German friends: A friend of mine lives in the US. Their 104 yr old mum is dying. She fled the Nazis in WW2 and lived in the US every since. In her final days/ weeks(?) there's need for gentle, soothing songs from her childhood, so from roughly 90-100 yrs ago. Can you suggest any? Thank you. Plz RT.

I think @nakedpastor.bsky.social might appreciate this story!

florence pew: thread

New favourite example of structural ambiguity

reminder of cryptogyny, the hiding of women's contributions to science, technology, engineering, and medicine: "although three men received the Nobel Prize for penicillin, women participated significantly in the team effort that brought the drug to medical usefulness." www.jstor.org/stable/jj.55...

A student writes in Varsity - the Cambridge University student newspaper - to condemn the founding of a new anti-trans student group. Unlike the CUSW launch - which was disproportionately covered by UK transphobic right-wing press - I suspect this article will be ignored! 😣

What exactly is the Chancellor going to do?

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It’s my birthday today an to celebrate I am unveiling my new website: Psaltery and Harp. I’ve still got a lot of work to do so there isn’t much there yet - just a couple of blog posts explaining what it’s all about - but I hope to have some Advent psalms up soon. payhip.com/psalteryandh...

Timber wolf: OWOOOOOooooooo… Timbre wolf: ok that’s a bit reedy, maybe a bit more from the diaphragm yeah?

We've found a solution to the argument over whether to sing Holst or Darke's arrangement of In The Bleak Midwinter. You're not going to like it, though. #CursedCarols

Sound ON!!

(1 of 3) Good thing the BBC didn't talk to any January 6 experts before going in this direction. The United States Capitol grounds were closed on January 6. It was a federal crime to trespass on them. Trump told leaders of an illegal march intended to terminate illegally on federal grounds...

Who made this and why are you choosing nerd violence? ✍️ I mean, it is true, but still.

If I'm reading something, it's either because it's interesting, in which case summarising it would defeat the point, or because it's important, in which case I need to know what it actually says, not what a lying machine pretends it might say.

"There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is no male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus." (Internally) "Is that laying it on too thick? Surely no one in the future will miss the message here"

A thread on how AI is causing chaos for people trying to get a French residence permit (Byzantine, when I got one in 1991 & we were in EU). AI tells them to submit rubbish, application is refused, if lucky & not told to leave, back to AI, repeat. Orgs that could help defunded so gov can get AI.

And on the legal advice to the House of Bishops, here’s Peter Collier KC’s view viamedia.news/2025/11/08/w...

I’m going to do a vibes-based nonsequential ranking of church logos, on a scale of 1-10 based on how much they rock or suck I’m going to start with the Catholics, because they have the flag of a real nation-state, and, thus, they don’t count for this thread. -/10

Someone at a Russell Group university was moved to almost-poetry by their Faculty Meeting… Can anyone do better?

The most annoying thing about Long Covid is when you feel pretty OK and there are loads of things you really want to get on and do, but you can’t because doing them now will probably make you too unwell to do anything tomorrow.

WIN a set of #Christmas cards Repost and follow me to enter I’ll pick a winner at 9pm tonight (Friday 7 Nov) gailmyerscough.co.uk

Excited to receive my Christmas cards from @loreandordure.com. I didn’t get round to sending cards last year (long-Covid fatigue, too much to do) but this year I have an incentive!

Tangentially related, but I read this Calvin & Hobbes comic to my 7yo last night. Celebrate inefficiency!

“Believe me, I wish I could turn it off,” Livingstone insisted. “Do you think I want to remember my ex-plumber’s birthday every year because he mentioned it the one time he fixed my toilet? Now he thinks I’m in love with him.”

"Proportional Representation [is] no longer the subject of an abstract discussion on the margins, but an urgent and compelling proposition supported across our party." Great piece in @renewaljournal.bsky.social by Labour MP @annadixonmp.bsky.social. Read in full: renewal.org.uk/blog/eletc/

Yesterday I helped give a presentation on immigration law options to a room full of people trapped by the Health and Care Visa. Promised work, paid £££, unable to work and can't find new sponsors. This crisis i wrote a thread on 5 months ago isn't going away.

I like my #WilliamMorris notebook but am persistently troubled by the floorplan implied in the logo (on every page). What does William keep at home in the tiny windowless room without a door? Is the large space without an entrance useful / beautiful? This distracts me a lot in meetings.

A 400-Year-Old Ring that Unfolds to Track the Movements of the Heavens www.openculture.com/2025/11/a-40...

Thank you for all the kind words and support. Can I please ask a favour? Can you spread this story as far and wide as you can. Share it with people you know, forward it to your MP's, anyone in the public eye that might be supportive. This is unbelievably horrific, and no one knows about it..

Wonder why this scene looks so familiar... #WildlifeWednesday 🐦🐕

The great S African lawyer Sir Sydney Kentridge is 103 today. In a Pretoria court in 1977 I watched in awe as he crucified the secret police who had murdered the Black Consciousness leader Steve Biko - arguably the start of apartheid’s downfall. A very happy birthday, dear Sydney!

The great collective rebellions of nineteenth-century Wales. The Merthyr Rising. The Rebecca Riots. The time when Lady Llanover's friends all refused to wear her awful Welsh costumes at the eisteddfod

Good morning. I don't know who did this, but I love you.

Please complete this sentence: "So are we forbidden by the Catholic Religion, to say," I'll go first. "I think St. Thomas Aquinas is kind of mid" ? #trollingTheCatholics #withLove

This probably doesn't answer your question, but the serendipity of the post directly beneath yours in my feed was worth recording!

The way our society exists b/c of unpaid/low-paid labour (mostly by women) needs to be talked about more & compensated for. UBI is a simple solution for that. I've seen too many elderly women w/ barely anything bc they supported everyone else with free labour their whole lives.

I've been getting back into the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series after many years, and the most relatable part is how everyday objects like doors and elevators have been imbued with artificial intelligence and it just makes them obnoxious and frustrating to use and everyone hates it.

As a dad who loves maths and Christmas (and bad jokes) I could not love this more.

Only just got round to listening to this, but it is <chef's kiss>. @renbownayshen on #CofE's car crash of a discernment process re same sex marriage etc: youtu.be/JCSwx0j732o #LLF ⚓

#TinyJoys New plant! We first saw this amazing plant at the Botanic Garden of Wales in the summer. Yesterday, we bought one from the garden centre at RHS Wisley. Love the leaves that look like they’ve been painted with a smaller leaf design.

A very personal post. Today was the first day I have been out of the house “for fun” in weeks. I fell over weeks ago and have damaged my knee badly. Today I was taken out in a wheelchair. It gave me such a different view of the world and complete empathy and understanding of a very different life.

Things get "lost in translation" *because of the act of translation*. Often, it's completely unavoidable! They're doing the thing where they believe AI is not just better than it is, but better than what's even possible. Like it's some kind of actual magic.

If you're a National Trust member, it's that time of year again: Midnight tonight is the deadline. It's a shame people have to keep doing this to keep a toehold on historical truth in this country, but here we are. Voting link: www.nationaltrust.org.uk/who-we-are/a...

Hyperlink text should make sense when read out of context. Screen reader users can navigate from link to link, and can listen to links in a list. When navigating this way, only the link is read. So "click here" or "read more" won't make sense.

Nice one, Private Eye! 👍

"When I began saying 'I’m autistic& disabled' something shifted. I stopped apologizing for my limits& started protecting my capacity. I stopped pretending my energy was endless& started recognizing it as finite, sacred& worth conserving." @lovettejallow.bsky.social: open.substack.com/pub/lovettej...

It is way past time for the UK government & the BBC to get off X & for Musk to be treated as a threat to national security. The world's richest man is using his site to promote civil war, ethnic violence & the overthrow of an elected government. You won't win him over with another conference on AI

Asylum seekers, housed in hotels in Manchester, are reaching out in their own words to address the concerns of the local community. Please take a minute to read their letter, & share it with the people in your life who need to hear the truth about the people they are protesting.