at least there are fewer places for them to hide. It took me several years to get them under control because they would lay their eggs under the edges of the carpet.
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at least there are fewer places for them to hide. It took me several years to get them under control because they would lay their eggs under the edges of the carpet.
UK academic job advertisements are currently at the rate of roughly 2 per year in any field anywhere close to mine worth applying for.
In this very interesting article for "Youth and Policy" Naomi Thompson reflects on some of the outcomes of an international Symposium about ‘Faith and Spirituality in the Wake of Scandal’ that's been held at our faculty in June.
www.youthandpolicy.org/articles/fai...
Better blacklist their future film appearances
This event really makes the connection between the worship music industry and Christian nationalism pretty unavoidable
So the schools on my island have gone from cutting back on extracurricular music as I grew up to now using music in a way that can be compared to "the TV drama Squid Game, where contestants play lethal rounds of musical statues" leaving an autistic student petrified
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
"we noticed how depressing your writing seems to be at the moment"
Such a tempting way to buy an ebook
Theoretically I'm behind projects like Libreoffice. In practice, I need it to stop doing things like this before it feels usable.
"we're your bank, please talk to our AI about your personal data" just seems an incredibly bad idea.
I'm wondering whether the reassignment of the property may not have been the best idea
I'm trying to figure out 1) why their expenditure went up so heavily in recent years 2) what exactly was going on between them and the Graham Dacre foundation.
Holy shit. This guy saved a PNG to a bird.
(he drew a bird into a spectrogram, played that sound to a starling, and the starling reproduced it back to him with enough accuracy he got his bird drawing back in their call's spectrogram) www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCQC...
probably a few vicars that would still benefit from reading this
#Podcast: Wie kann man eigentlich noch hoffen trotz der vielen Krisen in der Welt? Für "Hörenswertes im Bistum Erfurt haben wir Elisabeth Höftberger, Dominique-Marcel Kosack und @markporter.co.uk interviewt, die zu Hoffnung angesichts der Klimakrise forschen.
bistum-erfurt.podigee.io/206-hoffnung...
There's an England/Spain extra time/bishop of Fulham mashup meme to be done somewhere.
Disappointed in whoever reverted this wikipedia image edit
New book chapter…
Is Ocado some kind of undercover vampire conspiracy?
cc @scmpress.bsky.social
![In a polarizing world, Porter offers a thoughtful and timely contribution that moves beyond finding the “right answers” and instead focuses on finding contextually appropriate responses. […] He convincingly argues for the value of considering this diversity in practice, resisting efforts to reduce musical innovation into uniformity. […] For the practitioner, Porter offers an overview of musical responses to the climate crisis. For the academic working on ritual, liturgy, and/or hymnology, the work provokes further consideration of power relations in music and the meaning of ritual within contexts where action and transformation are desired.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:3spqfqe3c5yyhcdvxr7lbvmk/bafkreifkob2tauqmurt5x6uhvuqzudf6xqvpn7unc6cucq7twmycwkt3ye)
In a polarizing world, Porter offers a thoughtful and timely contribution that moves beyond finding the “right answers” and instead focuses on finding contextually appropriate responses. […] He convincingly argues for the value of considering this diversity in practice, resisting efforts to reduce musical innovation into uniformity. […] For the practitioner, Porter offers an overview of musical responses to the climate crisis. For the academic working on ritual, liturgy, and/or hymnology, the work provokes further consideration of power relations in music and the meaning of ritual within contexts where action and transformation are desired.
Another lovely review of the book in @readingreligion.bsky.social
readingreligion.org/978033406568...
The draft programme for this year's Christian Congregational Music: Local and Global Perspectives Conference: congregationalmusic.org/programme
🗓️ We cordially invite you to @tanyariches.bsky.social Monday Lecture on "Scandal or Crime? Media Narratives and Survivor Complaint Testimonies in Australian Megachurches" on the 23rd of June at 4:15 pm. Everyone is welcome and there is no registration required. www.uni-erfurt.de/katholisch-t...
You think I don’t already ;)
Frustrating how no-one ever cites the publications that would boost my h-index. I just want one or two more citations of a couple of the less-popular articles... it can't be that hard.
then they just all bus to the mines though
Book Review of:
For The Warming Of The Earth: Music, faith and ecological crisis, by Mark Porter, June 2024. SCM Press, ISBN 978-0-334-06568-5, 214 pages. RRP £40 (paperback)
Absolutely surreal to have lived through the Napster days and watched as the titans of industry moved hell and high water to lock down any possible chance that someone's song might get swapped online without giving the studios a cut and now those same people are just like "well we gotta steal music"