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Susannah Black Roberts
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Susannah Black Roberts
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Christian Humanist / Journo / Editor @Plough, @mereorthodoxy / Rooted cosmopolitan / Wife to @zugzwanged / A spider sitting at the center of my web / Stay Human
- What if Peppa Pig were about 30-50 feral hogs
- The revocation of churches sanctuary status against ICE raids is, whatever else one may think, a violation of a tradition that goes back not just through Christendom but to Israelite law and Greek custom. This was what Ajax violated when he seized Cassandra from Athena's temple.
- Due to Texas's abortion laws: 255 babies died post-birth from birth defects who likely would have been aborted. At least 16,000 additional babies were born healthy.Infant mortality rate rose 8% in wake of Texas abortion ban, study shows apnews.com/article/aborti…
- Waiting to take off at JFK, announcements: “F*ckin nightmare, there are planes everywhere, could be an hour.” Ten second pause “I’m terribly sorry about the language, I was trying to communicate with colleagues, anyway, yes, lots of planes, what with the government shutdown…”
- OK this is WILD you know that thing about how all the "witches" who were persecuted/killed during various inquisitions were actually pagan wise women victimized by the bigoted Catholic Church you know who invented that idea yes it's Heinrich Himmler research.uca.ac.uk/3283/8/HexenAr…
- Wading into the homeschooling debate No one wants to hear this but the ideal schooling situation is three orphaned siblings and a young Oxbridge grad tutor hired by their wealthy but emotionally distant guardian.
- A society where there are suicide prevention notices on bridges and suicide promotion notices on trains.Who at @TfL thought it was remotely appropriate to promote assisted suicide on the London Underground?
- MEN WHAT IS PREVENTING YOU FROM BEING A FRENCH DETECTIVEActual shot (not AI!) of a French detective working the case of the French Crown Jewels that were stolen from the Louvre in a brazen daylight robbery. Somehow he looks like he’s smoking even without a cigarette in his hand, but surely everything you know about life is screaming
Readers added contextThe photo is real, taken outside the Louvre after the jewel theft. The man in the fedora is a passerby, not a detective on the case. newsweek.com/louvre-heist-d… newsroom.ap.org/editorial-phot… - Batman is the most Episcopalian coded superhero in existence.You might not know this but Batman is Catholic.
- Now i don’t to be cheeky but using a Chesterton quote in an anti-obesity message is a bit um"When a society loses its moral compass, it collapses from within." – G.K. Chesterton A Thread Exposing the Decline of the West 1. The Celebration of Obesity
- Of US states, only South Carolina, West Virginia, and Wisconsin are meaningfully free.
- When husbands wander in and say “is there anything to snack on” what do they mean Like You can snack on anything that is a food and all the food belongs to us
