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@brmartin.bsky.social

Anglican Dominican solitary. Cats and all animals. Computer games. Maths. Languages. Trad hymns in 4 part harmony. Anglican chant. Politics: Hélder Câmara, Gustavo Gutiérrez. LGBTI+ affirming.

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The US conservative media and political establishment was correct:

If New Yorkers elected Mamdani they'd get radical leftist policies like stopping homeless people freezing to death.

Instead of the more traditional mayoral duties of accepting kickbacks from property developers and foreign regimes.

07.02.2026 02:52 — 👍 26    🔁 5    💬 1    📌 0
A kākāpō egg being candled, showing development. Credit: Andrew Digby

A kākāpō egg being candled, showing development. Credit: Andrew Digby

A female kākāpō on a nest with two eggs. Credit: Andrew Digby

A female kākāpō on a nest with two eggs. Credit: Andrew Digby

We found a 4th egg in #kakapo Waikawa's nest yesterday and found it was fertile. Waikawa has maintained her incredible 100% fertility record: 5 clutches of 4 fertile eggs in 4 breeding seasons. That's unmatched by any other kākāpō. #kakapo2026 #conservation #birds

07.02.2026 03:26 — 👍 510    🔁 119    💬 14    📌 9
flower painting

flower painting

flower painting

flower painting

my mom wants me to ask you for flower commissions for $15 each (even one would make her so happy). you’ll get a scanned in digital version of a painting. She’ll be doing watercolors. If you want her flower art, all you have to do is drop a reference photo of a flower that you like in the comments.

06.02.2026 07:11 — 👍 131    🔁 91    💬 13    📌 2

Congrats on Level 73! Your post made me think of the Larsen cartoon with the dino family arriving at the La Brea tar pits and remarking, 'This looks like a great place for picnic'. :')

03.02.2026 21:29 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Julia Gillard: "I will not be lectured about sexism and misogyny by this man (Abbott)". Here set to music:

03.02.2026 11:56 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Ooh. Lovely! Y'day was 40°C in the west. 😵‍💫 Waiting in trepidation for the next electricity bill.

03.02.2026 01:44 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

<3 The religious life is the ultimate rejection of all of that! Recalling the images of elderly sisters and brothers getting carted off, protesting when children in cages first came to light. Bad ass!

03.02.2026 01:40 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I am wondering if a good number in the 16% are scared to declare in case they come to the attention of Trump's gestapo.

03.02.2026 01:33 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Isaac Herzog’s visit to Australia is not a threat to social cohesion, but a measure of it - ABC Religion & Ethics Bondi changed Jewish life in Australia irrevocably. The visit of Israel’s president should not be seen as a provocation but as an opportunity — to affirm solidarity in the face of terror and to restor...

Leibler says Herzog's visit would model "it is possible to show solidarity with Jewish Australians by acknowledging the centrality of Israel to their identity"

As a Jewish Australian, the last thing I want is my identity linked to a genocidal, apartheid state. #auspol
www.abc.net.au/religion/jer...

02.02.2026 04:11 — 👍 279    🔁 91    💬 27    📌 4

God bless the Judge Bierys of the world

Also applicable:
"He has told you, O mortal, what is good,
and what does the LORD require of you
but to do justice and to love kindness
and to walk humbly with your God?"
(Micah 6:8)

h/t @jackjenkins.me

31.01.2026 23:06 — 👍 22    🔁 12    💬 0    📌 0

Oh I just looked it up and see it dates from 1981 😯

31.01.2026 19:58 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I'm partial to Kendrick's Restore, O Lord. Very fitting for US circumstances. ❤️🥲

31.01.2026 19:55 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Thank you for caring for these babies, sorry over number 5, but glad she was somewhere safe, comfortable and loved. 😿

31.01.2026 13:23 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

ie. orig asserts that we somehow have power over God and denies God's sovereignty. (And yes, out of respect for copyright and without permission for change, I simply do not program).

31.01.2026 12:54 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Yes, despise this song and will never program without substantial lyric changes. All these suggested are good.

Also 'It was our sins that held him there' imo, is close to blasphemy, hence: 'It was our sins he chose to bear'

31.01.2026 12:50 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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My beautiful Mabel sends you greetings in solidarity (an older pic of her enjoying her new mat)

31.01.2026 12:45 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Blizzard veterans reveal Darkhaven, a Diablo 2-style RPG that trades "incrementalism" for "bold, expressive loot" and destructible terrain Do you miss the good old days of Diablo, before Blizzard’s hellish clickfest megamorphed into a live service Beezelbub owned by stinky uncle Microsoft?
29.01.2026 14:23 — 👍 26    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 2

In a time of endlessly difficult news, this gave me a little lift to read 😌

29.01.2026 15:05 — 👍 9    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

(Which is to say, locos are lovely and never evil :) )

29.01.2026 09:25 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

'Enormity' means gross evil, the word you are looking for is praps, 'immensity'.

29.01.2026 09:25 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

It is perfect and has not had enough appreciation. Even more tongue-twisty than the original.

29.01.2026 00:27 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Eventually as per JHN's epitaph: "Out of shadows and phantasms into the truth". 😻😿

28.01.2026 19:29 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

What am I looking at here?

28.01.2026 17:08 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Accidental 'crying horse' toy becomes bestseller in China A dour-faced toy horse — the result of a manufacturing error —  has gone viral in China, with some workers saying its expression mirrors their long hours and workplace stress.

Feel you, Tongzhi.

28.01.2026 13:07 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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I’ve got you.
Mural for Alex Pretti in Seattle by Topsy

27.01.2026 03:06 — 👍 38    🔁 10    💬 1    📌 1

I hope this means Mr A will turn down the invitation to the so-called 'Board of Peace'.

25.01.2026 14:34 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

As a gamer I did experience a frisson of interest. Big sword energy!

24.01.2026 18:53 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Lawyers request AFP probe into Israeli president as Australian visit looms The Australian Centre for International Justice has formally requested a police investigation into Israel's president for alleged incitement to genocide. He is expected to visit to Australia next mont...

An Olz legal group has formally requested the Australian Federal Police to investigate the alleged genocide incitement.

23.01.2026 14:22 — 👍 6    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0

Prayers for quick healing and return to work. 🙏🐱

23.01.2026 14:00 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Yer, they really pick me up espesh the baby king parrots. 🐤

22.01.2026 17:13 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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