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Helen King @helenking.bsky.social · 5h

CofE peeps… On that Alliance document with its plans to make sure PCC members are ‘sound’ in their opposition to civilly-married gay clergy and to blessings for same sex couples: shared-conversations.com/2025/10/16/t...

This week in Living in Love and Faith: On the Alliance Campaign Manual

It’s been quite a week for Living in Love and Faith news. Yesterday, an update from the House of Bishops putting everything on hold. It was clear when the staff team for LLF was modified …

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Acts 435 @acts435.bsky.social · 7h

Generosity can help lift the burden off those in crisis.

When Linda discovered her ex-husband had taken out huge debts in her name, her life was turned upside down. Thanks to generous Acts 435 donors she was able to have a fresh start.

Read our current requests: www.acts435.org.uk/give

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Robin Ince @robinince.bsky.social · 10h

This is impressive - solidarity with those women who performed the citizens arrest

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BREAKING NEWS: Citizens arrest of Anglian Water CEO, Mark Thurston, made in London for Public Nuisance - CAN - Citizen’s Arrest Network

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Depeche Median @happybusman.bsky.social · 11h

Two people check tide times with ChatGPT, almost die.

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Restaurant boss saw two people about to do something deadly so he grabbed his megaphone

He ran out of the restaurant and warned the pair to turn back

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ᚇᚐᚏᚉᚅᚓᚄᚄ ᚋᚐᚅᚔᚃᚓᚄᚈᚓᚇ @ciara2001.bsky.social · 11h

New Big Ship Stuck!

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 11h

urgently need you guys to know that this French politician below 1) didn't know he'd been appointed as a minister until he saw it on TV 2) reacted by going: "bah pfff voilà"

Libération @liberation.fr · 11h

Le nouveau ministre de la Ruralité, Michel Fournier, raconte avoir appris sa nomination à la télé

Le plus vieux ministre nommé sous la Ve République précise avoir discuté avec le Premier ministre «deux jours avant», sans que rien ne soit arrêté. «Comment j’ai réagi ? Bah pfff voilà», résume-t-il.

Le nouveau ministre de la Ruralité, Michel Fournier, raconte avoir appris sa nomination à la télé

Le plus vieux ministre nommé sous la Ve République a précisé avoir discuté avec le Premier ministre «deux jours avant», sans que rien ne soit arrêté.

www.liberation.fr

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 18h

Solidarity is the only way

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Jo Kibble (Political Animal) @politicanimal.bsky.social · 12h

And still the Shakespeare book is a decade overdue.

Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 13h

In today's least surprising news

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Jo Kershaw @mthrjo.bsky.social · 12h

I never liked Trainline anyway

Jason Hazeley @jasonhazeley.bsky.social · 13h

‘Surprising’

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Rachel @nerak3l.bsky.social · 13h

BRB opening a kindergarten there, can foresee no issues

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Ed Morrish @edmorrish.bsky.social · 21h

i feel like if your whole public, onscreen persona is “smugly talking down to people who disagree with you” you probably shouldn’t try to pivot to “but whyyyyyyyyyy won’t people hang out with meeeee whyyyyyyyy it’s not faaaaaaiiiiiiiirrr”

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Sam Wilson @samwilson.bsky.social · 22h

For those who don’t work in youth work, it’s hard to describe how bleak it is out there.

We just pulled the rug on a generation of young people and are now shrugging our shoulders and hoping social media is the cause of all ills because then it feels less of our fault

Simon Parker @simonparker.bsky.social · 1d

The absolute bloody vandalism of austerity in one chart. Good analysis of the overall picture here.

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Raffi Melkonian @rmfifthcircuit.bsky.social · 16h

My super modern regulatory plan is that any entity named for a thing from Tolkien has to publicly explain why Tolkien wouldn’t immediately throw it into Mount Doom

Tony Tassell @tonytassell.bsky.social · 1d

Tolkein continues to resonate. The new bank being set up by Palmer Luckey and backed by Peter Thiel is named Erebor after the “lonely mountain” in The Hobbit. This was also an interesting line in this rpt on the new bank by @tabbykinder.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/202d...

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Michael Pleyer @symbolicstorage.bsky.social · Aug 21

A classic example of the problems with google translate when it uses English as an intermediate, pivot language to translate from one language into another.
Polish "nijaki" means (grammatically) "neuter" (or featureless, nondescript) not "kastrieren" (to castrate) #language #linguistics

Google translate giving a translation for Polish "nijaki" as German "kastrieren" (to castrate)

Google translate translating Polish "nijaki" as English "neuter"

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Rachel @nerak3l.bsky.social · 13h

Excellent! You’re in for a great

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Helen King @helenking.bsky.social · 23h

Today I am #bloomscrolling another unbelievably gorgeous one from Waterperry Gardens in Wheatley, where the gardeners were pruning them in hope of yet more blooms!

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Rachel @nerak3l.bsky.social · 1d

As I nicked Simon’s copy to read it when it came out a few months back I can confirm it will be one of the, if not the best, novel you read this year
www.hive.co.uk/Product/Niam...

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Tom Clark @tom-clark.bsky.social · 1d

In one crisp para — & the 2 charts he highlights — @chrisgiles.ft.com bursts a huge number of “welfare” myths www.ft.com/content/ee67...

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Rachel @nerak3l.bsky.social · 1d

Cc @hannahmerich.bsky.social there’s another one abroad

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Holly Anderson 🍇 @hollyanderson.bsky.social · 1d

you fucked around and now the Episcopalians are doing memes. are you happy now. are you

Screenshot of a Facebook post featuring three of the Portland protesters wearing inflatable frog costumes with the following text:

Episcopalians on Facebook
Elizabeth Rose Elrod • 22h •
Exodus 8:2-6
"But if you refuse to let them go, I will plague your whole country with frogs...
The frogs shall come up on you and on your people and on all your officials."

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Rachel @nerak3l.bsky.social · 1d

Hang on, so… what does this mean? They won’t let people actually do the PLF unless and until a synod votes for it?? Whut?!?

a close up of a dog 's face with a blurred background

Alt: a cat going ‘huh’

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Simon Alvey @salvey1.bsky.social · 1d

I've found it, the most Catholic story of the month
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Westminster Cathedral wants to build an extension to 'store candles'

Plus additional planning applications for the National Gallery and Royal Opera House.

www.londonworld.com

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 1d

'The British Library...has taken years to recover from a major cyberattack that disrupted its services and restricted access to its collections. The walkout is set to take from 27 October to 9 November, coinciding with the two-year anniversary of the cyberattack.'

Research Professional News @resprofnews.bsky.social · 2d

‘Livid’ British Library staff vote to strike over pay.

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‘Livid’ British Library staff vote to strike over pay - Research Professional News

Two-week walkout planned on second anniversary of major cyberattack

www.researchprofessionalnews.com

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Scott Bryan @scottygb.bsky.social · 1d

Every episode of Byker Grove will be on ITVX from November.

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Ed Morrish @edmorrish.bsky.social · 1d

what’s your most unhinged opinion about engagement farming?

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