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Stephanie @stephanieoffer.bsky.social · 8h

A good Kiwi recipe &favourite in my family is ginger crunch Ginger Crunch Recipe NZ | Edmonds Cooking share.google/6kYmby4TjUcm...

Ginger Crunch Recipe NZ | Edmonds Cooking

Ginger Crunch - The 'crunch' is the key to this recipe.

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Stephanie @stephanieoffer.bsky.social · 8h

Prince Andrew to order police to re-open all files on Lord Lucan

CNN @cnn.com · 1d

The Trump administration has ordered FBI employees in Washington, DC, to immediately search their workstations and digital media for any records pertaining to the disappearance of Amelia Earhart, a law enforcement source told CNN.

FBI employees ordered to immediately search for records related to Amelia Earhart, source says | CNN Politics

The Trump administration has ordered FBI employees in Washington, DC, to immediately search their workstations and digital media for any records pertaining to the disappearance of Amelia Earhart, a la...

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TKarney @pecunium.bsky.social · 12h

A recurrent attempt to blame people for corporate action (this news gets repeated every few years).

HFAs in inhalers = ~2.4million tons a year.

Total CO2 last year was 37.8 GIGAtons.

Inhalers are less than a rounding error.

CNN @cnn.com · 2d

The people who are most vulnerable to the hard-to-breathe air that comes with climate change may inadvertently be adding to the problem, new research finds. https://cnn.it/4pWQMoh

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Harlow Lombard @harlowlombard.bsky.social · 12h

We’re going to have to agree to disagree. “Harm reduction” in electoral politics is what got us here. The longer we hold onto the system, the more power it retains over us.

Graphic of the long term effects of voting for the “lesser evil.” The “lesser evil” is scratched out after each vote, and a new “lesser evil” appears to the Right of it. Then this cycle repeats, moving voters further to the Right each time.

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Old Timey Food @oldtimey.bsky.social · 10h

Double, double,
desiccated vegetables and no trouble

Wellcome Collection
between 1890 and 1899

The Portable Food Co's consolidated soups and dessicated vegetables : "no trouble" : Burn, fire! Cauldron bubble! Splendid soup, NO TROUBLE.
Portable Food Company.
Date:
[between 1890 and 1899?]
Advertisement image shows three women around a cauldron labeled "no trouble;" they are wearing aprons and caps and each carries a giant spoon. For some reason the spoons are labeled 1, 2, and 6.

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Laratheescapeartist @lescapeartist.bsky.social · 11h

'..the wealthiest 10% of Britons generate more emissions from aviation alone than do the poorest 20% from all their activities combined' #flightfree

Leo Murray @crisortunity.bsky.social · 1d

I know nobody wants to hear this. But we cant meet climate goals (aka survive the century) without policies to reduce demand for flights

Flight from reality: sustainable aviation, Jet Zero, and the technofix

This paper argues that rising aviation emissions, which are disproportionally driven by the wealthy, pose a serious threat to climate goals. Using the UK’s Jet Zero strategy as a case study, it exp...

www.tandfonline.com

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Stephanie @stephanieoffer.bsky.social · 9h

That is really good progress, they look very sweet together

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Alice Goodman @revdalicegoodman.bsky.social · 19h

Somewhat misleading account of what I said here.

Prospect Magazine @prospectmagazine.co.uk · 20h

Anglican priest @revdalicegoodman.bsky.social recalls the moment she blessed some Unite the Kingdom protestors on the tube. “It was, I suppose, better than saying ‘God damn you.’”

Why I’m praying for Tommy Robinson supporters

An encounter with two elderly football hooligans on the tube made me consider the purpose of preaching in our fractured times

www.prospectmagazine.co.uk

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Alan Lester @alanlester.bsky.social · 14h

Its strange how, amidst calls to draw more attention to British suppression of slavery in the Indian Ocean & East Africa (and to focus less on British slavery in the Atlantic), this excellent study by Moses Nwulia (1975) is so neglected. Maybe to do with his ‘humanitarianism of self-interest’ idea?

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Fishtopher and Friends @fishtopher.bsky.social · 16h

big burger head

Fishtopher, a classic brown tabby cat, getting chin rubs by the cameraperson. His eyes are closed, and his face is relaxed as he enjoys being pet. His left canine tooth points out from behind his cheeks.

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👻madeline boOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 18h

Wrote a lil bit for the Clarion about Speedwell House, for those of you who saw my posts on it the other day! Am I ready for Serious Historians to call me ridiculous? Yes. Did I have a lot of fun writing it? Also yes

Oxford Clarion @oxfordclarion.bsky.social · 18h

An unexpected archaeological discovery in Oxfordshire County Council’s proposed new HQ could transform our understanding of Oxford’s history. Madeline Odent @oldenoughtosay.com unearths a fascinating site – and floats an intriguing possibility…

oxfordclarion.uk/have-we-foun...

Have we found St Frideswide’s Priory?

An unexpected discovery at Oxfordshire County Council’s proposed new HQ could transform our understanding of Oxford’s history. Madeline Odent explains more… Oxfordshire County Council received some u...

oxfordclarion.uk

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Ramona Negrón @ramonanegron.bsky.social · 18h

Does anyone have access to the article below? I'd be very grateful if you can send me a pdf!

doi.org/10.1002/9781...

Demerara Slave Rebellion, 1823

The Demerara Slave Rebellion was one of several revolts that erupted in the Caribbean in the first decades of the nineteenth century. Founded as a Dutch colony in 1746, Demerara stretched for about 2...

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Dave Andress @davidandress.bsky.social · 1d

The “arguments” that Nigel Biggar is lauded for making are confused, self-serving humbug, but more importantly, the “facts” he purports to base them on are simply, profoundly, wrong.

Alan Lester @alanlester.bsky.social · 6d

The @telegraphnews.bsky.social, @dailymail.co.uk and @thespectator1828.bsky.social have all promoted Nigel Biggar’s latest book as the definitive riposte to reparations claims. But what exactly are its arguments and how do they stand up to scrutiny?

alanlester.co.uk/blog/the-ant...

The Anti-Reparations Bible

Alan Lester Promoting the Anti-Reparations Bible Britain’s right-wing press has mobilised to promote Nigel Biggar’s latest book, Reparations: Slavery and the Tyranny of Imaginary Guilt as the defin…

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Josh Fruhlinger @jfruh.bsky.social · 1d

been reading about the glorious revolution and it’s funny that this event that looms so large in the history of British parliamentary govt and thus world liberal democracy was straightforwardly the Dutch doing a regime change as part of their geopolitical struggle against France

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Ben Fulford @benmfulford.bsky.social · 1d

Robust critical response to Jenrick from Bp Michael Volland.

(NB bishops have been saying robust things to politicians about their words & actions for a very long time: it’s quite trad)

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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Andrew Dotchin (tssf) he/him @suffolkvicar.bsky.social · 1d

Help Church Peeps ✝️
Does anyone else have an old door on their church which requires you to pull the handle towards you and then twist before it will open?
A newcomer sadly missed church on Sunday as they couldn’t work the door.
We’re looking for a graphic to explain the process. Has anyone got one?

a picture of a woman with the words just open the door hurry on the bottom

Alt: a picture of a woman with the words just open the door hurry on the bottom

media.tenor.com

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Omar Khan @omaromalleykhan.bsky.social · 1d

I know statistics are poorly understood and are misused. But facts matter

Between the 1991, 2001, 2011 and 2021 Census *every* ethnic group in the UK has become *less* geographically segregated and *all* groups, majority and minorities, are more likely to interact with people not like them

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Stephanie @stephanieoffer.bsky.social · 1d

Really, really good book, thoroughly recommend it #C18th #C19th 🗃

Dr Miranda Kaufmann @drmirandakaufmann.bsky.social · 1d

#Heiresses US edition published by @pegasusbooks.bsky.social is out today!

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Stephanie @stephanieoffer.bsky.social · 1d

Great fun, look forward to their commentary next week. May their be a proper evensong!

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Leonie V. Hicks @lvhicks.bsky.social · 1d

The posts aren't in a thread, but I do believe @quiresandplaces.com has been live-posting 'Murder before Evensong'. Worth a read for silliness (and Evensong facts).

In Quires and Places where they meme @quiresandplaces.com · 1d

Last time we saw anything that could be described as murder before Evensong, it was an attempt to get through Clucas in F sharp in the rehearsal. #quiresandmurders

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Stephanie @stephanieoffer.bsky.social · 1d

He sounds like a very brave man.

I agree, it's so expensive and so dangerous

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Stephanie @stephanieoffer.bsky.social · 1d

That is one heck of a look, I'd do what I was told if I were you!

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Stephanie @stephanieoffer.bsky.social · 1d

I was thinking of their wider lifestyle, she's built up this idealised, perfect idea of how their lives will be. Being crammed into a small bedroom at Will's place isn't going to be ideal for a start. Unless George gets Will and Poppy to move out? #TheArchers

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Stephanie @stephanieoffer.bsky.social · 1d

I've seen an example of this happening in a newspaper report about the Croydon Assizes in the C18th

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VictorianLondon @victorianlondon.bsky.social · 1d

lot of interest in this case the other day (1829) ... turns out there was a pamphlet archive.org/details/auth... warning, describes how they performed a post mortem to check on 'James's' sex. The publisher? J.S.Thomas, soon to become the first superintendent of the new Met police in Covent Garden.

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