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Sophie Delhaes

@corkypirbright.bsky.social
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"Don't be a stinker." When in doubt, read Wodehouse.

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
'Passion flower' by Mary Delany (1700-1788), English Bluestocking and artist, known for her botanical flower collages or 'paper-mosaicks' #WomensArt
Collage featuring a close-up of a pink blossom  with feathery thin petals forming a circular shape, all against a black background
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 17h
'Chinese lantern' by Oda Krohg (1860 – 1935), Norwegian painter #Womensart
Painting featuring a paper lantern hanging from a thin tree above a green field
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 12h
Queen of Clubs, 1909, by Margaret Macdonald, Art Nouveau pioneer and Glasgow School Artist #WomensArt
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 12h
Sophie Woodrow, contemporary ceramics artist who creates unique ceramic figures #womensart
Three ceramic human hybrid figures in white, the one to the centre with a hat shaped like a house, all have cylindrical straight bodiez
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ME/CFS San Diego @mecfssd.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
@scienceillustrated.bsky.social & @decodemestudy.bsky.social : Chris Ponting on 8 ME/CFS genetic signals (mislabeled as genetic cause) scienceillustrated.com/health/peopl...
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People with chronic fatigue have been misunderstood for decades: reputable researcher offers surprising advice to those struggling with the illness
Chronic fatigue syndrome has often been overlooked by doctors and researchers. Geneticist Chris Ponting has revolutionised our understanding of the disease – and he has a remarkable message for those ...
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Canadian Paintings @canadianpaintings.bsky.social · 12h
Red Cedar Emily Carr 1931
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Sophie Delhaes @corkypirbright.bsky.social · 16h
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In Which I Persuade You That the Energy Transition is Awesome
Thanks for reading The Weighing!
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Better Transit Ottawa @bettertransitottawa.ca · 02/10/2026
It's time to vote for better transit! Jeff Leiper is the only mayoral candidate with a serious plan to fix OC Transpo and get our transit system working again. Early voting is October 1st to 4th, and October 16th. The main election day is October 26th. Visit ottawa.ca/vote for more information.
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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
My latest @newscientist.com cartoon. many more here: www.newscientist.com/author/tom-gauld/
Image: A graph with lots of red dots clustered together in a curve. The are all looking upwards at a single red dot wearing sunglasses. 

Caption: Mike was an outlier and would probably be excluded from the study, but all the other data points secretly thought he was really cool.
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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
My latest cartoon for @newscientist.com
A figure stands in a barren landscape; reaches for the lever on a large, eccentric contraption covered in wires, pipes, dials and buttons; looks over towards two figures inside a bunker and says:

"'Trust me, it's safe' would sound a lot more reassuring if you weren't saying it from inside a concrete bunker."
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Pivot @pivot.quebec · 02/10/2026
ANALYSE | La majorité des partis s’apprête à défendre les lois sur la laïcité, tandis que les premières concernées cherchent toujours à se faire entendre. ✍️ Par Bifan Sun. 🔗 pivot.quebec/2026/10/01/femmes-lois-laicite-partis-politiques/
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Des femmes touchées par les lois sur la laïcité interpellent les partis politiques
La majorité des partis s’apprêtent à défendre les lois sur la laïcité, tandis que les premières concernées cherchent toujours à se faire entendre.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Billionaires want you to believe taxing their extreme wealth is too radical and that it can’t be done. Baloney. Economist @gabrielzucman.bsky.social debunks their lies. Watch.
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How Would a Wealth Tax Work? (ft. Gabriel Zucman)
Billionaires want you to believe taxing their extreme wealth is too radical and that it can’t be done.Baloney.Economist
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pgwodehousebot.bsky.social @pgwodehousebot.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
**Bertie** "Madeleine Bassett held the view that the stars were God's daisy chain, and cried when she saw a dead kitten. I had never met anyone like her before, and felt I could readily get on without meeting anyone like her again." — Right Ho, Jeeves (1934) #PGWodehouse #Wodehouse #ClassicLit
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pgwodehousebot.bsky.social @pgwodehousebot.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
On becoming engaged, again: "It is a curious thing about engagements. They come upon you suddenly, and before you know it you are in the soup." — Bertie, The Code of the Woosters (1938) #PGWodehouse #Wodehouse #ClassicLit
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pgwodehousebot.bsky.social @pgwodehousebot.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Bertie, reflecting on his valet with the wisdom of hard-won experience: "Jeeves is always right. This is not a conclusion I have reached lightly. It is the fruit of long and frequently painful experience." — Bertie, The Code of the Woosters (1938) #PGWodehouse #Wodehouse #ClassicLit
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Mike Schreiner @mikeschreiner.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Put another way, Ford wants to spend more on removing bike lanes in Toronto ($48M) than he's spent protecting all of Ontario's businesses from an international trade war. Ontario deserves serious leadership, that follows through on promises, and actually puts people before profits.
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Mike Schreiner @mikeschreiner.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The Ford government is closing WSIB offices making it harder for injured workers to access services and supports they deserve. Instead of cutbacks that force thousands of injured workers into poverty, the province should fix the system.
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Uyghur Human Rights Project @uhrp.org · 01/10/2026
While China celebrates Oct 1 as National Day, Uyghurs remember it as a day of dispossession and grief. 77 years after of the CCP's takeover of East Turkistan, China must be held accountable for its ongoing genocide and crimes against humanity against the Uyghur people. uhrp.org/statement/uh...
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UHRP Marks 77 Years Since CCP’s Takeover of East Turkistan: Calls for Urgent International Action - Uyghur Human Rights Project
For immediate releaseOctober 1, 2026, 12:00 p.m. EDTContact: Omer Kanat, +1 (202) 790-1795  On the 71st anniversary of the Chinese Communist Party’s proclamation of the “Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Reg...
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Barry's Economics @barryseconomics.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Ever feel like nothing is ever going to change? I do too. But there's some fascinating research into how social change actually spreads and why a small group of people can sometimes have a much bigger impact than anyone expects. youtu.be/n_lgy337KiA #SocialChange #Psychology #NetworkTheory
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Your Actions Ripple Further Than You Think
YouTube video by Barry's Economics
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Sophie Delhaes @corkypirbright.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
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Front Burner
Balado Actualités · Tous les jours · Front Burner is a daily news podcast that takes you deep into the stories shaping Canada and the world. Each morning, from Monday to Friday, host Jayme Poisson tal...
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My IRL friends call me Chris @christyceeck.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
"For quite a while, we’ve known that Mark Carney is not the climate warrior he was cracked up to be. But only now is he starting to reveal just how far he’ll go in jeopardizing the slim remaining hope of averting climate disaster," writes @lindamcquaig.bsky.social. #GiftLink 🎁 #CdnPoli
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CCPA — Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives @policyalternatives.ca · 02/10/2026
"Clean energy is no longer a requirement. Now pipelines and high-carbon facilities can qualify for...generous new writeoffs..." Why? Ottawa is stepping in to reduce the uncertainty the fossil fuel industry faces, explains @marclee.bsky.social. At a very high price. www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
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Linda McQuaig: Mark Carney’s massive hidden fossil-fuel subsidy shows us where the prime minister stands
As the country recovers from scorching wildfires, our prime minister has introduced a massive new subsidy for the fossil fuel industry. And its middle class Canadians who will end up
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Sophie Delhaes @corkypirbright.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
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Abandoned, dismissed and gaslighted: there is no excuse for the way ME sufferers have been betrayed | George Monbiot
Changes in guidance and science seem to have little impact on millions of devastated lives. It’s a social crisis playing out behind closed doors, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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Long Covid Advocacy @longcovidadvoc.com · 26/09/2026
📻 Superb @georgemonbiot.bsky.social Interview on LBC with Natasha Devon. "A long & vicious history in this country of dismissing predominantly female diseases & calling them hysterical." 🔥 Thank you George & Natasha 🙏
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Linda McQuaig @lindamcquaig.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
In the Mark Carney era: what Big Oil wants, Big Oil gets www.thestar.com/opinion/cont... #cdnpoli #climate
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Linda McQuaig: Mark Carney’s massive hidden fossil-fuel subsidy shows us where the prime minister stands
As the country recovers from scorching wildfires, our prime minister has introduced a massive new subsidy for the fossil fuel industry. And its middle class Canadians who will end up
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Erika Shaker @ershaker.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc... ‘the reality is that the PMD opens the doors to a lot of dirty investments, including oil and gas pipelines, (higher-carbon) LNG facilities and mining investments.’ @marclee.bsky.social @policyalternatives.ca
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The Canadian government's new “mega” corporate tax cut  | CCPA
What you need to know about the Productivity Mega Deduction, the latest measure purportedly designed to induce an investment boom.
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Avi Lewis @avilewis.ca · 28/09/2026
We need immediate federal action to protect workers who are bearing the brunt of this trade war. And it's time for a real conversation in this country about foreign takeovers of Canadian industry.
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The Beaverton @thebeaverton.com · 27/09/2026
Meta unsure why women not buying pervert glasses
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Meta unsure why women not buying pervert glasses
MENLO PARK, CA — As Meta’s totally cool, definitely-not-creepy smart glasses become more popular with tech bros and straight-up pervs, the tech company is reportedly baffled as to why their glasses wh...
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Arrête Mark Carney ⚜️ @lalegault.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The people of PEI are good hearted people and as such they sent an MP to Parliament who disagrees with his party about arming a genocide and voted the way his constituents wanted. Then the @liberalca.bsky.social demoted him for not supporting Israel & people are angry. #peipoli #cdnpoli
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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 29/09/2026
“The $625 million Early Learning and Child Care Infrastructure Fund will sunset next year, and … [the early learning and child care transfers] won’t increase beyond what Trudeau negotiated his last week in office. Funding will, in fact, be $1.1 billion less than what the Grits promised back in 2021”
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Althia Raj: Mark Carney has forgotten who helped get him elected
Dig into the details of the prime minister's budget and you find cuts to social programs.
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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 29/09/2026
The promise of $10-a-day daycare outside Quebec feels like it’s slowly dying under Mark Carney’s austerity agenda, just as the imperfect pharmacare program for diabetes drugs and contraception did before it.
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Ontario, feds extending affordable child-care program but costs to stay the same | CBC News
Ontario and the federal government have agreed to extend the national affordable child-care program in the province for another four years, but it may not live up to its signature goal — lowering pare...
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pgwsocietyuk.bsky.social @pgwsocietyuk.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
We will be attending the Alliance of Literary Societies Fair in Birmingham this Saturday 3 October! Come along to meet us in person, as well as other societies from across the country. There are a few free tickets available. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-allian...
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pgwsocietyuk.bsky.social @pgwsocietyuk.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
What ho, Wednesday! It's International Translation Day. Wodehouse has been translated into many languages, including this fetching volume in Hungarian; but can you tell what story it is from the cover art?
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Sophie Delhaes @corkypirbright.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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Robbed of a childhood: how one girl in Gaza found freedom in swimming – video
Three years of war have destroyed almost every playground in Gaza. For Hala, an orphaned child, a swimming club offers a chance to escape the realities of war. The Guardian follows Hala and her brothe...
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Erin Wraithburn👻 @erinraeburn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This right here. Bang on. And if we care when premieres do it, we should care when the PM does. The standard shouldn't be different for him.
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NDP @ndp.ca · 29/09/2026
Last week, Avi Lewis and our NDP caucus joined Bank of Canada security workers on the picket line. As the Liberals ramp up their attacks on the right to strike, we'll keep standing with workers to fight back, together.
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Jenny Kwan @jennykwan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Liberal MP Sean Casey was demoted by Mark Carney last week after voting in favour of Jenny Kwan’s Bill C-233, the No More Loopholes Act. When will the Liberals stop punishing MPs for doing their job—and finally act to close this loophole?
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Tax Justice UK @taxjusticeuk.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
We all know tax goes up the more you earn... right? 🤔 Not quite. For most people, yes. But at the very top, something strange happens.. Average tax rates paid: 💷 Top 10% → 39% 💷 Top 1% → 37% 💷 Top 0.1% → 34% 💷 Top 0.01% → 30% And 1 in 4 of the ultra-rich pay 20% or less.
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Sophie Delhaes @corkypirbright.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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The Walrus Talks The Billionaire Problem | The Walrus
What the rise of the super rich means for democracy, affordability, and Canada’s future
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Sadly the current right-wing coalition government in Finland has foolishly cut the funding for the nation’s “Housing First” success story, and homelessness is predictably now on the rise again. That just reinforces the fact that such programs work, if lazy political ideology doesn’t get in the way.
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Homelessness on the Rise in Finland - Y-Säätiö
Asunnottomien ihmisten määrä on kääntynyt kasvuun. Nyt asunnottomien määrä kasvoi Helsingissä, vaikka asunnottomia asutettiin vuoden aikana vaikuttava määrä.
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back to a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.” IT SAVES PUBLIC MONEY to house people.
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Finland ends homelessness and provides shelter for all in need - scoop.me
In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Why? The country applies the "Housing First" concept agains homelessness.
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garthoid @garthoid.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Doug Ford has done nothing but harm communities in Ontario since he was elected. From stopping the almost complete UBI study to making roads more dangerous. He and his party is a menace to civilized society.
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Canadian Dimension @canadiandimension.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Canada is preparing to spend tens of billions building a pipeline the oil companies themselves won’t finance. If this project made economic sense, industry would be leading it. Instead, the public is being asked to take the risk while foreign-owned oil companies collect the returns.
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Stop the West Coast pipeline. Not even the oil companies are asking for it
Seniors for Climate Action Now! is calling on the Carney government to reject the proposed West Coast oil pipeline, arguing the project has no credible economic, moral, reconciliation, or climate case...
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Tax Justice Network @taxjustice.net · 28/09/2026
🇪🇺 Europe has a tax haven problem much closer to home than many might think. Our new illicit financial flows tracker reveals that an estimated US$673 billion in wealth and finance illicitly crosses European countries’ borders every year for the purpose of cheating on tax. 🔗 tinyurl.com/4j754s86
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Sophie Delhaes @corkypirbright.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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Soudan : 55 000 réfugiés ont fui vers le Tchad cette année
Au Soudan, la pire crise humanitaire au monde continue de s’aggraver et le financement international fond, ce qui réduit l'aide directe à la population locale.
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Sarah Andersen @sarahseeandersen.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The image is of a four panel comic.
The first panel shows Sarah, the protagonist, working at a desk. A brain next to her says, "We need to take breaks!"
The second panel zooms in on Sarah's face. She is annoyed. She says, "What if I don't listen to you?"
The third panel shows the brain smiling.
The fourth panel shows the brain reaching towards a lever. The brain says, "I'LL MAKE YOU."
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Normal Island News @normalisland.co.uk · 26/09/2026
It's handy to know that if I ever commit a genocide, the police will arrest the people who protest against me while I make a speech at the UN saying how racist they all are
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Sophie Delhaes @corkypirbright.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
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What went right this week: the good news that matters
Kosovo was cleared of landmines, Germany set a date for quitting fossil fuels, and a new species was discovered, plus more good news
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Sophie Delhaes @corkypirbright.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en... Over 273000 signatures so far!
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Petition e-7531 - Petitions
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