Becky Mynett
@beckymynett.bsky.social
Church Musician, Translator (French to English, mostly academic history) & Copyeditor, Reader (LLM) and Member of CofE General Synod.
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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
You're not going to like it, though.
#CursedCarols
November 11, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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
You're not going to like it, though.
#CursedCarols
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Sound ON!!
November 10, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Sound ON!!
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(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...
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...
BBC leaders resign amid scandal over misleading edit of Trump speech | CNN
The BBC’s Director General Tim Davie and CEO of News Deborah Turness resigned on Sunday, following criticism over impartiality and bias at the news corporation.
www.cnn.com
November 9, 2025 at 8:52 PM
(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...
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...
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Who made this and why are you choosing nerd violence? ✍️ I mean, it is true, but still.
November 9, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Who made this and why are you choosing nerd violence? ✍️ I mean, it is true, but still.
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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.
November 9, 2025 at 12:38 PM
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.
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"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"
(Internally) "Is that laying it on too thick? Surely no one in the future will miss the message here"
January 30, 2025 at 5:28 PM
"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"
(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.
Ce matin, je vous parle d'IA générative et des personnes étrangères
2 prémisses
1. L'IA générative a un énorme avantage : elle comprend toutes les langues, répond ds ttes les langues et passe d'une langue à une autre en 1 seconde
2. Toutes les associations de France voient leur budget s'effondrer
2 prémisses
1. L'IA générative a un énorme avantage : elle comprend toutes les langues, répond ds ttes les langues et passe d'une langue à une autre en 1 seconde
2. Toutes les associations de France voient leur budget s'effondrer
November 9, 2025 at 8:37 AM
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.
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And on the legal advice to the House of Bishops, here’s Peter Collier KC’s view viamedia.news/2025/11/08/w...
Where Does the House of Bishops Currently Stand on the Use of Prayers of Love and Faith? Some Reflections - ViaMedia.News
by Peter Collier KC, retired Senior Circuit Judge and former Vicar-General of the Province of York On 15 November 2023, General Synod passed a motion on Living in Love and Faith which acknowledged tha...
viamedia.news
November 8, 2025 at 1:31 PM
And on the legal advice to the House of Bishops, here’s Peter Collier KC’s view viamedia.news/2025/11/08/w...
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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
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
November 8, 2025 at 3:35 AM
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
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
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Someone at a Russell Group university was moved to almost-poetry by their Faculty Meeting… Can anyone do better?
November 7, 2025 at 12:52 PM
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.
November 7, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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.
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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
Repost and follow me to enter
I’ll pick a winner at 9pm tonight (Friday 7 Nov)
gailmyerscough.co.uk
November 7, 2025 at 9:33 AM
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
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!
November 7, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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!
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Tangentially related, but I read this Calvin & Hobbes comic to my 7yo last night. Celebrate inefficiency!
November 7, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Tangentially related, but I read this Calvin & Hobbes comic to my 7yo last night. Celebrate inefficiency!
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“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.”
Unsubscribe! Autistic man illegally storing your data in his brain
An autistic man has found himself in breach of the Data Protection Act after illegally accumulating an encyclopaedia of information about you in his own memory, it has been reported. Dexter…
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November 7, 2025 at 10:01 AM
“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.”
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"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/
Great piece in @renewaljournal.bsky.social by Labour MP @annadixonmp.bsky.social.
Read in full: renewal.org.uk/blog/eletc/
November 7, 2025 at 11:19 AM
"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/
Great piece in @renewaljournal.bsky.social by Labour MP @annadixonmp.bsky.social.
Read in full: renewal.org.uk/blog/eletc/
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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.
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.
The debate around care visas in the political space boils down to people saying stuff like this - we desperately need people.
It's a good soundbite but...
A significant surge in care visas were issued since 2020 in response to sector demand and yet the problem of shortage has persisted.
Why?
It's a good soundbite but...
A significant surge in care visas were issued since 2020 in response to sector demand and yet the problem of shortage has persisted.
Why?
BREAKING: “We will be closing the care worker visa for overseas recruitment” - Home Secretary Yvette Cooper
Don’t we have a desperate shortage of care workers?
Don’t we have a desperate shortage of care workers?
November 7, 2025 at 7:53 AM
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.
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.
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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.
November 6, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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.
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A 400-Year-Old Ring that Unfolds to Track the Movements of the Heavens www.openculture.com/2025/11/a-40...
A 400-Year-Old Ring that Unfolds to Track the Movements of the Heavens
Rings with a discreet dual purpose have been in use since before the common era, when Hannibal, facing extradition, allegedly ingested the poison he kept secreted behind a gemstone on his finger.
www.openculture.com
November 6, 2025 at 1:24 PM
A 400-Year-Old Ring that Unfolds to Track the Movements of the Heavens www.openculture.com/2025/11/a-40...
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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..
My son is on blockers legally from before the ban and we did everything they told us to do and now we are being threatened with social services if we don't allow them to "safely withdraw" medication. They admit that the impact will be "stark" for our kids but they are going to do it anyway.
"Laura fears all will be lost if ICB Sussex forces her child off the medication.
If ICB Sussex get their own way in a matter of weeks and they force detransition, Olive may well take her life."
northwestbylines.co.uk/news/health/...
If ICB Sussex get their own way in a matter of weeks and they force detransition, Olive may well take her life."
northwestbylines.co.uk/news/health/...
November 4, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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..
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Wonder why this scene looks so familiar...
#WildlifeWednesday 🐦🐕
#WildlifeWednesday 🐦🐕
November 5, 2025 at 6:57 AM
Wonder why this scene looks so familiar...
#WildlifeWednesday 🐦🐕
#WildlifeWednesday 🐦🐕
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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!
November 5, 2025 at 11:12 AM
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!
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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
The Merthyr Rising.
The Rebecca Riots.
The time when Lady Llanover's friends all refused to wear her awful Welsh costumes at the eisteddfod
![In October, Spencer, Carry and I went to Llanover to Sir Benjamin and Lady Hall for the Eisteddfod at Abergavenny … just as Carry and I were putting on our things to go to Abergavenny, there was a knock at the door and Lady Hall’s maid entered carrying two frightful linstey [sic –linsey] petticoats and bodices, two Welsh chimney-pot black hats with coarse mob caps and said, ‘If you please, her Ladyship wishes you and Miss Lucy to wear the Welsh costumes today at the Eisteddfod’ … Tizzard exclaimed, ‘Oh Ma’am you will surely never put on such ugly things and take off your own beautiful dress and pretty new bonnet! And Miss Lucy, Oh! She must not make herself such a guy. ‘No’ I cried, ‘we will not’, But Carry … said ‘Never mind Mamma, we had better do as Lady Hall wishes and perhaps all the other ladies will be dressed in these costumes.’ … Tizzard … came back saying all the ladies were furious but were putting on the Welsh dresses which Lady Hall had sent to each of them. So Carry and I took off our pretty dresses and put on the frights. The hat was much too large for me and was so heavy it did nothing but come down half over my nose, and the linstey so hot, I never was more uncomfortable and I vowed I would never wear such horrible things again to please any Lady Hall, nor did I and all the other ladies agreed with me and we returned our linsteys and hats etc to her Ladyship that same evening and made her very angry.
Mrs Lucy of Charlecote (1803 – 1889) Mistress of Charlecote, The Memoirs of Mary Elizabeth Lucy, (London, 1985), pp. 95-97](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:lp27scbhcz4sl5eidxkq2l7f/bafkreigwqrwmleb5makrtfixyrfeyadpfvxh6kqf6kf2t4c4juuttmbccm@jpeg)
November 4, 2025 at 10:43 AM
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
The Merthyr Rising.
The Rebecca Riots.
The time when Lady Llanover's friends all refused to wear her awful Welsh costumes at the eisteddfod
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Good morning.
I don't know who did this, but I love you.
I don't know who did this, but I love you.
November 3, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Good morning.
I don't know who did this, but I love you.
I don't know who did this, but I love you.
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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
I'll go first.
"I think St. Thomas Aquinas is kind of mid" ?
#trollingTheCatholics #withLove
So are we forbidden by the Catholic Religion, to say,
November 3, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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
I'll go first.
"I think St. Thomas Aquinas is kind of mid" ?
#trollingTheCatholics #withLove