Tim Pitt-Payne
@magpiemixture
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Barrister. All views my own.
Urban (sometimes), also rural
Joined June 2021
RT @amwilson_opera: If you want to understand the debates we are having about opera today concerning "elitism" and "who opera is for", you….
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RT @SimoninSuffolk: Eric Ravilious, 'lost in the Atlantic', on his wife the artist Tirzah Swanzy's headstone in Copford churchyard, Essex.….
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The most fun image & video creation tool in the world is here. Try it for free in the Grok App.
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RT @SMtQuakers2: Advice for anyone interested in Quakerism. 👍.What about those who already are Quakers and are trying to resist the word sa….
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RT @QuakerEmma: @SMtQuakers2 @BritishQuakers I hope you will be interested in my new series of interviews on Quakerology about just this pr….
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Mary Shelley was born on 30 August 1797. An excuse to push this blog post, about the Frankenstein Ratio (link in next tweet).
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This week's edition of "The Friend" is dismal: one lengthy piece of pseudo-intellectual word salad, and one piece of priggish intolerance (echoed by the front cover). If you're Quaker-curious, try out your local meeting. Please don't form a judgment based on this twaddle.
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RT @Scott_Wortley: rebuts/refutes pedantry is important. And people reporting should stand up for the precision of meaning of both.
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RT @FXMC1957: 28 August 1833. The Slavery Abolition Act (1833) received Royal Assent. It became law from 1 August 1834. It freed slaves but….
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A recent blogpost about those books that everyone knows about but nobody reads. See next tweet.
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RT @FXMC1957: 25 August 1835. 1st of a series of “Great Moon Hoax” articles appeared in a New York newspaper called The Sun. It falsely cla….
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RT @FXMC1957: 24 August 1814. British troops captured Washington DC and set the Presidential Mansion (now the White House) on fire. It was….
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The Dory Bistro in Pittenweem is brilliant. If you’re visiting the Fife coast, don’t miss it!.
ICYMI, check out this brilliant @thecourieruk feature on Ruth Robinson of The Dory Bistro and Gallery in Pittenweem, Fife 👇.
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Despite everything, X is a forum where amateurs can have good tempered discussions with experts, on topics such as Nestorian Christianity in China and the death of the last Tsar and his family. I am staying put.
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RT @SimoninSuffolk: 'And Ruth said: Intreat me not to leave thee, or to return from following after thee. For whither thou goest, I will go….
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New logo reminds me of Wentworth's endless spiral down to the void in Charles Williams' "Descent into Hell".
Thank goodness my @oup book was published in 1997, when they still had the old crest.
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Think of this as a piece of holiday writing. Nothing to do with tech, or Quakerism.
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Here is a short blog post, about those books that everyone knows about and nobody has read
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