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anton thompson-mccormick @antonjtmcc.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Nobody could make an old hymnal hymn break your heart quite like Dolly Parton

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David Hinchliffe Bradford @dbfreelance.co.uk · 23/08/2026

Red squirrel! 📍 Anglesey 🎥 @antonjtmcc.bsky.social

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anton thompson-mccormick @antonjtmcc.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

“Near a tree by a river there's a hole in the ground, where an old man of Aran goes around and around” 🎶 youtu.be/7uHb8XWy7Vk?...

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Nik Kershaw - The Riddle - 4K 60fps - Top Of The Pops 1984

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anton thompson-mccormick @antonjtmcc.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

David's latest essay: the 1990s nihilistic turn encapsulated in a Sussex ruin, what remains of the millennium, and Percy Byshe Shelley. Read at the link below ✨ open.substack.com/pub/davidbra... For more: @dbfreelance.co.uk

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anton thompson-mccormick @antonjtmcc.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

“Because there shall be ever some poor in the land, therefore I command thee, saying, Thou shalt open thine hand unto thy brother, to thy needy, and to thy poor in thy land.” — Deuteronomy 15:11 My copy of the 1560 Calvinist Geneva Bible translation gives this footnote: “Thou shalt be liberal.”

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anton thompson-mccormick @antonjtmcc.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Still not OK after Marilynne Robinson answered 5 of the (7 👀) questions I put to her in the Q&A chat box during a zoom thing last night. [it’s my birthday tomorrow, so just about the best unintended gift ever]

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anton thompson-mccormick @antonjtmcc.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

I love how Moby Dick is wise to the Bible’s tenderness toward pagans/non-believers, more so than some Christians. We covered Jonah at Sunday Youth earlier — when faced with the knowledge that throwing Jonah overboard would calm the storm, those pagan sailors decide to row harder against the waves.

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David Hinchliffe Bradford @dbfreelance.co.uk · 19/02/2025

My talk 'Clearing up after great men: Granny Blackburn and the untold mess of post-imperial Britain' attracted the ire of one ardent Empire apologist in Shoreham. He challenged me afterwards: "All those people killed? Their families benefitted from it" 🤔

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anton thompson-mccormick @antonjtmcc.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

found this so beautiful. a film anthology of writers, and the lands these women rise from: Anne McMaster Frances Molloy Olivia Elder Sarah Leech Frances Browne Pauline Holland Janet McNeill Ruth Carr Jan Carson Wendy Erskine Michelle Gallen Angela Graham Dawn Watson

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anton thompson-mccormick @antonjtmcc.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

“By the lonely crossroads Locals called Eternity Corner… He threw his mother’s fiddle out To the middle of the starlit lough… These are the troubled waters That I wade through every night To listen for the music that My father threw away for love.” — Philip Orr on his father, Co. Down preacher.

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anton thompson-mccormick @antonjtmcc.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

i tell you even the very stones will cry out — luke 19:40

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anton thompson-mccormick @antonjtmcc.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

The sky is slashed like a sail. Night folds over the shears, the dye, the docked tails. We listen to the rumours of the valley: goats’ voices, gear-changes, the stirring of dogs. — Three Ways of Looking at God by Robin Robertson

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anton thompson-mccormick @antonjtmcc.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

/ she travelled at night / …she was a deer holding a rifle / a cow milking her master / but the price of freedom / is the knowledge you are trapped / / what if / there were a place for us / some country / a land in parenthesis / — legend of the first butch by joelle taylor, ‘c+nto & othered poems’

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anton thompson-mccormick @antonjtmcc.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

John Donne: “If I should aske the Basilisk, how camest thou by those killing eyes, he would tell me, Thy God made me so. …all things that are, are equally removed from being nothing; and whatsoever hath any beeing, is by that very beeing, a glasse in which we see God…”

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lmsacasas.bsky.social @lmsacasas.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Marilynne Robinson, "Language Is Smarter Than We Are" (1987). www.nytimes.com/1987/01/11/b...

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anton thompson-mccormick @antonjtmcc.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

“…There are two occasions when the sacred beauty of Creation becomes dazzlingly apparent, and they occur together…” Happy 81st birthday, Marilynne Robinson. Every solstice, I return to a 6 min clip of her reading from the end of ‘Gilead’ and I swear I can feel the world turning.

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emily dickinson quotes @emilydickinsonbot.bsky.social · 01/09/2024

I'm nobody! Who are you? Are you nobody, too?

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