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Sam Wilson
@samwilson.bsky.social
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Lol Elon isn’t just pushing ads about how he reads books actually, but from a company that summarises books so you don’t have to bother reading them
November 10, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Lol Elon isn’t just pushing ads about how he reads books actually, but from a company that summarises books so you don’t have to bother reading them
50th anniversary of the sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald so of course I am listening to the song on repeat
November 10, 2025 at 3:27 PM
50th anniversary of the sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald so of course I am listening to the song on repeat
Helping our archivist organise some burial records this week and constantly surprised by how many burials our 3-acre churchyard has seen over the centuries
November 10, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Helping our archivist organise some burial records this week and constantly surprised by how many burials our 3-acre churchyard has seen over the centuries
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Is doctrine “something generally static, generally serene, a quiet lake in which even its dynamism is limited to the occasional wave breaking on the shoreline of its boundaries”? Er, no, says Fr Thomas Sharp viamedia.news/2025/11/10/a...
A Response to “The Nature of Doctrine and the Living God: a Report of the Faith and Order Commission” (GS Misc 1429) - ViaMedia.News
Fr Thomas Sharp is a priest theologian based in the South East of England and is also Provincial Secretary of the Society of Catholic Priests We can now see the legal advice and theological briefing w...
viamedia.news
November 10, 2025 at 8:08 AM
Is doctrine “something generally static, generally serene, a quiet lake in which even its dynamism is limited to the occasional wave breaking on the shoreline of its boundaries”? Er, no, says Fr Thomas Sharp viamedia.news/2025/11/10/a...
The more I watch The Diplomat, the more I realise it isn’t a political drama based around the American ambassador but instead a comedy based around the ambassador’s husband
November 9, 2025 at 8:24 PM
The more I watch The Diplomat, the more I realise it isn’t a political drama based around the American ambassador but instead a comedy based around the ambassador’s husband
I hear Andrew’s looking for work
November 9, 2025 at 6:50 PM
I hear Andrew’s looking for work
Do we think there was govt pressure here as part of Operation Suck Up? Or do the BBC not need any help with that?
November 9, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Do we think there was govt pressure here as part of Operation Suck Up? Or do the BBC not need any help with that?
“You could have laughed at the point of Nelson Mandela negotiating with the ANC”
A slight gaffe in the grand scheme if things, but not great in the context of claiming there’s a scenario where Putin gives up his nukes.
A slight gaffe in the grand scheme if things, but not great in the context of claiming there’s a scenario where Putin gives up his nukes.
November 9, 2025 at 5:41 PM
“You could have laughed at the point of Nelson Mandela negotiating with the ANC”
A slight gaffe in the grand scheme if things, but not great in the context of claiming there’s a scenario where Putin gives up his nukes.
A slight gaffe in the grand scheme if things, but not great in the context of claiming there’s a scenario where Putin gives up his nukes.
Every time I see those words, I just have to watch it again
November 9, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Every time I see those words, I just have to watch it again
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1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️
November 9, 2025 at 9:23 AM
1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️
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Please watch & more importantly share this very cheeky, rather urgent request for £15k (ideally in one lump sum!)
I'm only on Bluesky so if anyone can post on any other social platforms that would be hugely appreciated @churchofengland.org @dioceseofyork.bsky.social @churchtimes.bsky.social Thanks🙏
I'm only on Bluesky so if anyone can post on any other social platforms that would be hugely appreciated @churchofengland.org @dioceseofyork.bsky.social @churchtimes.bsky.social Thanks🙏
November 8, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Please watch & more importantly share this very cheeky, rather urgent request for £15k (ideally in one lump sum!)
I'm only on Bluesky so if anyone can post on any other social platforms that would be hugely appreciated @churchofengland.org @dioceseofyork.bsky.social @churchtimes.bsky.social Thanks🙏
I'm only on Bluesky so if anyone can post on any other social platforms that would be hugely appreciated @churchofengland.org @dioceseofyork.bsky.social @churchtimes.bsky.social Thanks🙏
does this count as a pennies farthing?
November 8, 2025 at 12:54 PM
does this count as a pennies farthing?
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BBC really burying the lede there
November 7, 2025 at 12:07 PM
BBC really burying the lede there
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Ok, but Tesla is currently at 7.2 million sales in 9 years, sales have slowed down and to make the first step towards his trillion dollar salary he needs to sell 20 million cars. I don’t think any of this is going to happen.
November 6, 2025 at 10:44 PM
Ok, but Tesla is currently at 7.2 million sales in 9 years, sales have slowed down and to make the first step towards his trillion dollar salary he needs to sell 20 million cars. I don’t think any of this is going to happen.
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According to a person familiar with jury lunches
November 6, 2025 at 7:38 PM
According to a person familiar with jury lunches
I realise I’m not the first to discover this by a long shot, but since I posted about it on here recently, I can’t skim over a single Chris Mason piece without cringing massively
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cj...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cj...
David Lammy says he 'was not equipped with all the details' when questioned on prisoner release - live updates
Police are still searching for Brahim Kaddour-Cherif who was mistakenly released last week, while a second man turned himself in this morning.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 6, 2025 at 7:23 PM
I realise I’m not the first to discover this by a long shot, but since I posted about it on here recently, I can’t skim over a single Chris Mason piece without cringing massively
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cj...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cj...
A reflection on reading some #Synod papers requested by the House of Bishops:
How is it that the House of Bishops can be both too quick to make decisions *and* too slow? Too quick to share information *and* too slow? Too collegiate *and* too individual?
How is it that the House of Bishops can be both too quick to make decisions *and* too slow? Too quick to share information *and* too slow? Too collegiate *and* too individual?
November 6, 2025 at 4:36 PM
A reflection on reading some #Synod papers requested by the House of Bishops:
How is it that the House of Bishops can be both too quick to make decisions *and* too slow? Too quick to share information *and* too slow? Too collegiate *and* too individual?
How is it that the House of Bishops can be both too quick to make decisions *and* too slow? Too quick to share information *and* too slow? Too collegiate *and* too individual?
We bring you our new series:
What Treasury Officials Have Been Asking ChatGPT This Week
What Treasury Officials Have Been Asking ChatGPT This Week
What is the Budget? https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/what-is-the-budget/
November 6, 2025 at 3:23 PM
We bring you our new series:
What Treasury Officials Have Been Asking ChatGPT This Week
What Treasury Officials Have Been Asking ChatGPT This Week
This is genuinely a lovely tribute to the Polish squadron based there during the war, but especially lovely because one of the crochet groups behind it is called the Southport Hookers
www.yoursouthport.com/blog/life-si...
In Flanders Fields, the crochet grows...
The "sip...bloody hell" meme isn't strong enough here.
In Flanders Fields, the crochet grows...
The "sip...bloody hell" meme isn't strong enough here.
November 6, 2025 at 11:17 AM
This is genuinely a lovely tribute to the Polish squadron based there during the war, but especially lovely because one of the crochet groups behind it is called the Southport Hookers
This isn’t a finished thread yet but already promising to be one of those ones that ticks all my boxes
Churches ✅
Planning law ✅
Monarchy ✅
Kafkaesque bureaucracy ✅
Well, I repeat myself
Churches ✅
Planning law ✅
Monarchy ✅
Kafkaesque bureaucracy ✅
Well, I repeat myself
So this reminds me of one of my favourite WTF moments in heritage bureaucracy, which was the 2018 archaeological excavations just outside the chapel of St Peter at the Tower of London. nobody could decide who, apart from the king, could legally sign off on the project
…so there isn’t some department that is empowered to deal with this stuff that can just override the inevitable objections, I guess? rough, if so
November 5, 2025 at 8:44 PM
This isn’t a finished thread yet but already promising to be one of those ones that ticks all my boxes
Churches ✅
Planning law ✅
Monarchy ✅
Kafkaesque bureaucracy ✅
Well, I repeat myself
Churches ✅
Planning law ✅
Monarchy ✅
Kafkaesque bureaucracy ✅
Well, I repeat myself
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Anti-popery trumps all.
November 5, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Anti-popery trumps all.
Always amazed that a country that loves banning things and spying on neighbours allows any adult to buy explosives to set off until midnight tonight
November 5, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Always amazed that a country that loves banning things and spying on neighbours allows any adult to buy explosives to set off until midnight tonight
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For those who know the double-dactyl verse form, here's my quick stab at one for AS. h/t to @seanclarke.bsky.social for inspiration.
Higgledy piggledy
Abigail Spanberger
Stormed the Virginian
Mansion with ease.
Stunning success with votes
Gubernatorial
Cutting Republicans
Off at the knees.
Higgledy piggledy
Abigail Spanberger
Stormed the Virginian
Mansion with ease.
Stunning success with votes
Gubernatorial
Cutting Republicans
Off at the knees.
Apart from anything else, "Abigail Spanberger" is a great name. If you're lucky enough to have a surname that's a dactyl and you don't give your children a first name that's also a dactyl you're wasting everybody's time.
Hats off in particular to Mr & Mrs Roosevelt for coming up with "Franklin D".
Hats off in particular to Mr & Mrs Roosevelt for coming up with "Franklin D".
November 5, 2025 at 4:37 PM
For those who know the double-dactyl verse form, here's my quick stab at one for AS. h/t to @seanclarke.bsky.social for inspiration.
Higgledy piggledy
Abigail Spanberger
Stormed the Virginian
Mansion with ease.
Stunning success with votes
Gubernatorial
Cutting Republicans
Off at the knees.
Higgledy piggledy
Abigail Spanberger
Stormed the Virginian
Mansion with ease.
Stunning success with votes
Gubernatorial
Cutting Republicans
Off at the knees.
“The Review believes that RE should be moved to the national curriculum to improve access to high-quality provision and to prevent further diminishment.”
This is good news. As the Review says further on, this is not a panacea, but it will begin a shift.
This is good news. As the Review says further on, this is not a panacea, but it will begin a shift.
Spending my holiday as God intended - drinking strawberry daiquiris and reading the curriculum review:
assets.publishing.service.gov.uk
November 5, 2025 at 4:46 PM
“The Review believes that RE should be moved to the national curriculum to improve access to high-quality provision and to prevent further diminishment.”
This is good news. As the Review says further on, this is not a panacea, but it will begin a shift.
This is good news. As the Review says further on, this is not a panacea, but it will begin a shift.
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To be awarded by Infantino in Washington, DC … 🤔 🙄
November 5, 2025 at 3:25 PM
To be awarded by Infantino in Washington, DC … 🤔 🙄