Robb Sutherland

When Douglas Adam’s aimed for a robot monk who prays so you don’t have to, he didn’t think of the other applications.

Was not expecting that.

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A professor had a $2.4m grant to study Black maternal health. Then Trump was elected Jaime Slaughter-Acey said it was ‘heartbreaking’ to discover her study on Black maternal health was cancelled after the Trump administration’s NIH cuts

A professor had a $2.4m grant to study Black maternal health. Then Trump was elected

A thread.

a ban on ninja swords is a de facto ban on ninjas. i for one, as the brother of exiled, illegitimate heir to daimyo takeshi of the black lotus, welcome this move. his shadow may no longer stalk the moonlit bamboo

We have always been at war with Eastasia.

They’re going to great lengths to not state it plainly. He cheats. See. It’s not difficult to say it.

Let’s face it, we all had “$200 million gold plated room” on our bingo cards.

I will probably be doing some photography and playing my guitar by lunch time 🤣

Futuroscope was a fantastic day out. A week and a half of Taizé, a lot of driving and a couple of days of doing intense things has left me in need of a few days reading and relaxing.

I think I need an exorcist. #Futuroscope

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There are a few people in my general orbit in the virtualsphere who think they have a divine right to being followed and complain vociferously when you don’t. People I wouldn’t invite into my house. So why would I invite them into my house via this little piece of glass, plastic and metal?

Hunan brings do love to formulate imagined pasts and pit them against each other.

Today we’re at Futuroscope. We were greeted with an awesome reggae band. All wearing their instruments and enough batteries to power them 😎

Yesterday we went to the Comic Museum in Angoulême. Really good day out. Nice to be surrounded by something other than Marvel and DC. #GraphicNovel

#TaizeNorth25 is finished and our pilgrimage is over. Looking forward to next year!

Our group of pilgrims have returned to Mixenden and Illingworth. Now we return to the work of building God’s kingdom here in West Yorkshire. #TaizeNorth25

Hello. I'm a vicar in a village where a murder has happened. You can always find me in the church arranging the hymnbooks

What also floats in water?

Trump: Bread, Apples, Very small rocks, Cider, Grape gravy, Cherries, Mud

A Duck!

C’est fin.

#TaizéNorth25

A letter from Ed Davey to Keir Starmer on 25 July calls for urgent action on Gaza. He urges a ceasefire, says Trump could influence Israel, and wants Starmer to press him on ending the fighting and getting proper aid in.

A follow-up section of Ed Davey’s 25 July letter to Keir Starmer. He urges Starmer to push Trump on a joint UK-US UN resolution for a Gaza ceasefire, reopening humanitarian corridors, and recognising Palestine. Davey says the UK must lead—even if it means challenging Trump—and calls on Starmer to show that leadership during Trump’s UK visit.

I’ve written to the Prime Minister urging him to use Trump’s visit to the UK to push for an end to the humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza.

The problem with playing with conspiracy theorists is that eventually you become the conspiracy. Why MAGA are turning on POTUS.

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Cartoon, simple line drawing with a bit of colour. It depicts a bunch of people sitting in pews in a church. They are mourning and wiping hteir tears and noses on a string of coloured hankies emerging from the sleeve of one of the mourners. Caption: Magician Funeral

We have watched this horror for too long. We must act to save the lives of all people, not least the starving children.

If schools were actually preparing kids for white-collar work they wouldn't be phone-free, you'd have to have your phone on your desk all day for the authenticator apps

*Every* single time a politician uses the phrase "Jumping the queue" with respect to migrants as James Cleverly has just done they should immediately be asked "What queue?" and the journalist should insist on the details of how people can join this queue.

One thing that's striking about Ozzy Osborne's death is how difficult it is to imagine the music industry producing another figure like him. The barriers to working class people are so great, and there's a related attitude to culture that is neutered as a result.

I really want to make this clear to any passing journalist - being a LGBTQ person is not being left wing. Existing is not political, except to the political extremes. Those extremes do not dictate how humans should be accepted. This take js extremely dangerous.

XKCD nails Myers Briggs down 🤓

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Perhaps in the morning we’ll share the video of Ruth jamming delta blues with @archbishopofyork.org before the service started.