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Jae H
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Autistic & ADHD. Bi. Trans & Nonbinary. Nontheist. Quaker attender.

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You've just died.
6th picture in your gallery is what killed you.

Dang, I *knew* those immutable entities would get me in the end
Screenshot from a YouTube video "Ayan al-thabita" (Immutable Entities) - Non-existent archetypes of all possible forms of creation - Can be thought of as empty containers in different forms that is given existence and thus existence takes the form of these containers - They are determined by God's attributes. That is, since God is infinite, there is an infinite amount of immutable entities that reflect those attributes. At every instant a completely new creation takes form, which manifest only a (unimaginably) tiny part of God
November 27, 2025 at 8:59 AM
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I can’t make it, sadly – I’m hoping it’ll turn up on YouTube later – but if you’re in Mayfair this evening, looks like Dr Williams is set to deliver another banger: www.grosvenorchapel.org.uk/the-liddon-h...
Flyer advertising a lecture by the Right Rev'd Dr Rowan Williams: Faith, Al and its existential challenges Thursday 27th November 6.30pm Grosvenor Chapel, South Audley Street, Mayfair, W1K 2PA No tickets required. All welcome.
November 27, 2025 at 8:52 AM
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Reading about the early Quaker, Humphrey Smith, who died in 1663 while imprisoned for his beliefs, and getting very neurodivergent vibes from this description of his childhood: studious, thoughtful, a loner, emotionally sensitive, bewildering his parents. From Zealous by Erica Canela, p.125
His recollections immediately inform the reader that he was an educated and literate child. Based on his account, he was a learner and deep thinker from when he was very young. Indeed, Smith was literate at an early age as his parents could afford to meet the costs of basic education. The education of boys in the early modern period was deemed important because male intelligence was seen as superior and the key to their future role as patriarchs. It was thereby the responsibility of Smith's father to ensure he was suitably prepared for his future, but he could not foresee the future that lay ahead for his son. Smith wrote that as a child he would often wander off into the woods to think alone, sometimes for three or four hours. This ‘mournful state’ resulted in criticism from his father and ridicule from his mother, as she ‘laid her hands on him and said that his studying would make him a fool.’ He described himself as being 'usually disturbed and grieved', while his parents' response, although harsh, may have been coming from a place of sheer frustration rather than cruelty. Nevertheless, further condemning his parents' attitude, he added that his father made him 'cry bitterly' at least six days a week."
November 26, 2025 at 8:08 AM
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I strongly suspect I'm pissing in the wind, but here's my complaint to BBC News about their use of this language to describe a *teenage victim of crime*. I even said I want a response, like someone who is *determined* to suffer.

Complaints form is here: www.bbc.co.uk/contact/comp...
Complaint submission form on BBC website. Text of my complaint: I was shocked, when reading this report, to see that the BBC found it necessary or appropriate to refer to the complainant – a teenager who was the victim of the crime for which Graham Linehan has been found guilty (criminal damage) – as "a biological male who identifies as a woman". Is this now standard BBC editorial practice when referring to transgender women, regardless of context? You must be aware that this is language that transgender people find degrading and offensive, an outright dismissal of our identities. It is therefore dismaying that the BBC is using such language even when reporting on stories that have nothing to do with the specific legal context in which it is applicable (the Equality Act as interpreted by the UK Supreme Court earlier this year). I appreciate that this language is used in the UKSC judgment referred to above. But even in that judgment, the UKSC made it clear it did not intend to define how language is used outside the context of the Equality Act. Will the BBC now start to describe lesbians and gay men as "homosexuals"? That is the language used in statutes such as the Equality Act. Or are transgender people the only group that is to be subjected to legalistic language which they experience as outdated and offensive?
November 25, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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Truly grotesque that the BBC chose to describe the *victim* of Graham Linehan's *crime* for which he was *convicted* in these terms. I can only conclude that this is now standard BBC editorial practice for referring to trans people, regardless of context. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
She also did not find that the complainant, a biological male who identifies as a woman, "was as 'alarmed and distressed' as they portrayed themself to be by these messages and this course of conduct".
November 25, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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Found myself reading, yet again, this incredible passage from towards the end of Omar El Akkad's "One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This" – a book every bit as good as its title – and realising what it reminds me of: Ecclesiastes 12. www.biblegateway.com/passage/?sea...
One day it will become impossible to accept the assurances of the same moderates who say with great conviction: Yes the air has turned sour and yes the storms have grown beyond categorization and yes the fires and the floods have made of life a wild careen from one disaster to the next and yes millions die from the heat alone and entire species are swept into extinction daily and the colonized are driven from their land and the refugees die in droves on the borders of the unsated side of the planet and yes supply chains are beginning to come apart and yes soon enough it'll come to our doorstep, even our doorstep in this last coddled bastion of the very civilized world, when one day we turn on the tap and nothing comes out and we visit the grocery store and the shelves are empty and we must finally face the reality of it as billions before us have been made to face the reality of it but until then, until that very last moment, it's important to understand that this really is the best way of doing things.
November 19, 2025 at 9:48 AM
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Every sign tells a story
Sign in railway station loos: Passenger Information London Cannon Street Please avoid spraying large amounts of deodorant, as it may trigger the fire alarm system. Thank you for your cooperation.
November 14, 2025 at 11:32 AM
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Honestly this goes so much harder than “Religious Society of Friends”, why did the Quakers ever stop calling themselves this /jk
Highlighted wording: the 'Church of the first borne and begotten unto God of the seed Immortall heires of Life and inheritors with the Saints in Light gathered by the Eternall Spirit meeting in and about Leomynster who are of the world scorned and in reproach called Ouakers'. Full quote: The Quakers in Herefordshire were establishing their burial grounds long before Fox's above-referenced statement in 1669. In 1660, Henry Bedford, a Leominster glover, sold a piece of land for £16 on South Street in the town to Peter Young, Morgan Watkins, Thomas Holte, Thomas Bach, Hugh Powle Sr. and Charles Barnett, and this became the site of a meeting place and burial ground. The transaction recorded that this was for the use of the 'Church of the first borne and begotten unto God of the seed Immortall heires of Life and inheritors with the Saints in Light gathered by the Eternall Spirit meeting in and about Leomynster who are of the world scorned and in reproach called Ouakers'.
November 13, 2025 at 8:45 AM
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I love this, from a 1992 article by Bruce E. Fleming on “What Makes a Bad Book Bad?” – that a bad book makes us feel “betrayed”, because “in order for a work of art to give itself to us, we must give ourselves to it.” jstor.org/stable/43470336
I take the above-mentioned situation of someone throwing down a book in disgust as my point of departure, for along with our reaction that a novel is bad we frequently have a feeling of outrage, of distress, of insult—the feeling that we somehow have been betrayed. Betrayed, because in order for a work of art to give itself to us, we must give ourselves to it. We have trusted this object, and it has let us down horribly, treated us vilely. (It seems probable to me that readers who are unwilling to call any work bad do not, in this sense, give themselves to works, and so never feel betrayed by them.)
November 8, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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Which indistinguishable porridge (or porage) brand do YOU favour for breakfast? Me, I’m #TeamScotts, because it doesn’t infringe the Religious Society of Friends’ IP and the guy on the box is considerably more ripped
Scott’s Porage Oats box featuring a Scotsman in a kilt putting the shot Quaker Jumbo Oats box featuring some guy in an old-fashioned hat
November 7, 2025 at 10:06 AM
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Reminds me of when Boris Johnson "revealed" that his hobby was making models of London buses out of wine boxes – which, would you know, was then what came up if you searched for "Boris Johnson bus". Rather than this:
The "Brexit Bus", with its untrue message about sending the EU £350m a week that we could spend on the NHS instead
November 5, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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Microsoft Outlook screenshot: All done for the day Enjoy your empty inbox. An exasperated middle-aged woman saying to an older woman, "That's not how this works! That's not how any of this works!"
November 4, 2025 at 11:17 AM
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The song I was referencing is one of my favs from the album so far, which is saying something. Written by Florence after she nearly died from an ectopic pregnancy. www.youtube.com/watch?v=9fw8...
Screenshot from linked lyric video “And all shall be well / All shall be well”
November 4, 2025 at 10:21 AM
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Paying tribute to Florence + The Machine’s new album by literally “downloading Revelations of Divine Love on my phone”
iPhone displaying book cover to Revelations of Divine Love by Julian of Norwich
November 4, 2025 at 7:31 AM
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There are times I’m ashamed to be a lawyer. This was in a daily email of updates from law firms. One trillion barrels of oil is almost as much as we’ve extracted and set on fire in the whole industrial era to date (1.4 trillion barrels). We are so cooked as a species.
Screenshot from a legal update email IT & Data Protection How Al can unlock an extra trillion barrels of oil Wood Mackenzie Stronger-for-longer oil demand will heap pressure on the upstream industry to deliver new supply. I asked our subsurface experts, Dr Andrew Latham...
November 3, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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Another madcap bid for popularity from the Telegraph: taking aim at International Treasure, David Attenborough, on behalf of Britain’s hard-pressed <checks notes> grouse shooters
Telegraph opinion piece: Clive Aslet: We must save the grouse moors from the menace of David Attenborough
November 1, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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Ye gods. “That’s a private matter between me and my wife” is the answer you were looking for, JD.
JD Vance on his wife: Do I hope eventually that she is somehow moved in by church. Yeah, I honestly, I do wish that because I believe in the Christian gospel. And I hope eventually my wife comes to see it the same way. If she does not, then god says everybody has free will and so that does not… Quote-tweeted with caption: He's going to be the first Vice President to get Divorced while in office
October 31, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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"They are fickle and greedy, prone to panic like penguins, and naked of roots or serious political convictions." – Hunter S. Thompson on the Democrats of 2025, wait no 1986: books.google.co.uk/books?id=ELf...
“How about your friend Gary Hart?” I ask. “Hart? There weren't enough votes in the unions to elect Fritz Mondale, and there will never be enough yuppies to elect Hart. They are fickle and greedy, prone to panic like penguins, and naked of roots or serious political convictions. Jesse Jackson can crank more energy and loyalty and action out of 10 people on any street corner in East St. Louis than Gary Hart could every hope to inspire in a week of huge rallies in New York, Chicago, and Pittsburgh.”
October 29, 2025 at 10:09 AM
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(This is basically the plot of Ursula K. Le Guin's The Other Wind)

Via @melvian.net at dragonchat.org/@melvian/115...
(In the style of the "Stop Doing Math" meme) STOP KILLING DRAGONS * DRAGONS WERE NOT SUPPOSED TO BE EVIL * THOUSANDS OF DRAGONS SLAIN yet NO REAL IMPROVEMENT in society * Want to improve someone's life anyway? We had a tool for that: It was called "DRAGON SNUGGLES" * "Why yes I'd love to harm and kill a giant majestic creature for merely existing" - Statements dreamed up by the utterly Deranged LOOK at what Dragon Slayers have been demanding your Respect for all this time (Three very poorly drawn dragons with 'X's in their eyes. The one on the left is more quadruped, laying down, the middle one is more biped, with an arrow stuck on it, the right one is a big quadruped with a tiny stick figure on top raising their sword and saying "I am the best!") "Hello I would like a dead dragon please" They have played us for absolute fools
October 28, 2025 at 12:09 PM
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Kandinsky’s art does something profound to my brain. Always has. This one (Red Yellow Blue, 1925) is reproduced in today’s FT Weekend, and I’ve just spent several minutes staring at it
Kandinsky’s painting Red Yellow Blue (1925). A semi-abstract array of geometrical shapes, swirls of cloud, and grid lines. To the left, something resembling a human head in profile
October 25, 2025 at 10:22 AM
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And I’m a sucker for chapter titles like *this*
Book section title page: PART II The theological bit (and why it matters)
October 22, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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Picked up this today from The Common Press bookshop. The author is a “transfeminist and evangelical Christian”, and what interested me was that it’s looking at the evangelical Christian / “gender critical” alliance *in the UK* – rather than the more usual US focus
Book titled Gender Heretics: Evangelicals, Feminists, and the Alliance Against Trans Liberation, by Rebecca Jane Morgan. The book cover is in the trans flag colours
October 22, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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“TG Jones” (aka the former WHSmith high street branches) has the lowest-effort branding and signage I’ve seen in a long time. I’d give them 18 months, tops
A branch of “TG Jones”. It has blue signage with white lettering saying “TG Jones” in the world’s dullest sans serif font
October 21, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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I did not agree to pay for an authoritarian government with my federal taxes. I agreed to pay for *opens history book*

uh oh

*Frantically starts flipping though pages*

uh oh. oh no. no no no. uh oh
Photo in newspaper of man in Portland protest wearing sandwich board reading “I did not agree to pay for an authoritarian government with my federal taxes… did you?”
October 21, 2025 at 7:43 AM
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Surprise! Turns out she’s the one responsible for this non-banger
@jessgill03 We've won the battle against trans ideology. Now, it's essential that the gender critical community speaks up about the dangers of mass immigration for women. Women and girls are being raped and harassed across the country. If you truly care about women's safety, you need to speak out against this.
October 18, 2025 at 10:50 AM