the girl guides in the UK just kicked out all their trans members specifically bc they were threatened with a lawsuit from a rowling-funded group

Writers retreat into the bog

I got to tell you guys something funny from my breast reduction last year. As I as I was about to be knocked out, my anesthetist was like "imagine being somewhere nice" and I said "I'm sinking into a peat bog" and immediately passed out, just as he let out a little confused "okay?" 😭😭

its so wild to me when people are handwringing over how quick trans and queer people are to "dismiss people for their views [the view is funding transphobia]". I've dismissed people because they didn't like my favourite book, or because they sent me a poem with the word cerulean in it.

I need you to know that Kym has a drawing of the Old Croghan Man above their desk with a post-it note stuck to it which just has the words "do it for him" written on it.

the secret of my success as a professional writer: - good at applying for grants - on lots of opportunities maling lists - spent five years not-quite illegally squatting in a bizzare mould-riddled hmo with water that intermittently dripped from the light fittings. but, hey NO RENT.

every man ought, of such things as he possesseth, liberally to give alms to the poor

Jamming in the gym, and people think I'm listening to rave music, and I am, but it's for CREATURES (not joking I have this track on loop today - this whole album is regularly my workout music) open.spotify.com/track/32yJDY...

Current Calvin Robinson church history: Church of England (????-2022) Free Church of England (2022-2023) Nordic Catholic Church (2023-2024) Anglican Catholic Church (2024-2025) Reformed Episcopal Church (2025-2025) (licence revoked after nine days) English Catholic Church (2025-present)

I also have a museum joke but you can't have it because of the British Museum Act (1963)

do I really have the energy for another round of 'why the Easter elements you think are pagan aren't, and why a load of Easter elements most people haven't even heard of probably are'

the only chat i have btw.

Digging out my Good Friday Playlist to refresh it before Holy Week, and suddenly remembering what I titled it...

In St Cuthbert's Time: A 7th Century Soundscape of Lindisfarne Chris Watson has researched the sonic environment of the Holy Island as it might have been experienced by St Cuthbert in 700 A.D. #Northumberland #Lindisfarne #Soundscape chriswatsonreleases.bandcamp.com/album/in-st-...

it's very funny. "~our~ relationship with the Divine is different from ~their~ relationship with the Divine". mate we are just over-complicated apes negotiating our relationships with the intangible & ineffable to which we are all inextricably bound, & making sense of that in our own ways

Having unwillingly learned more about the church of england over the years, I am forced to reckon with the fact that antiquarian, reverend, druid enthusiast, and my personal historic blorbo William Stukeley signing his letters off as 'Arch Druid Chynodonax' is actually peak CoE behaviour.

batting my eyelashes at a fellow witch like "if u turn me into a newt i don't have to adapt to the Make Tax Digital scheme" 🦎

Forever obsessed with the medieval Alexander Romances, the way Alexander keeps coming up against (the christian) God and his own mortality in increasingly bizzare ways, including white birds with human faces. Incredible stuff.

When people text me like "heyyy we've not hung out in a while, how are you?" I'm gonna send them this image

Pope Leo is the first Pope to have ever experienced the US healthcare system, so there's that

How to look this good, a step by step guide: Step one: be trans Step two: be gay Step three: put in the internal work so that you truly believe there's great joy and wonder in the world, and it's a privilege to experience it. Simple.

Fellas is it gay to get gay married to the love of your life

My friends got queer married today, but, more importantly, I'm in my sexy Dad era (despite not having kids), as seen here, with the mother of the groom.

I'd like to dedicate this post to everyone who said there was no point in fighting this. And to point out most of the value in AI companies is derived from their past scraping and in a just world, we'd be looking at billions in compensation.

The government should now reaffirm what the law says - that AI companies must license people's work if they want to train on it - and commit not to change that law. /end

The opt-out proposal was unfair and unworkable. Many couldn't realistically have opted out at all, and it would have affected small rights holders disproportionately negatively. 2/4

Fantastic news in the UK today - the government has apparently ditched its plan to force creatives to 'opt out' if they don't want AI companies training on their life's work. www.thetimes.com/uk/technolog... 🧵 1/4

Me: "the weather doesn't affect my moods" The Sun *comes out* Me: "everything is beautiful and wonderful actually, what a privilege it is to be alive"

Obsessed with the Diocese sending me a reminder to fill in the Statistics for Mission form three days AFTER it stopped accepting entries.

"my hobby is watching dead people" says my dad

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.

Not to be like, old man yells at cloud, but what do you mean there's a Pokémon that's a dog made of bread??? What do you??? What do you MEAN???

this is something I know to be absolutely true both in a mundane architectural sense and also in an inexplicable spiritual sense

I was teaching someone about the Trinity and they went "so God the Father can't fart, but Jesus can! Because of the body!" And I went "Yeah! God the Father doesn't exactly have a colon, as we know it!" And then I looked over and the priest was just hunched over, covering his face with his hands.

Don't make art for anyone else. Don't show it to a single soul. Don't even judge it yourself. Exist inside the process of creation. If the end result is pretty, that's a bonus. But the real result is what happens inside of you, during the creation itself. Embrace that deeply human impulse. Be free.

Go and get some pastels, or some paint, or something - anything. Go put some marks on paper. Move your arm across the page and watch the colour unfold as you do so. Follow in the footsteps of all of human history. Make your own cave paintings. Remember that impulse you had as a child. Let it out.

After labour have tried to either deport or systematically destroy the rights of all my friends, how on earth do they think I'd vote for them in this lifetime? I have nothing for them but sheer contempt.

all the media are up in arms about the stupid breast hypnosis, but what it tells me, personally, is that this is a man who believes in gender affirming care.

A while back I went on retreat with some Nuns, and during it I entered the Great Silence, which didn't just mean no talking, but also no consuming of anything which might distract myself from listening to God and that meant no listening to music, no watching anything, no phone, not even any reading.

How do we alert the international space station that their piss tank has a slow leak? 😳🛰️💛

can't stop laughing at pictures of confederate vp calhoun, a great evil who was i think taxidermied a hundred years prior and puppeted remotely by the devil

talk long enough to a normie and you realize there is no such thing. inside every normie is an abnormie. and they are positively vibrating with the urge to tell someone about the misshapen puddle they saw that looked exactly like carmen sandiego

I know I’ve got some Labour local gov’t types following me, so I want to say this clearly so that you can share it internally as appropriate: I will never again vote Labour while these policies, or Wes Streeting, are in place. I will not vote Labour at any level because of this.

I think this might be on to something, and I suspect it lurks behind Labour’s current rhetoric of “tough choices.” A leader is the one who’s willing to hurt others for the greater good. So if you’re not hurting someone… you’re not a leader?

This deeply deranged pamphlet has been living rent-free in the heads of most of my friend group for over a year now. Let it infect your minds too.

He was really whiny about it too

Tried to play Battleships with a Witch, and I hit one of their ships once and they hit all of my ships, one after another, missing exactly once in the entire game, and this is why you shouldn't play battleships with witches.

Sad news that there won't be a broader science expedition to Pitcairn this year. 🇵🇳 The cuts to environmental funding in the UK Overseas Territories have been brutal. First Darwin Plus, now Blue Belt. Photos from my last visit in Feb 2024.