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Please join me in congratulating Woman on her appointment

For many years I have been posting little observations online. What you may not know is that for many years, artists have been illustrating them - for no reason other than they wanted to respond. Below is a thread of some of these beautiful drawings because they should be seen 🧵

YES LADIES, THIS IS THE WAY. Escape facilitated by former students to boot. 🥰

Fascinated by the Provost’s use of ‘health & safety’ concerns and depicting them as ‘fragile’ & in need of ‘professional help’ in order to deny them their convent. As if these ladies need to be told what’s good for them.

Queer Poetry in Winter Signup! (If Grieving Were Winter) A signup sheet to receive one snail mailed typewritten original poem from @Genderqueerwolf in December, 2025 You can find more at Support GenderQueerWolf ❤️ FAQ: Am I queer enough? Do you self-ident...

It's August, and that means it's finally time for Queer Poetry In Winter!

This is the first year I have probably already named this collection, so strap in.

Want your very own hand typed queer poem in December of 2025?
FAQ in the thread and I'll add more.
Sign up here:
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Congratulations to Bishop Cherry Vann, Bishop of Monmouth, who has just been elected to be the new Archbishop of Wales!
Llongyfarchiadau i Esgob Cherry Vann, Esgob Mynwy, sydd newydd gael ei ethol yn Archesgob newydd Cymru!

#ChurchInWales #EglwysYngNghymru #ArchbishopOfWales

"If this is going to be a Christian nation that doesn't help the poor, either we have to pretend that Jesus was just as selfish as we are, or we've got to acknowledge that He commanded us to love the poor and serve the needy without condition and then admit that we just don't want to do it." ❤️🔥

It's almost like it's the diff between a generation who got calls mostly from friends and one that gets calls mostly from scammera

Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Every British person on the internet is complaining about you

Forgot to say when I posted the latest issue - if you like 'Church Climbing' share it with your friends and other people you think might like it. Word of mouth is absolutely necessary for a project as niche as long photo essays about climbing up churches and cathedrals.
jayhulme.com/church-climb...

Winter fuel payments threshold to rise to £35,000, Rachel Reeves announces Change means about 7.5 million pensioners in England and Wales who lost out on payment will have it restored

If we're going to acknowledge pensioners need assistance if they're on £35k a year or less, are we going to give assistance to [tick all that apply] parents/carers/ young people/people who are disabled...

www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Annual Cheese Rolling Competition The annual cheese rolling competition involves competitors chasing a rolling wheel of Double Gloucester cheese down a steep hill

oh shit it's cheese day.

CHEESE DAY! CHEESE DAY! CHEESE DAY! CHEESE DAY! CHEESE DAY! CHEESE DAY!

fuckin yanks will never understand.

An illustration in the style of an illuminated medieval manuscript. The cozy scene in the middle depicts the denizens of Redwall Abbey in the middle of a great feast. At the center is a large table filled with bread, foods, soups, and plenty of desserts. The border of the illustration is decorated with floral motifs.

The Great Redwall Feast

Acrylic on paper

This is one of the best ads I have ever seen and I can’t believe I missed it

‘We must walk open-eyed into that trap, with courage, but small hope for ourselves. For, my lords, it may well prove that we ourselves shall perish utterly in a black battle far from the living lands; so that even if Barad-dûr be thrown down, 1/2

The cover of The Wolf and His King by Finn Longman in the centre of a gold square. Around it, in a pseudogothic font, are notes on its contents and themes. Each is pointing to the cover with a pointing finger (a manicule). The text: werewolf knight; the mortifying ordeal of being known; probably too much Latin; 12th century Brittany (sort of); the king's scribe-with-benefits; romance (medieval) with the yearning of romance (modern); period-typical heresy; manuscript production; feelings about fealty; werewolfism as metaphor for chronic illness/pain. At the top it reads "a queer retelling of Bisclavret"; at the bottom, "coming from Gollancz, 27th November 2025".

A little more about THE WOLF AND HIS KING, my Bisclavret retelling coming this November from Gollancz.

Please enjoy the manicules, I am very pleased with them.

Pre-order links here: finnlongman.com/books/the-wo...

The world often -- at the moment, and always -- feels like a black hole. There is so much bad in the world. There are so many awful things happening that I can do nothing about, that you can do nothing about, that hundreds of people making a concerted effort can do nothing about. That is devastating and disempowering and the apparent impossibility of reducing the amount of awfulness in the world can make us completely disinclined to try. We cannot, it seems, make the black hole smaller. But can we light a candle? A torch? A single lightbulb? Perhaps we can't subtract badness from the world. Can we, though, add goodness? Can we create some small lights, whether that's being there for a friend or making life easier for a colleague or doing a job that, ultimately, helps someone we'll never meet -- even if what we do is far behind the scenes without a clear sense of the direct impact? Can we make somebody smile, and remind somebody they're not alone, and be a friend to someone desperate for connection? These candles, lit one by one, will not shrink the size of the black hole. But they will make it a little easier for people around you to see.

I think, over recent months, that I have found myself so focused on what I couldn't do that I lost sight of what I could, especially when what I could do seemed mundane and tiny in the grand scheme of things. But the grand scheme of things is not the only measure by which we should look at these things. A single candle to the darkness of the world might be a lighthouse to the one person who sees it. The small goodness matters. Even if it doesn't change the world or fix anything or even save lives. There is never a situation in which putting more goodness into the world is a bad thing, however inadequate it may feel in scope or quantity. It is hard to take time for the candles when I'm focused on the black holes, but I'm trying to shift my focus to them, because I've felt so lost and helpless amidst the big picture and I've lost sight of the personal. Perhaps in this, I've been so focused on the forest I can't see the tree that needs watering. There are a lot of big things I don't have any power over. There are a lot of small things I do. There are a lot of big evils I cannot stop, and a lot of small goodnesses I can choose, every day.

"A candle can't do much against a black hole."
"So light another candle."

Wrote this on Tumblr a few weeks ago about trying to shift my focus to the good I can put into the world rather than the bad I can't take out of it. The black hole feels bigger today; the candles matter more than ever.

YouTube video by BraverMountain Quince Mountain on the Iditarod Trail

Y'all.

❤️

#uglydogs

YouTube video by BraverMountain Quince Mountain on the Iditarod Trail

HE FUCKING DID IT!! HE MUSHED TO NOME, THAT MAGNIFICENT BASTARD!! PEPE MADE IT TO NOME!!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=PeCE...

maybe - just maybe! - possible that if we actually had, eg, workplaces that catered to all sorts of brains and ways of working, and weren't needlessly rigid, then people wouldn't feel the desperate need to try and fix themselves so they can function in a society that's so unfriendly to them!

real danger I'll turn this into a column eventually but on the ADHD over diagnosing/over medicalising point - if you really do think that's a problem, why not, for example, try and build an actually inclusive world where all manners of people actually feel like they can lead fulfilling lives?

Meet Muppy, the World’s Smallest Sled Dog Most sled dogs are huskies and pointers, but Muppy didn’t get the memo. With sheer determination and a whole lot of heart, this little dog is rewriting the rules of racing.

If you could use a little brightness in your day, I recommend spending some time with sled dog MUPPY. I’m genuinely obsessed with her. She is an icon. She is a legend. Her legs are 4 inches long.

The BBC is reporting that the shooting is "non-ideological" so you know the shooter is far-right.

"Hierarchies of obligations" are exactly what He came to annihilate, or re-annihilate, because they were always nothing. Do I love my own family more than I love the poor? Yes. Of course I do. I am human. So I pray for a greater heart, to increase my love for all human beings. That is my journey.

Cardiff: University confirms plans to cut 400 jobs Vice-chancellor Wendy Larner says

This is a national scandal. When will the government wake up and realise they are presiding over the rapid implosion of the UK's world-renowned university sector?

David Horton: What was that socialist tract you were spouting from the pulpit last week? Geraldine: I've got a feeling it was the Sermon on the Mount

This is both an incredibly niche thing but I think it should be more of a thing. Caffè Nero subscribes to the British Newspaper Archive so it’s all free on their wifi. There. I said it.

ATTENTION ALL MUSHING FANS!! Fantasy mushing is back in action and the Copper Basin 300 is the first race on the schedule. You can pick your teams now! #mushersky fantasymushing.com

Tapping the sign, albeit for the first time over here on Bluesky.