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Peternimmo

@Peternimmo@mastodon.scot

Early-retired #Church of #Scotland #minister. Graduate of #Glasgow University and #Princeton Seminary- #Fulbright alumnus. Registered same-sex marriage celebrant. Occasional reposts or links in #German.
I won't follow you, or let you follow me, if you don't have a description.
#theology #Christianity #liturgy #politics #preaching #religion #ChurchOfScotland #Presbyterian #Reformed #faith #NoBridge

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RickiTarr, to random
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If you wash and dry a load of laundry, you also have to be prepared to fold it, and put it away. It's not really helping otherwise.

Peternimmo,
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@RickiTarr can't get the staff?

Peternimmo, to Ukraine
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Does it matter if loses? Ian Bond for the Centre for European Reform




https://www.cer.eu/publications/archive/policy-brief/2024/does-it-matter-if-ukraine-loses

Peternimmo, to mastodon
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Once again, @RickiTarr asks a question that sets ablaze- in a good way! Whatever your taste in , there's bound to be something here you'll love!
https://beige.party/@RickiTarr/112428606621284011
RickiTarr@beige.party - Seriously heard someone saying they don't listen to many black artists, because they aren't really into rap. Bitch please, feel free to share songs from Black artists from any genre. Here is one of my favorites, if you like this song please check out her other work:

https://youtu.be/KovrJ8HXI1Q?si=HOYIG7YMuAUTsJz6

RickiTarr, to random
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Seriously heard someone saying they don't listen to many black artists, because they aren't really into rap. Bitch please, feel free to share songs from Black artists from any genre. Here is one of my favorites, if you like this song please check out her other work:

https://youtu.be/KovrJ8HXI1Q?si=HOYIG7YMuAUTsJz6

Peternimmo,
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@RickiTarr maybe not quite what you're looking for, but I remember seeing Jessye Norman sing the Marseilles at the Place de la Concorde on the 200th anniversary of the French Revolution, and it still gives me goosebumps! https://youtu.be/1QQ2k3UpHwQ?feature=shared

Peternimmo,
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@RickiTarr @wendinoakland I knew this tune from childhood, as it was the theme tune for a long running BBC TV film review programme. But I've only recently learned the story of the words and music. And this is a magnificent interpretation of it https://youtu.be/vq3sdF0YXkM?feature=shared

RickiTarr, to random
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So, what's the thing, what's the big thing no one can help you with? How do you cope with it?

Peternimmo,
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@RickiTarr I'm no good at arithmetic. My wife does the sums in our house

Peternimmo,
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@RickiTarr or were you looking for something more existential?

Peternimmo,
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@RickiTarr I'm sitting in my garden on a sunny day, drinking tea and eating biscuits, so I'm not feeling much existential angst right now!

Peternimmo, to Ukraine
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A #FridayFollow recommendation: @Brit_In_Moldova is a #Londoner living in #Chisinau, capital of #Moldova, who shares news and more from the country. Moldova is a small country bordered by #Ukraine and #Romania, but always under pressure from #Russia, who maintain a military presence in #Transnistria, an unrecognised state on a narrow strip of land in the east of Moldova
#FF

damonism, to random
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It occurs to me that you’d only use AI to write for you if you believe you’re not good at writing, and if you’re not good at writing you have no way of discerning if the AI is wrting well for you, and in the process you’ll never get any better at writing yourself.

Peternimmo,
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@zdl @bugmenot @damonism it depends what you mean by "effectively". If your reading and writing skills don't reach a level that allows you to function effectively, that's functional illiteracy, which often causes poverty

RickiTarr, to random
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Okay, this might sound weird, but this is what I'm thinking of today. I'm assuming most of you know the idiom, "Don't look a gift horse in the mouth." I know it's about looking at the horse's teeth to check it's age and health, but in my heart I have an alternate history where it's about The Trojan Horse, which doesn't really even make much sense, but it's still living there rent free.

So, does anyone else do this, make up alternate histories for words or phrases? If you do, I'd love examples!

Peternimmo,
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@RickiTarr these tasty cakes are popular in Britain and Ireland- slices of pastry with a filling of currants or raisins. For years, I assumed that my family's name for them was a dark joke. I was well into adulthood before I saw a label in a shop and discovered that such a cake is, in fact, commonly known as a fly cemetery

Peternimmo,
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@RickiTarr there's quite a few baseball derived idioms which British people commonly use, but few know of their derivation (out of left field, thrown a curve ball, touch base, out of the ballpark)

Peternimmo, to church
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On the day of my demission as minister of #Cambuslang, due to #LongCOVID, a reminder of my message to my congregation on 21 April
#church
#Scotland
#ChurchOfScotland
https://peterwnimmo.co.uk/2024/04/21/i-am-having-to-leave-full-time-ministry-due-to-long-covid/

Peternimmo, to Scotland
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John will be the next of , after activist Graeme McCormick drops out of the leadership race







https://bylines.scot/politics/nomination-to-the-snp-leadership-graeme-mccormick/?feed_id=1138&_unique_id=6637f19c85b58

BootsChantilly, to random
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I lol-ed.

Peternimmo,
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@msquebanh @BootsChantilly thanks for that video- I really enjoyed it!

Peternimmo, to random
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Vast majority of anti-immigration posts relating to protests in Ireland came from non-Irish accounts – The Irish Times
https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2024/05/03/vast-majority-of-anti-immigration-posts-relating-to-wicklow-protests-came-from-non-irish-accounts/

Peternimmo, to Budapest
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has honoured a heroine who died in . A plaque and a have been dedicated in memory of Jane , with headteacher Margaret Prem also remembered. A deputy mayor of Budapest gave a speech which "highlighted the injustice of the so-called crimes with which Miss Haining was charged and the importance today of people from different belief systems living peacefully with one another"
https://churchofscotland.org.uk/news-and-events/news/articles/budapest-honours-scots-holocaust-heroine-who-died-in-auschwitz

Peternimmo, to BBC
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Two more - one of them with the - branded 'foreign agents' by
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-68803936

Peternimmo, to Scotland
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: Just under 2% of the population in and are suffering from . Many have had it for years



https://independentsage.substack.com/p/updated-estimates-of-long-covid-in?publication_id=2112808&post_id=144028383&isFreemail=true&r=1iscyn&triedRedirect=true

fionaorkneynews, to random
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: 37 million tonnes of debris including unexploded ordnance

It will take 14 years to clear the rubble and ordnance, some of which is unexploded, from war torn Gaza. 34,350 Palestinians have been killed and over 77,360 wounded since 7th October 2023. 130 Israeli hostages are still being held and many hundreds of Gazans have been taken to detention centres in Israel. As horror after horror unfolds war crimes being committed by the Israeli Defence Forces on…

https://theorkneynews.scot/2024/04/27/gaza-37-million-tonnes-of-debris-including-unexploded-ordnance/

Peternimmo,
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@fionaorkneynews unexploded ordinance continues to be a danger decades later- Portsmouth was brought to a halt by a Second World War bomb recently. It's one of the forgotten and overlooked results of war

Peternimmo,
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@fionaorkneynews I'm sure. The Navy has a crew permanently on the Thames clearing old ordnance. Every so often there's a story of a German city brought to a standstill by the discovery of a buried bomb. A doctor I knew who had lived in South east Asia had tragic tales of children killed and maimed by mines and bombs decades after the Vietnam wars

Peternimmo,
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@fionaorkneynews I even heard of a civil engineer in German maimed when his drilling machine struck WW1 mustard gas that nobody knew was there. There are zones in northern France where the damage of the Great War means they are still out of bounds for farmers

Peternimmo, to Scotland
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If you're wondering why the #Airdrie to #Bathgate #railway is still closed- there's a big hole at #Caldercruix!
#Scotland
#sinkhole
#trains
https://www.networkrailmediacentre.co.uk/news/airdrie-bathgate-line-to-remain-closed-at-caldercruix-as-engineers-repair-sinkhole-damage

Peternimmo, to random
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I'm having to leave full time ministry due to Long Covid. Here is my message to the congregation https://peterwnimmo.co.uk/2024/04/21/i-am-having-to-leave-full-time-ministry-due-to-long-covid/

RickiTarr, to random
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Why is it that the people who brag about being "self-made" aren't?

If you turned out successful odds are you had help, a lot of it, and a good amount of luck on top of that. Imagine being so self absorbed that you don't give credit where credit is due.

Peternimmo,
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@1dalm @RickiTarr no government can claim to be encouraging social mobility if they don't fund education for all properly. My education was almost entirely state funded*, and I really don't understand why that's not a good thing for everyone
*A year in the US was mostly funded by a charitable trust in the US, with some UK trusts and a bit from the US government

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