Jack Hill
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Jack Hill
@jackhill.bsky.social
“For a nod to the nabir is better than a wink to the wabsanti.”

James Joyce, ‘Finnegans Wake’.
#History & Constantine

Almost 1700 yrs age St. Augustine of Hippo appeared(that anyone cares)? Became Doctor of the Church(Plato) challenged later by Aquinas(Aristotle).Even Hannah #Arendt did her thesis commenting on his ideas

“Humanity cannot bear very much reality” T.S.Eliot
#theology #history
November 14, 2025 at 5:20 AM
Captain John Melville Hill

Fought WW1 Served WW2

Remember this day.

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November 12, 2025 at 5:10 AM
Let’s Go Blue Jays

Let’s Play Ball!

#Bluejays #MLB #Toronto
October 31, 2025 at 9:21 PM
#albertateachers & all labour under attack by UCP Notwithstanding Clause & restricting debate in #ableg.

Teachers overwhelming support for student learning & class sizes.

#cdnpoli ##yyc #yeg
October 23, 2025 at 11:37 PM
Reports of plans for an arch in Washington replacing the Social Security building to celebrate 250 yrs but for a certain individual.History reveals a similar failed plan by Hitler’s self
Ben Shahn.
#history #fascism #art

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The Passion of Sacco and Vanzett
October 14, 2025 at 9:59 AM
Calgary Mayor race & fact check on front runners record. Who can stand up to #DanielleSmith over reach & provincial lack of support & continued cost for Calgarians?
#yyc #ableg #yycc

FarkasCheck.org projectcalgary.org/farkas_check

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October 12, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Trivia News: Putin’s birthday
today.

While in Dresden I spoke with academics who spoke about Russia having parties in renovated palaces & questions about rare porcelain collections etc. Putin’s 6yr residence there helped form the dictators viewpoints with Q’s about Stasi connections & opulence.
October 7, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Alberta is speaking out against Govt who doesn’t govern but rams through their narrow agenda for their selected few.

Save our public heathcare and public education.

Not private schools but public education for everyone.

#abed #ableg #albertateachers #yyc #yeg
October 6, 2025 at 4:38 AM
Support Public Education

Join us this Sunday, October 5, from 3:00–4:30 PM at McDougall Centre (455 6 Street SW, Calgary) for a rally in support of public education.

#abed #ableg #yyc

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October 4, 2025 at 5:11 AM
Spaniards (or Portuguese) & Spanish speaking people discovered America - not ICE!

Juan Rodríguez discovered (this day near San Diego in California) was a soldier & explorer in the service of Spain,chiefly known as the discoverer of California

All one world.

#Californa #USA #immigration #oneworld
September 29, 2025 at 4:07 AM
Remembering on this day one of the greatest poets

Dante: September 13, 1321
“Midway this way of life we’re bond,
I found myself in a dark wood,
Where the right road had been lost.”

#poetry #writing
September 15, 2025 at 1:42 AM
Theo Moudakis Toronto Star
#ableg #yyc #yeg #cdnpoli
September 9, 2025 at 5:30 AM
Wayne Alberta in beautiful Badlands.Now a ghost town pop.24
in the past pop.1500+.Told Saloon has the spirit of many worker’s memories.
August 25, 2025 at 4:08 AM
Alberta’s oldest saloon.
#History reveals,Wayne Alberta,ruminants of Miner’s #Union history,from coal miners struggling for survival.Talked with a miner that worked in the last mine before closure -his father before him.List of workers buried in cemetery
#ableg #cdnpoli #yeg #yyc #ylg
August 25, 2025 at 3:57 AM
Ishaan Tharoor -Washington Post Trump City Take Over
August 12, 2025 at 2:20 AM
On July 23 X account of Department of Homeland Security posted image of 1872 oil painting by John Gast, titled American Progress”Expansion,Manifest Destiny
DHS seeing Trump’s democracy today like doing the colonization of Native Americans.Wow! #fascism
Autry Museum

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July 28, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Classic political ? from antiquity,Pilot asks “What is truth?”

Greek translation “aletheia",meaning “unconcealed",sincerity, factuality,reality - an opening?

Political possibilities of a clearing disclosing the world to a way of thinking- not like current situation?
#philosophy #poetry #politics
July 24, 2025 at 6:11 AM
Example of photography by Edward Curtis’s fixed portraits.In Calgary at Grey Eagle Casino pics of his works taken in Tsuut’ina Nation over 100 yrs ago displayed revealing an honoured history,then sponsored by Smithsonian & J P Morgan.
#yyc #history #alberta #ableg
July 23, 2025 at 6:23 AM
Canadian’s response to those that wanted to Annex Canada in 1869. Some Americans & wannabe Americans have received the same message.
#history #DanielleSmith #yeg #yyc #cdnpoli #ableg
July 3, 2025 at 4:40 AM
How without a bill?
July 2, 2025 at 9:08 PM
House Finch nest in our hanging basket. Life span 11 yrs

#birds #yyc #scichat #science
June 28, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Love this pic - the tactic of authoritarianism is to tell you what to think or doubt what is true.

Trump just tried to link men playing woman’s sports to illegal immigration.

#Trump #Vance #fascism

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June 17, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Today 16 June, we celebrate James Joyce's epic tale of Ulysses.

Leopold Bloom's day and night of wandering through Dublin.The story captures the heart of Dublin on a summer's day in 1904.
Inspiring people worldwide!

#jamesjoyce #Ireland #bloomsday #literature
June 16, 2025 at 5:44 PM
My great grandfather before WW1 was a park ranger in Algonquin Park before Tom Thomson. My College had, at one time, Thomson paintings in the foyer.
June 5, 2025 at 2:17 AM
The sun rises and the sun set’s everyday
June 4, 2025 at 3:59 AM