500 potential replacements for Starmer ranked from best to worse: 1. Angela Rayner 2. Andy Burnham 3. The ghost of Keir Hardie 4. The ghost of Harold Wilson . . : 98. Paddington Bear . . . 126. Keir Starmer . . . 399. The ghost of Margaret Thatcher . . . 499. A rabid hedgehog 500. Wes Streeting

I feel a lot of David Attenborough's hard work with nature preservation is to cover for how much of a mess his brother made of that dinosaur theme park.

JK Rowling (who once denied a well documented Nazi crime, claiming the attack on the Institut für Sexualwissenachaft was “a fever dream”) is now represented in the Scottish Parliament by a trans woman. #Karma

Elon Musk belongs in a cell at The Hague.

So @ubereats.bsky.social, you clearly have no interest in fixing your damned maps. What the actual eff is your problem?

Pews are a modernist abomination. @churchtimes.bsky.social

A bit late in the day, but . . . Happy Birthday to the Royal Canadian Navy #ReadyAyeReady

These are my speaking notes from my presentation to Oakville Council tonight in support of the proposed affordable housing and social support initiative by Post Residence. Objections to that point in the meeting had all been to how the proposal departed from the Official Plan. 1/?

A useful reminder of how Christian Zionism (ironically at its core deeply antisemitic) distorts discussions about Israel and Zionism. It also explains why right wing gentiles lean into antisemitic tropes to claim a Jewish politician like Zach Polanski is supposedly antisemitic / isn’t a proper Jew.

Canadians are nice until we're not. We are a democratic nation and we will fight to preserve democracy here. www.youtube.com/shorts/i3HfJ...

I find the “community organizer” Jesus of the religious left no more appealing than the muscular warrior Jesus of the religious right.

I honour of World Penguin Day. Question: Why is a parish pastor like a penguin? Answer: Penguins have a way of looking dignified and ridiculous simultaneously. (from the Authors' Preface)

We’re into the last ten hours of our St. Simon’s online auction. If you’re in the GTA, check it out.

This is fascinating. It appears the AI bot Claude may be more ethical than the people using him.

You can actually see the moment Ed Miliband thinks, what's the point burning through whatever political credibility I've got left energetically defending a man who's going to be gone in a matter of weeks.

Given that Starmer is Dead Man Walking, and likely to be ousted by his own caucus within days of the May 7 local / Senned / Scottish Parliament elections, I am moved to wonder: Is there *anyone* in the Parliamentary Labour Party who could actually turn the Titanic around and avoid the iceberg?

Avi Lewis’ leadership is decidedly left-wing in orientation, but also part of a longer tradition of internal renewal—one that points to the recurring need to reopen the NDP to new ideas, new constituencies, and more ambitious political horizons.

If trickle-down economics worked at all, the world gaining 400 billionaires last year would have set off an economic boom, given everyone raises, and lowered our prices. But it didn't. Because trickle-down economics is a scam designed to make the rich richer off the rest of us.

Woodrow Lloyd never gets the credit he deserves for the successful implementation of universal health care in Canada. Tommy Douglas may have been the Father of Medicare, but it was Woodrow Lloyd who delivered the baby. And Tommy Douglas would be the first to say so.

Love this! Cat-holicism wins! I'm feline that it's Cat-astrophic for Trump fur sure! 😏🐾

Apps they’re expecting you at the Etobicoke Wellness Centre, @scottagunn.bsky.social

The incompetent and unethical American media continue to sanewash this madman.

Maybe, instead of a U2charist, I could have a Tony Benediction.

Christianity is a religion of hope. American evangelicalism is a religion of fear.

If Hungary can free itself from the rule of a corrupt Russian agent, the USA can too.

Chris, when can we expect a fleshed out report on your research? BTW, I’ve shared this with my Wardens, and we’re sharing it with Parish Council (aka Vestry elsewhere) and with our upcoming Mission Action Planning session.

On the 81st anniversary of the martyrdom of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, it is worth remembering that there are those in the MAGA cult who believe they are Bonhoeffer’s heirs, when in fact they are the spiritual descendants of the heretic and Nazi collaborator Ludwig Müller.

Is it possible that the delusional functionary threatening Vatican diplomats with the prospect of a new Avignon Papacy was Pete Hegseth’s designated drunkard?

It occurs to me, apropos of nothing in particular, that I have known a Canon Ball, a Canon Bang, and a Canon Gunn (@scottagunn.bsky.social), but to date have never met nor even heard of a Canon Boom nor a Canon Ade. #RandomEasterEveningRuminations

This week, we hear of Mary Magdalen preaching the first Christian sermon. Five Words “I have seen the Lord!” Next week, we will hear of Thomas writing the first Christian Creed. Five Words. “My Lord! And my God!” #FiveWords #Easter #ChristIsRisen

Just so you know, I’ve unfollowed you, @pinknews.bsky.social. You have chosen to pinkwash the bigot Wes Streeting so he can pretend to give a shit about trans people while he continues to force trans kids into conversion therapy and his government imposes ridiculous burdens of trans adults.

It is a well established liturgical principle that the building always wins. We don’t have a second altar of lady chapel to use as an Altar of Repose, so we improvise. Parishioners will keep vigil with Jesus tonight at St. Simon’s before tomorrow’s Good Friday liturgy. #MaundyThursday #Gethsemane

Both Andy Beshear and JB Pritzker have been solid on trans rights, while Gavin Newsome (who the Dem establishment seem to love) is eager to throw trans folk under the bus. The Dem establishment are virtually always on the wrong side of history.

In which the Conservative Party announces that it wants no votes in any riding between Quebec City and the GTA. IOW, the Conservative Party’s suicide note.

It is typical of the Amerevangelical cult want to skip straight to Easter without the servanthood of Maundy Thursday, without the sacrifice of Good Friday, without the solemn anticipation of Holy Saturday. 1/2

And this is coming from someone whose entire personality in middle school was based on those books.

Mark Carney is the most effective Conservative Prime Minister since at least Brian Mulroney, and possibly since Sir Robert Borden. This is not intended as a compliment.

Avi Lewis doesn’t have a seat in Parliament. There are several options. One would be to choose a seat for the next general election, do some groundwork there, but focus on getting out into the country. #AviLewis 1/?

Federally, the only examples that come to mine of political leadership dynasties are the Trudeaus (père et fils) and now the Lewises (grandfather and grandson. Am I missing any?

I’m not convinced this is a good result. I’m not convinced Avi Lewis has what it takes to rebuild the NDP and to present a credible, electable, progressive alternative to Canadians. That said, I wasn’t convinced Jack Layton had what it took, and Jack proved me wrong. Wait and see. #ndpldr2026

Well, the very establishment anti-establishment candidate won. (Candidates with the support of the Lewis family / faction have won in eight out of nine federal NDP leadership elections.) #ndpldr2026

Israeli police stopped Cardinal Pizzaballa, head of the Roman Catholic Church in the Holy Land, and Most Rev Fr Ielpo, Guardian of the Church of the Holy Sepulcher, from entering the church and celebrating Palm Sunday Mass there today, their offices say.

About 21 months ago, UK Labour under Sir Keir Starmer won a massive majority. Instead of acting like a Labour government, they have generally maintained the Tory status quo, with a soupçon of “Reform Lite.” Current polling and recent byelection results suggest this was an idiotic strategy.

A politician with the guts to say it: "No American child from the blue collar or the middle class should have to die fighting in Iran. Let the Epstein class fight the Epstein War." - Premier Wab Kinew at the NDP national convention, Winnipeg.

BRAVO ZULU Bishop Sally French (no relation).

What do the Constitution and the Bible have in common? Maga Republicans have never read either one 🙄🙃😐

Interesting data point. Since the Olympics permitted trans people to participate (subject to the processes established by sports governing bodies), there have been 29,485 female summer Olympians. Anyone want to guess how many of those 29,485 were trans women? (Answer in next post.) 1/2

Heads up that the trailer for the new hbo Harry potter series cinematically evokes conversion therapy targeting trans girls from the very first moments (a woman viciously cutting Harry potters hair while reminding him that he's just a normal boy and nothing special while he winces in pain)

Every time I post about endometriosis and dare to make it, gender inclusive, I always get a lot of comments from people angry that I didn’t just say “women” And every time, I think about how Rowling has enough money to cure endometriosis forever. But she doesn’t actually give a fuck about women.