David Bunce
@davidbunce.bsky.social
Baptist Pastor in Bad Ischl, Austria; General Secretary Austrian Baptist Union; at heart still a youth worker. Passionate about the local church, safeguarding and mission. British person in Austria, stumbling through learning Romanian.
First valley snowfall of the winter is forecast for the end of the week.
a man with long hair and a beard is standing in the snow with the words `` winter is coming '' .
ALT: a man with long hair and a beard is standing in the snow with the words `` winter is coming '' .
media.tenor.com
November 17, 2025 at 11:42 AM
First valley snowfall of the winter is forecast for the end of the week.
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Some good news!
British and Australian chemists have discovered a powerful new antibiotic called pre-methylenomycin C lactone, hiding in a well-known soil bacterium. This molecule kills drug-resistant bacteria without triggering resistance. buff.ly/YlXaONo
#ShareGoodNewsToo
#ShareGoodNewsToo
Scientists find hidden antibiotic 100x stronger against deadly superbugs
A team of scientists discovered a hidden antibiotic 100 times stronger than existing drugs against deadly superbugs like MRSA. The molecule had been overlooked for decades in a familiar bacterium. It…
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November 16, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Some good news!
Post your favourite Star Trek character. Wrong answers only
November 16, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Post your favourite Star Trek character. Wrong answers only
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"What is certain, and felt instinctively by almost everybody, is that things cannot go on in their present way" – The Times, May 1975
“It is difficult to imagine a previous period when such an all-pervasive hopelessness was exhibited at all levels of British life” – Professor Stephen Haseler, 1975
“It is difficult to imagine a previous period when such an all-pervasive hopelessness was exhibited at all levels of British life” – Professor Stephen Haseler, 1975
November 14, 2025 at 9:13 AM
"What is certain, and felt instinctively by almost everybody, is that things cannot go on in their present way" – The Times, May 1975
“It is difficult to imagine a previous period when such an all-pervasive hopelessness was exhibited at all levels of British life” – Professor Stephen Haseler, 1975
“It is difficult to imagine a previous period when such an all-pervasive hopelessness was exhibited at all levels of British life” – Professor Stephen Haseler, 1975
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I don't want to deny that things are still pretty bad, that decarbonisation has to go a lot further, but I really do think it's worth acknowledging that given 15-20 years ago we were on course for a 4C rise, that we're now looking at 2.2-2.6C is a genuinely herculean and heroic achievement.
World still on track for catastrophic 2.6C temperature rise, report finds
Fossil fuel emissions have hit a record high while many nations have done too little to avert deadly global heating
www.theguardian.com
November 13, 2025 at 5:10 AM
I don't want to deny that things are still pretty bad, that decarbonisation has to go a lot further, but I really do think it's worth acknowledging that given 15-20 years ago we were on course for a 4C rise, that we're now looking at 2.2-2.6C is a genuinely herculean and heroic achievement.
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Was it Charlemagne who said: "To have another language is to possess another soul."? Universities ditching modern languages are in danger of losing their souls.
The structures of intellectual life in the UK are being pulled out from under our feet.
It needs to stop! Pronto.
The structures of intellectual life in the UK are being pulled out from under our feet.
It needs to stop! Pronto.
I'm so fed up with this. Languages are central to all of higher education. Everyone should be learning languages, precisely because it is hard. Not everything can be transacted in English. A monoglot English language University can only be poorer for the loss of languages.
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Save Modern Languages courses at the University of Leicester
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November 12, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Was it Charlemagne who said: "To have another language is to possess another soul."? Universities ditching modern languages are in danger of losing their souls.
The structures of intellectual life in the UK are being pulled out from under our feet.
It needs to stop! Pronto.
The structures of intellectual life in the UK are being pulled out from under our feet.
It needs to stop! Pronto.
"If we meet someone who has a social disability, we tend to ask, “Can they lead?”
If we meet someone with charisma, we ask instead, “Can they lead with integrity?”
Rather a potentially toxic leader than a ineffective leader ...Where has that gotten us?"
www.christianitytoday.com/2025/11/i-ha...
If we meet someone with charisma, we ask instead, “Can they lead with integrity?”
Rather a potentially toxic leader than a ineffective leader ...Where has that gotten us?"
www.christianitytoday.com/2025/11/i-ha...
I Have a Social Disability. I’m Also a Leader. - Christianity Today
God calls ministers who are afraid to make eye contact—not just ones who sparkle with personality.
www.christianitytoday.com
November 12, 2025 at 5:44 PM
"If we meet someone who has a social disability, we tend to ask, “Can they lead?”
If we meet someone with charisma, we ask instead, “Can they lead with integrity?”
Rather a potentially toxic leader than a ineffective leader ...Where has that gotten us?"
www.christianitytoday.com/2025/11/i-ha...
If we meet someone with charisma, we ask instead, “Can they lead with integrity?”
Rather a potentially toxic leader than a ineffective leader ...Where has that gotten us?"
www.christianitytoday.com/2025/11/i-ha...
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Annual post for the day that's in it.
Good Luck Everyone - Blackadder - BBC
YouTube video by BBC Studios
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November 11, 2025 at 8:20 AM
Annual post for the day that's in it.
Ich durfte gestern bei der feierlichen Amtseinführung der neuen Bischöfin der Evangelischen Kirche A.B. in Österreich dabei sein und den Bund der Baptistengemeinden in Österreich vertreten. Ich wünsche Bischöfin Cornelia Richter Gottes Segen für ihren neuen Dienst.
November 9, 2025 at 6:24 AM
Ich durfte gestern bei der feierlichen Amtseinführung der neuen Bischöfin der Evangelischen Kirche A.B. in Österreich dabei sein und den Bund der Baptistengemeinden in Österreich vertreten. Ich wünsche Bischöfin Cornelia Richter Gottes Segen für ihren neuen Dienst.
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The Thick of It 2025 edition.
Where would the characters of The Thick of It be in 2025? @dmk1793.bsky.social gives his take.
Full episode here 👉 linktr.ee/ohgodwhatnow...
#thethickofit #thickofit #malcolmtucker
Where would the characters of The Thick of It be in 2025? @dmk1793.bsky.social gives his take.
Full episode here 👉 linktr.ee/ohgodwhatnow...
#thethickofit #thickofit #malcolmtucker
November 6, 2025 at 3:40 PM
The Thick of It 2025 edition.
Where would the characters of The Thick of It be in 2025? @dmk1793.bsky.social gives his take.
Full episode here 👉 linktr.ee/ohgodwhatnow...
#thethickofit #thickofit #malcolmtucker
Where would the characters of The Thick of It be in 2025? @dmk1793.bsky.social gives his take.
Full episode here 👉 linktr.ee/ohgodwhatnow...
#thethickofit #thickofit #malcolmtucker
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Die bisher in #Bonn lehrende Theologin Cornelia Richter (54) wird am Samstag als erste Frau in der Geschichte der Evangelisch-lutherischen #Kirche in #Österreich in das Amt der Bischöfin eingeführt:
Bonner Theologin wird erste evangelische Bischöfin in Österreich
Schritt sei "nie geplant" gewesen
www.katholisch.de
November 6, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Die bisher in #Bonn lehrende Theologin Cornelia Richter (54) wird am Samstag als erste Frau in der Geschichte der Evangelisch-lutherischen #Kirche in #Österreich in das Amt der Bischöfin eingeführt:
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Released today – Smiley's People by John le Carré in audiobook, unabridged and narrated by Simon Russell Beale for the first time: www.audible.co.uk/pd/Smileys-P...
October 23, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Released today – Smiley's People by John le Carré in audiobook, unabridged and narrated by Simon Russell Beale for the first time: www.audible.co.uk/pd/Smileys-P...
Reposted by David Bunce
Wrote about this slow, miserable drift away from modern languages for @thenewworldmag.bsky.social last year.
This week's curriculum review won't help either.
www.thenewworld.co.uk/losing-the-p...
This week's curriculum review won't help either.
www.thenewworld.co.uk/losing-the-p...
November 6, 2025 at 11:58 AM
Wrote about this slow, miserable drift away from modern languages for @thenewworldmag.bsky.social last year.
This week's curriculum review won't help either.
www.thenewworld.co.uk/losing-the-p...
This week's curriculum review won't help either.
www.thenewworld.co.uk/losing-the-p...
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So loss making OpenAI is now begging for US government money to finance its research based on unproven promises of riches to follow at some unspecified date. Is anyone else recalling renaissance alchemists persuading rich patrons to support them because they'd be turning lead into gold any day now?
November 6, 2025 at 8:10 AM
So loss making OpenAI is now begging for US government money to finance its research based on unproven promises of riches to follow at some unspecified date. Is anyone else recalling renaissance alchemists persuading rich patrons to support them because they'd be turning lead into gold any day now?
Finished the audio book of Smiley's People on the way to a pastoral visit this afternoon. Such a moving book.
November 4, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Finished the audio book of Smiley's People on the way to a pastoral visit this afternoon. Such a moving book.
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When we look at this massacre and many more perpetrated by the RSF, let's be clear who funds, equips & sustains them. It's the UAE. Yes, the same UAE that might own your football club, fly you on your holidays, invests in our national infrastructure. If boycotts work, we should be boycotting now.
“Individuals on the ground sent a message that reached us Monday morning that 1,200 were dead,” Nathaniel Raymond, the lab’s executive director, said. “By that evening, they said 10,000. By Tuesday, we couldn’t reach them anymore. We assume our ground contacts are dead.”
Yale lab reports mass killings in Sudan, calls for student activism
The Humanitarian Research Lab was told this week that over 10,000 people in Sudan were killed within three days.
yaledailynews.com
November 1, 2025 at 12:59 PM
When we look at this massacre and many more perpetrated by the RSF, let's be clear who funds, equips & sustains them. It's the UAE. Yes, the same UAE that might own your football club, fly you on your holidays, invests in our national infrastructure. If boycotts work, we should be boycotting now.
Perfect autumn day out
November 1, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Perfect autumn day out
A perfect autumn morning
October 31, 2025 at 6:21 AM
A perfect autumn morning
Just finished my final chapter in national church youth work with one more youth camp. Now I officially hang up my hat.
Young people are just the most amazing, wonderful people and the church needs their brave, hope-filled voices. The last five years have been the privilege of my life.
Young people are just the most amazing, wonderful people and the church needs their brave, hope-filled voices. The last five years have been the privilege of my life.
October 30, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Just finished my final chapter in national church youth work with one more youth camp. Now I officially hang up my hat.
Young people are just the most amazing, wonderful people and the church needs their brave, hope-filled voices. The last five years have been the privilege of my life.
Young people are just the most amazing, wonderful people and the church needs their brave, hope-filled voices. The last five years have been the privilege of my life.
Youth workers with the cup song:
October 21, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Youth workers with the cup song:
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Pope Leo quotes Hannah Arendt:
“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction and the distinction between true and false no longer exist."
www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...
“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction and the distinction between true and false no longer exist."
www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...
Pope Leo calls for news agencies to stand as bulwark against "post-truths," lies and manipulation
Pope Leo XIV has encouraged international news agencies to stand firm as a bulwark against the "ancient art of lying" and manipulation.
www.cbsnews.com
October 12, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Pope Leo quotes Hannah Arendt:
“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction and the distinction between true and false no longer exist."
www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...
“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction and the distinction between true and false no longer exist."
www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...
I know John Le Carre's "The Honorable Schoolboy" kind of splits fans as it is a bit of a sprawling mass of a book. But I'm finding all the chapters on the bureaucracy of Whitehall and the Circus are super soothing for drifting off to sleep to.
Maybe I need a bureaucracy genre booklist...
Maybe I need a bureaucracy genre booklist...
October 9, 2025 at 5:10 PM
I know John Le Carre's "The Honorable Schoolboy" kind of splits fans as it is a bit of a sprawling mass of a book. But I'm finding all the chapters on the bureaucracy of Whitehall and the Circus are super soothing for drifting off to sleep to.
Maybe I need a bureaucracy genre booklist...
Maybe I need a bureaucracy genre booklist...
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Pope Leo in Dilexi te: Christians who “dismiss or ridicule charitable works, as if they were an obsession on the part of a few and not the burning heart of the Church’s mission, convinces me of the need to go back and re-read the Gospel, lest we risk replacing it with the wisdom of this world.”
October 9, 2025 at 11:24 AM
Pope Leo in Dilexi te: Christians who “dismiss or ridicule charitable works, as if they were an obsession on the part of a few and not the burning heart of the Church’s mission, convinces me of the need to go back and re-read the Gospel, lest we risk replacing it with the wisdom of this world.”