Theodora Sutcliffe
@theodora.bsky.social
Freelance hackette, content queen and recovering nomad. Working on a novel. #TeslaTakedown
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Have a cold with a fabulous trifecta of symptoms: eyes so ballooned that the pharmacist asked if I could see out of them, sandpaper throat and constant drippy nose. Just as I was embracing winter.
January 26, 2026 at 3:37 PM
Have a cold with a fabulous trifecta of symptoms: eyes so ballooned that the pharmacist asked if I could see out of them, sandpaper throat and constant drippy nose. Just as I was embracing winter.
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Tesla
Far Right
Trump
Fascism
all captured in just one photo from Sussex, UK.
Far Right
Trump
Fascism
all captured in just one photo from Sussex, UK.
January 25, 2026 at 9:30 PM
Tesla
Far Right
Trump
Fascism
all captured in just one photo from Sussex, UK.
Far Right
Trump
Fascism
all captured in just one photo from Sussex, UK.
Hamnet is amazing. Absolutely devastating.
January 25, 2026 at 4:59 PM
Hamnet is amazing. Absolutely devastating.
Very much enjoying Wednesday's remarkably wine-adjacent 0% bottles. Both the fizz and the rosé are really quite convincing. Also ready for Dry January to be over.
wednesdaysdomaine.com
wednesdaysdomaine.com
Wednesday's Domaine
Alcohol free wine
wednesdaysdomaine.com
January 23, 2026 at 4:54 PM
Very much enjoying Wednesday's remarkably wine-adjacent 0% bottles. Both the fizz and the rosé are really quite convincing. Also ready for Dry January to be over.
wednesdaysdomaine.com
wednesdaysdomaine.com
The thing that really irritates me about Greenland is that, as climate deniers, they are not supposed to believe the ice is melting. So the strategic imperative they're citing should simply not exist in their universe.
January 23, 2026 at 10:04 AM
The thing that really irritates me about Greenland is that, as climate deniers, they are not supposed to believe the ice is melting. So the strategic imperative they're citing should simply not exist in their universe.
Sulawesi just keeps on dishing up very, very old cave art. Hopefully at some point they'll stop dynamiting the karst for cement. www.theguardian.com/science/2026...
#Indonesia
#Indonesia
Hand shape in Indonesian cave may be world’s oldest known rock art
Archaeologists say stencil painted with ochre in limestone cave on Muna Island was created at least 67,800 years ago
www.theguardian.com
January 21, 2026 at 4:27 PM
Sulawesi just keeps on dishing up very, very old cave art. Hopefully at some point they'll stop dynamiting the karst for cement. www.theguardian.com/science/2026...
#Indonesia
#Indonesia
Great concept of big tech as human fracking: www.theguardian.com/books/2026/j...
How can we defend ourselves from the new plague of ‘human fracking’?
Big tech treats our attention like a resource to be mercilessly extracted. The fightback begins here
www.theguardian.com
January 19, 2026 at 9:22 PM
Great concept of big tech as human fracking: www.theguardian.com/books/2026/j...
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Now, I, personally, think he would be *happier* if he just came to terms with the fact the books can’t be finished. Too many factions, too many narrators, and the perspective means you can only move the pieces across the board glacially.
January 19, 2026 at 12:27 AM
Now, I, personally, think he would be *happier* if he just came to terms with the fact the books can’t be finished. Too many factions, too many narrators, and the perspective means you can only move the pieces across the board glacially.
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✊🏼 *Solidarity with the victims of ICE! Solidarity with the Minneapolis anti-ICE general strike!* 📣
5pm, Friday 23 January - Leeds Art Gallery, 16-18 The Headrow, LS1 3AA
Supported by Stop Trump Coalition, Tesla Takedown and local organisations
leeds.minneapolis.solidarity@gmail.com
#Leeds
#UK
5pm, Friday 23 January - Leeds Art Gallery, 16-18 The Headrow, LS1 3AA
Supported by Stop Trump Coalition, Tesla Takedown and local organisations
leeds.minneapolis.solidarity@gmail.com
#Leeds
#UK
January 18, 2026 at 3:57 PM
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NEW: In January 2024, a man purchased Meta's newly AI-infused smart glasses.
He went on to experience a devastating break with reality that played out across Meta platforms — with Meta AI as his companion, entertaining and affirming his worsening delusional beliefs.
futurism.com/artificial-i...
He went on to experience a devastating break with reality that played out across Meta platforms — with Meta AI as his companion, entertaining and affirming his worsening delusional beliefs.
futurism.com/artificial-i...
January 15, 2026 at 5:23 PM
NEW: In January 2024, a man purchased Meta's newly AI-infused smart glasses.
He went on to experience a devastating break with reality that played out across Meta platforms — with Meta AI as his companion, entertaining and affirming his worsening delusional beliefs.
futurism.com/artificial-i...
He went on to experience a devastating break with reality that played out across Meta platforms — with Meta AI as his companion, entertaining and affirming his worsening delusional beliefs.
futurism.com/artificial-i...
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This opens up wider questions about how far the UK and Canada in the 5 eyes intel sharing framework as well as other former allies of the United States can still provide the Americans with any sensitive intelligence information at all
January 18, 2026 at 12:44 PM
This opens up wider questions about how far the UK and Canada in the 5 eyes intel sharing framework as well as other former allies of the United States can still provide the Americans with any sensitive intelligence information at all
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Astronomer here! The next lecture in my free solar system class is available, all about the seasons and atmospheres of the gas giant planets! 🪐
🔭🧪🎢
youtu.be/ZVohZFHofVQ
🔭🧪🎢
youtu.be/ZVohZFHofVQ
Gas Giant Seasons and Atmospheres
YouTube video by Astronomer here!
youtu.be
January 18, 2026 at 1:28 AM
Astronomer here! The next lecture in my free solar system class is available, all about the seasons and atmospheres of the gas giant planets! 🪐
🔭🧪🎢
youtu.be/ZVohZFHofVQ
🔭🧪🎢
youtu.be/ZVohZFHofVQ
Winchester is a surprisingly charming city. Not sure I've been before....
January 17, 2026 at 4:50 PM
Winchester is a surprisingly charming city. Not sure I've been before....
Good costume game at the #TeslaTakedown
January 17, 2026 at 1:03 PM
Good costume game at the #TeslaTakedown
Surprisingly well attended #TeslaTakedown protest in #Winchester, with samba band
January 17, 2026 at 11:24 AM
Surprisingly well attended #TeslaTakedown protest in #Winchester, with samba band
The weird thing about the European mission to Greenland is that it's simultaneously defence against US aggression and spinnable as "As your NATO partners, we are here to help you defend Greenland against Russia and China." Absolutely bizarro. 1/2
January 15, 2026 at 10:15 AM
The weird thing about the European mission to Greenland is that it's simultaneously defence against US aggression and spinnable as "As your NATO partners, we are here to help you defend Greenland against Russia and China." Absolutely bizarro. 1/2
I miss the times when diplomacy wasn't run like a low-rent reality TV show.
January 14, 2026 at 8:57 PM
I miss the times when diplomacy wasn't run like a low-rent reality TV show.
Gosh, I wonder who Hitler is in this scenario?
"I'm no Chamberlain, who says peace in our time, but we have to take the opportunities that arise, and so starting this high level working group is a good thing"
January 14, 2026 at 8:35 PM
Gosh, I wonder who Hitler is in this scenario?
At some point, I am going to have to find out what Heated Rivalry is. But not today, Satan.
January 14, 2026 at 10:40 AM
At some point, I am going to have to find out what Heated Rivalry is. But not today, Satan.
Can't speak highly enough of using an independent bookstore rather than a big online giant. Bought a birthday present for my mother to be delivered to her in Australia from Matilda in #Adelaide and left a note asking them not to include a receipt as it was a gift. They wrapped it.
January 14, 2026 at 10:34 AM
Can't speak highly enough of using an independent bookstore rather than a big online giant. Bought a birthday present for my mother to be delivered to her in Australia from Matilda in #Adelaide and left a note asking them not to include a receipt as it was a gift. They wrapped it.
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We don’t dance on the grave of NFTs enough. I had a year where I was repeatedly told by bozos I was going to be irrelevant and extinct for not embracing them, I should be allowed a victory lap.
January 13, 2026 at 7:49 AM
We don’t dance on the grave of NFTs enough. I had a year where I was repeatedly told by bozos I was going to be irrelevant and extinct for not embracing them, I should be allowed a victory lap.
Good analysis here for everyone who thinks Indo's X shutdown is flowers and balloons.
Indonesian govt is terrible on digital rights and it's a sincere threat to democracy. Quick movement on particular issues recently is primarily, I believe, about the ease of making political gags (and defamation) and shutting down CSAM or misogyny is a happy bonus.
January 12, 2026 at 10:30 AM
Good analysis here for everyone who thinks Indo's X shutdown is flowers and balloons.
A thread of what I've read this year.
January 10, 2026 at 10:47 PM
A thread of what I've read this year.
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Elon Musk and xAI's Grok got suspended by Indonesia because the country not only has -- but will actually enforce -- a regulation that tries to protect people from having their images used in rampant AI generated CSAM / NCII, apparently... www.cnbc.com/2026/01/10/i...
Indonesia temporarily blocks access to Elon Musk's Grok over sexualized images
The move comes after governments and regulators from Europe to Asia have condemned and some have opened inquiries into sexualized content on the app.
www.cnbc.com
January 10, 2026 at 5:14 PM
Elon Musk and xAI's Grok got suspended by Indonesia because the country not only has -- but will actually enforce -- a regulation that tries to protect people from having their images used in rampant AI generated CSAM / NCII, apparently... www.cnbc.com/2026/01/10/i...
My co-working space has a drinks trolley on Friday. It being dry January, this included a nonalcoholic red and a nonalcoholic sparkling white. The red was a bit Ribena-y with a funny nose but the fizz is sufficiently booze-adjacent to make it an alternative to Virgin Marys in a bar.
January 9, 2026 at 4:18 PM
My co-working space has a drinks trolley on Friday. It being dry January, this included a nonalcoholic red and a nonalcoholic sparkling white. The red was a bit Ribena-y with a funny nose but the fizz is sufficiently booze-adjacent to make it an alternative to Virgin Marys in a bar.