Jo Kershaw
@mthrjo.bsky.social
Priest, mediaevalist, geek, Scot. All views personal. She/ her
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Jo Kershaw
@mthrjo.bsky.social
· Jan 1
Birds of 2025:
Chaffinch
Pigeon
Sparrow
Goldfinch
Robin
Dunnock
Jackdaw
Starling
Chaffinch
Pigeon
Sparrow
Goldfinch
Robin
Dunnock
Jackdaw
Starling
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As someone who has had a Motability car in the past (before failing my 7th driving test), you don't get any type of car - it is a scheme to use your benefits to lease an adapted car, and to get a BMW etc you would need to pay the significant difference
Let's be absolutely clear the restrictions on Motability cars is reflective of a quiet desire to see disabled people pushed out of public life because getting them in public space is sometimes a bit inconvenient and expensive
November 25, 2025 at 4:48 PM
As someone who has had a Motability car in the past (before failing my 7th driving test), you don't get any type of car - it is a scheme to use your benefits to lease an adapted car, and to get a BMW etc you would need to pay the significant difference
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The @scottpolar.bsky.social are looking for a librarian. This is a rare opportunity! Work with (probably) the world's largest dedicated polar library alongside archive and museum colleagues. The dream 😍
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Librarian
The Library of the Scott Polar Research Institute is one of the most comprehensive collections of published polar information in the world. This highly specialist reference collection, which attracts
www.cam.ac.uk
November 25, 2025 at 8:45 PM
The @scottpolar.bsky.social are looking for a librarian. This is a rare opportunity! Work with (probably) the world's largest dedicated polar library alongside archive and museum colleagues. The dream 😍
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What gets me about both the reporting and the judge's language is that even supposing "gender ideology" is some sort of religious belief, you would be more respectful of someone's religious belief than this. "..born Robert Prevost but now identifying as 'Pope Leo'".
They keep fucking editing the article, but it's not any better. And this addition about why the judge referred to her as "them" is like a parody of impartiality
![An excerpt from the linked article that reads:
[The judge] explained that the prosecution used female pronouns to refer to the complainant during the trial, while Linehan's defence used male pronouns. The judge said she had chosen to refer to Brooks using "gender neutral pronouns and as 'the complainant'" in her ruling.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:umokacyt44veykd6qw5zokyi/bafkreifcuteahuy7btte3q77evxfatrh7ddbi676sw4squ6hrpshakcszm@jpeg)
November 25, 2025 at 9:04 PM
What gets me about both the reporting and the judge's language is that even supposing "gender ideology" is some sort of religious belief, you would be more respectful of someone's religious belief than this. "..born Robert Prevost but now identifying as 'Pope Leo'".
Three Treasures from the Earth
November 25, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Three Treasures from the Earth
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Device…hoarding. Because you don’t go get a new one while yours is still fine.
Apparently I am also practicing car hoarding, house hoarding, husband hoarding, dog hoarding, computer hoarding, furniture hoarding and art hoarding.
Apparently I am also practicing car hoarding, house hoarding, husband hoarding, dog hoarding, computer hoarding, furniture hoarding and art hoarding.
stupid young people, stop buying a new phone every year if you don't want to be broke. wait no, not like that.
November 25, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Device…hoarding. Because you don’t go get a new one while yours is still fine.
Apparently I am also practicing car hoarding, house hoarding, husband hoarding, dog hoarding, computer hoarding, furniture hoarding and art hoarding.
Apparently I am also practicing car hoarding, house hoarding, husband hoarding, dog hoarding, computer hoarding, furniture hoarding and art hoarding.
I’m going to try and find a non-prebasted turkey. Wish me luck.
November 25, 2025 at 7:27 PM
I’m going to try and find a non-prebasted turkey. Wish me luck.
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We regret to inform you the Milkshake Duck is full of Aspartame
Oh great. More stuff to have the recipe changed to horrible-tasting sweetners 🙄
UK sugar tax to be extended to more soft drinks and milkshakes on.ft.com/3Mneef5
November 25, 2025 at 5:47 PM
We regret to inform you the Milkshake Duck is full of Aspartame
What the hell is wrong with these people?
Trump: "Instead of pardons, some of my more enthusiastic staffers were already drafting the paperwork to ship Gobble and Waddle straight to the Terrorist Confinement Center in El Salvador."
November 25, 2025 at 6:48 PM
What the hell is wrong with these people?
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Might start asking people who object which of my clients should give their lease cars back. Jayne probably has the most expensive one, it’s basically a minivan. Admittedly she may need it what with the epilepsy and motor neurone disease and so on but she can walk to those hospital appointments right
Don’t want to be too moralistic about this, but it is an active disgrace what people are doing to a profoundly liberational scheme that costs relatively piddling amounts on the basis of a couple of right wing shitposters misrepresenting it on Twitter.
November 25, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Might start asking people who object which of my clients should give their lease cars back. Jayne probably has the most expensive one, it’s basically a minivan. Admittedly she may need it what with the epilepsy and motor neurone disease and so on but she can walk to those hospital appointments right
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Let me get this straight: there is a cut in fuel duty, a new charge on electric vehicles, and a cut in support for people buying electric bikes
When can you declare an emergency over?
The 5p “emergency” petrol tax cut was introduced in March 2022, to offset a spike in prices
They are now about 30p down on that month, & about 50p down on the absolute peak
The 5p “emergency” petrol tax cut was introduced in March 2022, to offset a spike in prices
They are now about 30p down on that month, & about 50p down on the absolute peak
November 25, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Let me get this straight: there is a cut in fuel duty, a new charge on electric vehicles, and a cut in support for people buying electric bikes
Unrelatedly, I remain just a bit say that we never went in for calling them RAT tests in this country. LFT is so dull.
Patient came in with sore throat. While waiting for rapid Strep test result we glanced back at the Covid-19 RAT result: positive. Reminder that masking in health care makes sense, if you don’t want everyone in your waiting room to go home sick, your staff to get sick, and physicians to get sick.
November 25, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Unrelatedly, I remain just a bit say that we never went in for calling them RAT tests in this country. LFT is so dull.
Grr, spouse informs me that our Tesco doesn’t have frozen turkeys that aren’t pre-basted, what fresh (or frozen) hell is this?
November 25, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Grr, spouse informs me that our Tesco doesn’t have frozen turkeys that aren’t pre-basted, what fresh (or frozen) hell is this?
I am not the Atlantic’s biggest fan, but it seems to me that that piece on RFK does a pretty good job of saying “this man is both very odd and, given the position he holds, dangerous,” while not saying anything actionable.
November 25, 2025 at 4:11 PM
I am not the Atlantic’s biggest fan, but it seems to me that that piece on RFK does a pretty good job of saying “this man is both very odd and, given the position he holds, dangerous,” while not saying anything actionable.
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Say a prayer for those who go down to the sea in ships.
Its the start of the Lobster season back in my native Nova Scotia: "They that go down to the sea in ships, that do business in great waters; These see the works of the Lord, and his wonders in the deep".
Its the start of the Lobster season back in my native Nova Scotia: "They that go down to the sea in ships, that do business in great waters; These see the works of the Lord, and his wonders in the deep".
November 25, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Say a prayer for those who go down to the sea in ships.
Its the start of the Lobster season back in my native Nova Scotia: "They that go down to the sea in ships, that do business in great waters; These see the works of the Lord, and his wonders in the deep".
Its the start of the Lobster season back in my native Nova Scotia: "They that go down to the sea in ships, that do business in great waters; These see the works of the Lord, and his wonders in the deep".
Thing is I actually agree that paper towels are better than hand driers - but that’s a very weird thing to make the subject of your leader at this juncture.
November 25, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Thing is I actually agree that paper towels are better than hand driers - but that’s a very weird thing to make the subject of your leader at this juncture.
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We invite you to join us in our daily diocesan prayers.
Pray for the chaplaincies in
Menton: May the Lord's healing power continue to bring peace and hope.
Nice: May the Lord bring peace to His world through this community
Pray for the chaplaincies in
Menton: May the Lord's healing power continue to bring peace and hope.
Nice: May the Lord bring peace to His world through this community
November 25, 2025 at 6:00 AM
We invite you to join us in our daily diocesan prayers.
Pray for the chaplaincies in
Menton: May the Lord's healing power continue to bring peace and hope.
Nice: May the Lord bring peace to His world through this community
Pray for the chaplaincies in
Menton: May the Lord's healing power continue to bring peace and hope.
Nice: May the Lord bring peace to His world through this community
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Don’t want to be too moralistic about this, but it is an active disgrace what people are doing to a profoundly liberational scheme that costs relatively piddling amounts on the basis of a couple of right wing shitposters misrepresenting it on Twitter.
November 25, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Don’t want to be too moralistic about this, but it is an active disgrace what people are doing to a profoundly liberational scheme that costs relatively piddling amounts on the basis of a couple of right wing shitposters misrepresenting it on Twitter.
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The government’s decision to halve the time limit for refugees to leave Home Office accommodation is driving people into homelessness and exploitation, according to migrant rights campaigners and homelessness charities
By me, for @theleaduk.bsky.social national.thelead.uk/p/new-asylum...
By me, for @theleaduk.bsky.social national.thelead.uk/p/new-asylum...
New asylum policies making homeless refugees “targets for the far right”
Labour’s abrupt return to the 28-day move-on period is pushing vulnerable people into rough sleeping and exposing them to fraud and abuse.
national.thelead.uk
November 25, 2025 at 1:20 PM
The government’s decision to halve the time limit for refugees to leave Home Office accommodation is driving people into homelessness and exploitation, according to migrant rights campaigners and homelessness charities
By me, for @theleaduk.bsky.social national.thelead.uk/p/new-asylum...
By me, for @theleaduk.bsky.social national.thelead.uk/p/new-asylum...
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BBC removes description of Donald Trump as "the most openly corrupt president in American history" from the broadcast today of Rutger Bregman's Reith Lecture. I was among the several hundred people to hear the original at the lecture theatre
I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
November 25, 2025 at 12:49 PM
BBC removes description of Donald Trump as "the most openly corrupt president in American history" from the broadcast today of Rutger Bregman's Reith Lecture. I was among the several hundred people to hear the original at the lecture theatre
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It is genuinely insane to see a judge describe Graham Linehan as a “generally credible witness” in a trial where he claimed Sophia Brooks has been engaged in “trans activism” since 2013 (when she would’ve been 6 years old), then, when challenged, claimed her drivers license lied about her age.
November 25, 2025 at 12:34 PM
It is genuinely insane to see a judge describe Graham Linehan as a “generally credible witness” in a trial where he claimed Sophia Brooks has been engaged in “trans activism” since 2013 (when she would’ve been 6 years old), then, when challenged, claimed her drivers license lied about her age.
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I don’t know enough about the situation with Lineham to opine on whether the judgement is valid or not, but everything about this paragraph in the BBC article makes me despair at how many institutions have been captured by the GC movement
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
November 25, 2025 at 12:29 PM
I don’t know enough about the situation with Lineham to opine on whether the judgement is valid or not, but everything about this paragraph in the BBC article makes me despair at how many institutions have been captured by the GC movement
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
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On Bregman, I was there in the audience and I can’t see what the BBC have gained by removing this line except more bad publicity. I will say that no such edits or censorship occurred when I gave the Reith Lectures and free-speech defenders might want think about whether this is the world they want.
November 25, 2025 at 12:11 PM
On Bregman, I was there in the audience and I can’t see what the BBC have gained by removing this line except more bad publicity. I will say that no such edits or censorship occurred when I gave the Reith Lectures and free-speech defenders might want think about whether this is the world they want.
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"..it is in truth not for glory, nor riches, nor honours that we are fighting, but for milkshake. ..."
November 25, 2025 at 11:43 AM
"..it is in truth not for glory, nor riches, nor honours that we are fighting, but for milkshake. ..."
I hate the sugar tax.
UK sugar tax to be extended to more soft drinks and milkshakes on.ft.com/3Mneef5
UK sugar tax to be extended to more soft drinks and milkshakes
Move comes after brands change recipes to avoid levy
on.ft.com
November 25, 2025 at 11:46 AM
I hate the sugar tax.
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The “savvy” view is usually wrong - both morally but also as analysis. Farage’s views and character are a really important part of why the polls are where they are!
All the supposedly progressive people saying 'Nigel Farage's racism doesn't matter. His fans love it'.
It matters whether the leader of the party leading all the opinion polls is an outright racist. It matters if he called black people 'wogs' and said 'gas them' to Jews. Not everything is a game
It matters whether the leader of the party leading all the opinion polls is an outright racist. It matters if he called black people 'wogs' and said 'gas them' to Jews. Not everything is a game
November 25, 2025 at 10:53 AM
The “savvy” view is usually wrong - both morally but also as analysis. Farage’s views and character are a really important part of why the polls are where they are!