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Catholicism, TEFL, raccoons, and pictures of dogs
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To repeat: Abolish ICE.
January 24, 2026 at 4:09 PM
To repeat: Abolish ICE.
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I know I am!
Just so we're clear, and so a tiny handful of wankers online don't create the wrong impression, the vast majority of your European friends are incredibly impressed by Minnesotans' courage against both the ice and ICE.
January 24, 2026 at 4:55 PM
I know I am!
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Today I learned “Norwegian Christian laws forbade citizens from conversing with and interacting with trolls, and in documents dating from 1274 to 1781, doing so would result in severe punishment” (source: Wikipedia), and I kinda think many people nowadays would be better off if this law was revived
January 24, 2026 at 7:31 AM
Today I learned “Norwegian Christian laws forbade citizens from conversing with and interacting with trolls, and in documents dating from 1274 to 1781, doing so would result in severe punishment” (source: Wikipedia), and I kinda think many people nowadays would be better off if this law was revived
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In solidarity with today's ICE OUT OF MINNESOTA blackout, MinnMax is donating $1 to the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota for every share of this Bluesky post for the next hour.
January 23, 2026 at 4:01 PM
In solidarity with today's ICE OUT OF MINNESOTA blackout, MinnMax is donating $1 to the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota for every share of this Bluesky post for the next hour.
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‘Could we just do that again? I lost the line’
Italian voice actor Carlo Bononi was the voice of all of the characters on Pingu. A trained clown by trade, he used a theater technique called grammelot, which consists of "speaking" in a mix of babbled gibberish noises. He improvised all the voices live and unscripted.
January 21, 2026 at 9:06 AM
‘Could we just do that again? I lost the line’
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It’s come to this: “Catholic members of the US armed forces could in good conscience consider disobeying orders to attack Greenland if such orders were issued, according to Archbishop Timothy Broglio, the bishop responsible for the pastoral care of US military personnel.”
Military archbishop: Troops could refuse orders on Greenland
Speaking to Britain's Sunday program on BBC, Archbishop Timothy Broglio reiterated that conscience could permit refusal of an unjust military order.
aleteia.org
January 20, 2026 at 1:24 AM
It’s come to this: “Catholic members of the US armed forces could in good conscience consider disobeying orders to attack Greenland if such orders were issued, according to Archbishop Timothy Broglio, the bishop responsible for the pastoral care of US military personnel.”
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"Cardinal Tobin said he was struck by voices in the Trump administration who seemed to be advancing a moral framework he described as 'almost a Darwinian calculus that the powerful survive and the weak don’t deserve to.'
'I would say that’s less than human'...”
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/19/u...
'I would say that’s less than human'...”
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/19/u...
Top Catholic Clerics Denounce U.S. Foreign Policy
www.nytimes.com
January 19, 2026 at 4:54 PM
"Cardinal Tobin said he was struck by voices in the Trump administration who seemed to be advancing a moral framework he described as 'almost a Darwinian calculus that the powerful survive and the weak don’t deserve to.'
'I would say that’s less than human'...”
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/19/u...
'I would say that’s less than human'...”
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/19/u...
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Candles for Ukraine!
Do you have any spare candles from Advent / Christmas Services? Any condition / colour, whole / stubs.
If so, and you're in Buckinghamshire / Bedfordshire / Oxfordshire +, please get in touch and I'll collect them. They will be remade & sent to Ukraine, giving them light & heat.
Do you have any spare candles from Advent / Christmas Services? Any condition / colour, whole / stubs.
If so, and you're in Buckinghamshire / Bedfordshire / Oxfordshire +, please get in touch and I'll collect them. They will be remade & sent to Ukraine, giving them light & heat.
January 16, 2026 at 3:34 PM
Candles for Ukraine!
Do you have any spare candles from Advent / Christmas Services? Any condition / colour, whole / stubs.
If so, and you're in Buckinghamshire / Bedfordshire / Oxfordshire +, please get in touch and I'll collect them. They will be remade & sent to Ukraine, giving them light & heat.
Do you have any spare candles from Advent / Christmas Services? Any condition / colour, whole / stubs.
If so, and you're in Buckinghamshire / Bedfordshire / Oxfordshire +, please get in touch and I'll collect them. They will be remade & sent to Ukraine, giving them light & heat.
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Surely some PhD candidate out there's already written a paper about how True Crime has parallels with fairytales, right? In that a lot of ppl partake in them as cautionary tales, instructional narratives they listen to on the outside chance they wind up in similar situations, literal or metaphorical
January 15, 2026 at 2:33 PM
Surely some PhD candidate out there's already written a paper about how True Crime has parallels with fairytales, right? In that a lot of ppl partake in them as cautionary tales, instructional narratives they listen to on the outside chance they wind up in similar situations, literal or metaphorical
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I can't believe that this has been an option the entire time
*sets up school for raccoons against racism*
*sets up school for raccoons against racism*
January 15, 2026 at 3:12 AM
I can't believe that this has been an option the entire time
*sets up school for raccoons against racism*
*sets up school for raccoons against racism*
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The new Barbie comes with a range of accessories to reflect her status as an autistic woman, such as:
- noise-cancelling headphones
- a fidget spinner
- intense social media scrutiny about how she's Being Autistic Wrong
- noise-cancelling headphones
- a fidget spinner
- intense social media scrutiny about how she's Being Autistic Wrong
January 12, 2026 at 5:10 PM
The new Barbie comes with a range of accessories to reflect her status as an autistic woman, such as:
- noise-cancelling headphones
- a fidget spinner
- intense social media scrutiny about how she's Being Autistic Wrong
- noise-cancelling headphones
- a fidget spinner
- intense social media scrutiny about how she's Being Autistic Wrong
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if someone is being open about their struggles with mental illness & your instinct is to “warn” them that people won’t respect them or that their job is in jeopardy—you’re telling on yourself.
silence & stigma & shame kill people. that there’s “safety” in silence is a lie.
silence & stigma & shame kill people. that there’s “safety” in silence is a lie.
January 3, 2026 at 4:30 PM
if someone is being open about their struggles with mental illness & your instinct is to “warn” them that people won’t respect them or that their job is in jeopardy—you’re telling on yourself.
silence & stigma & shame kill people. that there’s “safety” in silence is a lie.
silence & stigma & shame kill people. that there’s “safety” in silence is a lie.
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Guys guys guys, I found the archive of the Royal Institution Christmas Lectures (it's not an achievement, they've not hidden them) - you can watch every single one since they started televising them in the 60s:
www.rigb.org/christmas-le...
I love watching them every year, now I can see them all!
www.rigb.org/christmas-le...
I love watching them every year, now I can see them all!
Watch the Royal Institution CHRISTMAS LECTURES archive
Watch all the Royal Institution CHRISTMAS LECTURES back to 1966, when the lectures were first televised.
www.rigb.org
December 30, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Guys guys guys, I found the archive of the Royal Institution Christmas Lectures (it's not an achievement, they've not hidden them) - you can watch every single one since they started televising them in the 60s:
www.rigb.org/christmas-le...
I love watching them every year, now I can see them all!
www.rigb.org/christmas-le...
I love watching them every year, now I can see them all!
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In Agadoo did Kubla Khan
Push pineapples, shake the tree
Push pineapples, shake the tree
January 1, 2026 at 5:37 PM
In Agadoo did Kubla Khan
Push pineapples, shake the tree
Push pineapples, shake the tree
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Either my citizenship is the same as yours, or what's the fucking point
Ask this question and its follow-up. Like Begum before him, Alaa el-Fattah is being used as a crowbar to shift reasonable people - even some progressives - into a space of thinking that full citizenship, if granted recently or dual, is retroactively conditional or attracts a lower class of rights.
December 30, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Either my citizenship is the same as yours, or what's the fucking point
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Remember:
When Tylenol was poisoned *by an outsider* and killed people, the company recalled all their products & redesigned them.
When Intel’s Pentium had a bug so obscure it affected 1 in _9 billion_ long division calculations, they recalled their chips.
ChatGPT was made deadly *by its team*.
When Tylenol was poisoned *by an outsider* and killed people, the company recalled all their products & redesigned them.
When Intel’s Pentium had a bug so obscure it affected 1 in _9 billion_ long division calculations, they recalled their chips.
ChatGPT was made deadly *by its team*.
i don’t see how any of the benefits of chatgpt and other consumer-facing LLMs can possibly outweigh their incredible ability to induce suicides
Adam Raine’s life hurtled toward tragedy soon after he began talking with ChatGPT about homework. Analysis of his ChatGPT account shows how the chatbot became a confidant as he planned to end his life.
December 28, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Remember:
When Tylenol was poisoned *by an outsider* and killed people, the company recalled all their products & redesigned them.
When Intel’s Pentium had a bug so obscure it affected 1 in _9 billion_ long division calculations, they recalled their chips.
ChatGPT was made deadly *by its team*.
When Tylenol was poisoned *by an outsider* and killed people, the company recalled all their products & redesigned them.
When Intel’s Pentium had a bug so obscure it affected 1 in _9 billion_ long division calculations, they recalled their chips.
ChatGPT was made deadly *by its team*.
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For your collective delectation this holiday season:
Quite possibly the silliest thing I've ever written (and definitely the most ridiculous graph I've ever made!)
loreandordure.com/2025/12/16/j...
Quite possibly the silliest thing I've ever written (and definitely the most ridiculous graph I've ever made!)
loreandordure.com/2025/12/16/j...
Jingle Bells (Batman Smells): an incomplete festive folk-rhyme taxonomy
Gather round the fire, everyone, and let me tell you a story. It has everything you could want in a Christmas blockbuster: superheroes and villains, a car crash, children singing, a mystery to solv…
loreandordure.com
December 16, 2025 at 5:06 PM
For your collective delectation this holiday season:
Quite possibly the silliest thing I've ever written (and definitely the most ridiculous graph I've ever made!)
loreandordure.com/2025/12/16/j...
Quite possibly the silliest thing I've ever written (and definitely the most ridiculous graph I've ever made!)
loreandordure.com/2025/12/16/j...
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Imagine, for just a second, Biden saying this about Fox News.
And I bet the absolutely feckless White House press corps won’t cover this like the legit constitutional 1A disaster this is.
And I bet the absolutely feckless White House press corps won’t cover this like the legit constitutional 1A disaster this is.
Trump: "I think the people that have run CNN are a disgrace. I think it's imperative that CNN be sold because you certainly wouldn't want to just leave those people with some money so they can spend even more spending poison. It's lies. I wouldn't want to see the same company end up with CNN."
December 10, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Imagine, for just a second, Biden saying this about Fox News.
And I bet the absolutely feckless White House press corps won’t cover this like the legit constitutional 1A disaster this is.
And I bet the absolutely feckless White House press corps won’t cover this like the legit constitutional 1A disaster this is.
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O Weihnachtschwein, o Weihnachtschwein,
Wie lecker sind dein Schinken!
Du gruntest durch ganz Sommerzeit
Bis dein Winter-Schinkenhaftigkeit
Wie lecker sind dein Schinken!
Du gruntest durch ganz Sommerzeit
Bis dein Winter-Schinkenhaftigkeit
December 9, 2025 at 10:45 PM
O Weihnachtschwein, o Weihnachtschwein,
Wie lecker sind dein Schinken!
Du gruntest durch ganz Sommerzeit
Bis dein Winter-Schinkenhaftigkeit
Wie lecker sind dein Schinken!
Du gruntest durch ganz Sommerzeit
Bis dein Winter-Schinkenhaftigkeit
December 7, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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How Pigs Shaped Medieval Life www.medievalists.net/2024/11/how-... #pigs
How Pigs Shaped Medieval Life: Surprising Roles in Politics, Warfare, and Law - Medievalists.net
From scavengers cleaning city streets to symbols of royal power, pigs left an indelible mark on medieval history—often in the most unusual ways.
www.medievalists.net
December 3, 2025 at 3:05 PM
How Pigs Shaped Medieval Life www.medievalists.net/2024/11/how-... #pigs
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It’s the most wonderful time of the year! YES, it’s PGR Essay Prize Competition time again! We are delighted to open this year’s competition, and invite PGRs from across the diverse fields of English to submit their essays. Details can be found here:
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English Postgraduate Essay Prize 2026
About the prize
The English Association is pleased to invite submissions to the English journal’s annual essay competition, which is exclusive to postgrad
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December 2, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Please do share far and wide. We are committed to supporting PGRs through the entire process of submitting work and getting it published. Since taking over as Editor of English this has been one of my core commitments, and I will happily field any queries you might have about submitting your work.
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