Perhaps, as we move into 2026, that we leave "faggot" as a road rage insult in 2025? Esp on K Rd. Know your history & respect your surroundings. Plus, you're probably overreacting anyway 💕

Wonderful morning of service ringing today. We had 9 and rang doubles of Stedman & Reverse Canterbury, Plain Hunt 7, and triples of Grandsire & Plain Bob. The church garden is looking particularly lovely today, with a crop of bananas on the way! 🥰 #campanology #bellringing #changeringing

Ooh a bit of a challenge! I got 16/20 this time

A story about bellringing for Christmas featuring us has gone up 13th floor: 13thfloor.co.nz/the-bellring... Thanks to Den for visiting us and photographing 💕 🥰 #campanology #bellringing #changeringing

Meri Kirihimete from our whānau to yours 💕 We had 10 of us this morning and rang called changes on 8, Stedman Doubles on the back 6, Grandsire Doubles with 7-6-8, and Grandsire Triples. A friendly reminder we're back on Sunday but no practice on Tuesday next week! 🥰 #campanology #bellringing

Meri Kirihimete: Merry Christmas

Easily our favourite night of the year for bellringing! Bells, carols, & decorations, what's not to love?! 🔔 We had 12 tonight, including our two visitors from Honolulu. We rang 8 most of the night, but kept it simple (no thanks from the muggyness) 💕 🥰 #campanology #bellringing #changeringing

Men: is it weak to sing christmas carols? If you don't want to sing, that's all cool and all, but why come to a carol service and sit/stand there looking like you're trying to remember who won the ashes the year you got that ticket for parking too far from the curb. At least pretend! Get into it!

A busy & muggy night of bellringing. We had 13 of us, including two visitors from Honolulu 💕 We rang Plain Bob D, m & T; spliced PB & little bob m; Grandsire T; Cambridge Surprise m; and Stedman D & T. We also had a little festive mood lighting as we were photographed for a story. 🥰 #campanology

NEW: Organ tuners have been leaving temperature and humidity records in little-known books for decades. 🎹 They reveal how temperatures inside churches have changed over time due to climate change and increased heating. A new scoop for The Reengineer! www.thereengineer.pro/p/church-org...

When we say "no, everything hasn't been digitized," I need you to understand that we really mean is that virtually nothing has been digitized. This is because the realm of primary sources that historians use is incomprehensibly large.

Even though it’s unenforceable, as of today it is illegal to prescribe puberty blockers to a trans child in Aotearoa. We now know that the Ministry recommended against this, that no one asked for it, and no one thought it was a good idea except for cabinet. This ban is a stain on our history.

Oh streaming services. You don't understand us. "We see you've been enjoying Heated Rivalry. Great news, we have live NFL over the summer and other sports things too" Yeah, sports wasn't the reason we were watching 😅 Besides, an interest in hockey doesn't necessarily translate over to football!

Today my colleagues and I drank some very lovely wine made by the newly Dr Barry Wong, and I've been advised by my team leader to log off before I start telling people what I really think. So ngā mihi o te wā y'all. If you know someone with a nice butt, tell them. They can't see it.

Police declined a rescue helicopter to transport a crew, "citing cost"... That's where we are now, peeps. Landlords and tobacco companies are reportedly doing well, thankfully. www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

'[Professor] Baker did not think that the FluTracking programme could be replaced.'

Now, isn't that awfully fucking convenient?

Min of Health has decided not to continue with the FluTracking survey each week from next year. What a ridiculous decision. The cost savings must be minimal What are our taxes actually used for if not things like public health?

Another great practice night. 14 of us including a visitor. We rang Plain Hunt 7; Plain Bob Doubles & Minor; Grandsire Doubles & Triples; Reverse Canterbury Doubles; Stedman Doubles & Triples; and Cambridge Surprise Minor. 🥰 #campanology #bellringing #changeringing

Although, historically, Sam Vimes was nearly always wet, and this made him sad. What he wanted was a drink and a cigar and to dry off in front of a fire (and later on, to be with his wife and son), and wanted bloody stupid people to stop killing other bloody stupid people. Bloody Koom Valley again.

On the first day of Christmas my true love sent to me, a Cambridge hood in scarlet red ...

Now that the construction mess has cleared, it appears we've entirely lost our pocket park & the footpath has been narrowed on Lorne St. All so we can fit parking for 3-4 cars. Too bad that we got to eat there so happily for so many years 😕 @ccrg.bsky.social is this permanent?

Another lovely morning of ringing today as we head into the summer. We had 10 of us and rang rounds, Plain Bob Doubles, and called changes. 🥰 #campanology #bellringing #changeringing

AI? Sure! Child's tomb under licence? Fuck off apparently

I can't believe they're making me side with Calibri

Another lovely night of practice last night. We had 16 in the tower (more people than spaces in the practice book) & also managed to ring so many methods we also filled all the practice rows! We did some really great ringing & are nearly ready for Christmas ringing 💕 🥰 #campanology #bellringing

phwoar

Wish me luck. After being bounced from two education-specific journals, I'm now trying the Journal of New Zealand Studies for an article started in January to celebrate the centenary of the PhD in Aotearoa. I've re-edited it a lot this week after presenting at NZHA, & am trying my chances 💕

Nearly half of all countries have fewer than ten active plant taxonomists, and in 41% of countries they're all male. Global review by Simões et al. (2025). 🌏🧪🌐 www.cell.com/trends/plant...

So far: Ireland, Spain, Netherlands, and Slovenia. See who else steps up. Iceland are having a vote on it next week, Belgium are "announce in the comming days". The following are out for financial reasons: Andorra, Bosnia & Herzegovina, North Macedonia, & Slovakia.

BEST USE OF PAROCHIAL THIS YEAR

Every dollar JK Rowling makes from Harry Potter is going into bankrolling an extortion racket issuing legal threats to organizations across the UK to purge themselves of trans people or face ruinous lawfare.

"we stand in solidarity" but also ban them from participating?! Oh fuck the hell off.

A fabulous if hot practice night in the belltower, with 16 of us, including 3 visitors! We rang rounds, plain hunt, called changes, Grandsire Doubles, Plain Bob Doubles & Triples, and Stedman Triples. 🥰 #campanology #bellringing #changeringing

For #WorldAIDSDay here’s my essay about the 72 Hours episode of The Golden Girls that I wrote for @nursingclio.bsky.social Still one of the most important sitcom episodes ever (not to mention one of my favorite things I’ve written). nursingclio.org/2018/12/04/d...

'The school has its own commercial kitchen and wanted to make its own meals, but the ministry had always argued that was a risk to food security, she said.' #nzpol www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

World AIDS Day, observed today, is important for raising awareness about HIV/AIDS, remembering those we’ve lost, and combating stigma and discrimination.

We managed to get some enthusiastic ringing in this morning before the very hot rain arrived. Sadly I lost count of how many ringers we had, but we rang rounds, called changes, Plain Bob Doubles (with 768 behind), and Grandsire Triples. 🥰 #campanology #bellringing #changeringing

"In recent history, the Doctor Who actor has repeatedly made headlines thanks to his allyship towards trans and gender non-conforming people – most notably with a subtle gesture during a TV interview that wound up helping to raise £18,000 for the LGBTQ+ youth charity AKT."

AND guaranteed to happen a week that I'm not going to Western Springs once, so it'll be at least a week before I get to try it out!

I have discovered my dream job DOES exist! Taylors Bellfoundry has a museum, and there is a museum director. MUSEUM. CAMPANOLOGY. ALL IN ONE. Sadly in Loughborough. But apparently walking distance to a steam train & a canal.

Always a good time to remember TREASURE PLANET has the best PhD-vs-MD joke this side of BROOKLYN NINE-NINE, delivered as a perfect David Hyde Pierce freakout

do you have any idea how much you have to piss somebody off to make them change their gauge

I'm SEETHING about this week's challenge travle. You have to get from the Bay of Campeche to the Red Sea by boat. Fine. But if you try to enter the Gulf of Arden as your last gulf, you can't complete. Apparently the correct water body was "regions.AdeG" and nearly every person has gotten that wrong.

Well done Philip! We've not met, but his work is exemplary, and I gather he's annoyingly lovely to boot

Another lovely but overcast day of ringing this morning. We had 13 ringers, including some wonderful & much welcome visitors. We rang rounds, Plain Bob Doubles & Triples, Grandsire Doubles, & Reverse Canterbury Doubles. 🥰 #campanology #bellringing #changeringing

How getting New Zealand Back on track is going: yeehawtheboys.substack.com/p/luxon-fina...

always remember: Terry Pratchett said trans rights this book was written in 1996 by a 48 year old British man and no cis person in 2025 has a single goddamn excuse to behave differently

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Discworld QOTD, from Feet of Clay, for Trans Day of Remembrance