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Lauréline

@laurelinevk.bsky.social
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Born in the Netherlands to French and German parents and also managed to acquire US Citizenship. I pay a fortune in passport renewal fees

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Lauréline @laurelinevk.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Bluesky does love its lists
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Lauréline @laurelinevk.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Congratulations on the publication sucks that it’s Russian but congrats all the same
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Lauréline @laurelinevk.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I have done it a couple of times 😀 the shock on this poor woman’s face when I opened her rear door and sat down. I bet she keeps her doors locked now 🤣
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Lauréline @laurelinevk.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
@delaneyman.bsky.social if no one has told you Nifty was the solution to a recent Wordle
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Andy Dawson @andydawson.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
If you're a Bryan Ferry enthusiast, there's a outstanding French documentary from 2020 that appeared on YT this week which I'm sure will thrill you. The Penshaw Monument bit got me right there.
youtu.be
Bryan Ferry - Arte Documentary 'Don't Stop The Music' - French TV
YouTube video by Bryan Ferry
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Lauréline @laurelinevk.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Only if he calls it “Scott 5” 😀
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Lauréline @laurelinevk.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
“Druid” I can’t remember anything about it except that I loved it at the time
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Lauréline @laurelinevk.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Birds
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Lauréline @laurelinevk.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
I think it blocked the photos, labeled them as “adult content”
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Lauréline @laurelinevk.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
@delaneyman.bsky.social @profanityswan.bsky.social don't know if you have Times subs but this is a great interview with Phil Collins www.thetimes.com/article/f66c...
thetimes.com
Phil Collins at 75: ‘My personal life? It’s a minefield’
Two years ago, he lay on his deathbed in a Swiss hospital. Now the mega-selling singer is open to the idea of a fourth wife. ‘I’d love to be in love again,’ he tells Decca Aitkenhead
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Lauréline @laurelinevk.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
I had a meal at the works canteen of an Italian beverage canning plant, it was definitely an 8/10.
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Lauréline @laurelinevk.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
@oppenhiney.bsky.social I believe it's your birthday today, so hope you have a great one Hugs Lauréline
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Lauréline @laurelinevk.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
If you watch the US version of “Let’s Make a Deal” you’ll often see people taking a small ($3k) prize rather than gamble on the possibility of a bigger prize behind the curtain because a guaranteed $3K is worth more to them than a possible $10K Except it’s not just the young but older players too
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Lauréline @laurelinevk.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Montenegro just before it joins the EU in 2028. Kotor was great
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Lauréline @laurelinevk.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
@jonnelledge.bsky.social another update for your borders book France settles border dispute with the Netherlands — 400 years later – POLITICO share.google/UArlD6UXaQrC...
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France settles border dispute with the Netherlands — 400 years later
An invisible Caribbean frontier finally gets legal coordinates after decades of wrangling over a disputed lagoon.
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Lauréline @laurelinevk.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
They need a song that catches on with TikTok. Look how long it took to add Kate Bush ! Years of nothing then Stranger Things does “Running up that Hill”’and it’s “Hey can we induct you to the Hall of Fame ?”
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Lauréline @laurelinevk.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Which is which ?
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Lauréline @laurelinevk.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
I remember a “Little and Large” sketch of them singing punk rock songs (though Punk to them was “Gordon is a Moron”) at future Care Homes for the elderly
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Lauréline @laurelinevk.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
I didn’t think that you would 😀 just letting you know if your publisher says “we’ve had a lot of cancellations in Europe” hopefully it’s just €3 and they don’t add a €10 “processing fee”. Unfortunately I will have to cancel physical magazines and switch to digital
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Lauréline @laurelinevk.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Probably should check who Polly is before telling her she doesn’t make sense when talking about “not making sense” regarding the Lib/Con coalition 😉
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Lauréline @laurelinevk.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
@jonnelledge.bsky.social you can thank Brexit, but I just got a notification that because of the new EU €3 blanket charge on low value items I'm going to have to pay €3 more for your book, apresent to Dad
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Lauréline @laurelinevk.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
For those not living in reach of his Capital Radio show it must have been a revelation
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Lauréline @laurelinevk.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
USA at the time of the 2021 Census, there many Nextdoor posts about “people” going from door to door 🤷‍♀️ Then realtors taking photos from the sidewalk of houses in order to do Comps, and posters suggesting “call the police”
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Lauréline @laurelinevk.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
More like “Slow Horses”
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Lauréline @laurelinevk.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Internationally I don’t think it was much of a scene. But then maybe I just didn’t listen to that type of music, I remember a UK friend was astonished that I’d never heard of the “Stone Roses” “24 Hour Party People” was a bunch of bands I’d never heard of 😆
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Lauréline @laurelinevk.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Well there’s “Birmingham Blues” by ELO and probably the only mention of Shard End in a song with their “All over the world”
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Lauréline @laurelinevk.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Hmmm I just went down the corridor and asked my American colleagues who Ozzy Osborne is and got a 100% response and about 75% knew he was from Birmingham No-one had of Tony Wilson, maybe Wilson is more famous in the UK than he is internationally?
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Lauréline @laurelinevk.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
It’s really jarring because the photos are carefully positioned so you don’t see Ripley’s “Believe It or Not” across the road. Having been to the OK Coral, which is great, and the other missions. The Alamo was shocking Though I really liked the Riverwalk mall
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Lauréline @laurelinevk.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Or even Scotland and Wales 🤣
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Lauréline @laurelinevk.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Yeah a bit like the pyramids, the photos of the Alamo exclude the massive hotels overlooking it or the Legoland just down the road
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Lauréline @laurelinevk.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Definitely, though it's one of those places which doesn't have many ties to the trolls (under the bridge). Detroit feels a long way away and Sault Ste. Marie is probably the biggest economic force there
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Lauréline @laurelinevk.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
But in your map, if Mackinac has the Toledo Strip then there's no reason for them to get the UP which should then go to Superior 🙂
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Lauréline @laurelinevk.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
It's one of those ones where the maps weren't accurate enough, the line on the map from Lake Michigan put Toledo on the Ohio border. But when the surveyors got there they realized Toledo was inside of Michigan. So they had to get Michigan to cede land and gave Michigan the UP
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Lauréline @laurelinevk.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Bizarre for a commercial company to be using "Enterprise Free Captcha" and then consuming the free allowance 🤣
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Lauréline @laurelinevk.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Hmm would Mackinac still have the Upper Peninsula if the "Toledo Strip" wasn't a thing ? Michigan got the U.P. as a reward for letting Ohio have control of the Maumee River
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Lauréline @laurelinevk.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
@delaneyman.bsky.social wow reading all this stuff about Sullivan, it was Britain’s best journalist who was the first to mention that this was all brewing up
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Lauréline @laurelinevk.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
But she’s an “archaeologist” !!!
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Lauréline @laurelinevk.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Also blame FIFA who keep all the profits and expect the hosts to pay for everything www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
theatlantic.com
The Unhappy Hosts of the World Cup
Cities and states are covering a lot of the costs of this summer’s matches, and have few options for bringing in much revenue.
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Lauréline @laurelinevk.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Watch for match day bargains, a lot of people bought tickets thinking they’d make a fortune reselling them. They’ll dump them at bargain prices when they fail to sell
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Lauréline @laurelinevk.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Every apartment to let seems to be advertised as “luxury” this ranges from one bedroom, damp ridden hovels with a view of the wall of the building 3 metres opposite to a downtown penthouse with a 180 view of the city
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Lauréline @laurelinevk.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Do you need a holiday ? I was feeling totally burnt out and realized I hadn’t had a vacation for over a year
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Lauréline @laurelinevk.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
My hometown of Avignon is pleasant we’re on the TGV and with the Avignon Pope plenty of history An exclave of Vaucluse (“Enclave des Papes”) so the pope could have his own winery Then of course Mount Ventoux, you could do a Petrarch 😉
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Lauréline @laurelinevk.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Crowdstrike have a lava lamp wall www.cloudflare.com/learning/ssl...
cloudflare.com
How Do Lava Lamps Help with Internet Encryption?
The Cloudflare lava lamps are used for Internet encryption. Learn about entropy in cryptography and why randomness is essential for SSL encryption.
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Lauréline @laurelinevk.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
A friend said come along it’ll give you a chance to meet people before they start kissing your arse and telling you everything you say is the greatest idea they’ve ever heard
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Lauréline @laurelinevk.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
It’s funny how quickly it can change, one month you’re at a party and everyone ignores you, then you’re announced as the new xxxx and suddenly everyone wants to speak to you, dropping existing conversations just because you’re with a metre of them 😀
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Lauréline @laurelinevk.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
So that's two Representatives the Democrats have lost in a week and Swalwell last week. If they didn't keep losing Representatives this way they could have a majority before November
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Lauréline @laurelinevk.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Gemini is being used in a lot of US schools and colleges where they’re using Google tools because it’s cheaper than Microsoft
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Lauréline @laurelinevk.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
I give up, what is it ?
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Lauréline @laurelinevk.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
Funny to think Acorn were sitting on a chip that was going to be so important for a market that was yet to exist
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Lauréline @laurelinevk.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
One of the weird things of living in Orange County (the OC) is that you’ll be watch a film and say “That’s our Post Mates Driver”
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