Bryony Taylor

When Trump loses Joe Rogan:

dawg. did they really have some guy walk around in the parade, just holding up a drone?

If you’re not angry, you’re not paying attention.

🎥: Time, 💬 Greta Thunberg

From the piece: "I believe ardently that nonviolent resistance is in the big picture and the long term the most effective strategy, but that doesn't mean it must be polite, placid, or please our opponents, not least because nothing ever will and they'll lie and distort no matter what."

Full riot gear, massive line of them, armed and trigger happy: all scared shitless of a woman in shorts trying to get home. Disgusting.

California Governor Gavin Newsom’s office posts a video of Emperor Palpatine reciting Donald Trump’s Truth Social post about L.A.

via @swholocron.bsky.social

Whenever I get sad at the thought of far right and fascist uprising in this country, there are two instances in British history that I love to think about which reminds me who we truly are and the values we should hold on to:

Newsom: "Democracy is under assault before our eyes. This moment we have feared has arrived. He's taking a wrecking ball to our Founding Father's historic project."

Divided loyalties for me today with the big game, when I lived in Houghton I supported Sunderland but now I'm in Sheffield, Blades are my team. Still, chuffed for Sunderland today if disappointed for Sheffield Utd.

Lol, I gave Austria my lowest score (3) and wrote "unexpected opera in bagging area".

Austria: unexpected opera in bagging area
#eurovision

I'm enjoying pronouncing Eurovision like a Finn. You pronounce every single letter.

🚨 Statement from ex-Reform MP Rupert Lowe:

— Says Met police investigation into him has been dropped
— Calls Farage a “coward and a viper”
— Reform group is “not fit to be MPs”
— “Nigel Farage must never be PM”
— Promises “an alternative to the rotten leadership of Reform [very soon]”

Maybe we should choose the next ABC by lot like they chose Matthias?

😞

Fake quote from Pope Leo XIV circulating in Facebook A Facebook user posted a false quote from Pope Leo XIV.

Here is a post debunking it: pressone.ph/fake-quote-f...

There's a made up quote from the new Pope doing the rounds on my socials. Google these things guys! The only source is a Facebook page called the Daily Catholic. It's a nice sentiment but the new Pope didn't say it!

Trump Absent-Mindedly Snacks On Constitution

Trump Absent-Mindedly Snacks On Constitution

I just cut out 153 fish from silver card. Guess what the gospel reading is tomorrow!

I have just bought a Joy Division T-shirt on Sainsburys which has put me in mind of the Withnail and I quote "they're selling Beatles wigs in Woolworths".

Just made the mistake of reading the comments about Reform's victory in local Facebook groups

Ugh, Reform won by quite a margin for my council seat 😞

If you like true crime, I recommend The Essex Millionaire Murders - really shocking, doesn't go in the direction you expect! On ITV X.

I think it's an art project but I would be scared to let them scan my face! It's too much like an episode of Black Mirror!

Earn £40 in return for having your face scanned

What sort of Black Mirror shit is this in the centre of Sheffield?

A Marjorie Taylor Greene tweet reads “today there were major shifts in global leaderships. Evil is being defeated by the hand of God.” A proposed community note below it reads “she’s a bitch”.

I know people have their criticisms of the Community Notes system but, boy, they really do have their moments

The Fra Angelico depiction of the Harrowing of Hell. Christ, clad in white, carrying a banner, surrounded by rays of supernatural light, and looking pretty good considering he’s just been crucified, stands over a door he’s juts kicked in. Close to it is a trapdoor, under which a demon appears to have been squashed, possibly in a hurry to get away from the Second Person of the Trinity on a mission. Alternatively, the demon might have been squashed under the door when Our Lord kicked it in, but it doesn’t seem high enough for that. Christ is looking into a cave or underground passage of sad grey stone, and holds out his hands to a close packed group of men and women with halos who are forming an orderly queue that starts way back down the tunnel, out of our sight. The leader, an old man with a beard, reaches out to clasp Christ’s outstretched hands. A second, slightly less unfortunate demon hides in a corner. It has not been a good day for the powers of Hell.

Holy Saturday, between death and Resurrection, is a good day to meditate on the line from the Nicene Creed, “he descended into Hell”, or “to the dead.” At midday prayer the reading was 1 Peter 3:17-19, “in which also he went and made a proclamation to the spirits in prison.”

A beautiful metaphor for the death and resurrection of Jesus I am re-reading a short book by Samuel Wells called Hanging by a thread all about the meaning of the cross. I wanted to share this extract as I found it really helpful in explaining the meaning of …

Here's a helpful meditation for this weekend:

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