Stephanie
@stephanieoffer.bsky.social
Researching links between the Church of England in Croydon &the slave trade
Have ME, FM &mental health problems. Christian
Also into knitting, gardening #TheArchers
She/her
Formerly known as foggyknitter
Have ME, FM &mental health problems. Christian
Also into knitting, gardening #TheArchers
She/her
Formerly known as foggyknitter
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churu chomps
November 29, 2025 at 7:33 PM
churu chomps
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The Boston Globe identified the companies in Massachusetts that employ the most SNAP recipients. A key stat: "In Massachusetts, 74% of working-age recipients of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program are employed, half of them full-time."
Full article: www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/28/m...
Full article: www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/28/m...
November 29, 2025 at 3:55 PM
The Boston Globe identified the companies in Massachusetts that employ the most SNAP recipients. A key stat: "In Massachusetts, 74% of working-age recipients of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program are employed, half of them full-time."
Full article: www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/28/m...
Full article: www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/28/m...
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Wow - this guy must be really, REALLY bad with money if an extra £208 per month will “ruin” his retirement.
Let’s take a look at his situation based on what he told the @Telegraph
Because this does NOT add up!
No, this is not a “poor pensioner” scrabbling around for pennies…
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Let’s take a look at his situation based on what he told the @Telegraph
Because this does NOT add up!
No, this is not a “poor pensioner” scrabbling around for pennies…
🧵1/9
November 29, 2025 at 10:12 AM
Wow - this guy must be really, REALLY bad with money if an extra £208 per month will “ruin” his retirement.
Let’s take a look at his situation based on what he told the @Telegraph
Because this does NOT add up!
No, this is not a “poor pensioner” scrabbling around for pennies…
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Let’s take a look at his situation based on what he told the @Telegraph
Because this does NOT add up!
No, this is not a “poor pensioner” scrabbling around for pennies…
🧵1/9
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British horticulturist, garden designer, and writer Gertrude Jekyll was born #OnThisDay in 1843. She bought this pair of men's leather boots when she was in her 40s and continued to wear them (after many repairs) until her death in 1932. Guildford Museum collection. #fashionhistory
November 29, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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Tom Stoppard. A seer for our times.
From the end of The Coast of Utopia:
From the end of The Coast of Utopia:
November 29, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Tom Stoppard. A seer for our times.
From the end of The Coast of Utopia:
From the end of The Coast of Utopia:
Curled up in her duvet nest looking pensive #ProofOfCat
November 29, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Curled up in her duvet nest looking pensive #ProofOfCat
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GUILDENSTERN: There must have been a moment, at the beginning, where we could have said-no. But somehow we missed it.
(He looks round and sees he is alone.)
Rosen--?
Guil--?
(He gathers himself.)
Well, we'll know better next time. Now you see me, now you-
(And disappears.)
Thank you, #TomStoppard 😢
(He looks round and sees he is alone.)
Rosen--?
Guil--?
(He gathers himself.)
Well, we'll know better next time. Now you see me, now you-
(And disappears.)
Thank you, #TomStoppard 😢
November 29, 2025 at 5:55 PM
GUILDENSTERN: There must have been a moment, at the beginning, where we could have said-no. But somehow we missed it.
(He looks round and sees he is alone.)
Rosen--?
Guil--?
(He gathers himself.)
Well, we'll know better next time. Now you see me, now you-
(And disappears.)
Thank you, #TomStoppard 😢
(He looks round and sees he is alone.)
Rosen--?
Guil--?
(He gathers himself.)
Well, we'll know better next time. Now you see me, now you-
(And disappears.)
Thank you, #TomStoppard 😢
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his churu expenditure represents roughly one half of the growth in the gdp of the United States over the last year. Chancleta is simply Too Big To Fail.
November 26, 2025 at 10:13 PM
his churu expenditure represents roughly one half of the growth in the gdp of the United States over the last year. Chancleta is simply Too Big To Fail.
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Shabana Mahmood said this month that her migration policies are a "moral mission".
Where is the morality in blocking an eight-year-old girl made destitute by a Hurricane from coming to the UK to join her parents?
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Where is the morality in blocking an eight-year-old girl made destitute by a Hurricane from coming to the UK to join her parents?
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
UK rejects visa for girl left destitute in Jamaica by Hurricane Melissa
Lati-Yana Brown’s parents had asked for application to be expedited so she could join them in UK after house ruined
www.theguardian.com
November 28, 2025 at 11:18 AM
Shabana Mahmood said this month that her migration policies are a "moral mission".
Where is the morality in blocking an eight-year-old girl made destitute by a Hurricane from coming to the UK to join her parents?
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Where is the morality in blocking an eight-year-old girl made destitute by a Hurricane from coming to the UK to join her parents?
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Badenoch says that in early Christian times, there was no state and no welfare. Fact: in early Christian times, there was a state and there was welfare.
November 28, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Badenoch says that in early Christian times, there was no state and no welfare. Fact: in early Christian times, there was a state and there was welfare.
Someone asked me if I use AI in my research. They were surprised by the vehemence with which I said NO!!! #Skystorians 🗃
November 28, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Someone asked me if I use AI in my research. They were surprised by the vehemence with which I said NO!!! #Skystorians 🗃
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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 12:11 PM
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?"
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The Maritime Britain project has recently teamed up with the Lloyd's Register Foundation to map its first Register Book and make it searchable. You can find the site here maritimebritain.org/english_merc...
Maritime Britain - Search Lloyds Register
maritimebritain.org
November 28, 2025 at 10:38 AM
The Maritime Britain project has recently teamed up with the Lloyd's Register Foundation to map its first Register Book and make it searchable. You can find the site here maritimebritain.org/english_merc...
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I've finally sorted the text, music, typesetting, photos and graphics for my Advent and Christmas collection of responsorial psalm settings. Please have a look and spread the word! psalteryandharp.uk (and yay! I seem to have a picture here instead of a black box!)
The Advent and Christmas Collection is now available
I am delighted to introduce the first set of responsorial psalm translations and settings for ordinary churches, which is now available in the shop section of this website. This collection includes th...
psalteryandharp.uk
November 28, 2025 at 12:09 PM
I've finally sorted the text, music, typesetting, photos and graphics for my Advent and Christmas collection of responsorial psalm settings. Please have a look and spread the word! psalteryandharp.uk (and yay! I seem to have a picture here instead of a black box!)
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This is what the News Agents are calling a boom in “welfare bills”
Is welfare spending ''out of control''?
Total welfare spending in Britain in 2025-26 is estimated to be 10.8 per cent of GDP.
That's just 0.8 per cent of GDP higher than in 2007-08, and total welfare spending has actually fallen fallen by 1.2 per cent of GDP since 2012-13⤵️
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Total welfare spending in Britain in 2025-26 is estimated to be 10.8 per cent of GDP.
That's just 0.8 per cent of GDP higher than in 2007-08, and total welfare spending has actually fallen fallen by 1.2 per cent of GDP since 2012-13⤵️
buff.ly/s5mz97u
November 28, 2025 at 9:21 AM
This is what the News Agents are calling a boom in “welfare bills”
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Great illustration of the austerity ratchet in Britain - restoring the pre-Osborne welfare state treated like wild-eyed radicalism
Aside from anything else, the benefit cap was introduced in 2013. Claiming that going back to 2012, to a benefit system designed by Tories but missing some of the most egregious and punitive excesses, is a sign of a "return" to even the real 1970s let alone the media boogeyman 1970s, is bollocks.
Look. This isn't analysis of any stripe. That this absolute fucking hogwash is presented as clever, sensible moderate stuff should be considered just as much propaganda as the tabloid screaming about benefits street.
November 28, 2025 at 9:12 AM
Great illustration of the austerity ratchet in Britain - restoring the pre-Osborne welfare state treated like wild-eyed radicalism
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Congratulations to Katie Donington, Abdul Mohamud, Robin Whitburn, Nicholas Draper and their contributors! Their #OpenAccess book Teaching Slavery published today. Read and download free at: bit.ly/48vnDdJ #Education #Colonialism #Slavery #Racism
Teaching Slavery
Teaching Slavery offers ground-breaking research and practical guidance for teaching Britain’s role in transatlantic slavery. Combining historical analysis with classroom strategies, it equips educato...
bit.ly
November 27, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Congratulations to Katie Donington, Abdul Mohamud, Robin Whitburn, Nicholas Draper and their contributors! Their #OpenAccess book Teaching Slavery published today. Read and download free at: bit.ly/48vnDdJ #Education #Colonialism #Slavery #Racism
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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
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It’s really funny how a generation will roll its eyes at parents who watch Fox News but doesn’t see why being immersed in Twitter is having the same effect. Lots of serious people show up on Fox News too but that shouldn’t be your primary source on the news.
November 27, 2025 at 9:52 AM
It’s really funny how a generation will roll its eyes at parents who watch Fox News but doesn’t see why being immersed in Twitter is having the same effect. Lots of serious people show up on Fox News too but that shouldn’t be your primary source on the news.
George's nasty side comes out very quickly, nice George is a very thin veneer #TheArchers
November 27, 2025 at 7:18 PM
George's nasty side comes out very quickly, nice George is a very thin veneer #TheArchers
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Nostalgia burst! 💙
This BBC kids tv advert from 1998 is still very impressive and very lovely
November 27, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Nostalgia burst! 💙
The Internet Archive just released tens of thousands of seed catalogs, spanning over two centuries!
They are both lovely and interesting. Check them out!
archive.org/details/usda...
🗃️ #c18th #c19th #c20th #illustration
They are both lovely and interesting. Check them out!
archive.org/details/usda...
🗃️ #c18th #c19th #c20th #illustration
November 27, 2025 at 10:23 AM
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1/5 It was entirely predictable that The Telegraph would jump on @DavidOlusoga’s Empire series to fight its right wing culture war for control of our public history. Let’s see what they’ve done:
November 27, 2025 at 8:28 AM
1/5 It was entirely predictable that The Telegraph would jump on @DavidOlusoga’s Empire series to fight its right wing culture war for control of our public history. Let’s see what they’ve done:
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The thing about "left on the economy, right on culture" is it's based on analysis of swing voters. Those voters are often low attention and their politics are often not especially coherent. Which is fine for them, it's not their job to run the country, but, you know, the government is
November 27, 2025 at 9:06 AM
The thing about "left on the economy, right on culture" is it's based on analysis of swing voters. Those voters are often low attention and their politics are often not especially coherent. Which is fine for them, it's not their job to run the country, but, you know, the government is