Thomas Sharp (he / they) 🏳️‍🌈

Many white and blue hyacinths in pots and in beds, with Narcissi beginning to get going as well.

I generally worry that I haven’t planted enough Hyacinths, but this cluster around the front door is bliss. The smell! 🌿🌱

This is WONDERFUL

Oh, to live in a world which isn't set on tearing nations and societies apart and devastating countless lives...

Iris Murdoch

'The self, the place where we live, is a place of illusion. Goodness is connected with the attempt to see the unself, to see and to respond to the real world in the light of a virtuous consciousness' (Iris Murdoch, "The Sovereignty of the Good".

Its fun for the first week or so. And i think it would be more fun if we committed to longer readings… but in short chunks it feels like those Japanese animes in 100 episodes in which almost nothing happens in every episode!

Galatians is the light relief in death-by-Genesis-tide!!!

I listen to the office on the daily prayer app on my way to work and, it may just be me, but it sounds like even the readers have a little eye roll when they announce, “A reading from the book Genesis.”

The Allister Heath headline generator is very funny.

Please do the cross stitch!

It is two days later and I am still laughing at the reading at evensong on monday from Jeremiah which began, in the King James Version: “MY BOWELS! MY BOWELS!”

Having family members with IBS it just landed rather differently. #CofEpeeps ⚓️

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A gloriously uplifting mass and a deliciously Barthian sermon from Mthr Sally at St Mary Magdalene Munster Square @dioceseoflondon.bsky.social. Lent is off to a strong start there.

Folk thynke that innovacioun yn academia will come from technologye. It will come ynstead from settinge asyde olde assumptions and hierarchies and givinge people more chances to trulye and radicallye thynke wyth each othir wyth no specific outcome yn mynde.

non mihi prima haec rodeo est

That is a very satisfying fact.

Preeeeeeeeesh!

Rahner makes so much more sense as an AuDHD theologian.

- Struggles to find his niche and his place in academic structures as a young person.
- Use of short form writing as the basis for his work
- Aspirations to a bigger system thwarted by creative thinking in endless tangents.

Pondering.

While the new bishop of Durham is announced. Very appropriate!

Post of the season? @hannahmerich.bsky.social can there be some kind of sweepstake next year?

Women need to have more children for Matt Goodwin but if they have more than two you can't get any state help and the women can't be Jewish also we will tax the childless women.

This is a list of public speakers who have frustrated me. It is a list which is connected by Epstein's money, and by eugenics. The pseudo-science of eugenics has to die in the academy for the academy to be truly useful to societies which have to live in reality.

"Oh God," said Zaphod. He hadn't worked with this computer for long but had already learned to loathe it.

May God richly bless you through both!

This is the Gospel of the Lord. Praise to you, O Christ.

Autistic thinking often works the other way around. The instinct isn’t "answer," it’s "data." We gather components, details, and patterns. We build the picture slowly from the ground up instead of dropping a ready made one over the top. That construction reveals unexpected things. 2/4

Neurotypical thinking often starts with a conclusion. A problem appears, the brain reaches into past experience, and forms a model fast. New facts are filtered to fit that first picture. Efficient and useful, but it can lock the frame before all the pieces are on the table. 1/4

The terms British and English are obviously far too divisive and I'll defined. They're not fit for purpose.
I propose that we move back to naming societies based on the artifacts they leave behind.

We're no longer British, we're the disposable vape people.

a cartoon girl is sitting at a table with the words `` my nose is all gunked up with blork '' . ALT: a cartoon girl is sitting at a table with the words `` my nose is all gunked up with blork '' .

The day before a residential or ordained ministry students at which I am teaching on deliverance ministry and hearing confessions... and I have a rollocking head cold.

Perhaps I should ask the students to decide whether the cold is a consequence of unconfessed sin or of demonic attack.

I like the idea of the Quaker meeting as spiritually unprotected encounter. Or unsafe? You could catch any sort of cosmic change from an unprotected encounter with the Trinity!