Currently listening to Luke Kemp's Goliath's Curse, who points out that migration is one of humanity's key survival strategies and a significant cultural booster. But it undermines the ability of politics to control people and resources, so we're taught it's Bad.

Katelyn Burns@katelynburns.com · 2d ago

For millennia migration was just a standard thing for humans.

Every judge that is receiving a lifetime appointment here is signaling that they are pretty flexible when it comes to defending American democracy donmoynihan.substack.com/p/scenes-fro...

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 13h ago

BLUMENTHAL: Judge Cronan, you're already on the district court. Who won the 2020 election? CRONAN: Joseph Biden received the majority of electoral votes B: You have nothing to lose. You have a lifetime appointment, and yet you're unwilling to state the simple fact that Biden won the 2020 election

Despite having fancy new software courtesy of Access to Work, I was an idiot today and typed 😔. On the plus side, my taxes are in. Sort of.

This is a particularly dangerous way to think about spending in an ecological crisis, where repairing the ecological bearing floor is a long term strategic necessity with often high short term/up front investment costs. So if both public and private finance prioritise short term gains…🤔

Giles Wilkes@gilesyb.bsky.social · 2d ago

"This focus on relatively short time horizons shapes behaviour across government and the wider public sector. Departments, for example, learn that proposals are most likely to succeed when they demonstrate clear, short-term benefits or savings"

The reason bsky is glorious is the average response to the latest nonsense is the kind of nerd quipery ReFuk &co will never understand, let alone enjoy.

Lewis Baston@lewisbaston.bsky.social · yesterday

The borders of the U.K. have been in place since 1922.

The Dutch sailing up the Medway to destroy or scuttle over 40 Royal Navy boats in 1667….has entered the chat

I'm proper stuck. #sermon #wat

It is past time @churchofengland.org updates its 2014 prohibition on clergy joining far right parties and organisations. bylinetimes.com/2026/07/29/t... ✝️

Tommy Robinson's Temple: The Christian Conference Uniting Preachers from the Far-Right Fringe

Organisers of the "Make Great Britain Christian Again" conference include preachers linked to far-right rallies, prompting warnings that faith is being used to provide moral cover for nationalist poli...

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This is a great piece, which acknowledges that mass attempts at entering Ceuta are nothing new, shows how this event happened and which actually acknowledges the tragedy of the poor people who drowned.

Sunder Katwala (sundersays)@sundersays.bsky.social · 3d ago

Good BBC piece by Sarah Rainsford on what we do & don't know about the causes and consequences of the flashpoint crisis in Ceuta She opens with the 72 deaths: a death toll of this scale has been largely treated as an incidental detail in a news event + political clash www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

If this weather is going to be normal, now, I'm going to need a summer cassock 🥵. #wat

There is a skill, an art even, to enthusiastically greeting someone who comes up to you, who you’ve clearly spoken to many times, and contextualising them based on questions that gather details without them realising that you’re doing that.

Conscious I've been quieter than usual. As the boy says, GON OUT BACKSON BISY BACKSON... #NewPost

I just saw a meme that said “get in losers, we’re reclaiming the emdash”. People. PEOPLE. Where are your STANDARDS? It CLEARLY should be “get in, losers — we’re reclaiming the em dash.”

Happy feast day of St Mary Magdalene to all who celebrate. 🕯️#ApostleToTheApostles

Another fine for Southern Water. These companies keep getting away with hiking up our bills while dumping sewage. We have a new PM. He should put water companies into special administration and return them to public control as public-benefit mutuals. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Southern Water fined over dumping sewage in Kent coasts

The court heard the discharges forced bathing water closures and harmed the local economy.

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Incredible statement from the Church in Wales on the ignominious Code of Practice: "The Church in Wales will not use equality law exemptions to exclude trans people from our worship, our sacraments, our pastoral care, or our common life." www.churchinwales.org.uk/en/news-and-...

Statement of the Bench of Bishops of the Church in Wales on the publication of the EHRC Draft Code of Practice - Church in Wales

churchinwales.org.uk

He broke bread with outcasts and sinners, healed the sick, and proclaimed good news to the poor

Pakistan's statement about Shabir Ahmed is proper bruising.

#theBeeAt3 Basic bee facts every day at 3pm. 3. Ireland now has 103 species of bee: 81 Solitary bees 21 Bumblebees 1 Honey bee A few new arrivals! ‘Is that you giggling away to glory? Or is that just the flowers mingling with the #bees and telling their story?’ - Avijeet Das

The ability to access public loos is a vital element to living in the public domain. This (regarding women's public loos) makes this very clear: open.spotify.com/episode/18iX...

2.5 Waiting for the ladies

Visible Women with Caroline Criado Perez · Episode

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Zack Polanski@zackpolanski.bsky.social · 3w ago

On the 5th August, the EHRC's Code of Practice becomes statutory guidance. It will make life even harder for many trans & non-binary people. It's unworkable & harmful. The Good Law Project is challenging & wants to hear from people affected by these exclusions. goodlawproject.org/discriminato...

My daughter has transitioned from "undergraduate" to "graduate". #ProudMum

It’s the 384th anniversary of a terrible Monſter being caught by a Fiſherman neere Wollage, neere five foot long, and three foot over, the thickneſſe of an ordinary man, The ſhape whereof was like a Toad, but it had hands with fingers like a man and was cheſted like a man 🧵

Is there yet more football? I'm honestly getting bored of it now.

Just sent someone to churchofenglandfunerals.org and once again spent a moment grieving the Life Events Team. They were bloody brilliant and a sore loss. 😔✝️ #wat

Funerals | The Church of England

A Church of England funeral is available to everyone, giving support before, during and after the service, for as long as it’s needed.

churchofenglandfunerals.org

Finally cool enough to enjoy the new garden!

We are accounted righteous before God, only for the merit of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ by Faith, and not for our own works or deservings.

Quite enjoying that the CofE and the Norwegian church made a wager on the football, and the latter now has to change logos for the day.

Picture of a hound for a Saturday afternoon: #greyhound