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Captain Awkward @captainawkward.bsky.social · 13h

Excellent thread! There *are* rewards for being A Good Guy Who Speaks Up even if they are not immediately obvious or publicly bestowed. First, integrity is its own reward. Maybe you didn’t save the world or change hearts & minds. But if you held the line on not making it worse, that’s something.

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Dr Jo Kershaw @mthrjo.bsky.social · 7h

This is a tangent but there’s a throwaway line in Screwtape where Lewis has his devil remark, in discussing how to tempt someone that “the pleasure in the sin is the bit that comes from [God] and if only we could get rid of it,” and I alway found that helpful.

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Dr Jo Kershaw @mthrjo.bsky.social · 7h

Before the Trout on Port Meadow got gastro-pubbified they used to have a quote from the Lord of the Rings describing the Prancing Pony on a chalk board as you went in (near frames pages from the guest book from the twenties and thirties)

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The Shire-Reckoning @shire-reckoning.bsky.social · 19h

Frodo hews at the arm, cutting the hand away, but shattering the sword. Then he remembers the rhyme: ‘Ho! Tom Bombadil, Tom Bombadillo! By water, wood and hill, by the reed and willow, By fire, sun and moon, harken now and hear us! Come, Tom Bombadil, for our need is near us!’

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Dr Jo Kershaw @mthrjo.bsky.social · 8h

Somewhat unexpected fireworks

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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 9h

GOD BLESS NIGELLA “I don’t approve of talking about food as naughty” I have been needing bake off to say that for YEARS. Food is a pleasure, not a guilty pleasure!

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Dr Jo Kershaw @mthrjo.bsky.social · 8h

I’ve nearly finished the mint-vervain tea I brought back from France, which is bad news considering I’m not likely to be back there in a hurry.

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Dr Jo Kershaw @mthrjo.bsky.social · 10h

Despite it being recommended in some hymnbooks, I never have sung “It came upon a midnight clear” for Michaelmas, which is a shame.

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Ennius @enniusredloeb.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

29th September is the feast of St Michael and All Angels. BL Yates Thompson 2; 'The Ottobeuren Collectar'; 12th century; Germany, S. (Ottobeuren); f.37r @blmedieval.bsky.social

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Dr Jo Kershaw @mthrjo.bsky.social · 17h

Although good luck finding any edible blackberries this year…

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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 22h

Why might that be, Telegraph?

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Kate Bevan @katebevan.com · 19h

Also, I bang on about this, but millennials/GenZ/GenA, your 50s/60s/70s will arrive far more quickly than you think, and by the time you get there, you'd better hope there's still some state provision because most of you are not saving anything like enough for your retirement now.

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Dr Jo Kershaw @mthrjo.bsky.social · 18h

It’s got to be Depardieu. It’s a FSB psy-op

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The Shire-Reckoning @shire-reckoning.bsky.social · 19h

Frodo wakes in a barrow. The three other hobbits lie on stone slabs, dressed in white rags and gold treasure. He hears a song. ‘Cold be hand and heart and bone, and cold be sleep under stone…’ An arm walking on its fingers approaches from behind. It moves towards Sam.

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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 20h

The BBC news summary this morning went seamlessly from "critics warn PM scrapping triple lock would be electoral suicide" to "critics ask if PM has nerve to make tough decisions" and I don't think it's a particularly pro Burnham stance to suggest he might not be the entire problem here.

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Today, in Russian propaganda:

Schaeffer Marlyse. @Schaef... • 6h
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• Translated from French Show original
I am a French mother with beautiful children.
I did not give birth to them for them to be sent to the trenches.
French and Russian mothers do not want their children to fight against each other.
We are not enemies.
#RuslandIsNotMyEnemy

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@veen_els
I'm a Dutch mother with beautiful sons. I did not give birth to my children to be sent into the trenches. Dutch and Russian mums don't want their boys fighting each other. We are not enemies. #RuslandIsNotMyEnemy

Nadja @EuropaNormal • 9h
• Translated from German Show original
I am a German mother with a beautiful son. I didn't give birth to my child to send him into the trenches. German and Russian mothers do not want their boys to fight against each other. We are not enemies.
#RuslandIsNotMyEnemy

Dday @DdayohneZiffern • 12h
I'm a German mother with beautiful sons. I did not give birth to my children to be sent into the trenches. German and Russian mums don't want their boys fighting each other. We are not enemies.
#RuslandIsNotMyEnemy

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Dr Jo Kershaw @mthrjo.bsky.social · 20h

This is an excellent thread

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Dr Jo Kershaw @mthrjo.bsky.social · 20h

This is also an interesting example of how stories are told differently in different disciplines/ traditions, because I knew that Servetus was burned for heresy (he denied the Trinity), but not about his medical discoveries.

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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 20h

A cash-strapped rural police force struggles to deal with Red Diesel gangs. Until its chief inspector realises can get the Met Police to deal with the problem... ...if he pretends they're Iranian. A new six part comedy starring Toby Jones.

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James Alistair Henry @jamesbluecat.bsky.social · 20h

If this continues and a load of illegal hare coursers get taken out by a combined US/UK special forces op, I will be *delighted*.

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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 29/09/2026

A key component of the Cambridge Analytica outrage was your friends subjecting you to data theft without your consent or knowledge. Facebook is running the same playbook on your text messages. Even if you’re not on Meta properties, they’re ingesting your interactions.

Aten installed Muse on both his iPhone and a Mac mini that he uses to test out various Al agents and tech. It took Meta a single day to begin "helpfully" pitching article ideas based on texts he'd sent to a podcast co-host.
When he asked Muse how it got the information, it said that it read banners from incoming texts. But that's not true, either.
After doing a little digging, Aten says Muse synced 187,000 lines from his Messages database, despite Full Disk Access being Off.

Unless Aten is the most popular person on the face of the planet, I sincerely doubt he'd gotten 187,000 lines of text in roughly 24 hours. What happened is that, without permission, Muse went into the app and downloaded the information.
He had not given Muse permission to access Messages, and full disk access was not enabled. It just went ahead and uploaded those texts anyway.
Muse can take "unexpected actions" indeed.

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

I thought I’d come across every permutation of theories of the atonement, but I’ve just seen a post saying that God the Father allowed Jesus to be tortured and killed because of how much he, God, hates humanity, and… what?

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Han Solo to Finn: That's Not How The Force Works!

Alt: Elderly Han Solo, looking incredibly annoyed, tells Finn “That's Not How The Force Works!”

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Sam Whyte @samwhyte.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Years ago, I was walking home late one night, and a drunk guy was harassing me - trying to get me to go home with him, pushy sex comments, etc. After a few mins, his mate turned to him and said, firmly but not aggressively, "MATE. leave her alone, yeah?" And he did. I think about him all the time.

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Alan Rusbridger @arusbridger.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

Letter of the day (in the Times)

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

I’m enjoying English paper piecing, except unfortunately basting fabric on to the pattern pieces is *extremely* tedious

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Tom Ewing @tomewing.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I think a lot about Tolkien's concept of evil - as something that reproduces itself in ever smaller and pettier but also harder to defeat ways, him giving up writing a sequel to Lord Of The Rings cos nihilist teenage ord-cults were too depressing

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

All the talk of angels in the liturgy reminds me of the line in one of the final cantos of Paradiso, where Gregory the Great arrives in heaven to discover he was wrong about the order of the ranks of angels - and laughs.

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

I think Gul Dukat and Kai Winn have to be up there, and part of that (as well as the excellent acting) is that you can see there’s potential for them to be decent people and they both end up turning away from it. That said, I’ve been thinking about Weston in “Out of the Silent Planet” a lot lately.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Put another way, to be legible enough for AI to be useful to most families, they would have to stop communicating as the family they have known, never had to overtly think about, and become something stranger and coarser that has no cultural foundation. Why would I do that?

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Yes, the precondition for regular AI agent use is changing your culture to speak in middle America white bureaucratic language to make it work. You can’t put “the good collards“ on an optimized shopping list, much less account for what some call familect: www.nytimes.com/2026/09/03/m...

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Every Family Has Its Own Private Language. What Does That Tell Us About Ourselves? (Gift Article)

“Familects” emerge out of in-jokes and mispronunciations, but they reveal something about how all language evolves.

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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 28/09/2026

Ultimately we created an entire culture around the idea that buying property was a one way bet, that policy would underwrite.

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

"President Donald Trump suffers ego injury from mild-mannered Canadians, initiates geopolitical standoff with Canada and issues annexation threats" is a mid-tier South Park plotline from 2005 unleashed on the world

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Lewis Baston @lewisbaston.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

🧵 - the niche knowledge (preservation of old media) that Jay is asking about may be available through the Doctor Who archive community and their friends. Have a read.

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

Christ, the fair glory of the holy Angels, Thou who hast made us, thou who o’er us rulest, Grant of thy mercy unto us thy servants Steps up to heaven.

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

Anyway! Eve of Michaelmas, a feast I rather love.

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New-Cleckit Dominie @ncdominie.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Great moments in Scottish engineering history: James Watt tries to work out how his phone attaches to his selfie stick.

Statue of James Watt. In his right hand he holds a telescopic stick with a frame at the top; in his left he holds a flat object about the size of a large smartphone. He is scowling at the possibly-not-a-smartphone as if he is tempted to yeet it into the sea. On that basis, it probably _is_ a phone.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 28/09/2026

It really gives the game away when the anti trans orgs are calling the election of the neo nazi party in Germany a "glimmer of hope."

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

Someone was saying that one of the fash adjacent theobros had written a book called “Offensive Christianity,” but _this_ is precisely what the offensiveness of Christianity looks like. Yes, that is a victory for the Lamb, yes that criminal nailed to that cross _is_ our God, yes, love beats death.

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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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Michael Fry @bigdirtyfry.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Your Grandad Cyclops talks about his school days

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

It’s a bit like feeding a rabbit on cheetah food.

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Ian is the Priest-King of the Sacred Grove at Nemi @poetinbabylon.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

He sees in Ananias and Sapphira the toxic power of Adam and Eve in their fall: the temptation to think that "we are gods," that the Couple comes prior to the Community; and that the Christian vocation of Marriage must be precisely the Opposite of That - that the Community has prior claim upon us!

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

It will never not be wild to me that the Russians attacked Keir Starmer's home, successfully spread falsehoods about Starmer's love life, and this didn't changed British politics and British political elite behaviour *at all*.

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

…. you guys get that the Pope is also a head of state by virtue of his office, right?

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

I continue to find this bizarre as well as deeply dubious given that Suella Braverman is not a Christian. (That’s not a No True Scotsman, she’s a Buddhist).

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

Can’t help feeling this explains a lot about Calvin

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