The divide between supporters and detractors of the Church of England’s Fund for Healing, Repair & Justice (Project spire) is not one of slave trading v government annuities. It is one of institutional accountability v bad faith right wing activism. alanlester.co.uk/blog/the-arg...

If you read French, this is a useful summary of a recent Met Office report On climate change.

This is a welcome good piece speaking to people who have actually engaged with the evidence and who push back against Haidt. Well worth a read.

Belatedly realising this post has escaped containment - if you want to know a bit more about MINOTAUR, in particular phase 1, you can read more about it here.

Some thoughts, in here, on existing in a heatwave with a neurodivergent and dysautonomic body that struggles to thermoregulate itself - and trying to undo the false binary of body/brain. Bit of a niche one but hopefully it finds its little audience! nothingbutawordbag.substack.com/p/weathering...

I often say the rise in students coming to our dept with diagnoses of various kinds of neurodivergence has been matched with a corresponding fall of students coming with generalised depression. Because, you know. They're getting a diagnosis of the actual problem rather than feeling they don't fit.

I am yet again getting on my soapbox to tell y’all about how my previous job (public library) received a grant once to keep branches in some neighborhoods open until midnight on Fri and Sat. The neighborhoods were picked specifically because of higher crime rates and lack of support services (1/ )

It's me, again, your internet friend who keeps showing you impossibly specific job listings. Please have a Welsh language shark conservation community management role: careers.zsl.org/vaca... Please share with your Welsh-speaking shark-loving community manager friends?

The Harvard system is an abomination (Saunders 2026). It's like space junk (Lucas 1978) clattering around the beautiful cosmos of one's prose.

Read here @alanlester.bsky.social's systematic dismantling of the "arguments" against the Church of England's reparative Project Spire. What is it, I wonder, that drive's someone to seek to minimise at every turn involvement in chattel slavery? Where are the psychic returns on that? It's weird.

Sat in a shady spot at the pretty end of campus in York watching the minster service. A lovely OT reading to hear surrounded by trees, waterfowl and squirrels. As good an alternative to getting to the service as I can manage. #synod

#CofEPeeps Here’s this week’s Sunday’s Psalm post - a slightly-freer-than-usual translation of psalm 65 and how I got there (a shame the preview pic shows the castle at the top and not the harvesters in the field below…).

This is a really interesting thread.

I find the story of Hegelochus unreasonably funny. Imagine dying and the only trace of you millennia later is the time you accidentally said you saw a weasel in a tragic play in front of a packed audience, because people mocked you about it for centuries. (Thread for ease)

#CofEPeeps Here’s this week’s Sunday’s Psalm post - a slightly-freer-than-usual translation of psalm 65 and how I got there (a shame the preview pic shows the castle at the top and not the harvesters in the field below…).

Missing octopus alert! ⚠️ Someone seems to have left their cuddly friend in our 'Rain' exhibition. Recognise them? Let us know! While we wait for octopus to be picked up, we thought we could take little octopus on an adventure... 🐙

Whether the media describe childhood bilingualism as a gift or a problem depends on the identity of the children, as new research by @naomifillmore.bsky.social and @htorsh.bsky.social shows languageonthemove.com/childhood-bi...

"Why can't trans people just use the accessible toilet?" It's a question that comes up time and again. But as a disabled person, our latest blogger explains why that seemingly simple suggestion isn't a solution at all. Read here👉 notinourname.org.uk/why-cant-tra...

Look, I know it’s hot out but family are out and I *needed* chocolate. So, since there isn’t any but there is cocoa, I have just made and consumed microwave chocolate pudding. And hidden the evidence in the dishwasher…

New DfE schools guidance on clean air - good news for kids who are clinically vulnerable, or have asthma or hay fever - and everyone else. Air cleaning (ventilation or HEPA filtering) removes pollen, mold spores, particulate matter (PM) air pollution, and respiratory droplets that spread diseases.

My latest books cartoon for @theguardian.com #heatwave

The connection between abusers and far right figures is generally not so much a failure of the far right to look at the plank in their own eyes before accusing others, and much more a matter of the fact that rape culture and violent ideology share a dependency on dehumanising the other.

After I wrote last week's column, I learnt that a neighbour with severe disabilities, an extremely tough & resourceful woman who lived to the full, died in the heatwave. Everyone here is devastated. I can scarcely express my anger towards a mindset that treats people like her as collateral damage. 🧵

There's a reason so many autistic folx find Jewish text study and feel immediately at home. The tradition rewards obsessive precision. It asks you to sit with a question for years. It treats disagreement as holy.

Saw this ad for a goat on Facebook. It’s perhaps the greatest advert I’ve ever read. It’s just superb.

Sharing with alt text, but also to say that this here is no joke. As far as I know, Ravelry was the only social media that banned MAGA on the first term. #knitsky #crochetsky

#CofEPeeps Here’s this week’s Sunday’s Psalm post. This week, we have a long-lost verse and a verse that I needed to shrink to fit the structure. psalteryandharp.uk/blog/sundays...

Still wondering where this came from…

This is resonant with Robin Sloan's great short essay, "An app can be a home-cooked meal": www.robinsloan.com/notes/home-c...

The weirdest thing just happened… a package arrived addressed to me with return address of Hymns A&M and containing a new copy of a book I hadn’t ordered & already own. Did I lend mine to someone? (No, I found mine). Has anyone randomly sent me a copy thinking I might like it?

#CofEPeeps Here’s this week’s Sunday’s Psalm post. This week, we have a long-lost verse and a verse that I needed to shrink to fit the structure. psalteryandharp.uk/blog/sundays...

Apparently it’s 11 years today since I discovered that adding googly eyes to the tap on a wine box makes it look like Shaun the Sheep.

When ‘man’ didn’t mean humanity: How language excluded women for centuries theconversation.com/when-man-did... via @theconversation.com #langsky

Bluesky is allegedly horrible to use with a screen reader, so: If you know someone who uses a screen reader, send them this survey. It's THE strongest signal we have for how to build better experiences. #a11y webaim.org/projects/scr...

Hey there cats and kittens, it's just before 0700 my time and I'm on Discourse here bc it's quite a day for Catholics and medievalists on here and we need to do a bit better than yesterday. So a thread: The thema (oh ho!) I'm gonna work w/is: "one holy and Apostolic Church"

Not Weird is out now! Stream it everywhere, download with album pre-order on Bandcamp (link in following skeet) and watch on YouTube. Please share the shit out of it! It’s a catchy romp through late diagnosis as autistic (no really, it’s very catchy!). #NewMusic youtu.be/9Ddl5ef0WGA?...

WELCOME TO SCHISM WATCH 2026 WITH CLAIRE

I make my mother a birthday card every year in the style of a 6 year old child, and it’s good to see this one up on the dresser

General Synod peeps - highly recommend the essays at the end of the paper on Unity in our nation (although they’re probably not pre-synod essential reading if you’re pushed for time).

Be aware that a malicious website is using guttenberg (two “T” not one) to distribute malware. We haven’t been able to neutralize them yet, still working on it.

This is why the use of “AI” as a marketing term is so corrosive. It means nothing, hurts good tech, shields harmful/useless tech. It’s a gimmick, it’s a sign of ignorance, it’s doublespeak

Prophesy! www.biblegateway.com/passage/?sea...

I tried something new! It turns out my cat's undercoat is SPINNABLE. I have never made yarn before and I feel ridiculously proud of myself about it.😁

#CofEPeeps I've just uploaded all psalms to the end of July to the website. I have decided not to do psalms for August as we don't use them in our church and it will give me a chance to get ahead with September!

#CofEPeeps Here is this week's Sunday's Psalm post. I've slightly changed the way I show how I've got from draft to finished text. Let me know if this is easier to follow!

www.autismcentral.nhs.uk/news/blog-sc... Lovely people, please consider sharing this new blog from me. Commissioned work for the NHS-funded Autism Central team. Avoiding the pitfalls of autism 'cures and treatments'. Seen too many parents bankrupted, and too many children harmed ....or worse.

Whether you're scheduling events for summer, fall, or the entire year, our latest blog post invites you to slow down, reflect, and ask better questions to create more inclusive opportunities for the youth in your community. https://www.illustratedministry.com/2026/inclusive-youth-ministry-planning/

Got serious cabin fever stuck inside in the dark to avoid the heat so went out early to check in on the bees and flowers. Sharing here incase you are stuck inside too.

Un petit village gaulois résiste encore à la chaleur envahisseur...