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
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.
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This was so beautiful. Thanks @jayhulmepoet.bsky.social. Our society is so full of the language of contracts & customers that we forget about the language of gift; that we & others are one in frail and beautiful needfulness. 🌷
Daily Service - Letter to Corinth - Abundance mentality - BBC Sounds
Christian worship with a Bible reading, prayer and music led by Jay Hulme.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 27, 2025 at 4:42 PM
This was so beautiful. Thanks @jayhulmepoet.bsky.social. Our society is so full of the language of contracts & customers that we forget about the language of gift; that we & others are one in frail and beautiful needfulness. 🌷
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If you didn't catch todays Daily Service, you can still join me for it on BBC Sounds. In today's episode I share a poem, and a story from my pilgrimage, reflecting on the kindness and generosity of strangers, in a more meditative episode than usual.
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Daily Service - Letter to Corinth - Abundance mentality - BBC Sounds
Christian worship with a Bible reading, prayer and music led by Jay Hulme.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 27, 2025 at 10:39 AM
If you didn't catch todays Daily Service, you can still join me for it on BBC Sounds. In today's episode I share a poem, and a story from my pilgrimage, reflecting on the kindness and generosity of strangers, in a more meditative episode than usual.
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
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Felt like this when mortgage payments went up a few years ago - yes, it's horrible to now be paying an extra £200 a month, but that's been happening to renters year on year and there were no sadface articles on that, just "market forces" and "nobody has a right to live in a city"
This house tax pretending is making me more insane than usual because as a renter I’ve had to move every 1-3 years just as standard because rents always rise. And no one cares. House owners get a tiny fraction of that precarity and suddenly it’s the worst thing that’s ever happened
November 27, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Felt like this when mortgage payments went up a few years ago - yes, it's horrible to now be paying an extra £200 a month, but that's been happening to renters year on year and there were no sadface articles on that, just "market forces" and "nobody has a right to live in a city"
If you didn't catch todays Daily Service, you can still join me for it on BBC Sounds. In today's episode I share a poem, and a story from my pilgrimage, reflecting on the kindness and generosity of strangers, in a more meditative episode than usual.
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Daily Service - Letter to Corinth - Abundance mentality - BBC Sounds
Christian worship with a Bible reading, prayer and music led by Jay Hulme.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 27, 2025 at 10:39 AM
If you didn't catch todays Daily Service, you can still join me for it on BBC Sounds. In today's episode I share a poem, and a story from my pilgrimage, reflecting on the kindness and generosity of strangers, in a more meditative episode than usual.
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
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[After turning worldwide food supply into grey slime slop made of radioactive jellyfish] It would seem generation alpha has no taste for food,
November 27, 2025 at 4:43 AM
[After turning worldwide food supply into grey slime slop made of radioactive jellyfish] It would seem generation alpha has no taste for food,
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Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
Even God Is Worried About ChatGPT
Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
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November 26, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
People talk about trying not to put on weight at Christmas, when a Christmas tradition my friends and I share is weighing ourselves on the morning and evening of Christmas day to see what percentage of us is Christmas Dinner. (The goal is to become 10% Christmas Dinner, but the current record is 7%)
November 26, 2025 at 3:22 PM
People talk about trying not to put on weight at Christmas, when a Christmas tradition my friends and I share is weighing ourselves on the morning and evening of Christmas day to see what percentage of us is Christmas Dinner. (The goal is to become 10% Christmas Dinner, but the current record is 7%)
When I got my own place my Grandad gave me the first artificial Christmas Tree he'd ever owned, and a box of random decorations.
She's looking good for 64 years old...
She's looking good for 64 years old...
November 26, 2025 at 12:38 PM
When I got my own place my Grandad gave me the first artificial Christmas Tree he'd ever owned, and a box of random decorations.
She's looking good for 64 years old...
She's looking good for 64 years old...
Every single person in Britain: "the chippy" or, if we're being fancy, "the chip shop"
The New York Times: "the french fry restaurant"
The New York Times: "the french fry restaurant"
new favourite New York Times term for a British thing just dropped
November 26, 2025 at 10:33 AM
Every single person in Britain: "the chippy" or, if we're being fancy, "the chip shop"
The New York Times: "the french fry restaurant"
The New York Times: "the french fry restaurant"
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This is one of those things that rarely gets talked about that has had a massive effect.
As fields like journalism, art, and academia were collapsed and living expenses skyrocketed they came to skew increasingly toward people whose families could afford to supplement their income.
As fields like journalism, art, and academia were collapsed and living expenses skyrocketed they came to skew increasingly toward people whose families could afford to supplement their income.
If you're ever wondered why journalists seem so out of touch most of the time it's because in order to establish yourself you need to either come from money, marry into money, or be OK with abject poverty and daily financial panic
That third thing is unsustainable long-term
That third thing is unsustainable long-term
November 25, 2025 at 11:58 PM
This is one of those things that rarely gets talked about that has had a massive effect.
As fields like journalism, art, and academia were collapsed and living expenses skyrocketed they came to skew increasingly toward people whose families could afford to supplement their income.
As fields like journalism, art, and academia were collapsed and living expenses skyrocketed they came to skew increasingly toward people whose families could afford to supplement their income.
The 25th of November is St Catherine's feast day.
"This isn't about God,
the stained-glass legends of broken wheels, the barrowload
of miracles, or the dinner-plate halo they will nail to your head.
Under the gospel,
the truth of it: woman answers back, ends up dead."
- Rosie Garland
"This isn't about God,
the stained-glass legends of broken wheels, the barrowload
of miracles, or the dinner-plate halo they will nail to your head.
Under the gospel,
the truth of it: woman answers back, ends up dead."
- Rosie Garland
November 25, 2025 at 9:53 AM
The 25th of November is St Catherine's feast day.
"This isn't about God,
the stained-glass legends of broken wheels, the barrowload
of miracles, or the dinner-plate halo they will nail to your head.
Under the gospel,
the truth of it: woman answers back, ends up dead."
- Rosie Garland
"This isn't about God,
the stained-glass legends of broken wheels, the barrowload
of miracles, or the dinner-plate halo they will nail to your head.
Under the gospel,
the truth of it: woman answers back, ends up dead."
- Rosie Garland