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A Brief History of Men are Becoming Less Manly

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Excellent letter from the Bishop of Birmingham to Robert Jenrick.

At a time when so many other voices have been silent, the bishops have been admirably outspoken against attempts to stir up division.

The churches do a lot of community cohesion work & do not want to see this trashed for party gain.

The Bishop of Birmingham has written to the Shadow Justice Secretary Robert Jenrick about his comments about Handsworth

Why does he look like Boris Johnson in a balaclava..?

This conversation sounds like God’s reply to Job where he’s laying down how awesome he is.

“Mortal, do you know how to swap between F&C? Can you follow an American recipe with British scales? Where were you when the inch was decided?”

This is SO STUPID

I love it

My favorite new initialism: AI;DR I'll be using this a lot from here on out.

Well, it’s not *that* secret because we know about it! IIRC Banks have also supplied info to HMRC for many years for tax evasion purposes, so it’s really just an extension of something that already happens.

But I absolutely agree, they are going after the wrong people here.

I don't think ditching EU legislation makes it impossible to rejoin, it just means it'd be more effort because we'd have to readopt it.

But it does imply a lack of intention to rejoin.

Interesting that Yorkshire Bank is listed, despite it having been bought out and absorbed by Virgin, who were themselves then bought out by Nationwide! Fills you with confidence that these statistics are up-to-date...

GDPR is EU legislation, so whilst the UK Govt decided to keep it for the time being, it is free to ditch it whenever it likes.

Awesome, thanks for confirming 👍

@sturdyalex.bsky.social could you please confirm where this image came from? I’ve done a reverse image search and can’t find it anywhere else - is it genuine? I’m assuming it’s not your hand in the picture!

I saw a review of it recently that described it as “weapons-grade bollocks” and…at least he’s consistent, I suppose?

It is fascinating to see in real time the "I know nothing about this, it looks stupid" to "oh, so THAT'S why it's done like that" pipeline.

I'm not saying nazism shouldn't be fought tooth and nail - it should and it must. Those responsible for atrocity must be held accountable and face justice.

But that does not forfeit their right to be treated as human. When we ourselves consider others to be less than human, the nazis have won.

There is a difference between not tolerating certain views and saying the person holding them has no worth.

Also: she is not the first female archbishop in the Anglican Communion! There have been several!

Yes, I get that Canterbury is first among equals, but still. Get a grip.

Well worth a read

Oh absolutely certain parties interpret certain passages that way - but American evangelicalism is very much not representative of global mainline Christianity.

@revclaireh.bsky.social inspiration for next year, perhaps..?

"When we start allowing ourselves to debate someone's worth, we've already lost."

No life is worthless.

As soon as one life is declared worthless, any life can be.

A dehydrator filled with fresh oregano

Taking advantage of a double free electricity session to fill the dehydrator with oregano

In Leeds fireworks season begins around now, and ends in about March.

I have no idea why, but it's rare to go a night without some being set off at this time of year.

(Named storm antics do get top marks for commitment, though)

When I was at university rumours went round that Chinese students were poaching ducks from campus.

It was bollocks then and it's bollocks now.

Or after 500 years, as some news outlets reported 🙄

A screenshot from stardew valley showing one player offering some wood to another. The text box says “offer your wood to emily?”

One day into our co-op Stardew Valley world and he’s already trying to put the moves on me

A lot of Christians *are* committed environmentalists.

It's just a particular sub-set of extreme evangelicalism that argue the environment doesn't matter - it's just they're very vocal and noisy.

The bible does not say that we cannot screw up the planet.