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New-Cleckit Dominie

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University maths teacher (failed academic); very amateur local history; slightly worse photography. Uaireannan beagan Gàidhlig cuideachd. Same handle on the elephant site. Web: http://www.dominie.scot.

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New-Cleckit Dominie @ncdominie.bsky.social · 9m

Flags on lampposts along Victoria Road this morning. On a second look they were Scottish+Palestinian, which is immensely better than the likely alternatives; but still.

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New-Cleckit Dominie @ncdominie.bsky.social · 1h

Grass, webs, dew.

Low-angle photo of a head of grass arching in front of a chaotic canopy of wet spiderwebs.

New-Cleckit Dominie @ncdominie.bsky.social · 11h

It feels to my weird-kid-in-school radar as if the bullies have been let out again. Not sure they're any more numerous, but suddenly they're a lot louder and they're strutting as if they own the playground. Sorry to hear you've been running into them.

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New-Cleckit Dominie @ncdominie.bsky.social · 12h

Nobody knows how much She endures.

New-Cleckit Dominie @ncdominie.bsky.social · 12h

This is the Web we could have had, and we gave it away for nonsense like this place.

(There is a whole page about things that look like billhooks but aren't. Mr Burgess, I salute you.)

Palustris @palustris.bsky.social · 20h

A conversation about hedge-laying led me to the 'A Load of Old Billhooks' website: www.billhooks.co.uk If you're interested in traditional rural crafts, it's an impressive resource, covering Europe as well as Britain. This is what the internet was made for.

New-Cleckit Dominie @ncdominie.bsky.social · 13h

There is _so much_ for a Hound to disapprove of. Today, for example, the butcher greeted Her but did not throw the contents of his shop at Her feet. It was iniquitous.

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New-Cleckit Dominie @ncdominie.bsky.social · 13h

Luath, a brindled greyhound, snoozes disapprovingly.

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New-Cleckit Dominie @ncdominie.bsky.social · 18h

I'm always vaguely offended by the fact that R is the successor to S...

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New-Cleckit Dominie @ncdominie.bsky.social · 18h

Paying for your vax seems like a highly sensible action which any rational employer would see the benefit of; I'm just surprised to encounter employer rationality in HE.

All the best for your trip to the PS. If challenged by the frozen-water people, deny ever having met me.

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New-Cleckit Dominie @ncdominie.bsky.social · 18h

Ah, but what if sickness were just a form of poor motivation which could be cured by productivity targets and kitten yoga?

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New-Cleckit Dominie @ncdominie.bsky.social · 19h

It's nice to know that at least one employer in the sector believes in at least one transmissible disease.

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New-Cleckit Dominie @ncdominie.bsky.social · 20h

I did not know this. Sharing for any other R-using or R-adjacent people who also did not know it.

samuel mehr @mehr.nz · Dec 14

it's wild that R, the ubiquitous statistical computing language, was co-created by a Māori prof (Ross Ihaka) — and yet the vast majority of scientists who use R don't know

this is like inventing the toaster. possibly the largest impact of a single member of an indigenous community on modern science

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New-Cleckit Dominie @ncdominie.bsky.social · 21h

Alternatively...

a cartoon character is standing in front of a blue sky with flames coming out of it .

Alt: The glove-puppet sandworm from the inexplicably popular movie "Beetlejuice". The worm might be the best thing about it.

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New-Cleckit Dominie @ncdominie.bsky.social · 22h

Staff development email: "this workshop uses science fiction-inspired sandpits to explore imaginative and ethical responses to global challenges".

I KNEW IT.

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New-Cleckit Dominie @ncdominie.bsky.social · 23h

Nope — the entire Trinity precedes the Incarnation (and indeed time).

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New-Cleckit Dominie @ncdominie.bsky.social · 23h

Current opinion in Anglican circles tends towards "look, just leave it out but you can say it silently inside your head and that's not heretical and can we please find something more important to worry about?"

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New-Cleckit Dominie @ncdominie.bsky.social · 23h

Historically important b/c it was a dividing point between East and West (IIRC, at least partly b/c East were thinking in Greek and West in Latin, and the terminology doesn't map across well). Theologically b/c including filioque could diminish the Father while omitting it could diminish the Son.

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New-Cleckit Dominie @ncdominie.bsky.social · 23h

2024 in Scotland, to our shame.

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New-Cleckit Dominie @ncdominie.bsky.social · 1d

For those who aren't good at numbers, such as the UK Government: fee income from international students in 2023/24 was £12.1 billion (commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-bri...). The claimed "£50M for the UK economy" is less than 0.5% of this.

We are not ruled by serious people.

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New-Cleckit Dominie @ncdominie.bsky.social · 1d

These Southside tours of yours are getting longer...

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New-Cleckit Dominie @ncdominie.bsky.social · 1d

Seems it was a United flight. Fingers crossed they get out on the second attempt.

New-Cleckit Dominie @ncdominie.bsky.social · 1d

Whenever I have conversations like that it rekindles my furtive hope that being interested in things is actually the natural state of people. It takes a lot of crushing into shape by society before we learn to find the world boring and stop asking questions.

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New-Cleckit Dominie @ncdominie.bsky.social · 1d

Opinion was divided, but forebearingly so. (Two had Pentecostalist backgrounds, one Eastern Orthodox, and the fourth is agnostic-tending-to-atheist. If the Great Schism is to be healed it might as well be here as anywhere.)

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New-Cleckit Dominie @ncdominie.bsky.social · 1d

A good theological beef never really goes away.

New-Cleckit Dominie @ncdominie.bsky.social · 1d

I was not expecting this evening to include a conversation with four Govanhill teenagers about the doctrinal status of "filioque", but it did and I am oddly cheerful about this.

People will surprise you if you let them.

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