Jo Kershaw
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Priest, mediaevalist, geek, Scot. All views personal. She/ her
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Birds of 2025: Chaffinch Pigeon Sparrow Goldfinch Robin Dunnock Jackdaw Starling
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We are in a restaurant and there is a very loud American informing everyone present that she’s a Scouser.
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BCP Minus Context
about 5 hours ago
that wonderful and sacred mystery;
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Dreadnought Holiday
about 5 hours ago
British control of the North Sea - via battleships - absolutely fucked up the Great War for Germany, but you do you
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I’m not sure I’m an expert, but I am a priest, and this is blasphemous and from the pit.
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Papay ranger - Jonathan Ford
1 day ago
The Papay airfield at 2.30am. The lights in the North.
#orkney
#papay
#aurora
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John David Pressman
about 9 hours ago
This is in fact how the state having a monopoly on violence works but normally the state isn't supposed to Post about it like they're the Navy Seal copypasta guy.
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Canadian Paintings
about 6 hours ago
Still Life in Window Nora Collyer n.d.
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Gen Wojcik
about 7 hours ago
Are you located in the DC-Baltimore-Philadelphia-New York corridor? Have you always wanted to have your very own 11 foot long papier-mâché hammerhead shark? Now available for free! Perfect for museums, community centers, or your living room! Save this lovely creature from imminent destruction!
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BCP Minus Context
about 7 hours ago
beseeching thee to inspire continually the Universal Church with the spirit of truth, unity, and concord; and grant that all those who do confess thy holy Name may agree in the truth of thy holy Word
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Daniel
about 7 hours ago
It is mental that civil servants can't accept a fruit basket but MPs can receive gifts of under £300 and not declare them
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Trying to imagine what Dante and the translators of the KJV would make of all this. Dante would have done something interesting, I’m sure…
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EOW Without Context
about 7 hours ago
Say to the anxious, 'Be strong, do not fear! Here is your God, coming with judgment to save you.'
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Lev Parikian
about 7 hours ago
I have nothing of value or interest to say, so here’s a sword-billed hummingbird.
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It is the 14th of November. It is tipping it down outside and has been all day. Nonetheless someone is letting off fireworks. Unbelievable.
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Hugh Pemberton
about 12 hours ago
Please God can we go back to the days of Budget purdah. Two months of quiet from Treasury ministers, spads, and officials whilst they put the budget together might help to wind down this incessant speculation.
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Richard M. Nixon
about 9 hours ago
Again, if they can learn from Mamdani, it's stay on message. If Rufo says Democrats want to teach homosexuality manuals, the response is not 500 words about sensitivity and so forth. It's, "I won't dignify that. I'm busy fighting for equal rights, equal protection, and money in your pocket."
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Dr Lauren Fraser
about 11 hours ago
My mum has been making needle felted mice for a few years and enjoys challenging herself with new themes and ideas. She's just set up her first exhibition at the stately home she volunteers at, with a family of period mice. Incredible.
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Archbishop of York
about 12 hours ago
I was at Manchester Cathedral today for a round table discussion on poverty - part of this year’s events marking 40 years since the Church’s landmark Faith in the City report. Its call to action remains as urgent as ever — to build a bold vision and a clear plan to end poverty.
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I have been trying to avoid finding out what that latest Epstein emails based story (the one involving Trump and Clinton). My luck has run out and it is a terrible day to be literate. (Though it should be added THIS ONE doesn’t involve any crimes. Just a terrible mental image).
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ex-Lethality Jane
about 11 hours ago
Yesterday I learned that the US Navy has a tiara option for female sailors to wear in dress uniform and I for one think they are missing a huge opportunity for recruitment by not making this more well-known. I did not know the Navy had tiaras when I was picking my service branch. I feel cheated.
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Kate Watson
about 14 hours ago
Your occasional reminder, if you’re in the UK, that it is shaping up to be a hideous bird flu season, with many wildlife casualties (including resident birds, not just winter migrants), and, however soft your heart, it is a Really Bad Idea to handle sick or ‘injured’ birds or bring them inside.
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Alex Sujong Laughlin
about 11 hours ago
I expected this podcast festival to feel like a funeral, but it was surprisingly optimistic. Once you hit rock bottom, you can only really go up.
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The Bad News Is There’s No More Money, But That’s Also The Good News | Defector
RICHMOND, VA – The audience was booing Ira Glass. It was the opening session of Resonate, a podcast festival founded three years ago by Chioke l’Anson at Virginia Commonwealth University’s Institute ...
https://defector.com/resonate-podcast-festival?giftLink=a8735ed93487a65681d705f56d54205d
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My phone keeps trying to make me write “the great god Pam.”
about 10 hours ago
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Lutheran Potluck
about 11 hours ago
Pray, and let God worry. —Martin Luther
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SCM Press
about 12 hours ago
Calling all educators! Are you involved in delivering education in theology/biblical studies/religious studies etc? Librarians, this includes you! We want your feedback on our books - and there's a prize draw to enter at the end. Survey closes 2nd January. Click here:
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SCM Press survey Nov 2025: textbooks and educational resources
We would like to find out how our publishing is working in terms of serving educators in theology and related disciplines and their students at all levels. If you are involved in delivering theologic...
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Faine Greenwood
about 12 hours ago
all I’m gonna say is that I am a life-long slightly edgy poster and I’ve never caught a suspension or a ban anywhere - because it is in fact quite easy to avoid crossing the “this joke could possibly be construed as a violent threat” line on social media
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Stephen Bush
about 12 hours ago
Under new plans to be unveiled by Labour, UK citizenship test has a whole section on Northern Ireland. If you get any of them right, you don't get citizenship.
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Stephen Bush
about 14 hours ago
All that I am asking is that City Hall's Conservatives note that New York and Paris both have taller barriers than the Londeron Underground and *more* fare evasion!
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Jon Burke🌍
1 day ago
They market their cars as weapons and we allow them on the same roads as children cycling to school. And I still get weird middle-aged men in my notifications obfuscating for and defending this. This is not a serious society.
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Anna James
about 14 hours ago
Mr Bingley from 1995 P&P is now an English teacher and deputy head at a state school in North London. Who knew?
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Rachel Mann
about 18 hours ago
Today the Church of England commemorates the REAL hero of the musical
#Hamilton
… Samuel Seabury …
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Dorian Lynskey
about 18 hours ago
"What is certain, and felt instinctively by almost everybody, is that things cannot go on in their present way" – The Times, May 1975 “It is difficult to imagine a previous period when such an all-pervasive hopelessness was exhibited at all levels of British life” – Professor Stephen Haseler, 1975
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This is just someone making “I remember the corned beef of my childhood” into a column (and approximately as accurate).
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about 17 hours ago
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Anna Orridge
about 17 hours ago
There were rolling bin strikes throughout the 70s which left the streets groaning under piles of rubbish.
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Andrew Sissons
about 18 hours ago
While this budget psychodrama is playing out, my LinkedIn feed is full of heat pump engineers worrying their business is doomed because of an HMT briefing yesterday, and there’s a prominent story about the imminent collapse of the SEND system. Bad fiscal policy has real world consequences
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Dunland National Party 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴
about 19 hours ago
There is such a peculiar psychology associated with it too. In places where car dependency is high (and I don't just mean the United States, which I have visited exactly once) people will actively judge you if you don't enjoy using a car on a purely personal level.
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Dan Sohege
1 day ago
Sickening rhetoric by Home Secretary. Denying access to human rights isn't "protecting the public". This is Labour further demonising those seeking asylum in language very reminiscent of the far right. Yes, some break the law, so should be prosecuted within the law. Removing rights is not the answer
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Joshua J. Friedman
1 day ago
Further citation, since I was curious! (Seems like the researcher elaborated in press interviews)
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James Austin
about 20 hours ago
The combination of needing to raise at least *£30bn* and deciding to try and do this via nickle and dime measures is utterly toxic. The pastry tax on speed.
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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis
about 22 hours ago
There are a handful of people who are genetically short sleepers (they can sleep less than the recommended 7-9ish hours and feel fine). Pointing to bags under her eyes suggest she's not one of them. Sleeping that little is worse than being drunk
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When you’re looking at workers as just another bit of the plant machinery.
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“Listen out for their calls and you’re sure to see some field fares over the next weeks” says Tom McKinney on Radio 3. Have you _met_ birds, Tom?
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I have a nasty feeling that if we do make another trip to the US I’m going to be bringing gluten free pasta to my coeliac mother-in-law…
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Nicholas Whyte 白怀珂
about 21 hours ago
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"Should These People Exist?" Live on the BBC at Ten
The surreal, exhausting, frustrating battle of pretending "both sidesing" is a form of legitimate debate
https://open.substack.com/pub/iratusursus/p/should-these-people-exist-live-on?r=4422q&utm_medium=ios
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This was fun, but: if you’re in Paris and go to Brasserie Lipp (which is worth it), for goodness’s sake don’t have steak frites, you’d be much better off with the Alsatian dishes they specialise in. Though that said, the roast chicken’s really good…
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My search for the perfect steak frites in Paris, the staple of French brasserie cuisine
It’s on every prix fixe menu in France, but which restaurant serves up the best incarnation in the capital? I stomped and chomped my way across the city to find out
https://www.theguardian.com/travel/2025/nov/10/perfect-steak-frites-paris-french-brasserie
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BCP Minus Context
1 day ago
That it may please thee to illumine all bishops, priests, and deacons, with true knowledge and understanding of thy Word;
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Nute
3 days ago
Im just not sure I know how to do a prime ministerial crisis which doesn’t revolve around vaguely ominous reports about the number of letters being sent to Graham Brady
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jamelle
1 day ago
you could fact check this — there aren’t 30 million illegal immigrants and there is no evidence that the presence of an immigrant in say houston has any impact on housing in madison, wisconsin — or you could note straightforwardly that this is just nazi rhetoric
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Clay Ranck
1 day ago
I remember going nuts last year when the New York Times straightforwardly described mass deportations as a way to address the cost of housing.
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