Sam Wilson
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Posting about Church & State he/him 🏳️🌈
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I’ve had bad days at work, but nothing like this
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Judge Zahid Quraishi Ejects New Jersey Federal Prosecutor From Court, Orders Testimony on Office Leadership Structure (Gift Article)
Judge Zahid Quraishi of U.S. District Court ejected a federal prosecutor from his courtroom and ordered the three leaders designated to run the U.S. attorney’s office in New Jersey to return to court ...
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2026/03/17/nyregion/judge-quraishi-hearing-transcript.html?unlocked_article_code=1.T1A.qunv.7G9AgeRWv0Yj&smid=nytcore-ios-share
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56. For several hundreds of years, Moses was depicted in art with horns. This was because of a Latin mistranslation of the Hebrew word “qāran” which means “shining” or “radiant,” not “horned”. It was only in the 16th century that translators realised, having revisited Hebrew and Greek sources.
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Kaya Burgess | 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐓𝐢𝐦𝐞𝐬
about 8 hours ago
Archbishop of Canterbury sets off on a pilgrimage to Canterbury today The deliberately not-too-specific route map from Lambeth Palace is quite something Looks like a medieval map of an uncharted region that should have "here be dragons" on it 🐉 Fabulously abstract waterways
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I have an easter joke but you’ll have to wait a few days for the punchline
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about 7 hours ago
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Doghouse Reilly
about 8 hours ago
“He was deceived by Israel” is going to be the story so many people are going to reach for and I think creating this stabbed in the back myth is going to have some really bad consequences down the line.
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Visiting my grandma and her new home came with this. Do you think they go to Old Folks Homes R Us for their decor?
about 9 hours ago
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Will 🇺🇦 Absolute Shower 🇺🇦
1 day ago
You just don't understand how ruthlessly committed to Dialectics she is
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Tim Durrant
1 day ago
Also - the messaging is all around making the system stronger, to ensure there can't be a repeat of the Mandelson appointment. But as
@rebeccamckee.bsky.social
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@instituteforgovernment.org.uk
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When it comes to ethics in public life, structures are no substitute for judgement | Institute for Government
Ministers need to show leadership to drive improvements in public standards.
https://www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/comment/ethics-public-life-ministers-judgement
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2 days ago
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Dr Francis Young
2 days ago
Of that natural home of the apoplectic right in Britain, the golf club bar
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badly-drawn bee 🐝
2 days ago
I like that they've specified all of them are speakers, as opposed to - say - the lunchtime burlesque act.
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“Bob of Speakers Corner” has sent me
3 days ago
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Well, sir, there's nothing on earth like a genuine, bona fide, electrified, oil-carrying, six-car monorail!
4 days ago
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For the first time in a long time, parliament has killed a legislative measure passed by the Church of England’s
#Synod
. I wrongly assumed as time passed, parliament would take less of an interest in the workings of the Church, so I welcome hearing from MPs and peers how we should go forward!
4 days ago
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John Oxley
5 days ago
To be fair, I'm not sure why that should be their responsibility. They just make cards with pictures of cars and things on them.
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Richard J
4 days ago
(my favourite fact in it is that Japan and Taiwan had an early head start on Li/On batteries because they had a lot of now otherwise surplus winding machines once audio cassettes and VCRs were displaced by DVDs/CDs/streaming and modern batteries are basically very tightly wrapped sheets)
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The closing of the Strait of Hormuz has, at least, reminded everyone of the importance of knowing where the raw materials than run our modern lives come from. Mining is not one big disaster but a series of local and regional disasters. Glad to see the Church's pension fund trying to fix this.
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Mining’s toxic timebomb: dams full of poisonous waste are dotted around the world. What happens when they burst?
While tailings dams are meant to last for ever, extreme weather events are making many unstable – with devastating consequences for nature and humans
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/mar/13/minings-toxic-timebomb-dams-full-of-poisonous-waste-are-dotted-around-the-world-what-happens-when-they-burst-aoe
4 days ago
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Chaudman
5 days ago
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George Eaton
5 days ago
Welfare spending has risen by 0.9% of GDP since 2007-08, that’s a shift but the idea it’s “ballooned” is overdone. Lack of growth has been a far bigger problem.
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This was the next tweet in my feed:
5 days ago
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George Pearkes
6 days ago
$2bn/day, with $2.8bn/day in munitions alone over the first two days. I tend to think of myself as a Large Number Scale Understander but this is just mind-boggling amounts of money.
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Eighteen months since he joined us, our vicar finally got his name added to the list going back to 1210. We’ve been around longer than that (at least 10th century) but the glorious, mononymous Gilbert has the honour of being the first name.
6 days ago
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This has such Nick Clegg energy
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6 days ago
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Great day when my Bluesky feed is almost entirely a debate about Jesus Christ’s historicity. Can we do this again in place of the next fixture for debating private schools
6 days ago
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Tom Ewing
6 days ago
As an atheist I will only accept as legitimate a religion where I 100% know for sure the founder was a real person, like L Ron Hubbard
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Ian Kikuchi
6 days ago
In 1939, on the outbreak of the Second World War, fearing the effects of air bombing, Britons killed hundreds of thousands of their pets. In 2026, in Dubai, British migrants fleeing the war with Iran are abandoning their animals in their thousands.
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...
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Thousands of pets being abandoned in Dubai as owners flee over Iran war
RSPCA say animals could become ‘hidden victims’ of conflict as charities in Gulf city report being overwhelmed
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/mar/11/pets-abandoned-dubai-expat-owners-flee-iran-war
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Helped the Bishop with some interviews the other week and commented on the sharpness of all his pencils. Today, this arrived in the post.
6 days ago
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Mark O’Neill 🐻
7 days ago
A very brave woman and absolutely unforgivable behaviour by parts of this Labour government.
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Benjamin Dreyer
8 days ago
This is the stupidest g.d. thing I have read all day.
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Out Of Grace was my first thought but I quite like Nun With The Wolves
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7 days ago
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You know your job is safe when even Anthropic’s prediction of which sectors AI will come to dominate doesn’t even list your “occupational category” I always knew this Jesus lark was a good one
8 days ago
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Pip
8 days ago
I am going round in circles. Can anyone remind me of the name of the illustrator/screen printer who does two tone illustrations of Bible verses? He is married with I think three or four children and has a beard. He does art exhibitions and talks on the content of his art.
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Modern darwinism is financial darwinism
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8 days ago
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Dr Francis Young
8 days ago
This is the sort of thing a cashless society robs us of, the opportunity to try to get away with paying the bus fare in Carthaginian currency
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Coin used as Leeds bus fare was 2,000‑year‑old currency
The coin was handed down to Peter Edwards from his grandfather in the 1950s.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c1w558gvrdro
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9 days ago
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At my current rate, I assume I’ll finish this thread in my retirement
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9 days ago
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We’re going to see more and more stories like this until the country decides whether it actually wants its heritage buildings to stay standing and the govt provides the sort of funding we see in other European countries
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9 days ago
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Just saw a short clip of Sarah Olney speaking in parliament and my brain is so cooked that all I can think about is this detail about how she first got elected.
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9 days ago
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Rachel Mann
10 days ago
Please watch this short film by Together, an organisation working for the full inclusion and celebration of LGBTQIA people, disabled people, GMH people, and so on, in the Church of England. I burst into tears halfway through …
youtu.be/xcSHRh6l2EE?...
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Together for the Church of England
YouTube video by Together for the Church of England
https://youtu.be/xcSHRh6l2EE?si=q-PyU4TUMuFdJqKo
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Sharon
10 days ago
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Euan
10 days ago
pressing the ‘generate an irreverent look at my spending habits over the last 12 months’ button and getting mad at seeing an irreverent look at my spending habits over the past 12 months
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Alistair Coleman
11 days ago
To be honest, there’s no-one more qualified to sort out the fishing permits than Our Lord Jesus Christ.
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James Ball
11 days ago
"There is an old saying in politics: if you want loyalty, get a dog. The trouble for Kristi Noem is that she infamously shot hers as a 14-month-old puppy after failing to train it properly. So, freshly fired by Donald Trump, she has absolutely nowhere left to turn."
inews.co.uk/opinion/trum...
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Trump has a dangerous new red line for his attack dogs
Anything goes, the law and Constitution be damned. Just don’t make the US President look bad on television
https://inews.co.uk/opinion/trump-dangerous-new-red-line-attack-dogs-4278151
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It’s obviously not his fault but he has the least cool voice ever before heard in human history
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11 days ago
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Oxford Clarion
12 days ago
Children are writing about capybaras more than ever, according to Oxford University Press. The annual Children's Language report is compiled from 500-word stories sent into the BBC. 'Book', 'comic' and 'novel' all appear more than in 2015, while 'Kindle' is down 77%.
corp.oup.com/feature/oxfo...
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Utterly, utterly stupid US administration
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12 days ago
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I really loved this short clip. Going to go and read some poetry now
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12 days ago
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Henry Dyer
12 days ago
Completely mad proposal from the Commons to hide the names of MPs staff who have parliamentary passes which could prove invaluable to vested interests looking to buy access to Westminster. Staff members taking hospitality + freebies would no longer be identified.
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Jon Featonby
12 days ago
There's an impact assessment of the visa break published alongside the rules. It's estimated to reduce the number of asylum claims over the next 18 months by 1,400. Given over 100,000 claimed asylum last year, barely changes the system challenges, while having a high impact on individuals
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