Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue

Btw— — ON REPENTANCE has both general and Christian- focused discussion guides! Christian clergy friends, just in time for Lent!!

#CofEPeeps All my psalms for February are now available at psalteryandharp.uk

Yes, it's fair that my taxes pay for someone else to learn to be a doctor or an artist or a teacher or an architect or an actor or a biochemist because I want to live in a society that has people that can do all the things I can't.

Paul in Romans uses Psalm 18 to support the place of other nations in a story once centered on David. The psalm first praised God for saving the king and broadening his rule, and Paul reshapes this to show praise coming from... #intertextuality #bible https://intertextual.bible/t/1938

No recording today as we don't have psalms on first Sunday's in our church, but here's the link to the Sunday's Psalm blog in case you missed it.

Here's this week's Sunday's Psalm blog. Actually it's Monday's Psalm (Candlemas) but many churches will be anticipating the feast so that's what I've written about. The Psalm for Epiphany 4 is also available, however. #CofEPeeps psalteryandharp.uk/blog/sundays...

Seven-year-old Mary Walker has scoured scientific journals but has yet to find any peer-reviewed evidence that kissing minor injuries makes them “all better”.

Automatic captions make it difficult to watch videos because the viewer is forced to decipher misspelled or mistranslated words that appear in a string of text without any punctuation. These can be distracting and disorienting. Always edit your captions before publishing.

Lunch in a very nice pub nr Cambridge. Interesting audio experience - no music in restaurant, interesting convo at neighbouring table. Quiet music in bar. Blackadder Goes Forth in loos.

My husband works in IT and is currently working on a system to visualise air currents in real time (smaller scale than weather forecasters do). So, how come it’s me that does all the tech support at home? (I just had to show him how to download & find files on his phone.)

Google Translate got better and better overtime and had a short window of being brilliant, before getting, one assumes, AI slopified, and coming up with stuff like this - (the word I'd googled was "muchacho")

UK Government drinking the Kool Aid tech bros are selling: Andrew went through this "20 minute AI training course" so we don't have to. Just read this thread, it's fabulous. Aren't governments supposed to be less gullible than this?

#CofEPeeps I'm a bit behind where I'd like to be but I've just uploaded the psalm for 8th February to my website. You can find it here: psalteryandharp.uk/b/efyZj

This is the real thing, from what’s visible from here. He seems to get that he can never fix the harm he’s caused, but also that he has an obligation to spend the rest of his life fighting to mend that hole in the universe the best that he can—fully aware that that’s also how he heals himself. ❤️‍🩹

There’s an important little check-in acronym for this: HALT Am I… H ungry A ngry L onely T ired

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Excited that I can finally reach the organ pedals!

Couldn't work out why I had started the lecture by shouting "Florida!" It was the automatic captioning's take on "bore da" ("good morning" in Welsh)

SIR GAWAIN AND THE GREEN KNIGHT (Anagrammed Lines) Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A warning said, the green knight waits there — darkening, hanging. The reigning king draws a thane. Gawain, rearing, ends the knight. (It knew! — gathers a grinning head....)

stop using AI to do your research. it hallucinates too often. if you want an answer to something, post something arrogant on the appropriate subreddit. something like: "this item performs 10% better than everything else. only idiots deny this." this will bait nerds into doing your research for you.

There’s no link to a recording of our service today as we kept the Conversion of Paul this morning and therefore had a different psalm, but you can read about translating Psalm 27 at the link below.

Thinking about the underlying notion of truth this morning. 🧵

#CofEPeeps Today's blog post describes the challenges of Hebrew (and Greek) tenses when translating into English. psalteryandharp.uk/blog/sundays...

#CofEPeeps Today's blog post describes the challenges of Hebrew (and Greek) tenses when translating into English. psalteryandharp.uk/blog/sundays...

Last term I tried an experiment: I walked into my Tech and Design Ethics class, admitted that I had *no idea* what to do about ChatGPT - so I would let them figure it out. As in: their first project was to decide and write the ChatGPT policy for the class. Here's what happened:

In the space of two hours in the local workies I've argued that Gazans are in fact not shipping their troops into the UK to prosecute a jiahd, that trans people do in fact exist, and that AI generation is in fact not artistic creation.

Let's talk about the Aylesbury tunnels.

Amazed the people who spent days coming up with elaborate conspiracy theories about the Queen's choice of jewellery haven't cottoned onto this nod to Denmark's finest export...

Not pictured: the Macarena.

You can now hear my setting of Psalm 40 from 15:15 in the video of this morning's service at Flitwick Church as well as read about the translation process on the blog. But will anyone spot what inspired the melody of the refrain?

This is my song. “Those are the real stakes — not white children feeling guilty, but white children armed with truth, history and a righteous desire to work with others to change the world.”

Respectfully, I am going to whisper to some of our white comrades a truth that should be more widely known: You definitely have some ancestors to be proud of, ancestors who refused white supremacy, and poured out their lives in many of these struggles over time. Time to claim your true history.

#CofEPeeps In this week's Sunday's Psalm post I discuss the challenges of translating a very wordy psalm and fitting it into responsorial psalm structure so that it is both easy to sing and understand.

#CofEPeeps In this week's Sunday's Psalm post I discuss the challenges of translating a very wordy psalm and fitting it into responsorial psalm structure so that it is both easy to sing and understand.

Contractors: Been paid via an umbrella company? Later had HMRC say the scheme didn’t work? When you didn't know there *was* a scheme? We’d love to hear from people ths has happened to. DM me or email MYNAME @ taxpolicy .org.uk - and please share with others.

Had an intriguing editorial discussion recently: how did people in the past talk about 'minutes' when they didn't have watches or standardised times? How does that affect your thinking? Come down an Elizabethan/Jacobean rabbit hole with me. 1/

Have you seen this RobWords vid on the history of terms for time? youtu.be/TK-8gfqmFNo

Via neurowild (The reality is that the western world runs on a historical assumption that kids aren't people but property. We've made huge progresses but that assumption is still around)

Okay, here's the story of George de Hevesy vs the Nazis! I really do love telling this story. First, some background: George de Hevesy was a Hungarian-Jewish chemist, but he spent most of his career post-1920 attached to the Niels Bohr institute at the University of Copenhagen, in Denmark. (1/n)

naked? don't be such a luddite! the emperor has generative clothes from a large weaving model

I began crying with laughter watching the two videos in this thread, this is SO funny. I got so much emergency dopamine from this.

Pleased to see this open letter from Together in response to the House of Bishops deciding, again, not to decide. It is time for same-sex marriage to be legal in the Church of England and the bishops have decided the next elections will be fought on that issue. togethercofe.org.uk/open-letter-...

Indian taxi driver to me earlier: “if you live round here you must hear the church bells a lot? I love church bells. I dunno why, but when I hear them ringing I know the world’s still ok.” (No, he didn’t know I was a priest, I had my coat buttoned up & round here the collar often isn’t recognised).

"Some argue that the spiritual awakening is part of a reactionary backlash. But in Sweden it is directed toward one of the most progressive of churches in the world: the Church of Sweden, a denomination that ordains women, marries LGBTQ couples, and champions generous migration policies."

I've just uploaded the psalm for Candlemas, so the 'Psalms for Epiphany to Candlemas' Collection is now complete. Psalms for the tiny gap between Epiphany and Lent coming soon!

This thread takes a bit of a turn a couple of posts down.

Politicians: don't use AI to make your maps.

"This promise of an AI future, is really just a collective anxiety that wealthy people have about how well they're gonna be able to control us in the future." - @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit. Incredible words. Listen to all of it!

✂️ Yesterday I finally responded to @agakowalska.bsky.social’s challenge to make a collage from a single piece of packaging. I present to you a green (tea) woodpecker, made from a big Yorkshire Tea box. It was fun and I’ll be rooting through our recycling bin for more materials later on ♻️