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Lal Dhillon @laldhillon.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

I remember learning from Mike *years* ago when I was just a kid, and clicking towards the end of the lesson just how talented he was. I think the sign of a real generational talent is that you get so caught up listening to how good it is that you forget how impressive it is.

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Sleep Token on one guitar sounds HUGE

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Lal Dhillon @laldhillon.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

New substack - some thoughts on the things we think keep us safe, the things that actually do, and how everything falls apart if we don't believe we have a shared life. open.substack.com/pub/laldhill...

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Paper for Contracts

And the desert on our doorstep

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Lal Dhillon @laldhillon.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

Deeply encouraged to see the appointment of a Pope who believes in empathy and loving the other. The Pope isn't a political appointee, but governments that build their foundations out of cruelty, hatred and violence make politics theological, and therefore something we need to speak into.

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Hector Diaz @iamhectordiaz.com · 08/05/2025

A Chicago Pope implies the existence of an MLA Pope and APA Pope

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Ariel Edwards-Levy @aedwardslevy.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

filling time on air until the new pope is announced is known as "pontiffication"

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Tricky Dicky @trickydickybe.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

Being considered a legend of a parent is worth way more than dignity or a few other old people's sneering giggles. Embrace it all, the louder the better!!

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Lal Dhillon @laldhillon.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

"When the new Pope took on his role it was seen as a foretaste of the world to come, but now at the time of his death it feels as though he was fighting against a raging tide which has welled up on our shores." Some thoughts a week on from the passing of Pope Francis.

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What we mean when we say 'progress'

And what it means to move against the times

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Lal Dhillon @laldhillon.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

Some thoughts for the quiet of #holysaturday, about the moment where our idea of God collides with the real thing. #easter

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The Quiet Day

Some thoughts on the day when God lies dead

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Sam Halpert @samhalpert.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Even accepting the premise that AI produces useful writing (which no one should), using AI in education is like using a forklift at the gym. The weights do not actually need to be moved from place to place. That is not the work. The work is what happens within you.

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Lal Dhillon @laldhillon.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Records like this are illuminating. Words like this could role off the tongue of twenty or more politicians in any western democracy. They normalise depravity in an artistic and subtle way that we aren't really inoculated against.

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Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

A tricky thing about modern society is that no one has any idea when they don’t die. Like, the number of lives saved by controlling air pollution in America is probably over 200,000 per year, but the number of people who think their life was saved by controlling air pollution is zero.

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Jared Stacy @jaredstacy.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

Where “bothsides-ism” prevails in the churches, where the slogan, “let us not talk politics” rides a wave of pious silence to protect the economic interests of churches, we sympathize with creeping totalitarianism that is actively destroying the space of and possibility for political difference.

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Lal Dhillon @laldhillon.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

'Oh no, my cheating opponent has been caught cheating and disqualified - this will surely work in their favour' - it's obvious nonsense. Even if it *does* boost support for the far right, allowing your opponent to break the rules with impunity will probably be worse for you.

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Jared Stacy @jaredstacy.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

If your god causes fires but the democrats control hurricanes, there’s a deep theological paranoia at work; it’s the church’s responsibility to resist this disoriented imagination split between ideology and theology

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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

I see three distinct phases. Pre-Fox, when opinion was diverse but actual facts were indisputable. Fox/Trump, where objective truth was subjected to the false equivalence of ‘alternative facts’ (ie lies). And now, where media & tech platform owners collude with him to drown out the truth altogether.

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Jared Stacy @jaredstacy.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

The fact checking activisms of tech platforms were always more public relations than comprehensive attempts to dam up the torrent of mis/disinfo. Remember, the logic of these platforms (no matter what slogans they use) is committed to capturing data on every aspect our lives.

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Lal Dhillon @laldhillon.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

It's hard to think of a worse aberration than a genAI sermon. Preaching is a spiritual and relational activity. You might as well ask the machine to pray for you while you're at it.

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Lal Dhillon @laldhillon.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

#theTraitors is microcosm of the UK: equal parts dumb, dystopian and wholesome. You've got a lowkey racist pile on of someone for being nice+a doctor, a very smart black woman running rings around everyone else, and someone who is pretending to be welsh for reasons only she fully understands.

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David Simpkin @simplerdave.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

One of the great things about #TheTraitors is that it doesn't (yet) seem to be being played by people who've seen 'The Traitors'.

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Lal Dhillon @laldhillon.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

All my best photos have the bairn in, but I quite like these too

Photo of a fence with ornaments in the Scottish hills

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Lal Dhillon @laldhillon.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

This thread nails it. GenAI advocates at uni don't realise that they are devaluing their product because they think the product is the writing the student produces and not the student themselves.

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Lal Dhillon @laldhillon.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

This would be fine if there were AI tools which genuinely improved the learning process, but there aren't. In most cases it makes things worse e.g by encouraging plagiarism or feeding students bad info. I'm not obligated to use a bad, unethical tool just because it cost a lot of money to make.

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Jared Stacy @jaredstacy.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

Advent invites us to dare talk of hope in a time of despair and dread. But the hope of Advent isn’t fanciful sentiment. It’s gritty trust. Wide-eyed honesty. Facing hopeless human situations, clinging to God’s promise of deliverance. Like the prophet Jeremiah, buying a plot of land during a siege.

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Lina Toth @linatoth.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

Theology in Scotland journal's themed issue on Reimagining Church and Society is out now - and the access is free! For an introduction, have a look at my editorial at ojs.st-andrews.ac.uk/index.php/TI...

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Theology in Scotland

Theology in Scotland is a journal of theology which is general in scope, but which is rooted in the Scottish theological tradition.

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Lal Dhillon @laldhillon.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Day 13 - Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #BookSky💙📚 #Books #BookChallenge

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Lal Dhillon @laldhillon.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Day 12 - Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #BookSky💙📚 #Books #BookChallenge

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Lal Dhillon @laldhillon.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Day 11 - Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #BookSky💙📚 #Books #BookChallenge

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Lal Dhillon @laldhillon.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

Day 10 - Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #BookSky💙📚 #Books #BookChallenge

The Cost of Discipleship, Dieteich Bonhoeffer

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Lal Dhillon @laldhillon.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

Day 8 - Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #BookSky💙📚 #Books #BookChallenge

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Lal Dhillon @laldhillon.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Day 7 - Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #BookSky💙📚 #Books #BookChallenge

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Lal Dhillon @laldhillon.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Day 6 - Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #BookSky💙📚 #Books #BookChallenge

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Lal Dhillon @laldhillon.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

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Lal Dhillon @laldhillon.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Day 5 - Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #BookSky💙📚 #Books #BookChallenge

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Lal Dhillon @laldhillon.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Day 4 - Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #BookSky💙📚 #Books #BookChallenge

Shades of grey by Jasper Fforde - cover is a steam punk image of a man having his vision tested

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Lal Dhillon @laldhillon.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

New keyboard day - the clicky clacks make it feel like I'm being productive (we'll see if that's actually the case) ✍️

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Lal Dhillon @laldhillon.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Day 3 - Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #BookSky💙📚 #Books #BookChallenge

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Lal Dhillon @laldhillon.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

So my wee boy (who's normally a very good eater) had decided he doesn't like the flaky bits of a croissant, so here I am 'peeling' a fresh pastry in a (very nice) coffee shop...

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Lal Dhillon @laldhillon.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Optimist: the cup is half full Pessimist: the glass is half empty Theologian: the glass is self-emptying

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Lal Dhillon @laldhillon.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Just finished re-reading the screwtape letters, and among many reflections I can't help but think that in some other universe CS Lewis ended up as a world renowned writer of Lovecraftian horror.

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Lal Dhillon @laldhillon.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Day 1 - Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #BookSky💙📚 #Books #BookChallenge

A boy holding a giant glowing fish - cover page of the book

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Lal Dhillon @laldhillon.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Some people actually use AI to draft their novels, and I cannot imagine a more stressful experience than proofreading something like that.

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Jaakko Husa @husajaakko.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

About writing "Whenever you are fed up with life, start writing. Ink is the great cure for all human ills, as I have found out long ago." - CS Lewis

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Lal Dhillon @laldhillon.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Go back into the fray. Go back to contested politics. Go back to Damascus, capital city of enemy Syria. ... And then the voice of God concludes, almost as an after-thought: There are still 7000 faithful (v. 19). You are not the only one. churchanew.org/brueggemann/...

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Beyond a Fetal Position — Church Anew

Even when it feels like we're alone, God reminds us: you have allies, you have purpose, and you have work to do.

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Lal Dhillon @laldhillon.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

Michael Hedges and Django Reinhardt come to mind

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Lal Dhillon @laldhillon.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

Writing and listening to the Don't Look Up soundtrack, and it's remarkable how it tells the story almost more than the script does. Chaotic, farcical big band jazz next to slow, eerie chiming sounds. Everyone milling round in a panic as the world slowly ends. 'Not with bang but a whimper'.

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