repeated, too.
January 25, 2026 at 11:00 PM
People are right to be incensed, but there are more names to uplift. ICE killed an immigrant man named Silverio Villegas González in Chicagoland. He had children. Victor Manuel Diaz was kidnapped in Minneapolis and died in ICE custody on January 14. Their names deserve to be repeated, too.
Listening to corridos and making tortillas and pretending that I don’t live in a frozen wasteland.
As one does.
As one does.
January 26, 2026 at 2:13 AM
Listening to corridos and making tortillas and pretending that I don’t live in a frozen wasteland.
As one does.
As one does.
“It’s not evil that’s ruining the earth, but mediocrity. The crime is not that Nero played while Rome burned, but that he played badly.”
Ned Rorem
Ned Rorem
January 24, 2026 at 6:51 PM
“It’s not evil that’s ruining the earth, but mediocrity. The crime is not that Nero played while Rome burned, but that he played badly.”
Ned Rorem
Ned Rorem
I want to take a trip.
Just me.
Spend a week in Peru. In Pucallpa. In the jungle. No special reason. I just want to.
I have no idea how to pull it off.
(Mostly because I don’t feel comfortable asking anyone for…anything.)
Just me.
Spend a week in Peru. In Pucallpa. In the jungle. No special reason. I just want to.
I have no idea how to pull it off.
(Mostly because I don’t feel comfortable asking anyone for…anything.)
January 24, 2026 at 5:41 PM
I want to take a trip.
Just me.
Spend a week in Peru. In Pucallpa. In the jungle. No special reason. I just want to.
I have no idea how to pull it off.
(Mostly because I don’t feel comfortable asking anyone for…anything.)
Just me.
Spend a week in Peru. In Pucallpa. In the jungle. No special reason. I just want to.
I have no idea how to pull it off.
(Mostly because I don’t feel comfortable asking anyone for…anything.)