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. ☘️🍁🥝
Saoirse don Phalaistín 🍉
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.
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
Almost but sadly not entirely unbelievable
Fuck these guys
Fuck these guys
November 25, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Almost but sadly not entirely unbelievable
Fuck these guys
Fuck these guys
Because it’s an upside down regime
SEN. KELLY : “They informed me of this in a tweet because this is not about the law. This is about the media cycle, and intimidation… We basically repeated the uniform code of military justice, and they're saying that's in violation of it. It's absurd. Comical.”
November 25, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Because it’s an upside down regime
* New Zealand takes pies (namely, handheld meat pies) so seriously that there are National Pie Awards that get major media coverage. The New Zealand National Library has a whole dedicated category for “Pies — Competitions.”
Pie.
Pie.
November 25, 2025 at 12:13 PM
This is amazing.
I developed a fascination with food oddities when worked for the Canadian Food Inspection Agency … believe me that this list is the tip of the iceberg!
#Food
#WeirdStuff
I developed a fascination with food oddities when worked for the Canadian Food Inspection Agency … believe me that this list is the tip of the iceberg!
#Food
#WeirdStuff
Not that you asked, but here's a thread of intriguing (real!) food facts to amuse/bore your friends and family.
Great for gatherings when you need to change the subject!
Great for gatherings when you need to change the subject!
November 25, 2025 at 12:11 PM
This is amazing.
I developed a fascination with food oddities when worked for the Canadian Food Inspection Agency … believe me that this list is the tip of the iceberg!
#Food
#WeirdStuff
I developed a fascination with food oddities when worked for the Canadian Food Inspection Agency … believe me that this list is the tip of the iceberg!
#Food
#WeirdStuff
November 25, 2025 at 12:05 PM
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Page One in Cincinnati:
“.. I need to be able to look my grandkids in the eye and say I did not remain silent.”
#ICE
“.. I need to be able to look my grandkids in the eye and say I did not remain silent.”
#ICE
November 25, 2025 at 12:02 PM
If you haven’t spent time in Aotearoa NZ, you have no idea how good its pies are.
Food in NZ is amazing and pies are a wonder.
#Aotearoa
#NewZealand
#Pie
Food in NZ is amazing and pies are a wonder.
#Aotearoa
#NewZealand
#Pie
The most wholesome story of the true New Zealand is immigrant bakers - mostly refugees - dominating pie awards and becoming beloved regional icons.
November 25, 2025 at 11:59 AM
If you haven’t spent time in Aotearoa NZ, you have no idea how good its pies are.
Food in NZ is amazing and pies are a wonder.
#Aotearoa
#NewZealand
#Pie
Food in NZ is amazing and pies are a wonder.
#Aotearoa
#NewZealand
#Pie
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I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
November 25, 2025 at 9:26 AM
I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
Decency prevailed
BREAKING: This is huge news, the EU's equivalent of the 🇺🇸Supreme Court's 2015 Obergefell v. Hodges ruling.
🇪🇺Court of Justice just ruled all 🇪🇺countries must recognise same-sex marriages granted in other member states.
This effectively legalises gay marriage across 🇪🇺
🇪🇺Court of Justice just ruled all 🇪🇺countries must recognise same-sex marriages granted in other member states.
This effectively legalises gay marriage across 🇪🇺
www.reuters.com
November 25, 2025 at 11:47 AM
Decency prevailed
Survival matters more than anyone’s squishy feelings about shifting social mores.
This should be the end of the debate. It won’t be, but it should be.
#TransHealth
#EvidenceMatters
This should be the end of the debate. It won’t be, but it should be.
#TransHealth
#EvidenceMatters
A landmark study was just published in The Journal of Pediatrics.
It found a 68% reduction in suicidality for trans youth getting HRT.
It also found only 7 of more than 400 stopped taking HRT... & of those that did, 4 still identified as gender-diverse.
Trans care saves lives.
It found a 68% reduction in suicidality for trans youth getting HRT.
It also found only 7 of more than 400 stopped taking HRT... & of those that did, 4 still identified as gender-diverse.
Trans care saves lives.
November 25, 2025 at 11:43 AM
Survival matters more than anyone’s squishy feelings about shifting social mores.
This should be the end of the debate. It won’t be, but it should be.
#TransHealth
#EvidenceMatters
This should be the end of the debate. It won’t be, but it should be.
#TransHealth
#EvidenceMatters
This Miss Manners meets authority tone scares me.
Because as we all know, well dressed people never mistreat anyone.
#RespectabilityPolitics
#SocialControl
Because as we all know, well dressed people never mistreat anyone.
#RespectabilityPolitics
#SocialControl
Sean Duffy: "Dressing with respect -- whether it's a pair of jeans and a decent shirt, I would encourage people to maybe dress a little better which encourages us to maybe behave a little better. Let's try not to wear slippers and pajamas as we come to the airport."
November 25, 2025 at 11:38 AM
This Miss Manners meets authority tone scares me.
Because as we all know, well dressed people never mistreat anyone.
#RespectabilityPolitics
#SocialControl
Because as we all know, well dressed people never mistreat anyone.
#RespectabilityPolitics
#SocialControl
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Sometimes I think it’s going to be the librarians who will save us all.
November 25, 2025 at 1:47 AM
Sometimes I think it’s going to be the librarians who will save us all.
And each time I hear who's to part
I examine my heart
See how it stands
Wonder if it's still in safe hands
And this one is different
And each one of course is
And always the same
Oh, the divorces
Who's next?
Who's next?
music.apple.com/ca/album/oh-...
I examine my heart
See how it stands
Wonder if it's still in safe hands
And this one is different
And each one of course is
And always the same
Oh, the divorces
Who's next?
Who's next?
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 4:05 AM
And each time I hear who's to part
I examine my heart
See how it stands
Wonder if it's still in safe hands
And this one is different
And each one of course is
And always the same
Oh, the divorces
Who's next?
Who's next?
music.apple.com/ca/album/oh-...
I examine my heart
See how it stands
Wonder if it's still in safe hands
And this one is different
And each one of course is
And always the same
Oh, the divorces
Who's next?
Who's next?
music.apple.com/ca/album/oh-...
November 25, 2025 at 3:22 AM
The New Yorker
November 25, 2025 at 2:31 AM
The New Yorker
Transgender Day of Remembrance - what a fantastic way for President Connolly to start her tenure
#RespectForAll
#HumanRights
#RespectForAll
#HumanRights
@teni.bsky.social don't seem to use their bsky account so I'm posting this over here from their facebook because people should see it: one of the first things our new President Connolly did last week was write the community a letter for TDOR 🏳️⚧️
www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=...
www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=...
November 25, 2025 at 1:58 AM
Transgender Day of Remembrance - what a fantastic way for President Connolly to start her tenure
#RespectForAll
#HumanRights
#RespectForAll
#HumanRights
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Jesus.
Rep. Salazar on Venezuela: "We're about to go in ... we need to go in ... Venezuela for the American oil companies will be a field day"
November 24, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Jesus.
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Offer not applicable to women of Palestine.
November 24, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Offer not applicable to women of Palestine.
It's haircut day. I don't know why I always wait too long...
November 24, 2025 at 2:59 PM
It's haircut day. I don't know why I always wait too long...
November 24, 2025 at 1:07 PM