Grace Pritchard Burson
@gaudynight78.bsky.social
Twitter's official Dorothy L. Sayers stan account, 2018-24, now on Bluesky. New Englander in Quebec. Eph '00/YDS '04. Mom, priest (the sweary kind), writer (ask me about my musical!), doula. Yes, my grandma shot a Nazi. She/her. INTJ/5w4.
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Finally getting some theological clarity on the ethics of reclining in one’s plane seat
November 29, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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"In recent history, the Doctor Who actor has repeatedly made headlines thanks to his allyship towards trans and gender non-conforming people – most notably with a subtle gesture during a TV interview that wound up helping to raise £18,000 for the LGBTQ+ youth charity AKT."
'F*** Off And Let People Be': David Tennant Doubles Down On Support For Trans People
"People are trying to create division... and it's so f***ing unnecessary."
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk
November 29, 2025 at 12:44 AM
"In recent history, the Doctor Who actor has repeatedly made headlines thanks to his allyship towards trans and gender non-conforming people – most notably with a subtle gesture during a TV interview that wound up helping to raise £18,000 for the LGBTQ+ youth charity AKT."
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Today in I’m Very Bad at Self-Promotion, this article that I wrote about the rise of contemplative practices in contemporary Christian contemplative practices just came out. This was really fun to research and write! I could write a whole giant essay about my dude St. Benedict and his Rule.
Why today’s spiritual seekers are reviving ancient practices | Broadview Magazine
Contemplative Christianity offers calm in tumultuous times
broadview.org
November 29, 2025 at 4:29 AM
Today in I’m Very Bad at Self-Promotion, this article that I wrote about the rise of contemplative practices in contemporary Christian contemplative practices just came out. This was really fun to research and write! I could write a whole giant essay about my dude St. Benedict and his Rule.
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you've seen in the wild
Humpback whale
Grey seal
Puffin
Pelican
Black bear
Humpback whale
Grey seal
Puffin
Pelican
Black bear
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you’ve seen in the wild:
Ling cod
Joro spider
Dall's porpoise
Cornetfish
Luciola firefly
Ling cod
Joro spider
Dall's porpoise
Cornetfish
Luciola firefly
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you’ve seen in the wild:
Beaver
Big Horn sheep
Pacific lamprey
Ant lion
Stone fly
Beaver
Big Horn sheep
Pacific lamprey
Ant lion
Stone fly
November 29, 2025 at 1:34 AM
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you've seen in the wild
Humpback whale
Grey seal
Puffin
Pelican
Black bear
Humpback whale
Grey seal
Puffin
Pelican
Black bear
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The biggest technological revolution of our lifetime is underway and it's not AI:
Official data is in this week, and US solar continues to grow rapidly, with generation up 30% compared to last year!
November 29, 2025 at 12:21 AM
The biggest technological revolution of our lifetime is underway and it's not AI:
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FINAL REVEAL: A brand new Benin bronze plaque, titled "Looting of the Oba's Palace in 1897".
This #newarrival confronts the theft of works from Benin in 1897. It shows what the palace altar looked like before 1897 (left), and British soldiers in the act of looting (right).
This #newarrival confronts the theft of works from Benin in 1897. It shows what the palace altar looked like before 1897 (left), and British soldiers in the act of looting (right).
November 28, 2025 at 5:14 PM
FINAL REVEAL: A brand new Benin bronze plaque, titled "Looting of the Oba's Palace in 1897".
This #newarrival confronts the theft of works from Benin in 1897. It shows what the palace altar looked like before 1897 (left), and British soldiers in the act of looting (right).
This #newarrival confronts the theft of works from Benin in 1897. It shows what the palace altar looked like before 1897 (left), and British soldiers in the act of looting (right).
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if congress had any self respect they'd go absolutely fucking ballistic
November 28, 2025 at 6:46 PM
if congress had any self respect they'd go absolutely fucking ballistic
THE ROMAN EMPIRE LITERALLY GAVE EVERYBODY FREE BREAD
THAT'S ALL THEY DID IN EGYPT, WAS GROW GRAIN TO BE DISTRIBUTED TO THE REST OF THE EMPIRE
IF THE BREAD DOLE WAS INTERRUPTED FOR 36 HOURS THERE WERE RIOTS
THE ROMAN EMPIRE WAS ONE OF THE MOST IMPRESSIVE BUREAUCRATIC STATE APPARATUSES IN HISTORY
THAT'S ALL THEY DID IN EGYPT, WAS GROW GRAIN TO BE DISTRIBUTED TO THE REST OF THE EMPIRE
IF THE BREAD DOLE WAS INTERRUPTED FOR 36 HOURS THERE WERE RIOTS
THE ROMAN EMPIRE WAS ONE OF THE MOST IMPRESSIVE BUREAUCRATIC STATE APPARATUSES IN HISTORY
As Jesus once put it: "what shall it profit a man, if he gain the whole world, and then have to pay the mansion tax?"
November 28, 2025 at 5:00 PM
THE ROMAN EMPIRE LITERALLY GAVE EVERYBODY FREE BREAD
THAT'S ALL THEY DID IN EGYPT, WAS GROW GRAIN TO BE DISTRIBUTED TO THE REST OF THE EMPIRE
IF THE BREAD DOLE WAS INTERRUPTED FOR 36 HOURS THERE WERE RIOTS
THE ROMAN EMPIRE WAS ONE OF THE MOST IMPRESSIVE BUREAUCRATIC STATE APPARATUSES IN HISTORY
THAT'S ALL THEY DID IN EGYPT, WAS GROW GRAIN TO BE DISTRIBUTED TO THE REST OF THE EMPIRE
IF THE BREAD DOLE WAS INTERRUPTED FOR 36 HOURS THERE WERE RIOTS
THE ROMAN EMPIRE WAS ONE OF THE MOST IMPRESSIVE BUREAUCRATIC STATE APPARATUSES IN HISTORY
As an ordinand, I did CPE (Clinical Pastoral Education). As a priest, I am sitting in my office looking out the window at the playground of the CPE (Centre de Petite Enfance) that leases half our building.
Our new-ish Diocesan Secretary is initialised in meeting minutes as JPL and I keep reading “Jet Propulsion Laboratory”
I think this is my new Police and Crime Commissioner/Parochial Church Council issue
I think this is my new Police and Crime Commissioner/Parochial Church Council issue
November 28, 2025 at 4:56 PM
As an ordinand, I did CPE (Clinical Pastoral Education). As a priest, I am sitting in my office looking out the window at the playground of the CPE (Centre de Petite Enfance) that leases half our building.
This is amazing. (Sadly, I assume the Onion cannot be distributed as a physical newspaper in Canada.)
Here's a note I sent to our members about what we did with their money, and why we expect the Onion to outgrow the Washington Post.
We keep doing weird, hard shit — taunting ICE, yelling at Congress for not taunting ICE, buying bad websites — when nobody else does.
Our members keep getting papers.
We keep doing weird, hard shit — taunting ICE, yelling at Congress for not taunting ICE, buying bad websites — when nobody else does.
Our members keep getting papers.
November 28, 2025 at 4:52 PM
This is amazing. (Sadly, I assume the Onion cannot be distributed as a physical newspaper in Canada.)
SHORKS
WCS Celebrates Historic and Sweeping Trade Protections for Sharks and Rays Adopted at CITES CoP20 > Newsroom | All CITES shark and ray proposals pass – marking the most comprehensive advance in global shark conservation in CITES history.
WCS Celebrates Historic and Sweeping Trade Protections for Sharks and Rays Adopted at CITES CoP20
Samarkand, Uzbekistan, Nov. 28, 2025 – The following statement was issued today from CITES CoP20, celebrating the adoption of sweeping and historic adoption of new international trade protections for…
newsroom.wcs.org
November 28, 2025 at 3:28 PM
SHORKS
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As always when I post about being trans, a reminder: if you support me because I'm "normal" or "reasonable" or whatever because I dress like an old man & go to church, but you don't support all my trans siblings, then you don't actually support me at all, & I encourage you to do some soul searching.
November 28, 2025 at 11:05 AM
As always when I post about being trans, a reminder: if you support me because I'm "normal" or "reasonable" or whatever because I dress like an old man & go to church, but you don't support all my trans siblings, then you don't actually support me at all, & I encourage you to do some soul searching.
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Am eavesdropping on the conversation of a visiting conductor + opera singer on this tram in Milan & their chat is amazing... truly stellar gossip 🔥 one just broke into song to illustrate the interpretative iniquities perpetrated in a recent production of Tosca by a young conductor ("only 45") 😂
November 28, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Am eavesdropping on the conversation of a visiting conductor + opera singer on this tram in Milan & their chat is amazing... truly stellar gossip 🔥 one just broke into song to illustrate the interpretative iniquities perpetrated in a recent production of Tosca by a young conductor ("only 45") 😂
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Daily bunny no.3152 has lots of leftovers
November 28, 2025 at 4:21 AM
Daily bunny no.3152 has lots of leftovers
Was I supposed to know what a "cousin walk" was before suddenly seeing the term all over my timeline today?
November 28, 2025 at 4:28 AM
Was I supposed to know what a "cousin walk" was before suddenly seeing the term all over my timeline today?
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Watching someone who is fluent in Latin slowly realize that general English speakers have never heard the term “transitive verb”
November 28, 2025 at 2:38 AM
Watching someone who is fluent in Latin slowly realize that general English speakers have never heard the term “transitive verb”
Introduce yourself with five concerts you’ve seen
Steeleye Span
Great Big Sea
Gaelic Storm
They Might Be Giants
Les Respectables
Steeleye Span
Great Big Sea
Gaelic Storm
They Might Be Giants
Les Respectables
Introduce yourself with five concerts you’ve seen
Janelle Monàe
Seattle Symphony doing The Rite of Spring
Tinariwen
Abel Selaocoe
Gamelan Pacifica
Janelle Monàe
Seattle Symphony doing The Rite of Spring
Tinariwen
Abel Selaocoe
Gamelan Pacifica
Introduce yourself with five concerts you've seen —
NIN
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Soul Coughing
Poe
Tom Morello
NIN
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Soul Coughing
Poe
Tom Morello
November 27, 2025 at 11:06 PM
Introduce yourself with five concerts you’ve seen
Steeleye Span
Great Big Sea
Gaelic Storm
They Might Be Giants
Les Respectables
Steeleye Span
Great Big Sea
Gaelic Storm
They Might Be Giants
Les Respectables
This is how my mother does it (and therefore how I do it). You COOK the stuffing on the stovetop, and then stuff it into the bird WHILE HOT. It's totally safe and incredibly delicious. It actually HELPS the turkey to be evenly cooked and moist.
I cook my stuffing inside the turkey. My family has been doing it that way for almost 80 years. Not a single person has ever been food poisoned. I don’t stuff it too full, I put it straight in the oven after stuffing, I monitor the stuffing temperature, it’s fucking delicious, and I DO NOT APOLOGIZE
November 27, 2025 at 10:49 PM
This is how my mother does it (and therefore how I do it). You COOK the stuffing on the stovetop, and then stuff it into the bird WHILE HOT. It's totally safe and incredibly delicious. It actually HELPS the turkey to be evenly cooked and moist.
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Quebec’s Bill 9 is legalized discrimination
“The CAQ’s expanded secularism legislation is the opposite of religious neutrality.”
An editorial by @mtltoula.bsky.social.
#polqc
“The CAQ’s expanded secularism legislation is the opposite of religious neutrality.”
An editorial by @mtltoula.bsky.social.
#polqc
Quebec's Bill 9 is legalized discrimination
The government of Quebec tabled a new secularism bill today aiming to build on Bill 21 — more legalized discrimination from the CAQ.
cultmtl.com
November 27, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Quebec’s Bill 9 is legalized discrimination
“The CAQ’s expanded secularism legislation is the opposite of religious neutrality.”
An editorial by @mtltoula.bsky.social.
#polqc
“The CAQ’s expanded secularism legislation is the opposite of religious neutrality.”
An editorial by @mtltoula.bsky.social.
#polqc
If I'm spending $100k on a personal vehicle it better be drawn by four matched blood bays and come with a coachman and two postboys in livery
if i'm spending $100k on a personal vehicle it better have dynamic hyperspectral camouflage and synthetic myomer strength enhancements
if I'm spending $100K on a personal vehicle it better be bipedal and have hardpoints for a brace of PPCs
November 27, 2025 at 9:24 PM
If I'm spending $100k on a personal vehicle it better be drawn by four matched blood bays and come with a coachman and two postboys in livery
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UNBOUND AUTHORS: Leftover copies of your books in the UK (MacMillan) warehouse will be pulped within the next week or two. DM me for a link to the warehouse stock list and contacts.
If you have no dosh, another publisher (Wilton Sq) is willing to buy the books & distribute on a 50/50 profit split
If you have no dosh, another publisher (Wilton Sq) is willing to buy the books & distribute on a 50/50 profit split
November 27, 2025 at 3:25 PM
UNBOUND AUTHORS: Leftover copies of your books in the UK (MacMillan) warehouse will be pulped within the next week or two. DM me for a link to the warehouse stock list and contacts.
If you have no dosh, another publisher (Wilton Sq) is willing to buy the books & distribute on a 50/50 profit split
If you have no dosh, another publisher (Wilton Sq) is willing to buy the books & distribute on a 50/50 profit split
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Blessed are those who catalogue minutia, for they shall know the names of the stars.
Anyone who does this deserves their own beatitude
"oh, you research literature? you must get to read all the time, how fun!"
*me, going through every single (digital) issue of an 18th century daily newspaper to make a spreadsheet listing number of advertisements and the portion of them that were for books*
*me, going through every single (digital) issue of an 18th century daily newspaper to make a spreadsheet listing number of advertisements and the portion of them that were for books*
November 27, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Blessed are those who catalogue minutia, for they shall know the names of the stars.
"... except Jeff Davis and other rebel chiefs, who will either have taken refuge in Mexico or in Hades.”
Also, @patwashburn.bsky.social, the governor of Maine at the time appears to have been a relative of yours.
Also, @patwashburn.bsky.social, the governor of Maine at the time appears to have been a relative of yours.
Happy Victory for US Arms and Down With Treasonous Slavers Day!
Uncomfortable with the First Thanksgiving Narrative? Good News, it’s Actually a Civil War Holiday
Take heart, all you who grow unsettled at the time of year where the narrative of friendly Pilgrims and American Indians is spread around to make us feel good about a brief moment in American histo…
angrystaffofficer.com
November 27, 2025 at 5:40 PM
"... except Jeff Davis and other rebel chiefs, who will either have taken refuge in Mexico or in Hades.”
Also, @patwashburn.bsky.social, the governor of Maine at the time appears to have been a relative of yours.
Also, @patwashburn.bsky.social, the governor of Maine at the time appears to have been a relative of yours.
Ah, soiled, defiled, oppressing city! It has listened to no voice; it has accepted no correction. It has not trusted in the Lord; it has not drawn near to its God. The officials within it are roaring lions; its judges are evening wolves that leave nothing until the morning.
November 27, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Ah, soiled, defiled, oppressing city! It has listened to no voice; it has accepted no correction. It has not trusted in the Lord; it has not drawn near to its God. The officials within it are roaring lions; its judges are evening wolves that leave nothing until the morning.