Roberta Laurie
@robertalaurie.bsky.social
Writer, editor, teacher, artist living offgrid🌲in the Canadian Boreal🇨🇦Author Weaving a Malawi Sunrise📚Writing on sustainability, nature, adoption, mental health, eating disorders, LC, communication 🐝 Born 320ppm CO2 🌎 https://linktr.ee/robertalaurie
"Storytelling does not only apply to novels or memoirs. It’s universal."
Check out my latest post!
#art #artist #markerart #marketing #naturecore #darkcore
Check out my latest post!
#art #artist #markerart #marketing #naturecore #darkcore
Writing as a Superpower
Merging Writing with Art — or Whatever
open.substack.com
October 9, 2025 at 6:00 PM
"Storytelling does not only apply to novels or memoirs. It’s universal."
Check out my latest post!
#art #artist #markerart #marketing #naturecore #darkcore
Check out my latest post!
#art #artist #markerart #marketing #naturecore #darkcore
I'm absolutely thrilled with the new Night Sky piece I created. 😊
#markerart #nightsky #milkywayart #nightskyart
#markerart #nightsky #milkywayart #nightskyart
October 4, 2025 at 8:33 PM
I'm absolutely thrilled with the new Night Sky piece I created. 😊
#markerart #nightsky #milkywayart #nightskyart
#markerart #nightsky #milkywayart #nightskyart
This is the first time I've cast an elk print — or any other print. I'm thrilled with the results. ☺️
I'm hoping to incorporate the cast into a multimedia project. 🤞
I'm hoping to incorporate the cast into a multimedia project. 🤞
July 8, 2025 at 9:24 PM
This is the first time I've cast an elk print — or any other print. I'm thrilled with the results. ☺️
I'm hoping to incorporate the cast into a multimedia project. 🤞
I'm hoping to incorporate the cast into a multimedia project. 🤞
If you want to understand Trump's motivations, I have not found a single commentator who gets it right like Vlad Vexler.
#Trump #Iran #narcissism #attackonIran
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3q-H...
#Trump #Iran #narcissism #attackonIran
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3q-H...
The Real Reason Trump Bombed Iran
YouTube video by Vlad Vexler Chat
www.youtube.com
June 23, 2025 at 3:32 PM
If you want to understand Trump's motivations, I have not found a single commentator who gets it right like Vlad Vexler.
#Trump #Iran #narcissism #attackonIran
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3q-H...
#Trump #Iran #narcissism #attackonIran
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3q-H...
On Wednesday, I set up my tent at the Jasper Farmers Market 🎪across from the library.
I'll be at there every week selling wilderness 🌲inspired art, jewelry, stickers, sun catchers, and other cool stuff. If you're in the area, I'd love to see you. Conversation and shade are always free. ☺
I'll be at there every week selling wilderness 🌲inspired art, jewelry, stickers, sun catchers, and other cool stuff. If you're in the area, I'd love to see you. Conversation and shade are always free. ☺
June 20, 2025 at 5:50 PM
On Wednesday, I set up my tent at the Jasper Farmers Market 🎪across from the library.
I'll be at there every week selling wilderness 🌲inspired art, jewelry, stickers, sun catchers, and other cool stuff. If you're in the area, I'd love to see you. Conversation and shade are always free. ☺
I'll be at there every week selling wilderness 🌲inspired art, jewelry, stickers, sun catchers, and other cool stuff. If you're in the area, I'd love to see you. Conversation and shade are always free. ☺
My very first attempt at resin molds. Many lessons were learned.
April 11, 2025 at 5:55 PM
My very first attempt at resin molds. Many lessons were learned.
"Resource wealth has changed the nature of Western Canada. The problem is that resource wealth is extracted. It exists to strip value from the land and leave. [The companies that do the extracting] don't care about you. They don't care about the land. They care about what they can sell."
What's Really Behind Western Seperatism?
YouTube video by Steve Boots
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April 10, 2025 at 4:23 PM
"Resource wealth has changed the nature of Western Canada. The problem is that resource wealth is extracted. It exists to strip value from the land and leave. [The companies that do the extracting] don't care about you. They don't care about the land. They care about what they can sell."
Rhetorically, Trump has turned a strength into a perceived weakness. By creating a "fake emergency," he's been able to justify measures that are catastrophic for the US's own people.
Trump’s Fake Emergency Over Trade Deficit Exposed
Trump’s trade war is based on a fake economic emergency, distorting facts to justify tariffs, gain power, and threaten U.S. stability.
www.theframelab.org
April 9, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Rhetorically, Trump has turned a strength into a perceived weakness. By creating a "fake emergency," he's been able to justify measures that are catastrophic for the US's own people.
For my Canadian journalist friends: Someone, pleeease apply!
Covering Canada: Election 2025 Fund - Michener Awards Foundation
The Public Policy Forum (PPF), the Rideau Hall Foundation (RHF) and the Michener Awards Foundation (MAF) are launching a timely, non-partisan granting initiative to support journalists at small- and m...
www.michenerawards.ca
April 3, 2025 at 7:15 AM
For my Canadian journalist friends: Someone, pleeease apply!
That the records of this abuse is kept from the family and the public is a kind of ongoing abuse. How can Canada reconcile with Indigenous peoples when we're not being honest about what our past?
The hidden history of a predatory principal at a Manitoba residential school | CBC News
The Truth and Reconciliation Commission heard very little about Agnes Benn, a teen girl who died near a Manitoba residential school in 1930, and the multiple sex abuse charges faced by the school's pr...
www.cbc.ca
April 2, 2025 at 4:36 PM
That the records of this abuse is kept from the family and the public is a kind of ongoing abuse. How can Canada reconcile with Indigenous peoples when we're not being honest about what our past?
*bowing to the goddess who wrote this, whomever she may be
March 24, 2025 at 12:39 AM
*bowing to the goddess who wrote this, whomever she may be
Let's not forget this gem:
"The perspective that Pierre [Pollievre] would bring would be very much in sync with…the new direction in America,” Alberta Premier Danielle Smith told Breitbart News.
"The perspective that Pierre [Pollievre] would bring would be very much in sync with…the new direction in America,” Alberta Premier Danielle Smith told Breitbart News.
March 23, 2025 at 2:54 AM
Let's not forget this gem:
"The perspective that Pierre [Pollievre] would bring would be very much in sync with…the new direction in America,” Alberta Premier Danielle Smith told Breitbart News.
"The perspective that Pierre [Pollievre] would bring would be very much in sync with…the new direction in America,” Alberta Premier Danielle Smith told Breitbart News.
I canNOT stop watching this series.🤣
Trump renames EVERYTHING | PUPPET REGIME
YouTube video by GZERO Media
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March 22, 2025 at 7:27 PM
I canNOT stop watching this series.🤣
Recently Musk philosophized "the fundamental weakness of Western civilization is empathy."
Now he accuses "the left" of being responsible for the recent attacks on Tesla. "I always thought the left was the party of empathy," he says. Then he calls the acts "deranged."🧐
Which is it, dude?
Now he accuses "the left" of being responsible for the recent attacks on Tesla. "I always thought the left was the party of empathy," he says. Then he calls the acts "deranged."🧐
Which is it, dude?
Elon Musk MELTS DOWN in confused tirade on air
YouTube video by Brian Tyler Cohen
www.youtube.com
March 19, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Recently Musk philosophized "the fundamental weakness of Western civilization is empathy."
Now he accuses "the left" of being responsible for the recent attacks on Tesla. "I always thought the left was the party of empathy," he says. Then he calls the acts "deranged."🧐
Which is it, dude?
Now he accuses "the left" of being responsible for the recent attacks on Tesla. "I always thought the left was the party of empathy," he says. Then he calls the acts "deranged."🧐
Which is it, dude?
It's all so much to take in.
The Israeli military made it clear that it is taking over the Netzarim Corridor, from which it withdrew last month, in clear violation of the terms of the ceasefire, reports Al Jazeera's Hani Mahmoud.
🟥 Read report: aje.io/ko4jgp
🟥 Read report: aje.io/ko4jgp
March 19, 2025 at 9:02 PM
It's all so much to take in.
And there's our Premier, sulking in the corner because she doesn't like being called on her bull. What a time to be alive!
Premier Danielle Smith visited the University of Alberta Faculty of Law today. 👀
Lawyers and future lawyers know that Bill 26 and the UCP’s anti-trans bills are regressive, unconstitutional, and just plain wrong. And they had a message for her today. 👏
Lawyers and future lawyers know that Bill 26 and the UCP’s anti-trans bills are regressive, unconstitutional, and just plain wrong. And they had a message for her today. 👏
March 18, 2025 at 1:22 AM
And there's our Premier, sulking in the corner because she doesn't like being called on her bull. What a time to be alive!
Musk has the ability to amplify his ideas more than any other individual on the planet. He has called Canada's past-PM "an insufferable tool" while praising and reposting political messaging from the head of Canada's hard-right opposition. At what point does this become foreign interference?
Canadian Conservatives Were the Winners After Musk’s X Takeover | The Tyee
As a federal election approaches, researchers are tracking a shifting and unstable information ecosystem.
thetyee.ca
March 17, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Musk has the ability to amplify his ideas more than any other individual on the planet. He has called Canada's past-PM "an insufferable tool" while praising and reposting political messaging from the head of Canada's hard-right opposition. At what point does this become foreign interference?
Reposted by Roberta Laurie
Frankly, this pledge to cancel the industrial carbon pricing system if elected smells of desperation. It is the workhorse of federal policy, it is industry-friendly and it provides policy certainty. Cutting it would upend company plans + a cheap way to reduce emissions. globalnews.ca/news/1108494...
Poilievre vows to repeal entire carbon price law, including for industries - National | Globalnews.ca
Poilievre made the announcement after Prime Minister Mark Carney began the process to end the consumer carbon price on things like gasoline.
globalnews.ca
March 17, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Frankly, this pledge to cancel the industrial carbon pricing system if elected smells of desperation. It is the workhorse of federal policy, it is industry-friendly and it provides policy certainty. Cutting it would upend company plans + a cheap way to reduce emissions. globalnews.ca/news/1108494...
No wonder US media is a hellish asymmetric battlefield. The billionaires funding the right are a motley collection of god-complexes, accelerationists, freemarket extremists & others. How can u even describe a guy like Peter Thiel? Libertarianism Christian nationalist hardly scratches the surface.
Today's newsletter is about @mmfa.bsky.social's study from last week about the right's media dominance, with my commentary on something that doesn't get talked about much: funding www.readtpa.com/p/media-matt...
Media Matters Report on Conservative Media Dominance Reveals What Progressive Donors Don't Want to Hear
Conservative dominance of digital platforms is driven by billionaire backing that the left hasn't matched
www.readtpa.com
March 17, 2025 at 7:09 PM
No wonder US media is a hellish asymmetric battlefield. The billionaires funding the right are a motley collection of god-complexes, accelerationists, freemarket extremists & others. How can u even describe a guy like Peter Thiel? Libertarianism Christian nationalist hardly scratches the surface.
Now that we have a new Prime Minister, we no longer have to look at F**k Trudeau flags hanging in truck windows. Now we have to look at falsified photos of Mark Carney doing things he never did.
This is propaganda!
This is propaganda!
This photo of Mark Carney and Tom Hanks on “Epstein Island” is going viral. The photo is completely fake.
Fake photos insinuating Canada’s new prime minister is linked to crimes of sexual abuse are going viral on Elon Musk’s X
Fake photos insinuating Canada’s new prime minister is linked to crimes of sexual abuse are going viral on Elon Musk’s X
This Photo of Mark Carney and Tom Hanks on “Epstein Island” is Going Viral. The Photo is Completely Fake.
Fake photos insinuating Canada’s new prime minister is linked to crimes of sexual abuse are going viral on Elon Musk’s X
pressprogress.ca
March 16, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Now that we have a new Prime Minister, we no longer have to look at F**k Trudeau flags hanging in truck windows. Now we have to look at falsified photos of Mark Carney doing things he never did.
This is propaganda!
This is propaganda!
Reposted by Roberta Laurie
McSweeney's: Your #1 source for satire!😁
It’s a Shame We Have to Betray Our Allies, Starve the Poor, Halt Scientific Progress, Destroy the Environment, and Eliminate the Freedoms Enshrined in the Bill of Rights, but at Least My Investment Portfolio Is Also Tanking
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It’s a Shame We Have to Betray Our Allies, Starve the Poor, Halt Scientific Progress, Destroy the Environment, and Eliminate the Freedoms Enshrined in the Bill of Rights, but at Least My Investment Po...
“Mr. Trump has acknowledged, despite all his confident campaign predictions that ‘we are going to boom like we have never boomed before,’ that the ...
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March 16, 2025 at 7:09 PM
McSweeney's: Your #1 source for satire!😁
In today's news, Poland is calling for nuclear weapon transfer, Trump called the ppl in the US Department of Justice "scum," there's a French nuclear attack sub parked in Halifax's harbour, and Russia's dicking around on the Ukraine crease-fire. Did I miss anything?
March 15, 2025 at 5:35 AM
In today's news, Poland is calling for nuclear weapon transfer, Trump called the ppl in the US Department of Justice "scum," there's a French nuclear attack sub parked in Halifax's harbour, and Russia's dicking around on the Ukraine crease-fire. Did I miss anything?