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Some of the congregation got me chocolate dinosaurs for my birthday! I love my church!
December 21, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Some of the congregation got me chocolate dinosaurs for my birthday! I love my church!
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The thing is, you can't make trans and intersex people nonexistent, you can only make them suffer.
Here are the 28 Dem Senators who voted to advance the first federal ban on trans athletes & a federal definition of sex that would make trans & intersex people non-existent: Angela Alsobrooks (MD), Tammy Baldwin (WI), Richard Blumenthal (CT), Lisa Blunt Rochester (DE), Chris Coons (DE), ->
By a vote of 76-23, S 1071 passes the motion to proceed to the motion to concur. Won't know who voted for this until the roll call is uploaded, but safe to say it passed with the support of at least 24 members of the Democratic caucus. (Rand Paul probably voted nay and Steve Daines has been absent).
December 16, 2025 at 2:46 PM
The thing is, you can't make trans and intersex people nonexistent, you can only make them suffer.
Do it! Do it! Do it! Do it!
AI advocates have warned that if every author in the class action filed a claim, it would "financially ruin" the entire industry.
Authors celebrate “historic” settlement coming soon in Anthropic class action
Advocates fear such settlements will “financially ruin” the AI industry.
arstechnica.com
November 18, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Do it! Do it! Do it! Do it!
One of my smaller Sunday School boys made me a loom band bracelet. It has made my day!
November 16, 2025 at 1:13 PM
One of my smaller Sunday School boys made me a loom band bracelet. It has made my day!
RIP Brian Patten. Presumably it now IS celestial music!
September 30, 2025 at 4:31 PM
RIP Brian Patten. Presumably it now IS celestial music!
One of my Sunday School children said his favourite things about church were ‘food and Laura’. On the one hand, not what I was going for, on the other, stupidly proud of myself!
September 14, 2025 at 12:02 PM
One of my Sunday School children said his favourite things about church were ‘food and Laura’. On the one hand, not what I was going for, on the other, stupidly proud of myself!
I always find something to love at the John Moores painting prize and today was no different - so lucky to live near it! Thanks to the Walker Art Gallery for a lovely evening 😀
September 4, 2025 at 8:41 PM
I always find something to love at the John Moores painting prize and today was no different - so lucky to live near it! Thanks to the Walker Art Gallery for a lovely evening 😀
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@gralefrit.bsky.social You have to see these! A friend of mine has been collating a series of images entitled "Things my students have written turned into Philomena Cunk quotes" and they're just glorious.
August 11, 2025 at 11:12 AM
@gralefrit.bsky.social You have to see these! A friend of mine has been collating a series of images entitled "Things my students have written turned into Philomena Cunk quotes" and they're just glorious.
Fringe reviews: Darren McGarvey Trauma Industrial Complex. Thoughtful exploration of how fitting trauma into a standard narrative structure is probably not telling the whole truth and may not be remotely helpful.
August 6, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Fringe reviews: Darren McGarvey Trauma Industrial Complex. Thoughtful exploration of how fitting trauma into a standard narrative structure is probably not telling the whole truth and may not be remotely helpful.
Fringe reviews: Red like fruit. Cleverly constructed play about the difference between what gets said and whether or how it gets heard. Liked it a lot.
August 6, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Fringe reviews: Red like fruit. Cleverly constructed play about the difference between what gets said and whether or how it gets heard. Liked it a lot.
Fringe reviews: Faustine. It’s got the Faust story. It’s got synthesisers. It’s got really really really clunky rhymes. I mean REALLY clunky. Sigh.
August 5, 2025 at 10:39 PM
Fringe reviews: Faustine. It’s got the Faust story. It’s got synthesisers. It’s got really really really clunky rhymes. I mean REALLY clunky. Sigh.
Fringe reviews: Amazons. Engaging one woman show exploring the history of the Amazon through her personal history as someone of indigenous descent.
August 5, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Fringe reviews: Amazons. Engaging one woman show exploring the history of the Amazon through her personal history as someone of indigenous descent.
Fringe reviews: Count Dykula. Not as fun as Lesbian Space Crime.
August 5, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Fringe reviews: Count Dykula. Not as fun as Lesbian Space Crime.
Fringe reviews: Ways of knowing. Yikes this is weird. The bit that works best is an evocation of caving done in the dark lit by the two performers’ head torches.
August 5, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Fringe reviews: Ways of knowing. Yikes this is weird. The bit that works best is an evocation of caving done in the dark lit by the two performers’ head torches.
Fringe reviews: The cyclops. A play about male relationships that occasionally starts quoting the story of Odysseus and the cyclops. I wasn’t entirely sure why - I suspect the link got lost somewhere in the drafting process.
August 5, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Fringe reviews: The cyclops. A play about male relationships that occasionally starts quoting the story of Odysseus and the cyclops. I wasn’t entirely sure why - I suspect the link got lost somewhere in the drafting process.
Fringe reviews: Timonopoly. Timon of Athens done by one actor using a monopoly game theme and a shedload of audience participation with sweets. Much to my surprise it worked very well indeed.
August 5, 2025 at 10:21 PM
Fringe reviews: Timonopoly. Timon of Athens done by one actor using a monopoly game theme and a shedload of audience participation with sweets. Much to my surprise it worked very well indeed.
Fringe reviews: Scotlandsfest Wanton women running amok - fab author talk about witch trials in Scotland and why they often weren’t for actual witchcraft
August 5, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Fringe reviews: Scotlandsfest Wanton women running amok - fab author talk about witch trials in Scotland and why they often weren’t for actual witchcraft
Frisky’s reshuffle. Improv show in which Ms Frisky triumphantly proves that she can sing literally anything no matter how bizarre. Like a Virgin as a John Lewis Christmas ad, Candle in the Wind as a rave anthem etc
August 4, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Frisky’s reshuffle. Improv show in which Ms Frisky triumphantly proves that she can sing literally anything no matter how bizarre. Like a Virgin as a John Lewis Christmas ad, Candle in the Wind as a rave anthem etc
Fringe reviews: City of Ladies. Builds on Christine de Pisan to flag up some great women of history. Fairly eclectic in its choices, not a Great Work of Art but entertaining and yay for the medieval history name checks.
August 4, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Fringe reviews: City of Ladies. Builds on Christine de Pisan to flag up some great women of history. Fairly eclectic in its choices, not a Great Work of Art but entertaining and yay for the medieval history name checks.
Fringe reviews: Operation Blank. Billed as a comedy but the writer and I do not share a sense of humour. At all. There were laughs from the audience so presumably that is a me problem.
August 4, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Fringe reviews: Operation Blank. Billed as a comedy but the writer and I do not share a sense of humour. At all. There were laughs from the audience so presumably that is a me problem.
Fringe reviews: sensitive and well written play in which a middle aged gay man confronts his teenaged experiences in a charismatic church.
August 4, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Fringe reviews: sensitive and well written play in which a middle aged gay man confronts his teenaged experiences in a charismatic church.
Fringe reviews: Lesbian Space Crime. Amiable romp with lesbians, space jokes and unexpected Shakespeare gong jokes. I laughed a lot.
August 4, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Fringe reviews: Lesbian Space Crime. Amiable romp with lesbians, space jokes and unexpected Shakespeare gong jokes. I laughed a lot.
Fringe reviews: A poem and a mistake. Accomplished one woman show about Ovid’s metamorphoses and female vulnerability in general.
August 4, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Fringe reviews: A poem and a mistake. Accomplished one woman show about Ovid’s metamorphoses and female vulnerability in general.
Edinburgh game: count the number of visiting Americans wearing tshirts apologising for Trump/saying they didn’t vote for him etc
August 4, 2025 at 11:26 AM
Edinburgh game: count the number of visiting Americans wearing tshirts apologising for Trump/saying they didn’t vote for him etc