Sam Hardman
@hardmans.bsky.social
Ecologist, pilgrim, and explorer of churches
This is one of the nicest news stories I've read in a long time. Among all the depressing news it's good to be reminded just how many truly good people there are in every community and all.around us
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Cardiff couple invited man in for Christmas, he stayed for 45 years
An arrangement Rob and Dianne Parsons thought would last a few days ended up changing their lives.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 25, 2025 at 12:46 PM
This is one of the nicest news stories I've read in a long time. Among all the depressing news it's good to be reminded just how many truly good people there are in every community and all.around us
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Since people find being hopeful and optimistic so cringe these days, let me remind you once again that there isn’t a single liberation movement in the world that wasn’t built on hope and optimism.
November 28, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Since people find being hopeful and optimistic so cringe these days, let me remind you once again that there isn’t a single liberation movement in the world that wasn’t built on hope and optimism.
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Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
October 30, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
I wish I had an Anglo-Saxon chapel in my house
✨Deerhurst, Gloucestershire. A kitchen in the nave and a bedroom in the chancel hid within plain sight an Anglo-Saxon chapel built by Earl Odda (a relation to Edward the Confessor). Re-discovered in 1865, it is the most complete surviving Saxon church in England. #thread
October 23, 2025 at 8:36 PM
I wish I had an Anglo-Saxon chapel in my house
I will never get bored of visiting Peterborough cathedral
October 8, 2025 at 9:47 PM
I will never get bored of visiting Peterborough cathedral
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Pope Leo XIV today: "Brothers and sisters, those boats which hope to catch sight of a safe port, and those eyes filled with anguish and hope seeking to reach the shore, cannot and must not find the coldness of indifference or the stigma of discrimination!"
October 5, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Pope Leo XIV today: "Brothers and sisters, those boats which hope to catch sight of a safe port, and those eyes filled with anguish and hope seeking to reach the shore, cannot and must not find the coldness of indifference or the stigma of discrimination!"
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Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.
October 5, 2025 at 9:08 AM
Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.
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The destruction of the Gaza city mosque is a devastating loss to humanity as a whole. A part of our global medieval heritage destroyed in furtherance to a genocide. I despair.
Built in the 13th century. So that mosque stood for 800 years with every sort of person from every place and every religion in the world passing through Gaza century after century, only for it to be blown up by some shithead loser sitting behind a computer that we probably paid for.
My rage knows no bounds
September 17, 2025 at 11:16 AM
The destruction of the Gaza city mosque is a devastating loss to humanity as a whole. A part of our global medieval heritage destroyed in furtherance to a genocide. I despair.
Visiting old churches is like treasure hunting. This incredible carving of an apostle is over 1000 years old and is on display at St Kyneburgha's church in Castor near Peterborough.
September 2, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Visiting old churches is like treasure hunting. This incredible carving of an apostle is over 1000 years old and is on display at St Kyneburgha's church in Castor near Peterborough.