Vivian H
@vivianh.bsky.social
Non-binary single parent. Chronically exhausted. Never known to underthink anything. Approximately Anglican, Benedictine fanperson.
Parenting duty done: have made my children (13 & 16) sit down and watch The Blues Brothers with me. It's Papally approved, you know! Children loved it.
December 4, 2025 at 11:12 PM
Parenting duty done: have made my children (13 & 16) sit down and watch The Blues Brothers with me. It's Papally approved, you know! Children loved it.
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I’ve seen a number of people sharing this story with the comment, why didn’t he tell Stoppard, and I think the answer is probably “because people either don’t think to or think there will always be time to.” If someone has done something you admire, tell them.
I hope someone draws this wonderful story about Tom Stoppard's Arcadia and the power of the arts to help us see things differently, to the attention of our Education Secretary. Do read it, it will lift your spirits.
December 2, 2025 at 11:50 AM
I’ve seen a number of people sharing this story with the comment, why didn’t he tell Stoppard, and I think the answer is probably “because people either don’t think to or think there will always be time to.” If someone has done something you admire, tell them.
A perfect illustration of why we must stop pitting Arts and Sciences against each other. We need all of them, because that is what being human is.
December 2, 2025 at 9:06 AM
A perfect illustration of why we must stop pitting Arts and Sciences against each other. We need all of them, because that is what being human is.
Baking Danishly - a dream of a cake (drømmekage)
December 1, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Baking Danishly - a dream of a cake (drømmekage)
Advent has all the best tunes.
November 30, 2025 at 10:54 PM
Advent has all the best tunes.
I mean, this kind of service shouldn't be down to lottery winners, but good on him, because it's a very much needed thing.
BBC News - Lottery winner funds centre for vulnerable adults
www.bbc.com/news/article...
BBC News - Lottery winner funds centre for vulnerable adults
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Lottery winner funds Chichester centre for vulnerable adults
Steve Thomson, who won £105m in 2019, is funding the new charity building in Chichester.
www.bbc.com
November 29, 2025 at 7:23 PM
I mean, this kind of service shouldn't be down to lottery winners, but good on him, because it's a very much needed thing.
BBC News - Lottery winner funds centre for vulnerable adults
www.bbc.com/news/article...
BBC News - Lottery winner funds centre for vulnerable adults
www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Muscular Christianity.
“Wear some headphones, kid. And put your shoes back on”
“Wear some headphones, kid. And put your shoes back on”
November 29, 2025 at 9:25 AM
Muscular Christianity.
“Wear some headphones, kid. And put your shoes back on”
“Wear some headphones, kid. And put your shoes back on”
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One of the reasons i love tolkien is the theme that despair is an enemy
and it makes clear you don’t need to have constant hope, you can get by with grim determination or spite but never despair
and it makes clear you don’t need to have constant hope, you can get by with grim determination or spite but never despair
You can be as terrified or nonplussed or unperturbed as you like; the sun will still rise tomorrow & the rent will still be due on the 31st. The world has no romantic narratives for its fate except those we invent, because the world does not die. That is our privilege.
I said it elsewhere, but it’s weirdly exhilarating and addictive to be terrified all the time, and the people addicted to it, when they say this, may as well be saying “I can stop at any time, it’s just the world doing this *to* me.”
December 31, 2023 at 3:23 AM
One of the reasons i love tolkien is the theme that despair is an enemy
and it makes clear you don’t need to have constant hope, you can get by with grim determination or spite but never despair
and it makes clear you don’t need to have constant hope, you can get by with grim determination or spite but never despair
Just love being fortysomething and being able to wreck my neck/shoulders/I don't even know anymore for several days by doing terrible things like *sleeping wrong*.
November 27, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Just love being fortysomething and being able to wreck my neck/shoulders/I don't even know anymore for several days by doing terrible things like *sleeping wrong*.
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This country seems to have a bottomless well of sympathy towards asset rich pensioners and only contempt for anyone under 50 who is putting half their income into paying their landlords fourth mortgage and a big chunk of the rest into skyrocketing bills.
Look it’s never nice to find yourself in a position of having to move when you don’t want to but given that due to the volatility of the London housing market I have had to move FIVE TIMES since 2020 I’m struggling to feel very sympathetic towards people whose ’problem’ is a paid off 2mil property.
November 27, 2025 at 9:11 AM
This country seems to have a bottomless well of sympathy towards asset rich pensioners and only contempt for anyone under 50 who is putting half their income into paying their landlords fourth mortgage and a big chunk of the rest into skyrocketing bills.
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What languages did the 35 hermits living in Jerusalem in 808 pray to God in? Charlemagne wanted to know, so he found out. (Mostly Greek and Syriac)
November 21, 2025 at 1:22 PM
What languages did the 35 hermits living in Jerusalem in 808 pray to God in? Charlemagne wanted to know, so he found out. (Mostly Greek and Syriac)
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was fun to work on this with @rhigarthjones.bsky.social - about choosing different ways to talk to different publics
In #AHAPerspectives, Rhiannon Garth Jones and Matthew Gabriele argue for moving away from the traditional bibliography in trade books and toward something more conversational to engage with the wider public. 🗃️
Bibliographies for the People – AHA
Embracing alternative citation help the public better engage with trade history books.
www.historians.org
November 19, 2025 at 5:52 PM
was fun to work on this with @rhigarthjones.bsky.social - about choosing different ways to talk to different publics
Thing I found out today: if you're on Universal Credit (or other means-tested benefits) you can get into Hampton Court Palace, Kensington Palace, or the Tower of London for £1 (and 50% off at one cafe per site too). Because poor people deserve days out too www.hrp.org.uk/one-pound-ti...
One Pound Tickets
£1 tickets for a day visit to the Tower of London, Hampton Court Palace and Kensington Palace will be available to anyone in receipt of named benefits.
www.hrp.org.uk
November 19, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Thing I found out today: if you're on Universal Credit (or other means-tested benefits) you can get into Hampton Court Palace, Kensington Palace, or the Tower of London for £1 (and 50% off at one cafe per site too). Because poor people deserve days out too www.hrp.org.uk/one-pound-ti...
Well, my day started with two children trapped inside their bedroom when their bedroom door handle decided to internally disintegrate. Things can only improve from here, and "how to force open a broken door catch with only two paperclips" is a useful life skill after all. Learning is good!
November 19, 2025 at 9:07 AM
Well, my day started with two children trapped inside their bedroom when their bedroom door handle decided to internally disintegrate. Things can only improve from here, and "how to force open a broken door catch with only two paperclips" is a useful life skill after all. Learning is good!
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One last one for St Elizabeth of Hungary on her feast day. This embroidered panel was made by Kathleen Whyte for Cults parish church, Aberdeen in 1929. It's now on display in Aberdeen Art Gallery. Whyte went on to be head of embroidery at Glasgow School of Art. She died in 1996.
November 17, 2025 at 7:38 AM
One last one for St Elizabeth of Hungary on her feast day. This embroidered panel was made by Kathleen Whyte for Cults parish church, Aberdeen in 1929. It's now on display in Aberdeen Art Gallery. Whyte went on to be head of embroidery at Glasgow School of Art. She died in 1996.
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THIS IS WHY WE NEED THE HUMANITIES IN SCHOOL
This is a real flight school, teaching people to fly planes!!! Like????
November 14, 2025 at 2:31 AM
THIS IS WHY WE NEED THE HUMANITIES IN SCHOOL
Unfortunately I rather suspect that having noticed and named a phenomenon will rapidly put an end to it...
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November 13, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Unfortunately I rather suspect that having noticed and named a phenomenon will rapidly put an end to it...
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Every office has an executive tier whose emails are like:
saw on news , , can we replce complianc dept with web 3
and a worker tier whose emails are like:
Dear Jim,
First of all, I *love* this idea! Unfortunately, I spoke with Legal and identified a few issues with this approach. For starters…
saw on news , , can we replce complianc dept with web 3
and a worker tier whose emails are like:
Dear Jim,
First of all, I *love* this idea! Unfortunately, I spoke with Legal and identified a few issues with this approach. For starters…
Well, it's a little clearer now why billionaires are so invested in technology that produces better written emails.
November 13, 2025 at 12:10 AM
Every office has an executive tier whose emails are like:
saw on news , , can we replce complianc dept with web 3
and a worker tier whose emails are like:
Dear Jim,
First of all, I *love* this idea! Unfortunately, I spoke with Legal and identified a few issues with this approach. For starters…
saw on news , , can we replce complianc dept with web 3
and a worker tier whose emails are like:
Dear Jim,
First of all, I *love* this idea! Unfortunately, I spoke with Legal and identified a few issues with this approach. For starters…
Quick! Someone needs to let Rupert know his constituency is being invaded by Woke Foreign Whales!
BBC News - Fisherman films 'magical' humpback whale off Norfolk coast - BBC News
www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...
BBC News - Fisherman films 'magical' humpback whale off Norfolk coast - BBC News
www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...
Fisherman films 'magical' humpback whale off Norfolk coast
The fisherman is surprised by the size of the whale as it swims near his boat.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 11, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Quick! Someone needs to let Rupert know his constituency is being invaded by Woke Foreign Whales!
BBC News - Fisherman films 'magical' humpback whale off Norfolk coast - BBC News
www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...
BBC News - Fisherman films 'magical' humpback whale off Norfolk coast - BBC News
www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...
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Poirot is on ITV3 if you want, m8
November 11, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Poirot is on ITV3 if you want, m8
I stitched a thing! Kit by Paraffle, the design is simple and fun, but I am *never* using the new trendy stick-on water-soluble stuff to transfer an embroidery design to fabric again. I don't care how much easier it is, stitching through glue was Not Fun. But I like this.
November 10, 2025 at 10:20 PM
I stitched a thing! Kit by Paraffle, the design is simple and fun, but I am *never* using the new trendy stick-on water-soluble stuff to transfer an embroidery design to fabric again. I don't care how much easier it is, stitching through glue was Not Fun. But I like this.
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I'll take 'Questions You're Going To Regret Asking' for $5000, Alex
Could someone explain to me what is meant when a British person refers to "the middle class" ? Like, in the US, as I hear it, it basically just means a person who makes a certain amount of money, not too far below and not wildly above the median. Seems like a complex concept when UK writers use it?
November 10, 2025 at 9:30 PM
I'll take 'Questions You're Going To Regret Asking' for $5000, Alex
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This is utterly disgraceful.
1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️
November 9, 2025 at 12:56 PM
This is utterly disgraceful.