Darren Philip
@darphilip.bsky.social
Pracademic - intergenerational worship, stewardship, faith formation. Interests: curling, Scots leid, South African politics... 🏴 🇿🇦 🇪🇺 Co-author of 'Being An Intergenerational Church' and 'Living Generously'. He/him.
Replaced by an AI voice that can't pronounce Camelon.
EXCLUSIVE: We spoke to the woman who has been the voice of ScotRail trains for 20 years, who learned she was being replaced by AI only after a friend heard the new synthetic voice onboard
I’ve voiced ScotRail trains for 20 years and was replaced with AI without being told
www.thenational.scot
May 31, 2025 at 10:45 AM
Replaced by an AI voice that can't pronounce Camelon.
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Why are they reporting it like it's a paramilitary coup?
May 31, 2025 at 7:11 AM
Why are they reporting it like it's a paramilitary coup?
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Dear Mr. Clegg
I have started a business, selling the contents of your house
I knew when I launched I did not have legal access your house
Without this access my company will not be profitable
Others have told me I have a flawed business model, but I disagree
Please advise how I should proceed
I have started a business, selling the contents of your house
I knew when I launched I did not have legal access your house
Without this access my company will not be profitable
Others have told me I have a flawed business model, but I disagree
Please advise how I should proceed
May 24, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Dear Mr. Clegg
I have started a business, selling the contents of your house
I knew when I launched I did not have legal access your house
Without this access my company will not be profitable
Others have told me I have a flawed business model, but I disagree
Please advise how I should proceed
I have started a business, selling the contents of your house
I knew when I launched I did not have legal access your house
Without this access my company will not be profitable
Others have told me I have a flawed business model, but I disagree
Please advise how I should proceed
I wish everyone at #ga2025 would stop saying this is the first time we've had a conference session. There was one in 2006 to launch the strategy for young people, led by none other than Rosie Frew!
May 21, 2025 at 1:08 PM
I wish everyone at #ga2025 would stop saying this is the first time we've had a conference session. There was one in 2006 to launch the strategy for young people, led by none other than Rosie Frew!
John Williams's speech to #ga2025 giving lived experience of palliative care is possibly the most moving address I've ever heard at a General Assembly.
May 19, 2025 at 3:28 PM
John Williams's speech to #ga2025 giving lived experience of palliative care is possibly the most moving address I've ever heard at a General Assembly.
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Whatever Jesus said about love, many Christians find it easier to redefine love than follow his straight-forward command. They constrict the circle of who counts as a “disciple” and limit the sphere of love. Love wasn’t for anyone. Just those who think like you.
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Sunday Musings
The Centrality of Love
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May 18, 2025 at 12:09 PM
Whatever Jesus said about love, many Christians find it easier to redefine love than follow his straight-forward command. They constrict the circle of who counts as a “disciple” and limit the sphere of love. Love wasn’t for anyone. Just those who think like you.
open.substack.com/pub/dianabut...
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Yup. That’s the one.
May 13, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Yup. That’s the one.
Nah. Claire Balding all the way. #TheTraitors #CelebrityTraitors
EXCL: Polling company Ipsos have given me exclusive polling on who the public think will win Celebrity Traitors.
When the line-up was leaked, they polled the public.
Stephen Fry they saw most likely to win (16%), followed by Alan Carr, Jonathan Ross and Kate Garraway (6% each)
When the line-up was leaked, they polled the public.
Stephen Fry they saw most likely to win (16%), followed by Alan Carr, Jonathan Ross and Kate Garraway (6% each)
May 13, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Nah. Claire Balding all the way. #TheTraitors #CelebrityTraitors
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In electing a serious and fearless progressive, the College of Cardinals looks like pretty much the only electorate in the world that hasn't had its brains boiled by far right propaganda & toxic social media. For a Catholic of my generation, this is an almost unbelievable development.
May 8, 2025 at 5:49 PM
In electing a serious and fearless progressive, the College of Cardinals looks like pretty much the only electorate in the world that hasn't had its brains boiled by far right propaganda & toxic social media. For a Catholic of my generation, this is an almost unbelievable development.
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Please help us spread the word about our upcoming Gifford Lectures series! Free to attend and open to all. Sign up here: www.abdn.ac.uk/dhpa/events/...
April 14, 2025 at 10:33 AM
Please help us spread the word about our upcoming Gifford Lectures series! Free to attend and open to all. Sign up here: www.abdn.ac.uk/dhpa/events/...
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Something amazing happened to me yesterday. I went to a free concert at a local church - The Gustav Holst Ensemble - & half way through the second piece - Brahms Piano Quartet no. 3 - I noticed that tears were streaming down my face. A moment of absolute beauty. Never known anything like it.
March 23, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Something amazing happened to me yesterday. I went to a free concert at a local church - The Gustav Holst Ensemble - & half way through the second piece - Brahms Piano Quartet no. 3 - I noticed that tears were streaming down my face. A moment of absolute beauty. Never known anything like it.
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I’d like to announce my forthcoming US history book, covering a decisive but tumultuous era in that country’s history, titled “The trade policies of the United States: 10:30 am to 1:30 pm on Friday, March 7, 2025” It will be 400 pages.
March 7, 2025 at 6:15 PM
I’d like to announce my forthcoming US history book, covering a decisive but tumultuous era in that country’s history, titled “The trade policies of the United States: 10:30 am to 1:30 pm on Friday, March 7, 2025” It will be 400 pages.
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Reality check.
Thank you, Financial Times.
Thank you, Financial Times.
February 25, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Reality check.
Thank you, Financial Times.
Thank you, Financial Times.
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You simply cannot beat a Uranus joke. Top, top work here.
February 26, 2025 at 4:43 PM
You simply cannot beat a Uranus joke. Top, top work here.
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When a Frenchman is scoring points against you in your own office it's probably best not to pretend to be internationally respected
President Macron humiliated Donald Trump on live television. He shut him up and fact checked him mid sentence.
Trump sat there and smiled. #StandWithUkraine
Trump sat there and smiled. #StandWithUkraine
February 24, 2025 at 9:14 PM
When a Frenchman is scoring points against you in your own office it's probably best not to pretend to be internationally respected
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Good work from Macron. A relief to see him sat there, speaking truth, injecting moral clarity.
Macron, with Trump scowling next to him, says "the aggressor is Russia"
February 24, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Good work from Macron. A relief to see him sat there, speaking truth, injecting moral clarity.
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“Better is a poor but wise youth than an old but foolish king, who will no longer take advice.” Ecclesiastes 4:13 #DailyPrayer
February 20, 2025 at 6:36 AM
“Better is a poor but wise youth than an old but foolish king, who will no longer take advice.” Ecclesiastes 4:13 #DailyPrayer
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Five things I achieved last week:
- Naps
- Snoozes
- Resting my eyes
- Dozing
- Writing this list
- Naps
- Snoozes
- Resting my eyes
- Dozing
- Writing this list
February 23, 2025 at 10:21 PM
Five things I achieved last week:
- Naps
- Snoozes
- Resting my eyes
- Dozing
- Writing this list
- Naps
- Snoozes
- Resting my eyes
- Dozing
- Writing this list
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Pres Trump: ‘I think Europe has given $100bn [to Ukraine] and we’ve given, let’s say, $300bn plus.’ The most reliable figures show the EU has given $138bn to Ukraine, while the US has given $114bn. In 2024 Europe and Canada provided nearly 60% of NATO’s security aid to Ukraine.
February 19, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Pres Trump: ‘I think Europe has given $100bn [to Ukraine] and we’ve given, let’s say, $300bn plus.’ The most reliable figures show the EU has given $138bn to Ukraine, while the US has given $114bn. In 2024 Europe and Canada provided nearly 60% of NATO’s security aid to Ukraine.
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Calling Zelensky a “Dictator” must be where the line is drawn.
It is my sincere hope that the whole political spectrum in the United Kingdom will speak with one voice in opposition to Trump’s lies.
It is my sincere hope that the whole political spectrum in the United Kingdom will speak with one voice in opposition to Trump’s lies.
February 19, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Calling Zelensky a “Dictator” must be where the line is drawn.
It is my sincere hope that the whole political spectrum in the United Kingdom will speak with one voice in opposition to Trump’s lies.
It is my sincere hope that the whole political spectrum in the United Kingdom will speak with one voice in opposition to Trump’s lies.
Big 'My lovely horse' vibes on #BBCapprentice
February 6, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Big 'My lovely horse' vibes on #BBCapprentice
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Jesus never called his followers to defend Christianity, a “Christian nation,” or even their Christian churches.
Jesus called them to defend the poor, the oppressed, and the hurting.
Stop manipulating Jesus for the benefit of a few. Get to feeding, healing, and peacemaking.
Jesus called them to defend the poor, the oppressed, and the hurting.
Stop manipulating Jesus for the benefit of a few. Get to feeding, healing, and peacemaking.
February 1, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Jesus never called his followers to defend Christianity, a “Christian nation,” or even their Christian churches.
Jesus called them to defend the poor, the oppressed, and the hurting.
Stop manipulating Jesus for the benefit of a few. Get to feeding, healing, and peacemaking.
Jesus called them to defend the poor, the oppressed, and the hurting.
Stop manipulating Jesus for the benefit of a few. Get to feeding, healing, and peacemaking.
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A god that needs a government to enforce their will is a false god invented by tyrants to further their own pursuit of wealth and power.
January 14, 2025 at 1:19 AM
A god that needs a government to enforce their will is a false god invented by tyrants to further their own pursuit of wealth and power.
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After building a career pushing anti-vax views, Robert Kennedy said today (at his confirmation hearings) that all **his kids are vaccinated**. Don’t look at what he says (anti-vax is a lucrative position)- look at what he does.
January 29, 2025 at 4:56 PM
After building a career pushing anti-vax views, Robert Kennedy said today (at his confirmation hearings) that all **his kids are vaccinated**. Don’t look at what he says (anti-vax is a lucrative position)- look at what he does.