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James Allport @sososlowly.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

City I like: Gothenburg City I love: Chichester City I think is overrated: Brighton City I think is underrated: Gloucester City I feel most myself in: Oxford City I still need to visit: Rome City I dream of living in: Seattle Most inspiring city today: Kyiv Favorite city of all time: Cambridge

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James Allport @sososlowly.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

Sunset even making our scrubby trees rather glorious tonight. #tinyjoys

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James Allport @sososlowly.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Thread: When I was confirmed, a childless 20-something, my parish priest asked me if I was going to take a confirmation saint. I didn't know what that was. For Anglicans, it's a bit niche even for those of us in the Catholic corner of the big tent.

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The Secret Barrister @barristersecret.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

As Honest Bob Jenrick tours the country repeating far-right conspiracy talking points about “two-tier sentencing”, here is the letter his own government sent to the Sentencing Council last year approving the very Guidelines he now claims are evidence of “two-tier Keir”. The man is a fraud.

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James Allport @sososlowly.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

Wonderful 48 hours at Douai Abbey. Feels apt to share this photograph of their beautiful blessed sacrament chapel - the altar is dedicated to Jesus Christ the prince of peace.

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James Allport @sososlowly.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

Back to work after half term. Ecclesiastes at the Office of Readings was, erm, bracing... #trainoffice

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James Allport @sososlowly.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

Who had "Arizona's attorney general accusing a sitting president of staging a coup" on their 2025 bingo card? Less flippantly, this is very well said indeed. youtu.be/jrE0DOEcbRE?...

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Ongoing Coup | Attorney General Kris Mayes

YouTube video by Arizona Attorney General's Office

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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 15/02/2025

Presented without comment. www.ft.com/content/a7c9...

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James Allport @sososlowly.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Excellent commuter sunrise this morning. Happy Monday everyone.

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MꙬse Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

We’ve been watching Wolf Hall, a fascinating study of how the fragile male ego of a fickle, greedy despot creates a culture of deep cruelty and mistrust, where everyone lives in fear of saying the wrong thing. Thank goodness we’ve moved on from those times.

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Paul Krugman @pkrugman.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

Leopard: I will eat your face Bank analysts: Our baseline assumes no face-eating Leopard: Chomp chomp chomp

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Kevin 🚀 @astro-kevin.com · 01/02/2025

This could win a Pulitzer

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James Allport @sososlowly.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

This morning I submitted my tax return. In the prevailing climate it feels important to say that I'm proud to pay the tax I do. I'm incredibly fortunate to do the job I do, and under no illusions that it was public infrastructure that makes that possible. So I'm happy to pay my share.

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Patrick Dexter @patrickdexter.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Hi there Blue Sky folks! I'm new here, Here's some Bach Cello Suits in the west of Ireland winter sun. Is what you're into? Would you like to hear more? I'm finding it too upsetting to open up Twitter these days...

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James Allport @sososlowly.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

I'm sorry that I can't find the person who posted this prayer on Bluesky yesterday. I'm making it my prayer tonight - thanks for offering the words I'm too tired and angry to find .

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James Allport @sososlowly.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

The world and the church feels completely broken, but it was a beautiful morning beside the River Thames at Cookham.

A beautiful misty sunrise with a mature tree silhouetted in the foreground.

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Jonathan Hopkin @jonathanhopkin.eurosky.social · 28/01/2025

One of my favourite stats is that there are at least a dozen UK universities with bigger revenues than the entire British fishing industry

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James Allport @sososlowly.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

Very helpful explanation of his to rename a body of water...

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James Allport @sososlowly.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

This cannot be too widely shared.

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Naomi Alderman @naomialderman.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

put it this way, it's not a hand signal you'd do if you very much wanted people *not* to think you are a Nazi

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Tamara Bumps in the night @moiness.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Good Morning. “Blue Monday” is a made up phenomenon to sell holidays. Dips in mental health happen at any time. And the shit hurricane that is about to explode in the US is going to cause pain to a lot of people. Maybe not today Here is a list of UK resources. www.mind.org.uk/information-...

mind.org.uk

Useful mental health contacts

For further support or information about mental health in general, find contact details of Mind's services and other useful organisations here.

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Dr Jo Kershaw @mthrjo.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Put not your trust in princes, nor in any human power for there is no help in them. Ps 146 #morningprayer

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James Allport @sososlowly.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

To lessen the dread of tomorrow's inauguration, I've just been to hear a splendid youth orchestra play Faure, Holst and Bartok, conducted by a very talented student conductor. If my generation can just avoid blowing up the world, the future looks bright, not orange.

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James Allport @sososlowly.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

Wonderful quiet day with my cymbrogi (think cell group) from the Order of the Mustard Seed at the equally wonderful monastery at Crawley Down. God is very good indeed. And who doesn't love silent meals where you're actively encouraged to read...

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James Allport @sososlowly.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

Well, since every other social media platform seems to have caved in to a Trumpian "fact-check-free" future, here I am, back in what I fear may be a bit of a centrist echo chamber. What did I miss?

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James Allport @sososlowly.bsky.social · 08/03/2024

Praying today with a heavy heart for Anna Matthews, priest, on her year's mind. What an extraordinary loss she is to so many of us.

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James Allport @sososlowly.bsky.social · 30/12/2023

Hive mins: recommendations please for physics podcasts in English for my clever, mathematically minded 16 year old. Thank you. 😁

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James Allport @sososlowly.bsky.social · 09/12/2023

Thank God for Mark Oakley. I don't think I've ever heard a more compelling preacher. youtu.be/OKc4kmJf5Ew?...

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James Allport @sososlowly.bsky.social · 09/12/2023

Some time with Jesus in His holy sacrament. Shout if I can pray for you.

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James Allport @sososlowly.bsky.social · 03/12/2023

Very proud of the team at Chichester Cathedral who have done this... youtu.be/n_HQrFqx-iU

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James Allport @sososlowly.bsky.social · 30/11/2023

This does a better job than I could of explaining my relationship with the three bishops of my diocese, all of whom are anti-same sex marriage and two of whom won't ordain women. viamedia.news/2023/11/29/a...

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James Allport @sososlowly.bsky.social · 28/11/2023

Gentlemen: Can we agree that standing at the urinal, and reading messages on your phone with your "spare" hand is Not OK? Thank you.

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James Allport @sososlowly.bsky.social · 18/11/2023

Particularly helpful having seen the House of Bishops in action at Synod this week... simonparke.com/five-questio...

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James Allport @sososlowly.bsky.social · 12/11/2023

Said the Rosary under the peace doves tonight in Chichester Cathedral for all attending General Synod this week. Holy Spirit, come disrupt us...

Looking up from my seat in the nave of Chichester Cathedral at Mass this morning at thousands of paper peace doves suspended above me, and lit red for Remembrance -tide

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James Allport @sososlowly.bsky.social · 04/11/2023

When the history of this government comes to be written, and I hope that's soon, the Home Secretary will be in a league of her own as we look to chart its lowest ebb. Shameful. www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-6732...

bbc.co.uk

Home Secretary Suella Braverman wants to restrict use of tents by homeless

The home secretary is proposing new laws, arguing that rough sleeping in tents is a "lifestyle choice".

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James Allport @sososlowly.bsky.social · 01/11/2023

Folks who pray: would you please pray for my friend P, and his wife and children. He's gravely ill - long expected but still horrible. Thank you.

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James Allport @sososlowly.bsky.social · 23/10/2023

Very rich interview by Rory Stewart and Alistair Campbell of Reid Hoffman. Highly recommended: spotify.link/yz25yhXj8Db

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James Allport @sososlowly.bsky.social · 22/10/2023

This is the advice I needed tonight.

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James Allport @sososlowly.bsky.social · 22/10/2023

An actual free Sunday afternoon here, so starting Mick Heron's Slow Horses books. There might be a nap. What are you all reading?

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James Allport @sososlowly.bsky.social · 21/10/2023

Current level of energy in this house.

My fluffy white cat, ironically called Nero, fast asleep on my favourite chair.

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James Allport @sososlowly.bsky.social · 15/10/2023

Praying for peace this moyin the quiet of the Cathedral. Always find the detail of the Arundel Tomb really moving, and never more so than today.

A close up of the stone figures on top of the Arundel Tomb in Chichester Cathedral holding hands.

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James Allport @sososlowly.bsky.social · 14/10/2023

In the latest evidence that I am, at heart, a credulous medieval peasant, I'm fascinated by the NASA coverage of the solar eclipse www.youtube.com/live/LlY79zj...

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Dr Jo Kershaw @mthrjo.bsky.social · 06/10/2023

Preaching on the Parable of the Wicked Tenants this Sunday. I’d never noticed that we never hear Jesus’s own answer to the question “what will the landowner do?” The crowd think the answer’s vengeance, but this is playing out on the Monday of Holy Week - and on Easter Day we get God’s answer. ⚓️

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Nightmareliner Ontario @mostlyharmless.northsky.social · 04/10/2023

Given the fuss made about trans women and hospital wards at the Con party conference, you'd think there was a problem. There isn't. After submitting over 100 FOI requests over a period more than 2 years, charity TransLucent discovered there had been precisely zero patient complaints. None.

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Women's Single Sex Spaces in Hospitals. - TransLucent

Our findings after raising 102 Freedom of Information Requests to NHS Foundation Trusts.

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