I love Slow Horses. Reminds me a bit of 24 when every season was filled with anxiety over who would be killed off *this* season.

Reviewing my WWII lecture & this hits different this year: The US Holocaust museum argues that “what distinguishes a concentration camp from a prison... is that it functions outside of the judicial system. The prisoners are not indicted or convicted of any crime by judicial process.” 🗃️

“The overarching principle is that a fiduciary—say, the CEO of a corporation—when acting on behalf of a corporation, has to act in the corporation’s best interests. Likewise, a trustee of a trust must use the assets for the benefit of the beneficiary, and not himself”… 👀

In honor of National Poetry Day, fall, please enjoy this poem by Ludington Writers’ member Jeanie Mortensen, as published in the 2025 issue of “Beach Combings”: #nationalpoetryday

Dust if You Must by Rose Milligan For #NationalPoetryDay I really like this one. #WritingCommunity #Poems #Poetry

#NationalPoetryDay ✒️ Roses are red, Water comes in litres, Trebuchets can use a counterweight to launch a 90kg stone projectile over 300 metres. #Wales

It's 27C on October 2nd. I really hope kids don't have to trudge thru snow in 4 weeks time. We should all have at least one magical Halloween in our childhood where we did not have to wear parkas over our costumes.

Spion Kop Cemetery. Hartlepool.

Hecla Island - Gull Harbour, Manitoba

From 1939-1945 German officers also listened to speeches from civilians about how the laws of war didn’t apply to them. And then they participated in the Holocaust, starved millions of prisoners of war, destroyed villages and cities, and were defeated.

He knows it. They know it. They've always known it. Amongst themselves, they joke about it. They tell stories about it. They swap advice on how to deal with it. But most importantly, to everyone else, they lie about it.

Every time I see that idiot Allard's name, I'm reminded of when he & his small clown parade would picket the CBC building & harrass passersby. One of his acolytes got in my face one day, so I told her repeatedly to Fuck Off & get off Facebook. Never saw them there again. It was a satisfying day.

Fucking Nazis.

Insanity aside, the orange psychopath really does not sound well. It's a bit like the slur dementia patients sometimes have, and he obviously struggles with reading. Is it poor eyesight? Comprehension? This is all so insane on so many levels.

Manitoba PC campaign manager named in briefing note about rail port that got $18M grant before election www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

William Avenue in Winnipeg on a Wednesday. Looking rather picturesque.

Michael Hill (Jeweller) has excellent commercials. Seriously.

These are not really “protests” in the traditional sense of the word so much as they are contrived spectacles staged for social media audiences in the hopes of generating attention (which in turn drives their crowdfunding) They just shift from one issue to the next in search of attention and money

These stupid dangerous idiots are desperate to feel smart & important & are strung along by every conspiracy on Facebook. The ones I know were not the brightest in high school & they’re still seeking recognition. They don’t even know how dumb they are. Attacking a 72 year old woman? What heroes. 😒

"It appears that Donald Trump not only has dementia set in, but he's copying tactics of Vladimir Putin. Sending troops into cities, thinking that that's some sort of proving ground for war.. is just, frankly, inane and I'm concerned for his health" www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...

Sepsis is nothing to play with. Glad to hear she & her Doctor caught it & she's doing well.

“generals gathered in their masses to listen to gigantic asses“ headline is sitting right there, which outlet is going to step up

I've never seen The Shining. Only clips. Rectifying that tonight.

Today is National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, also known as Orange Shirt Day – a time to raise awareness for the ongoing impacts of residential school and remember the children who never came home.

"Trump’s opponents must build up forces to withstand the administration on every level, from grassroots protests to legal challenges. Judges, if they are willing to stand up to Trump, may be our last line of defense."

Rise and Shine! Pettson and Findus Sven Nordqvist-1946 is a Swedish writer/illustrator of children's books, best known for his series Pettson and Findus, about the old farmer Pettson and his talented cat Findus. He is also active as a comic artist

Some days I wish I could see into the future about 5 years to know how this all ends. This has to end, sometime.

The reason we have rules of engagement isn’t to keep warfighters from killing our enemies. It’s to keep them from killing a farmer with a shovel bc they thought it was a rifle and didn’t bother to wait to check. Or a family in a car bc the driver looked nervous. Or a boat full of fishermen.

Covered Bridge #Photography

autumn in my art 🍂

This would be why I am such a strident critic of digitization as a substitute for actual archival preservation. My sixteenth century documents are far sturdier and likely to survive another 500 years than the detritus on the internet. And digitization is not democratization.

A very cold case! www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

My post about Ceil Chapman's late 1950s evening dress (& Marilyn Monroe) reminds me that I haven't done a #FashionHistory of the Decades deep dive for a while. So let's pick up where we left off & take a look at 1950s Fashion. More Pics & #FashionHistory in 🧵

This whole section really.

Who among us wouldn’t want to sit and face someone else while attending to the call of nature?

“Because at Birtle, I wasn’t Lorraine or the nickname my family gave me, Onzaamidoon, which my aunties called me because I talked too much… I was just another number.” Not even names, Children were just numbers in these institutions. www.winnipegfreepress.com/opinion/anal...

Can’t even laugh at this. The idea of these meatheads skulking around my beautiful, glittering jewel box of a city, looking to tackle every non-white person they see, makes me sick to my stomach. This is the real domestic terrorism.

I had a judge presiding over one of my cases ask me if I had been a defendant in one of his cases because he recognized me. I was like nope. I'm counsel. I was dressed impeccably in a vintage Calvin Klein suit that I'd paid way too much money for. It happened in 2005ish and I still think about it.

I took so much joy from this

Now I have the song History Repeating in my head.

A small Sunday sketch. 🩶🤍

When the Celebrity look-a-like is actually the celebrity….. And David Harbour out there in the Winnipeg crowd crushing beers.

Throwing out what may be an unpopular opinion. New built homes are ugly. I look at the Homes section, & it's always the same beige or grey/white kitchen with an island & chairs, & an "open" room with no wall space for so much as a bookshelf. No character and Bor... ing, inside & out.

Frodo: “I wish it need not have happened in my time." Gandalf: "So do I, and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.” J.R.R. Tolkien

This one's almost too on point.

One of the fun things about aging is trying to remember where the hell you got that bruise from.

It's been a long day.

This only happens to you once

I've said this before, but I remember when "The Learning Channel" was actually about learning. Now it features shows like "Seeking Sister Wife". And we wonder how we got to this point in time....