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My grandfather Otto Israel Rueger is in the middle. What style....

My grandfather Otto Israel Rueger is in the middle. What style....

Can I just say, to be really, really clear, that I would much prefer to PAY for BlueSky than have ads shoved at me.
Also, where's my blue checkmark?

Done (and a couple of others). Kind of amazing how living in the UK makes $10 CDN feel like spare change!

We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art, the art of words.

My question is always "And how will you monitor this?" I mean, without looking down children's underwear?"

On one hand, this feels like the plot of a bad Bond film.

On the other, because we're talking about Trump here, rather annoyingly, I have to consider this as a genuine possibility.

Israel and the US appear to want to do to Tehran what they have done to Gaza: reduce a busy and complex society to a toxic wasteland.

A reminder that humans in cars - notably omitted from this thanks to motonormativity - kill 1.2m people every year

Why yes, we ARE ten days away from doing a final oil tank top-up before the house sale.
Suddenly we feel pretty damned smug about those heat pumps we installed last year.

I'll back that. This book really does tell the story of how the US became so horriblem

Happy International Women's Day to the women in my life. Thank you for being the examples of the kindness, bravery, strength and love that are the foundation of who I am and who I will be. Thank you for your wisdom.

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Are you a dude who is about to reply guy mansplain an expert woman on Bluesky?

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Up and Away! Oh, long-suffering subscribers. I haven't forgotten you, really. Last Wednesday I managed to finally do something I've dreamed of since I was a teenager: flying. I visited the Cambridge Gliding Centr...

Tonight, just a quick update on what's happening in our lives. Toto, I don't think we're in Kansas any more. Or North Vancouver.
www.threesquirrels.ca/up-and-away/

Country Joe Mcdonald - Feel Like i'm Fixing to Die Rag - Woodstock '69 YouTube video by Lidia

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'Country Joe' McDonald, Who Urged the Crowd at the '69 Woodstock Festival to 'Gimme an F,' Dies - Best Classic Bands "Country Joe" McDonald, the lead singer, songwriter and co-founder of Country Joe and the Fish, a '60s-era psychedelic rock group that was a fixture of the San Francisco music scene, died March 6, 202...

Country Joe McDonald, dead at 84.
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My son you will never meet On December 31, at a routine OB appointment, the doctor couldn’t find our baby’s heartbeat.

“This way, we got to see him. To hold him. To say goodbye face to face.

That was two months ago.”

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All Haile Ontario’s First Female MPP Candidate Originally published on Torontoist on September 27, 2011. Ontario Socialist League election platform, 1902. The result fails to impress on first glance: Margaret Haile, Ontario Socialist League can…

1) A trio of pieces from the vaults for International Women's Day. First, the story of Margaret Haile, the first woman to run for a seat in the Ontario Legislature, as part of a socialist slate of candidates which included a future Toronto mayor.

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I've crossed the US more than once and can't conceive going there now.

Good Morning and Happy Sunday to everyone except the 50.24% of Albertans who voted against adopting permanent Daylight Saving Time in the 2021 referendum.

Daylight Savings Time: all of the jet lag, none of the travel.

A newspaper headline from over a century ago, reading: WOMEN ANARCHISTS HAVE BECOME THE TERROR OF WORLDS POLICE Their Daring Crimes Are Said to Have Out- stripped the Deeds of Brothers of the Red Search for the Woman is Becoming a Safe Rule in Crimes Proceeding From Anarchistic Violence—The Guardians of the World Nearly Always Finda Woman Implicated When a Ruler is Stricken Down—Emotional Women Lose Sense of Fear.

Happy International Women's Day. 🏴

I’m not the welcome committee for the revolution. I’m the you ready to get it popping? Let’s go! Person.

And is south of the US at one place.

This is a really great talk about PC history!

In my U.S. Civil Rights Movements class, we spend a lot of time thinking about historical memory. When movements get reduced to a few iconic leaders, the collective labor that made change possible disappears from view. It also obscures an important lesson: collective action is effective & difficult.

Rage rage against the dying li(me bi)ke

The cluster of dying lime bikes and scooters on our road sound like the Psycho music and the force that through that particular green fuse flows makes me want to go out there and rage like they were printers

Bah. Could never happen in Canada. Right?

Carney says he supports US invading Iran, Cuba, and possibly Canada "with some regret" "It's a good thing that Trump is the most peaceful president in history who ends all wars, right?"

Carney says he supports US invading Iran, Cuba, and possibly Canada "with some regret"

I was wondering this morning if the UK changed the clocks.
An action which I still find incomprehensible now that we have electric lights.
Note: British Columbia, Canada has again promised to end daylight savings time.

Marriage Certificate from North Dakota for Otto Rueger (29) and Lydia Annie Graves (19). Just before they moved to Canad

Just learned that my paternal grandfather was ten years older than his 19 year old wife! Then they left North Dakota for Saskatchewan. Whew.