Peter Birkinshaw

Only 36 hours remain to vote! Spread it far and wide and let's push for 4000 votes total. It's less than 200 away so I think we can do it. Let's find out what comes out on top in this year-long project!

Exactly what it says on the label: The Pope in 1982. He's wearing a black hat, dark RayBans, and looks like he's a member of the Blues Brothers.

What's from Chicago, hates Illinois Nazis, and is holy as fuck?

It's the Pope in 1982.

This has been such an epic project! Thanks for all your hard work!

After much deliberation, I went for:

1 The Outer Wilds
2 Breath of the Wild
3 Disco Elysium
4 Phoenix Wright T&T
5 Deux Ex
6 Majora's Mask
7 Star Wars KOTOR
8 Grim Fandango
9 Sonic 3&K (as he first game I really obsessed over)

New Silksong boss DLC leaked...

Let’s remember what Jo Cox said IN FULL and not what the trash More In Common foundation edited it down to.

For anyone who doesn't know "Article 8" is the European Convention on Human Rights right to a private life

This is the head of the EHRC saying that she does not believe that *anyone* has the right to privacy when it comes to being trans or cis

Brazenly immoral, legally untrue

God bless a bit of proper data analysis.

(From my perspective on a couple of parishes on the outskirts of York, we have seem some new faces in church over the past 2 years, from a mix of ages. But not enough to counter the drop pre-pandemic and general decline due to ill health.)

Top half of image: July 2016 Guardian article by Simon Jenkins titled: “ignore the prophets of doom: Brexit will be good for Britain”. Bottom half of image: May 2026 Guardian article by Simon Jenkins titled “From the day Britain left the EU, this reset was inevitable. What a pointless waste of time, money and effort”

The top image:
The Guardian, July 2016
The article:

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The bottom image:
The Guardian, May 2025
The article:

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My photo shows a mannequin wearing a brown-coloured woollen hood with long knotted fringe on display at the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh. It was found in peat moss on the island of Orkney in 1867. Organic clothing rarely survives. This woven hood is remarkably well-preserved for its age. Radio-carbon dated to AD 250 - AD 615.

Wow, the amazing ‘Orkney Hood’ is so well preserved it looks like it was woven yesterday rather than c. 1,600 years ago!

Found in peat in 1867, this remarkable woollen hood from Iron Age Orkney likely belonged to a child. AD250 - AD615

National Museum of Scotland 📷 by me

#FindsFriday
#Archaeology

Lordle: the daily Bible verse game How well do you know your way around the Bible? Play Lordle and find out!

Vicar recommended lordle.com to me. It’s great.

#lordle509 My results: ⭐⭐⭐⭐☆ (1900 points)

Good find! That's a surpringly well thought out game for bible knowledge.

Yes I wholeheartedly agree, though what happens after school is slightly different to how stuff is taught, and both could be Improved.

I do wonder if the loudest voices telling boys they are being disadvantaged are Tate and friends, who are also making money off boys feeling disadvantaged.

(Though there are some areas with structural issues to address eg. better education policy for boys.)

Inside London’s hipster church scene, where Gen Z is finding God In a world of social media-induced angst, young people are looking to religion for meaning. Claudia Cockerell pulls up a pew and meets the people making Christianity cool

In the 90s there where numerous articles talking about HTB and Alpha attracting young people to church with a breathless curiosity.

But this one ends in quite a different place - with an inclusive catholic revival. Interesting stuff. www.standard.co.uk/lifestyle/ch...

An unfortunate title, implying that you can only detect church growth with a microscope?

Yes I've got 2 Phoenix Wright games... but I could have included 6.

1. Phoenix Wright: Trials & Tribulations
2. Phoenix Wright: AA
3. Professor Layton: Unwound Future
4. GTA Chinatown
5. Ghost Trick
6. Advance Wars Dual Strike
7. Castlevania: Ecclesia
8. Animal Crossing
9. 999
10. Elite Beat Agents

Movie you've watched more than six times using gifs.

("Hard mode": no Star Wars, Star Trek or LotR)

Yeah, it's a good job we were sat on a sofa, otherwise someone would have fallen off their chair.

It was made extra spicy as the first player that round couldn't easily place them.

Yeah its a family favourite. Easy to chat while you play, if you go at a leisurely pace.

4 red tiles on a "factory" table mat from the boardgame Azul

The rare single colour Azul pull... #boardgames

The North(ern province) remembers... that we still have one.

Every day a new level of corruption!

He's just bullying legal firms to work for free for him.

Who will win bigly from Trump tariffs? | Brief letters Brief letters: Money-making potential | F is for… | Antisocial cats | The value of bin collectors | Manspreading

I think he's on to something....

If Trump rescinded [the tariffs], within weeks the stock market would bounce back. Wouldn’t it be interesting to know in advance when that was going to happen? Somebody could make a great deal of money.
John Kinder
Hampshire

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Oh boy time to share one of my favorite discworld bits again

Building a mass movement (instead of a subculture) will require a lot of cringe, so get comfortable with it

I was a British tourist trying to leave America. Then I was detained, shackled and sent to an immigration detention centre Graphic artist Rebecca Burke was on the trip of a lifetime. But as she tried to leave the US she was stopped, interrogated and branded an illegal alien by ICE. Now back home, she tells others thinking of going to Trump’s America: don’t do it Just before the graphic artist Rebecca Burke left Seattle to travel to Vancouver, Canada, on 26 February, she posted an image of a rough comic to Instagram. “One part of travelling that I love is seeing glimpses of other lives,” read the bubble in the first panel, above sketches of cosy homes: crossword puzzle books, house plants, a lit candle, a steaming kettle on a gas stove. Burke had seen plenty of glimpses of other lives over the six weeks she had been backpacking in the US. She had been travelling on her own, staying on homestays free of charge in exchange for doing household chores, drawing as she went. For Burke, 28, it was absolute freedom. Within hours of posting that drawing, Burke got to see a much darker side of life in America, and far more than a glimpse. When she tried to cross into Canada, Canadian border officials told her that her living arrangements meant she should be travelling on a work visa, not a tourist one. They sent her back to the US, where American officials classed her as an illegal alien. She was shackled and transported to an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) detention centre, where she was locked up for 19 days – even though she had money to pay for a flight home, and was desperate to leave the US. Continue reading...

I was a British tourist trying to leave America. Then I was detained, shackled and sent to an immigration detention centre

St Thomas Aquinas quote: hotdogs are just puréed meat stuff in an animal intestine, so a hotdog doesn’t stop being a hotdog even after we eat it, we just become the new hotdog casings and that makes us hotdogs as well!

Remember you are a hotdog and to a hotdog you shall return.

Big 'Court illustrator on Matthew Castle Island' energy.

(also Happy Birthday!)