I’ve had bad days at work, but nothing like this

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.

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

I have an easter joke but you’ll have to wait a few days for the punchline

“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.

Visiting my grandma and her new home came with this. Do you think they go to Old Folks Homes R Us for their decor?

You just don't understand how ruthlessly committed to Dialectics she is

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 and I wrote for @instituteforgovernment.org.uk, that was as much a failure of judgement as of the system

Of that natural home of the apoplectic right in Britain, the golf club bar

I like that they've specified all of them are speakers, as opposed to - say - the lunchtime burlesque act.

“Bob of Speakers Corner” has sent me

Well, sir, there's nothing on earth like a genuine, bona fide, electrified, oil-carrying, six-car monorail!

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!

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.

(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)

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.

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.

This was the next tweet in my feed:

$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.

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.

This has such Nick Clegg energy

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

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

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...

Helped the Bishop with some interviews the other week and commented on the sharpness of all his pencils. Today, this arrived in the post.

A very brave woman and absolutely unforgivable behaviour by parts of this Labour government.

This is the stupidest g.d. thing I have read all day.

Out Of Grace was my first thought but I quite like Nun With The Wolves

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

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.

Modern darwinism is financial darwinism

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...

At my current rate, I assume I’ll finish this thread in my retirement

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

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.

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?...

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

To be honest, there’s no-one more qualified to sort out the fishing permits than Our Lord Jesus Christ.

"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...

It’s obviously not his fault but he has the least cool voice ever before heard in human history

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...

Utterly, utterly stupid US administration

I really loved this short clip. Going to go and read some poetry now

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.

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