Val Monahan
@valymonahan.bsky.social
Northerner. Stuff I like: birds, food, fishing, social equality.
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Val Monahan
@valymonahan.bsky.social
· Dec 9
Giant steps are what I take
In my Sorel boots
Hope my legs don't break
In my Sorel boots
Can’t walk forEver
In my Sorel boots
Keep my feet togEther
In my Sorel boots
Walking back from mY work
In my Sorel boots
Feet they hardly touch the ground
In my Sorel boots
Feet just make squeak crunch sound
In my Sorel boots
Hope my legs don't break
In my Sorel boots
Can’t walk forEver
In my Sorel boots
Keep my feet togEther
In my Sorel boots
Walking back from mY work
In my Sorel boots
Feet they hardly touch the ground
In my Sorel boots
Feet just make squeak crunch sound
Made prosciutto, leek, kale strata, for dinner. Served with green pepper sauce. Enough for a breakfast and/or lunch tomorrow, for two. #food 🍜
November 13, 2025 at 3:38 AM
Made prosciutto, leek, kale strata, for dinner. Served with green pepper sauce. Enough for a breakfast and/or lunch tomorrow, for two. #food 🍜
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For my Xtra column this month, I wrote about what it's been like living as a trans person in Trump's first year and the outlook moving forward. xtramagazine.com/power/politi...
A year after Trump's reelection, what's next for trans people? | Xtra Magazine
The past year has been horrifying for trans people in the U.S. The past week gave me hope for the future
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November 11, 2025 at 7:51 PM
For my Xtra column this month, I wrote about what it's been like living as a trans person in Trump's first year and the outlook moving forward. xtramagazine.com/power/politi...
Saw a very poofy red fox on my walk to work this morning.
November 12, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Saw a very poofy red fox on my walk to work this morning.
Songs for Remembrance Day: Laura Marling What He Wrote. Link to Youtube video of audio/image/lyrics. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Er1z...
Laura Marling - What He Wrote - Lyrics (On Screen)
YouTube video by CKaylah
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November 12, 2025 at 1:34 AM
Songs for Remembrance Day: Laura Marling What He Wrote. Link to Youtube video of audio/image/lyrics. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Er1z...
Songs for Remembrance Day: Tom Waits Hell Broke Luce. Link to Youtube, Official Video of the song. www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Fju...
Tom Waits - "Hell Broke Luce"
YouTube video by ANTI- Records
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November 12, 2025 at 1:28 AM
Songs for Remembrance Day: Tom Waits Hell Broke Luce. Link to Youtube, Official Video of the song. www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Fju...
Songs for Remembrance Day: Fairport Convention The Deserter, from the Album Liege & Lief. Link to Youtube video of audio. www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDf8...
The Deserter
YouTube video by Fairport Convention - Topic
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November 12, 2025 at 1:05 AM
Songs for Remembrance Day: Fairport Convention The Deserter, from the Album Liege & Lief. Link to Youtube video of audio. www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDf8...
Beef stew! Remembered I had frozen some fancy pork fat (trimmed from local pork bought a while back), used it to brown the beef. #food 🍜
November 12, 2025 at 12:56 AM
Beef stew! Remembered I had frozen some fancy pork fat (trimmed from local pork bought a while back), used it to brown the beef. #food 🍜
Songs for Remembrance Day: Mark Lanegan/Duke Garwood War Memorial. Link to a Youtube video of audio. www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPe8...
Mark Lanegan & Duke Garwood - War Memorial
YouTube video by Giannis Chamalis
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November 12, 2025 at 12:42 AM
Songs for Remembrance Day: Mark Lanegan/Duke Garwood War Memorial. Link to a Youtube video of audio. www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPe8...
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From Veteran's Affairs Canada website:
"Most First Nations Veterans were unable to receive their pensions, grants and benefits. This was due to their legal status as wards of Canada under the Indian Act."
Shameful & despicable behaviour from Canada.
"Most First Nations Veterans were unable to receive their pensions, grants and benefits. This was due to their legal status as wards of Canada under the Indian Act."
Shameful & despicable behaviour from Canada.
November 11, 2025 at 4:51 PM
From Veteran's Affairs Canada website:
"Most First Nations Veterans were unable to receive their pensions, grants and benefits. This was due to their legal status as wards of Canada under the Indian Act."
Shameful & despicable behaviour from Canada.
"Most First Nations Veterans were unable to receive their pensions, grants and benefits. This was due to their legal status as wards of Canada under the Indian Act."
Shameful & despicable behaviour from Canada.
Am in full-on winter cooking mode, apparently. Making beef stew. Will use some of my newly made stock. Can use local new potatoes, carrots, parsnips! Ridiculously excited about the whole thing. #food 🍜
November 11, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Am in full-on winter cooking mode, apparently. Making beef stew. Will use some of my newly made stock. Can use local new potatoes, carrots, parsnips! Ridiculously excited about the whole thing. #food 🍜
It's Remembrance Day. My maternal grandfather (who I never met) served in WWI. Deemed unfit for overseas service, he trained as a pilot, then trained pilots. Here are his records. My mother adored her father and told us a few stories. Apparently, he carried a blackjack on training flights 1/2
November 11, 2025 at 6:23 PM
It's Remembrance Day. My maternal grandfather (who I never met) served in WWI. Deemed unfit for overseas service, he trained as a pilot, then trained pilots. Here are his records. My mother adored her father and told us a few stories. Apparently, he carried a blackjack on training flights 1/2
That time of the year: when we remember when the gales of November came early. www.youtube.com/watch?v=FuzT...
Gordon Lightfoot - Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald (Official Audio)
YouTube video by Gordon Lightfoot
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November 11, 2025 at 3:10 AM
That time of the year: when we remember when the gales of November came early. www.youtube.com/watch?v=FuzT...
Tomorrow is Remembrance Day. This is not a new art project, but I think it is an amazing memorial to the Canadian soldiers who faught/died in the First World War. www.facebook.com/sarahhattona...
111K views · 678 reactions | "Detachment" honours the lives lost during the First World War and reinforces the enduring importance of collective memory on its 100th anniversary. These artworks are mad...
"Detachment" honours the lives lost during the First World War and reinforces the enduring importance of collective memory on its 100th anniversary. These artworks are made from thousands of...
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November 10, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Tomorrow is Remembrance Day. This is not a new art project, but I think it is an amazing memorial to the Canadian soldiers who faught/died in the First World War. www.facebook.com/sarahhattona...
Yeah! Finally a decent snowfall. Hope we keep it. I love walking in the woods when the snow is falling.
November 10, 2025 at 12:31 AM
Yeah! Finally a decent snowfall. Hope we keep it. I love walking in the woods when the snow is falling.
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1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️
November 9, 2025 at 9:23 AM
1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️
It's that time of the year again!
November 9, 2025 at 6:10 PM
It's that time of the year again!
You know it's a good night when the drunk woman, from France, who "doesn't have any money" tips the band with loose cigarettes.
November 9, 2025 at 5:43 PM
You know it's a good night when the drunk woman, from France, who "doesn't have any money" tips the band with loose cigarettes.
Pretty lady elk from my recent road trip to Carmacks.
November 9, 2025 at 4:56 AM
Pretty lady elk from my recent road trip to Carmacks.
Fam band! The Compassion Pills: sound check at Lefty’s Well.
November 9, 2025 at 2:48 AM
Fam band! The Compassion Pills: sound check at Lefty’s Well.
This might be why posts get blocked. If you go in, you will see what "your" settings are set to, even if you never knew to go there, to set them! Lots of "hide" in the default settings for your feed, that you may not have known existed.
Wondering why no one likes your posts anymore, even among your friends? It's because @jay.bsky.team and team have decided to hide a huge amount of content from all of our feeds by default.
Here's how to turn it off.
First go to the hamburger menu in the upper left corner
Here's how to turn it off.
First go to the hamburger menu in the upper left corner
November 7, 2025 at 5:10 PM
This might be why posts get blocked. If you go in, you will see what "your" settings are set to, even if you never knew to go there, to set them! Lots of "hide" in the default settings for your feed, that you may not have known existed.
Ice fog makes hoar frost. The bigger lakes are starting to freeze.
November 6, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Ice fog makes hoar frost. The bigger lakes are starting to freeze.
Dinner: "Asian-style" pork chop. Love this recipe from Woks of Life with lemon/herb roasted, local root veggies: potatoes, carrots and parsnips. #food 🍜 Hard to explain how delicious our locally grown root veggies are! Insanely good.
November 4, 2025 at 3:23 AM
Dinner: "Asian-style" pork chop. Love this recipe from Woks of Life with lemon/herb roasted, local root veggies: potatoes, carrots and parsnips. #food 🍜 Hard to explain how delicious our locally grown root veggies are! Insanely good.
