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Becky Mynett @beckymynett.bsky.social · 1h

I do! But I don’t like the site it links to for the readings and it’s easier to have the lectionary app open in another window. (I also think their suggestions are not as helpful as they used to be, but that’s another issue!j

Becky Mynett @beckymynett.bsky.social · 12h

Thanks!

Becky Mynett @beckymynett.bsky.social · 12h

I’m sorry to hear that, Angela. I have long covid and, although I’m better than I was, can’t face marketing or the stress of meeting deadlines. I’m focusing on my small choir directing job and doing some composing. Best wishes for your deliberations.

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Becky Mynett @beckymynett.bsky.social · 13h

Stem ginger on vanilla ice cream (or just the syrup if you either can‘t be bothered to chop the ginger finely or want it less gingery) also candied orange or lemon peel with honey.

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Becky Mynett @beckymynett.bsky.social · 19h

I have just taken delivery of the most unusually shaped and efficiently packed parcel I have ever seen! (It’s a two-part tree ring to demarcate a small bed around a new pear tree.)

A semi-circular arch wrapped in corrugated card with a postage label on top. Standing on a green carpet.

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Becky Mynett @beckymynett.bsky.social · 19h

Well that’s interesting. Mine has on my iPad but not in the browser app on the laptop (where I actually need it when working).

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Becky Mynett @beckymynett.bsky.social · 19h

#CofEPeeps Anyone know when the Lectionary App is going to be updated? Having paid up, it’s annoying to have to use other methods of finding the readings so I can do the Advent music list (and yes, it does need doing in October, if not earlier). @churchofengland.org

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Becky Mynett @beckymynett.bsky.social · 20h

Done. Our diocese is one that gets none, which sounds fair enough in theory as we’re not in a deprived region and our finances are better than elsewhere. However, we do have pockets of deprivation and in practice, redistribution within the diocese doesn’t work as well as might be assumed.

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Sam Wilson @samwilson.bsky.social · 21h

Just signed a new #Synod motion from a member of my own diocese regarding how dioceses use lowest income communities funding and how the national church calculates who to give it to - do share with other Synod members

www.churchofengland.org/about/govern...

That this Synod:
a. regret that under the current system and in 2024 only 73% of lowest income communities funding (LInC) reached the most socially deprived 25% of parishes; that therefore more than £1 in every £4 of LInC funding cannot be traced as reaching a deprived parish (representing a potential total of £33 million misdirected during the next triennium); and, that 12 mainland dioceses receive no LInC funding, despite containing 268 parishes that are amongst the 25% most socially deprived.

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Pareidolia @pareidolia.bsky.social · 1d

- We lost our WiFi connection 🤷🏼

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Janet Hill @saskajanet.bsky.social · 1d

Look at her go!
#invertebrates 🌿

Screen shot of Project Monarch app map of progress of a monarch butterfly from southern Ontario to Oklahoma.

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Becky Mynett @beckymynett.bsky.social · 1d

We must both be on the same translators starter pack! (Not that I’m doing much translating at the moment - hope people aren’t disappointed!)

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WeRateDogs @weratedogs.com · Aug 28

This is Thanos. He has figured out how to rest and babysit at the same time. Very impressive, very Montessori. 13/10 (TT: thanosthesaint)

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Becky Mynett @beckymynett.bsky.social · 1d

And picture 14… but at least it does seem to have an adequate number of built-in bookshelves.

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Becky Mynett @beckymynett.bsky.social · 1d

Merci !

Becky Mynett @beckymynett.bsky.social · 1d

Le point de Boulogne, est-il la même chose que l‘or nué, ou tout simplement ce qu’on appelle en anglais ‘couching’?

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Surprised Eel Historian, PhD @greenleejw.bsky.social · 2d

Friends, with the world on fire, it feels useless to be here selling my services. But I do need to keep the lights on, and the #maps pay the bills.

So...if you need a map(s) for a book project, let me know! I have space for new commissions.

Here are a few of my favorite maps I've done lately:
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Grayscale map of the Atlantic showing most of the Americas, Europe, and Africa. There are arrows showing the direction of trade, and each arrow has at least one number attached to it. The numbers match a key on the side that lists the products being traded and their place of origin. There are 15 different sets of commodities listed:
1:Midlands & Birmingham: Guns, Gunpowder, Metalware, Silks
2: Liverpool & Lancashire: Cotton-linens
3: Lancashire: Linens, Cottons, Cotton-linens
4: India: Cottons Cowries
5: Midlands & London: Metalware, Silks, Ceramics, Glassware, Guns
6: London & Glasgow: Credit, Shipping Insurance
7: New England: Beef & Pork, Fish, Rum, Wood, Whale products
8: Mid-Atlantic: Grain
9: Chesapeake Colonies: Tobacco
10: Carolinas, Rice, Indigo
11: Caribbean: Sugar, Molasses
12: Brazil: Coffee
13: Brazil: Gold
14: Mexico / Peru: Silver
15: Britain: Grain, Manufactures

The map has a set of grey arrows going from West Africa to the Americas showing the number of enslaved workers transported. The arrows are sized relative to the numbers. The largest arrow shows 6 million enslaved workers going to the Caribbean. 3.5 million went to Africa, 650,000 to the Spanish colonies in Central and South America, and 400,000 to North America.

A key in the bottom right lists a set of African kingdoms that participated in the selling of enslaved workers, including Benin, the Oyo Empire, Dahomey, the Ashanti Confederacy, the Kingdom of Allada, the Kingdom of Whydah, and the Nupe people. These kingdoms are outlined on the map.

Greyscale drawing of a floor plan of what looks like the first floor of a house, with ten rooms and a flight of stairs. The title at the bottom reads: "The Magic Bookshop." There are two exterior doors: a front door and a back door. The floor plan is on a tattered piece of paper that looks as if it is being unrolled from the top, so there is a curl of paper, or a scroll, at the bottom. Around the floor plan are four animals. A cat, labeled Angel, is resting on top of floor plan, dangling a paw down. To her left is a huntsman spider named Drusilla. At the bottom of the page on the left is a golden retriever named Willow, sitting behind the scroll like a good boy. On the right side is a cat named Spike, who is sitting on top of the scroll and crushing it like an jerk. Typical dog and cat stuff. There are four piles of books around the outside of the floor plan: two large, and two small

From top left down in a switchback pattern, the rooms are labeled:
Yellow: Books with gold covers
Possibility: Mystery, Crime (where they do the spell)
Exeunt Omnes: Older books (where Kennedy finds the magic book)
The Office (where hazel makes tea)
Bathroom
Gurgler: Sci-fi, Fantasy (where Hazel goes to hide out)
The Scriptorium: More modern books (where Hazel sends Luke to find a book for his niece)
Taboo
The Fishbowl: Romance (where Luke makes a pink and purple bookcase)
Pooh Corner: Children, Young adult (where Bob has his armchair and the silent book club happens)

A label in the central hallway reads: "(where they put a bookcase for Today's Donations). Another label on the stairs reads "Hazel's loft apartment" and there is an arrow pointing up the stairs.

Art. A greyscale map of southern Africa showing different biomes. The map map key indicates 7 different biomes: Succulent Karoo; Fynbos; Albany Thicket; India Ocean Coastal Belt; Mixed Woodland; Grassland; Nama-Karoo; and Kalahari Savanna. Each is represented on the may by a different shade of grey, with areas of more rainfall being darker, and areas of less rainfall being lighter. Several of the rivers are labeled, as is the Indian Ocean.

Art. Colored map showing the locations of Alderely Edge, done in a fantasy style. The map is drawn to look like an old map done on parchment, with torn edges curling up. Two bars with ribbons wrapped around them form a frame at the top and right sides of the map. The ribbon on top is blue, the one on the right is a dusty red. On the right side of the map, between the frame and the edge, the map is colored turquoise and does not show any land forms. Written in large vertical letters in this space is the maps' title: "The Edge".

The main part of the map is cut with forests and cliffs, and has 13 locations noted. Each location name is in a small frame that looks like a torn piece of parchment. Two roads cut across the map, one labeled Macclesfield Road and the other labeled Artists Lane. They meet in the bottom 3rd of the map by a location called "The Wizard Tearoom." An arrow at the top left points up one of the roads and has a label reading "to Alderely Edge (village). An arrow a the other end of the road, at the bottom of th emap, reads: "To Macclesfield."

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Becky Mynett @beckymynett.bsky.social · 2d

And now I’ve got an earworm…

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Becky Mynett @beckymynett.bsky.social · 2d

It wasn’t, but I see what you mean!

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Becky Mynett @beckymynett.bsky.social · 2d

When I was a kid a pheasant flew into the side of a friend’s Mum’s Renault 4. It was fine, flew away. The car was dented.

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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 3d

Earlier this year, Dr. Jane Goodall sat down for an interview for Brad Falchuk’s new Netflix series, Famous Last Words.

The premise of the series is to interview people on the condition that the interview not air until the subject has passed away.

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Prof Katherine Schofield 🇬🇧🇦🇺🇪🇺 @katherineschof8.bsky.social · 3d

Honest to god, pun both intended and not intended, it is about time that SOMEBODY who understands UK evangelicals and their much more complicated relationship with politics than their US Christian nationalist brethren, started commenting. Because otherwise it’s all bullshit.

(That person is not me)

Peter Walker @peterwalker99.bsky.social · 3d

For those who take a niche interest in the Americanisation of UK rightwing politics, formerly Tory-linked student group Turning Point are increasingly going down the Charlie Kirk-type evangelical path.

[Not the point, but I love the idea of 2025 Soho being some hotbed of sin]

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Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 4d

If you like yelling about misuse of the passive voice, THIS IS IT.

CNN @cnn.com · 5d

Adults and children alike were pulled from their Chicago apartments, crying and screaming, during a large overnight raid that has left tenants and neighbors shaken. https://cnn.it/4pPCXIt

37 people arrested and American kids separated from parents after ICE raid at Chicago apartments | CNN

Adults and children alike were pulled from their Chicago apartments, crying and screaming, during a large overnight raid that has left tenants and neighbors shaken.

www.cnn.com

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Radio Lento @radiolento.bsky.social · 4d

Such a lovely story 👇

Lydia Massiah @lydiamassiah.bsky.social · 4d

This could be a long and rambling thread. Be patient with me.

I bought an old mahogany bureau on Ebay. I didn't really want a bureau as we're meant to be downsizing, but it was a beautiful piece & obviously very old. Google lens suggests the brass chased handles are Queen Anne. That's 1702-1714 😯

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elia ayoub 🌱 @ayoub.bsky.social · 4d

The most egregious one for me - as someone who was raised in a far right Lebanese Christian environment - is when I found out as a teenager that in the West the word Allah means ‘the God that Muslims worship’ whereas for me it just meant, you know, Jesus’ father.

RN Mahli @rafiamahli.com · 5d

My mom had a cousin named Jihad. Suuuper common name. But a lot of people don’t understand Arabic linguistic culture enough to see anything beyond the negative projections they’ve been brainwashed to see. Like with “intifada.”

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