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Natalie B.

@natbur.bsky.social
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London E17. Episcopalian who's over here. Work in Legal Tech and love my job. Practical theology, liturgy, inclusive church. Julian of Norwich always. 🏳️‍🌈 with 🏳️‍⚧️ (she/her)

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 17m
NEW: Bishop Mariann Budde, who gained fame for preaching a sermon challenging Trump, has announced her intention to resign as the Episcopal Bishop of Washington. But in an exclusive interview with @rns.org, Budde explained the process actually takes nearly 2 years. religionnews.com/2026/10/01/b...
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Bishop Mariann Budde to resign, will remain in post during lengthy replacement process
WASHINGTON (RNS) — ‘I’m going to do all that I can to both lead well in this period and to ensure that there’s as much wind in the sails of the future leader and the diocese going forward as is humanl...
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Dr Surekha Davies, Historical Monster Consultant (she/her) @drsurekhadavies.bsky.social · 13h
"GenAI is here, so I'm going to teach my students how to use it well." Are educators who choose to do this aware that they're complicit in exploiting and traumatizing data labellers in Global Majority countries? I guess they would have willingly enslaved people 200 years ago.
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'AI Is African Intelligence': The Workers Who Train AI Are Fighting Back
Kenyan workers are still the underpaid labor behind AI training, moderation, and sex chatbots. The Data Labelers Association is fighting back.
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Naomi Alderman @naomialderman.bsky.social · 12h
my first week at Oxford, I went to the college computer room. Because I had taught myself BASIC when I was 10 years old. I wanted IT friends, ppl who were also excited by tech. The computer room was full of giggling teenage boys sharing photos of boobs. I left and never came back.
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Imani Gandy @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 30/09/2026
fucking hell
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ADHD Preacher @adhd-preacher.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
You are wrong about Diogenes’ Lamp, and I am going to die mad about it. A 🧵
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Andy Arthur💃🏰⚓🦌 Threadinburgh 🧵 @threadinburgh.scot · 29/09/2026
If you do one thing today, check out this glorious hall carpet!
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The Great Pumpkin Papers 🎃🎃🎃 @professormusgrave.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
You’re right to push back. That was a set of red balloons, not a Soviet first strike. Should I order some ambulances?
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Chris Clare DJ @cdjtheology.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This is the thesis of my book, yes
A post by @constans on X.com:

Protestant with arm tattoos and a soul patch: you're about to hear a message about how gay people are going to hell and Harris is going to bring forth communism

Protestant with full robes and a censer: you're about to hear how Jesus is, if you think about it, trans
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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Cam bridges
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
This is true. In 2016, I got into an argument with a gay man on a menswear forum. I've since made it my mission to make every man dress gay, thereby destroying his ability to tell who is actually gay and, ultimately, his chances of finding love. I built my social media following to achieve that goal
Someone on Twitter writes to me: "People should follow your advise if they want to look gay."
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Chris Dale @chrisdaleoxford.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
In Iona Abbey OTD in 2023
Carved stone head with a drinking cup on a column in an old abbey.
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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Stop calling people who wear masks and take Covid precautions the “forever covid” crowd. We’re literally the only ones trying to eliminate the virus. It’s not gone. It’s not over. It’s still disabling. People who deny this reality are the “forever COVID” crowd.
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Sara Gibbs @sararoseg.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
He imposed Shania Law
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Julie S. Lalonde @julieslalonde.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The literacy crisis is not just referring to people's ability to literally read and write. It's also people's inability to read for context. I've been a public educator for over 20 years and I have never, ever seen it this bad.
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Chris Dale @chrisdaleoxford.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
They say a mermaid was killed with an arrow here and that she cursed Padstow and its waters by putting the Doom Bar across the estuary. An evening to imagine the cries of drowning sailors OTD in 2022
Across an estuary towards the outline of land beyond the water. A shaft of sunlight comes down through the gloom.
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Hildur Knútsdóttir @hildur.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I really have to get up but
Uggi the dog lying on my lap on the sofa
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Dr Duncan Robertson @duncanrobertson.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
An early render of the Channel 4 blocks ident.
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Salomé Viljoen @salome.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
good to know his justification for massive fossil fuel expansion was just "trust me bro, and later well...we'll see"
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Dekila Chungyalpa (བདེ་དཀྱིལ་) @dchungyalpa.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
It angers me when people scoff at the thought of faith leaders and institutions doing resistance work. You know who is being arrested in the TENS of thousands up and down this country right now? You know who runs food pantries? You know who is holding the hands of undocu folks at appts?
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Adam Roberts @adamroberts.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I mean, if "they" are the bears, then this is indeed a mystery.
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
It's great to see tailoring accommodate such extreme movement today. This level of tailoring was a bit more common in the past, as you can see in old films featuring Fred Astaire or Gene Kelly, but many modern suits will lift off the wearer's neck even when they're just walking.
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Solomon @solomonrmissouri.com · 24/09/2026
lol lol lol lol lol lol lol
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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Anyone wondering what ‘two tier policing’ was? Now we know.
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Alan Lester @alanlester.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
It’s time for a zero tolerance crack down on far right thugs. They’re costing the taxpayer, soaking up police resources, intimidating peaceful communities & delaying the measures that are reducing the asylum backlog & its cost. Enough is enough. End the menace. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...
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Far-right activist Daniel Thomas slashes dinghy in Channel with blade while rescue worker onboard
Thomas called followers to protest against arrival of asylum seekers in Gosport, but Border Force instead transported them to Dover
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Curse of the Libby Dead @captainlibatron.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
They get so close don't they? Then all along they were talking about freezing your nan
Everyone knows hard choices loom, but everyone is frightened to make them. Every serious party needs billions of pounds to fund their promises, and everyone knows there’s an obvious place to find the money, but nobody wants to be the first to say so.
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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Thousands of university jobs lost too, and barely a peep either.
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M a r c u s 🏳️‍🌈🇧🇧 @marcusjdl.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I mean they could just not do this it’s an option
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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 21/09/2026
ngl I was stunned by this article's cite to a study showing that 5.4 million children & teens in the US have family caregiving responsibilities @jessicacalarco.com has done lotsa interesting work on how the US uses women in lieu of a social safety net but I had no idea how much labor falls on..kids
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Dreadnought Holiday @dreadships.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
You can see from the photo that boat's tipped too far right
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Anyway, panic is a psy-op. Stay furious. Stay serious. Organize.
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Mr. Joshua @pantspants.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
A crayon artist sits with their legs crossed in a chair next to a wall they have covered in dinosaur illustrations. They are wearing overalls and a bandana. They exude the confidence of an artist who has seen their vision to completion. However, like many creators, their vision is not shared by everyone. They are confronted by a man in a sweater vest, “Heard you been drawin dinosaurs on my walls.” The artist replies, “You heard right.” 

Artist’s note: I try to do my drawings quickly so they maintain that spontaneous feel I’m going for (something we’ve discussed in previous posts). For this one I ended up redrawing the artist’s pose and subtle facial expression over and over again until it felt right.
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Steven (with a PH) @sjksalisbury.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Christening a baby is nothing like christening a ship. I know that now. Once again I can only apologise.
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Your regular reminder that if you have ANY reason not to fast on Yom Kippur (and mental health IS HEALTH) -- it's not just "ok" to eat -- you're *commanded* to do so --
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Home | A Mitzvah to Eat
At A Mitzvah to Eat, we empower Jews needing ritual accommodations to safely connect to sacred Jewish practice and community. We provide resources, support, and advocacy for these Jews, as well as the...
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alix e. harrow @alixeharrow.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
ideally a marriage consists of one person who is nice enough to let the door-to-door bible guys start a conversation and one person who is mean enough to get them out of it
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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
if you don't think the computer is alive you just haven't used it enough. you just haven't done it right. you just haven't done enough research and read enough posts by other people who think the computer is alive. if you just used it more you would agree that it's alive
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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
we've never had much reason to articulate this before a.i., but a reason we enjoy literature, art, music, etc. is that we know it is one human mind trying to express something fundamentally human and otherwise inexpressible to another human mind
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Miranda Keeling @mirandakeeling.com · 18/09/2026
Your brain is literally melting from doomscrolling awful news and AI slop 😑, when posted through your door is a brand new, real, analogue, 100% human-made short story by me. You exhale as you read 📚 Join my Short Story Club to get yours sent to you this week! Here: www.patreon.com/collection/2... ❤️
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Nick Harkaway @nickharkaway.com · 19/09/2026
The RNLI is the closest you will ever get to actual Batman. When rescue is visibly, viscerally, obviously impossible; when the water is a smothering, thundering black wall and the wind is screaming straight from Hell; when you are absolutely going to die: someone’s hand pulls you out and you don’t.
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Stefan Pöhlmann @snpoehlm.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
🧪5 new PJ.2.1 sequences from Spain reported yesterday. PJ.2.1 is a SARS-CoV-2 saltation variant first highlighted by @ryanhisner.bsky.social that now appears to be spreading internationally. Here is a thread on the emergence of PJ.2.1 and its potential implications.
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Natalie B. @natbur.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
This was a delightful Saturday morning read. The theme of shared solitude calls out to me! ✨ Thanks @unfortunatalie.bsky.social!
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folukeifejola @folukeifejola.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
“It is better to die for an idea that will live than to live for an idea that will die." Steve Biko
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Michelle says: Be kind. Always. ❤️ @snarkysillysad.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
She deserves that dog: 🔊 #AGoodPlace Source: www.reddit.com/r/MadeMeSmil...
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
every day of my life I think about the people using “she” to describe this computer program who still need to be convinced to use it for trans women
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Lomelindi12 @lomelindi12.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
@seanjones.org Sean, any chance you could RT this link for donations to Cornwall Islamic Centre after their place has been vandalised, car driven through gates & oil thrown everywhere ? 🙏 www.paypal.com/ncp/payment/...
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SUPPORT CORNWALL ISLAMIC COMMUNITY CENTRE
Our centre has recently been targeted in an possibly arson attack. At approximately 11:25pm, a small vehicle was seen reversing into the entrance gate of the Cornwall Islamic Community Centre. The ve...
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Mags L Halliday @magslhalliday.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Every year on 19 December, the famous Christmas lights at Mousehole in Cornwall are dimmed between 8 and 9pm, leaving just the Cross and Angels shining down across the village and out to sea.
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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
There is no middle ground with the kind of people who attack the RNLI. We don’t need to ‘listen’ to them. We need to tell them where to go.
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Aaron Fritschner @fritschner.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Early voting just opened in Virginia. The 2026 midterm election has begun!
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entirelygill.bsky.social @entirelygill.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
This really is a great letter, with far too many elegant turns of phrase to single one out. It lays out so clearly the importance of saying what you actually mean. celord.com/2026/09/17/i...
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Open Letter to William Taylor: Why Does St Helen’s Bishopsgate Stay?
An open letter challenging William Taylor’s use of Scripture, rejection of episcopal authority, and St Helen’s place in the Church of England.
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Emily Atkin @emorwee.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
A few weekends ago I went to Miami and attended 9 open houses in extremely high-risk flood areas to see what agents are telling prospective buyers about them. Here is my journey
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The open houses at the edge of disaster
What are buyers being told about climate risk in Miami? I posed as one to find out.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
"Where is lawbreaking not just visible, but designed to be seen? Where is antisocial behaviour worn as a badge of honour? Where is pleasure gained directly from causing distress? And where is reckless endangerment often ignored by the police or treated with the mildest of punishments?" A: The roads
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