This afternoon I have found myself musing on the way my vicaring role requires me to do fundraising and grant applications, and the number of voices I hear (especially at synod election time) bemoaning that it wasn’t like this once, and I realised… ✝️🕯️

I feel a little seen

BEAVE@beaveinflow.bsky.social · yesterday

My current financial strategy is simply hoping a future version of me has money.

I obviously wasn't done, but I did take a break to order my Christmas Cards from the RNLI, and also their puffin crackers, because those look cute.

Hannah Swithinbank@hannahswiv.bsky.social · 2d ago

It's not even 9:30am and I've submitted a chunky funding application *and* nailed down a school meeting I've been keen to get set for a while, so I'm done for the day.

It's not even 9:30am and I've submitted a chunky funding application *and* nailed down a school meeting I've been keen to get set for a while, so I'm done for the day.

Hey Siri, what is enshittification?

IGN@ign.com · 4d ago

Disney+ has altered its user agreement to clarify that ads will be allowed on all subscription tiers. https://bit.ly/4hhOjBo

My concession to vaguely thinking about Avengers Doomsday prep is watching Agatha All Along, which is quite messy but has a banging cast.

This happened before we moved to Cornwall (which was when I was two) but I’ve always been aware of it, and I give regularly to the RNLI because life in the UK (let alone Cornwall) feels incomprehensible without it and I don’t understand how it doesn’t sit alongside ambulance, fire and police…

Nick Harkaway@nickharkaway.com · 6d ago

This happened within sight of my house when I was nine. I wasn’t there - I was at school in London by then - but Penzance and Newlyn felt it for *decades*. The memorial garden on the cliffs is a hundred metres from where I scattered my parents’ ashes. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penlee_...

The first decision I’m making is not to start with the longest one first.

Every year on 19 December, the famous Christmas lights at Mousehole in Cornwall are dimmed between 8 and 9pm, leaving just the Cross and Angels shining down across the village and out to sea.

This is on our extremely right wing media and every single MP in a position to speak out against it who has backed away from doing so.

John Oxley@joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 7d ago

What on earth is happening?

I know Gary Oldman gets all the nominations, but let’s be real, Kristen Scott Thomas is the best thing about Slow Horses, no?

Well, I just watched the Alliance's General Synod election video, and now I want to vomit over the very unpleasant rhetorical codes scattered all through it ✝️⚓

Every time I have to preach on a set of readings I myself have chosen, I remember why the lectionary is a Good Thing. You think it's going to be fun and then it's all, 'why did I make these choices, what was I think, this is why no one normally gives me this power.' ⚓🕯️✝️

“Aren’t mothers impossible creatures?” Naomi Alderman at her book event at Foyles.

I am very over south London's ridiculously high humidity levels at this point. Life does not need to feel like a steam room, I have the spa for that.

A serious democratic society simply cannot allow this. That's £72 million from just two men. (Both, until lately, based overseas). The average UK earner (full-time) would have to work for over 1,800 years to raise that much. It's a nuclear strike on any pretence at the equality of political power

Sunder Katwala (sundersays)@sundersays.bsky.social · 2w ago

Harborne has given Reform £36 million to match Delo's £36 million. The Telegraph describes it as a "show of force" from Reform's donors. The two men's £72 million is greater than all of the spending by all political parties on the 2024 GE www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/202...

I absolutely believe England can lose this test match 🏏

What I love about the people answering “negative” is they are basically saying “the last thousand years? I don’t care for them”.

YouGov@yougov.co.uk · 2w ago

As the Bayeux Tapestry opens to the public at the British Museum, what impact do Britons think the Norman Conquest had on British history? Positive: 25% Neither: 25% Negative: 6% Don't know: 44% yougov.com/en-gb/daily-...

Church mission conference challenge: get through a day without citing Nehemiah as an example of vision and planning 🕯️✝️

Count Binface on Test Match Special 🏏 is Peak English, let’s be honest.

The government just do not get it.

Declan Gaffney@greyskiesthinking.bsky.social · 3w ago

Home Office response to Fascist thugs at Portsmouth, from Grdn.

Holy Silo Finale, Batman.

I’m going in on Apple TV’s Mayday to see Kenneth Branagh be a mad red and some very sub-Top Gun capitalist propaganda

Farage discovering that people within Reform have been soliciting illegal donations.

Casablanca Humphrey Bogart

ALT: Casablanca Humphrey Bogart

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Now James Orr has stepped down as Reform UK's Head of Policy after C4's report, questions remain for Cambridge – where he is Associate Professor. Byline Times revealed serious concerns about his activities there months ago. We all know there won't now be 200+ articles on him and his life don't we?

I am experiencing some schadenfreude this morning.

A real test now of the media's appetite for Cambridge professors and their ethics.

Half my feed is 👀👀👀 at the Reform sorry, and the other half is 👀👀👀👀 at Paul Gross being cast in Heated Rivalry, and I follow all the right people clearly.

Love to watch someone who emphasises the importance of Christian values say “we can easily get away with it”…

Channel 4 News@channel4news.bsky.social · 3w ago

Undercover footage verified by Channel 4 News reveals a secret plot by senior Reform UK figures to break the law on party donations. A leading legal expert is now calling for a criminal investigation. 🔗 Read the exclusive story on Substack: