At about 4.30 am every day I wonder what four and twenty blackbirds baked in a pie might actually taste like. #LoudBirds

Here's my predictions for 2023

https://thurible.net/2023/01/01/predictions-2023/

Did anyone have this in 2023 Bingo? I think this year might be turning into a weird one already.

Last night in the course of cooking a Christmas dinner, I invented a new delicacy which is called "Slightly Burned Garlic in Congealed Butter". (I'm working on the name). Tastes fabulous and gives you amazing dreams.
Who is in?

Christmas Sermon here: https://thurible.net/2022/12/25/christmas-sermon-2022/ - text, video and links to a couple of media reports.
#pisky #ScottishEpiscopal

I have confounded the forces of darkness and found the hot water bottle.

When I rule the world there shall be one universal type of lavalier microphone all of which shall have clips that work on all clothes.
The expectation that lavalier microphones attach to ties is what misogyny looks like and is also an atheistic anticlerical hegemony.

https://thurible.net/2022/12/02/the-english-heresy/

A short post about current thinking in the Church of England about how to move forward on marrying same-sex couples.

Don't forget, the Kalendar I publish is available for free this year. And it starts today with Advent Sunday.

Get it here:
https://thurible.net/2022/09/18/the-kalendar-for-2022-2023-is-available-free/

I've not changed my mind about professional sport. Drug-addled, corrupt, nationalistic, sectarian, sexist and homophobic. Especially football. Who can be surprised at the World Cup going to Qatar?

Remembering trans folk killed this year and all whose lives are blighted by transphobic prejudice.

#TransDayOfRemembrance

@isaacrthorne thanks. I hadn't come across that.

So how are is validation going to happen on Mastodon? The impersonation of some accounts this week had serious consequences on the other site.

(I'm trying so hard to be a believer at the moment and I think the growth on here is phenomenal but I can think of a lot of things that are going to need sorting. I wonder if they will be a corporate style fork which offers validation and redundancy protection - ie protection against your volunteer host pulling the plug.)

November never seems to have the number of Sundays in it that I expect.

I'm grateful to those explaining that mastodon is different by design. I'm also pretty sure that many of those who have been on mastodon for a while are going to see it change very quickly in ways that might be uncomfortable.

Here's 12 things I've learned about preaching.

https://thurible.net/2022/11/17/things-ive-learned-about-preaching/

What happens when the unknown host of a Mastodon instance gets fed up and turns it off?

of course I'm on Mastodon, have been for years... and I've got two whole followers.
#pisky