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Sam Wilson @samwilson.bsky.social · 2h

28. The Roman Catholic church on Tristan Da Cunha in the South Atlantic, St Joseph’s, has no resident priest.

So the hosts are consecrated in a 4000-strong batch during the annual visit of their Ecclesiastical Superior and kept in tupperware.

(The Anglican church does have a resident priest)

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Sam Wilson @samwilson.bsky.social · 8h

I have been told Appalachian is another of these

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Sam Wilson @samwilson.bsky.social · 8h

A conservative talk show run by Metaxas, you say?

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Sam Wilson @samwilson.bsky.social · 8h

Literally had to google that one when someone said it to me

Sam Wilson @samwilson.bsky.social · 8h

“AO Arena”

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 10h

What’s the word where you’re from that, when pronounced exactly as it looks, identifies a tourist immediately?

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Sam Wilson @samwilson.bsky.social · 9h

This is the kind of institutional takeover I can get behind

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 9h

more Parrswoodians than Etonians in the cabinet at the moment!

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Sam Wilson @samwilson.bsky.social · 19h

Just signed a new #Synod motion from a member of my own diocese regarding how dioceses use lowest income communities funding and how the national church calculates who to give it to - do share with other Synod members

www.churchofengland.org/about/govern...

That this Synod:
a. regret that under the current system and in 2024 only 73% of lowest income communities funding (LInC) reached the most socially deprived 25% of parishes; that therefore more than £1 in every £4 of LInC funding cannot be traced as reaching a deprived parish (representing a potential total of £33 million misdirected during the next triennium); and, that 12 mainland dioceses receive no LInC funding, despite containing 268 parishes that are amongst the 25% most socially deprived.

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Emma Jacobs @emmavj.bsky.social · 20h

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 1d

Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.

(RNS) — Last month, the Rev. David Black stood in front of a Chicago-area U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility and spread his arms wide. Adorned in all black and wearing a clerical collar, the pastor looked up at a group of masked, heavily armed ICE agents on the roof and began to pray.

“I invited them to repentance,” Black, a minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA), said in an interview. “I basically offered an altar call. I invited them to come and receive that salvation, and be part of the kingdom that is coming.”

But when Black began to lower his arms a few seconds later, the agents responded to his spiritual plea by firing pepper balls, or chemical agents that cause eye irritation and respiratory distress, video footage shows. One struck Black in the head, exploding into a puff of white pepper smoke and forcing him to his knees. Fellow demonstrators rushed to his aid, and as the pastor rubbed his face in pain, the agents continued to fire.

“We could hear them laughing,” Black said.

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 1d

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

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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 1d

Tariff revenue is operating like ship money did for Charles I, when he tried to rule England without Parliament. Like the US, only the legislature could legitimately tax the people, but Charles used innovative abuses of his powers to raise & spend money as he wanted

(He later lost his crown & head)

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

“.. there is the question of how the bond market will react to tariff revenue being redirected away from lowering the deficit.”

@barrons.com
www.barrons.com/articles/tru...

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Sam Wilson @samwilson.bsky.social · 2d

I don’t imagine any chaplain lasts long if they’re not okay with being laughed at by those they serve

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Sam Wilson @samwilson.bsky.social · 2d

Niche, but this one. My grandfather is a woodworker and loves it.

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loretto...

Loretto Chapel - Wikipedia

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Sam Wilson @samwilson.bsky.social · 2d

He became an army chaplain, deployed to Afghanistan, rose to become a Colonel, awarded OBE, and is here commemorating the 80th anniversary of D-Day at Goodwood

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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 2d

> haces nada
> ???
> ganas

Serge Katz @sk-serge.bsky.social · 2d

Crise no Bolsonistão...
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Lula ofereceu uma saída para Trump. Com o fechamento do governo, a perda do mercado chinês para os exportadores de soja, etc., a inflação, Brasil se posiciona como uma oportunidade para o governo Trump aliviar a pressão na economia. Simples.

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Sam Wilson @samwilson.bsky.social · 2d

Watching a very old episode of Top Gear where they got ministers of various religions to race each other and I googled the mild-mannered CofE vicar to see what he was up to today and…

An Army Chaplain and Colonel in full regalia in front of a huge bonfire

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Jo Kibble (Political Animal) @politicanimal.bsky.social · 2d

Shocking lack of message discipline among primary school agent provocateurs.

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Daniel @deargodwhatnow.bsky.social · 2d

It's vastly underappreciated imho how a small number of dedicated and unified people can push through a huge amount of social change, whether you like them or not

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Daniel @deargodwhatnow.bsky.social · 2d

(A lot of people are very keen to say that all evangelical stuff in the UK is just imported and funded by Americans, and it's not actually true. There's always been a small but very dedicated movement here too)

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Sam Wilson @samwilson.bsky.social · 2d

Yes, that’s not how I remember the criticism at the time

Sam Wilson @samwilson.bsky.social · 2d

J is a fan of Taylor Swift so it’s just one playlist for us

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Sam Wilson @samwilson.bsky.social · 2d

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_...

Robert Courtney (fraudster) - Wikipedia

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Sam Wilson @samwilson.bsky.social · 2d

lol I googled this and turns out it was years ago and was just fresh in my head because a Law & Order ep I watched recently was inspired by it and so I was reading articles about it. Oops

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Sam Wilson @samwilson.bsky.social · 2d

A party that has been searching for its own Margaret Thatcher: Milk Snatcher for several decades now

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