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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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Dan Sinykin @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social · 48m
In 2012, I stood on a stage with Anne Carson as a volunteer grad student to help her perform BRACKO, an adaptation of Sappho, where my job was to say the word "bracket" every time there was a bracket, which was more than two hundred times
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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 14h
Many thoughts about the 'I used to work somewhere evil while knowing it was evil until a Bridge Too Far' guilt memoirs. (Nice to leave a six-figure job for a six-figure book deal about your six-figure job.)
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“I Quit Big Tech.” So What? — The Dial
Two splashy memoirs turn ethical questions into office drama.
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Network Rail @networkrail.bsky.social · 21h
🍂 Stunning autumnal photos of our railway. 😍 Did you know that during #autumn we use leaf-busting trains? They clean the top of the rail by spraying it with a high-pressured water jet: 👉 bit.ly/3VorUv9 Share your autumnal photos below ...👇
A steam train travels across the Glenfinnan Viaduct. The surrounding landscape features autumn-colored foliage and rolling hills.A scenic train, featuring a train travels through a picturesque autumn landscape with rolling hills.A scenic view of railway tracks stretching into the distance. In the foreground, autumn leaves in shades of brown and orange are visibly prominent.A train travels along a railway line surrounded by vibrant autumn foliage.
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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Prime Day is a great time to boycott Amazon and send a clear message that you don’t support the Bezos behemoth That said, please be kind to disabled people who can’t boycott Many rely on Amazon for necessary supplies and are unable to get them any other way Help build networks of community care
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Rev. Dr. Liz Gloyn @lizgloyn.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Was wondering if the UK Amazon does this. It does. It also tells me that I organise home spaces systematically, so not only do I feel slightly surveilled, I also feel as if my housekeeping is being weighed in the balance and found wanting. (You haven't seen the front hall.)
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Mulcahy @midwest-mulcahy.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
(Byung-Chul Han calls this process “auto-exploitation”. Late-stage capitalism hasn’t freed us to be reflective creators, but instead has fooled us into exploiting our own labor *and* leisure time, all in the name of the “side hustle”.)
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Kashmir Hill @kashhill.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Terraforming America for compute, as seen from the sky: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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What the Data Center Boom Looks Like From the Sky (Gift Article)
In the race for A.I. computing power, hundreds of new projects are coming online across the country — and they’re getting bigger.
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
@anandwrites.bsky.social bravo and thank you. New book out now y’all:
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Man in the Mirror by Anand Giridharadas: 9780593802014 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
From acclaimed journalist Anand Giridharadas, a groundbreaking feat of reporting on a tragic encounter in a New York subway car that held up a mirror to a troubled and divided nation “A tour de...
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beetle moses @beetlemoses.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Three panel comic. Panel 1: on the set of the Jerry Springer show, a man sits in a chair. Jerry signals off-stage and says, “we have with us: your ancestor who crawled out of the ocean 375 million years ago!” Panel 2: the live studio audience is booing. Panel 3: security attempts to break up a fight between the man on stage, and his ancestor, a tiktaalik.
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Hildur Knútsdóttir @hildur.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The Icelandic word for psychologist is "sálfræðingur". It literally means "soul expert". For short we call them "sáli" or "soulie".
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Lisa Carey @msleedy.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Genuinely concerned about what's happening to the space-time continuum in this toilet.
A toilet door with a sign saying "Temporally Out Of Order"
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Steven J. Gibbons @stevenjgibbons.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Surface tension. I don’t know what it is about exactly these leaves but they have done something right evolutionarily. They wouldn’t be nearly as instagrammable if the water just ran off and I’m sure that was a big deal over the eons of tlme.
Raindrops on leavesRaindrops on leavesRaindrops on leavesRaindrops on leaves
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Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.blacksky.app · 04/10/2026
the fall of ed sheeran > the political revolution 

domino effect meme
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Tade "Will Eat Your Heart in the Marketplace" Thompson @tadethompson.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
They could have simply read Mary Wollstonecraft: "But, the welfare of society is not built on extraordinary exertions; and were it more reasonably organized, there would be still less need of great abilities, or heroic virtues." (A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, ch.4)
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Angus McIntyre @angusm.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I don't believe in the Great Man Theory of History, but I'm becoming increasingly convinced by the Giant Asshole Theory of History.
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New-Cleckit Dominie @ncdominie.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Does anyone have a ten-metre-tall steel golem with a big hammer that I could borrow for a day or two? I promise to return it only slightly bloodstained.
View of a ten-metre-high steel figure wielding a big hammer. It has an implacable expression, and you are standing in the position that is shortly to experience splat.
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Dr Jaime Ashworth @drjaimeashworth.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The end of an era. Marina Hyde and John Crace have been the bright lights in the last sixteen years of utter chaos. It won’t be the same without her. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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It's true: this is my final column. You have exactly 24 hours to complain before my inbox self-destructs | Marina Hyde
Yes, after 25 years I’m signing off, and I’ve cherished every moment – especially storming the French embassy with a (toy) AK-47, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde
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Hadas Weiss @hadas.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
online rando: stop whatever you’re doing and read this me, working: ok
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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 02/10/2026
no I'm sorry who told Le Monde we were calling it "Breturn", own up
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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 01/10/2026
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 · 01/10/2026
"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 · 01/10/2026
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 Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 30/09/2026
fucking hell
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ADHD Creature @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
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 is Scary Enough Already @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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