It most certainly is not convenient for me, I have work. Who do I contact?

I would love to know where the Archbishop is staying on her pilgrimage... having done most of the North Downs Way I still haven't made it to Canterbury due to a distinct lack of convenient campsites/hostels Then again there isn't space in her bag for a tent so that's probably not the plan!

Reform UK’s share of BBC and ITV coverage is ridiculous given their number of MPs & considering opposition parties that polled higher (such as Lib Dems) receive such poor coverage. www.enhancingimpartiality.com/blog/after-w...

I don't know how to function in a world that is so continuously cruel. Where so many will celebrate this pointless, pointless harm. This will devastate a tiny minority. It will benefit no-one. So many across our country will comply with this violence. So many others will stand silent.

I am beyond angry at the way trans children are being systematically persecuted. The full power, violence and force of our state is smashing down onto them, making their life impossible.

I am one of the most published academics on the childhood social transition, with 5 peer reviewed articles that relate to the topic. There is so much evidence of benefit of social transition. There is no evidence of harm. Not one jot. This will literally kill trans kids. No exaggeration.

Just wondering... Anyone I know on here done interrailing recently? Trying to get my head around planning a trip to Italy and figuring out the best options!

My new year's resolution is "scales". On which note, I would like to know why G melodic minor insists on being way more problematic than it has any right to be... 😡

A Pastoral Letter on LLF (Living in Love and Faith) and the Inclusion of LGBTQIA+ people in the Church of England from The Provincial Council of the Society of Catholic Priests (SCP) Europe. www.societyofcatholicpriests.com/scp-news/liv...

If you are clergy or a congregant in the CofE, you could sign this. www.inclusive-church.org/llf-open-let...

Recently I met the organist who plays at a group of local village churches, he told me where some keys were kept and invited me to try them anytime. Well my friend and I went to a couple today and they were cute and quirky and a lot of fun! Got a nice walk in too between them.

NEW: Cardinal Blase Cupich, the Archbishop of Chicago, has issued a new statement declaring that Chicago "communities are shaken by immigration raids and detentions. These actions wound the soul of our city. Let me be clear. The Church stands with migrants."

Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”

Massive institution run by men gets run into the ground in some profound way ➡️ figurehead resigns so people will stop yelling at him ➡️ First Woman Figurehead is appointed to the impossible task of uniting and cleaning up an institution whose wounds have been left to fester for decades/ centuries.

Who the fuck is doing anything whatsoever with a spreadsheet where the accuracy of the output is immaterial??

Ride and Stride day! The weather is disgusting, I forgot my knee support, wish me luck..! 😬 Goal is to walk about 25 miles and visit ~16 churches. Georgina is coming too for social media purposes. Sponsorship: www.parishgiving.org.uk/donors/find-... www.justgiving.com/charity/suss...

“Europeans were not present for the conversation.”

For a few years every bus cost £1 and I caught them all the time, it was great! Then they doubled to £2, which was okay, especially as it capped at £5 for the day. But £3 for a single (including short distances) and it's now a factor in making plans.

More data centres are coming to the UK, with British citizens being expected to foot the electricity and water bill. A textbook example of socialism for corporations, cutthroat capitalism for the public.

Somehow managed to accidentally find a portal to a galaxy far, far away... (No ewoks were spotted. Probably for the best given we know how they feel about visitors!)

Removing our human rights will affect us all, not just asylum seekers. And I’m quite attached to my human rights.

Pride was a joy, as ever. And regardless of what one angry commenter might insist, the LGBT+ community in Brighton was happy we were there, and welcomed our presence with so much love! 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

Off to march with Christians at Pride in Brighton. Because pride is still a protest and I will take any opportunity to remind the bishops that for some of us, our strongly held theological beliefs are that every human is made in the image of God and that discrimination is a sin!

Acknowledge, we humbly beseech thee, a sheep

Thank god they aren’t bad people like the old ladies being dragged off to cells at the Palestine marches.

Yesterday’s London Trans Pride was the world’s largest Trans Pride - EVER - ANYWHERE - possibly the largest gathering of trans & NB people in human history! Mentioned in The Guardian, The Indie, LBC and… …the BBC News local London page. Transphobic media bias in the UK is staggering.

The BBC News website has pages & pages of coverage related to farmers protesting inheritance tax, including events where only a few hundred turn out. In London yesterday 100,000 people marched for trans rights, and nothing. Imagine if it was 100,000 anti immigrant activists, they'd cover that.

“this £85 billion represents a direct transfer of value from the public to private owners — a sum extracted while storm overflows proliferated, leakage targets were missed, and river health declined”

Mandatory Dogs of Pride photos.

Lovely to celebrate Sea Sunday this morning! My parents used to spend all of their free time volunteering at the Mission in Rotterdam, and when I was born the sailors there gave my mum a union flag which she proudly flies at jubilees.

For friends on @churchofengland.org #Synod and elsewhere whose parishes are welcoming of all. If you offer the Prayers of Life and Faith please tick the box saying that you do so on your ‘A Church Near You’ page youtube.com/watch?v=FuTe... @inclusivechurch.bsky.social @opentablelgbt.bsky.social

Just planned and conducted evensong for the first time and people said nice things afterwards! We haven't done one at church for well over a year so started with pretty much a blank slate. (Next project might have to be "get more copies of the music"...)

If anyone knows how to stop Google and Microsoft and Facebook and the rest of the internet forcing AI responses on me when I didn't ask, PLEASE tell me!

Today's discovery: those "Wild" plastic free deodorant refills come in a little cardboard applicator which means you don't really need the expensive case! (The plastic to deodorant ratio of most products has been annoying me for a while but the full £16 seemed a lot for a very small untried product)

You know that awful shriek dogs make when someone steps on their tail? I once knew a dog who learned that if he quietly placed the fluffy part of his tail under someone's foot and shrieked, he'd get a treat. Anyway totally unrelated but I hear transphobes are still finding things to be upset about

From May 2024 to May 2025 Earth’s CO2 increased by 3.6 ppm. That’s an acceleration, and even if it’s temporary, it’s concerning. For reference the growth rate in 2024 was 3.33 ppm and in 2023 after COVID was 3.36 ppm… before that it was closer to ~2.5 scripps.ucsd.edu/news/annual-...

I made it! ... cathedral is shut all day 😭 The guy at the door says there are no services today but the website says there is evensong. Woo communication!

Chichester Cathedral here I come! Goal is Saturday evensong, so about 15 miles a day! (Didn't go in Winchester because it was expensive and I don't approve of expensive cathedrals.) Thanks to the British Pilgrimage Trust for the route idea: www.britishpilgrimage.org/portfolio/ol...

Pretty (and very windy) walk ☺️

Looking for ideas for the best way to hang a hanging basket here such that it doesn't slide... 🤔

There is also the fact AI only "knows" a lot about topics we know nothing about. It can't even solve exponential equations correctly so I have little hope for it doing anything else of value! Oh, and the environmental impact. We don't talk enough about the environmental impact.

On the train home from a music and spirituality conference in London, which has been a lovely reminder that learning new stuff is FUN actually. 😁 ...now disappearing down a rabbit hole of researching part time remote post-grad degrees in music and liturgy. I can dream right? 👀

Pope Chocolate Truffle VII

if you're interested in getting a sense of the new Pope's background, personality, etc, here's a sit-down Q&A he did about 9 months ago #PopeLeoXIV www.youtube.com/watch?v=9U3y...

So yes: let us be thankful today; let us remember. But please do remember these patterns too! Democracy requires work every day. And it can be lost much, much more quickly than most of us think. And make no mistake: the trajectory we are currently on is very much heading that way. /end

Remember: that is where the Nazi regime ended—it is absolutely not where it began. It began with the undermining of the rule of law; with authoritarianism; with Gleichschaltung; with attacks on universities and knowledge; with smaller-scale persecution of vulnerable minorities etc.

In the US, a fascist coup is already underway. I must emphasise again that this is not a shrill statement. Experts in this field concur and some have, in fact, left the US because they understand the trajectory. But so many fail to see, eg they say DOGE failed—it didn’t! The aim of DOGE has …

What that choice means is: parties classed as ‘centrist’ are directly paving the way for extremism. This too I do not say lightly. In this process, the Overton window is pushed further and further right. There isn’t actually much space left: on immigration, some policies are basically far right.

You know the one thing that still stays with me from watching the Pope's funeral? The overwhelming MALEness of it. Not sure even any of the female heads of state were pointed out in the coverage, only a wife or two. One female reader, but everything else... men. Men really do rule the world.

Woohoo Friday evening! I appear to be having a wild night drinking cider and... ...attempting to teach myself New Testament Greek grammar? I never claimed to be normal! 😂