🍁 Left of Woke Warrior
@wokenojokewarrior.bsky.social
When someone tells you who they are or what they'll do (e.g., Poi-LIE-vre), believe them the first time. 😼
Me: 1st gen 🇳🇱 immigrant, feminist, She/Her, cis, trans ally, vegan, cat/book lover, anti-wealth, tax the billionaires and churches, + vote ABC!
Me: 1st gen 🇳🇱 immigrant, feminist, She/Her, cis, trans ally, vegan, cat/book lover, anti-wealth, tax the billionaires and churches, + vote ABC!
That nervy Nerve! (I was an early subscriber & receive their Tue/Fri newsletter editions in my inbox - I may be absent here, but don't want to be out of the loop altogether.)
Yes, if you get the chance to read the CN threads, please do. You may find them of interest.
🦆🦆💨
Speedy recovery 🔜!
💙
Yes, if you get the chance to read the CN threads, please do. You may find them of interest.
🦆🦆💨
Speedy recovery 🔜!
💙
October 17, 2025 at 7:16 PM
That nervy Nerve! (I was an early subscriber & receive their Tue/Fri newsletter editions in my inbox - I may be absent here, but don't want to be out of the loop altogether.)
Yes, if you get the chance to read the CN threads, please do. You may find them of interest.
🦆🦆💨
Speedy recovery 🔜!
💙
Yes, if you get the chance to read the CN threads, please do. You may find them of interest.
🦆🦆💨
Speedy recovery 🔜!
💙
Thanks, bro. You'll never know how much that means to me.
Goodnight, and 🐽 for now. (I'll 🦆 in again around the holidays to 🤞 find you don't even need that 🪑 anymore...)
Goodnight, and 🐽 for now. (I'll 🦆 in again around the holidays to 🤞 find you don't even need that 🪑 anymore...)
October 16, 2025 at 4:14 AM
Thanks, bro. You'll never know how much that means to me.
Goodnight, and 🐽 for now. (I'll 🦆 in again around the holidays to 🤞 find you don't even need that 🪑 anymore...)
Goodnight, and 🐽 for now. (I'll 🦆 in again around the holidays to 🤞 find you don't even need that 🪑 anymore...)
Yep, pictured it before you even put down the brackets. Sounds like a great interim solution. Also, maybe get a walker? Most older folk balk at the idea initially, but change their mind when they get their mobility (and independence) back. You're still youngish, but one day you may need it anyway...
October 16, 2025 at 4:13 AM
Yep, pictured it before you even put down the brackets. Sounds like a great interim solution. Also, maybe get a walker? Most older folk balk at the idea initially, but change their mind when they get their mobility (and independence) back. You're still youngish, but one day you may need it anyway...
His and hearse - man, I miss that wit! (Notice there's no 'nit' in front, snort.)
Seriously though, riffing (raffing? which apparently is a Scottish adjective for 'rip-roaring') has never been as easy OR as enjoyable as with you, Baz, and it'll forever remain one of my fondest Bluesky memories. 🤗
Seriously though, riffing (raffing? which apparently is a Scottish adjective for 'rip-roaring') has never been as easy OR as enjoyable as with you, Baz, and it'll forever remain one of my fondest Bluesky memories. 🤗
October 14, 2025 at 8:54 PM
His and hearse - man, I miss that wit! (Notice there's no 'nit' in front, snort.)
Seriously though, riffing (raffing? which apparently is a Scottish adjective for 'rip-roaring') has never been as easy OR as enjoyable as with you, Baz, and it'll forever remain one of my fondest Bluesky memories. 🤗
Seriously though, riffing (raffing? which apparently is a Scottish adjective for 'rip-roaring') has never been as easy OR as enjoyable as with you, Baz, and it'll forever remain one of my fondest Bluesky memories. 🤗
Yes, my bro finally got around to scanning them for me. (Below, one more treat for the road.)
Nope, I've been sick and am now recovering, thus not a holiday (hope your leg's doing better by the way), and have YET to start doing the stuff I MUST before I'm allowed to return, therefore, a 👻 I remain.
Nope, I've been sick and am now recovering, thus not a holiday (hope your leg's doing better by the way), and have YET to start doing the stuff I MUST before I'm allowed to return, therefore, a 👻 I remain.
October 14, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Yes, my bro finally got around to scanning them for me. (Below, one more treat for the road.)
Nope, I've been sick and am now recovering, thus not a holiday (hope your leg's doing better by the way), and have YET to start doing the stuff I MUST before I'm allowed to return, therefore, a 👻 I remain.
Nope, I've been sick and am now recovering, thus not a holiday (hope your leg's doing better by the way), and have YET to start doing the stuff I MUST before I'm allowed to return, therefore, a 👻 I remain.
Owner (my brother) thankful to be on the outside of the hearse, rather than in.
No engraved windows as I originally thought, but still a cool car.
Hope you're keeping well, Baz. Be careful what car you step into...😏 Take care.
No engraved windows as I originally thought, but still a cool car.
Hope you're keeping well, Baz. Be careful what car you step into...😏 Take care.
October 13, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Owner (my brother) thankful to be on the outside of the hearse, rather than in.
No engraved windows as I originally thought, but still a cool car.
Hope you're keeping well, Baz. Be careful what car you step into...😏 Take care.
No engraved windows as I originally thought, but still a cool car.
Hope you're keeping well, Baz. Be careful what car you step into...😏 Take care.
Oops, doesn't look like the windows were engraved after all...
October 13, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Oops, doesn't look like the windows were engraved after all...
One of my favourite quotes. Seems especially fitting in these upside-down times.
I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do the something that I can do. - EDWARD HALE
bsky.app/profile/woke...
I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do the something that I can do. - EDWARD HALE
bsky.app/profile/woke...
Mary Engelbreit 👇
Goodnight everyone. 🥱
Goodnight everyone. 🥱
September 25, 2025 at 2:54 AM
One of my favourite quotes. Seems especially fitting in these upside-down times.
I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do the something that I can do. - EDWARD HALE
bsky.app/profile/woke...
I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do the something that I can do. - EDWARD HALE
bsky.app/profile/woke...
Concerned about press freedom when criticism of Israel's government is often condemned as antisemitic? One of the more vocal & aggressive pro-Israel groups in Canada often intimidating media is the ironically-named HonestReporting Canada. Help by asking CRA to audit them!
bsky.app/profile/marg...
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Are you ok with Israeli meddling in Canadian newsrooms?
Ok with the harassing of journalists?
Justice Peace Advocates and Writers Against the War on Gaza Toronto have launched a campaign to urge CRA to audit HRC activities.
Find out more:
open.substack.com/pub/margaret...
Ok with the harassing of journalists?
Justice Peace Advocates and Writers Against the War on Gaza Toronto have launched a campaign to urge CRA to audit HRC activities.
Find out more:
open.substack.com/pub/margaret...
Biased? Guilty as Charged.
At the end of August, I wrote a column in favour of opening up Gaza to the international press. HonestReporting Canada initiated an email campaign against me. My response below, plus a Call to Action.
open.substack.com
September 25, 2025 at 2:54 AM
Concerned about press freedom when criticism of Israel's government is often condemned as antisemitic? One of the more vocal & aggressive pro-Israel groups in Canada often intimidating media is the ironically-named HonestReporting Canada. Help by asking CRA to audit them!
bsky.app/profile/marg...
bsky.app/profile/marg...
You'll have seen me posting about #TransRights a fair bit because it's no accident that in authoritarian times trans folk get targeted 1st. And as progressives, feminists, and cis allies, it's OUR job to counter toxic anti-trans activists like 'gender-critical' #JKRowling.
bsky.app/profile/rach...
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Trans rights are not the rights of a tiny minority, trans rights are everyone’s rights to self-determination, control of our bodies, and a society where opportunity and aesthetics are not restricted by sex assigned at birth
You should support and defend trans people because trans people are people
You should support and defend trans people because trans people are people
September 25, 2025 at 2:54 AM
You'll have seen me posting about #TransRights a fair bit because it's no accident that in authoritarian times trans folk get targeted 1st. And as progressives, feminists, and cis allies, it's OUR job to counter toxic anti-trans activists like 'gender-critical' #JKRowling.
bsky.app/profile/rach...
bsky.app/profile/rach...
One of the (many) things I've been neglecting is selling my vintage ware. The pic below? That represents about 1/3 of my stock (I love old stuff!), with every dresser drawer you see filled with vintage kitchenware as well. Yikes. Time to flog my ware again. A lot of work I've been putting off...
September 25, 2025 at 2:54 AM
One of the (many) things I've been neglecting is selling my vintage ware. The pic below? That represents about 1/3 of my stock (I love old stuff!), with every dresser drawer you see filled with vintage kitchenware as well. Yikes. Time to flog my ware again. A lot of work I've been putting off...
Fall's here. Which means it's time to reread Ali Smith's fantabulous Seasonal Quartet, starting of course, with Autumn.
September 25, 2025 at 2:39 AM
Fall's here. Which means it's time to reread Ali Smith's fantabulous Seasonal Quartet, starting of course, with Autumn.
A good place to start is Marci McDonald’s 2010 book: The Armageddon Factor: The Rise of Christian Nationalism in Canada, which chronicled the rise 15yrs ago already with names you may recognize – Stephen Harper, Stockwell Day, Charles McVety (head of Canada Christian College), and Ezra Levant.
The Armageddon Factor by Marci McDonald | Penguin Random House Canada
In her new book, award-winning journalist Marci McDonald draws back the curtain on the mysterious world of the right-wing Christian nationalist movement in Canada and its many ties to the Conservative...
www.penguinrandomhouse.ca
September 24, 2025 at 2:23 AM
A good place to start is Marci McDonald’s 2010 book: The Armageddon Factor: The Rise of Christian Nationalism in Canada, which chronicled the rise 15yrs ago already with names you may recognize – Stephen Harper, Stockwell Day, Charles McVety (head of Canada Christian College), and Ezra Levant.
The Armageddon Factor by Marci McDonald | Penguin Random House Canada
In her new book, award-winning journalist Marci McDonald draws back the curtain on the mysterious world of the right-wing Christian nationalist movement in Canada and its many ties to the Conservative...
www.penguinrandomhouse.ca
September 24, 2025 at 12:36 AM
Yep, all I had to do was add an 'r' and voila! 🎨
Even remembered to add some hashtags to the thread this time... 🐽
Even remembered to add some hashtags to the thread this time... 🐽
September 23, 2025 at 11:45 PM
Yep, all I had to do was add an 'r' and voila! 🎨
Even remembered to add some hashtags to the thread this time... 🐽
Even remembered to add some hashtags to the thread this time... 🐽
Thanks, I think I might even like this one better...
Also, see my reply to Steve below (or above?)
Also, see my reply to Steve below (or above?)
September 23, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Thanks, I think I might even like this one better...
Also, see my reply to Steve below (or above?)
Also, see my reply to Steve below (or above?)
Indeed! I love it, and it'll complement my other one in the galley hallway I have that isn't useful for anything other than hanging art. (This was on eBay for ages, and I finally broke down...)
Also, because I'm a masochist, snort, added a Pt.2 Christian Nationalism thread before taking my break.
Also, because I'm a masochist, snort, added a Pt.2 Christian Nationalism thread before taking my break.
September 23, 2025 at 10:54 PM
Indeed! I love it, and it'll complement my other one in the galley hallway I have that isn't useful for anything other than hanging art. (This was on eBay for ages, and I finally broke down...)
Also, because I'm a masochist, snort, added a Pt.2 Christian Nationalism thread before taking my break.
Also, because I'm a masochist, snort, added a Pt.2 Christian Nationalism thread before taking my break.
A good place to start is Marci McDonald’s 2010 book: The Armageddon Factor: The Rise of Christian Nationalism in Canada, which chronicled the rise 15yrs ago already with names you may recognize – Stephen Harper, Stockwell Day, Charles McVety (head of Canada Christian College), and Ezra Levant.
The Armageddon Factor by Marci McDonald | Penguin Random House Canada
In her new book, award-winning journalist Marci McDonald draws back the curtain on the mysterious world of the right-wing Christian nationalist movement in Canada and its many ties to the Conservative...
www.penguinrandomhouse.ca
September 23, 2025 at 10:22 PM
#ChristianNationalism
#ChristianNationalismInCanada
Thanks for reading! I hope part 2 along with my initial 🧵 will help provide background for the movement that's already here in Canada, and likely to accelerate given the recent whitewashing and (idol?) worshipping of #CharlieKirk. Beware.
10/10
#ChristianNationalismInCanada
Thanks for reading! I hope part 2 along with my initial 🧵 will help provide background for the movement that's already here in Canada, and likely to accelerate given the recent whitewashing and (idol?) worshipping of #CharlieKirk. Beware.
10/10
September 23, 2025 at 10:01 PM
#ChristianNationalism
#ChristianNationalismInCanada
Thanks for reading! I hope part 2 along with my initial 🧵 will help provide background for the movement that's already here in Canada, and likely to accelerate given the recent whitewashing and (idol?) worshipping of #CharlieKirk. Beware.
10/10
#ChristianNationalismInCanada
Thanks for reading! I hope part 2 along with my initial 🧵 will help provide background for the movement that's already here in Canada, and likely to accelerate given the recent whitewashing and (idol?) worshipping of #CharlieKirk. Beware.
10/10
Article from 2023 worth reading:
"Mitchell, an academic dean and professor of the Hebrew Bible at the University of Toronto, says the movement is a radicalization of Christianity that combines Canadian nationalism with American-style white evangelicalism."
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"Mitchell, an academic dean and professor of the Hebrew Bible at the University of Toronto, says the movement is a radicalization of Christianity that combines Canadian nationalism with American-style white evangelicalism."
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And you better believe the group that pushed for Alberta's book ban policy is tied back to the Freedom Convoy!!
Action4Canada says its mission is to “protect Canada’s rich heritage, which is founded on Judeo-Christian biblical principles.”
xtramagazine.com/power/politi...
Action4Canada says its mission is to “protect Canada’s rich heritage, which is founded on Judeo-Christian biblical principles.”
xtramagazine.com/power/politi...
Christian nationalists fuelling anti-LGBTQ2S+ agenda across Canada | Xtra Magazine
Christian groups that rose to prominence in last year’s Freedom Convoy have turned their “language of genocide” on LGBTQ2S+ Canadians
xtramagazine.com
September 23, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Article from 2023 worth reading:
"Mitchell, an academic dean and professor of the Hebrew Bible at the University of Toronto, says the movement is a radicalization of Christianity that combines Canadian nationalism with American-style white evangelicalism."
bsky.app/profile/melw...
"Mitchell, an academic dean and professor of the Hebrew Bible at the University of Toronto, says the movement is a radicalization of Christianity that combines Canadian nationalism with American-style white evangelicalism."
bsky.app/profile/melw...
A useful thread by RichardJR outlining the influence of Christian Nationalism in the US in Canada, as shown by the vigils recently held here in Alberta for Charlie Kirk, now bizarrely deified by far too many on the right.
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1/11
🚨 🇨🇦 ALBERTA VIGILS FOR #CHARLIEKIRK REVEAL GROWING INFLUENCE OF U.S. CHRISTIAN NATIONALISM 🇨🇦 🚨
Vigils for the slain U.S. influencer in #Edmonton, #Calgary, & #RedDeer highlight the movement's growing foothold in #Alberta.
Leah Hennig, The Tyee
#AbPoli #ChristianNationalism
🚨 🇨🇦 ALBERTA VIGILS FOR #CHARLIEKIRK REVEAL GROWING INFLUENCE OF U.S. CHRISTIAN NATIONALISM 🇨🇦 🚨
Vigils for the slain U.S. influencer in #Edmonton, #Calgary, & #RedDeer highlight the movement's growing foothold in #Alberta.
Leah Hennig, The Tyee
#AbPoli #ChristianNationalism
September 23, 2025 at 10:01 PM
A useful thread by RichardJR outlining the influence of Christian Nationalism in the US in Canada, as shown by the vigils recently held here in Alberta for Charlie Kirk, now bizarrely deified by far too many on the right.
bsky.app/profile/elec...
bsky.app/profile/elec...
Here’s an informative thread by @timethiefmedia.bsky.social that I converted into a one-page post to make the long thread easier to read:
skywriter.blue/pages/did:pl...
skywriter.blue/pages/did:pl...
Page by timethiefmedia Canadian forever🍁🦫conservative never | @timethiefmedia.bsky.social
💫Long thread 🧵 warning.
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This is a BOGUS initiative. Every year at this time of the year we hear from those who allege Christmas has been cancelled when that's not true and pose as being persec...
skywriter.blue
September 23, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Here’s an informative thread by @timethiefmedia.bsky.social that I converted into a one-page post to make the long thread easier to read:
skywriter.blue/pages/did:pl...
skywriter.blue/pages/did:pl...
While not specifically using the term #ChristianNationalism, this comprehensive Press Progress article from 2023 shows how some of the groups, goals, priorities and methods of CN and Canada’s right-wing overlap. Also covers some of the individuals and organizations mentioned in first thread.
How Canada’s Right-Wing Pivoted From COVID-19 Conspiracies to Conspiracies About Gender in 2023
2023 saw protests at drag story time events, anti-LGBTQ+ rallies targeting schools and Pierre Poilievre boosting ‘gender ideology’ conspiracies
pressprogress.ca
September 23, 2025 at 10:01 PM
While not specifically using the term #ChristianNationalism, this comprehensive Press Progress article from 2023 shows how some of the groups, goals, priorities and methods of CN and Canada’s right-wing overlap. Also covers some of the individuals and organizations mentioned in first thread.
Remember all the posts about #ARPA in my first thread? Here’s an article about their invitation to the B.C. legislature’s Hall of Honour back in May of this year, illustrating how the Christian lobbyist group has influence.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
B.C. Conservative MLA angry after colleagues welcome lobby group opposed to same-sex marriage, MAID, abortion | CBC News
A B.C. Conservative MLA is upset her Conservative colleague hosted a Christian lobby group that opposes same sex marriage, medical assistance in dying and abortion.
www.cbc.ca
September 23, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Remember all the posts about #ARPA in my first thread? Here’s an article about their invitation to the B.C. legislature’s Hall of Honour back in May of this year, illustrating how the Christian lobbyist group has influence.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...