Lindsay
@revteapot.bsky.social
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Currently a nomad. Priest, writer, owned by a greyhound. Mildly obsessive about tea. Liberal lefty tree hugging type. my blog - https://revteapot.wordpress.com my book - https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0B181VTSJ/
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One of the nice touches in the game #CivVII is that a migrant is a *reward*, a little bit of free population you didn't have to work for.
That, my friends, should be said more often.
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🧵We already knew that the Finland basic income experiment resulted in slightly increased employment, significantly increased trust in people and institutions, and a pro-democracy increase in voting, but now we know it also reduced psychotropic drug use and increased total earned income by about 10%.
A NEW study of the Finland basic income experiment just dropped. Turns out psychotropic drug use decreased by 8 %–11 %, and incomes increased on average by 9% to 11% due to people not losing the income when they accepted a job, unlike traditional unemployment.

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Abstract

This study provides causal evidence that cash transfer programs have the

potential to alleviate the income-health trap in advanced countries. We analyze

the Finnish basic income experiment, which replaced the minimum

unemployment benefits with a guaranteed income for 2,000 randomly selected

unemployed persons during the years 2017-2018. The guaranteed income

removed all job-search requirements, but participants could still choose to

claim unemployment benefits and comply with related obligations. The

experiment also increased average income by 9%-11%, for two reasons: basic

income payments overlapped with benefits due from the pre-experiment

period, and basic income was not tapered against labor earnings. Using register

data on all prescription medications and secondary care visits, we find that the

experiment reduced psychotropic drug use by 8%-11%. Our results also suggest

a decline in outpatient mental health visits for secondary care. No effects were

detected for other health outcomes. Since most participants opted out of the

unconditionality aspect of the experiment and continued to claim

unemployment benefits, we attribute the observed health effects primarily to

the increased income.
This.
Tea bags are a swizz, truly. In order to get tea bags that taste nearly as good as loose, you're spending silly money. And, these days, the tea pots with infusers make brewing a good pot of loose no more hassle than faffing about with bags.
Go loose, people!
three months ago i began to panic about the amount of micro plastics in tea bags (i drink so much tea) and got a diffuser and started drinking only loose teas and fuck me if it doesn’t taste so much better. go loose-only! tank the tea bag industry, trust me. they’re trying to kill us!!!
Terrifying times, during which the space of a matter of months could shift your orthodox opinion to a heresy that could get you tortured and then tortured to death with any friends or relations you might have implicated on the way through stage one (torture).
...including liturgy in a language that, for many Cornish, was no more "understanded of the people" than Latin had been.

All of which is to say: we may count among our blessings that we did not live in England between 1549 and, say, 1662. Bad times! ⚓️
Anyway. I wrote a book on this sort of stuff, if you're interested.
www.amazon.co.uk/Berthas-Daug...
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*For example* Joan Barton set the whole country on its head, was the only woman in English history to be sentenced to be hung, drawn & quartered, but we celebrate her fan boys, Fisher and Moore, but have mostly forgotten her.
Mostly because Henry VIII did this 👇 to her reputation.
Woodcut. 
Joan is having an "epileptic fit" in the foreground (which has apparently made her clothes fall off). One cleric is supporting her while she seems to be falling on top of a monk trying to write in his book. A third man is remonstrancing (I think), while in the background appears to be a picture of the Madonna & child.
But, yeah, we'll just talk about the chaps.
These were women who'd been taught their opinion counted for nothing, who had been persistently belittled by the entire establishment all their life, who suddenly stood up - often resisting torture and months of harassing by authorities - and said to the most powerful.
"I refute you, thus."
Woodcut. Joan Bocher is tied to a ladder, hands folded in prayer, being pushed towards a pyre. You can see a large crowd in the background, and a church in the distance. Prominent in the middle ground is a man in Edwardian (Tudor) dress.
Still today we'd be shocked at how many of these women "left houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother [or wife] or children or fields" for the sake of the Gospel as they passionately believed it and died leaving parents, husbands and children to get on with the fallout.
Foxe was unusual in thinking it was cool (power of God shining through the deeply flawed clay that is the female sex), most other religious commentators, Robert Parsons most loudly, I think, thought it was shocking and shameful - women running amok, all disobedient to their proper authorities etc.
Fun thing about the reformation martyrdoms, women were killed in astonishing numbers, practically flinging themselves at the stake, but hardly any are remembered by the church, who was embarrassed by them at the time - hardly less so, now.
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Today, the calendar of the Episcopal Church commemorates the martyr's death of Archbishop Thomas Cranmer, author of the first Book of Common Prayer and, along with Bishops Hugh Latimer and Nicholas Ridley, one of some 250 religious dissenters burnt at the stake by Mary I. ⚓️
Hugh Latimer and Nicholas Ridley, Bishops, 1555, and Thomas Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury, 1556
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EEP US, O Lord, constant in faith and zealous in witness, that, like your servants Hugh Latimer, Nicholas Ridley, and Thomas Cranmer we may live in your fear, die in your favor, and rest in your peace; for the sake of Jesus Christ, your Son our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen.
(I see from the link summary thing that they do.)
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Remembering the Oxford Martyrs, burnt at the stake 16 October 1555: "Be of good cheer, Master Ridley, and play the man, for we shall this day light such a candle in England as I trust by God's grace shall never be put out". ⚓
Can someone explain the theological/liturgical logic that says the LLF prayers can't be used "bespoke" if they're authorised for "regularly scheduled services"?
I can meet a couple privately to pray, generally, so - *given these prayers are authorised* - why can't I use them in this context?
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Update on Living in Love and Faith, October 2025 | The Church of England
The House of Bishops has made a series of key decisions in principle on the future direction of the Living in Love and Faith process, which explores questions of relationships, sexuality and marriage.
www.churchofengland.org
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Do you, then, forgive those who have sinned against you?
I'm increasingly vexed by the term "working families".
"Families," fine - bringing up children is a social good which warrants being supported by the state;
"working people," ok - less cool, but economies need labour slaves.
"Working families", though? Why?
I don't like the answers I construe.
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I've now discovered this is a useful litmus test for how well I'm looking after myself.
🙄😞
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Scale model of Longleat lets you see how the current house is wrapped around an older one. And the roofscape! So amazing. By Robert Smythson, 1570s.
Is there a connection between the utterly untethered precariousness of my current events, and my sudden desire to post about tea?
Just maybe.
PS you may be thinking, why is she pouring tea on the floor, but I'm moving next week, so all possible surfaces are covered in boxes and wrap.
This was the clearest space I could find, without my having to try and make some order in a very disordered world.