I do like Kate’s hat

Seems fitting to have learned the phrase “glass cliff” while (scrolling Bluesky while half-)watching the installation of the Church of England’s first female archbishop, hmm en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glass_c...

Trump is finally going to have to learn that you can't power of positive thinking your way through geopolitics, but he is not exactly a quick study and this is gonna be pretty brutal for a while I think

Typically restrained stuff from Marcel Dupré for the closing voluntary

Don’t make me tap the sign. Its support trans people or Harry Potter can’t have both

Confirming everyone’s worst suspicions about the Church of England, Sarah Mullally has turned up accompanied by someone wearing the nonbinary flag /jk

It’s the burger joint equivalent of the Theban Band

hire 👏 more 👏 polycules 👏

Just be aware that, however bad you *think* it’s going to be, it’s actually so much worse, and think about whether you want those words in your head before you click through (or not). (It’s too late for me, flee, save yourselves, etc.) But it *is* important that these things are fully reported.

Today in “world’s worst atheist”, a mishap with my prayer nook led to me getting candle wax all over my Bible and icon

I saw a TikTok saying you can’t call yourself an intersectional feminist if you haven’t read Kimberlé Crenshaw’s 1989 essay, which, hmm, whatever, very TikTok energy, but which *did* lead me to read Kimberlé Crenshaw’s 1989 essay:

Pretty sure they were too cowardly to include this joke in the TV version. From Dead Lions, second book in the Slow Horses series:

I don't normally subscribe to the "German has a word for it" thing because all languages can invent and borrow new words! That said, I can't stop thinking about "hobbyless" as an insult since I saw it a few days ago, so here you go It promotes a growth mindset!! www.tumblr.com/abbiistabbii...

Finished reading Saga: Volume Twelve by Fiona Staples and Brian K. Vaughan www.tumblr.com/considermyca...

“You already know the story. You will die. Everyone you love will also die. You will lose them forever. You will be sad and angry. You will weep. You will bargain. You will make demands. You will beg. You will pray. It will make no difference. Nothing you can do will bring them back. You know this…”

Came out of the post office, saw that a guy had cut my saddle bag off my bike and was about to take off with it. I yelled "Please wait my cat's medicine is in there!" He started to run, and this grandma-age lady goes "SHE SAID HER CAT'S MEDICINE IS IN THERE" and WALLOPED him with her grocery bag.

Jesus, they weren’t bloody joking.

Oof.

Watching "Lisa the Greek" from season 3 of The Simpsons, it's weird to see the joke about the halftime show at the Super Bowl being total rubbish. But this episode aired in 1992 – the last year (I learn from Wikipedia) before the Super Bowl shifted to the modern format of superstar spectaculars:

I would be pretty reluctant to carry a pager gifted by Mossad, gotta say

[Sade voice 🎵]

The final session in @woodbrooke.bsky.social's course on mysticism was on Julian of Norwich, who I finally got round to reading late last year after listening to Florence + The Machine's Perfume and Milk ("Doing the work and sleeping alone / Downloading Revelations of Divine Love on my phone…")

europeans when asked to help unblock the strait of hormuz

From *one* perspective, I see your point. From *another* perspective…

Someone needs to send an ambulance to X

the only reason anyone has ever been "deeply concerned" about the use of blocker meds in trans youth is because they are bigots. They think being cisgender is better and that any and all steps we can take to encourage people to be cis are worth taking. aka, just conversion therapy again.

OK, today in "hunt the Teams notification". It's not in Unread, it's not in Chats, it wasn't even hidden away behind the fold in Meeting Chats (an old trick I wised up to some time ago), it's not in the other Teams instance some random counterparty has added me to. I'm stumped. Any ideas?

Just found this old copy of (staunchly Calvinist journal) The Banner of Truth on my bookshelf, and I’m agog at their choice of cover image. “Shall we use a photo which doesn’t have the door entry keypad prominently in shot? Maybe straighten the image up a bit so it’s vertical? Nah!”

This is one of the funniest corrections I’ve ever read

This is *not*, I learn from a comment below it, a Puritan hymn – it’s a 19thC Shaker hymn, to an 1878 tune found in The Sacred Harp – but it kinda bangs, regardless youtu.be/SvgKo4y0c0Q

For those of you wondering why all the nerds are pouring one out for this Habermas dude and wondering why he was so important. If you've ever heard or used the terms "public sphere" and "private sphere," you are using Habermas terms.

Here is my best Habermas story. I am grad student waiting in LONG line for Habermas talk. There is a tall man waiting in front of me. Line moves so we are eventually visible to organizers, a woman looks over & makes horrified face. Runs out: "Prof Habermas! You don't have to wait in line!"

Author copies of my new book arrived today! Deviants and Trailblazers: A History of Trans Activism in Britain is available for pre-order and releases May 2026! www.plutobooks.com/product/devi...

Started reading Gender Heretics: Evangelicals, Feminists, and the Alliance Against Trans Liberation by @rebeccajanemorgan.bsky.social (who writes, as she notes in her preface, from an "admittedly rather unusual vantage point as a trans evangelical feminist") www.tumblr.com/considermyca...

Started reading From the Holy Mountain by William Dalrymple www.tumblr.com/considermyca...

Finished reading The Adventures of China Iron (Gabriela Cabezón Cámara, tr. Iona Macintyre and Fiona Mackintosh) www.tumblr.com/considermyca...

Read recently: The Symposium (Plato, tr. Christopher Gill) www.tumblr.com/considermyca...

Marguerite Porete on the “Annihilated Soul”, who is – to the undisguised horror of “Reason” – “saved by faith without works”. Always fascinating to see the ways in which Luther, while professing to go back to the original 1stC gospel, was rooted in medieval mystical theology

Well to be fair, as a species we are very much doing our best to achieve this 👍🏻

If you’re feeling like your job is pointless and adds nothing to the world, take heart: at least you’re not “Shadow Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster”, and at least you won’t be spending today “complaining about banknotes”

Ha! I bought that same edition for the same reason. If the disc spins, the money wins

'Salisbury Cathedral.' (1936) Early in his career, Charles Ginner preferred to paint interiors and street scenes, but after WW1 turned his attention to meticulous study of landscape. Here he includes the Bishop’s Palace, built in 1220, the first structure to be built in the Close

we dare you to find a museum more ready

This is also why "balloon debates" were always such a toxic idea

*endless scream*