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entirelygill.bsky.social @entirelygill.bsky.social · 11h

Exactly. Cathedrals have long had art installations. Sometimes they resonate with people, sometimes they don't. That's really all there is to it.

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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 12h

We need so, so, much more of this, in the UK as well as America, and so many other places. We need politicians prepared to actually step up and genuinely, wholeheartedly, support trans and non-binary individuals.

Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 14h

I wrote a little about some of the little details you might have missed in this video and why it hit me so hard as a trans person this morning:

www.burnsnotice.com/you-have-to-...

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entirelygill.bsky.social @entirelygill.bsky.social · 12h

Have no strong views on the Canterbury cathedral graffiti, so I should probably hand my Church of England membership card in.

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Corodon @thecorodon.bsky.social · 1d

Exodus 8:2
"If you refuse to let them go, I will send a plague of frogs on your whole country."

Reverend Jesus "H" Christ @reverendjesus.com · 1d

Blessed are the frogs, for they keep making authoritarians look incredibly stupid

Three persons in inflatable frog costumes. One of them is holding a nicely painted sign with two little cartoon frogs holding hands, below the text "FROGS TOGETHER STRONG"

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entirelygill.bsky.social @entirelygill.bsky.social · 13h

One for the #SpyCops inquiry followers.
And if you're not following, you really should be!
Man convicted of 38 paedophile offences revealed as police informer who spied on UK activists www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Man convicted of 38 paedophile offences revealed as police informer who spied on UK activists

Trial of Nick Gratwick, 68, who schemed to rape children as young as six, exposes previous role among green protesters

www.theguardian.com

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entirelygill.bsky.social @entirelygill.bsky.social · 15h

The funeral outfit is bought, and in true old lady fashion I am treating myself to lunch in M&S while I try to come to terms with the fact that I'm really not the size or shape I thought I was. 😭

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entirelygill.bsky.social @entirelygill.bsky.social · 16h

Goodness me, I strongly dislike clothes shopping.

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Aurelien Mondon @aurelmondon.bsky.social · 21h

Regardless of what one thinks of the Greens and Zack Polanski, there is something refreshing and much needed about seeing a politician name far-right discourse as it is

No more euphemising, no more "populism", "legitimate concerns" etc - accurate & damning depictions instead as needed

Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 21h

Greens growing. Reform ratttled.

PS - I changed my name back to my family's original Jewish name because I'm proud of being Jewish. If Tice think that makes me a weirdo, I think that makes him an antisemite.

Join.greenparty.org.uk

Tice "green party leader Zack Polanski is a weirdo. Changed his name, claimed hypnosis could increase women's breast size, thinks me should compete in women's sport, thinks women can have a penis. Other than that he's fine. Vote Green. Get weirdo."

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Alice Goodman @revdalicegoodman.bsky.social · 1d

Church of England take note.

Robert G. Callahan, II ⚖️ 📚 ⚖️ 📚 @rcallahanwaco.bsky.social · 5d

When churches start using the language of capitalism to describe community, don’t be surprised when discipleship sounds like a franchise.

You can’t preach stewardship while selling ownership. Pick a kingdom.

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entirelygill.bsky.social @entirelygill.bsky.social · 1d

Yes I have them on prescription, and they have absolutely changed my life in terms of reducing pain and making me more able to function.
But they don't remove the problem altogether, sadly.

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entirelygill.bsky.social @entirelygill.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you!

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entirelygill.bsky.social @entirelygill.bsky.social · 1d

Now onto the third day of this migraine.
Safe to say it's not doing a huge amount for my positive outlook.
Ow.

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entirelygill.bsky.social @entirelygill.bsky.social · 2d

Younger son managed to drop a fork on my foot pointy side down last night (yes it really hurt) and now I look like I've been attacked by the world's smallest vampire.

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entirelygill.bsky.social @entirelygill.bsky.social · 3d

Initial critic of UPF who then went on to develop fancy UPF to be sold in M&S offers criticism of fellow critic of UPF*.
Meanwhile, those of us interested in actual evidence-based advice allow ourselves a cup of tea and a biscuit.
*Tbf, Wicks *is* scare-mongering.

Screenshot of a headline from the Independent which says Gut-health guru Tim Spector hits back at Joe Wicks' new documentary and says he is "fear-mongering".
Comment: What Joe Wicks gets wrong about protein bars and UPFs.
Underneath the headline is a person in gym gear lifting weights.

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Caroline Dodds Pennock @carolinepennock.bsky.social · 3d

God bless The Church Times for their ongoing insistence on responding moderately but forcefully to the Reverend Canon Nigel Biggar’s nonsense. www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/202...

Even given all that Biggar writes about the universality of slavery and the complicity of Africans, three things might be said. First, Britain played a key part and, however others may want to respond to their own history, it is morally responsible to face up to our own heritage. Second, as a Tory, he might have made more of Burke’s view that society is a partnership not just between the living, but between the living, the dead, and those still to be born. Third, guilt is not the only spur to action. There are the obligations that we owe one another irrespective of any personal responsibility for atrocities in the past.

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Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 4d

i genuinely think we underestimate the level of conflict that may arise between the CoE and Reform UK + Jenrick wing of the Tories

Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 4d

The Bishop of Birmingham has written to the Shadow Justice Secretary Robert Jenrick about his comments about Handsworth

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entirelygill.bsky.social @entirelygill.bsky.social · 4d

The world is going to hell in the proverbial, but I am cheered that I've just noticed that Shine Jesus Shine and Stacey's Mom are basically the same song* and you can play the verse of one into the chorus of the other.
It's the little things.
*I mean, after a fashion.

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The Secret Barrister @barristersecret.bsky.social · 4d

This is a lie.

There are many criticisms you might sensibly and truthfully make of the Sentencing Council and the Sentencing Guidelines. I’ve been making them for years.

But this is an outright lie. Pure fabrication. A fraud on the public.

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entirelygill.bsky.social @entirelygill.bsky.social · 5d

Oh now that *is* exciting!

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entirelygill.bsky.social @entirelygill.bsky.social · 5d

Definitely recommend a listen if you're at all left-leaning politically, and/or a Christian. It's really accessible, covers a wide range of topics and is occasionally wonderfully silly.
Give it a listen. Your ears, and your soul, will thank you.

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entirelygill.bsky.social @entirelygill.bsky.social · 5d

Sometime back in lockdown, I discovered the @themagnificast.bsky.social podcast. It had episodes going aaaallll the way back to 2017, so back I went to the beginning too.
I've listened to a few episodes a week and as of today, I've caught up! 😱
Which is lovely and has left me feeling a bit bereft.

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Prof Stephen Serjeant @stephenserjeant.bsky.social · 6d

WOW. Posting also to the 🧪 feed

KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · 6d

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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entirelygill.bsky.social @entirelygill.bsky.social · 6d

I have an interest in the weirder fringes of Christianity but I'd never heard of these guys so I looked them up, and......bloody hell.
(I do slightly want to go and shout "Jesus thinks you're silly" at them though.)

Peter Walker @peterwalker99.bsky.social · 6d

For those who take a niche interest in the Americanisation of UK rightwing politics, formerly Tory-linked student group Turning Point are increasingly going down the Charlie Kirk-type evangelical path.

[Not the point, but I love the idea of 2025 Soho being some hotbed of sin]

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Brett Gray @bcgray.bsky.social · 8d

Thinking of my mom, who got involved as a lay woman in the campaign for women's ordination. She lived to see women ordained priests. She'd be tickled by a woman as the Archbishop of Canterbury.

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