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Tahirih Walsh

@tahirih.bsky.social
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Singer, poet, environmentalist, animal and nature lover. Long Covid + ME/CFS since 2022. 🇨🇦

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Kent Parkstreet @kentparkskeet.bsky.social · 2h
bbc.com
PM says it is 'clear' Russia interfered with Brexit referendum
He says voters were not "sufficiently" informed about how foreign actors sought to disrupt UK democracy.
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
It’s hard enough for cities in Canada to do smarter things given how often bad city leaders hurt their own cities. But it’s extra infuriating watching awful provincial premiers sabotaging cities by ripping out good things they FINALLY managed to achieve. Premiers should not have that power, period.
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
“Elon Musk thinks Quebec should separate from Canada.” I think Elon Musk should hurry up and separate himself from planet Earth. In the meantime, everyone should separate themself from Tesla and Starlink, and governments should separate themselves from SpaceX.
ctvnews.ca
Elon Musk thinks Quebec should separate from Canada
Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk took to his social media platform Tuesday to say that he thinks Quebec should become independent and separate from Canada. He also said that Alberta and Saskatchewan sho...
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The number of separatists in Alberta is very small, but every single one of them will vote in the separation referendum. It’s critical that everyone who doesn’t want separation votes as well, or else this could easily be Canada’s own Brexit moment. Don’t assume anything. Vote. 
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fravery.bsky.social @fravery.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Kaoru Yamada
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
It was never an accident
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M Dv-us @drdvus.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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Museum of Twitter @museum-of-twitter.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
@JFriedhoff

me at 13: wow i can't wait til we have immersive computers everywhere like star trek
me at 30: wow i can't wait until we destroy all computers like in dune
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Kaitlin Kal Lee @kaitlinkallee.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026
Jack Smith: "History teaches that the rule of law is rarely destroyed all at once. It's often weakened by attacks on the institutions and the public servants sworn to uphold it. Since January 2025, we have witnessed precisely such an effort."
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I literally don’t know a single woman who hasn’t been raped, stalked, groped, harassed, or sexually violated in some way at some point in their life. If you choose to doubt and dox survivors, just know every woman in your life is disgusted by you.
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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.lol · 27/09/2026
Now let’s resume talking about Epstein.
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Michelle says: Be kind. Always. ❤️ @snarkysillysad.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
When a dog is rescued by a woman who loves crocheting: #AGoodPlace Source: www.reddit.com/r/MadeMeSmil...
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Here's today's column on the astonishing, ongoing mistreatment of people with #ME/CFS. Please spread it far and wide: the only thing which can break the media's wall of indifference is seeing an article about the issue go viral. Thank you. 1/2 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
theguardian.com
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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🫶🏻Layla🫶🏻 @laylabelle3.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 24/09/2026
Two months ago, we revived the long-delayed Tremont Avenue busway. This week, it’s up and running. That means 39,000 daily riders on the Bx36 are getting faster, safer, more reliable commutes. www.amny.com/news/bronx-f...
amny.com
Bronx gets first busway as Mamdani admin completes Tremont Avenue project | amNewYork
Nearly 40,000 bus riders will now have the chance to move around the Bronx faster with the city's completion of the borough's first busway.
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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 21/09/2026
“Although Black and Hispanic teen girls are disproportionately providing family care compared to white youth, Black boys and young men are also becoming the main caregivers in their families. During COVID-19, Black and brown youth caregivers filled gaps in a broken healthcare system.”
capitalbnews.org
Young Black Men and Boys Are Quietly Taking On a Caregiving Crisis Few People See
5.4 million children and adolescents in the U.S. are caregivers. For Black male youth, the picture is even more complicated.
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
We know that mobility in cities is about space. More specifically, more trips in less space. We’ve seen lots of great images reinforcing that point. This one might be my favourite, from #Santiago, because it ALSO shows the inequality of having buses run in mixed traffic. Dedicated bus-only lanes.
Side-by-side comparison of a Santiago Street, on the left with vehicles, and on the right with the people they carry, showing how much space single occupancy cars take up on our streets in cities. Noteworthy is a cluster of people in the middle where the full bus is sitting stuck in traffic among all those cars with just one person each in them.
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First Amendment Girl @firstamendmentgirl.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
The Olive Trees by Vincent van Gogh, 1889, MoMA-The Museum of Modern Art #ArtHistory #ModernArt #PostImpressionism
In the blazing heat of this Mediterranean afternoon, nothing rests. Against a ground scored as if by some invisible torrent, intense green olive trees twist and crimp, capped by the rolling, dwindling hillocks of the Alpilles, beneath a light-washed sky with a bundled, ectoplasmic cloud.

After van Gogh voluntarily entered the asylum at Saint-Rémy in the south of France in the spring of 1889, he wrote his brother Theo: "I did a landscape with olive trees and also a new study of a starry sky." Later, when the pictures had dried, he sent both of them to Theo in Paris, noting: "The olive trees with the white cloud and the mountains behind, as well as the rise of the moon and the night effect, are exaggerations from the point of view of the general arrangement; the outlines are accentuated as in some old woodcuts."

Van Gogh's letters make it clear that he created this particular intense vista of the southern French landscape as a daylight partner to the visionary nocturne of his more famous canvas, The Starry Night. He felt that both pictures showed, in complementary ways, the principles he shared with his fellow painter Paul Gauguin, regarding the freedom of the artist to go beyond "the photographic and silly perfection of some painters" and intensify the experience of color and linear rhythms.
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Professor Darkness @professordarkness.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Jayapal on McConnell: How about we have term limits on members of Congress and upper age limits on members of Congress? Why do we allow people to stay until they literally have to be carried off the floor, until they disappear with paid leave that they won’t grant for anyone else in the country?
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A Chronic Voice @achronicvoice.com · 21/09/2026
"We’re too #sick to participate, too sick to #protest, too sick to object, too sick to demand our seat at the table. Why demand a seat for someone too sick to sit up?" (My Year of Rest & Relaxation): buff.ly/5wwxoBM by julia_doubleday #LongCOVID #disability #pwME #ChronicIllness #NEisVoid #spoonies
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My Year of Rest and Relaxation
It's been a year since I contracted COVID-19 and developed Long COVID. I've had to face my worst fears, but I'm still here.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Fox News is now defending CNN, which is obviously the smart thing to do. Even they realize the tides always turn. They said, “Don’t ban them. Or one day, they’ll ban us.” The MAGA movement is really falling apart.
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Sherrill Stroschein @sherrillstroschein.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
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Thousands of pregnant women in England are reporting domestic abuse. Midwives are struggling to cope
Exclusive: Analysis ‘lays bare’ something midwives already know from their day-to-day work, says professional association’s leader
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Gary Buckley @garybuckley.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
© Peter Hurd. 'Blue Mountain.' Oil on board, 1950. 55.8 × 44.4 cm.
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Denis - The COVID Info Guy @thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
How a single viral protein hijacks immune cells to supercharge COVID-19 infection Researchers found SARS-CoV-2 protein ORF8 can hijack immune cells, driving serious lung inflammation. Blocking ORF8 reduced lung inflammation and damage in infected mice, pointing to a potential target for treatments.
medicalxpress.com
How a single viral protein hijacks immune cells to supercharge COVID-19 infection
In the sickest COVID-19 patients, SARS-CoV-2 doesn't just cause severe damage by directly infecting airway cells. The virus can also trigger hyperinflammation—a cycle in which immune cells themselves ...
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
According to a new investigation from ProPublica, Donald Trump Jr.’s lavish wedding celebration in the Bahamas was secretly bankrolled in part by a Russian oligarch with close ties to Vladimir Putin.
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
The work of Diana Catchpole, contemporary UK based illustrator and printmaking #womensart
Print in black white and brown
Featuring a figure kneeling on the ground holding a standing dog under a tree with a
 bird and stylised sun
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
‘It’s the best feeling’: how Copenhagen gave cyclists a green wave. “Traffic lights are synchronised so a rush-hour cyclist at 20km/h can catch green lights all the way.” If you want people to choose not to drive, make the non-driving trip better & easier for them. It’s as simple as that, really.
theguardian.com
‘It’s the best feeling’: how Copenhagen gave cyclists a green wave
Traffic lights are synchronised so a rush-hour cyclist at 20km/h can catch green lights all the way
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
'Honeysuckle’ design, 1883 by May Morris, influential textile artist and designer of the Arts and Crafts movement #WomensArt
Busy design with entwined vines, green leaves and pale pink flowers
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Jim Musil Painter @jimmusilpainter.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
My painting DAIRY COWS My palette: Azo Gold Pyrole Red Pyrole Orange Cadmium Yellow Burnt Umber Light Cobalt Blue Ultramarine Blue Teal Carbon Black White Gesso I’m painting with fluid acrylics from Golden Paints. Surface: 16x16” ultra smooth Claybord panel from Ampersand Art Supply.
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fravery.bsky.social @fravery.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Ömer Yılmaz.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 09/09/2026
Today, I was proud to join New Yorkers for the 9/11 Day of Service at the Intrepid Museum. September 11th is a day we remember the terror and loss our city endured. It is also a day we remember the extraordinary courage, kindness and generosity New Yorkers showed one another.
Mayor Mamdani volunteers at the Intrepid day of service. He is wearing a suit and a blue hair net.
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
To be clear, the #WARonWALKING is a big tent that includes the war on safe and efficient urban biking, on workable and well connected public transit, on all ages and abilities accessibility, and more. It’s a war against better cities with more real options, and a war for car dependency. #UrbanTruth
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fravery.bsky.social @fravery.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
I asked my younger boy what he wanted to do today while his older brother was occupied. He asked “what’s up on Granville Street today?” When he heard they were showing cartoons and had free ice cream, he was sold! He later asked to go into 4 stores and have lunch there. Pedestrian streets can work.
People on comfy blowup chairs and foldable chairs on Granville Street watching a classic Superman cartoon on a big screen.A pop-up flower shop and other tent stations with food, goods being sold, etc. during a street festival on the pedestrianized Granville Street in downtown Vancouver.Kids sliding on the “guitar slide” that also cranks music on the bus pedestrian street.People enjoying food at the Taiwanese street festival on the pedestrianized Granville Street, on the last weekend of the seven week extension after the initial pedestrian zone during the World Cup.
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
'I didn’t have time to be anyone’s muse... I was too busy rebelling..." - Leonora Carrington Surrealist painter #WomensArt #FridayFeeling
Monochrome photograph featuring a sitting woman with head resting on her arm in long striped skirt and black blouse looking directly outwards
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Keri @keriqbaum.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Sophie Standing, artist whose work combines thread painting and applique to create depictions of wildlife #WomensArt
Embroidered artwork feating an owl with multicoloured feathers perched facing left looking outwards
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
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Tahirih Walsh @tahirih.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
This is pure evil. Who knew the AI bros would turn out to be super villains?
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
“Used booksellers are navigating how to handle mysterious bulk orders, as suspicions grow that companies are buying up old books so they can be scanned for AI training — and then trashed…chopping off the spines to scan the pages to train its large language model Claude, and discarding the remains.”
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Used bookstores navigate 'suspicious' bulk orders amid AI book-shredding fears | CBC News
Used booksellers in Canada are navigating how to handle mysterious bulk orders, as suspicions grow that companies are buying up their old books so they can be scanned for AI training — and then trashe...
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
The Harvesters (1905) by Danish painter Anna Ancher #womensart #September 1st
Painting featuring three figures walkingbin a linevto the left carring a sythe and rake in a golden field against a blue sky with white clouds.
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David J. Climenhaga @djclimenhaga.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Impact of Meta AI data centre could add up to $460 a year to the typical Albertan’s electricity bill: Pembina Institute. albertapolitics.ca/2026/08/impa...
albertapolitics.ca
Impact of Meta AI data centre could add up to $460 a year to the typical Albertan’s electricity bill: Pembina Institute - Alberta Politics
Oddly, Alberta media seem to have had very little to say about the new analysis by the Pembina Institute that the $13-billion Artificial Intelligence data centre planned by Meta Platforms Inc. in Stur...
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Paula Peters @paulapeters19.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
#Bluesky I’m really struggling to find fellow activists on here - Hello, I’m Paula Peters I’m a disabled person, disability rights activist with @dis-ppl-protest.bsky.social trade unionist with @unitetheunion.bsky.social & NHS Campaigner If you can RT so people can connect or follow Somidarity
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T. Ryan Gregory 🇨🇦 @tryangregory.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
nature.com
Exclusive: NSF set to issue lowest number of new grants in four decades
The US science-funding agency is withholding $1 billion of its budget so that the money can go to a special White House project.
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Gord Johns @gordjohns.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Huge win for Port Alberni & Canada. Ten retired Hercules aircraft will be sold to Coulson Aviation and converted into firefighting tankers, creating skilled Canadian jobs and strengthening our ability to protect communities from increasingly devastating wildfires.
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Federal Govt implements MP Johns plan to use retired RCAF aircraft to fight wildfires
YouTube video by Gord Johns
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Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Morning. 🖼️ Long-tailed Tit, Kyoko Imazu.
Painting of this bird perched on budded branch.
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Dick Zoutman @dickzoutman.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
This 👇🏽 is terrific news! Now we need to replicate this across all of Ontario and Canada!!
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A Major Win for Indoor Air Quality: Toronto's Board of Health Moves to Adopt Stronger Ventilation Standards
The Ontario Society of Professional Engineers celebrates a major win for indoor air quality with stronger ventilation standards in Toronto.
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