New Year, Old AKMA

'The more wealth, the more value — right?'

The Most Chilling Detail in the U.S. Attack on an Iranian Naval Ship The Iranian warship was taking part in an international exercise with many other countries—including the United States.

The ship that we sank was returning from an international exercise that the US participated in, so we were aware that the ship was unarmed.

Hegseth bragged that we killed them when they thought they were safe.

No politically correct wars, everyone; just crimes against humanity.

A clip from your favourite film of the year you were born:

(Actually, this goes out for Rich Herzog; I’d have chosen Desk Set for myself)

The eventual Nuremberg-style trial of Pete Hegseth for war crimes is going to be must-see TV.

a fat tub of orange shit in a suit with a red tie, mocking a person.

This was the moment right here. The moment that, if people had any basic levels of empathy or any shred of morality, that Trump should have been done.

Instead, he and the other corrupt and evil people he surrounds himself with have pushed and pushed and taken what the want with no consequences.

Sisters and the rest of us, happy International Women's Day!

One might even go so far as to say that in the struggle for women’s full participation in gospel ministry, this treatise is the pearl of great price.
—A K M Adam, lecturer at Oriel College, Oxford University

St. Matthew describes the scribe trained for the Kingdom as someone who brings out of their treasures things new and things old; here, Prof. Anderson plays the scribe, and in Margaret Fell’s Women’s Speaking Justified, Proved and Allowed by the Scriptures, he brings out a great treasure from of old.

The Central Lie of Prediction Markets Polymarket and Kalshi promise the wisdom of the crowds. They deliver something very different.

Wrote about the central lie of prediction markets. How they are the perfect technology for a low-trust society, simultaneously exploiting and reifying an environment in which believing the motives behind any person or action becomes harder. www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

Tomorrow's Bandcamp Friday fundraiser will be for The Trans Continental Pipeline, helping trans folks leave hostile states (ahem, Kansas) for Colorado.

Still a heartbreaking loss (in multiple ways)

Among the snippets this week Bishop of Newcastle welcomes kinship carers scheme and Prayer Book Society names new chief executive Quakers reissue 1666 pamphlet in honour of Mullally THE Quakers are marking the appointment of the first woman Archbishop of Canterbury by reissuing an updated edition of Professor Paul Anderson’s modern-English version of what is considered the f...

The #Quakers are marking the appointment of the first woman #ArchbishopofCanterbury by reissuing an updated edition of Professor Paul Anderson’s modern-English version of what is considered the first full-length treatment of women’s church leadership in English.

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Put the Message in the Box / Migrations, by Mary Chapin Carpenter & the Mountain Goats 2 track album

I have adored Mary Chapin Carpenter's work for decades. One of the great honors of my life to collaborate with her on this single of two covers of songs we love, out today! themountaingoats.bandcamp.com/album/put-th...

‘For ethical reasons, I have not asked an AI engine to produce an image of Ebed-melech to add to this lecture.’
— Christine Joynes, ‘Reframing the Canon: Art and Biblical Interpretation’, 6 March 2026

look ima need white people to stop explaining to me that every white dude is prone to get obvious Nazi tattoos in their 20s. the shit is not true. I know plenty of white military dudes who didnt get Nazi tattoos. This is not a widespread phenomenon.

We only went there once or twice. Margaret was more at home in Rick's (more reliable gluten-free options)

It cannot be stressed enough that these systems are better at creating plausible pretext for decisions than at actually informing decisions. And major media outlets’ inability or unwillingness to distinguish between the two is a deadly failure of huge proportions

they double bombed an elementary school for girls

Especially the older I get, the faster my body wants to go to sleep (or at least have a break). Thank heaven I don’t have much any more these days…

Marking makes me sleepy.

Wasn't Harold (in Harold and the Purple Crayon) in pyjamas?

Big money has bought British politics

75% of Reform’s money has come from three rich white men

democracyforsale.substack.com/p/75-of-refo...

Corporate Media Buries Story of US and Israel Killing 168 in Girls School Attack No front-page stories in NYT, WSJ, WaPo. No mention on NBC and CBS Sunday Shows. No stand alone segments on Evening News shows. A death count on par with the OKC bombing is relegated to the back page.

“No front-page stories in NYT, WSJ, WaPo. No mention on NBC and CBS Sunday Shows. No stand alone segments on Evening News shows. A death count on par with the OKC bombing is relegated to the back page.” www.columnblog.com/p/corporate-...

Bravo, Rick's! Our old café home…

Taking the Lord's name in vain is less about saying "OMG" and more about claiming He ordained you to bomb a nation, including a girl's school, with "maximum lethality"

You've got to start somewhere….

I believe this is one of the best jobs in the country right now. Applications due 3/15. Don’t you want to come work for me and @creightoncoleman.bsky.social ?

www.higheredjobs.com/faculty/deta...

I recommend NHS prescription prepayment certificates if you’re on recurring/repeat prescriptions and not eligible for free ones. Something like 114.50 a year. Saves me a fair whack

Does your liking this mean I get to be put on the Professors Watchlist too, by contagion?

No surprise there.