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Sophie Delhaes
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"Don't be a stinker."

When in doubt, read Wodehouse.
www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en... It’s time to sign Petition e-7167 so Canada acts in response to the arbitrary banning of aid organisations in Palestine
Petition e-7167 - Petitions
www.ourcommons.ca
February 17, 2026 at 11:18 PM
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Mercer & Broome, 2018
Luis Pérez
Acrylic on canvas
February 17, 2026 at 9:30 PM
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Includes a booklet of notes an annotations by Wodehouse and musical scholar David A. Jasen, although oddly printed in a typewriter script repro rather than being typeset.
February 17, 2026 at 10:01 PM
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Now Playing: The Theatre Lyrics of P.G. Wodehouse (featuring Music by Jerome Kern) (Folkways compilation, 1981)

Music from various early 20th century stage musicals. Probably mostly of interest to specifically completist fans of Wodehouse* and Kern (*that's me!)

#NowPlaying #NowSpinning
February 17, 2026 at 9:59 PM
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This headline should tell you all you need to know about who will benefit the most from carbon capture & storage (CCS/CCUS). CCS is NOT a climate solution, it's just a scheme to funnel more public money to already-profitable oil companies www.bloomberg.com/news/article... #CDNPoli #ABLeg #ABPoli
Canada’s Carbon Plan Will Help Oil Patch in Future, Energy Minister Says
Canada’s energy minister said the government’s push to build carbon capture technology in the Alberta oil sands ensures the industry is adapting to change even as the US reverses its environmental pol...
www.bloomberg.com
February 17, 2026 at 4:56 PM
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It’s totally sustainable. Make it fully public and save money.

Also, tax rich people more if you need more money to make society function properly.
February 17, 2026 at 3:53 PM
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That's an outright lie by Bethlanfalvy - my horrid MPP.

They've been CUTTING health care while INCREASING the DEBT to historic level.

Over $20 BILLION cut in health care.
OVER $100 BILLION increase in ON debt

Where is the money going? Where

@maritstilesndp.bsky.social - What say you?
February 17, 2026 at 2:33 PM
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My body can take no more, says ME patient starving in hospital.

www.thetimes.com/uk/healthcar...
My body can take no more, says ME patient starving in hospital
Campaigners say the suffering of Savannah Victora-May, 23, highlights NHS inaction over recommendations that it set up specialist services for severe cases
www.thetimes.com
February 16, 2026 at 1:19 PM
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Global South is pushing for fairness; Europe is hesitant to rewrite century-old tax rules that would favour them as well.
#UNtaxConvention negotiations are a chance to shape fair rules & rebuild trust- @jayatighosh.bsky.social & Tommaso Faccio in @feps-europe.eu.

🔗 feps-europe.eu/ensuring-tax...
Ensuring tax justice in a fragile and unequal world economy - Foundation for European Progressive Studies
When a handful of economists met over a century ago in Geneva to deliver a […]
feps-europe.eu
February 16, 2026 at 1:58 PM
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📢 1/12 ARE WE USING THE WRONG WORDS? What if we talked more of “sharing” and less of “socialism”? What if we spoke more about “fairness” and less about “equality”, and more about “unfairness” instead of “inequality”? What if we relentlessly shamed the rich hoarders? 🧵
February 16, 2026 at 4:30 PM
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Saloua Raouda Choucair, Self Portrait 1943, artist born in Lebanon, pioneer of abstract art in the Middle East #WomensArt
February 14, 2026 at 2:31 PM
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Palestinian tatreez is a deeply rooted, intricate form of traditional hand embroidery and cross-stitch (falahi) that refrences identity and heritage #WomensArt
February 15, 2026 at 4:55 AM
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Scottish artist Elizabeth Blackadder (1931-2021) #WomensArt
February 15, 2026 at 5:12 AM
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Girls reading, 1939 by US photographer Dorothea Lange #WomensArt
February 16, 2026 at 5:48 AM
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Mary Beale (née Cradock) (1633‍–‍1699) was an English painter who specialised in portrait painting. She was part of a small band of female professional artists working in London #Womensart
February 16, 2026 at 5:52 AM
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Blue Hyacinth, c. 1937
Oil painting by Tove Jansson
#WomensArt
February 16, 2026 at 3:39 PM
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📢Delighted to announce @triodosuk.bsky.social 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐬𝐞𝐜𝐮𝐫𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐅𝐚𝐢𝐫 𝐓𝐚𝐱 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐤 - the first international bank to do so.

Read more about their exemplar work in tax transparency ➡️ fairtaxmark.net/triodos-bank-become-first-international-bank-to-secure-fair-tax-mark/

@oxfamnovib.bsky.social #fairtax
Triodos Bank secure Fair Tax Mark
Netherlands-headquartered ethical bank achieve world’s first accreditation for responsible tax conduct: the Fair Tax Mark
fairtaxmark.net
February 4, 2026 at 9:34 AM
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Despite leap in revenues (up $79bn) and profits (up $29bn), Amazon’s corporate income tax has plummeted by a third ($4bn) and now equates to just 8.5% of profits in 2025. Fall driven by big reduction in tax paid in US, a result of enormously generous tax reliefs in Trump’s Big Beautiful Tax Bill
Trump’s Tax Law Sharply Cuts Amazon’s Corporate Tax Bill
Breaks for investment and research lowered the company’s payments to the U.S. government.
www.wsj.com
February 6, 2026 at 3:09 PM
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Big truths can be revealed in ten seconds.

When wealth grows this fast at the top, the gap widens everywhere else.

Check out our Billionaire Wealth Tracker to see it in action: www.oxfam.org/en/oxfam-bil...

#TaxTheSuperRich #FightInequality #WEF26
February 16, 2026 at 12:22 PM
We're front page news in Australia 📰 as millionaires across the world urge political leaders to #TaxTheSuperRich

Dick Smith told Guardian Australia he joined the call for a wealth tax simply because it would “benefit us greatly”
February 16, 2026 at 4:06 PM
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In 2020, Jim Ratcliffe moved his fortune to Monaco, saving himself an estimated £4 billion in tax.

In the same year, immigrants in the UK contributed around £20 billion in tax.

That says it all.
Guardian view on Sir Jim Ratcliffe: Britain does not need political lectures from a billionaire tax exile | Editorial
Editorial: Comments on the ‘colonisation of the UK’ by the co-owner of Manchester United were erroneous, crass and a gif
www.theguardian.com
February 13, 2026 at 5:16 PM