OH NO

I've done all the listening, and praying, and supporting, and sign posting I can... And that's good and important - but these aren't problems that can be solved by a tiny LGBT inclusive church - structural change is required - and honestly? Every Christian should be pushing for it.

Honestly? Fuck the Home Office. After tonight's service I spent my evening hearing stories of how the Home Office treats Iranian Christian Converts, Nigerian Lesbians, and Indian Doctors, and the fear and pain and anxiety they're all experiencing is absolutely abhorrent and unnecessary.

Beware the idk of March

People are losing the spirit of the Ides of March. It's not about just stabbing. It's about coming together to stab in groups

My Ides of March fun fact is that the place where Caesar was stabbed is now a cat sanctuary, and I think it’s beautiful that creatures with tiny knives on their feet live there

Diocese of Oxford (Church of England) is making their paid disability adviser redundant & not replacing them. 600+ churches. 2.5 million ppl. Pls consider signing this to express concern: 1) Letter - docs.google.com/.../1yfwBlRd.... 2) Form to add your signature - docs.google.com/.../1FAIpQLS....

for those who might be interested, the National Theater is streaming their production of The Importance of Being Earnest (starring Ncuti Gatwa!) for one week on YouTube for FREE youtu.be/obX-HGs-PS8?...

There’s petty and then there’s ✨opera petty✨ 😂

she's a ten but she's a willful actor in a complex and interconnected system of oppression of which she maintains a studied and self-serving ignorance

Isn't it just mad that this has been done by multiple news outlets? (It's about Primark not being open on Easter Sunday)

Anybody who's found GB News appearing unrequested on their Samsung smart TV can remedy it fairly easily.

It's no surprise. Here's one example of why: the grant rate for initial claims from Afghanistan is 34%. The Foreign Office advises against all travel to "volatile" Afghanistan - it's a country we know is unsafe. So why would only 34% of people fleeing it need sanctuary?

The design of this c5th Pictish plaque from Norrie’s Law goes pretty hard @currentarchaeology.bsky.social

i'm someone who will never have children, my partner and i are firm on that, but pro-natalist policy will have downstream benefits for us childless people as we get older, too, even though i very genuinely find the entire conversation around pro-natalist policy unpleasant

‘Hashtag Different Times’ #TightFit video #totp

This is very good, on how we got rid of all the middle-of-the-road stuff and will come to regret it. Via @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com's also very good newsletter which you should subscribe to open.substack.com/pub/readfoun...

Excellent public service journalism, plus I am here to remind you that making a bacon sandwich with a hot cross bun (can vouch for the M&S ones) is a god-tier breakfast.

there’s a lot of people that want you to spend your time debating them and in fact you can just choose to ignore them and do something fun instead

Authors* be like: *Yes, yes, not all authors.

Perfect photo bomb as not happy its mate is getting all of Ed's attention 🤭

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ED DAVEY AT ALPACA FARM...I REPEAT, ED DAVEY AT ALPACA FARM

Everyone loves estate agents so this was a great idea for a stunt.

Two sides of a silk banner, in Yiddish and English, from the London Jewish Bakers Union, 1925 (Jewish Museum London)

The letters that Cassandra Austen burnt

“Are you ready to apologize to your sister yet?”

✨Thanks to the generosity of Acts 435 donors, this family were able to buy proper shoes for their children. What may seem like a small act of kindness has brought dignity and confidence to a young girl as she walks into college each day. 👟 www.acts435.org.uk/our-impact/s...

I genuinely cringe when I see people holding their phone up to face, shouting into them and turning the volume up so everyone can hear it. How can you missuse design so badly I ask? How can you not know that it's designed to be held to an ear and mouth, hence the shape? That headphones exist?

More people in YBTJ articles should be asking themselves "Is what I'm doing weird?" because I think this might be the first time someone's addressed this to themselves

Marvelous things are happening with the English language this morning, marvelous. And stupid. Very fucking stupid.

"I have enough unexplained wealth that I'm setting off anti-fraud checks at the bank. Better publicise this to HMRC in an article in the newspaper for some reason."

De Telegraaf, the Netherlands’ largest newspaper, recently published an interview with a woman promoting €1,600 seats on private evacuation flights from Dubai. Bellingcat found that her image was likely AI-generated, and flight data suggests no such plane took off. www.bellingcat.com/news/2026/03...

This is so tragic it's actually incredibly funny

Oh my god people are giving small children AI toys and expecting them to learn communication from them??? THIS IS LITERALLY WHAT HUMANS SHOULD BE DOING THIS IS NOT AI'S JOB WHAT THE HELL www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Such a dismal tale about the UK govt: so obsessed w competing with far-right to keep out foreigners that it won’t let in the brightest & best from war-torn countries even when they’re hand-picked by the FCDO, lest they ask to stay. Soft power sacrificed, but how many Reform voters will it convert?

the stink of gender resentment coming off Silicon Valley has been obvious for a while. these men hate women because they hate being told no.

I'm never leaving this website. Where else do you find discourse like this

"Palantir CEO Alex Karp says his AI technology will lessen the power of “highly educated, often female voters, who vote mostly Democrat” while increasing the power of working-class men." Just saying it right out loud now. newrepublic.com/post/207693/...

Yet again. Everything is gender. All the way down.

I can think of a few ‘thrillingly contrarian’ people in church circles an all

this is predatory. this is fixable. we have a government with a big majority. please tell me i just haven't been paying attention and this is a thing they are in some way fixing

it's not that I think this is the worst thing happening right now or the one that's genuinely causing me most psychic pain, but the profusion of gambling ads on streaming is really making me both very angry and very sad. the fuck are we doing

Another day, another stupid Excel chart.

one of the better yiddish words is himlshrayendik (הימלשרײַענדיק), literally SHOUTING-TO-THE-HEAVENS-ISH and meaning abysmal and terrible, a great word for these times

Happy 12 March, the anniversary of women’s ordination to the priesthood, and remembering Bishop Barry who ordained the first cohort at Bristol Cathedral (and was also a complete gent when I had trouble with a stalker while at General Synod) #CofEpeeps

Good afternoon. The crossing outside Tottenham Court Road station is diagonal now. That's all the news for now, goodbye.