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FairDragoon @fairdragoon.bsky.social · 23h

*MONKTOBER* 2-Zucchini, sister Jeanne

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Dustin A. Chacón @lingdustin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I've heard people make claims that AI would lead to a new Renaissance, but I didn't imagine it'd happen like this:

Screenshot of a Tweet from Pope Leo XIV. It reads:

"In this era of artificial intelligence, it is becoming urgen to distinguish human art from what machines produce. There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others. Algorithms lack the spark of humanity. For this reason, the Church wishes to renew an alliance with artists and cultural institutions to safeguard our humanity."

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gains @gains-skeets.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Sure man. Argue with the pope on Twitter

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Jay Hulme @jayhulmepoet.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

People out here cutting mangos into delicate little cubes, when I'm here waiting until they're soft enough to pull the skin off with my hands, slurping the flesh off, and gnawing on the stone like a feral animal, mango juices everywhere.

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Draculosity Jones: Ghost Skeleton @brainmage.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Hey guys! I'm Burke, he's Hare, and before we get into today's unboxing video, we just wanna talk a little about today's sponsor, Surfshark

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QueerAF @wearequeeraf.com · 01/10/2026

The pause comes almost a year after our investigation revealed that the national average wait time for a first appointment at an NHS gender clinic in the UK is a staggering 25 years. Wales, however, has operated a different model.

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Gender Clinic Files - QueerAF

An investigatory series that exposes deep structural issues with the UK’s approach to transgender healthcare by QueerAF, What The Trans?! and Claire's Trans Talks.

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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 30/09/2026

BREAKING NEWS: “Do geese see God” is a palindrome

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Jay Hulme @jayhulmepoet.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

My energy supplier is constantly like "why won't you set up a direct debit with us" and like, you sent me an estimated bill saying I owed almost £200, and I took meter readings to prove I didn't, and you didn't believe me and sent a guy to do a reading, and what do you know, my actual bill is £35.27

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Jay Hulme @jayhulmepoet.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Evri, telling me when my parcel is due, like:

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Viv Schwarz @vivschwarz.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I just re-opened my shop to sell some signed books... and original art. Scrappy cats, painted by hand, for you, go get one! I will add all of the ones in this picture today and then see if I can paint a few more... (I am raising some money to aircon my flat here.) vivschwarz.bigcartel.com

Colourful cats painted on scrap paper and cut out.

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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

We've had the ability to watch, say, Counterstrike marathons, Street Fighter tournaments, or chess matches between computers since the 90s. Spectacles which, by their very definition, would be at a "higher standard" than human play. And nobody wants it. It's entirely meaningless. It has no appeal.

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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Every time a discourse kicks off over whether AI music, literature or art will be "as good as" the real thing, I'm always amazed more people don't cite that **there already are** creative pursuits where human-free spectacles have been available for decades, and nobody has ever wanted to watch them.

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Mrs. Detective PikaBOO, Esq. @clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · 29/09/2026

This is like a fucking SNL skit where studios keep making hockey shows instead of gay shows

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Jay Hulme @jayhulmepoet.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Every time I see someone use their religion as an excuse to exclude trans people in some court case or other, I think about how I genuinely believe that it is my religious duty towards God to transition, and how stressed a judge would be if we ended up opposite each other in the same case.

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Bat Conservation Trust @batconservation.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

🦇 The next round of Living Alongside Bats in Churches Grant applications are OPEN and will close at 10am, 26 October. We encourage any place of worship in England that needs assistance with their bat roost, such as managing a cleaning issue, to apply. More info: www.bats.org.uk/our-work/bui...

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Jay Hulme @jayhulmepoet.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Very reassuring that the Diocese of Leicester has hired a new 'Director of Vocations' who is a trustee of a group which creates and promotes a course that requires participants to sit in a group and confess to "homosexuality", among a collection of "perverted sins".

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Jay Hulme @jayhulmepoet.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I showed the Lesbian Bar article to an elder gay who was fighting for queer rights back in the 70's and 80's and from the look on his face I think it nearly killed him.

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Jay Hulme @jayhulmepoet.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I'm going to tell you a story and then, at the end, I'm going to ask you if anyone happens to have the niche knowledge I need to help... The story begins, as so many of my stories do, in an ancient church in the middle of a city. But it's not now. And it's not hundreds of years ago. It's the 1960's

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Emily Gorcenski @emily.gorcen.ski · 28/09/2026

Here’s the most incredible story you’ll read today. A small plane with four people aboard crashes in a field. Another pilot witnesses it. That pilot happens to be flying a bunch of skydivers. They offer to jump to assist, are given permission. The skydivers happen to be EMTs. Everyone survives.

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Skydivers alert emergency crews, assist after plane crashes near East Troy airport

Four people were aboard the single-engine plane when it went down in a cornfield near Carvers School Road in East Troy at about 1:30 p.m.

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Dr Jo Kershaw @mthrjo.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This is actually the ideal Agnus Dei. You may not like this, but this is actually what peak performance looks like

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Aidan O’Brien @aidanobrien.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Yuge day for American Bluesky, as many are getting their first experience of the quaint and traditional British rural pursuits, "dogging" and "flytipping"

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Jay Hulme @jayhulmepoet.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

"After he retired to the cave prayer grew in him like a forest, sowed its seeds inside his psyche, rewilded his heart. He didn’t see that centuries had passed without him."

A Saint looks up from his prayers to
discover he’s been dead for some time
For St Robert of Knaresborough
By Jay Hulme - from 'The Vanishing Song'

After he retired to the cave
prayer grew in him like a forest,
sowed its seeds inside his psyche,
rewilded his heart. He didn’t
see that centuries had passed
without him.
One day he
looked up, hearing requests for
intercession, and the woods were
older than expected, the riverbanks
shifted by the years —
and as he
knelt before the altar in his hermit's
church, his knees disappeared below
the edges of his emptied grave.

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Joanne Harris @joannechocolat.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Lots of pieces in the print media recently about the decline of reading in children. Here's a little thread on ways to help your kids get reading again:

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Jay Hulme @jayhulmepoet.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Every so often there's a Sunday that's just crazy. Anyway, it's 00;32 and I just got home having left my house for church at 9:30am. I need. Sleep.

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Jay Hulme @jayhulmepoet.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Yesterday, despite being fully charged, my ancient and decrepit laptop decided that it wasn't going to turn turn on. Today I am going to? Try it again? Out of an abundance of hope?

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Jay Hulme @jayhulmepoet.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

One of the reasons I struggle so much with emails is that this is so rare. Please just give me the information I require so I can actually reply to you properly. I cannot abide having to drag it out of you by inches.

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Jay Hulme @jayhulmepoet.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Autumn is here so I've dug out the quilt I started making last winter. It's just too warm to work on it with it draped on my lap in summer.

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Jay Hulme @jayhulmepoet.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

As autumn comes I find myself explaining to friends that when I put on more layers it's not because I'm cold, it's that I want to be Cozy, and though warmth and coziness share a close relationship they aren't necessarily related, and sometimes I can be toasty warm and still require more Coziness.

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Jay Hulme @jayhulmepoet.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

"Prostrate before God a final time I reach out my arms to the earth. This stone blooms with the millennia, this soil burrows with chitinous song; life bursts from the death of another — each earthly thing I've loved is fossil-rich, renewed, re-created, recycled, returned."

A Saint Dies Beside the Nidd
By Jay Hulme - from 'The Vanishing Song'

Prostrate before God a final time
I reach out my arms to the earth.
This stone blooms with the millennia,
this soil burrows with chitinous song;
life bursts from the death of another —
each earthly thing I've loved is fossil-rich,
renewed, re-created, recycled, returned.

Soon, I cannot consider the miracle,
only this moment, so wholly my own.
The breeze in the trees reminds me
of the song of my mother’s womb;
though I’ll only realise that later

— after I’ve gone.

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Jay Hulme @jayhulmepoet.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

"How to steal a Saint"

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Jay Hulme @jayhulmepoet.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

"Every single one of us, carving a home through the dark."

The Hermit Studies Astronomy
By Jay Hulme from The Vanishing Song

Wild man of the cave,
the locals tell stories about you.

Left alone in the darkness
you have been scratching
a home out of stone.

When the stars open up
far above, do you track
where we're going?

Every single one of us, carving
a home through the dark.

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Jay Hulme @jayhulmepoet.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

"Robert went mad in the way of saints; beautiful and holy and wild as anything. He grew into the cave, hands scratching at the earth; for weeks he watched the river."

The Madness of St Robert of Knaresborough By Jay Hulme - from The Vanishing Song'
Robert went mad in the way of saints; beautiful and holy and wild as anything. He grew into the cave, hands scratching at the earth; for weeks he watched the river. When knights and kings came with riches he told them things they never wanted to hear. Centuries later he still speaks to strangers, pilgrims to a past they cannot comprehend. If they listen, Robert offers them madness in whichever form they choose. One man chose murder. Buried the body in the cave. A sacrifice, perhaps. An atrocity instead of a prayer. More choose to go mad like him. A consecrated insanity. A heart crawling among the trees, fingers splayed across the stone, grafting themselves into the rock. They call out to God in rushing words - they sound like the echoing water, as it carves away at the cliff.

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Jay Hulme @jayhulmepoet.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

Today is the feast day of St Robert of Knaresborough, who died today (September 24th) in 1218. He's my favourite saint, and I visit the cave where he lived whenever I can. Here's a thread of some poems I wrote about / for him.

Jay kneels at the grave of St Robert, he's surrounded by greenery

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Jay Hulme @jayhulmepoet.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

A Blessed Feast of St Robert of Knaresborough to you all!

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Alejandra Hope @alejandrahope.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

What a delightful text to receive from priest-friend a bit ago, 😂 // @jayhulmepoet.bsky.social

Text that reads:
I almost forgot to tell you: the gospel reading in the daily office today is Jesus being tempted. You best believe I was distracted thinking about armadillos 😂

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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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Jay Hulme @jayhulmepoet.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Showing my yoga teacher my horrid shoulder mobility and her going "oh... oh no." And then poking my trapezius muscle and going "oh God."

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Jay Hulme @jayhulmepoet.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Coming across a Bible commentary by Enoch Powell (yes, that Enoch Powell) in a secondhand bookshop and just... Burying it deep beneath that most unappealing stack of books and hoping nobody ever finds it.

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Jay Hulme @jayhulmepoet.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The stupidest thing about this post is that this is genuinely a candid taken of me standing in a moat and listening to my friends make terrible assumptions about why the castle windows were shaped like that. I then climbed through the window in question to better show them why they were wrong.

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Jay Hulme @jayhulmepoet.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

POV: You've just very loudly and confidently said something that's not true about a historic site.

Jay looks through a hole in a ruin. He has a disgusted look on his face.

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REwadent Evil @ewacat.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

this is REALLY neat

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Jay Hulme @jayhulmepoet.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Another irregularly scheduled cooking day today which means my freezer is now stocked with Chana Saag, Olan, Butternut Squash Cafreal, and Spiced Tomato Soup. When I've eaten some of it and there's space in the freezer again, I'll also make a sweet potato vindaloo, some chilli, and a daal.

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The total weaponisation of the poppy over the last ten years by the right is undoubtedly one of the more unpleasant and depressing elements in our national pantomime. It's become a de facto nationalist symbol.

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Jay Hulme @jayhulmepoet.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

There's someone at Church who still goes to a small group run by their previous extremely evangelical church and they're slowly infecting this group with the concept of "liturgy" and it's so fascinating to watch.

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