lifehack: giving your glasses a quick wipe is like upgrading to 4K video for free

Me all day: "I'm so tired"

Also me, at 2am, taking a quiz to find out what kind of cheese I am:

even better if you forget about this top tip for several weeks before remembering it again

Vol. 19 No. 1 (2026) | Theological Librarianship Theological Librarianship is an open access journal publishing peer-reviewed articles, as well as essays and reviews, on subjects at the intersection of librarianship and religious and theological stu...

Very pleased to announce the publication of Theological Librarianship's spring issue!
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What’s the German word for the specific anxiety you feel when reading late 19th/early 20th century novels about all the debt everyone is getting into

Ooh it hadn’t occurred to me to try and use a shopping trolley 👀

Image of a large cabinet on a tiny sack truck on a tram

Image of a towel rail balanced absurdly on the back of a bicycle and held in place with fluorescent elastic

Now that teaching is over I finally have time for my real work, finding increasingly deranged ways to transport Facebook marketplace furniture across town without a car

The Guardian must be devastated, which is presumably why they carefully left out that the UK would also be in violation of EU law at present.

The soft-launch of the new & improved Art in the Christian Tradition database is live! Check it out and send in your feedback! act.library.vanderbilt.edu/search

Every aspect of the university is under assault by posturing pseudo-intellectuals with completely impoverished imaginations and ethics. Can’t decide whether being inside it or being a permanent member of the reserve army of labour is worse

Turns out the time it actually takes to grade tests needs to be multiplied significantly to reflect the time it takes to put off marking tests because the marking is so boring

“I couldn’t encounter my loss face to face” Last week I gave a keynote address at the Society for the Study of Theology annual conference, which was on the theme “Theology: A Discipline of Failure?” Below is the text of my paper.…

I've just put my keynote paper from last week's SST conference (Theme: "Theology: A Discipline of Failure?") up on the blog: itself.blog/2026/04/20/i...

I told @a-p-s.bsky.social I’ve been listening to Helen DeWitt’s Lightning Rods and he said “I’m sure we’re only months away from ‘We built the glory hole in the office from the famous novel “Don’t build a glory hole in the office”’”

As the crowdfunder for the first radical bookshop icon Newcastle for 40 years gets closer to the end I’m making the bold move of calling on all the academics I sort of vaguely know and also those I don’t to share the link for our crowdfunder: www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/booksfromb...

Russian Sci-Fi: We are working class schmucks working for a government institute/space agency/doing crime.

But before we do anything we will smoke this entire pack of cigarettes and discuss our nuanced and informed political opinions.

The janitor interjects to criticise our poor grasp of theory.

We’re here and set up ready for an exciting conference! Come and find our stall in the corridor and take advantage of 25% off everything 📚

“Pope Leo is WEAK on crime” You bolt awake in the University of Wittenberg. You are not online. It is 1517. You are Professor Martin Luther and you have changed your mind. The future cannot come to pass. The Church must remain.

meet me at the roger scruton café 😘

A hero, an icon.

We thought we were living in a cyberpunk dystopia but this is actually straight from Warhammer 40K. The machine spirit must be appeased using the proper rituals. Blessings affixed with purity seals will keep the cogitator functioning.

I'm doing simony. I'm going idolatry. I'm doing consubstantial simony and idolatry

Pope correctly identifying the true enemy of humanity: St Augustine

Only just now connecting the dots that Israeli hummus brand Sabra (founded 1986) must take its name from the Sabra where Lebanese civilians were massacred in 1982; just absolutely depraved

And St Mellitus trained!

Didn’t realise Orr was a Holy Trinity Brompton guy

how it's going

Photo of my hand with pink and green stiletto nails

New nails

Which in turn makes me wonder whether the fantasy of a homophobic society of truly masculine men is one of the dynamics at work in homonationalism

Seems to me like Žižek’s read of 300 transfers pretty easily to Braveheart: the duplicitous empire led by evil twinks and cowards versus the brave guerrilla fighters for freedom a fantasy which allows American men to identify with resistance to US power

I’m watching Braveheart for the first time and I didn’t realise it was so centrally about cucking?