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Nicolete Burbach @nicoleteburbach.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

My gift to myself from now on is that no-one shorter than me is allowed photograph me

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Antigone @antigoneinthebes.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

People don’t realize how serious the situation is.

A graph showing number of Germanies over time. Losing one on October 3rd 1990 means by projection we are only decades before reaching -1 Germany in 2072

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dan mentos @danmentos.com · 22/09/2026

[job interview] interviewer: so god killed all your kids? job: that's right

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Nicolete Burbach @nicoleteburbach.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

If you're doing unstable remnants of empire trying to bolster a humiliated military via spiritual warfare, it would be far more based and trad - not to mention economically efficient - to just stick a stylite on top of the Washington Monument

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👻 🎃 🦇 Bela Lughosti's Dad 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇵🇸 @belalugosisdad.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

GUYS WE ARE 376 QUID AWAY FROM THE TARGET. IT WILL TAKE LESS THAN ONE IN A THOUSAND OF MY FOLLOWERS TO DONATE A QUID TO GET THERE. Tell you what, If we get to £9900, I'll donate the last 100 quid myself.

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Nicolete Burbach @nicoleteburbach.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

What really gets me about this is that if you knew nothing about the state of trans rights in the UK you would be forgiven for thinking this is just snark - it seems too hyperbolic to be sincere. But it's a genuinely meaningful claim, and a sign of how bad it's got

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Nicolete Burbach @nicoleteburbach.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Pretty extraordinary to see the pope make a targeted criticism at all

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Gef the Toking Mongoose @geftokingmongoose.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Every Riot grrrl band in the 90s

Still from the television show Xena: Warrior Princess showing Xena, Gabrielle and Joxer all with goofy expressions on their face

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Nicolete Burbach @nicoleteburbach.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Alt history challenge (hard mode): come up with a timeline where this is genuinely the british govt

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Nicolete Burbach @nicoleteburbach.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Irreversible Damage bc you cut yourself building warhammer

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Nicolete Burbach @nicoleteburbach.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

You have to stick the medal to your windscreen like one of those blue badges

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Nicolete Burbach @nicoleteburbach.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

This style of leadership wasn't healthy for the Church but I do love a bitchy old encyclical (from Pius X's Pascendi Dominice Gregis no. 27)

With all this in mind, one understands how it is that the Modernists express astonishment when they are reprimanded or punished. What is imputed to them as a fault they regard as a sacred duty. Being in intimate contact with consciences they know better than anybody else, and certainly better than the ecclesiastical authority, what needs exist - nay, they embody them, so to speak, in themselves.

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Nicolete Burbach @nicoleteburbach.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

For anyone worried about TRS closures at Edinburgh, see this comment from Prof Rachel Muirs (who works there). The Church of Scotland is just moving where it does some of its ordinand training. This mostly just means the loss of a few of students. The department is fine.

Appeal to anyone who has seen or shared the news reports about programme closures at Edinburgh, including in TRS: Please stop circulating them. They are very misleading, and are causing actual damage to our otherwise healthy department. (And for what it's worth, colleagues in Scottish Literature are saying something similar). I am now fed up with responding to anxious prospective students who think we, or some of our areas of teaching and research, are being closed down. We aren't. There are institutions where our subject is at risk but Edinburgh is not one of them. Please don't try to fit us into a narrative of "attack on the humanities" or "secularisation gone mad". Thank you.

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Nicolete Burbach @nicoleteburbach.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I mean this seems like a great way to get your immoral war cursed by a saint, but I guess they don't see it that way

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Nicolete Burbach @nicoleteburbach.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Interested in some spiritual conversation about themes in Pope Leo's teachings? (interested in seeing inside where a bunch of really cool religious sisters live?) There's just about still time to sign up to this! Starts Monday so get on it londonjesuitcentre.churchsuite.com/events/vybex...

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Conversation in the Spirit: Pope Leo on Justice (28-Sep-2026)

Course overview How might Pope Leo's teachings illuminate our current social and political situation? What they mean alongside our lives and experiences? And what is the spirit saying to us amidst all...

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

one thing i have learned from trump is that literally every word procopius and suetonius wrote was literally true

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Nicolete Burbach @nicoleteburbach.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

There's something just really unhealthy in the way that culture wars flatten out genuinely interesting stuff in the name of recruiting for a side. This isn't an "everything's so polarised" narrative - it's just a basic feature of propagandizing - but it genuinely makes life less rich and fun

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Nicolete Burbach @nicoleteburbach.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Widespread racist pandering across the political spectrum is damaging to political life because it normalises racism. But it also creates insane priorities among the electorate in a way that's clearly harmful in a society that actually wants to...y'know... address problems affecting it

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Nicolete Burbach @nicoleteburbach.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

The true way to remeber Lewis is as kind of a bad theologian who nevertheless had his moments, one of which was a load of allegorical kids fiction that's genuinely really good

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Nicolete Burbach @nicoleteburbach.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

No Leo! It is perilous to study too deeply the arts of the enemy!

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Shana @shanamd.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I am SORRY for sharing something that was posted on the other place, but this is too good.

The future pope at a party with a caption “they don’t know I’m the future pope”

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Nicolete Burbach @nicoleteburbach.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

One of the real graces of being trans is that there are thresholds in your life where you can genuinely look back and say, "Yeah. Past me would be all about this"

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Nicolete Burbach @nicoleteburbach.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

can YOU complete a day in the childhood of Rome's incompetent trans empress? downpour.games/~GossipGrrrl...

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"A Day In The Life Of: Elagabalus" by GossipGrrrl

A Downpour game by GossipGrrrl

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Nicolete Burbach @nicoleteburbach.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Tfw your attempts to remain maximally consumable through political neutrality are not only self-undermining but toxify your brand

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Nicolete Burbach @nicoleteburbach.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Love to be the figure of the Event. Get subjectified, idiot

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Janel Comeau 🍁 @verybadllama.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I mean if you really want to hear Ed Sheeran without any opening acts you can simply get put on hold with your bank

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Nicolete Burbach @nicoleteburbach.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

"viciously demonising dissenters from gender ideology" has "had a chilling effect" complains woman calling for people to be photographed and monstered online

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Nicolete Burbach @nicoleteburbach.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

This is such a weird book but it really does have its fantastic moments, & I think it's my fav in the trilogy. Some fun biblical stuff, ongoing wrestling with the nature of violence amidst WWII, genuinely scary horror writing from a man better known for a kids book w talking beavers... *chefs kiss*

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Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 14/09/2026

Donald Trump, confirmed Limewire user

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Nicolete Burbach @nicoleteburbach.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

the one blue room is so guests can stay without going insane

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Nicolete Burbach @nicoleteburbach.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

There was also this stupid little throwaway line about moving on from a victim mentality and together they genuinely gave the impression that he's never encountered any situation where forgiveness isn't just some trivial matter. And it's just like... you're a priest...

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Nicolete Burbach @nicoleteburbach.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

You know, your homily on the importance of forgiveness would land better if you didn't begin it with the Proclaimers and giving offence vs cancel culture stuff.

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Nicolete Burbach @nicoleteburbach.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Captain Hook famously did have a point, on his hand

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Nicolete Burbach @nicoleteburbach.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

A genuinely fantastic essay that's worth reading for its own sake

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Nicolete Burbach @nicoleteburbach.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Biggest branding disaster since that Austrian guy decided he rather liked the swastika

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Nicolete Burbach @nicoleteburbach.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Still can't actually believe this happened but I've got a Russian copy of the Russian Pope Francis autobiography and yes he's genuinely censored for not being homophobic enough

Cover image of Pope Francis autobiography

Some pages with censored text (pp. 286-289)

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Nicolete Burbach @nicoleteburbach.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

New tattoo day! By the incredible AJ at House of Iris, Walthamstow www.instagram.com/aj.tattooo?i... (TW faded self harm scars if you look closely)

A line art tattoo of Joan of arc hiding a sword and banner, beneath the legend, "Courage! Do not fall back!"

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Nicolete Burbach @nicoleteburbach.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

RIP Gloria. Your feminist legacy may be a complex one but I'll always remember you for your Revolution from Within, which found me at exactly the time I needed it.

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Shane Glackin @eltorosolo.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Don't have confirmation from all affected departments, but... #Philosophy at #Exeter has avoided compulsory redundancies, and so have the other disciplines I've heard from so far. They've wrecked our summer, and bullied beloved colleagues into "voluntary" redundancy. But we're still here.

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Nicolete Burbach @nicoleteburbach.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Seeing as this is going around, I figure it's actually worth commenting on as a trans Catholic theologian. 🧵

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Ruth Pearce @notrightruth.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

This is the most fucked up and immediately harmful policy decision I think I've ever seen in adult trans healthcare in the UK, and that's saying something. The Welsh Gender Service is one of the best in the country. It is widely praised by the patients it helps. That is why it is being targeted.

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Shivam Bhatt @shivambhatt.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

hey, this past week was the Kerala harvest festival of Onam, which is conveniently relevant to the story of Vishnu's fifth avatar, the little person priest Vamana. so time for a #hinduthread, part of the Dasavataram series, the ten avatars of Vishnu.

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Richard Kadrey @richardkadrey.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

For those who might have forgotten, Dolly was always punk as fuck

"I made jokes about it, but it's the truth that I kind of patterned my look after the town tramp. I didn't know who she was, just this woman who was blonde and piled her hair up, wore high heels and tight skirts, and, boy, she was the prettiest thing I've ever seen. Mama used to say, 'Aw, she's just trash,' and I thought, That's what I want to be when I grow up. Trash."

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