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Br Martin, SSM

@brmartin.bsky.social
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Society of the Sacred Mission (Au Province). Cats and all animals. Computer games. Maths. Languages. Trad hymns in 4 part harmony. Anglican chant. Politics: Hélder Câmara, Gustavo Gutiérrez. LGBTI+ affirming. [Sorry I don't have read access to chat]

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SlenderSherbet @slendersherbet.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
"Excuse me, I'll let you know when you've finished"
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Br Martin, SSM @brmartin.bsky.social · 1h
Vale, Margaret Hamilton.
theguardian.com
Margaret Hamilton, trailblazer whose software powered Apollo 11 moon landing, dies at 90
MIT computer scientist led development of software for moon mission and earned Presidential Medal of Freedom
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Br Martin, SSM @brmartin.bsky.social · 9h
Get well soon, and good luck for the weight loss journey!
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Br Martin, SSM @brmartin.bsky.social · 9h
Birthday blessings, fantastic clowder and couple of pack members 😍
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Greg Johnson @pteranodo.bsky.social · 15h
Nonconformist John Collinges, in Poole's Annotations: if those who won't welcome strangers go to the devil, what of those who make them strangers? Timely, given our zeal for banishment. Hell's keenest doctrinal defenders still mostly fret about skipped quiet times. #christian #refugees #bible
Black square graphic. Left: an engraved oval portrait of Matthew Poole, a long-haired man in clerical bands and gown, with a coat of arms below and a Latin inscription. Beneath it in bold white type: "MATTHEW POOLE (1624–1679)," then in italics, "Annotations upon the Holy Bible, Matthew 25." Right, in white text, the quotation: "If those shall have their Portion with the Devil and his Angels, who give not Entertainment to them when they are Banished and Strangers, what shall become of them who are Instruments of their Banishment, and to make them Strangers?" Attribution note: Poole completed the Annotations only through Isaiah 58 before his death. This comment on Matthew 25 was written by John Collinges (1623–1691), a nonconformist minister who completed the work.
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Shammai @shammaiintl.bsky.social · 17h
Try our new service, Shamm-AI. The only LLM that generates two answers per prompt and asks you to say which one is more helpful, but then vehemently disagrees with your choice and starts arguing with you about it
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Br Martin, SSM @brmartin.bsky.social · 14h
High Court of Oz so that is the end of the appeal road. "Is the state government responsible for the greenhouse gas emissions from the burning of coal after it is sold and exported overseas? On Wednesday, the high court found that it is." Approval ruled invalid. Tuvalu et al look on w interest.
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Twonks @twonks.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
That's why
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Svetovid @svetovid.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Well, that's a hell of a thing to leave next to a statue of Joan of Arc.😏
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Br Martin, SSM @brmartin.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Very attractive!
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Br Martin, SSM @brmartin.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Looks great!
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Janet Castle @janetc.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
act.getup.org.au/s/Q81uQpSI
act.getup.org.au
Scrap the aged care algorithm!
Can you share the campaign with your friends and family to help us reach more people? Up to half of petition signatures come from shares, so it makes a real…
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Rev. Carson Hollis @carsonhollis.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Happy birthday, Walter Rauschenbusch! Born on this day in 1861, Rauschenbusch—a Baptist minister, dedicated pacifist, and self-described socialist—understood Christianity not to be about an escapist afterlife, but of discipleship and justice. His convictions led him to father the Social Gospel.
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Alice Goodman @revdalicegoodman.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
www.abc.net.au/religion/ann...
abc.net.au
Hannah Arendt, Simone Weil and their dialogue with Catholic social teaching - ABC Religion & Ethics
Arendt and Weil are unorthodox thinkers — theologically and politically — who trouble our categories and clarify what a specifically Catholic social vision has to offer in our troubled times.
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Br Martin, SSM @brmartin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Hear you, have stopped buying Australian salmon because I do not know if it has come from the companies around Tasmania. The egg situation is also problematic, I look for the 1500 per hectare - so many free range marked ones cram 10000 on. I think I need to get my own pampered hens 😿
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Br Martin, SSM @brmartin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Yes, I also love them and their natural health benefits but sadly have not had any since the pesticide levels story came out (several years now). I keep meaning to plant some, maybe this year!
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Br Martin, SSM @brmartin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I think it works because there is not a gap between the sock and trouser bottom. 😺
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Br Martin, SSM @brmartin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Here with Anglocatholic bells on in solidarity with you on NT Wright. Love him very much.
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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The Reform UK check list for worried far-right parents before deciding to send their children to a brainwashing Patriot Platform boot camp ... meme via Anti-Reform Hub
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Br Martin, SSM @brmartin.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Love this wobbly boy living his best life!
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Br Martin, SSM @brmartin.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
We live in a world of hope.
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Br Martin, SSM @brmartin.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
These look like new books, but what is that '7/6 NET' on them? 🤔 (feel inspired to revisit)
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Phil @distillation.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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Br Martin, SSM @brmartin.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
As long as they don't trap you in there with someone else and shake it up to see if you fight. 😿
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Br Martin, SSM @brmartin.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I have some that come in seasonally. They eat the cat's biscuits then leave. 🙀
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Br Martin, SSM @brmartin.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
It is an ancient Christian heresy and not orthodox xtian belief. There is only One, whose nature does not change, and we have to share. 👼
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Bears Adventures @bearsadventures.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
🎁 WoW Forever Collection Giveaway 🎁 I've got a World of Warcraft Forever Collection to giveaway thanks to Blizzard 🥳 To Enter: ✅ Follow ❤️ Like 🔁 Repost 💬 Tell me if you're Alliance or Horde in Forever! ⏰ Winner drawn 3rd October I have 3 more copies to giveaway on top of this one 👀 #WoW_Partner
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3wombats @3wombats.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
youtube.com/watch?v=MrRA...
youtube.com
AUSTRALIA'S DEADLIEST ANIMALS (SONG)
YouTube video by Van Vuuren Bros
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Br Martin, SSM @brmartin.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Important to start them young! 😺
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Bart⚓️ @bartgonnissen.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The Facial Expressions of Tethys by artist Julius von Bismarck. A suspended high-sea buoy that moves in real time. Sensors on a twin buoy out in the Atlantic Ocean send live satellite data to motors inside the museum. This makes the indoor buoy copy the exact, real-time movements of the ocean waves.
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Br Martin, SSM @brmartin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Real bogong for reference
Photo of a bogong from Wikipedia. Brown moth, wings at rest, silvery speckles on dark patches.
By Donald Hobern from Canberra, Australia - Agrotis infusa, CC BY 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=4936674
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Br Martin, SSM @brmartin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This is a Southern Moon Moth (Dasypodia selenophora)! I have called them Bogongs all my life, but this W.A. inhabitant is not a bogong. 🙀 I am very glad to hear the undifferentiated Eastern States populations have made a recovery of the actual Bogong (Agrotis infusa).
Image of a Southern Moon moth from Wikipedia - wings spread, brown with 3 wavy darker ripples spreading horizontally and 2 large 'eyes' left and right surrounded by the ripples.
By dhobern - https://www.flickr.com/photos/dhobern/3174476133/in/set-72157604415035404, CC BY 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=5840501
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Br Martin, SSM @brmartin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I think both 'mogging' ('transmogrifying', changing the look of the outfit a character is wearing) and 'maxxing' (cf. 'minmaxxing' - optimising the stats of one's character) were stolen from gamer culture. Which has some problems of its own, but not with these words. 😿
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Br Martin, SSM @brmartin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
She is amazing!
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Jenny Edwards CBE @jennyedwards.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Why is it that billions go to data centres and yet keeping the doors open to help vulnerable wildlife is a desperate struggle? Our priorities are topsy turvy. Please share even if you cant afford to donate. #WildlifeRescue #Wildlife #Enfield gofund.me/3ae7227c9
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Donate to PLEASE HELP SAVE THE TRENT PARK ANIMAL CENTRE, organized by Elena Phrydas
PLEASE HELP SAVE THE TRENT PARK ANIMAL CENTRE : £40,000 IS NEEDED TO HELP … Elena Phrydas needs your support for PLEASE HELP SAVE THE TRENT PARK ANIMAL CENTRE
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James Martin, SJ @jamesmartinsj.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
"The value of persons, however, does not depend on what they achieve or produce ... The fundamental dignity of each person, therefore, is neither acquired nor earned, nor does it need to be justified ... The dignity of every human person can be described as infinite" "Magnifica Humanitas."
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Br Martin, SSM @brmartin.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
This person does not get Anglican polity 😵‍💫 It is the Bishop's parish as we know and as the Church has organised itself since there were bishops! He really needs to find a diocese where he can represent the bishop, or preferably another tradition that is congregational.
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Br Martin, SSM @brmartin.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
That feeling when... you know it will all end in tears. (Strip his PTO and be done with for goodness sake).
churchtimes.co.uk
City of London churches sever ties with bishops
William Taylor spurns ‘heretics’ for his own ‘spiritual overseer’
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Br Martin, SSM @brmartin.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Sounds awesome! 😻
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Br Martin, SSM @brmartin.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Is this a photo of SCF's booksale at Winthrop Hall? 😹
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Br Martin, SSM @brmartin.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Sorry to hear but that's great about the Rikodeine! Hope you are back on board quickly.
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Br Martin, SSM @brmartin.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
For some reason this gives me anxiety 🙀 But children unfortunately are frequently vectors. 😿
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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I feel like Arnold was the one guy to truly hold the republican line about what the great goodness of America means in his heart and when they stopped pretending to believe any of it he looked around and was like fuck it I’m Bernie I guess
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
DoorDash spent $1.4M trying to stop Zohran Mamdani from becoming mayor. This week's historic $131.5M enforcement action against DoorDash for underpaying NYC delivery workers shows why. Yet another reminder that the only thing that can beat organized money is organized people.
theintercept.com
DoorDash Spent $1.4 Million Trying to Stop Mamdani From Becoming Mayor. Now We Know Why.
In a wage-theft settlement, DoorDash now has to pay its workers around 100 times what it spent trying to beat Zohran Mam
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Br Martin, SSM @brmartin.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Kylie flies thru the sky via what the ABC suggests is the camera fly system. She is wearing dark glasses, possibly to hide the fully understandable fear in her eyes. Grats Brisbane Lions, commiserations, Freo.
abc.net.au
The biggest moments of Kylie Minogue's AFL grand final show
From Loco-Motion to a sky-high Can't Get You Out of My Head — Kylie delivered a nostalgia-packed performance at the AFL grand final.
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Br Martin, SSM @brmartin.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
That was the 3rd post. Step up Blizz. Bandwidth a fraction of what it was in 2005. Computing power huge. Just not good enough to force users to accept terrible gfx for their economic convenience with the reason 'this is how we always wanted it to look'. That's some bullshit there.
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Br Martin, SSM @brmartin.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
By restricting the sharpness and depth of vision, I imagine it is reducing the server side load and hence Blizz costs. This is 2026. Some ppl pay $2000 for a graphics card. They expect to use it. Not continuing my sub for this rubbish. Almost 20 years worth.
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Br Martin, SSM @brmartin.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I have unsubbed. There are ppl whose sense of aesthetics is in the toilet saying it is beautiful. Beautiful is the graphics underneath the washed out layer of cloud. Somehow must be advantageous to Blizz to shove fog generation client side - big hit to fps.
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Br Martin, SSM @brmartin.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
About WoW Forever. It looked promising, but a recent update disabled the ability to turn off the 'fog' /console volumeFog 0. If you wear glasses, imagine someone takes them and smears a thin layer of snot on them. That is what the 'fog' looks like. @blizzard.com Was beautiful while it lasted.
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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
every day. women post their achievements online and get their hearts broken 😔
3 Panel Comic

Panel 1: a woman posts a picture of herself online with the caption: Hi everybody! Just finished my PHD dissertation!

Panel 2: Meathead reply guy responds: UGLY. I would not bang you

Panel 3: Black and white picture of woman looking devastated. A single tear rolls down her cheek. Text says “Today, my dream to fuck @incel_cheesedick died…”
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