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Judi Sutherland

@judisutherland.bsky.social

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Dual British/Irish citizen in Ireland. #FBPE Rejoiner. Cat lady. Lymphoma survivor. PhD Biochemist. Watercolour artist. Former pharma manager. Querying not one but two novels! www.judisutherland.com for more stuff. Occasionally writes for NE Bylines.

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Judi Sutherland @judisutherland.bsky.social · 11m

I don’t think that counts as news, ‘Opposition opposes government’. It would be news in the US.

Judi Sutherland @judisutherland.bsky.social · 18m

Badenochery.

Judi Sutherland @judisutherland.bsky.social · 18m

It’s not like the arts and humanities don’t make a lot of money for the country. If the government seems obsessed with the white heat of technology it’s because they don’t understand it and think it is sorcery.

Judi Sutherland @judisutherland.bsky.social · 21m

I can recommend to you Peter Riley and Ian Duhig for similar vibes.

Judi Sutherland @judisutherland.bsky.social · 1h

My Facebook is full of poets. It’s the only way I know who is reading and who has a new book out.

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Judi Sutherland @judisutherland.bsky.social · 1h

Arts and culture are also what holds a nation together. They might consider that.

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Judi Sutherland @judisutherland.bsky.social · 1h

We working classes should know our places and confine ourselves to oily trades and answering telephone helplines.

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LittleGravitas, →EU immigrant, UK→ emigrant, anti-Brexit @catanonim.me · 2h

What's up with a political party which, at one and the same time, slags off English degrees, and yet wants immigrants to integrate by learning English??

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Judi Sutherland @judisutherland.bsky.social · 13h

I’d vote for him.

Judi Sutherland @judisutherland.bsky.social · 13h

There was me, thinking that Irish politics was more dignified than British politics, and then this same contest gave us Conor McGregor and this absolute balloon.

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Judi Sutherland @judisutherland.bsky.social · 20h

a penguin is sitting in a chair with the words well now i 'm not doing it behind him

ALT: a penguin is sitting in a chair with the words well now i 'm not doing it behind him

media.tenor.com

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Judi Sutherland @judisutherland.bsky.social · 20h

Sometimes I have a good chuckle at the way David Cameron foisted Brexit upon us in order to unite and save the Tory Party.

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 20h

It’s Tory conference: Boris-wave goodbye to a deluded party on its way to electoral annihilation | Marina Hyde

When both Reform and the Liberal Democrats are eating your lunch, and even Nadine Dorries has abandoned ship, it might just be time to call it, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde

www.theguardian.com

Judi Sutherland @judisutherland.bsky.social · 21h

I absolutely love this excerpt from the West Wing.

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Judi Sutherland @judisutherland.bsky.social · 22h

Since 1920. But it could happen now.

Judi Sutherland @judisutherland.bsky.social · 22h

Ireland is part of the EU and probably plans to rely on them, plus receiving informal military support from the UK.

It will never return the favour, though, because of its spurious ‘neutrality’.

Judi Sutherland @judisutherland.bsky.social · 22h

Dear God no.

Judi Sutherland @judisutherland.bsky.social · 22h

Let’s not worry about our gas pipeline from the UK that comes ashore at Gormanstown IIRC.

Judi Sutherland @judisutherland.bsky.social · 1d

They didn't even invent the internet...

Judi Sutherland @judisutherland.bsky.social · 1d

Because this is the internet, not America.

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Judi Sutherland @judisutherland.bsky.social · 1d

She was abducted from international waters, illegally imprisoned, and abused. She’s kind of brave I think.

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Judi Sutherland @judisutherland.bsky.social · 1d

I’m a dual citizen and I’ve got quite sensitive to the history especially since I’ve been living in Ireland.

Judi Sutherland @judisutherland.bsky.social · 1d

I care a lot more about what they think now than what they thought in the 1930s tbh.

Judi Sutherland @judisutherland.bsky.social · 1d

Jeez I don’t think there’s anyone I can vote for. Is Graham Norton free?

Judi Sutherland @judisutherland.bsky.social · 1d

The Americans have rather lost their sense of humour but I guess that's understandable. However the guy who thinks Irish are British and that we all love our 'Irish' cousins over the pond might not get many laughs either.