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True Facts! About Dung Beetles!!’

I know I’m just a lowly peasant, but I can’t imagine giving a shit about whether the prime minister is at the Olympics or not.

The Govan Sarcophagus, c850, recovered from the kirkyard and now in display inside Govan Old Church, Glasgow. The relief depicts a king on horseback hunting deer. It's claimed by some as the coffin of St Constantine, but the date makes this unlikely. #History #HistoryMatters

As someone who, at fifteen years old, used to turn the radio off whenever Kid Rock came on, I am baffled as to why anyone would willingly listen to the guy 25 years later.

Me gustaría agradecer personalmente a Bad Bunny por recordar a Canadá. Muchas gracias, Benito, de tus hermanos congelados del norte!

Bad Bunny in a prairie farmhouse. As God intended.

Some people are all, like, “did you hear that Bad Bunny is going to wear a dress during his show? That’s so weird, for a man to wear a dress!” Meanwhile in Scotland….

Somehow, CBC becomes just a little bit worse every day.

I liked this beautiful window of an old house.🩷

“For the love of Christ….”

A flock of geese just passed overhead- which may be the earliest I’ve ever seen them here. And this was the first time that robins and starlings stayed in our area all winter. 😮

Prairie gargoyle.

A pint of stout in the Paris of the Prairies.

Cerdito sorprendido.

Lots going on here

Trying not to hate people. Failing terribly.

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

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 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’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.”

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.

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.

Just made 3 more #York roses …

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…

Oak trail #trees #woodland #treeclub

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.

#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 🏺

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…

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.

“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

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.)

Está de la chingada

I’m waiting for a cattle buyer to pay us for a load of steers they bought 2 weeks ago and feeling a bit powerless about the whole thing (I’ve no doubt they’ll pay but this wait feels ridiculous). And I’m wondering if I’m as powerless as I feel. Maybe not, but not sure how to know different.

The beauty of the interior of the Cathedral of Ávila.♥️

Chess Piece of a Queen Spanish 12th century Walrus ivory, which was cheaper than the elephant kind. (Walters Art Museum)

But all my conservative friends and neighbours told me he ran here because he loves us and just wanted to represent us! How could you do this to us, Pierre?

I dunno guys: I just saw another ranch in Chihuahua listed for sale- farther from the border (which is good) and with good water- for about 1/7 the cost of land here. If I was an adventurous person, I’d be trying to scrape together 6 million pesos right now…

Cuando la vida misma parece lunática, ¿quién sabe dónde está la locura? Quizás ser demasiado práctico es una locura. Renunciar a los sueños, esto puede ser una locura. Demasiada cordura puede ser locura, y la más loca de todas: ¡ver la vida como es, y no como debería ser! - Don Quijote

This morning the ten year old said, over his breakfast, “did you know that Lionel Messi was destined to be a dwarf?” Which is true, sort of, in a way. But it really makes it sound like a jealous witch cursed him but someone successfully answered her riddles three to save him.

I feel like I have to say this once a week, but anyone who still thinks the contents of the Epstein Files is going to sink Donald Trump and company is so naive that I wouldn’t trust them with safety scissors. They don’t do evil shit to distract you from the files: they do it because they’re evil.

Not to be that guy, but I hated Viktor Orban before it was cool.

Whenever someone tells me that I shouldn’t worry because God has a plan, I want to tell them that I have no doubt that He does, but that doesn’t actually help me figure out how to get the farm work done and the house looked after and bills paid and kids washed and fed.

Creo que comí demasiado bistec. No sabía que lo era posible.