This an official Vatican photograph of Leo at Lampedusa, Italy - one of the world’s heaviest migrant sites - where he went this morning to pray for migrants who died at sea. This is after turning down the offer to come to the United States.

The failure of DWP civil servants to return calls from disabled benefit claimants became a “consistent feature” of some of the most “tragic” cases examined by the department’s safeguarding leads, a secret report has revealed. #DWP www.disabilitynewsservice.com/dwps-failure...

Why did I wake up with this song in my head? www.youtube.com/watch?v=4F4y...

He's set them lines!

Excerpt from the diary of Thomas Cranmer. 3rd July, 1533.

"I will be judging your handwriting, you grovelling worms" Am I... am I a bit in love with the Pope?

"The Pope is the puppet of the Chinese authoritatian government" is a take you would make if you made billions by drinking paint.

When I was a kid in a town with nowhere to go and nothing to do, someone lit a firework and put it inside a dog poo bin. It was not a small firework.

Evil isn't a mental illness. These people have made choices to be cruel.

Oh good heavens, can— Can someone bung me €40? For enrichment purposes. www.blackletter-press.com/product-page...

Every time I'm writing about Victorian domestic servants, I'm reminded that my great-grandmother actually preferred the workhouse. And then I wonder if that's why I can never be bothered to hoover.

Ad Rock: you can disagree with the current All: POPE MCA: but if you push his buttons then you’re a All: DOPE Mike D: ordain yourself a bishop and you’re All: SCHISMATIC Ad Rock: excommunication is All: AUTOMATIC

oh my G O D this made me cackle the girls are fighting in the Opus Dei Wikipedia page notes?????? incredible

oh he on DRUGS drugs

THE VATICAN IS CALLING IT A SCHISM I REPEAT HOUSTON, WE HAVE A SCHISM

Pictured: Current Grand Master of the Knights of St John just casually popping into the Vatican for a chat with the Pope about this. Fun fact: current one is Canadian. And only holds the post because Pope Francis removed the near-1000 year old requirement that the Grand Master be of noble blood.

we are all waiting for our Emotional Support Augustinian to finish his breakfast cappucino in the Vatican dining room and start spitting bars

you do not, under any circumstances, gotta hand it to the Society of St. Pius X, but I will say that hat fucks severely

a fun fact about SSPX is that the main founder was a Vichy regime sympathizer and one of his founding bishops was an outright Holocaust denier. both excommunicated in the 80s I’m no JPII stan, but you KNOW that was one thing former Polish Resistance member Karol Wojtyla was NOT going to stand for

More people at HereticFest than at the Great American State Fair

Worth remembering the Knights of St John still exist AND have a serving, modern military arm. The Pope could legit call in the crusaders on the weird Swiss schismatics if he wanted to go full Chicago Battle Pope.

Watching the unfolding schism of the Catholic Church the way people watch the World Cup

I'm frantically refreshing the Vatican News Agency site and there's nothing so far except the article from yesterday, though that was the first time I realized that invalidating their bishops and thereby their priests invalidates their sacraments. like their marriages might not count anymore lmao

hilarious that they are swearing vows now to protect the Catholic Church from all who oppose it, including heretics you cannot make this up

WELCOME TO SCHISM WATCH 2026 WITH CLAIRE

Sewing adventures continue. I'm making a simple A-line sleeveless top next, in this adorable fabric. I do love a jaunty bug.

"you're scaring the hoes" ENOUGH. do not project your own cowardice unto the hoes. I have heard their words and seen their deeds, and you besmirch both. die where you stand

I broke apart their insides Now I've got no Bear to sell

So we spent an evening at Watermill Wolves in Bexhill where we met these perfect angels. We fed them, walked them through a private forest, watched them show off their acting skills, and even had a barbecue while they snuffled at our feet. This is Mr Bond, who I love with all my heart.

Don't be too jealous but I spent yesterday visiting these (and other) gorgeous wolves/wolf dogs with @verityholloway.bsky.social at Watermill Wolves. Many are trained for acting, and get called on for fantasy and historical films whenever there's a #wolf scene! #DayOff

Popped in to Waterstones Hastings and signed The Others of Edenwell. 🐦‍⬛

Hello, today I walked an actual wolf through a forest strung with fairy lights, and now I know what Heaven will be like. More on this when I’m less incoherent with joy.

Horror ages incredibly badly. I mean which 40+ year old movies are still scary today? I can only think of one: L'arrivée d'un train en gare de La Ciotat

There's this Japanese YouTuber we've been watching for months. His marriage is - he says - falling apart. But the reason we watch him is his first-person camerawork documenting his daily meals around his city. £2.80 for the most beautiful soba noodles you've ever seen. Man doesn't know he's born.

It exists as a physical thing. As manifestation. As a night remembered and a county found.

Wow, Google really is unusable now. First page of results totally unrelated to my very basic search.

Grabbed a very diaphanous black cotton skirt in the sales. All the reviews are complaining about how see-through it is, but listen, that's the point - I am goth Lawrence of Arabia now.

Sherlock Holmes: Moriarty, my one intellectual equal Moriarty: Holmes, my one nemesis, for you alone can match my genius Sherlock Holmes: let us settle this great game, this contest of wills, in the only way it is appropriate *two drunks kick each other in the stomach by a waterfall*

JUST IN! 'Dressed In Black – Goth Divas From The Dark Side 1941-2025' by Various Iconic women-led gothic rock tracks meet proto-goth, dark soul, horror theatrics, moody folk, and ethereal wave selections. www.normanrecords.com/records/2156...

I made a little shrug/jackety thing! It needs neatening up, but it's wearable. I've never made anything from a pattern on my own before, so I'm quite pleased. And the swamp witch fabric is fun.

One of my favourite 1860s Rossetti letters is him informing a friend that it was so hot his bum was stuck to the chair.

There is ONE thing I am looking forward to this heatwave: Pictures of paschal candles that have melted in churches. Here's an example from a few years ago. It's my favourite phenomenon. Because, well... Look at it.

Scorchio.

areas in southern england have been updated to a *red* weather warning for wednesday and thursday which means there is a likely risk to life before the 2022 heatwave, we hadn’t ever had a red warning for heat or temperatures over 40°C

Another day, another AI book club scam email.

According to ancient English tradition, having marched on London under the flag of the red rose the Lancastrian armies of Andy Burnham will now face battle at Tewkesbury against his Yorkshire rivals

Wonderful start to Summer Reading!!!! The Others of Edenwell By Verity M. Holloway Cant wait to dive in!!! #PirateReadingClub @piratereadingclub.bsky.social @verityholloway.bsky.social

You'd think this would be 'above the fold' on the BBC News homepage, not a postage stamp in the 'Around the UK' round-up.