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John Wm. Houghton @numenor.reunitedkingdoms.net · 16h

Cool fact: if you sing it at half speed it’s _The Waste Land_!

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John Wm. Houghton @numenor.reunitedkingdoms.net · 20h

Beda dog does not see the point of model railroading.

Left foreground, an N scale Nickel Plate Railroad “Mikado” steam engine rounds a curve on an unsceniced part of a layout: right background, a white dog lies on a landing, looking the other direction.

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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 21h

The grift getting this rough should be a variable in your election model.

WSJ: GUILFOYLE BEGGED DONOR FOR $100K
TO PAY AMEX!
'HONEY PLEASE'

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John Wm. Houghton @numenor.reunitedkingdoms.net · 23h

the right to fill the job when it does come vacant, a speculative transaction which is *clearly* not simoniacal. 2/2

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John Wm. Houghton @numenor.reunitedkingdoms.net · 23h

It reminds me of the old principle that (iirc) if I had the right to name someone to fill a church vacancy, I could not possibly sell off that right during a vacancy, for selling Church offices is one form of simony. However, when the office is *not* vacant, there’s no objection to selling 1/2

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John Wm. Houghton @numenor.reunitedkingdoms.net · 07/10/2026

(To underline the contrast: as a private school college counselor and member of NACAC, I had ~10, though I was one of several part-time folk who were also classroom teachers; the full time head of the program had ~50, iirc.)

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John Wm. Houghton @numenor.reunitedkingdoms.net · 07/10/2026

I often use Fuller and Westberg, _Preaching the Lectionary_, 3rd Edition (2006)—though as the title suggests, it is a commentary on the Eucharistic lectionary, not on the whole Bible, and is specifically aimed at preaching.

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John Wm. Houghton @numenor.reunitedkingdoms.net · 07/10/2026

I have attended a lot of unrealistic vestry meetings . . .

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John Wm. Houghton @numenor.reunitedkingdoms.net · 07/10/2026

[When I was a kid some 65 years ago, my cousin who lives next door (she'll be 100 in December) had a pet raccoon. She called it "Rosemary Cooney."]

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John Wm. Houghton @numenor.reunitedkingdoms.net · 06/10/2026

Now you have to learn to like Frango Mints. Or hot dogs without ketchup, or that god-awful liquor they serve to unsuspecting visitors (Malört). Imho, Frangos are the easiest--no trouble at all, actually.

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John Wm. Houghton @numenor.reunitedkingdoms.net · 06/10/2026

Congratulations! That's just around the corner from here.* *133 miles, to be a bit more precise.

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John Wm. Houghton @numenor.reunitedkingdoms.net · 06/10/2026

And then, on my way to lunch, I ran into the Rector of the parish here in the county seat walking her dachshund (who deigned to accept a Milkbone I happened to have in my pocket).

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John Wm. Houghton @numenor.reunitedkingdoms.net · 06/10/2026

Ah, thanks! That is the episode I was vaguely remembering!

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John Wm. Houghton @numenor.reunitedkingdoms.net · 06/10/2026

Strictly tangential, but iirc Rehnquist when presiding affirmed the point that senators sit on impeachments as judges, not as jurors.

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John Wm. Houghton @numenor.reunitedkingdoms.net · 06/10/2026

Fire extinguisher aside, that statue is meant to make a point: it’s across the aisle from the tomb/chantry chapel of Cardinal Beaufort, in Winchester.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Goddamn, this point by @anandwrites.bsky.social really needed saying.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 06/10/2026

Trump still doesn't understand how percentages work 🥴

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John Wm. Houghton @numenor.reunitedkingdoms.net · 05/10/2026

The checks are the bread: ICE is the circuses, where cruelty is the heart of the spectacle.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 05/10/2026

it's such a perfect example of what is actually alito's hallmark as a justice, shoddy, sub-undergraduate thinking dressed up with five dollar words.

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John Wm. Houghton @numenor.reunitedkingdoms.net · 05/10/2026

I remember an Archon from decades ago which had booked two-thirds of one of those divisible ballrooms in a motel up by the airport. The other third was taken by a wedding reception. The fen/mundane overlap in the hallway-lobby was surreal.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

At a time in history when the most influential leaders of the U.S. need to stand up loudly and clearly for the rule of law, democracy, and decency, they are leading the charge in the opposite direction — fawning over the most dangerous authoritarian America has ever witnessed. Do not forget this.

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John Wm. Houghton @numenor.reunitedkingdoms.net · 04/10/2026

I am at St Francis’s Parish and am licitly preaching on another subject entirely!

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Diana Butler Bass @dianabutlerbass.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I'm watching the Trump speech in Ohio. After all these years, I still can't figure out if he's a monster, a liar, or a deranged fool. Maybe all of the above?

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John Wm. Houghton @numenor.reunitedkingdoms.net · 04/10/2026

An alien from a planet orbiting Alpha Lyrae, as far as I know.

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John Wm. Houghton @numenor.reunitedkingdoms.net · 03/10/2026

I loved working with the sound guy! I asked about which sort of wearable mic they had & he said, “Just let me put two up on stands for you.” I have never sounded better (from an acoustic point of view).

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John Wm. Houghton @numenor.reunitedkingdoms.net · 03/10/2026

this foolish arrangement means that the DST clocks are *two* hours off from the sun and it gets dark in the summer somewhere around ten pm (we might as well be in Scotland!).

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John Wm. Houghton @numenor.reunitedkingdoms.net · 03/10/2026

This one episode was, in local lore, the reason for the then governor to successfully advocate for putting most of Indiana on Eastern Time year round (i. e., using DST in the summer). As the entire state (& a fair chunk of western Ohio) ought geographically to be in the *Central* Time Zone, 1/2

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Eric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

UPDATE: Tom Cotton responds. (And he’s right!)

Tom Cotton & ial
@SenTomCotton
X.com
No one likes changing the clock, me included, but Congress has enacted permanent Daylight Savings Time multiple times before and repealed it each time once Americans experienced absurdly late sunrises in the winter. Arkansans don't want their kids going to school in the pitch dark, and I'll always put Arkansas first.
1:10 PM • 10/3/26 • 59K Views

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Nicole Guenther Discenza @ndiscenza1.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I can't imagine the name was to mock Trump, but now they have MADE it a way to mock Trump. Like the Streisand effect, except that there was nothing to see until they made it so!

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Tom @alas-not-me.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Reading "Pearl" today, I rediscovered the splendid Middle English word that we simply must revive: wythnay -- "with" as in withstand or withhold, plus "nay" as in "no." "Say no to" or "refuse"

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John Wm. Houghton @numenor.reunitedkingdoms.net · 02/10/2026

ISBN: 9780999306598 From the printer (at a discount, but with more $ to oneself): shop.ingramspark.com/b/084... Amazon: www.amazon.com/Falconry-oth... Barnes and Noble: www.barnesandnoble.com/.../falconry.... Books-a-Million: www.booksamillion.com/p/9780999306... 4/4

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John Wm. Houghton @numenor.reunitedkingdoms.net · 02/10/2026

We know it when we see it—or we hope We do: ephemeral perdurance that Connects the world we’re given to the Forms, As light’s last, briefest, flash through western clouds Connects the blackbird’s wing and setting sun. 3/n

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John Wm. Houghton @numenor.reunitedkingdoms.net · 02/10/2026

Perhaps I’ve learned. I know we’ve changed, Drawn closer, till we’re huddled here before The fire, with its ever sweeter threat That soul’s heat will at length break down red clay. The truth is, beauty’s still a mystery: 2/n

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John Wm. Houghton @numenor.reunitedkingdoms.net · 02/10/2026

From "Amphibian: A Sonnet Sequence", the first part of _Falconry and other poems_ : XXV. All I Know My still unravished bride, no touch of age Has made you less than she whom I first saw, Delighting in the sight, so long ago I doubt I knew myself—much less knew love. 1/n

Photo from the Indiana Audubon Society: a male Red-winged Blackbird, with prominent epaulets, perched on a board, facing right.

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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I'd rather have an economy that makes 1,000 millionaires than 1 billionaire.

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Sean McKnight @ynot1989.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

"No really, I can't stand Trump, but I'm not about to let some commie waitress from New York become President."

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Asa David Coulson @kingasa.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Abolish the Death Penalty. Capital Punishment is abhorrent.

A graphic that has the following text:
“The Episcopal Church has opposed the death penalty since at least 1958.
In 1979, the 66th General Convention reaffirmed this position, calling on dioceses and members of the Church to work actively toward abolishing the death penalty in their states.”
#AbolishTheDeathPenalty

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John Wm. Houghton @numenor.reunitedkingdoms.net · 01/10/2026

DOJ to investigate whether Davis, Lee were hard done by. Posthumous pardon for Booth reportedly being drafted.

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John Wm. Houghton @numenor.reunitedkingdoms.net · 01/10/2026

One of the Founders’ wisest arrangements turns out to have been the provision that no one can be the *dumbest* sitting Senator from their state.

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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

You've seen fireworks that look like jellyfish, but what about a jellyfish that looks like fireworks? The E/V Nautilus filmed this rare Halitrephes maasi jellyfish glowing like a firework at a depth of 4,019 feet (1,225 meters) off the coast of Baja California, Mexico. (📷: Ocean Exploration Trust)

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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Holy crap. Can’t make this stuff up

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John Wm. Houghton @numenor.reunitedkingdoms.net · 01/10/2026

Also plays hell with your sense of spelling. When you see things wrong often enough, it begins to affect your memory of the right.

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John Wm. Houghton @numenor.reunitedkingdoms.net · 01/10/2026

First go at home canning: marmalade made with rhubarb from the raised bed, two oranges, & an incredible amount of sugar. Lid concavities *seem* to have formed as directed. (Tastes great, but I can’t really tell the rhubarb is in there.)

At left front, on a cutting board of two contrasting woods, a marmalade sandwich in progress; sticking out from under the cutting board, the Ball Blue Book guide to preserving foods; to the right, six pint jars full of orange-brown marmalade.

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glastomichelle.bsky.social @glastomichelle.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Golden Wednesday. That was quite an unexpected end to my morning walk. After going up Glastonbury Tor in torrential rain, I was on my way home and the sky cleared in seconds!

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