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Caleb Day
@calebday.bsky.social
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Created autistic, kinetic. Made Christian, neurodivergent, depressed, disabled, parent, trade unionist, he/him, among other things. Theological ethics, @ducu.bsky.social, @uniteucu.bsky.social. NZer in England. https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5048-0282
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This Darren Jones interview encapsulates what’s so strategically wrong about current @teamlabouruk.bsky.social. Politics to the right of Theresa May to appease the right, but delivering it in the worst kind of management speak to guarantee it does all the damage with none of the political appeal.
"Let's be honest, a few years ago, there was a global consensus around net zero. There's not now. So it's contested space, but Britain continues to lean into that debate."
November 8, 2025 at 12:56 PM
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Do you use Letterboxd? It’s a website/app for just such tracking (though tv shows not yet fully on there; only if it’s a one-off season so far).
Here are screenshots of some of my stats
Screenshot of stats from Letterboxd showing 2,351 films logged for all time Screenshot of stats from Letterboxd showing how many movies watched per country and language
October 11, 2025 at 8:15 AM
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'the party said it had chosen Newcastle, “the symbolic heart of Brexit”'
www.itv.com/news/tyne-te...
Screenshot of text/numbers in tables. "Newcastle upon Tyne Remain: 65,405 Leave: 63,598 Electorate: 190,735 Turnout: 67.7% Valid votes: 129,003"
September 25, 2025 at 8:30 AM
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Great to see articles from two good friends and Notre Dame classmates dropping on the same day in the Journal of @sofcethics.bsky.social - Marie-Claire Klassen and Liam de los Reyes. Both look great and timely.
Image of text: "September 10, 2025 Liam de los Reyes Hope in Faithful Witness De-Temporalized Eschatology in Black and Latin American Liberationist Thought first published on September 10, 2025 DOI: 10.5840/jsce202599132 Abstract; Full Text(PDF) Marie-Claire Klassen Doing Theology in the Wake of Genocide "Can Our Theology Ever be the Same Again After [Gaza]?" first published on September 10, 2025 DOI: 10.5840/jsce202599131 Abstract; Full Text(PDF)"
September 22, 2025 at 9:27 AM
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This should be really useful for getting cash money out of the ATM machine to buy some naan bread and chai tea with the hoi polloi
Photo of text: “Here’s your PIN number.”
July 18, 2025 at 6:01 AM
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RIP Walter Brueggemann and Alasdair MacIntyre.

(Hacking the word count with screenshots.)
Screenshot of text: “Sad to hear of the death of biblical scholar and pastor Walter Brueggemann. His work identifying different sociological/political orientations in biblical texts has been extremely influential on Christianity and on me. In particular, I love his work on the Psalms (and sociological/psychological modes of orientation, disorientation, and new orientation in them). I heartily recommend his short book The Message of the Psalms (1984). It was the main secondary source that inspired an essay I wrote at Laidlaw College in 2012 on vengeance in the Psalms. And I still think a lot about Brueggemann’s analysis in the book, eg when writing this blog recently. https://rejoiceandcomplain.wordpress.com/2024/09/29/rejoice-and-complain-beachcomber-blog/ Secondly, Brueggemann’s book The Prophetic Imagination (1978 and several updated editions) is rightly regarded as his greatest masterpiece and a very important work in theology/biblical studies. Brueggemann outlines competing prophetic and royal consciousnesses in the Bible, with Jesus siding with the prophetic consciousness. This is a very important source in a paper I am co-presenting in a couple of weeks on “Prophetic Prospects for Neurodivergent Liberation Theology.”” Screenshot of text: “Brueggemann is also a great preacher or speaker to listen to; it’s a pleasure to hear his magnificent Nebraska voice sharing insights like “as a pastor you can’t talk to a family about capitalism until you’ve taken at least two funerals for the family.” May he rest in peace and rise in glory. And the same to Alasdair MacIntyre, a very important moral philosopher who also died recently. MacIntyre has done much to support the recovery of virtue ethics (including in Christian theological ethics). Some of his key insights include attention to how practices and traditions shape virtue, as well as the biological reality of our lives as humans, or dependent rational animals, with our existence defined by vulnerability, disability, and dependence, and needing virtues in accordance with that. I once had the pleasure of a guest lecture from MacIntyre where he talked about various things, the one that most sticks in my mind being a fascinating tangent about some monks a few centuries ago who founded a communist society, inspired by Thomistic natural law thinking.”
June 5, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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I thought that would be more the penultimate Geordie but ok
Screenshot of text: “Howay man pet! You're the ultimate Geordie - 9 out of 10! Thanks for playing”
June 4, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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It’s so depressing to read stuff like this now

(Source: this chapter in this free book: link.springer.com/chapter/10.1..., page 266)
Screenshot of text. First three sentences indicated in particular. “In September of 2015, there had been a shuffle in leadership in the political parties and suddenly many in the ND groups were talking about wanting to reach out to one person. That person was Jeremy Corbyn Member of Parliament (MP), the newly elected Leader of the Labour Party (then and at the time of writing in early 2019, the main opposition party in the UK). In the autumn of 2015 individuals from all the ND groups were talking about how Corbyn seemed different, how if anyone was going to understand our plight it would be him. This intrigued me as it was coming from people who claimed to have lost faith in our political system, from supporters of other political parties as well as from Labour supporters. Jeremy Corbyn seemed to be appealing to many within the different ND communities, because he seemed to be approaching politics differently, so I addressed an open letter to him.”
June 2, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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I highly recommend you take the actions in this thread.

I have written a version of one of the "write to your MP" templates with some additions about inaccurate scapegoating media narratives, the dangerous goals of the controversial outgoing EHRC chair, bizarre legal implications, & this paragraph:
Screenshot of text: "Finally, I note that reduction of transgender people's ability to participate in public life interacts cruelly with recent disability benefit cuts, which I know you are opposing. If a disabled trans woman has no PIP to help her participate in work, and has no disability benefit when out of work (e.g. if she is under 22), and she also struggles to get a job because she doesn't feel safe to use the toilet in most workplaces, then how is she supposed to survive? You likely know that there is disproportionate crossover between transgender people and disabled (especially autistic) people."
April 22, 2025 at 11:38 AM
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I feel like this is symbolic of something about Britain.
Screenshot of a BBC News story thumbnail - picture of a tree cut down and the text: "BBC Ancient Oak Tree Cut Down by Toby Carvery The cutting down of an ancient oak in north London was ordered on health and safety grounds by the pub chain that ow..."
April 17, 2025 at 8:24 AM
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Almost all regional staff are on strike; today some of us met to picket, joined by local staff from @unitetheunion.bsky.social staff & NEU.
Our members need us; we want to work; we need senior management to prioritise their members & staff & meet reasonable asks. www.ucu.org.uk/media/14969/...
Photo of about 12 people (and one dog) with Unite flags and banners picketing outside a UCU office. (same alt text applies to image in first tweet)
April 9, 2025 at 12:34 PM
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Northern (England) Region @ucu.org.uk staff remain on strike with @uniteucu.bsky.social in solidarity with those suffering unsafe working conditions, structural racism, & disciplinary action targeting committee members. The employer has made no written offer.
uniteucu.wordpress.com/2025/04/07/u...
April 9, 2025 at 12:23 PM
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That's it; that's the thread. it ended abruptly for wordcount reasons. But then again, an eighth skeet is free innit. As a post-script, i will once again share this song lyric, once again on my mind this week.
Image of two hands shaking hands, surrounded by the words "YOU CAN'T SCARE ME; I'M STICKING TO THE UNION"
April 4, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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Almost everyone from @ucu.org.uk Northern region office is on strike today with @uniteucu.bsky.social. We picketed this morning, joined in solidarity by several previous UCU staff & comrades from the NASUWT staff Unite branch & Mary Foy’s office. See uniteucu.wordpress.com for updates on the dispute
Photograph of about 10 people outside a UCU office on a picket line with banners and flags reading “Unite: the Union” and “On Strike Today”
April 1, 2025 at 9:42 AM
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It’s a good thing Trump isn’t autistic because what the hell does this letter from the “king” mean without the contextualising intro from the reporter?
Screenshot of text: ‘We can now bring you the contents of the letter from King Charles III, inviting Trump for a second state visit to the UK. Here it is in full: "Quite apart from this presenting an opportunity to discuss a wide range of issues of mutual interest, it would also offer a valuable chance to plan a historic second state visit to the United Kingdom. "As you will know this is unprecedented by a US President. "That is why I would find it helpful for us to be able to discuss, together, a range of options for location and programme content. "In so doing, working together, I know we will further enhance the special relationship between our two countries of which we are both so proud." The note is signed "Yours Most Sincerely, Charles" at the bottom.’
February 27, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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Yikes
Screenshot of Jonathan Hinder's Wikipedia page. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Hinder Text (with some links to other Wiki articles, and a citation at the end) reads: "In November 2024, Hinder criticised Amnesty International for intervening in a Supreme Court of the United Kingdom case to support gender recognition rights for the trans community. He described Amnesty as "so far gone" and encouraged people to follow an anti-trans campaign group within the Labour Party if they had "enough of this nonsense"."
December 14, 2024 at 12:49 PM
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I am on strike today with other @ucu.org.uk staff in @uniteucu.bsky.social, the recognised union for UCU staff. Here picketing with Northern Region staff, joined by Simon Kennedy from NASUWT Unite branch. See uniteucu.wordpress.com for issues of dispute/what we need action on from senior management.
December 10, 2024 at 12:40 PM
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Graphic with text saying “You can’t scare me; I’m sticking to the union” surrounding a clip-art image of two hands shaking
December 8, 2024 at 6:00 PM
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Billy Bragg (1983) demolishing the idea that a neurodivergent person is inherently “low support needs” or “high support needs” as an essential and permanent part of their being, rather than it being dynamic, spiky, and contextually shaped by (among other things) economic systems
Screenshot of lyrics from Genius app. Title: “To Have and to Have Not” Text: “[Verse 4] At twenty one you're on top of the scrapheap At sixteen you were top of the class All they taught you at school Was how to be a good worker The system has failed you, don't fail yourself”
December 4, 2024 at 7:04 PM
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This paragraph is hilariously accurate about one thing that has improved for autistic people since 1992!
Screenshot of text. The numbers 14 and 15 are footnote marks. “Maximising their control over what they learn whilst making sure new relevant information comes their. way, would seem to be the most appealing pedagogic option for chidren with autism. Computers and specially designed computer programs should be uniquely fit for this purpose[14]:controllable, predictable, potentially limitlessly informative, and capable of clear, easily understood expression if used that way. (‘Facilitated communication’ is, I suspect, facilitated more by the machine itself than by the ‘helping’ person[15].) What is more, computers could be used to network people with autism, both with each other and with non-autistic people, and so put them into a comfortable mode of communication. If this is right, then it should be a priority to make sure that as many people with autism as possible have access to computers, from as early an age as is feasible.”
December 4, 2024 at 10:22 AM
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Congratulations to all those playing neurotypical autism coverage bingo!
Image of bingo card. Title: Neurotypical autism coverage bingo. 3 by 3 grid of squares with different text in each square; text is: “People with autism” “Over-diagnosis” Quotes parent of autistic but no autistic Levels of autism “Severe” = non-speaking “High functioning” have it easy ND advocates are all “high functioning” Neuro-diversity “now” more than autism/ADHD Schools are now super great for “high functioning”
December 2, 2024 at 7:56 PM
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Worst misspelling of Mad Max: Fury Road I’ve ever seen
Photo of box that says in a plain font “Mometasone furoate, 50 microgram”
November 18, 2024 at 7:11 PM