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In other words, you love yourself by loving your neighbour. There are few consistently powerful reasons that drive big changes than doing it for the sake of those we love. (The version – “you can’t love your neighbour until you love yourself” has it backwards.)

@aClassicLiberal Some kind of Nordic mostly likely. If I saw your picture I’d tell you the precise phenotype classification

I'm struck by the extent of instinctive pushback on the idea that whatever led people to support Nazis might be in anyone. But if we can't see how people like (yes) us could've done that, we won't be able to learn not to. We'll just assume it can't be us until, well, it is.

FINALLY

The theme of this Apple #WWDC24 event is "FINALLY"

Hope everyone who buys the Apple Pencil today remembers: you have to manually add it to Find My (the “+” button in the “Devices” tab) Do it on any device and it gets added on all your devices

I feel like this is just normal for those of us who grew up outside the UK and US - basically anywhere English was not the only language. Once you're free from the assumption that your media has to be in your native language, you're open to everything else.

The trans activist outrage that ensues on here whenever I share my belief that jailed women shouldn't be used as validation tools or emotional support props for trans-identified male sex offenders is as revealing as it's predictable. Such activists can't bring themselves to

iOS 17.3 Beta 2 (21D5036c) changes: 1) Hold off on updating as it is putting some iPhones into a boot loop. 2) There is a new splash screen for Spatial Video in the camera app with the following text: "Spatial Video for Apple Vision Pro" "Record spatial video for viewing in three

I’ve come o associate spiritual maturity with a preparedness to wait. It’s an unhurriedness grounded in a conviction that you are LOVED by the one who’s always been in the business of working order out of chaos. Patience doesn’t come naturally to me but I’m learning to wait.

I see this often: the idea that expensive clothes are not worth their asking price, and that these factories use the same labor practices as fast fashion. The idea throws doubt on companies trying to do the right thing, and gives cover to fast fashion. But is it true? 🧵

I really really love that this exists

How I feel about Google’s photography announcements is nailed by ⁦@gruber⁩ in one elegant phrase: “…technically impressible, but ethically blithe.” I really couldn’t put it better.

Something I’ve learned the hard way, but which I’m not sure I’ve ever seen articulated clearly.

@sondesix @TheTechChap Is he using Vibrant on iOS?

This. The @bibleproject team, led by Tim and Jon, have legit transformed how I think about the Bible and my faith like perhaps nothing else since first reading CS Lewis, GK Chesterton and Dorothy Sayers a couple decades ago

“Does Christianity encourage morbid introspection? The alternative is much more morbid. Those who do not think about their own sins make up for it by thinking incessantly about the sins of others.” —C. S. Lewis

If you recognise the right person and you think the timing is what's wrong, then you're probably the wrong person. I do not think the timing can be the issue as time is neutral; one of you is the wrong person.

Some people really need a billboard announcing: “Behold, here be jokes.”