Jo come, o come Immanuel.
@mthrjo.bsky.social
Priest, mediaevalist, geek, Scot. All views personal. She/ her
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Birds of 2025:
Chaffinch
Pigeon
Sparrow
Goldfinch
Robin
Dunnock
Jackdaw
Starling
Chaffinch
Pigeon
Sparrow
Goldfinch
Robin
Dunnock
Jackdaw
Starling
@scottagunn.bsky.social plagiarising me, I see
I know some of you like candle themes for Advent. Here are the traditional themes for the season. Hope you enjoyed your Death Candle this morning! 💀 🕯️
November 30, 2025 at 10:13 PM
@scottagunn.bsky.social plagiarising me, I see
Creator of the stars of night,
Thy people’s everlasting light,
O Jesu, Saviour of us all,
Regard thy servants when they call.
Thou, grieving at the bitter cry
Of all creation doomed to die,
Didst come to save a ruined race
With healing gifts of heavenly grace.
Thy people’s everlasting light,
O Jesu, Saviour of us all,
Regard thy servants when they call.
Thou, grieving at the bitter cry
Of all creation doomed to die,
Didst come to save a ruined race
With healing gifts of heavenly grace.
November 30, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Creator of the stars of night,
Thy people’s everlasting light,
O Jesu, Saviour of us all,
Regard thy servants when they call.
Thou, grieving at the bitter cry
Of all creation doomed to die,
Didst come to save a ruined race
With healing gifts of heavenly grace.
Thy people’s everlasting light,
O Jesu, Saviour of us all,
Regard thy servants when they call.
Thou, grieving at the bitter cry
Of all creation doomed to die,
Didst come to save a ruined race
With healing gifts of heavenly grace.
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interesting reverse of something I talked about the other day, where modern songs with a clear origin are mistaken for traditional folksongs: "House of the Rising Sun" actually *is* a folksong. I always assumed it had been written sometime in the 1950s.
November 30, 2025 at 9:58 PM
interesting reverse of something I talked about the other day, where modern songs with a clear origin are mistaken for traditional folksongs: "House of the Rising Sun" actually *is* a folksong. I always assumed it had been written sometime in the 1950s.
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I just don't need to know what the Telegraph has written about Dungeons & Dragons. It's a newspaper for people who are frightened of samosas.
November 30, 2025 at 12:15 PM
I just don't need to know what the Telegraph has written about Dungeons & Dragons. It's a newspaper for people who are frightened of samosas.
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St Andrew appears all over our collections.
Artists across centuries reimagined the saint who became Scotland’s patron:
MS. Gough drawings-Gaignières 16, fol. 60r
MS. Douce 311, fol. 115v
MS. Canon. Liturg. 388, fol 267r
MS. Laud Misc. 165, fol 121r
#StAndrewsDay
Artists across centuries reimagined the saint who became Scotland’s patron:
MS. Gough drawings-Gaignières 16, fol. 60r
MS. Douce 311, fol. 115v
MS. Canon. Liturg. 388, fol 267r
MS. Laud Misc. 165, fol 121r
#StAndrewsDay
November 30, 2025 at 5:42 PM
St Andrew appears all over our collections.
Artists across centuries reimagined the saint who became Scotland’s patron:
MS. Gough drawings-Gaignières 16, fol. 60r
MS. Douce 311, fol. 115v
MS. Canon. Liturg. 388, fol 267r
MS. Laud Misc. 165, fol 121r
#StAndrewsDay
Artists across centuries reimagined the saint who became Scotland’s patron:
MS. Gough drawings-Gaignières 16, fol. 60r
MS. Douce 311, fol. 115v
MS. Canon. Liturg. 388, fol 267r
MS. Laud Misc. 165, fol 121r
#StAndrewsDay
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Former army clemency & parole board member here. Boards I was on for GWOT war criminals — Mahmudiyah murders; Gibbs’s kill squad — had the common denominator of poor leadership. Leadership vacuum filled by “leaders” who viewed others as sub-human. We’re witnessing the same but at the national level.
November 30, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Former army clemency & parole board member here. Boards I was on for GWOT war criminals — Mahmudiyah murders; Gibbs’s kill squad — had the common denominator of poor leadership. Leadership vacuum filled by “leaders” who viewed others as sub-human. We’re witnessing the same but at the national level.
November 30, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Wakefield Cathedral looking great.
November 30, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Wakefield Cathedral looking great.
I made a smaller version of this for lunch (used the Kamala Harris Memorial Stuffing, and added some grated cheese because why not), and it was really good. And we’re making a decent dent in the Thanksgiving leftovers!
www.thekitchn.com/recipe-thank...
www.thekitchn.com/recipe-thank...
Recipe: Thanksgiving Stuffing Breakfast Strata
Happy Day-After-Thanksgiving! Or should I say, Leftovers-for-Breakfast Day? Some might go for a cold slice of pumpkin pie straight from the tin (you know who you are), but for me, it’s all about the savory sides. This post-Thanksgiving morning, give your stuffing a royal redux. Bake it into a breakfast strata, complete with crunchy toasted corners and sunny eggs cracked right on top. This is just about the easiest leftovers recipe you’re bound to come across.
www.thekitchn.com
November 30, 2025 at 2:28 PM
I made a smaller version of this for lunch (used the Kamala Harris Memorial Stuffing, and added some grated cheese because why not), and it was really good. And we’re making a decent dent in the Thanksgiving leftovers!
www.thekitchn.com/recipe-thank...
www.thekitchn.com/recipe-thank...
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actually, a lot of it is the fact these guys are full steam ahead to fuck not just the internet but the economy and the environment, and if it works we get... what? unemployed? what's the best case scenario here?
Okay, but why *do* I feel so angry about this whole AI thing?
The Bullshit Maximiser
This week, a very quick take on what the Budget says about the state we are in; but mostly, a not-at-all quick list of all the reasons I despise AI.
jonn.substack.com
November 30, 2025 at 1:31 PM
actually, a lot of it is the fact these guys are full steam ahead to fuck not just the internet but the economy and the environment, and if it works we get... what? unemployed? what's the best case scenario here?
I like Strachan’s glass.
🏴 It's St Andrew's Day today - patron saint of Scotland, portrayed in Dunblane Cathedral First World War Memorial Windows in Chapter House, by Douglas Strachan, made 1924
📺 youtu.be/Lg54lvWO84c
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📺 youtu.be/Lg54lvWO84c
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November 30, 2025 at 2:24 PM
I like Strachan’s glass.
Side note: I am curious as to why Hymns Old and New, which is generally deeply squeamish about military imagery in hymns, even when it’s clearly metaphorical, prints the often omitted verse of the Battle Hymn that starts “I have seen Him in the watchfires of a thousand circling camps”, even though
November 30, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Side note: I am curious as to why Hymns Old and New, which is generally deeply squeamish about military imagery in hymns, even when it’s clearly metaphorical, prints the often omitted verse of the Battle Hymn that starts “I have seen Him in the watchfires of a thousand circling camps”, even though
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I need to stress: actual beardy old D&D grognards are not mad about people being gay in D&D. Don't let weird fascists tell you otherwise. We have never cared about what happens at someone else's table and we never will, it's none of our business (but please get off our lawn)
November 30, 2025 at 1:10 PM
I need to stress: actual beardy old D&D grognards are not mad about people being gay in D&D. Don't let weird fascists tell you otherwise. We have never cared about what happens at someone else's table and we never will, it's none of our business (but please get off our lawn)
Off out to the Advent carol service at Wakefield Cathedral, which is one of my favourite services of the year. And the Herrnhuter star in our porch will light our way home (terrible photo, sorry).
November 30, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Off out to the Advent carol service at Wakefield Cathedral, which is one of my favourite services of the year. And the Herrnhuter star in our porch will light our way home (terrible photo, sorry).
Lovely to celebrate at All Saints Batley. Child who was really delighted to be asked to light the first Advent candle, and cracking hymns, finishing with Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory, which makes a brilliant early Advent hymn.
November 30, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Lovely to celebrate at All Saints Batley. Child who was really delighted to be asked to light the first Advent candle, and cracking hymns, finishing with Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory, which makes a brilliant early Advent hymn.
Reposted by Jo come, o come Immanuel.
Look, I love Teilhard and am inclined to agree that this is a possibility, but there's simply no way to the Christosphere without contemplation - and there's exactly zero contemplation involved in this hypnotizing mess we've named "AI"
The advent of AI might be just the latest stage in a guiding biological process that has produced ever more complex, mutually dependent organisms over the history of life
go.nature.com/4onxvKP
go.nature.com/4onxvKP
What is the future of intelligence? The answer could lie in the story of its evolution
Nature - The advent of artificial intelligence might be just the latest stage in a guiding biological process that has produced ever more complex, mutually dependent organisms over the history of...
go.nature.com
November 30, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Look, I love Teilhard and am inclined to agree that this is a possibility, but there's simply no way to the Christosphere without contemplation - and there's exactly zero contemplation involved in this hypnotizing mess we've named "AI"
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Oh look. Some Obey In Advance shit. From people who cannot possibly be unaware of Timothy Snyder.
This is the most alarming story I’ve read today. Giving up the fight before it’s started
November 30, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Oh look. Some Obey In Advance shit. From people who cannot possibly be unaware of Timothy Snyder.
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People are very hard on young people on here, lack of critical thinking, lack of responsibility etc, and then you see something like this and it all makes a different kind of sense.
November 30, 2025 at 1:44 PM
People are very hard on young people on here, lack of critical thinking, lack of responsibility etc, and then you see something like this and it all makes a different kind of sense.
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Trahison des clercs.
This is the most alarming story I’ve read today. Giving up the fight before it’s started
November 30, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Trahison des clercs.
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Do people not read the words on the things in front of their eyes?
November 30, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Do people not read the words on the things in front of their eyes?
Ofc. liturgically speaking St Andrew’s Day is actually tomorrow this year, but I’m enjoying seeing posts about it anyway.
November 30, 2025 at 10:02 AM
Ofc. liturgically speaking St Andrew’s Day is actually tomorrow this year, but I’m enjoying seeing posts about it anyway.
Reposted by Jo come, o come Immanuel.
Today is the feast of St Andrew, one of the 12 disciples of Christ. According to his apocryphal legend, he was crucified on an X-shaped cross. As one of the disciples, Andrew was part of the catalogue of saints that missionaries brought to the Norse sphere from the 9th century onwards. (1/n)
November 30, 2025 at 9:51 AM
Today is the feast of St Andrew, one of the 12 disciples of Christ. According to his apocryphal legend, he was crucified on an X-shaped cross. As one of the disciples, Andrew was part of the catalogue of saints that missionaries brought to the Norse sphere from the 9th century onwards. (1/n)
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Sedition (petitioning the government to house the displaced and investigate construction companies)
A HK man has been arrested on suspicion of sedition in relation to the fatal Tai Po fire, according to local media reports, citing unnamed sources. In full: buff.ly/Uzgm1Oj
HK man arrested for alleged sedition in relation to fatal Tai Po blaze
A HK man has been arrested on suspicion of sedition in relation to the fatal Tai Po fire, according to local media reports, citing unnamed sources.
buff.ly
November 30, 2025 at 12:18 AM
Sedition (petitioning the government to house the displaced and investigate construction companies)
It’s interesting that Benn compared Major to Carey as a “competent person from a simple background;” it’s a fair comparison in terms of background, but as events have shown Major was far more competent than he looked at the time, whereas the reverse is, alas, true of Carey.
November 30, 2025 at 9:08 AM
It’s interesting that Benn compared Major to Carey as a “competent person from a simple background;” it’s a fair comparison in terms of background, but as events have shown Major was far more competent than he looked at the time, whereas the reverse is, alas, true of Carey.