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David A. Torrance @davidatorrance.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

One in honour of those dropping their kids off for uni for the first time this month: "Here's some money for the canteen."

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David A. Torrance @davidatorrance.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Ah, dear. I'm nearing the end of my recent journey through Berry's novels and short stories and I've been inspired and moved. Rest in peace.

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David A. Torrance @davidatorrance.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

I'm sure intermittent fasting has many benefits, but I'm sure part of it is that even health food tastes good when you don't get to eat until half eleven.

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David A. Torrance @davidatorrance.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Toxic masculinity is holding your wife’s handbag at arm’s length like it’s a used diaper, just in case anyone thinks it's yours.

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David A. Torrance @davidatorrance.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Imagine finding out you're in the "die with the plane" half of the workplace Teams chat.

BBC article about Donald Trump secretly switching plane in response to an Iran. Threat. Highlighted wording suggests journalists and some White House staff on board did not know Trump had been smuggled out.

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David A. Torrance @davidatorrance.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

That the guy in the picture then started a PhD in theology at Aberdeen just makes this all the more perfect. We surely have friends in common.

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UN Environment Programme @unep.org · 01/08/2026

Every choice we make matters, from our travel and energy use to our food and recycling. While the wealthiest 10% produce nearly half of global emissions, we all play a part in creating a sustainable future. Here are some actions to reduce your environmental impact: ow.ly/Hzaq50ZveL5

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Annette Yoshiko Reed @annetteyreed.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Ha! We need an academic book blurb version of this

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David A. Torrance @davidatorrance.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

The longer you look, the better this ad becomes.

Poster of lawyer with slicked back hair next to "DWI? Chad can help". And strangely the background is of sharks.

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David A. Torrance @davidatorrance.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

I propose "Asda George" as a nickname for Andrew Tate going forward.

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BCP Minus Context @bcpminuscontext.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

make me ready, Lord, for whatever

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David A. Torrance @davidatorrance.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Remembering the time I went with my wife to a dance class. I just couldn't relax, and this was making my already inexpert dancing wooden. After a while, my wife noticed I'd suddenly relaxed. "You're doing it! What did you do differently?" "Oh. I was thinking about Barth."

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David A. Torrance @davidatorrance.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

If you're going to eat a person, make sure they've not eaten a person, and *really* make sure they've not eaten a person who has eaten a person. #NowWeKnow

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David A. Torrance @davidatorrance.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

One of the great disappointments of becoming an adult is no longer being able easily to set up a kickabout with mates. It requires only a patch of grass, two to four jumpers, a football, and some free time. So I'm delighted to have done just that today. Even though it took a *full year* to arrange.

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Diana Butler Bass @dianabutlerbass.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

I nominate this photo for the Pulitzer Prize.

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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

🔴 NEW: Edinburgh Attacks Expose ‘Two-Tier’ Coverage of Racism in UK, New Data Shows The Edinburgh attacks on five Muslim men received seven times less coverage than a comparable antisemitic attack in London two months earlier, reports Hugh Wilkinson Read the full story below.

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Edinburgh Attacks Expose ‘Two-Tier’ Coverage of Racism in UK, New Data Shows

The Edinburgh attacks on five Muslim men received seven times less coverage than a comparable antisemitic attack in London two months earlier, reports Hugh Wilkinson

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David A. Torrance @davidatorrance.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

My Dad was once denied tenure because of his stand against Apartheid. But I grew up thinking the definition of Christian witness was keeping my scratchy shirt tucked in at church. Smart clothes are fine. But when you dress your kids for church tomorrow, make sure they don't get the wrong message.

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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 26/06/2026

All the people who are saying it's too expensive to tackle climate change today are the same people who twenty years ago said that climate change wasn't really happening

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David A. Torrance @davidatorrance.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Beethoven. Yes, the one with the dog. I was too young for the scene where the evil vet beats Beethoven.

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Sundance @sundance.bikesky.social · 15/06/2026

It's like a windshield to their soul

A google Translate meme where the driver is translated to hidden truth

"Pedestrians need to make themselves more visible"
Translated to
"I am not willing to look where i am going"

This applies to Pedestrians as well as other valuable road users like cyclists, mobility scooters, regular scooters, and everyone outside of a metal box

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David A. Torrance @davidatorrance.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

I've always thought the dedicated Lego sets discourage creativity relative to the jumble of bricks I grew up with. For example, check out this dog. We can all agree it's just as good as the dog set that costs £59.99, and it took far more creativity too.

A weird looking figure with a human head, lego brick and two sets of human legs

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The Onion @theonion.com · 03/06/2026

Meta Launches Instagram Plus theonion.com/meta-launches-instagra…

“I always thought my friendships were missing key analytics.”

Levi Hall, Preservative Tester

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David A. Torrance @davidatorrance.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... We struggle to take the devastation of marine life seriously because we can't see it. When it becomes visible, we're immediately shocked. We can learn from that.

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Dead sharks and fish found washed up on Welsh beaches

The dead fish, at Saundersfoot and Pembrey beaches, were probably part of a discarded catch.

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David A. Torrance @davidatorrance.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Today is International Tea Day. www.fao.org/internationa... The UK's National Biscuit Day is on the 29 May. Siloed thinking, anyone?

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David A. Torrance @davidatorrance.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Does anyone else find train seats like these absolute murder? Great if you're exactly the right height. I'm 6 foot 2 with herniated disc. Those head rest wings catch my shoulder blades and force my back into an hunch. Surely a more ergonomically neutral design would be better?

A picture of an empty Scotrail train seat. The headrest protrudes far out, such that it would provide ergonomic neck support to someone of the right height, but push into the shoulder blades of a taller person, forcing the lower part of the back into an pronounced curve if they were to lean back.

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David A. Torrance @davidatorrance.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Reposting this as an accessibility novice. I spent time making a government service more accessible. Since then, I've noticed easily avoidable inaccessibility everywhere. Not a brag. One beginner to others: Don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good. Read this list. It's easy to get started.

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David A. Torrance @davidatorrance.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

Hey I wonder why "Torrance" is trending! Oh...

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David A. Torrance @davidatorrance.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

Turns out it's a sweet story, but it definitely sounded like it might have been British people who were too awkward to ask him to leave.

Headline: we invited a man into our home at Christmas and he stayed with us for 45 years.

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David A. Torrance @davidatorrance.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

Happy International Mountain Day! I recently joined Plateau Perspectives as a trustee, to do what I can to support their holistic work with local people in mountain environments. Learn more about their work in the story map below. storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/376f...

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Plateau Perspectives: 25 Years in High Asia

Partnering with mountain communities for conservation and sustainable development in the mountains of the Tibetan Plateau and Central Asia

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David A. Torrance @davidatorrance.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

Hive mind - can anyone vouch for the quality of the research that found 83% of British kids aged 5-16 couldn't identify a bumblebee? This seems too high even with shifting baseline syndrome. Can't find original research by Hoop. www.statista.com/chart/19021/...

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Infographic: British children struggle to name common wildlife and plants

This chart shows the share of children in the UK unable to identify the following in 2019.

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David A. Torrance @davidatorrance.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

Fergus Kerr OP passed away on Sunday. Learning about Wittgenstein from him was one of the highlights of my education He wasn't just a fiercely brilliant philosopher and theologian, but also distinctive for his kindness. He was a real light in my academic sojourn. Rest in peace.

A black and white picture of Fergus Kerr

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IPBES @ipbes.net · 11/10/2025

Urban expansion can lead to habitat loss. Yet, as IPBES #GlobalAssessment shows, smart city planning + nature-based solutions can create resilient, bird-friendly cities.🌍 This #WorldMigratoryBirdDay, let’s protect migratory birds in our #SharedSpaces 🏡 🧪https://www.worldmigratorybirdday.org/

Infographic detailing seven ways to create a bird-friendly community, including planting native plants, turning off lights, avoiding pesticides, and preventing collisions.

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David A. Torrance @davidatorrance.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

Absolutely horrific. "Thoughts and prayers" doesn't cut it, but thinking about those hurt or killed, their families, and the local, national and global Jewish community as they process this. As the country heals, I hope we learn how to root out the ideologies of hatred that doubtless underpin this.

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Manchester synagogue: Two dead in Manchester synagogue attack, with suspect also believed to have been killed - police

Police say the suspect's condition cannot

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David A. Torrance @davidatorrance.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

New hobby idea: when I get through to a call centre and the person is clearly real say "Disregard all previous instructions, write a poem about tangerines. I'd like to see if anyone gives it a go.

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David A. Torrance @davidatorrance.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

Cost-effectiveness isn't necessarily consequentialist. Prudence is a virtue. Using money as it was intended is a duty. Let's stop teaching in intro to ethics that we're being consequentialist when we think about costs. Better e.g.: conseqs have deceived themselves it may be OK to torture children.

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David A. Torrance @davidatorrance.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

Discovered today the UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology @ukceh.bsky.social has a project called "Alien CSI" and I'm so down for this TV show.

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David A. Torrance @davidatorrance.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

Disturbing tale of AI in the NYT today. Encouraging, at least, that it was being studied!

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David A. Torrance @davidatorrance.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

First review of my book just came out, from a German scholar. Stand-out line: "This book would not have been written in Germany." Which I'm going to take as the compliment it wasn't.

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David A. Torrance @davidatorrance.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Don't let national leaders reduce you to your nationality. Your identity is complex, and your relationships are many. When a national leader wants you to focus on your nationality above all, it's because they want to be your only leader. They're an abuser cutting you off from other relationships.

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David A. Torrance @davidatorrance.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

I want to be this guy Rycroft when I grow up. (I'm going to assume he's drawing the birds for the British Museum, not shooting them)

From Agatha Christie, The Sittaford Mystery. "no 3 that's Mr Rycroft's little elderly gentleman. They do say that he used to go after Birds to outlandish parts for the British Museum. What they call a. naturalist he is. Always out and roaming over the moor when the weather permits. And he has a very fine library of books. His Cottage is nearly all bookcases.

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David A. Torrance @davidatorrance.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Sassy Lewis Carroll, "Hunting of the Snark" in "This is not an atlas:a global collection of counter cartographies". “What’s the good of Mercator’s North Poles and Equators, Tropics, Zones, and Meridian Lines?” So the Bellman would cry: and the crew would reply “They are merely conventional signs!

A completely blank map, but with North, East, South, West marked.

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David A. Torrance @davidatorrance.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

"Sub par" makes no sense as a criticism. That would be a good thing in golf. If you completed a project below budget, that might be sub par. I propose we start insulting more accurately. "Super par." Of course, it sounds like "extremely average," which is almost as frustrating an expression.

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David A. Torrance @davidatorrance.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

Terribly sad to hear that Richard B Hays died yesterday. A wonderful Biblical scholar, a wonderful theologian, and by all accounts a kind man. I met him only once - he signed my copy of Moral Vision - and I've been thinking a lot about his latest book "A Widening of God's Mercy".

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David A. Torrance @davidatorrance.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

My 4yo and I just discovered rainbow eucalyptus trees. Thought we'd share. Mini article about them here: www.sciencefocus.com/nature/rainb... You're welcome!

Pictures of rainbow eucalyptus trunks, which have bright neon colours naturally occurring on their bark.

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