Becky Mynett

Ask your mall Santa to explain the difference between ὁμοούσιος and ὁμοιούσιος. If he can’t, he’s not the real St. Nicholas.

Harlow's still here Fifty years ago, Harlow was the queen of Philadelphia nightlife, Jack Kelly’s girlfriend, and the city's most famous transgender woman. Today, she’s ready to tell her story.

Getting to know this legend has been one of the greatest joys of my life and I'm so pleased to introduce you to her with this gorgeous feature from the Inquirer, where she speaks for the first time in over 30 years on her incredible journey
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Advent 2 - Verses from Psalm 72 Psalm 72 is headed ‘A Psalm of Solomon’ and is a prayer for the king and his heir. This could be a dedication: a prayer for King Solomon. This is Robert Alter’s view. He states in his commentary on th...

Just posted on my blog - translation and notes for my new setting of tomorrow's psalm. psalteryandharp.uk/blog/sundays...

If you are new here and not a bot, please make sure you have an interesting bio and a post or two introducing yourself before following anyone you don’t know in real life. If you don’t, I will block. (Used to just be creepy men but starting to get potentially bot women too.)

New recycling tech recovers nearly pure nickel and cobalt from old EV batteries Researchers have developed an eco-friendly recycling tech that extracts 99 percent pure nickel and cobalt from waste batteries.

If anyone cares at all, EV battery recycling is now hitting 99% recovery for important metals

Please remind me again what the recycle rate for fossil fuels is

interestingengineering.com/energy/recyc...

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You learn something new every day! I wonder what modern entertainment should have a chocolate selection named after it so it can be rediscovered next century.

I’m sorry, that’s horrible.

Yes. I’m not a fan of single-sex membership organisations of this type. Everyone should be able to join any organisation that provides the sort of activities they’re interested in getting involved in.

“So, what did you do wrong?” | Lyric Essay November 2025 is the first National Care Leavers Month, so here is a piece about the question I get asked most when people find out I grew up in care.

“I grew up in care, not prison. I say it like a fact, like my phone number, recited without thinking. But none of that matters, because they want an answer.

‘So, what did you do wrong?’”

This is a great piece of writing by @matt-taylor.bsky.social

You could do an entire service (or rather a carol-a-thon) using only ‘While Shepherds’!

Oh, I know! Definitely one of my sources.

Probably. Also much too high up to easily slide a harp in.

Dab hand here. Used to pack all my stuff for uni including a full-sized concert harp, into my dad’s car (I think it was a sierra estate, biggish but not huge).

I’d be up for that! (I‘be always wanted to do an alternative Carol service where everything is either a usual tune with different, thought provoking words or the usual words with a different tune, so you hear the words afresh.)

Trickle down economics is a hoax. This t-shirt is not.

Support @imcivicaction.bsky.social on Giving Tuesday and help us spread the word about this economic myth. https://bit.ly/4iywu15

An easy way to explain luddites:

Textile manufacturers brought in machines that could do in an hour what would have taken 12 hours by hand.

And then, tried to keep paying the now 12x more productive workers the same wages as before.

That's it, that was the problem luddites had. Not complex.

Ooh, thanks for this. I had come across another dyslexia friendly font before but that wasn’t free.

Just shown the teenager, who as a toddler used to boing the springy doorstop in my parents’ bathroom while having his nappy changed. Took a while to get my iPad back!

A Christmas tree festooned with two baubles that look like big cartoon eyeballs

Every year we treat ourselves to a new decoration or two for the Christmas tree and this year’s additions are just absolutely outstanding

Tempted to not add anything else as we basically have a muppet Christmas tree

Librarians versus the world Photo of London’s National Art Library by Sebastien LE DEROUT on Unsplash Here at the Research Whisperer, we love librarians. They are smart, dedicated people who want to help you with your researc…

Enormous shout-out to the Australian and Kiwi librarians standing up to Elsevier. This is killer.

You can listen to Psalm 122 being used in a service from about 12:12 in the recording linked below (on Facebook, but you don't need to login to watch). Oh, and it's me preaching. fb.watch/DI2bokoIbG/

🧵 Just a few thoughts on the SEND/'bad behaviour' discussions that I'm seeing atm. Firstly I wish we would stop using 'bad' when talking about behaviour. We're not engaged in a moral judgement. Calling behaviour 'bad' doesn't sit well with having unconditional positive regard for young people. 1/5

Aaargh! Any basses near Oxford free this afternoon/evening? I'm a bass down (out of two). Rehearsal 4pm. Help!

That is really excellent, thanks for posting. I think it is helpful for us anglophones to have a Vatican document written by a native English speaker for a change. The translations of previous docs often retained awkward romance-language phraseology (although, better translation would‘ve worked too)

Advent Sunday - Psalm 122 Psalm 122 is one of fifteen psalms (120 – 134) prefaced by the words ‘Song of Ascents’. There are several theories as to what this means, but it seems most likely that they were traditionally sung by ...

Just uploaded my first blog post about the choices I made when translating Sunday's Psalm (the sheet music for which you can now get on my website - link in the post). Please spread the word! #CofEPeeps

Ma fille fait le sapin avec ma femme.
Ma fille : "On peut rajouter encore des couleurs dans le sapin"
Ma femme : "Non faut pas en mettre trop, faut respecter l'harmonie des couleurs"
Ma fille : "Mais toutes les couleurs vont bien ensemble, c'est l'harmonie de la joie de vivre"

THE NEW Church year begins tomorrow with #Advent - what is it all about?
In this 2 minute video, #BustedHalo explains the significance of this special season in the Church and why waiting, hope, and preparation is still so important in our lives today: bustedhalo.com/video/watch-advent-two-minutes

Okay, here we go.

Health & care staff are no longer allowed a Covid booster, but they're still expected to look after COVID+ patients.

NHS/govt is reneging on its duty of care. Staff will become unwell, and patients too will suffer.

You know what to do
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petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...