I’ve known Käthe Wright Kaufman for 25+ years, and I can testify that she is not only an extraordinary musician, she is also a true friend, *and* a devoted cat lover. (And we don't say that lightly, as we are guardians of two yappy dogs). (Not going to show photos from the 00s!) @kewk14.bsky.social

Thursday LIVE Organ Recitals@thursdaylive.org · 7d ago

One week today Thursday Live Plus! begins (an organ recital every Thursday in August at 1:15pm) with Käthe Wright Kaufman (USA) playing the first recital on 6 August. Details ➡️ thursdaylive.org @stchadsbirm.bsky.social @rcbirmingham.bsky.social @organistpaul.bsky.social

Please remember that although the Tories have been backing a [reformed] Neo-Nazi, it's Labour that has an antisemitism problem…

If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog: pluralistic.net/2026/08/05/a... 2/

web.archive.org/web/20260108... Here's an archive link of the original business guidance in case the original goes missing. In pretty clear terms the original guidance used to say stuff like "obviously, so long as the changing rooms allow privacy, trans women should be permitted to use the womens"

In answer to that 'What one line from a song…?’ thread/chain from a couple of weeks ago: I forgot ‘Every one of those words rang true and glowed like burning coals’, which immediately laid claim to a prominent peak in my imagination from which it now can be seen in countless other contexts.

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‘You root for the guys that are here.’ Exactly.

British Orioles@britishorioles.bsky.social · 12h ago

The Wikimedia Foundation is acing the test. Unfortunately it's for doing the wrong thing every step of the way. medium.com/regarding-wi... @wikipedia.org #Wikipedia

How the Wikimedia Foundation’s Union Busting Is Textbook

The word “textbook” usually gets used loosely. Here it applies literally. There is an actual scholarly literature on how American employers…

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My column on how capital becomes a death cult. Faced with a choice between profit and human life, the radical right chooses profit. Then it tries to persuade us that mass death is what we want. It's the new phase of climate denial: accept your fate, earthlings. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Murderous heat, an endangered food supply, decimated landscapes: embrace the Mediterranean life | George Monbiot

As climate disaster stares us in the face, the radical right says ‘Embrace the Mediterranean life’. Embrace death, more like it, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

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The epistle lesson for Sunday includes, ‘if you confess with your lips… and believe in your heart… you will be saved’, and the temptation to preach on that is so strong that it distracts me from other possibilities…

FDR literally had the president of Montgomery Ward arrested and the company seized for not negotiating with his workers

I’m whipping up a present for my parish, and in the course of so doing I encountered this: ‘He gave unto a priest ten pounds, thirteen shillings, and fourpence to go on pilgrimage to Roome, and procession there to make at twelve several times, and also to celebrate there six masses…

Remember when it was raining, for about 200 seconds, this morning?

MATEWAN is film that all of you should watch. It's a masterpiece that's more relevant now than it was in 1987.

‘A reminder of why we have unions’: Matewan writer and director on the film’s lessons for the labor movement

John Sayles’s 1987 film, which dramatizes a 1920 labor conflict, shows how class solidarity can overcome prejudice

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feels like i should re-post this every few weeks

Marisa Kabas@marisakabas.bsky.social · 3y ago

NEW: Substack founders finally respond to Substackers Against Nazis. They say Nazis publishing and earning money on their platform is fine with them. Their full statement here: substack.com/@hamish/note...

Comic about the dangers of living in LA

This is exactly it.

Wiggling@intense.wiggling.me · 2d ago

Chuds could have their own bubble here too if they want. But they don't, because what they want is to force their garbage takes in everyone else's face.

I tell you, I get a huge kick out of just seeing women’s names in the WPBL box scores. Win or lose, these athletes are all stars. But goodness gracious, the WPBL has to make it easier to check the box scores and not just read their pop-reporting descriptions of the games.

For the Turtle Diary fans ... Neaera and William would approve. 🐢

🪷MsGrumpyBunny🪷@msgrumpybunny.bsky.social · 3d ago

Everyone should have a hype man like this in their life 🙌🏼 Might change my name to Franklin and play this on loop 😂

Chris Clare Dingwall-Jones (@cdjtheology.bsky.social) has written Sacramental Trans Feminism, the first book to address the gendered aspects of Anglo-Catholicism from the perspective of trans theology and trans studies. 🏳️‍⚧️Order here for 20% off during August: scmpress.hymnsam.co.uk/books/978033...

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Es wird wieder heiß, es brennt allerorts, aber auch hier gibt es ja immer wieder einige, aus der Fraktion „früher gab es auch schon heiße Sommer“. Hier ist die Antwort darauf, denn ich diskutiere das nicht mehr. #Klima #Klimakrise

Many people, even inside HE, don’t tune in to the extent that the strength of a given programme is cumulative, built on years of cooperation and trust and shared interest. Constant slashing then rebooting costs vastly more to effectiveness and reputation than just pours and pence.

Glen O'Hara@gsoh31.bsky.social · 3d ago

So it's farewell to the History subject area at the University of Hertfordshire, not the first nor the last to go. One of the best departments in the country, just extinguished like a snap of the fingers. Think of the waste. (1/2)

🧵On @thenewsagents.co.uk yesterday, school closures and the lab leak theory were offered as two examples of legitimate questions that were hard to ask. Both have in fact been asked constantly since 2020. But here's a thread on why I think they were wrong and dangerous on school closures 1/12

It is theologically crucial that we pay attention to who can speak, who can't speak, and what that says about our commitments. scmpress.hymnsam.co.uk/blog/speech-...

It’s been a busy old time lately but all good things!

Jillian Marcantonio@jrmarcantonio.bsky.social · 4d ago

the best part of my week: attending @siobhanjolley.bsky.social’s book talk at the National Gallery in London on Monday. wondering what the stories and images of saints have to do with our lives today? check out the book and her overall work!! no religious belief or art education required.

July at @lastfm.bsky.social : 1 Nick Lowe & Los Straitjackets 6 scrobbles 2 Belle and Sebastian 5 3 Elvis Costello 5 4 XTC 5 5 Pete Townshend 4 6 The Beatles 4 7 Aretha Franklin 3 8 Beyoncé 3 9 Blake Babies 3 10 Florence + the Machine 3 Mountain Goats exclusion principle applies…

Orchids revived, the corpse ambulant and a poetic ruined abbey. These are the news stories I want to read.

I’ve never been on the platform returning from Durham without at least one hen party or stag do…

Seacritters! The Hunt for the Jigamaree sets sail March 2027! Impeccable writing by @katemilford.bsky.social! Exquisite interior colors by @nyaatalie.bsky.social & @charmgardens.com! Stalwart lettering assistance by @dchopkins.bsky.social & @dylanmeconis.bsky.social! What a labor of love.

I really need everyone to remember that the fossil fuel industry knew-knows exactly the climate hell we now inhabit, and are determined to make it FAR worse. That's because they have decided our lives are worth far less than their profits. We are not angry -or organised- enough.