YouTube are advertising rapey apps for taking women's pictures and removing their clothes like is happening on X. I reported the ad and Google say it doesn't go against Google's policies. How did we get here?

I'm sitting in a cafe in Cardiff watching a good dog politely passing their ball to every person who walks past, asking them to throw it. It is cheering everyone up who walks past. 😍

This Government has no moral authority left to protect. But still, this is an agonising read from the great @georgemonbiot.bsky.social.

#OTD 7 January 1792, Mary Wollstonecraft's Vindication of the Rights of Women was published. This text was hugely influential and is regarded as one of the earliest works of feminist philosophy. #WomensHistory #GenderHist

Well that was definitely something I've never done before! Been to the opening of a new Armenian Church in Tongwynlais. Beautiful musicality to the liturgy that sounds not totally different from Islamic Quran recitation. A reminder that Christianity is fundamentally a middle Eastern religion.

Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men. Martin Luther King

Happy Twelth Night of Christmas. 🙂

One of Cardiff's most iconic and long-standing pubs has closed its doors for the final time under its current management, with no confirmed plans announced for its immediate future ✍️ Amelia Jones

The most effective way to resist this modern brand of fascism isn't to completely immerse yourself in its propaganda. You're actually helping their message spread. Go and make art or read a book or spend time with offline people. You can't marinate in the horror and emerge unscathed.

All it takes for evil to thrive is for mediocre world leaders to say “I’d rather not say”

The PM and Foreign Secretary should be condemning this illegal strike and breach of international human rights law. After years of arming a genocide and worshipping the “special relationship”, Trump now believes he can act with impunity.

Wake Up Dead Man was kinda fun if a bit cartoonish. Definitely written by someone who knew nothing about churches and priests!

Just started Wake Up Dead Man. No spoilers yet but so far feels very ecclesiastically confused/unrealistic. What denomination is it even meant to be??

So now we have the depressing annual site of people who are apparently progressive accepting "honours" from an unelected monarch, many of them explicitly celebrating the #BritishEmpire. #NewYearHonours

Lots of flags in Bromsgrove. Lloegr feels like a foreign strange land to me now. You OK, hun?

It’s okay to rest over Xmas. 🌲 Rest is not quitting—it’s climate action. Burnout weakens movements; care sustains them. Take the break you need. We’ll be here when you return. 💚

I have succeeded in my 2025 resolution in finishing at least one book a month. I have finished 15 books in 2025.

I feel like Greta Thunberg getting arrested is a fairly big story (and what it's connected to - the hunger strikers). I see it on my socials. Then out of curiosity I put Radio 4 on to see if it makes their bulletin. Nope. They report old shoes being washed up on a beach, but not this.

Of the 13,000 Church of England parsonages in 1900 just 900 are still today owned by the C of E. (A fact I've just read in a Bill Bryson book)

My Christmas tradition. #FelizNavidad

I was surprised to have one of these knock on my door. Weird for a church to do that.

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BREAKING: Terror arrests up 660% due to PA ban “so extreme as to render the UK an international outlier” The Foreign Office had advised the Home Office that “its activity is largely viewed by international partners as activism and not extremism or terrorism”. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crim...

"The best criticism of the bad is the practice of the better." Richard Rohr

The BBC are once again moral cowards who push out anyone with decency and integrity.

"God never expects more from us than we are capable of doing. Each word of comfort, each act of compassion, is a small bonfire in the thundering nights. But these tiny flickering flames, the simple gestures of loving hearts, will add up and will eventually save the world." Imre Gellérd

Very sad that I felt I had no choice but to resign from The Infinite Monkey Cage - a victory for the transphobes and other bigots - I did it because so much of the media has chosen to believe the kind and empathetic people are a fiction - they are real and so often unrepresented.

Senedd poll | Reform lead by 1pt ➡️ REF: 27% (-3) 🟢 PLAID: 26% (+4) 🔴 LAB: 21% (-2) 🔵 CON: 12% (-1) 🟢 GRN: 9% (=) 🟠 LD: 3% (-1) Via @BeaufortLtd, 10-30 Nov (+/- vs 12 Oct)

For those who consider themselves as spiritual seekers or SBNR spiritual but not religious, then this post is for you particularly if you are curious of the contemplative spiritual traditions. open.substack.com/pub/postsecu...

"I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something. And because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do the something that I can do." Edward Everett Hale

Lovely to lead online worship with Glasgow Unitarians this evening.

The study puts into context any talk of "quiet revival" and indeed any generalisations at all. People are joining and leaving Christianity, Islam, and other faiths all the time. There's not one overall trend. There are many trends going in all directions at all times. It's complicated.

The report on conversion I've been quoting from in some ways is kind of obvious. Nothing is that surprising. And yet it occurs to me that it suggests the things that matter most are in some ways the things we pay least attention to in the church world: the theological, spiritual, and psychological.

So the main reasons people religiously convert in modern Britain are: 1. A sense of meaning and moral clarity (strongest among the Spiritual and Dharmic) 2. Desire for personal transformation and healing (strongest amoung the Spiritual and Dharmic)...

Reasons for becoming atheist in modern Britain: 1. Lack of belief in God 2. Conflict with doctrines 3. Intellectual disagreement with religious claims

Reasons for people becoming "spiritual" (including pagan) in modern Britain: 1. A sense of purpose 2. Emotional healing 3. Personal connection

Primary reasons for people joining Dharmic religions (mainly Buddhism) 1. A sense of purpose 2. Personal transformation and healing 3. Community

Primary reasons for people becoming Muslim in modern Britain: 1. A sense of purpose 2. Not applicable (maybe marriage?) 3. A personal connection to God

The primary reasons for people becoming Christian in modern Britain are: Personal connection with God A sense of purpose A sense of community

I'm currently geeking out on a report on religious change (conversion and leaving religion) in contemporary Britain. I might post some highlights.

The old English school on Cowbridge Road being demolished.

Girl Guides yesterday. WI today. You are watching the erasure of anyone who does not confirm to a gender binary. There is worse to come. It is time to show solidarity and to challenge this regressive set of science denying ideas. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Does anyone know anything about Southampton? Do you have contacts in the arts, faith groups, community groups, activist groups?

"The greatness of Christianity lies in its being hated by the Domination System, not in being convincing to it." Ignatius of Antioch

A small gathering for our vigil in defiance of Barclays' bankrolling big oil. #dropBarclays

The whole launch of Your Party feels like a lesson in how groups go wrong and how we operate with so little group wisdom and knowledge. I might be wrong, feel free to correct me, but it feels like a group putting so much effort into policy and very little into culture.

"Social action without prayer is soulless; but prayer without action lacks integrity. Why should we choose between them, when neither is valid without the other?" Walter Wink

If someone wrote this as fiction you'd say it was an unrealistic cliched-strewn portrayal of the left. How very disappointing when the country's needs are so severe. Thank God the Green Party exists to build a better coalition of the left.

I society where telling the truth is illegal is a society that is no longer free and democratic.