JW Roulston 🇨🇦🇳🇿🇮🇪
@ottawakiwi.bsky.social
Lawyer, social worker, teacher, and writer working where law meets conscience.
Montréal born, Ottawa based. Citizen of Canada, Ireland, and Aotearoa New Zealand.
Bilingual/bilingue. Pro Oxford comma. ☘️🍁🥝
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Montréal born, Ottawa based. Citizen of Canada, Ireland, and Aotearoa New Zealand.
Bilingual/bilingue. Pro Oxford comma. ☘️🍁🥝
Saoirse don Phalaistín 🍉
Pinned
I block bigots and mansplainers. And if you think Bluesky is Hinge, you are gone too.
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THREAD.
3 years ago, with no warning, a brilliant orange farm cat wandered over from the draughty barn where he had been living, in rural Cornwall, and decided he wanted to live with us instead.
We decided to call him Jim.
This is the first photo I took of him, on that night: December 1st, 2022.
3 years ago, with no warning, a brilliant orange farm cat wandered over from the draughty barn where he had been living, in rural Cornwall, and decided he wanted to live with us instead.
We decided to call him Jim.
This is the first photo I took of him, on that night: December 1st, 2022.
November 26, 2025 at 8:44 PM
THREAD.
3 years ago, with no warning, a brilliant orange farm cat wandered over from the draughty barn where he had been living, in rural Cornwall, and decided he wanted to live with us instead.
We decided to call him Jim.
This is the first photo I took of him, on that night: December 1st, 2022.
3 years ago, with no warning, a brilliant orange farm cat wandered over from the draughty barn where he had been living, in rural Cornwall, and decided he wanted to live with us instead.
We decided to call him Jim.
This is the first photo I took of him, on that night: December 1st, 2022.
America is really terrifying. Is it a cult or a collective psychosis? I don’t know but that couple would rather follow Trump than their own family. That same guy involved in a coup attempt and in the Epstein files.
November 27, 2025 at 11:38 AM
Second clip of those two MAGA parents interviewed by their children.
In that snippet, the parents affirm that the military should blindly follow Trump’s orders even if they go against the Constitution and that Rep. Kelly should be executed.
In that snippet, the parents affirm that the military should blindly follow Trump’s orders even if they go against the Constitution and that Rep. Kelly should be executed.
November 27, 2025 at 11:33 AM
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Holy shit! A huge crowd of Patriots in St. Paul, Minnesota surrounded and shouted down the pedophile führer's Nazi ICE Gestapo with chants of "shame, shame, shame." 🙌💪👏👇
November 27, 2025 at 4:33 AM
Holy shit! A huge crowd of Patriots in St. Paul, Minnesota surrounded and shouted down the pedophile führer's Nazi ICE Gestapo with chants of "shame, shame, shame." 🙌💪👏👇
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post-apocalypse movies never show new zealand on their Look How Fucked We Are map because we're too cool.
November 27, 2025 at 6:10 AM
post-apocalypse movies never show new zealand on their Look How Fucked We Are map because we're too cool.
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Three decline honours. Harsh light on University of Galway collaboration with Technion in Haifa www.rte.ie/news/connach...
Third person refuses doctorate from University of Galway
A third person has turned down an honorary doctorate that was due to be conferred by the University of Galway, at a ceremony tomorrow.
www.rte.ie
November 27, 2025 at 1:54 AM
Three decline honours. Harsh light on University of Galway collaboration with Technion in Haifa www.rte.ie/news/connach...
A democracy that allows state actors to defy court orders has already abandoned the rule of law.
The United States needs its own Nuremberg scale reckoning, and soon.
#RuleOfLaw #HumanRights #Democracy
#Accountability #USPolitics
#LegalReform #StatePower
The United States needs its own Nuremberg scale reckoning, and soon.
#RuleOfLaw #HumanRights #Democracy
#Accountability #USPolitics
#LegalReform #StatePower
This is a really big story that should not be missed. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
DOJ Says Noem Made Final Decision on El Salvador Removals in Breach of Court Order
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
November 27, 2025 at 1:08 AM
A democracy that allows state actors to defy court orders has already abandoned the rule of law.
The United States needs its own Nuremberg scale reckoning, and soon.
#RuleOfLaw #HumanRights #Democracy
#Accountability #USPolitics
#LegalReform #StatePower
The United States needs its own Nuremberg scale reckoning, and soon.
#RuleOfLaw #HumanRights #Democracy
#Accountability #USPolitics
#LegalReform #StatePower
When the state feels like an abuser
(My substack)
#CoerciveControl
#ViolenceAgainstWomen
#Poverty
open.substack.com/pub/joannero...
(My substack)
#CoerciveControl
#ViolenceAgainstWomen
#Poverty
open.substack.com/pub/joannero...
When the State Feels Like an Abuser
Coercive control, how that lens helped me look again
open.substack.com
November 27, 2025 at 1:03 AM
When the state feels like an abuser
(My substack)
#CoerciveControl
#ViolenceAgainstWomen
#Poverty
open.substack.com/pub/joannero...
(My substack)
#CoerciveControl
#ViolenceAgainstWomen
#Poverty
open.substack.com/pub/joannero...
Parliamentary Committee on the Status of Women has released its report on coercive control.
16 recommendations including detailed definitions, a good look at the way "parental alienation" has been weaponized against mothers, criminalization...
#CoerciveControl
www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
16 recommendations including detailed definitions, a good look at the way "parental alienation" has been weaponized against mothers, criminalization...
#CoerciveControl
www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
MPs recommend criminalizing coercive control to combat intimate partner violence | CBC News
Members of Parliament have revived calls for Canada to criminalize the concept of coercive control as a way of combating intimate partner violence, after a previous bill died when Parliament was disso...
www.cbc.ca
November 26, 2025 at 11:43 PM
Parliamentary Committee on the Status of Women has released its report on coercive control.
16 recommendations including detailed definitions, a good look at the way "parental alienation" has been weaponized against mothers, criminalization...
#CoerciveControl
www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
16 recommendations including detailed definitions, a good look at the way "parental alienation" has been weaponized against mothers, criminalization...
#CoerciveControl
www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
In the time it took me to cook my lunch, elderly beagle climbed the garage shelves, knocked everything over, but did NOT reach the dog food.
This is a first. I wonder how long she has been plotting this...
#OldDogNewTricks
#Beagle
This is a first. I wonder how long she has been plotting this...
#OldDogNewTricks
#Beagle
November 26, 2025 at 9:47 PM
In the time it took me to cook my lunch, elderly beagle climbed the garage shelves, knocked everything over, but did NOT reach the dog food.
This is a first. I wonder how long she has been plotting this...
#OldDogNewTricks
#Beagle
This is a first. I wonder how long she has been plotting this...
#OldDogNewTricks
#Beagle
You eat the strangest things when you make your way through the deep freezer.
Today’s late lunch: clam fritters
Today’s late lunch: clam fritters
November 26, 2025 at 9:08 PM
You eat the strangest things when you make your way through the deep freezer.
Today’s late lunch: clam fritters
Today’s late lunch: clam fritters
Okay, this was stupid: they paid $ 32K to a build a fake housing construction backdrop for Carney's housing announcement and dismantled it. www.blacklocks.ca/admit-housin...
Admit Housing Photo Faked | Blacklock's Reporter
www.blacklocks.ca
November 26, 2025 at 6:50 PM
This new Pretendian situation makes me very sad. I really liked his work. Damn.
Why do people do this? Freaking stolen valour.
#Culture
#Appropriation
#ShortCuts
Why do people do this? Freaking stolen valour.
#Culture
#Appropriation
#ShortCuts
My thoughts on the Thomas King scandal: peggyblair.wordpress.com/2025/11/26/m...
My thoughts on the Thomas King scandal
I’ve been thinking about this business with Thomas King a lot. This was the week when he admitted he wasn’t Cherokee at all. First of all, I come from this as someone who is white and w…
peggyblair.wordpress.com
November 26, 2025 at 5:19 PM
This new Pretendian situation makes me very sad. I really liked his work. Damn.
Why do people do this? Freaking stolen valour.
#Culture
#Appropriation
#ShortCuts
Why do people do this? Freaking stolen valour.
#Culture
#Appropriation
#ShortCuts
"The war came to us
fearlessly willing to sacrifice the lives of other people..."
That is the definition of #Necropolitics. Several bands of worth for humanity, the state protects me, but not thee.
#Covid
#PublicHealth
#TheFallOfTheBritishEmpire
fearlessly willing to sacrifice the lives of other people..."
That is the definition of #Necropolitics. Several bands of worth for humanity, the state protects me, but not thee.
#Covid
#PublicHealth
#TheFallOfTheBritishEmpire
A poem about the COVID-19 debacle. From my imminent collection 'Exposure', poems on war, media and democracy. @byleaveswelive.bsky.social @poetryireland.bsky.social @eatthestorms.com
November 26, 2025 at 5:06 PM
"The war came to us
fearlessly willing to sacrifice the lives of other people..."
That is the definition of #Necropolitics. Several bands of worth for humanity, the state protects me, but not thee.
#Covid
#PublicHealth
#TheFallOfTheBritishEmpire
fearlessly willing to sacrifice the lives of other people..."
That is the definition of #Necropolitics. Several bands of worth for humanity, the state protects me, but not thee.
#Covid
#PublicHealth
#TheFallOfTheBritishEmpire
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Maybe the next generation will set its sights on solving systemic problems instead of “My burrito is at a restaurant, but I’m all cozy here so, can a guy with a medical degree from another country bring it to me.” We’ve got that covered, and then some.
November 25, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Maybe the next generation will set its sights on solving systemic problems instead of “My burrito is at a restaurant, but I’m all cozy here so, can a guy with a medical degree from another country bring it to me.” We’ve got that covered, and then some.
Here is the link to my Substack, where I am working out some ideas for the book I am writing on family violence and coercive control.
substack.com/@ottawakiwi?
substack.com/@ottawakiwi?
Joanne Roulston | Substack
Exploring where law meets conscience, power, and the lived body. Ottawa-based. Montréal-born. Citizen of Canada, Ireland, and Aotearoa New Zealand. Essays on coercive control, the state, diaspora, and...
substack.com
November 26, 2025 at 1:23 AM
Here is the link to my Substack, where I am working out some ideas for the book I am writing on family violence and coercive control.
substack.com/@ottawakiwi?
substack.com/@ottawakiwi?
Another gorgeous spot in Donegal where we used to play - the castle is literally on a cousin's farm.
#Donegal
#Speirghorm
#Childhood
#Donegal
#Speirghorm
#Childhood
November 26, 2025 at 1:20 AM
Another gorgeous spot in Donegal where we used to play - the castle is literally on a cousin's farm.
#Donegal
#Speirghorm
#Childhood
#Donegal
#Speirghorm
#Childhood
Will I go to hell for pretending I have food in my hand so my beagle will obey?
(reader: there is no food)
(reader: there is no food)
a small brown and white dog is laying on a person 's lap .
Alt: a small brown and white dog is leaning on the corner of a sectional sofa
media.tenor.com
November 25, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Will I go to hell for pretending I have food in my hand so my beagle will obey?
(reader: there is no food)
(reader: there is no food)
The relief when you get your hair cut!
November 25, 2025 at 3:23 PM
The relief when you get your hair cut!
I’m obsessed with this song. Brilliant and so painful. How did I miss it in 2010? I guess I was too busy surviving it at the time.
“He was a charmer, I wish him bad karma”
“This one is different and one of course is ..:”
#FamilyLaw
music.apple.com/ca/album/oh-...
“He was a charmer, I wish him bad karma”
“This one is different and one of course is ..:”
#FamilyLaw
music.apple.com/ca/album/oh-...
Oh, The Divorces! by Tracey Thorn on Apple Music
Song · 2010 · Duration 4:15
music.apple.com
November 25, 2025 at 1:36 PM
I’m obsessed with this song. Brilliant and so painful. How did I miss it in 2010? I guess I was too busy surviving it at the time.
“He was a charmer, I wish him bad karma”
“This one is different and one of course is ..:”
#FamilyLaw
music.apple.com/ca/album/oh-...
“He was a charmer, I wish him bad karma”
“This one is different and one of course is ..:”
#FamilyLaw
music.apple.com/ca/album/oh-...
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Can’t breathe
November 25, 2025 at 12:43 AM
Can’t breathe