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Historian of religion at University of Auckland: Early Modern Christianity, religious violence, and religion in Aotearoa/NZ. Home brewer. Gen X dilettante. Ambulando solvitur.
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It’s nice how they’ve replicated the middle school dynamic of the insecure bully and his sniveling sidekick picking on someone surrounded by a circle of scared little boys who also try to talk shit so the bully doesn’t come after them. Or as the right calls it, “masculinity.”

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This was a disgusting display by the soft, uninformed VP Vance trying to school Zelensky, the man who has led his country through the most surprisingly resilient and effective fight for sovereignty against a global superpower. Every negative stereotype about America is confirmed in this exchange.

submitted 4 days ago • 827 comments

It's almost funny to watch Starmer and Macron, in their own way, fact check this chuntering moron, to little effect. Truth means nothing to him. He engineers his own crybaby reality.

submitted 5 days ago • 55 comments

Four days of summer left, and I have dealt to the fig glut. Fig jam with lemon and brandy.

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

Good to see that there's still plenty of gainful employment for Jonathan Pie youtu.be/Jk0nUUqG_Ag?...

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Protest against Destiny Church, Albert Park, 2pm, Sunday 23 February newsroom.co.nz/2025/02/19/d...

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By NZ (and later UK) cartoonist Sir David Low (1891-1963) and a bit à propos once again.

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"Christian love is not a concentric expansion of interests that little by little extend to other persons and groups." I hadn't understood until I read it, how directly the pope blows off J. D. Vance's bluster on the "ordo amoris." www.vatican.va/content/fran...

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Rescued from the wasps this morning 🇳🇿🌱

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Still time in Ao-NZ for #mosaicmonday. I'm trying to identify this saint "Irlandus" whose photo I took in the duomo di Monreale last year. Can't find anything. Is it some Irish saint, or is it a variant of Orlandus or something like that? flic.kr/p/2qJAGah

submitted 29 days ago • 1 comment

Mercer's Loop track and then down to Piha this morning. I'm ashamed to say that I've lived in West Auckland for 14 years without knowing that this walk was more or less on my doorstep. I need, as they say, to get out more.

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First fig of the season 🇳🇿🌱

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Diarmaid MacCulloch's new history of Christianity and Sex is chunky but just as readable and entertaining as his other big surveys like Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years. I am currently monopolising one of the copies from Auckland City Libraries. www.penguin.co.nz/books/lower-...

submitted 42 days ago • 1 comment

The Doctor Strangelove de nos jours: www.youtube.com/watch?v=xzDg... bsky.app/profile/aust...

submitted 43 days ago • 1 comment

the sycophancy of the US Christian leaders at Trump’s inauguration today reminded me of the Russian Orthodox Church Patriarchate of Moscow and Vladimir Putin’s Kremlin.

submitted 43 days ago • 2 comments

Six kilos (5.96 actually, but who's counting) of blueberries picked today. A lot of my gardening career seems to involve things dying on my watch, but blueberries have been very resilient and/or forgiving 🇳🇿🌱

submitted 44 days ago • 1 comment

Luisa plums in today's early morning sun. This is a replacement for one of three trees I lost to Cyclone Gabrielle in 2023. It's well staked in, but I still feel apprehensive about what La Niña may have in store for us later this summer - or next 🌱🇳🇿

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I took the first shot of Franz Josef Glacier in December 2024 and the second (slightly closer) shot in December 2010. In the mid-20th century the glacier extended right down the valley shown in the first photo. Not sure how much of this is climate change, but my guess is at least some. #Aotearoa #NZ

submitted 51 days ago • 1 comment

2024 vintage of elderflower wine out of the fermenter and into the demijohn to dehaze #nzgarden

submitted 57 days ago • 1 comment

"Mum... Mum!... Muuuuuum!!!" Seals at Ohau Point, Kaikōura. #Summer #Aotearoa #Holidays

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West Coast. Wet Coast. Two whole days of good camping weather was probably too much to expect #Christmas #Aotearoa

submitted 74 days ago • 1 comment

Judith Collins making me tap the sign https://www.beehive.govt.nz/release/marsden-fund-refocused-science-purpose

submitted 90 days ago • 3 comments

"Now, what I want is Facts. Teach these boys and girls nothing but Facts... Plant nothing else and root out everything else... nothing else will ever be of any service to them. This is the principle on which I bring up my own children... Stick to Facts, sir!" - Right Hon Judith Gradgrind Collins MP.

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