@streetwriter.bsky.social You have a fan!

Off to Ottawa and Library and Archives Canada. Nice day for it.

What’s really striking in Saruman’s speech to Gandalf is how broadly (and unusually for Tolkien) relevant it is. Take out the one specific reference to the Elves and Númenor and it is just an absolute classic rationale for collaborating with evil in the confidence you can ultimately direct it.

If you don’t think the Trump Regime is planning to steal the midterms, you are not paying attention.

Five authors I’ve read at least 5 books by: Somerset Maugham Peter Caddick-Adams Tim Cook Margaret Atwood Nevil Shute

Happy #Caturday from Duke and me.

"Camp X" was a training school for covert agents and a radio communications centre that operated during the Second World War. It served the needs of the Special Operations Executive, the British agency created in 1940 to “set Europe ablaze” by promoting sabotage and subversion behind enemy lines.

Wow.

If you are craving a little World War II waffle, come and join the fellow afflicted, join or just listen in, either way you are more than welcome Thursday at 8pm. Register here. us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Woohoo! Back to school I go! Laurier University has accepted my application for grad school. This fall I start my MA in history. Getting old doesn’t have to mean stopping learning! Big thanks to @mike-bechthold.bsky.social for the encouragement and the reference!

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Signed.

That would be why.

For my fellow Marc Milner fans. youtu.be/nbM0NM6Yq6Q?...

In Germany the camps did not begin as death. They began as temporary, legal and administrative. "For public order", they said. They grew because space existed, because citizens adjusted, because each step towards extermination felt small. It was built, justified, one "warehouse" at a time.

“that’s the Canadian way”. —Tom Brokaw #cdnpoli #nato #uspoli

It is important to note that the first Canadian casualties, for answering the US article 5 call, were the US military murdering Canadian soldiers for being where they told us to be, doing what they told us to do. #TarnakFarm Never, again, America, never again.

including the clipped beginning www.youtube.com/watch?v=dE98...

“…our national press, claiming to provide an impartial news service, was sailing under false colours. Many newspapers, even those which openly wore the livery of party beliefs, were secretly enslaved to unavowed … interests. Some of them were controlled by foreign interests.” -Marc Bloch. Leave X.

Terribly uncanny how relevant this is to today.

50% of Conservatives are traitors — and the other 50% enable them. The CPC either needs to split into two separate parties, or enact serious change from within. Either way, Maple MAGA needs a new home. Because, right now, their very existence is a threat to Canada. cultmtl.com/2025/12/50-o...

Froze my ass off at the Iowa City anti-ICE rally, but it was worth it

Welcome to new followers, I hope you’ll like it here. You might have a detox period after leaving X - I know I did: when I wasn’t getting nasty comments to everything I posted and firing back, it took a while to adjust.

This photo is Canadians fighting the Nazis in the Battle of Britain. We were a poor country of 11 million people. We built the 4th largest air force and navy in the world. When the Brits were being evacuated at Dunkirk we were already defending her shores. Message to fascists and tyrants: FAFO

Still don't think they'll invade Canada? Really?

How I’m walking out of 2025

@nmtdambusters.bsky.social For you, Jane!

Merle is looking with some scepticism at my attempts to write a paper. Not helping me overcome the imposter syndrome, bud.

This!

@lmbd1418.bsky.social backyardhistory.ca/f/hooves-her...

Honestly Professor, I tried to get my homework done!

Farage's former right hand man in Wales, Nathan Gill, has been sentenced to 10.5 years in prison. He was taking bribes to spread pro Russian propaganda. Betraying Britain in support of a foreign power is the opposite of patriotism. #NeverVoteReform

Nicely done, RCAF!

So, um, if anyone has any pennies in the couch cushions they could send my way, my neighbor just found these in his shed. He knows I “help kittens” and well, here we are. They’re underweight and filthy, and the smallest one worries me, but we’ll get him bathed and fed and figure things out. /1

Just 11 places left now. Keeping this group necessarily small enough that everyone gets proper attention and a chance to develop!

A kid from my village in Ontario who never made it home. He died at a place called Vindictive 107 years ago today. Remember them.

It’s a lovely thing to have someone sweet to come home to.

Bunch of losers. 😤

De Adder hits the nail on the head again.

Anyone else?

🔥👍🖕💯 “Donald Trump and his bootlickers have torn down the Department of Education from the inside. Books are being banned. History is being erased. And Donald Trump and his cronies can f*** all the way off.” #cdnpoli

From Octavia Butler, “Parable of the Talents”: