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Elderly millennial, museum factotum, 🇬🇧 🇪🇺, lay catholic-ish Anglican of non-conformist ancestry, strolling player, cishet 🏳️‍🌈/🏳️‍⚧️/🍉/anti-racist/refugee ally. He/him.
All these politicians tweeting MLK Jr. quotes after they voted to ban his books from public school classrooms is a masterclass in hypocrisy.
January 19, 2026 at 2:39 PM
COCH!
THE BEACONS AND BEYOND (1979)
January 19, 2026 at 10:16 AM
*twirls moustache* 'astings, what make of whistle is zis?
Heard a lad earlier talking about ‘Belgian whistles’

“A basic website costs 10k or 25k upwards if you want all the Belgian whistles”

BELGIAN WHISTLES
January 19, 2026 at 8:49 AM
The Mandalorian looking at the ragged edge of his cloak:

This is the fray.
The Mandalorian after removing the cheese curds from the bowl: This is the whey.
January 17, 2026 at 9:54 PM
The Mandalorian in Butetown:

This is Tiger Bay.
The Mandalorian making cheese:

This is the whey.
The Mandalorian serving hors d’œuvres:

This is the tray.
January 17, 2026 at 9:46 PM
The Mandalorian standing by a bridge in Perth, Scotland:

This is the Tay.
The Mandalorian giving a tour of a farm:

This is the hay.
The Mandalorian giving a tour of the waterfront:

This is the bay.
January 17, 2026 at 8:43 PM
The Mandalorian on Old Compton Street:

This is the G-A-Y.
The Mandalorian explaining the voting lobbies in the House of Commons:

This is the nay.
The Mandalorian serving breakfast in bed:

This is the tray.
January 17, 2026 at 8:40 PM
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“I have asked the clergy of the diocese to make sure their affairs are in order and they have written their wills.,not the time for statements. It is time to put our bodies between the powers of this world and the most vulnerable”. Rob Hirschfeld, Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of New Hampshire
Redirecting...
www.facebook.com
January 10, 2026 at 3:31 PM
Not quite sure how I feel about Benediction (with no time for congregational silence) being cut-and-shunted onto the end of a Lessons-and-Carols ... #epiphany #AnglicanProblems #CatholicAndReformed #cofepeeps ⚓🕯️
a man with his mouth open and the words one after the other behind him
Alt: a man with his mouth open saying "one after the other consecutively in a row"
media.tenor.com
January 11, 2026 at 5:10 PM
*gruffly* I am Batbox. I walk in the shadows ...
January 11, 2026 at 3:44 PM
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I call on my party and my government to remove themselves entirely from X and communicate with the public where they actually participate online and can be protected from such illegality.
January 8, 2026 at 12:31 PM
The Sergeant Wilson school of international diplomacy ... #WouldYouMindAwfully
HoC statement by Foreign Sec on Venezuela, including clear position on Greenland. Interesting that Cooper also spoke to Machado.

"In my discussions with Secretary Rubio, I raised the importance of complying with international law. We will continue to urge all partners to do so at every stage." ~AA
January 5, 2026 at 7:23 PM
"I'm not important, what's important is what's going on behind me." Spoken by a modern-day Green Man outside the gates of the Crossbones Cemetery for #TwelfthNight, but also the proper attitude of any Christian minister (lay or ordained) any day of the year, frankly. #kenosis #epiphany ⚓🕯️ #cofepeeps
January 4, 2026 at 3:21 PM
5000 wealthy heretics are still heretics. Also, even if they were all nominally C of E*, that's 5000 out of 1.02 million regular worshippers, i.e. not even 1%, so why in the name of all that's holy is this news?! #TLM
An open letter to the Government warning that its plans for a “full, trans-inclusive ban on conversion practices” could “criminalise mainstream, historic Christian teaching on marriage and sexual ethics, and make sharing the Gospel with some people illegal” has more than 5000 signatories.

Full ban on conversion therapy would ‘criminalise mainstream Christian teaching’, Government told
AN OPEN letter to the Government warning that its plans for a “full, trans-inclusive ban on conversion practices” could “criminalise mainstream, historic Christian teaching on marriage and sexual ethics, and make sharing the Gospel with some peopl...
www.churchtimes.co.uk
January 4, 2026 at 1:45 PM
🙁 Three congregational hymns but no kings from Leamington Spa.
🙂 Rainbow chalk.
#epiphany #touchpews #cofepeeps ⚓🕯️
January 4, 2026 at 12:23 PM
"... she'll think you're a helluva fella (fella)." #IDidn'tFloatUpTheBacchiglioneOnABubble
December 31, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Lawrence of Bognor Regis
#MakeAFilmCheaper
December 30, 2025 at 8:44 PM
The Return of the Viscount
#MakeAFilmCheaper
December 30, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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This Christmas Day join us for #JoinIn on Bluesky. Just use or look for the #JoinIn hashtag. Lovely people coming together for chat and cheer - especially for those who may be alone or troubled at Christmas, or just looking for a bit of fellowship. See you there!
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December 24, 2025 at 8:30 AM
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Holy Island, Northumberland, photo by Emma Rothera, Lindisfarne-based landscape and nature photographer.
December 27, 2025 at 9:06 AM
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Minorities and marginalised people in wartime deserve to be remembered as much as anyone else. I don’t think that has to be political.

The IWM is one of the best curated museums I’ve been to, and I’m grateful they’re willing to cross politicised boundaries to share real stories.
December 27, 2025 at 2:09 PM
I don't recall *that* baptismal formula in the BCP ... #CallTheMidwife
December 25, 2025 at 10:40 PM
A Christmas movie!
Today the Company will depart. Bilbo gives Frodo his sword Sting and—secretly—his magnificent Dwarvish mail-coat of pure mithril. The old hobbit sings softly.

‘I sit beside the fire and think
of how the world will be
when winter comes without a spring
that I shall ever see…’
December 25, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Ukraine gets its own carol, but Sudan and Palestine lumped into "the worst conflict zones of this century". Do better, Charlie. #KingsSpeech
December 25, 2025 at 3:17 PM