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Countertenor lay clerk & uni fundraiser. Love the Guardian, Waitrose, cats, cricket, Campari, Italy. Australian. Cathedral music & liturgy geek.
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Wish I were one of Elon's kids so I'd never see him again

Statement from various heritage bodies against the church buildings legislation before synod this week - pulls no punches www.linkedin.com/posts/the-ge...

Everything out of the White House now is just hateful, selfish, gibberish

If I was a foreign power wanting to cripple US power, I'd: 1. Purge intel agencies + expose agents 2. Mess w/Treasury 3. Politicize military 4. Turn off foreign aid 5. Shutter anti-corruption + election interference teams 6. Sow discord with allies Wait, I'm getting an update...

Gotta admire the gall of OpenAI complaining that someone else has been using their work to train their model 🙄

increasingly convinced that they're going to Liz Truss the economy, but in a system that is incapable of removing the Truss.

Elon Musk: Why isn’t there enough water in California? Grok (burning through an entire lake to generate an answer): Wokeness

100% this from @brocklesnitch.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

I don’t want to make a fuckin account to use my toaster. I don’t want to fuckin subscribe to software. I don’t want to create a fuckin profile to watch TV. I don’t want to fuckin register my whatever to unlock whatever. I don’t want to download a fuckin app to access anything. Death to new logins

Great stuff - that's exactly right. Trump is dangerous... and the UK needs to rebuild with the rest of Europe as quickly as possible, for defence, trade, opportunity, environment, standards and protection of our democracy and values from a hostile Trump/Musk-led US.

I'm gonna guess someone checks this and it turns out to be total bs

Lol. Truss sending that letter was a huge mistake

Those are some terrible figures

more 👏 women 👏 fascists 👏

"Did you consider the people who don't like chili? The people who are vegetarians? The people without tastebuds? The people who don't know how to turn on stoves? What about all those folks?"

Epiphany Procession this Sunday, 3.30pm at the Cathedral in Southwell. Lots of great music - everyone very welcome!

Will be MC for three graduation ceremonies tomorrow at York. Such a privilege to be part of these events and see all the happy students and their supporters, as well as hear from some great speakers. Great occasions.

This nakedly racist outburst from Jenrick ought to be a sacking offence, and a bar from mainstream media, in any halfway healthy political culture, so I guess we’ll see if that’s what we’ve got

A successful new year's eve Spanish dinner party .. didn't quite make it through all the wines!

Christmas at Southwell Full details available at: www.southwellminster.org/christmas2024/ Cathedral Carol Services Dec 23 & 24, 7:00pm - 8:30pm As well as hearing choral music sung by the Cathedral Choir, there is the chance to sing well-known Christmas carols in a joyful and uplifting setting.

Increasingly, travel on LNER is a relentless stream of extremely long, repetitive and very poorly worded announcements, as if we're all idiots on trains for the first time. Begging for silence 🙏

Wonder what kind of psycho loves Netflix/Apple+ loudly autoplaying random show trailers on the main landing page

The top of British politics needs to wake up to what's coming.

As with sport, you need an elite sector to have the community/voluntary sector. They need to stop using arts funding purely as a means of achieving other objectives

New DCMS commissioned research puts monetary values on the impact of arts and heritage on physical / mental health and productivity. Timely piece of work to talk to HMT during the spending review www.theguardian.com/society/2024... (Full report here: assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/675b16...)

“how do we connect any of these people with a vague approximation of reality” is the existential question of our times

Whole article is a great read. The loathsome Murdoch empire could take a leftward turn after he dies.

Not sure we recognise enough that there are plenty of people out there who are just....nasty

When I was in London recently I couldn't believe the transformation of the Strand, soooo much nicer

"Unforeseen" = Melbourne has no interest in his grifting bluster-fest pamphlet?

JOSEPH: got any rooms INNKEEPER: no JOSEPH: i want to see your manager INNKEEPER: okay but i think it’s pronounced “manger”

I'm glad they're doing this but what kind of dystopia requires strategic butter reserves

I don't love it either, but I'm not sure how you tell a man that he should let his only surviving son rot in prison to respect norms, institutions, and the rule of law, when the country you devoted your life to serving just pretty comprehensively voted they don't give a shit about any of that.

America has a huge problem: republicans

I find the @bsky.app really good, apart from one thing: the compose and return to top buttons don't hide themselves when scrolling, so I'm constantly accidentally touching them! @support.bsky.team am I missing some toggle somewhere?

Hard to believe this guy was PM. The damage he has done to the UK's reputation.

*Loudly at poker table* I'M BLUFFING

For anyone interested in coming to Christmas services at the cathedral in Southwell, Nottinghamshire, the details are all here: www.southwellminster.org/wp-content/u... Highlights are the carol services on 23rd and 24th, mass and mattins on Christmas morning.

How was your day honey did you distill the zeitgeist into any droll quips