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elmo (she/elle) 🍁🇨🇦✊

@elminowski.bsky.social

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Teacher, interrupter, parent, traveller, foodie. A queer, white, educated, non-visably disabled, cis-woman on Indigenous land trying to (un)learn my ways. I also cuddle my pets, paint my nails, and post funny shit 🇨🇦

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elmo (she/elle) 🍁🇨🇦✊ @elminowski.bsky.social · 8h

Proudly "neighboUrs" with a U 😉🇨🇦

Credit to @meanwhileincanada.bsky.social

#CANpoli #Canadian #elbowsup #never51 #nokings

elmo (she/elle) 🍁🇨🇦✊ @elminowski.bsky.social · 3d

Happy snugglebutt morning ❤️🐾

#catsofbluesky #dogsofbluesky #petsofbluesky #Foleyet #Yuri #mornings #cuddles #Russiantoy #catsanddogs #orangecat

elmo (she/elle) 🍁🇨🇦✊ @elminowski.bsky.social · 4d

"Withstanding" by @shanekoyczan.bsky.social
#teachers #Alberta #notwithstandingclause #inequity #students #education #ABpoli #classes

Wanted to post something for the #teachers in #Alberta who are having their rights violated by their own government and being forced back to work. Smaller class sizes allow teachers to focus on a students needs and insure a higher quality education. This is an excerpt from a piece I wrote called “Withstanding”
It is not problem solving
to demand that those with little
continue to do more with less
until less finally equals
the nothing more they can do
the cost of living goes up
when the fine to withstand
starts adding rights to the bill

when the penalty to resist
is more per day
than the years long work
that pays their rent
or their mortgage
or their bills
or their or
or
or
and the so much more of it
that touches down like lightning
each time life happens
which is as often and unrelenting
as it is always
pick on someone your own wage
instead of voting up your own worth
trying to make gravity another law
you can afford to break

thinking you can live above the people
instead of beside them
your job is to serve the people
not amputate their legs
from under them
to stand behind the people
and be trusted
not to aim at their backs
down the barrel of an economy
watching them drop in the muck
that hasn’t yet touched your own boots
when the assignment is to face the music
you won’t even show up for attendance

but somehow expect gold stars
and a passing grade
for the test you are failing
the homework you have now
will come from the blaring thunder
of a textbook crashing against the desk
it will account for 100% of your grade
because the lesson is heavy
and failure is the strictest teacher.

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elmo (she/elle) 🍁🇨🇦✊ @elminowski.bsky.social · 6d

#capitalism #colonialism #privilege #letthemeatcake #nokings #epsteinballroom

Credit to @elleisanisland.bsky.social

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elmo (she/elle) 🍁🇨🇦✊ @elminowski.bsky.social · 6d

With credit to @francescapsychology

#community #connection #boundaries #ittakesavillage

Everyone wants to be a village, but no one wants to be a villager. That means people want a strong community for support, but they are not willing to put in the effort and sacrifice required to be a part of it.

Being snowed is the price we pay for connection and community. It can mean sharing space when it's inconvenient, showing up when you'd rather stay home, or hosting when you're tired.

Somewhere along the way, our fear of discomfort turned into hyper-independence - strict boundaries, perfect routines, and no interruptions. But when our boundaries become too rigid, they stop protecting us and start isolating us. They become walls.

And we wonder why we feel so lonely. We're paying for convenience with disconnection. We traded the messiness of community for the ease of solitude and lost something vital along the way.

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Microglyphics @microglyphics.bsky.social · 8d

“Freedom becomes loyalty; truth, consensus; courage, obedience to the prevailing order.” A concept in my latest essay, The Will to Be Ruled.

philosophics.blog/2025/10/24/t...

#philosophy #freedom #obedience #order #Enlightenment #essay #amwriting #politics #psychology #graffiti #courage #loyalty

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elmo (she/elle) 🍁🇨🇦✊ @elminowski.bsky.social · 8d

#fascism #oppression #privilege #history #nokings #antifa

elmo (she/elle) 🍁🇨🇦✊ @elminowski.bsky.social · 9d

This is what #privilege looks like 🧡🪶✊

#idlenomore #landback #Indigenous #indigisky

elmo (she/elle) 🍁🇨🇦✊ @elminowski.bsky.social · 10d

With credit to Stevie Bees

#resist #dontobey #portland #antifa

elmo (she/elle) 🍁🇨🇦✊ @elminowski.bsky.social · 11d

I love when he uses the curb like it's his own pint-sized sidewalk ❤️🐾
#Yuri #dogsofbluesky #Russiantoy

elmo (she/elle) 🍁🇨🇦✊ @elminowski.bsky.social · 11d

Need a shave? ✏️😂
#comics

elmo (she/elle) 🍁🇨🇦✊ @elminowski.bsky.social · 13d

This is what #decolonization looks like✊🪶🧡💧

Cheryl in Nova Scotia 🇨🇦🍁🍁 @minibubbly.bsky.social · 13d

#Yukon election has most women running in at least a decade

Of the 61 people running this year, just over 44% are women

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Yukon election has most women running in at least a decade | CBC News

According to data provided by each party, there are 27 candidates this year who identify as women, representing just over 44 per cent of all the people running. Ten women are running for the Yukon Par...

www.cbc.ca

elmo (she/elle) 🍁🇨🇦✊ @elminowski.bsky.social · 13d

Not sure if the link to FB will work, but this is the AMAZING " #landacknowledgment " by Raven Payment at the #NoKings rally in #Colorado ✊🪶🧡💧

#landback #mmiwg #reconcilation #indigenous #idlenomore

www.facebook.com/share/1DAfhK...

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elmo (she/elle) 🍁🇨🇦✊ @elminowski.bsky.social · 14d

With credit to At Random #Comics

❤️🐾

elmo (she/elle) 🍁🇨🇦✊ @elminowski.bsky.social · 15d

When you have don't have enough leftover #fajitas for a full serving, they make a great salad!
#foodie #leftovers #Mexican

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Sophie Scholl @occamsguillotine.bsky.social · 17d

Portland street art. 😍

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elmo (she/elle) 🍁🇨🇦✊ @elminowski.bsky.social · 18d

Things are getting spicy again this fall 😉
#pumpkinspice @offthemarkparisi.bsky.social

elmo (she/elle) 🍁🇨🇦✊ @elminowski.bsky.social · 19d

Or could have been an amazing triad 😉

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Pathless Pilgrim @pathlesspilgrim.bsky.social · 19d

Newport Public Library 📚 banned books staircase.

The mural was created by artist Gary M. Herd of Kraken Studios as part of Banned Books Week celebrations.

(Via Natasha Jay on Mastodon)

#Literature #books #BannedBooks #photography #StreetArt

A brightly painted staircase at Newport Public Library, each step featuring the title and author of a banned or challenged book. The mural, created by artist Gary M. Herd of Kraken Studios, includes works like The Color Purple, 1984, and To Kill a Mockingbird. The installation is part of Banned Books Week celebrations, promoting literary freedom and resistance to censorship through vibrant public art.

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elmo (she/elle) 🍁🇨🇦✊ @elminowski.bsky.social · 19d

Gapped out here for a while 🤷‍♀️ Going to try again.

Meet Yuri ❤️🐾
#dogsofbluesky #esa #russiantoy

elmo (she/elle) 🍁🇨🇦✊ @elminowski.bsky.social · Mar 23

Anything with a Mr. Dressup reference 🍁❤️ right?!

elmo (she/elle) 🍁🇨🇦✊ @elminowski.bsky.social · Mar 23

"The will ALWAYS be a Canada." ❤️🇨🇦🍁
Check out the reel embedded in this article (Carney posted it on Insta, so it doesn't link well here).
Thank you, Mike Myers!
#truenorthstrongandfree #never51 #elbowsup #CanadaStrong

VIDEO: ‘Elbows up, Canada’: Carney and Myers

'But let me ask you, Mr. Prime Minister, will there always be a Canada?' Myers said

www.sootoday.com

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elmo (she/elle) 🍁🇨🇦✊ @elminowski.bsky.social · Mar 19

Tell me you're on a liquids-only diet without telling me you're on a liquids-only diet 😂🥄🥄🥄
#surgery #medicaldiet #spoontheory

The cutlery served with a trayed meal consists of three white plastic spoons wrapped up in a napkin. A bowl of carpet soup, a paper cup & straw, a mug of tea, and a small carton of milk are out of focus on the background.

elmo (she/elle) 🍁🇨🇦✊ @elminowski.bsky.social · Mar 18

I'm going for hiatal hernia surgery tomorrow morning, and I keep picturing all the parts as your cartoons when they open me up 😂😂 Way to make surgery entertaining 😋

elmo (she/elle) 🍁🇨🇦✊ @elminowski.bsky.social · Mar 18

Each one was better and better!!! 😂😂