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Grace Pritchard Burson

@gaudynight78.bsky.social

Twitter's official Dorothy L. Sayers stan account, 2018-24, now on Bluesky. New Englander in Quebec. Eph '00/YDS '04. Mom, priest (the sweary kind), writer (ask me about my musical!), doula. Yes, my grandma shot a Nazi. She/her. INTJ/5w4.

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All people who know me are subjected to the story of my four paternal grandmothers and their characteristics, in order of seniority:

Number 1: kidnapped by bandits,
Number 2: new age religious leader
Number 3: owned some Rottweilers apparently
Number 4: professional exorcist

05.03.2026 04:56 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

SERIOUSLY

Going back to the archaic conditions of ...

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early 2023

05.03.2026 04:57 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I once sang backup to John Denver.

05.03.2026 04:24 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

A close examination reveals a plate containing raspberry, lemon, apricot, prune, and poppyseed hamantaschen.

Can a man so unwilling to commit govern New York? In this essay I shall… 1/347

03.03.2026 03:09 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Underrated skeet

05.03.2026 03:35 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Mood

04.03.2026 23:35 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Chotiner: And when you engraved "One Ring to rule them all" on theβ€”
Sauron: I don't understand why everyone keeps taking that out of context.
Chotiner: Well, do you mean to rule us all?
Sauron: I'm here to talk about Gondor's illegal encroachment in Ithilien, Isaac.

04.03.2026 20:18 β€” πŸ‘ 385    πŸ” 89    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

Father's father was the son of a shopkeeper in Providence, RI, went to Harvard on the GI Bill (my dad was born his junior year), and became an architectural consultant.

04.03.2026 22:45 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Mother's father was the son of an insurance man in Evanston, IL, and went to Dartmouth bedore the war; he became a foreign service officer (who, it eventually turned out, was incapable of learning the necessary languages, so he spent most of his career in DC).

04.03.2026 22:45 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

That tracks. Simple carbs are often the easiest to stomach during the queasy times.

04.03.2026 21:17 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

It was original flavour, actually, I ate them constantly during the first trimester 🀣

04.03.2026 20:58 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I constructed him out of many bags of Pepperidge Farm goldfish crackers!

04.03.2026 20:55 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Right?! And before that he was inside ME 😭

04.03.2026 20:52 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Yeah, overall I'm in favour of people not being flung up the cursus honorum too rapidly, it worked out for Obama but in general cultivating a good deep bench and adequately equipping them is a Good Thing

04.03.2026 20:45 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Peter, aged 17, seen from the waist up, standing in the church kitchen, with shaggy hair and wearing a blue patterned hoodie, with his sleeves rolled up and arms crossed, laughing at someone out of frame.

Peter, aged 17, seen from the waist up, standing in the church kitchen, with shaggy hair and wearing a blue patterned hoodie, with his sleeves rolled up and arms crossed, laughing at someone out of frame.

Cool, smart, funny adult (ok, this was last October so he technically wasn't an adult yet, but he looked about 23 in the photo, so):

04.03.2026 20:36 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
Peter, aged 2 months, passed out cold in his absurdly brightly coloured plastic exersaucer, wearing a yellow and green striped hat.

Peter, aged 2 months, passed out cold in his absurdly brightly coloured plastic exersaucer, wearing a yellow and green striped hat.

Tiny little baby, 2008 (I adore this picture):

04.03.2026 20:36 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Me and who

04.03.2026 20:24 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Facebook post from Bernard Drainville, a CAQ member of the QuΓ©bec parliament, responding to a public service announcement encouraging people with cervixes to get screened for HPV (posted in French, automatically translated):

"The intention is more than commendable and I encourage all women to get screened for HPV.

I'm here wondering why we can't even name women. Why do we erase women? So as not to dislike a tiny minority?

That's enough."

Facebook post from Bernard Drainville, a CAQ member of the QuΓ©bec parliament, responding to a public service announcement encouraging people with cervixes to get screened for HPV (posted in French, automatically translated): "The intention is more than commendable and I encourage all women to get screened for HPV. I'm here wondering why we can't even name women. Why do we erase women? So as not to dislike a tiny minority? That's enough."

Delighted to see this transphobic ass being read for filth by one francophone after another in the comments.

04.03.2026 20:24 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Like I said, I happily do that, and when I do, all the atheists yell at me about how dare I claim that I'm not just as bad as they are.

04.03.2026 19:59 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I've seen serving chaplains saying that they are in fact hearing an uptick of this stuff among the troops

04.03.2026 19:13 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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How about AI? Domestic abuse? Fossil fuels?

04.03.2026 19:12 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

This tendency among my fellow liberal Christians is why I gave myself the specific goal of being loud about my faith.

We've historically been quiet out of fear we'll be seen as pushy, judgy proselytizers. Christian Nationalists filled the void left by our silence.

04.03.2026 18:53 β€” πŸ‘ 42    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0
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02.03.2026 14:53 β€” πŸ‘ 42    πŸ” 31    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 1
A small girl wearing a rabbit costume and blue coat carries a book as she walks to school. 

Her mother (head out of shot) wheels her baby brother along in a pushchair. 

The baby says "Peter Rabbit may be the 'Hero' of the story, but surely the obedient, widowed Mrs Rabbit is a more effective symbol of the oppression inherent within Mister McGregor's regime"

The girls looks furious and snaps "Mum!! He's critiquing my world book day costume from a marxist perspective again!"

A small girl wearing a rabbit costume and blue coat carries a book as she walks to school. Her mother (head out of shot) wheels her baby brother along in a pushchair. The baby says "Peter Rabbit may be the 'Hero' of the story, but surely the obedient, widowed Mrs Rabbit is a more effective symbol of the oppression inherent within Mister McGregor's regime" The girls looks furious and snaps "Mum!! He's critiquing my world book day costume from a marxist perspective again!"

A cartoon reminder that tomorrow is World Book Day (In the UK anyway). Originally for the @theguardian.com

04.03.2026 17:07 β€” πŸ‘ 774    πŸ” 277    πŸ’¬ 9    πŸ“Œ 8

I have a whole bunch of Target bags but I'm in Canada where Target doesn't exist so there is clearly a Story behind them

04.03.2026 17:26 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I dunno, I'm starting to have some questions about the current bunch 🀣

04.03.2026 17:23 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

And when we do, we get shrieked at for "no-true-Scotsman"-ing and told to "come get our people."

You can't fucking win.

04.03.2026 17:22 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I gotta say, this "my kid turned 18" thing is still deeply disconcerting, but the infinite layers of in-jokes that we have accumulated over the past fifteen years of being a household of two, and which we can now both riff on with a more or less adult perspective, is pretty awesome.

04.03.2026 17:20 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

LAETARE SUNDAY FOREVER

04.03.2026 16:48 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0