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Lorena Sutherland

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Lorena Sutherland @lolylena.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
I'm going through a bit of a New Zealand 1970s & 1980s nostalgia phase so this feels particularly apt www.theguardian.com/music/galler...
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Six buds in a freaky coat: Split Enz share stories behind their colourful costumes – in pictures
How the New Zealand band turned pop into surreal theatre thanks to their percussionist
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Lorena Sutherland @lolylena.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
These people are savages www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Pentagon says execution of Fort Hood shooter will be livestreamed
Nidal Hasan, army psychiatrist who killed 13 people, will be executed by firing squad on 3 December
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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Finally a leaflet talking about the real issues in the constituency
"Vote in Christian Values" - Saint Pancras was martyred age 14 by beheading
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Stanandthat @stanandthat.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
(chef's kiss)
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Lorena Sutherland @lolylena.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Same energy mate
A gingerbread person with wonky eyes and a crooked mouth, looking tired and bewildered
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Lorena Sutherland @lolylena.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
I'm so relieved to hear that you've done your own research because of course a woman's lived experience can't possibly have any probative value
value.now
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Lorena Sutherland @lolylena.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Speaking as someone assaulted by said SWP misogynists for showing up at a hustings, I think we can safely say they totally are.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
“The trouble with you, Spode, is that just because you have succeeded in inducing a handful of half-wits to disfigure the London scene by going about in black shorts, you think you’re someone. You hear them shouting “Heil, Spode!” and you imagine it is the Voice of the People.” Bertie Wooster
Daniel Thomas and his Black Shorts in London today.
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Jombucha @mangetout.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
The world's tallest man is actually the Burj Khalifa
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Luca @lucagalletti.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
One of French puppeteer Raphaël Gromy’s most recognizable performances features a puppet painting real artworks on canvas, blending puppetry, live performance, and visual art into a unique theatrical experience. 😊 IG: @artistsuniversum @raphael_gromy
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geoffrey 💀 (scary now) @parsnip.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
plagiarism is bad and it is also, critically, not a multi-week national and international story
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Dara O'Reilly @daraor.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Toby Young, a man whose academic credentials relied entirely on nepotism, described Arday as "the gift that keeps on giving," which should haunt him to the end of his days. But, obviously, it won't. Because he's a ghoul.
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Nadine Batchelor-Hunt @nadinebh.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
I don’t think there’s ever been a clearer example of the British media bullying someone, who was so clearly vulnerable, to death so shamelessly in my lifetime for engagement and clicks And now we’ll have to watch the people that did it claim they’re shocked, and horrified Revolting
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Rob Jacques @knutcrosswords.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
UEFA spokesperson Dietmar Fumm said to reporters "This decision effectively signals that Gianni Infantino is an enemy of world football". tl;dr: FIFA "foe" - Fumm
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Lorena Sutherland @lolylena.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
It's 2026. Why am I still seeing shitty headlines like this? Unless she gave birth to her twins during the challenge her mum-ness didn't have anything to do with it. How about "Runner smashes three peaks record by over eight hours".
Headline says "Mum of two breaks three peaks challenge record" above a picture of a woman walking or running in the outdoors.
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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 23/06/2026
"Westminster is a postcode whose currency is power – and power is shifting, quickly." ???
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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
The 250th anniversary of America is exactly what I thought it would be: with America losing wars constantly and the president arresting you for disrespecting his pool
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Scoop McNugget @scoopmcnugget.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
For the benefit of the US: the man in the middle just won an election against an alien called @countbinface.bsky.social, a fox, 2 fascists (not pictured) & some normal politicians in suits. He is now odds on to topple a sitting prime minister & lead the country. You could learn a lot from this.
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Lorena Sutherland @lolylena.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
"for the state"
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Lorena Sutherland @lolylena.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Please, I beg of you, please please please stop talking about Andy Burnham
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Lorena Sutherland @lolylena.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
Plus remind my mate in NZ that she wants to complete her literature BA, after dropping out of her BA/LLB just over 40 years ago, when she stops working next year. Sensibly she's not continuing with the LLB part 🥱
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Simon Thompson @thompsonsimon.com · 12/05/2026
You just stab in the back, Shab, Make an new plan, Ang, You don’t need to be vile, Kyle, You just listen to me, Drop him in mess, Wes, Don’t need to revive Jess! Just drop off the keys, Reeves, And set yourselves free
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Emms @emms.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
Don’t forget if you have a new ReForm Councillor that it’s VERY important to start emailing them as soon as possible about council matters. Rats and bins. Potholes, social services and SEN. Get on it. And insist on a reply.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
In UNO that means you are losing.
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Lorena Sutherland @lolylena.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
A bunion? Ouch. Me too - it's horrible.
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Greg Jenner (Historian) @gregjenner.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
Good point! However, Alexa was named after the Library of Alexandria — the ancient repository of all human knowledge — whereas modern LLMs are just confident bullshitters that just guess stuff, so male names do seem appropriate
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Lorena Sutherland @lolylena.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
Just been credit card frauded (masterfully dealt with by Barclaycard btw 👏). Reminds me that years ago @easymungo & my cards were cloned. Our payment histories had 1 thing in common - a very delicious Indian restaurant. The food was so good we kept going there regardless. But always paid in cash!
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Mel Buer @melbuer.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
Idk man, I think the journalists who have been traumatized the most were not sitting in that room tonight. The feds gassed the shit out of us, knocked us over, sent in the local PD to harass, detain, and hurt us, shot a teenaged photographer in the face and he lost an eye, and that's just in LA
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Lorena Sutherland @lolylena.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
New kind of job, new skills and understanding, new opportunities, new friends ... it truly transformed the past decade or more
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Lorena Sutherland @lolylena.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
Not quite the same thing, but when I was about to discard a hideous civil service application form, I decided to phone the person named on the ad to ask which end of the salary scale was likely (and worth the agony of the form). She gave the right answer, I applied, got the job and met you lot!
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Stilgherrian @stilgherrian.com · 23/04/2026
My attention has been drawn to this delightful image.
Photo of an old newspaper clipping. A US Air Force member is looking at a glass door bearing the legend: COMMANDER LIEUTENANT COLONEL SERGEANT PRIVATE".

Text: A perplexed A3C Dennis A White hesitates worriedly at the entrance to his commander's door at Langley Air Force Base, Va. The door — and title — belong to Lt. Col. Charles Sergeant, commander of the 4,500th Air Base Wing supply unit. White, 19, is a supply clerk and joined Air Force in January, 1966 after he graduated from high school in Schoharie, N.Y. (AP)
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Lorena Sutherland @lolylena.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
"It’s hard not to feel faintly ridiculous doing it, as if you were cosplaying grownups" www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Teenagers are calling time on the handshake. I salute them, from a safe distance | Polly Hudson
Of all the traditions humans thoughtlessly adopt, being socially obliged to touch someone when introduced to them is one of the worst. Good on young people for refusing, says Polly Hudson
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Trevor Ship @trevypoos.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
"I don't know, they just keep coming back!"
Everything must go above a basket of boomerangs
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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
i’ve worked in tech more than 20 years. it has never been more ridiculous.
exchange on X 

Christoffer Bjelke @chribjel 
We hired a junior developer to write the simple code, so we don't have to spend a ton of money on tokens for those basic/primitive tasks

Sameer goel @sameer_goel
Great, so now we're optimizing LLM costs by inventing employees again.
Full circle innovation.
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Lorena Sutherland @lolylena.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
And he killed the last pope www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Vance’s bad week: vice-president risks becoming face of two Trump foreign policy failures
Orbán is out in Hungary and talks have failed to end the war in Iran – ill-fated road trip has been setback for Maga aims
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Ken Tremendous @kentremendous.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
She should've had Barbara Streisand herself make this announcement
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Lorena Sutherland @lolylena.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
🙄
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Lorena Sutherland @lolylena.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
What a happy update ... tho you kept us in suspense until right at the end, you cheeky bear
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Ian Moss @ian.allenmoss.co.uk · 04/04/2026
I think everyone would agree that the police and MPs shouldn’t be shoplifting.
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Holger Hestermeyer @hhesterm.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
Being outside the EU is sort of the natural consequence of leaving the EU and not punishment for it… www.majorcadailybulletin.com/news/local/2...
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Ryanair boss slams new EU border controls: “Britain being punished for Brexit”
. Speaking about the EU’s Entry Exit System, O’Leary branded the rollout “a s*** show and a shambles” that has created considerable chaos at border crossings. Have you been caught? Let us know
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Lorena Sutherland @lolylena.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
Sunday dinner: £5 standard £6.50 large, that's a BRITISH bargain for proper BRITISH quality. Bet they've got massive yorkies as well, just yer nan used to make
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Kip Conlon @kipconlon.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
First, the good news. The bathwater has been disposed of.
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Lorena Sutherland @lolylena.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
"having caught it in altogether the wrong way...". Great 🧵
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
This is perfect. Honest Bob too stupid to sustain his own insincerity
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Douglas Cheape @douglascheape.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
Jesus, they weren’t bloody joking.
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Lorena Sutherland @lolylena.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
This and Stonehenge. You're a flippin' iconoclast, you.
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Jo Kibble (Political Animal) @politicanimal.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
If anyone is friends with any Georgian air traffic controllers, buy them a nice bottle of wine. As guardians of pretty much the only narrow gap still available between Europe and Asia that avoids both Iran, the Gulf, Ukraine and Russia, they are under some substantial pressure.
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Lorena Sutherland @lolylena.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
#QuitGPT www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Quit ChatGPT: right now! Your subscription is bankrolling authoritarianism | Rutger Bregman
As a historian, I’ve studied the major consumer boycotts of history. We can take down ChatGPT and send a powerful signal to Silicon Valley, says author and historian Rutger Bregman
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