Paul Bishop ن
@pbishop87
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Intrepid educator in the Middle East. MA from @durham_uni #Plutarch #classics #theology #history #MENA #kurds
Joined December 2009
I hear in my mind all these notes, and the notes are from a violin, and the violins are all I ever hear.
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Now the evidence is undeniable. Assad still hasn't been brought to justice for his crimes. Thank you, @Reuters for your journalism. https://t.co/mD9IzfKQpS
reuters.com
For two years, Syria’s Assad government secretly trucked thousands of bodies from an exposed mass grave to the desert, trying to hide evidence of atrocities.
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#ICYMI Kurdish proverbs have the remarkable ability to summarize a life lesson into one short, catchy phrase. Sure, you could give your son a long lecture about how hard work leads to a more satisfying life. Or, if you are a Kurdish father, you can simply tell your son a proverb
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"All empty souls tend toward extreme opinions." -- W.B. Yeats
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If you’re thinking of going to church tomorrow and you aren’t sure how to go about it, you can just… show up. People won’t be weird about it. You don’t have to talk to anyone if you don’t want to but ppl will prob be up for talking.
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🚩In 2021 our coalition urged @Apple to add a “School Mode” that would limit iPhones to basic functions (call/text) during school. Apple declined. Our FTC complaint shows a pattern of Apple refusing critical child protective safeguards over many years. https://t.co/4XKUb9o3Fb
digitalchildhoodinstitute.org
Apple Promised Safety. It Delivered Harm. Digital Childhood Institute’s formal complaint to the Federal Trade commission Demanding Accountability In its first major public action, the newly launched...
Here's the map of phone policies by state, as the school year starts. Red is best (full day); Orange is class-time only, which is much less effective. Gold is that local schools must develop a policy, any policy. https://t.co/eHkuFfJPiJ
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One need not believe that AI is actively controlled by demons to believe that many of its tendencies conduce to demonic ends.
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our grandkids really are gonna look at pictures with our phones out the same way that we look at pictures of our grandparents smoking
TikTok admits in their own research: “compulsive usage correlates with a slew of negative mental health effects like loss of analytical skills, memory formation, contextual thinking, conversational depth, empathy, and increased anxiety.” https://t.co/tZHMtekExg
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Amazing how these companies straight-up lie in plain sight. I just test-created a ChatGPT account, stating my date of birth as November 2010, and there was no prompt to get a parent. Took 20 seconds.
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Image copyright notices tend to block or force out actual visual literacy. Instead of telling us who made an image, and when, they report on the jpg retailer/medium in mock legal terms. "Source: photostock" or "via rawpixel" is pseudo-info. Artist? Provenance? Current location?
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I don’t understand this thinking.👇🏽 What are you planning on doing with all of the people in England who are from different cultures? Throw them in the Channel?? What of the Scots and the Welsh? Who gets to stay?
@Miss_Snuffy Multiculturalism never works. We should stop trying. You adapt and if you can't, you go to a country that is more like you.
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Bad pastors shatter their people. Good pastors are shattered by their people. A sad thing I've seen under the sun.
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"Self-Portrait with Death Playing Violin" by Arnold Böcklin in 1872.
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.@HackneyAbbott is 100% correct. This is why many unjust deaths will occur.
"Many people do not have confidence in the face of authority, and if a doctor raises assisted suicide with them, however tactfully or professionally, they will feel that they are being steered in that direction." @HackneyAbbott
#NotThisBill #assistedsuicide #AssistedDyingBill
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An excellent article from @Jess4Lowestoft. To me, in straightforward terms, the #AssistedDyingBill necessitates a decision: do we prioritise autonomy for individuals who have the agency to choose it, or solidarity with those who will be pressured into it? I choose solidarity.
The Assisted Dying Bill is not progressive. As I argue in the @DailyMirror, the cracks of inequality will become chasms in a world where an assisted death hangs over the most vulnerable - and they will fall through. https://t.co/aIVRqwxGll
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There’s a lot to object to in Trump envoy Steve Witkoff’s interview with Tucker Carlson, but for now I’m going to stick to just a few glaring factual errors on the part of Witkoff. | @jimgeraghty
https://t.co/veqw0XJLV8
nationalreview.com
The American who is handling negotiations with Russia over Ukraine can’t remember which four oblasts were annexed by Russia in 2022.
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If Jesus Christ didn’t abandon you in his darkness, the ultimate darkness, why would he abandon you now, in yours?
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Beautiful Japanese style LOTR art. By Roshai Mulder. Gandalf and the Balrog.
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Interesting! Means a lot coming from Nussbaum. This confirms my own impressions of reading Butler. She isn't a philosopher.
Reminded of what Martha Nussbaum wrote about Judith Butler’s intended audience
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