Matt B

For me, writing and thinking are really tied up together. If I have t written it, I don’t really know it.

Truly grotesque and evil

Damn this is so wild to read. Great work

Glasgow nurses vote to strike in pay banding row It could be the first local dispute action since the 1980s with staff unhappy with the pay grading they receive.

Glasgow nurses with Unison vote to strike over pay bands! Nurses with other unions are still being consulted.

Solidarity with the nurses!

www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottis...

lmao "bucking tradition" is a funny way of saying using the national guard to occupy americna cities.

First past the post is insane.

Pretty wild that reform could have a quarter of the votes and still have a majority

The Liberal Abandonment Of Greta Thunberg The Swedish activist Greta Thunberg has been detained by Israel and reportedly maltreated by her Israeli captors after she was kidnapped, along with hundreds of other activists, from Gaza’s territoria...

Very good by Nate Bear "the liberal abandonment of Greta Thunberg" www.donotpanic.news/p/the-libera...
#mustread

Only correction I would make is that while big climate science names may not be talking about how genocide also causes ecocide, many others have made the point.

Wild that we're on track for 2.7 degrees of warming by 2100 and everyone is worried about immigrants or whatever rather than the people making the planet unlivable.

Reflection for Cristianisme i Justícia - Blog CJ My name is Mays Nassar, a Palestinian Christian woman from the town of Bethlehem, in Palestine. I write to you as a witness from a land valued for its holiness, yet burdened with immense sorrow, pain,...

"It is one thing to live under an unlawful occupation, overwhelmed with fear, frustration, and anxiety, but it is another, deeper wound to know that much of the world, and many of our fellow Christians, are allowing this to happen."

blog.cristianismeijusticia.net/en/2025/10/0...

I demand a union representative.

An interesting note where Felix Guattari compares Donald Trump as real estate mogul to algae (from The Three Ecologies, originally published in 1989).

British politics is basically a doom spiral of increasingly unhinged hostile policies.

Reform says something unhinged
⬇️
Labour counters with their own unhinged policy
⬇️
Tories shout from back they'll be even more unhinged
⬇️
Reform announces different unhinged proposal in response
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And repeat...🔁

Wild that someone would rather scapegoat immigrants and be complicit in genocide when this exists.

Hell yeah Lee Bains kicks ass.

Major software firm rules out helping Labour with digital ID cards Louis Mosley, the UK boss of Palantir Technologies, noted how Labour 's manifesto prior to last year's general election made no mention of such a scheme.

Thank you for being the moral voice and saying no to digital ID

*checks notes*

Louis Mosley, the UK boss of Palantir and grandchild to infamous British Fascist Oswald Mosley

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...

Janet "Jenny" Geddes (c. 1600 – c. 1660) was a Scottish market-trader in Edinburgh who is alleged to have thrown a stool at the head of the minister in St Giles' Cathedral in objection to the first public use of the Church of Scotland's revised version of the Book of Common Prayer, the 1637 Scottish Prayer Book. The act is reputed to have sparked the riot that led to the Wars of the Three Kingdoms, which included the English Civil War.

when James Hannay, Dean of Edinburgh, began to read the Collects, part of the prescribed service, and Geddes, a market-woman or street-seller, threw her stool straight at the minister's head. Some sources describe it as a "fald stool" or a "creepie-stool", while others claim that it was a larger, three-legged cuttie-stool. As she hurled the stool she is reported to have yelled: "De'il gie you colic, the wame o' ye, fause thief; daur ye say Mass in my lug?" meaning "The Devil give you colic! The hide of you! (lit. "the belly of you") False thief! You dare say the Mass in my ear?" This was the start of a general tumult with much of the congregation shouting abuse and throwing Bibles, stools, sticks and stones. John Prebble reports the phrase "Daur ye say Mass in my lug?" as being addressed to a gentleman in the congregation who murmured a dutiful response to the liturgy, getting thumped with a Bible for his pains

Further evidence of the limits of my theological training: I’m only just now learning about Jenny Geddes, stool riot legend

Being mad about what version of the BCP is used is my favourite Christian tradition.

Black History Month lecture with Rev Dr Kelly Brown Douglas (28-Oct-2025) Join us for our annual Black History Month lecture, featuring the trailblazing Womanist theologian, Rev Dr Kelly Brown Douglas.The Rev. Kelly Brown Douglas, Ph.D. is currently the visiting professor o...

We're hosting Rev Dr Kelly Brown Douglas later this month! Yes, THE Kelly Brown Douglas - one of the most important living Womanist theologians.

I am actually beyond excited about this, so please sign up! Online at 7pm on the 28th Oct.

londonjesuitcentre.churchsuite.com/events/eigp7...

Damn, the public diner is so cool. Such a great example of the power of universalism!

I don't go to an Episcopal/Anglican church anymore, but I am a former vestry member and indebted to that community to becoming the annoying church person I am now.

In case you're curious. In the past, Mullally has supported

- LGBTQ+ rights
- Abortion rights
- The ordination of women (duh)
- Described herself as a feminist.

I'll say a big prayer for her future leadership and against her haters.

Woman appointed Archbishop of Canterbury in a historic first for the Church of England | CNN Sarah Mullally was on Friday appointed as the new Archbishop of Canterbury, becoming the spiritual leader of 85 million Anglicans worldwide and the first woman to hold the role.

Definitely lacking the magic and mystery of electing a new Pope, but cool all the same.

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Woman appointed Archbishop of Canterbury in a historic first for the Church of England | CNN Sarah Mullally was on Friday appointed as the new Archbishop of Canterbury, becoming the spiritual leader of 85 million Anglicans worldwide and the first woman to hold the role.

Jonathan Evan's the chair of the committee that nominated her said he wanted to avoid a list of candidates “all of whom are white, Oxbridge, male and come from the southeast of England.”

I guess I'm glad they even took one step in the right direction.

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Trans pupils in Scotland are limiting food and drink intake to avoid using school toilets, fearing they might be ‘outed’ The Educational Institute of Scotland (EIS) has said the Scottish Government’s newly revised guidance on supporting trans pupils in schools "falls short" of providing clarity to schools, teachers, par...

Trans pupils in Scotland are limiting food and drink intake to avoid using school toilets, fearing they might be ‘outed’

www.scenemag.co.uk/trans-pupils...

You can’t solve the political mania of nationalist xenophobia with marginal policy changes. Or major policy changes. Or anything. Most xenophobia is based on lies or hallucinations. But even where immigration critics have a point, addressing their point doesn’t seem to reduce xenophobia. 1/9

An important observation for the digital id discourse:

Immigrants already have digital ID (evisa). I used mine for the first time today to come into the country and it was recommended to me that I PRINT OUT confirmation of my evisa.

But I love the irony that I have to print my completely digital document