Oh, lucky, lucky wordpress developers. More ways to style a website with theme.json. What a time to be alive.

A fun question. In 5 years time, what looks better? The US’s enormous bet & capex on AI? Or China’s equally enormous bet and capex on renewables?

Remembering Janey with much love on the anniversary of her death. One of the most extraordinary and funny people I've ever met. www.youtube.com/watch?v=YNof...

The Affinity/Canva thing today is a huge shake up for design tools and looks to be aimed directly at Adobe. Don't forget that nonprofits (including churches and dioceses in the UK) have free access to Canva.

I'm still not convinced that very many same-sex couples ever wanted to be PLFed in the Church of England anyway.

Whilst it is always good to have tutorials, the reasons this post is needed relate to the deep, deep flaws in how to achieve very basic things in WordPress

If you don't want Prime Minister Farage to be able to have greater control over whether you or your less privileged neighbour can work, get benefits or access healthcare then you don't want a mandatory ID scheme.

On being stewards of creation. "Who stewarded the dinosaurs? Who stewards Alpha Centauri?" thurible.net/2025/09/19/w...

We are not stewards. Why the language we use in the Season of Creation might be doing more harm than good. thurible.net/2025/09/19/w...

Spanish Ladies grumble...

I've decided, once more, to reach for a semicolon in tomorrow's sermon.

"...the wind seems to have changed spiritually, and I’m not surprised at all that this is starting to show up in statistical surveys." Some thoughts on the Quiet Revival. thurible.net/2025/09/12/l...

I shall be listening to the Last Night of the Proms on Radio 3 rather than watching on the TV. There are fewer flags on the radio.

Listening to the Quiet Revival. A few thoughts and a few questions. thurible.net/2025/09/12/l... #QuietRevival

Listening to the Quiet Revival. A few thoughts and a few questions. thurible.net/2025/09/12/l... #QuietRevival

Your weekly reminder that voter "concern" with immigration doesn't correspond to actual immigration levels. It corresponds to the amount of coverage the media gives immigration. This an entirely self-fulfilling mess, and it is entirely pointless.

Last week was his feast day, the day he was arrested for helping to register black voters — Today marks the day he was martyred, 60 years ago. Blessed Jonathan Myrick Daniels, pray for us. #MakeNoPeaceWithOppression

Feast of St Rollox today. God bless dogs.

I am one of the 14 authors who chose to leave the Polari Prize, and I find myself frustrated and saddened at the way this entire story has been represented. 1/

📢 Teachers, have you read the Scottish Government’s Guidance on LGBT Inclusive Education? This facilitates an educational approach to addressing prejudice and ensuring all learners and families are included in your curriculum. Our explainer covers key content & information about the national CPD.

Transphobia - whether from the right or left and whether disguised as feminist or not - will always close down the field of what is acceptable for women and girls. So-called bio essentialism always leads to the boxing in of options for women and girls.

Just installed the new oss model from Open AI locally and it is producing wildly mad hallucinations about things I know about.

“There seems to be a culture just now that has shifted back in time, when it’s cool to be cruel again. The rise of the so-called “manosphere” online and normalisation of hate has had an impact on young people.” 📰 Our long-read interview in @scotnational.bsky.social

Chuggers chugging @claypitslnr.bsky.social Ugh.

So I'm order to keep using Bluesky I have to go through a process of proving that St Mary's Cathedral is an adult. What nonsense.

"Issues" is no more! Why what the Church of England did today in binning an offensive document about sexuality really matters. thurible.net/2025/07/15/i...

I will tell you this: I bet we could grow our growing parishes by about 10-15% more if we just got all of them cleaned up websites.

Join us this Saturday 14 June for a free tour of Europe's oldest member owned and run swimming club. Tours are on the hour from 10am-2pm. Book a place here: buff.ly/Obg9Cj1 #swimming, #history #glasgow

Just reached 1000 YouTube subscribers for @thecathedral.bsky.social

Today is my 19th anniversary as the Provost of St Mary's Episcopal Cathedral, Glasgow. Celebrated a glorious Eucharist this morning with the cathedral thronged with well-wishers, both of whom joined in with the plainsong mightily.

Ascension Day service at 7.30 pm tonight 29 May 2025. Open to members of the public. Free admission. Fabulous music from the Cathedral Choir.

Anyone else got seasnail mucus into tomorrow's sermon?

Here's a bit more on the fake pope quotes phenomenon. thurible.net/2025/05/13/f...

Horrified by the xenophobic language of the Prime Minister today.

I know people might think this is a small thing and none of my business but I do hope that an anglophone Pope can sort out the most recent English translation of the mass and get it turned back into English.

Dear the BBC. It is pronounced dicastery not dicastery.

The Archbishop of York just said this in a sermon, 'For when we are peacemakers, says Jesus, we become God's children; those most like God, building a better world of justice and reconciliation, serving the common good.' I utterly disagree.

SO RECOMMENDED! I've still not been able to get back to that lovely church in Aberdeen for health reasons (hoping for this Sunday...), but watching St Mary's is a wonderful alternative. <3 (Access note: automated subtitles generally good though occasionally inadvertently hilarious. ;))

A few months old but a good thread 🧵 from the Provost of St Marys Episcopal Cathedral, Glasgow. The liberal left can’t keep chasing a broken status quo. We didn’t lose because we were too radical. We lost because we weren’t bold enough to build something better. Pablo🎧

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The sermon preached by the Rev John Bell at the consecration of the Rt Rev Nicholas Bundock the new Bishop of Glasgow and Galloway is now available online. www.youtube.com/watch?v=cyNp... The whole service is also available: www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Jx2...

Am interested that the Scottish Government has just dropped its proposal to bring in a legislation to criminalise Conversion Therapy. I've not changed my mind. Conversion Therapy is harmful and doesn't work. And the best ways to tackle it are not through legislation.

The Supreme Court judgement says trans people must use facilities designed for their biological sex. Therefore trans men must use female facilities. What stops a cis man who wants to harm a cis woman entering those facilities, claiming to be a trans man? How is that safe for cis women?

I had a v bad night’s sleep. If this guidance is adopted - of course it will be - & enforced, the UK will become a ‘bio-essentialist’ state in which the meaning of language (‘lesbian’, ‘gay’) becomes defined by decree, & freedom of association is restricted. This is authoritarian monstrosity.

This. The EHRC makes recommendations. Govt decides whether they happen. We’ll hear from EHRC soon & must expect the worst as they’ve made their anti-trans aims v. clear. But the govt still has a chance to prove themselves not Full Badenoch. Can we push Phillipson to act like a LABOUR politician?

I really really don’t want to go on about this, but this #EHRC stuff is existential stuff for trans people and our hard-won rights. What does it say about the UK that our leaders gleefully embrace the destruction of a tiny minority’s human and legal rights? What have we become/are we becoming?

Hilary Clinton showing she's ignorant of a couple of hundred of years of history. Kings are not necessarily tyrants. Presidents are not necessarily beneficent.

This is lovely. www.independent.co.uk/voices/pope-...

Keir Starmer's switcheroo on trans policy may be for Labour what tuition fees were to the Liberal Democrats. x.com/Keir_Starmer...

YouTube is currently serving up pregnancy test adverts to me and, well, they've got that wrong in so many different ways.