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Rev Dev @revdev.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

How fleeting are all human emotions compared with the massive continuity of ducks. Dorothy Sayers, ‘Gaudy Night’ (1935)

Photograph of a mallard with the text “how fleeting are all human emotions compared with the massive continuity of ducks. “

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Rev Dev @revdev.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

Floofy dreams and goodnight!

My very fluffy grey cat, curled up and sleeping

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Rev Dev @revdev.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

Cardinal Robert Barron, bishop of the Diocese of Winona–Rochester in Minnesota, made a prophetic comment last week to the press — under Trump, America is in political decline.

"Cardinal George of Chicago, of happy memory, was one of my great mentors, and he said: 'Look, until America goes into political decline, there won't be an American pope.' And his point was, if America is kind of running the world politically, culturally, economically, they don't want America running the world religiously. So, I think there's some truth to that, that we're such a superpower and so dominant, they don't wanna give us, also, control over the church."

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Rev Dev @revdev.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

Mood. (Biblioteka Jagiellonska, BJ Rkp. 793 III, f.189v)

A medieval illustration of a man in a green tunic standing on a cat(?) whilst holding a giant carp above his head.

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Rev Dev @revdev.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Not the Onion. Not even irony. From a member of the US Congress. God help us all. (Screenshot; I deleted my x account a year ago)

Screenshot of twitter/x. Text reads

Nancy Mace @NancyMace
Let's turn Gaza into Mar-A-Lago

President Donald J. Trump
@POTUS • 14h
"The U.S. will take over the Gaza Strip, and we will do a job with it, too." -President Donald J. Trump

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Rev Dev @revdev.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

An incredible experience on Tuesday to attended an interfaith Holocaust Memorial Day service at the guildhall in Cambridge, before the mayor and members of the city council at which I spoke as Bishop’s Interfaith Advisor for the Diocese of Ely.

A group of interfaith clergy and speakers, all holding candles.
The attached photo Left to Right are:

Piero d’Angelico (Order of St George the Martyr), The Rev’d Nigel Uden (minister, Downing Place URC ); Imam Abdul Kayum Arain (Muslim chaplain, Anglia Ruskin University ; chair, Cambridge Muslim Trust); Eva Clarke, BEM (holocaust survivor and speaker, Holocaust Educational Trust ); Imam Sejad Mekić (Cambridge Central Mosque, author of “Remembering Srebrenica” ); The Rev’d Devin McLachlan (Bishop’s Interfaith Advisor; vicar of St Bene’t’s @stbenetscam.bsky.social ); David Karat (chair, Congregation Beth Shalom); Canon Jutta Brueck (Vicar, Great St Mary’s ); Prof. Helen Weinstein (History Works)

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Rev Dev @revdev.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Grateful for an early preview of springtime, along Grantchester Meadows

Bright sunshine and green grass along the blue and green river cam.

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Rev Dev @revdev.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

A very tired Jesuit priest, in a Mughal miniature from the 1700s. At the V&A

Detail from a Mughal miniature painting showing a European in black cassock and cap in a diverse crowd of south Asian dignitaries

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Rev Dev @revdev.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Fire in the fireplace, a cup of hot herbal tea, and Lat's 'Kampung Boy' to read. Now to pick the music...

Page from. Graphic novel — pen and ink drawing of a train whizzing past, a very young boy and his father watching the train.

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Rev Dev @revdev.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

The cats and I have found better things to do with 20 January. Saving our strength for the fighy to come.

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Rev Dev @revdev.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

I’ve installed the ‘make america kittens again’ extention, so that any pictures of Trump are replaced with cute pictures of cats. Which led to this beautiful conjunction on bbc news for me today:

A cardboard box with five orange and white kittens, above the headline “Secret UK ‘Mini cabinet’ tries to plan for unpredictable Trump”

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Rev Dev @revdev.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

How I’m feeling about 20 January (h/t to our long-suffering cat Blit, who had to wear this cone for three weeks)

Grey fluffy cat in a sunflower 🌻 cone around her neck, looking grumpy. The text above says
“me trying not to let little things affect me so much cuz I'm a sweet lil cute flower who deserves to be happy”

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Rev Dev @revdev.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

Delicious pie at a new cafe in town — The Cherry Pit, specialising in American dessert pies, vinyl records, good coffee, and a retro groove. (On King Street near the King of the Thames.)

Three to-go boxes each with a slice of pie, on a tiled yellow table

The same pie box but now with nothing but crumbs.

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Rev Dev @revdev.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

Hoarfrost and sunrise, on Sunday morning.

Warm sunrise light on the top of trees, flicking the river cam, with narrow boats along one shore and frost everywhere

A long line of plain trees frosty ground with the sunrise rising on the right side of people walking along the path on the left

Frost covered cobwebs on a bridge with a river and sunrise in the background

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Rev Dev @revdev.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

Oh that’s a perfect line. Thank you!

A close-up of river ice, showing a pattern of hexagonal shards

A close-up of frosted blades of grass, with a horizon of trees and meadows in the background

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Rev Dev @revdev.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

Today I pressed at the Eucharist at @stbenetscam.bsky.social on the 20th Anniversary of my ordination to the priesthood. Deo gratias! “In all that you do, you are to nourish Christ’s people from the riches of his grace, and strengthen them to glorify God in this life and in the life to come.”

Stained glass window from the west tower at Bene’t’s, showing Jesus’ birth, ascension, and baptism

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Rev Dev @revdev.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

Fern has fallen asleep with one paw on top my head. He’s such a sweet floof.

My orange cat, sleeping, with one paw resting on the top of my head.

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Rev Dev @revdev.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

Dear @theguardian.com : It’s “altar boy” not “alter boy” Unless it’s Panto. ( Peter Sarsgaard interview, 8 Dec)

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Rev Dev @revdev.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Selfie with cats. Welcome creatures on a chilly evening

Selfie with a large grey cat on my lap and a large orange cat perched behind me on the back of a chair, and a bookcase in the background

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Rev Dev @revdev.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

The sun’s up on Magog Down. A good spot for Morning Prayer

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Rev Dev @revdev.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

16kg of kitties. It’s a warm, purring, floofy blanket sort of day.

Two photos of two large cats — one grey and one orange — stretched out from ankle to neck on their human

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Rev Dev @revdev.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

In Old Northumbrian, the plural of ‘sheep’ was ‘sheepo’ Also, my son’s introduced me to Kevin Straud’s laconic and all-encompassing History of the English Language podcast and I’m a bit obsessed

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Rev Dev @revdev.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Sachertorte at Fischers, books at @dauntbookspub.bsky.social, and music at @wigmore-hall.bsky.social. An excellent London day

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Rev Dev @revdev.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Some incredible kora music tonight at the Cambridge Music Fesrival!

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Rev Dev @revdev.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

A powerful conversation this morning on assisted suicide, at St Bene’t’s @stbenetscam.bsky.social

Church sign, advertising a talk on Assisted Dying

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Rev Dev @revdev.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Day 309 of being hostage to DuoLingo. Is this the day I walk away from the green owl’s emotional manipulation?

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Rev Dev @revdev.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Blit is all up in your socials

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Rev Dev @revdev.bsky.social · 28/10/2024

You know who really hates this semiannual changing of the clocks? My cats.

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Rev Dev @revdev.bsky.social · 12/10/2024

Me: I really should shave before I go take the morning Eucharist. My cat:

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Rev Dev @revdev.bsky.social · 17/09/2024

St Ben’t’s @stbenetscam.bsky.social (named after St Benedict, but w/ extra apostrophes) was for many years under the care of friars of the Society of St Francis. Hence our icon of Francis and Benedict. I’ve been reliably informed that the icon is fondly known as Frankie & Benny.

Close up of an icon of St Francis (on the left, in brown robes and holding a red Bible) and St Benedict (in white and black Benedictine robes, holding the rule of St Benedict.

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Rev Dev @revdev.bsky.social · 31/08/2024

So glad we got back to England before plum season ended

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Rev Dev @revdev.bsky.social · 26/08/2024

I *so* understand the angry look Blit is giving her water fountain for having the temerity to get her tail wet. Anyway, happy Monday

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Rev Dev @revdev.bsky.social · 21/07/2024

Some favourite photos from today’s trip to English Camp, site of the US-UK Pig War

Older white man with a beard, in a tall hat and historic costume, holding a very long flintlock rifle

Man in a straw hat and white morning coat and white trousers, tossing a red cricket ball in the air

Re-enactor with an impressive moustache stands at attention, wearing a 19th century red British royal marine uniform

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Rev Dev @revdev.bsky.social · 03/07/2024

Community smelt fishing here on the south end of Lopez

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Rev Dev @revdev.bsky.social · 22/05/2024

Q: What do you call Genghis Khan’s children? A:

In front of a tray of tater tots, a printed sign reading TARTER TOTS

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Rev Dev @revdev.bsky.social · 18/04/2024

Consider the (water)lilies, and the toil it takes to maintain public gardens

A gardener stands waist-deep in a water lily pond in Singapore, holding a bamboo pole and surrounded by bright pink floating flowers

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Rev Dev @revdev.bsky.social · 20/02/2024

Love that Dunedin is able to keep their botanic garden free and open to the public

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Rev Dev @revdev.bsky.social · 17/02/2024

Appreciating that in New Zealand the butter comes in half-kilo bricks!

Me, holding a very large 500g foil-wrapped brick of butter

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Rev Dev @revdev.bsky.social · 17/02/2024

Green thistle beetle, introduced successfully to New Zealand to control invasive thistles.

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Rev Dev @revdev.bsky.social · 15/02/2024

An amazing evening of Indian and Irish music in Dunedin, played by two father-daughter pairs of musicians (tabla and sitar; bouzouki and vocals/guitar). Incredible fusion and musical conversations

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Rev Dev @revdev.bsky.social · 13/02/2024

Still not sure what to do with #bluesky so here is some remarkable blue water and a pink sky, in New Zealand’s Southern Alps. #nofilter

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Rev Dev @revdev.bsky.social · 21/01/2024

Evening on the Kama River, in historic Kyoto. Emperor Shirakawa wrote of three unmanageable things: Shei (armed monks), dice, and the water of the Kamo River. Today the river is tamed and we watched herons, black Kites, egrets, and ducks flying overhead in the heart of Kyoto.

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Rev Dev @revdev.bsky.social · 01/10/2023

Made skillet cornbread for the kids dinner today. No corn kernels for us — what about you!

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Rev Dev @revdev.bsky.social · 29/09/2023

Devil's coach horse beetle, arching its abdomen as we gathered around it on the path in the beechwoods

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