Gill Taylor
@mrsgillt.bsky.social
Former teacher, now grumpish old woman.
I bought an Eskimo a housewarming present and now he’s homeless.
Coffee choices (1977) “Sometimes there isn’t time to make ground coffee so instant coffee is can be bought” Artist : David Palmer
It’s the 151st anniversary of the birth of Aleister Crowley, the man who—among many, many other things—once put an acrostic in an “apparently innocuous book of devotional verse” which spelt out “The Virgin Mary I desire but arseholes set my prick on fire”
![Epilogue
(By reading the first letter of the first word of each line and the first word of the last word of each line, the couplet ‘The Virgin Mary I Desire But Arseholes Set My Prick On Fire’ is formed)
TRANSCEND, O Mage, thy soul redeemed!
Her mercy shone where sorrow steamed.
Exalted in the skies of even
Virtue hath cleared thy way to Heaven.
In darkness hides the glittering ore.
Revealed thy Light, O mystic lore
Given by GOD, lest I should err
In dexter or in sinister.
Now Mary Virgin to my speech
Married Her fire that all and each
At last should gather to the Tryst,
Ripe suns arisen above the mist!
Yea ! Thou hast given me favour ! Yea !
In utmost love and awe we pray ;
Devoted to Thy reverence
Enkindle I time sweet incense
Secure from all the fears that chill,
In peace from them that rage and kill;
Receive, O Queen, the glad Oration
Even from a lost and pagan nation.
But Thou will make us wholly fit
Unto Thy grace and care of it,
Till all the Elixir do receive
[Amen!] to heal the hurt of Eve.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:vckf3haopb3yncclmf7o2m3f/bafkreiagikkzwoaqwta6jq4jcw7fa5tjoc66fa3raze3qgbss3abktkxfy)
"Jesus - is that really how they see us?" From the Private Eye archive. Issue 1650, May 2025.
It’s important to have friends who keep you grounded. Thats why all of mine are French baggage handlers.
People say we shouldn’t encourage AI but the fact it’s somehow made autocorrect even worse than it was in 1996 is impressive and deserves some kind of applause
On this day 1971, boxer Muhammad Ali visited Tesco at Stretford’s Arndale shopping precinct to promote Ovaltine.
Real Tennis: alright me old china? Wedgewood Dinner Service: hello old sport
Dolly Peel, fishwife and smuggler, South Shields, 1850. When her husband and son were press-ganged, she snuck on board ship and hid. Discovered, she was allowed to work as a nurse and stay with her family.
treat your body like a data center. consume as much water, art and literature as possible. upset local municipalities with your existence.
So, happy 89th anniversary of the day Oswald Mosley tried to sell fascism to Liverpudlians—and someone concussed him with a brick
It is right to be kind to everyone, but you may not bow to gentlemen on the street unless you are acquainted.
Is anyone really surprised? These people know nothing of beer, heritage, humanity, and care less than they know. It's just a numbers game to them. If I drank any of their 'Products' I would boycott them. Carlsberg plans to shut Marston's Brewery in Burton - BBC News share.google/VWwiTTpVFuLo...
Carlsberg plans to shut Marston's Brewery in Burton
Burton-upon-Trent's links with beer and brewing date back centuries.
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The layout for the execution in the US has been released by the state department
To put this in perspective chestnut trees used to be dominant species in the United States. Billions of trees were killed by fungal blight and now fully grown America chestnuts are functionally extinct. There is no getting them back. Ever. All for a data center. www.gadgetreview.com/one-of-ameri...
One of America’s Last Chestnut Groves Is About to Be Destroyed for a Data Center
A rare 200-tree American chestnut grove in West Virginia may be cleared for data-center development, but the project denies the site is on its land.
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