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Matt B @mattbernico.bsky.social · 11h

For me, writing and thinking are really tied up together. If I have t written it, I don’t really know it.

Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 11h

I think the killer argument against relying upon AI to write is the massive amount of thinking and concept-welding that goes on for me (and I assume most everyone else) during the *process* of writing something - it’s a cognitive process and I know I’d actively get stupider if I skipped it

Decorative Gourdian Knot @buckrawheat.bsky.social · 11h

I also just wonder if any of these people have ever really appreciated the value added in going through the experience of something like this. The fact that it changes you to engage with and puzzle over your own work, that you're not a content printer that just needs juicing to go faster.

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Matt B @mattbernico.bsky.social · 13h

Truly grotesque and evil

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 18h

CHICAGO — Outside an elementary school during dismissal… horrifying. What have we become?

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Matt B @mattbernico.bsky.social · 1d

Damn this is so wild to read. Great work

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Matt B @mattbernico.bsky.social · 2d

Glasgow nurses with Unison vote to strike over pay bands! Nurses with other unions are still being consulted.

Solidarity with the nurses!

www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottis...

Glasgow nurses vote to strike in pay banding row

It could be the first local dispute action since the 1980s with staff unhappy with the pay grading they receive.

www.dailyrecord.co.uk

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Matt B @mattbernico.bsky.social · 2d

An out of context chick track with someone saying “that’s right. Your soul would stink up heaven”

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Matt B @mattbernico.bsky.social · 2d

lmao "bucking tradition" is a funny way of saying using the national guard to occupy americna cities.

NPR @npr.org · 2d

President Trump is bucking tradition and legal precedent in pushing to deploy the National Guard to Democratic-led cities like Portland, Oregon, and Chicago due to what he says is rampant crime and to support his crackdown on illegal immigration.

Trump's power to deploy National Guard, explained

President Trump is bucking tradition and legal precedent in pushing to deploy the National Guard to Democratic-led cities like Portland, Oregon, and Chicago due to what he says is rampant crime and to support his crackdown on illegal immigration.

n.pr

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Matt B @mattbernico.bsky.social · 2d

First past the post is insane.

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Matt B @mattbernico.bsky.social · 2d

Pretty wild that reform could have a quarter of the votes and still have a majority

Stats for Lefties 🍉🏳️‍⚧️ @leftiestats.bsky.social · 2d

🚨 POLL | Reform lead by 7%

➡️ REF – 27% (-2)
🔴 LAB – 20% (-2)
🟠 LD – 17% (+2)
🔵 CON – 17% (+1)
🟢 GRN – 12% (+1)

Via @YouGov, 5-6 Oct (+/- vs 28-29 Sep)

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Anupama Ranawana @msamrc.bsky.social · 3d

Very good by Nate Bear "the liberal abandonment of Greta Thunberg" www.donotpanic.news/p/the-libera...
#mustread

Only correction I would make is that while big climate science names may not be talking about how genocide also causes ecocide, many others have made the point.

The Liberal Abandonment Of Greta Thunberg

The Swedish activist Greta Thunberg has been detained by Israel and reportedly maltreated by her Israeli captors after she was kidnapped, along with hundreds of other activists, from Gaza’s territoria...

www.donotpanic.news

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Matt B @mattbernico.bsky.social · 3d

Wild that we're on track for 2.7 degrees of warming by 2100 and everyone is worried about immigrants or whatever rather than the people making the planet unlivable.

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Dean Dettloff @deandettloff.bsky.social · 4d

"It is one thing to live under an unlawful occupation, overwhelmed with fear, frustration, and anxiety, but it is another, deeper wound to know that much of the world, and many of our fellow Christians, are allowing this to happen."

blog.cristianismeijusticia.net/en/2025/10/0...

Reflection for Cristianisme i Justícia - Blog CJ

My name is Mays Nassar, a Palestinian Christian woman from the town of Bethlehem, in Palestine. I write to you as a witness from a land valued for its holiness, yet burdened with immense sorrow, pain,...

blog.cristianismeijusticia.net

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Brett "Solidarity 2025" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 4d

I demand a union representative.

CNBC @cnbc.com · 4d

To shut down rude behavior instantly, try a simple yet powerful five-word response.

Use this 5-word phrase when someone is rude to you—it's like 'holding up a mirror,' says public speaking expert

When we encounter a rude person, our first instinct might be to fire back with a snarky comment. But that's not the right move, says public speaking expert John Bowe. Here's the perfect response to instantly shut down rude behavior.

cnb.cx

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Dean Dettloff @deandettloff.bsky.social · 4d

An interesting note where Felix Guattari compares Donald Trump as real estate mogul to algae (from The Three Ecologies, originally published in 1989).

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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 5d

British politics is basically a doom spiral of increasingly unhinged hostile policies.

Reform says something unhinged
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Labour counters with their own unhinged policy
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Tories shout from back they'll be even more unhinged
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Reform announces different unhinged proposal in response
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And repeat...🔁

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Matt B @mattbernico.bsky.social · 5d

Wild that someone would rather scapegoat immigrants and be complicit in genocide when this exists.

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Matt B @mattbernico.bsky.social · 6d

Hell yeah Lee Bains kicks ass.

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Matt B @mattbernico.bsky.social · 6d

Thank you for being the moral voice and saying no to digital ID

*checks notes*

Louis Mosley, the UK boss of Palantir and grandchild to infamous British Fascist Oswald Mosley

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...

Major software firm rules out helping Labour with digital ID cards

Louis Mosley, the UK boss of Palantir Technologies, noted how Labour 's manifesto prior to last year's general election made no mention of such a scheme.

www.dailymail.co.uk

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Marika Rose @marika.bsky.social · 6d

Further evidence of the limits of my theological training: I’m only just now learning about Jenny Geddes, stool riot legend

Janet "Jenny" Geddes (c. 1600 – c. 1660) was a Scottish market-trader in Edinburgh who is alleged to have thrown a stool at the head of the minister in St Giles' Cathedral in objection to the first public use of the Church of Scotland's revised version of the Book of Common Prayer, the 1637 Scottish Prayer Book. The act is reputed to have sparked the riot that led to the Wars of the Three Kingdoms, which included the English Civil War.

when James Hannay, Dean of Edinburgh, began to read the Collects, part of the prescribed service, and Geddes, a market-woman or street-seller, threw her stool straight at the minister's head. Some sources describe it as a "fald stool" or a "creepie-stool", while others claim that it was a larger, three-legged cuttie-stool. As she hurled the stool she is reported to have yelled: "De'il gie you colic, the wame o' ye, fause thief; daur ye say Mass in my lug?" meaning "The Devil give you colic! The hide of you! (lit. "the belly of you") False thief! You dare say the Mass in my ear?"
This was the start of a general tumult with much of the congregation shouting abuse and throwing Bibles, stools, sticks and stones. John Prebble reports the phrase "Daur ye say Mass in my lug?" as being addressed to a gentleman in the congregation who murmured a dutiful response to the liturgy, getting thumped with a Bible for his pains

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Matt B @mattbernico.bsky.social · 6d

Being mad about what version of the BCP is used is my favourite Christian tradition.

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Nicolete Burbach @nicoleteburbach.bsky.social · 8d

We're hosting Rev Dr Kelly Brown Douglas later this month! Yes, THE Kelly Brown Douglas - one of the most important living Womanist theologians.

I am actually beyond excited about this, so please sign up! Online at 7pm on the 28th Oct.

londonjesuitcentre.churchsuite.com/events/eigp7...

Black History Month lecture with Rev Dr Kelly Brown Douglas (28-Oct-2025)

Join us for our annual Black History Month lecture, featuring the trailblazing Womanist theologian, Rev Dr Kelly Brown Douglas.The Rev. Kelly Brown Douglas, Ph.D. is currently the visiting professor o...

londonjesuitcentre.churchsuite.com

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Matt B @mattbernico.bsky.social · 6d

Damn, the public diner is so cool. Such a great example of the power of universalism!

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Matt B @mattbernico.bsky.social · 6d

I don't go to an Episcopal/Anglican church anymore, but I am a former vestry member and indebted to that community to becoming the annoying church person I am now.

Matt B @mattbernico.bsky.social · 6d

In case you're curious. In the past, Mullally has supported

- LGBTQ+ rights
- Abortion rights
- The ordination of women (duh)
- Described herself as a feminist.

I'll say a big prayer for her future leadership and against her haters.

Matt B @mattbernico.bsky.social · 6d

Definitely lacking the magic and mystery of electing a new Pope, but cool all the same.

edition.cnn.com/2025/10/03/u...

Woman appointed Archbishop of Canterbury in a historic first for the Church of England | CNN

Sarah Mullally was on Friday appointed as the new Archbishop of Canterbury, becoming the spiritual leader of 85 million Anglicans worldwide and the first woman to hold the role.

edition.cnn.com

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Matt B @mattbernico.bsky.social · 6d

Definitely lacking the magic and mystery of electing a new Pope, but cool all the same.

edition.cnn.com/2025/10/03/u...

Woman appointed Archbishop of Canterbury in a historic first for the Church of England | CNN

Sarah Mullally was on Friday appointed as the new Archbishop of Canterbury, becoming the spiritual leader of 85 million Anglicans worldwide and the first woman to hold the role.

edition.cnn.com

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