Jay Hulme
@jayhulmepoet.bsky.social
Poet. Speaker. Educator. Performer. Adult, YA, and Children's poetry. Occasionally picture books. Lots of posts about churches. Unapologetically trans (he/him) jayhulme.com
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just for anyone who lost track;
The inch bigots were given a decade ago has turned into several miles and my friends are suffering for it.
The inch bigots were given a decade ago has turned into several miles and my friends are suffering for it.
December 3, 2025 at 11:46 AM
just for anyone who lost track;
The inch bigots were given a decade ago has turned into several miles and my friends are suffering for it.
The inch bigots were given a decade ago has turned into several miles and my friends are suffering for it.
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The indignity of sharing society with trans people is quickly becoming the crime
December 3, 2025 at 10:09 AM
The indignity of sharing society with trans people is quickly becoming the crime
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Making gendered organisations legally compelled to exclude trans people is just fascism. It's cruelty for its own sake. It protects no one from anything but exposes a minority to hatred and oppression. This government is fucking disgusting.
December 3, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Making gendered organisations legally compelled to exclude trans people is just fascism. It's cruelty for its own sake. It protects no one from anything but exposes a minority to hatred and oppression. This government is fucking disgusting.
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So the WI will be asking for all their members birth certificates or just demanding trans women out themselves (or else?) or what?
This seems completely impractical. I mean and cowardly, obviously.
This seems completely impractical. I mean and cowardly, obviously.
The first gender reassigned surgery in the UK was in 1951. She would be over 100 today and lived as a woman for 60+ years. Telling these women they are no longer welcome in the WI is brutal, as they themselves admit. These are our regressive times. #transrightsarehumanrights
Women’s Institute will no longer accept trans women as members from April
December 3, 2025 at 12:17 PM
So the WI will be asking for all their members birth certificates or just demanding trans women out themselves (or else?) or what?
This seems completely impractical. I mean and cowardly, obviously.
This seems completely impractical. I mean and cowardly, obviously.
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If Brits wants to keep heritage buildings standing, we'll need to seriously consider measures like this too. Church assets look pretty small once you divide them amongst the thousands of buildings that need urgent work.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Proposal to give Jersey churches £50k a year for maintenance
Constable Karen Shenton-Stone says the buildings suffer from
www.bbc.co.uk
December 3, 2025 at 12:35 PM
If Brits wants to keep heritage buildings standing, we'll need to seriously consider measures like this too. Church assets look pretty small once you divide them amongst the thousands of buildings that need urgent work.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Thames Water boss addressing shareholders on its half year profits of £400 million
December 3, 2025 at 9:55 AM
Thames Water boss addressing shareholders on its half year profits of £400 million
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An easy way to explain luddites:
Textile manufacturers brought in machines that could do in an hour what would have taken 12 hours by hand.
And then, tried to keep paying the now 12x more productive workers the same wages as before.
That's it, that was the problem luddites had. Not complex.
Textile manufacturers brought in machines that could do in an hour what would have taken 12 hours by hand.
And then, tried to keep paying the now 12x more productive workers the same wages as before.
That's it, that was the problem luddites had. Not complex.
December 2, 2025 at 7:46 PM
An easy way to explain luddites:
Textile manufacturers brought in machines that could do in an hour what would have taken 12 hours by hand.
And then, tried to keep paying the now 12x more productive workers the same wages as before.
That's it, that was the problem luddites had. Not complex.
Textile manufacturers brought in machines that could do in an hour what would have taken 12 hours by hand.
And then, tried to keep paying the now 12x more productive workers the same wages as before.
That's it, that was the problem luddites had. Not complex.
Can't believe anyone would take a soulless megachurch over this.
Within an hour of arriving in Munich I stumbled upon the bejewelled skeleton of Saint Munditia clutching a goblet filled with dried blood, martyred in 310 AD, beheaded with a hatchet. Standard...
December 2, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Can't believe anyone would take a soulless megachurch over this.
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Within an hour of arriving in Munich I stumbled upon the bejewelled skeleton of Saint Munditia clutching a goblet filled with dried blood, martyred in 310 AD, beheaded with a hatchet. Standard...
December 2, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Within an hour of arriving in Munich I stumbled upon the bejewelled skeleton of Saint Munditia clutching a goblet filled with dried blood, martyred in 310 AD, beheaded with a hatchet. Standard...
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the village I grew up in is so funny, our one claim to fame is that we have a castle (We call it [Village] Castle but it's really not a castle) that is famed across the country for it's beautiful wrought iron gates, except we don't have the gates anymore, because they were stolen by the brits.
December 2, 2025 at 11:59 AM
the village I grew up in is so funny, our one claim to fame is that we have a castle (We call it [Village] Castle but it's really not a castle) that is famed across the country for it's beautiful wrought iron gates, except we don't have the gates anymore, because they were stolen by the brits.
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I’ve seen a number of people sharing this story with the comment, why didn’t he tell Stoppard, and I think the answer is probably “because people either don’t think to or think there will always be time to.” If someone has done something you admire, tell them.
I hope someone draws this wonderful story about Tom Stoppard's Arcadia and the power of the arts to help us see things differently, to the attention of our Education Secretary. Do read it, it will lift your spirits.
December 2, 2025 at 11:50 AM
I’ve seen a number of people sharing this story with the comment, why didn’t he tell Stoppard, and I think the answer is probably “because people either don’t think to or think there will always be time to.” If someone has done something you admire, tell them.
I am obsessed with the way we do the annual church budget presentation at St Nicks because it involves a slogan and a soundtrack and the treasurer photoshopping her head into the chancellor of the exchequer, but also... really clear financial information and sound budget planning. Simultaneously.
Presenting: The Second Year of This Nonsense
December 1, 2025 at 9:44 PM
I am obsessed with the way we do the annual church budget presentation at St Nicks because it involves a slogan and a soundtrack and the treasurer photoshopping her head into the chancellor of the exchequer, but also... really clear financial information and sound budget planning. Simultaneously.
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When I was a Subdeacon, one of the priests in the parochial house said his two main daily prayers started with: “Well Lord this is all a mess … “ and “Dear Lord, keep my fists by my side through this day’s ignorance and strife …” After a few months, I understood why.
December 1, 2025 at 6:20 PM
When I was a Subdeacon, one of the priests in the parochial house said his two main daily prayers started with: “Well Lord this is all a mess … “ and “Dear Lord, keep my fists by my side through this day’s ignorance and strife …” After a few months, I understood why.
Recently, as I was doing some deep breathing exercises in the vestry to cope with some nonsense at church, someone came up to me and said "these days I have to ask God for patience, because if I ask him for strength I'll deck a bitch." and honestly? Biblical levels of wisdom there.
December 1, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Recently, as I was doing some deep breathing exercises in the vestry to cope with some nonsense at church, someone came up to me and said "these days I have to ask God for patience, because if I ask him for strength I'll deck a bitch." and honestly? Biblical levels of wisdom there.
Waking up and it's still dark outside like
November 30, 2025 at 9:09 AM
Waking up and it's still dark outside like
Left the novel I'm in the middle of at a friend's house... Which is a problem because today is a "snuggle up in bed early with a hot water bottle and a good book" evening. So I'm doing an extremely risky thing and... Starting to read... Another book... Despite being halfway through one already.
November 29, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Left the novel I'm in the middle of at a friend's house... Which is a problem because today is a "snuggle up in bed early with a hot water bottle and a good book" evening. So I'm doing an extremely risky thing and... Starting to read... Another book... Despite being halfway through one already.
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Finally getting some theological clarity on the ethics of reclining in one’s plane seat
November 29, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Finally getting some theological clarity on the ethics of reclining in one’s plane seat
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new literary discourse: its gauche for your book to have a 5* rating on goodreads because that means it appeals to the kind of people who have a goodreads account
November 27, 2025 at 10:41 PM
new literary discourse: its gauche for your book to have a 5* rating on goodreads because that means it appeals to the kind of people who have a goodreads account
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Since people find being hopeful and optimistic so cringe these days, let me remind you once again that there isn’t a single liberation movement in the world that wasn’t built on hope and optimism.
November 28, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Since people find being hopeful and optimistic so cringe these days, let me remind you once again that there isn’t a single liberation movement in the world that wasn’t built on hope and optimism.
Three weeks ago I marked nine years on Testosterone.
I didn't celebrate it then because I was in the middle of a multi-month battle to be allowed to stay on it, despite not producing my own hormones and simply wanting to remain on the exact prescription I'd had for nine years without any problems.
I didn't celebrate it then because I was in the middle of a multi-month battle to be allowed to stay on it, despite not producing my own hormones and simply wanting to remain on the exact prescription I'd had for nine years without any problems.
November 28, 2025 at 10:53 AM
Three weeks ago I marked nine years on Testosterone.
I didn't celebrate it then because I was in the middle of a multi-month battle to be allowed to stay on it, despite not producing my own hormones and simply wanting to remain on the exact prescription I'd had for nine years without any problems.
I didn't celebrate it then because I was in the middle of a multi-month battle to be allowed to stay on it, despite not producing my own hormones and simply wanting to remain on the exact prescription I'd had for nine years without any problems.
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Can’t underline this enough really: these cases are a squillionaire giving crackpots money to seek out individual members of the public quietly going about their working day, so they can turn them into national hate figures, hand in hand with our utterly poisonous media outlets. That’s all it is.
November 28, 2025 at 9:31 AM
Can’t underline this enough really: these cases are a squillionaire giving crackpots money to seek out individual members of the public quietly going about their working day, so they can turn them into national hate figures, hand in hand with our utterly poisonous media outlets. That’s all it is.
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i know WHY this is but that just makes it even more of a kick in the pants lmao
November 28, 2025 at 3:28 AM
i know WHY this is but that just makes it even more of a kick in the pants lmao
My friends had a baby and I spent years visiting them like "oh okay there's a weird blob screaming in the corner" but now he's old enough to have a personality and hijack his parents phone calls to yell "UNCLE JAY! COME AND VISIT US YOU POO POO HEAD!" and now I'm absolutely ride or die for that kid.
November 27, 2025 at 7:26 PM
My friends had a baby and I spent years visiting them like "oh okay there's a weird blob screaming in the corner" but now he's old enough to have a personality and hijack his parents phone calls to yell "UNCLE JAY! COME AND VISIT US YOU POO POO HEAD!" and now I'm absolutely ride or die for that kid.
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For anyone looking at this and thinking 'wow' i'd like to add that every building has a fully decorated interior and is connected to the sewer system that runs underneath the entire city
November 20, 2025 at 3:09 PM
For anyone looking at this and thinking 'wow' i'd like to add that every building has a fully decorated interior and is connected to the sewer system that runs underneath the entire city
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Watching Columbo for the first time and as someone with a working class chip on his shoulder, seeing all these smug, monied elitists sneeringly underestimating and then being utterly destroyed by a shabby, brilliant little guy is absolutely cathartic.
November 26, 2025 at 9:56 AM
Watching Columbo for the first time and as someone with a working class chip on his shoulder, seeing all these smug, monied elitists sneeringly underestimating and then being utterly destroyed by a shabby, brilliant little guy is absolutely cathartic.