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Sonya

@sonyam.bsky.social
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Love cats, wine, books & old things. Cotswolds & Paris via Vancouver, Toronto, San Francisco, Amsterdam & London.

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andré, but scarier @andre-carlisle.bsky.social · 9h
a new challenger has arrived
guy at protest running from a fire wearing an elmo head
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Ed Newton-Rex @ednewtonrex.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
No ISBNs in Canada for AI writing. This is a fantastic policy, and every country should do the same. www.canada.ca/en/library-a...
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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Nature is mindblowing www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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‘Incredible’: bleached corals thrive within days when touching healthy neighbour
A coral fragment can form a tissue bridge with a dying counterpart — and provide it with crucial microalgae.
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hammancheez but spooky @hammancheez.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Yall wanna see a 2 hour old highland cow
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Canadian Paintings @canadianpaintings.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Campfire Tom Thomson 1916
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Sonya @sonyam.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
It’s Canadian Thanksgiving here in the Cotswolds.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
BARCLAYS DESK: “.. let’s face facts; the combined disclosed lab revenues of circa $150bn .. is not going to cut it when the ecosystem needs well in excess of $1trn .. I’ve yet been presented with a credible framework as to where this money is going to come from ..”
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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
JOINT STATEMENT OF THE FOREIGN MINISTERS OF CANADA, DENMARK, GERMANY, FRANCE, ITALY, JAPAN, THE NETHERLANDS, UNITED KINGDOM "As committed supporters of the ICC we regret and strongly disagree with the announcement of sanctions to be imposed upon the Court by the United States."
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Ghouly Hoye 👻🇨🇦 @hollyhoye.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
If we aren’t doing this everywhere, what are we even doing? Annual Toronto dog swim before they close down the outdoor pools for the season:
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Polling Canada @canadianpolling.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
To hell with the Americans, as 72% say we should have a closer relationship with the EU, even if that means a less close relationship with the US
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Sonya @sonyam.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Made a risotto that made us happy.
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Sonya @sonyam.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Second night jet lag is real… past 10 days leading into the weekend were LHR->BOS->AMS->NYC->LHR. Slept like the dead for 11 hrs in my own bed last night… but still awake tonight at 02:30. Woe.
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Canadian Paintings @canadianpaintings.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Pine Trees at Sunset Tom Thomson 1915
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Twlldun @twlldun.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Nothing will prepare you for picture 10 www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/9...
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Check out this 3 bedroom detached house for sale on Rightmove
3 bedroom detached house for sale in Station House., Station Road, Bleasby, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire NG14 7GD, NG14 for £75,000. Marketed by Auction House, Covering Notts and Derby
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Ellie Mae O'Hagan @elliemaeohagan.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
I love the dedication in My Life on the Road by Gloria Steinhem
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ℳatt @matttomic.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Here's the concert footage from last night of Blue Rodeo gleefully hitting the lyrics "Lake Ontario", with a projected image of Lake Ontario behind them, while performing on the shores of Lake Ontario
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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
84 years ago today, two naked canadian sailors successfully boarded and captured a U-boat while the rest of their crew threw coke bottles at it. turns out it's hard to defend a conning tower ladder when there's a sweaty canadian butt suddenly sliding down it at speed. an "out of context" problem.
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Yayoi Kusama (1929-2026) RIP
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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Portrait of Catharina Hooft with her nurse, 1619. They don't do baby pix like this any more! Fabulously painted by Frans Hals of Haarlem, whose day is today.
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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
that’ll be quite enough, 2026. improve your aim and get back to us.
'ROCKY HORROR' STAR TIM
CURRY
DEAD AT 80

Tim Curry - the legendary film and TV actor best known for playing Dr. Frank-N-Furter in the cult classic "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" - has died ... TMZ has learned.
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WuTangIsForTheChildren @wutangforchildren.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Buckingham Palace band playing 9 to 5 for Dolly Parton
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Ned Raggett @nedraggett.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Two of Miss Piggy's most iconic co-stars gone, this world is trash.
Dolly Parton in a great jean jacket and Miss Piggy in a purple satin top and white boa and cowboy hat. What more do you need?Miss Piggy as Benjamina Gunn and Tim Curry as Long John Silver in _Muppet Treasure Island_
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FT @fucktheory.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Imagine being talented and beautiful and rich and famous and still the most noteworthy thing about you is how good a person you are.
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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 25/08/2026
[Exit Queen.]
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Joel @itsjoels.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
This is the letter kids got at the end of Dolly’s Imagination Library. I defy you to read this and not cry.
Sorry, I can’t type that.
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Sonya @sonyam.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
This is so sad an incredibly talented icon and brilliant human being.
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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
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Chevy Ray @chevyray.dev · 23/08/2026
This interview with Melanie Buggey, who just swam across the Georgia Strait besting a 60-year world record, has me in absolute stitches. What an icon lolll www.cbc.ca/radio/asitha...
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 24/08/2026
Mark Carney: "This fall we will begin intense discussions with the European Union, the world's second-largest economy, to build a much stronger and deeper economic and security partnership"
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Sonya @sonyam.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Was up late reading in bed last night and a sleek tabby cat walked past the chair. I do not currently have a cat so this was a bit startling. Me: ‘Hello you’ Cat: ‘Yikes’ & jumped out the window.
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Sonya @sonyam.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Have been quite lazy this weekend. Currently sitting in the garden reading.
Pic of a green coffee table in dappled sun. Mug of tea & the book ‘The Correspondent’ on the table, with a mostly melted candle and pot of geraniums. Pizza oven in background and cotswold stone wall with some plants. Rogue pink anemones pushing up between flags. Cotsold stone outbuilding with wire pot stand next to a garden ned & hanging basket of flowers & ivy.
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👻 Dead Chachra 💀 @debcha.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
This explainer out of Australia is genuinely useful background and analysis of what happened with the Canada-US trade deal last night. Note that it is extremely and delightfully sweary. Also there’s an appended glossary of Australian slang. ifloz.substack.com/p/king-carne...
ifloz.substack.com
KING CARNEY ACTIVATES KONG MODE WITH ZERO FUCKS
Carney Reads the Clock Like a Pro Wrestler
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Jonathan Edward Durham @thisone0verhere.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Bro if you can’t get along with CANADA that is 100% a you problem
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Sonya @sonyam.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Chill couple of days. Saw this lot on the way home from the farm shop.
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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Right now, someone is having to brief the US leadership that they CANNOT win in a two-front war with both Iran and Canada. And I find that deeply hilarious.
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Brian F. Kelcey @stateofthecity.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
AND WHAT WE RETALIATING AGAINST IN THE FIRST PLACE, JAMIESON? WHAT WERE WE RETALIATING AGAINST? (Someone do that angry goose meme for me, will you?)
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Trevor Heywood @metroscapes.ca · 22/08/2026
Goose chase meme.

Goose: What is Canada retaliating against?

Why do we need to retaliate?!
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David Henig @davidheniguk.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Don't by the way mess with Canadian trade negotiators, I used to check I still had all my limbs intact after meeting them, and that's as a think tanker not even an official of another country.
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Emma Jacobs @emmavj.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Great piece by Gill Plimmer - who has been on water companies for years giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... The fight to save England’s rivers
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George Eaton @georgeeaton.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Ulez has delivered remarkable public health gains in a short period. Sadiq deserves more credit than he’s had for defying Labour pressure to U-turn after Uxbridge. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Ulez led to better lung size and function among London children, study finds
Researchers find capacity stunted by pollution restored after introduction of ultra-low emission zone
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lucy rowan holmes @absobloodylucy.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
i think we might be approaching self-parody, glaswegians
a statue of the duke of wellington, wearing not one, not two, but eight traffic cones
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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Colourful Roman glass cups decorated with animals from the Roman arena. Made in the AD 200s in Roman glass workshops in the Rhineland, they were found in ‘princely’ graves in Denmark, giving us a glimpse of how far Roman luxury goods travelled. National Museum of Denmark 📷 by me #Archaeology
My photo collage shows four images of Roman short clear-glass cups painted with colourful enamel decoration depicting animals from the Roman Arena. Known as 'circus beakers', fourteen have been found in richly-furnished 'princely' graves in Denmark. The cups are dated AD 200s and were made in Roman glass workshops on the Rhine.

The top two images show two sides of the same cup

Top left: cup painted with a honey-coloured brown lion with shaggy mane viewed in profile facing right, its front and rear legs outstretched as if running at full speed

Top right: a bright green leopard with black spots viewed in profile facing left. It has a long curling tail. It’s front and rear legs are outstretched as if running. Out of shot, there is a blue goat which is being hunted down by the lion and the leopard

Bottom left: a fragmentary glass cup decorated with a light-brown lion with shaggy mane with black nose and a pink tongue

Bottom right: a standing gladiator with knee-length green leggings, cropped tunic top, and holding a blue shield, faces right towards a large brown bear seen in profile, The bear also faces right, as if moving away from the gladiator
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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Part of the reason a lot of super rich people are so awful is that when normal people get an absurd amount of money, they immediately start looking around for who they can help.
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Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Per my last tablet
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Johnny Normality (Spooky Mode) @probgobl.in · 14/08/2026
EVERY STORY ABOUT BEAVERS FOR THE LAST DECADE READS LIKE: WE RELEASED A DOZEN PADDLE TAILED LITTLE FREAKS AND THEY IMMEDIATELY BEGAN A TERRAFORMING PROJECT THAT REVERSED A CENTURY OF ECOLOGICAL DAMAGE IN THREE WEEKS.
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Damian Barr @damianbarr.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
We *can* all do something (not spark wildfires, for example). But asking individual citizens to solve systemic problems is peak neo-liberalism. Not watering our gardens isn’t going to fix pipes or build reservoirs. Government needs to do more than ban barbecues and send scary alerts. NOW.
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Dr Alex Bond @thelabandfield.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Where else could a galactic space warrior in a rubbish bin helmet (with some quite sensible policies, mind) garner 9000 votes in a parliamentary by-election. What a country
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Sonya @sonyam.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
'Facial expressions now accurately reflect internal thoughts. This feature cannot be disabled.' DYING. Release Notes: Woman™ Version 51.0 www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/rel...
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Release Notes: Woman™ Version 51.0
“Thank you for updating to Woman™ 51.0. This release includes important security updates, several unexpected hardware changes, a completely redesigned relati...
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Marco Langbroek @marcolangbroek.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Very happy with this result. Combination of #eclipse images (time lapse) with 35 mm lens, one image per 5 minutes, from #Leiden, the Netherlands. Old Leiden Observatory bottom right.
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Sonya @sonyam.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
In Paris. 34C outside, 29.7C insdie the flat. Just long sunny day after sunny day. Never experienced anything like it, and I’m from Canada which gets sunny summers.
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