A good point.

Keep the triple lock for those who only have a state pension to live on & stop applying it to those, including me, who also have occupational pensions.

i like to say that mercy should abound--except in the sermon editing process.

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Pleasing

Wednesday

Trump deletes post with AI image of himself as Christ-like figure after outcry The US president’s conservative, Christian supporters decried the Truth Social post, calling it ‘disgusting’

At least MAGA Christians appear to actually have a red line. Now it just needs some major shifting.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Pope Leo XIV: "Even the holy Name of God, the God of life, is being dragged into discourses of death. A world of brothers and sisters with one heavenly Father vanishes, as in a nightmare, giving way to a reality populated by enemies"

Alas. I didn’t know that.

Enjoy. Washable flooring down in the parts of the flat the carers will access & curtains & blinds up so we’re all set for moving week

My book ends with this wonderful description of Edinburgh from Blackford Hill by Walter Scott. (Incidentally, I'm off on a week's holiday, so you'll have a break from the daily advert.) @edinburghminute.com @livingstreetsedi.bsky.social
georgehharris.blogspot.com/2014/10/edin...

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Feeling chuffed to get this in five since I then had to resort to a dictionary to discover what it means.

all these universities kept axing medieval history departments as if they thought tyrants beefing with the Pope was going to stop being relevant

‘Teachers who use AI will replace those who don’t,’ Oireachtas committee chair warns Teachers who use AI “will replace those who don’t”, the chair of the Oireachtas committee on artificial intelligence has warned.

‘Teachers who use AI will replace those who don’t,’ Oireachtas committee chair warns www.independent.ie/irish-news/t...

Wordle 1,754 3/6

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Pleasing.

Reading “Healing from Narcissistic Abuse” by a friend of mine, Dr Daksha Hirani, and am struck by this narcissism checklist…

Marguerite Dumont is a Trump supporter and Groucho has the perfect retort.

Photo of Groucho Marx on here just reminded me of this oldie but goldie.

On the right of the pic there’s a rabbit. In the middle a man who just rabbits on.

Didn’t Trump just drastically curtail overseas aid? Yet the USA can still fund a project involving astronauts repeating what was achieved half a century ago. Why not sort out the problems on this planet before exporting human folly & selfishness beyond it?

All is well & we’re about to move - but not far & still west Edinburgh. More detail when I send our change of address email.

The sad thing is that some Conservative Evangelicals in the USA will be more shocked by the F-bomb than by the numerous high explosive ones sent on his orders. Time for the 25th, surely?

A happy & blessed Easter to all.

Does Edinburgh City Council have advance warning of the Second Coming? Or perhaps they couldn’t fit Previous on the sign.

That the Pentagon has a chapel was news to me. Is it too much to hope that there’s a copy of the Beatitudes on display there?

A two on Wordle this morning has me wondering whether Wordle is evidence to support Sheldrake’s hypothesis about morphic resonance, or was this just a very lucky guess.

#BBCNews (and no doubt other news channels) getting excited about tracking the #NASA moon mission, but no comment about its emissions destroying Earth’s atmosphere. We try to reduce our emissions from cars etc then they do that… not to mention #Trump & his evil war against #Iran…

Lord, have mercy 🙏

One small step for a toilet, one giant flush for toiletkind… 🚽 🚀

One of my teachers of Latin & Greek was fluent in it. He had been tutor to Haile Selassie’s children.

“Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair.”

And Trump’s plan is…?

Up there with The Guardian’s 1977 supplement about the island of San Serriffe.