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Kathryn Rose

@artsyhonker.bsky.social

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composer, gardener, hedge-botherer, immigrant, locavore, neurodivergent, chaser after the wind, pastoral assistant, high liturgy, high chaos, has a profile that's just a bunch of descriptors separated by commas, she/they

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Kathryn Rose @artsyhonker.bsky.social · Apr 4

OK people are talking about #gardening as a response to economic crisis and I see we are doing the "subsistence agriculture is hard, actually" disk horse again and I have a *bunch* of thoughts on this which I am going to put into a thread here so my ADHD brain will let me do the next task. 1/?

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Lindsay @revteapot.bsky.social · 9h

I've decided I should post more about tea.
It is, after all, proof of the existence of God.

First, a question: does anyone know the source of this 👇?

Line drawn cartoon of a women holding a teapot, a table with a checked cloth and a man seated (wearing a bow tie).
She says " would you like some tea?"
He says "no".
The caption is "Anarchy in the uk"

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Kathryn Rose @artsyhonker.bsky.social · 7h

(My favourite was when the ADHD clinic lost my prescription.)

Kathryn Rose @artsyhonker.bsky.social · 7h

Ah yes, ADHD meds: like sore throat pills with sharp corners.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 9h

I also need to add the violence we are doing in the form of rapidly worsening environmental damage as a result of our outsized use of fossil fuels.

Violence is *never* free. It *always* carries a cost.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 9h

The greatest difference we could make to our future generations is not…any of the shit we hear people saying about tech.

It is learning how to care for each other enough to create and hold a real, lasting peace.

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Fuzzy Mike @fuzzymike.bsky.social · 10h

"they want a job but hate hustle" - bosses about every generation of the past 10000 years

Nick Rowland @nicholasrowland.bsky.social · 10h

"They love self-care, hate hustle, and need a job—a CEO's advice for an 'unemployable' Gen Zer"

www.cnbc.com/2025/10/14/t...

They love self-care, hate hustle, and need a job—a CEO's advice for an 'unemployable' Gen Zer

There's a sharp divide between what Gen Z values and what hiring managers are actually looking for, according to new research. CEO and Harvard-trained career expert Suzy Welch shares her advice for an...

www.cnbc.com

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Queen of Land @queenofland.bsky.social · 12h

We need to start to insist people use the full term for Antifa.

It's anti-fascist. Anti. Fascist.

Shortening it down tries to defuse the latter and we cannot allow it to happen. Make them say they think anti-fascists are evil people. Make them say anti-fascism is wrong.

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Kerry @kerrypolka.bsky.social · 13h

it feels like a problem created entirely by profit-seeking - that what people want is "to ask a question in natural language, and receive a reasonably clear and reliable answer, most of the time", and yet this has to keep being reinvented (RIP Google Search) because each one fills up with sludge

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Kathryn Rose @artsyhonker.bsky.social · 14h

@revteapot.bsky.social Any idea how to get out of this one? I figure you may have relevant experience.

Marika Rose @marika.bsky.social · 15h

Can't get internet installed because I'm in Ireland still using a UK number and can't get an Irish number because I'm using a UK phone to access the website HELP ME

Kathryn Rose @artsyhonker.bsky.social · 15h

No rush! Hope course going well.

Kathryn Rose @artsyhonker.bsky.social · 15h

Entirely valid. I hope it goes well.

Kathryn Rose @artsyhonker.bsky.social · 16h

It is an excellent book!

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Chris Smaje @chrissmaje.bsky.social · 16h

My book 'Finding Lights in a Dark Age' is published in the UK today. I'm looking forward to seeing its travels in the world.

Order information here: chrissmaje.com/book/finding...

Short blog post here: chrissmaje.com/2025/10/find...

Finding Lights in a Dark Age | Chris Smaje

My new book Finding Lights in a Dark Age is being published in the UK in October 2025 and the US in November 2025. Global society is unquestionably heading into a period of grave crisis, when the mode...

chrissmaje.com

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Kathryn Rose @artsyhonker.bsky.social · 16h

OK! my email address for these purposes is my first name (mind the spelling) at sjebp dot com, do get in touch

Kathryn Rose @artsyhonker.bsky.social · 16h

So I try not to give that publisher my money if I can avoid it.

Kathryn Rose @artsyhonker.bsky.social · 16h

1) Gratuitous changes to words of public domain hymns in order to make them copyright
2) not participating in CCLI
3) screwed over a composer/editor friend of mine with a predatory, probably illegal contract

Kathryn Rose @artsyhonker.bsky.social · 1d

and I strongly dislike Kevin mayhew

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Kathryn Rose @artsyhonker.bsky.social · 1d

...but I think the bigger problem is the lack of a decent CW lectionary responsorial psalter in parishes that are already using the responsorial psalm format.

So. I'm looking at writing my own translation/paraphrases. Which will be a big project, as my Hebrew is not wonderful.

Kathryn Rose @artsyhonker.bsky.social · 1d

I thought about using hte World English Bible translation, since that's entirely public domain, but it's also... not the best fit for responsorial psalm tones. If I were trying to get omre parishes to adopt psalmody in the first place I might go with Anglican Chant and a congregational response...

Kathryn Rose @artsyhonker.bsky.social · 1d

We've been using the McCrimmon one because it has the inclusive-language options of the Grail translation, and it's okay, but... well, it uses the Roman lectionary. I want CW lectionary.

But the CW psalter is way too wordy for responsorial psalm tones, and also I can't put it online for free.

Kathryn Rose @artsyhonker.bsky.social · 1d

Okay, so, um, I have this project I want to start... maybe we should collaborate?

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Kathryn Rose @artsyhonker.bsky.social · 1d

Anglicans who do sung responsorial psalms, what psalter do you use? ⚓✝️

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KidzBoptotenlieder @theodramatist.com · 1d

Moreover, while not a *tool*, there are few more explicitly political *symbols* than the Eucharist, than communion: it is literally the inbreaking of God’s Kingdom into our midst, strengthening and binding the faithful as a counter-polity to witness against the death-dealing powers of the world.

Kevin the Pikachu @kap3692.bsky.social · 1d

'i don't like that they used the Eucharist as a political tool by showing up at the ice facility unannounced and expecting to be let in'

do you seriously believe this is the first time Catholic priests have tried to bring communion to ice detainees

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Kathryn Rose @artsyhonker.bsky.social · 1d

But on balance it really sounds to me like you won't even go there.

I'm sorry, this is heavy stuff and you don't know me and I hope I haven't made you too uncomfortable. I will shut up about it now, but if you have questions I will try to answer or find someone here who can.

Kathryn Rose @artsyhonker.bsky.social · 1d

And it isn't contingent on some priest who thinks a funeral is a good time to scare people into being righteous. If through some colossal cosmic mess up you somehow end up in hell, Jesus will literally go there and bust the doors so you can be free. You as you are, not some pretend perfect version.

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