David Reed

Ordinand in the Church of England, training at @WycliffeHall in Oxford.

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Our gorgeous daughter Nora was born 11/03/21 at 4:15 AM. She has an extra chromosome for good measure, and that's just how we like her. THANK YOU @DSAInfo, @PositiveaboutDS (and others) for the work you do in affirming our daughter's life. We adore her. She's perfect.

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I’ve decided Twitter isn’t for me. Too toxic, too addictive, not good for my health. So I’m taking a hiatus - at least while I train to be a priest at Wycliffe Hall in Oxford. Friends have my contact details if you need them.

Peace x

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@WalkerMarcus Those are the gaps. Let's bridge them!

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@WalkerMarcus By the same token, young people do by and large have an egalitarian view of sexual politics- but not a sacramental understanding of the body. They have a salvific of the planet- but not the hope of a saviour.

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@moveincircles @stephen_wigmore Cope

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@sugarrrbooo @Richard_Vixen Both people who take part in it. I’m so sorry that you can’t see this without needing to be told.

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@liambeadle Next time you feel like that, remember the 40,000 lives that the smoking ban has saved! 👍

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@alicememminger @PooleHospital Gosh, 10 months. You are made of stronger stuff than me. Awful that parents have been put through this.

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Sign on the entrance to the Children’s Ward at @PooleHospital - guess which parent is crossed out?

All throughout Covid, the NHS has treated dads like we are completely irrelevant to our child’s care, and I’m getting sick of it.

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@moveincircles Is that a frickin zip they’ve added? Like their whole torso is just a meat bag they can climb out of one day.

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@Ms_Murray_ Thanks, most of my family made a joke out of it- but to me; after 9+ months of being excluded - every step of the way; it doesn’t feel like a joke.

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@mthr_alice @mickoxley Stunning painting 👌

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"Bad times, hard times, this is what people keep saying. But let us live well, and times shall be good. We are the times. Such as we are, such are the times."

Augustine.

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@sarahditum Lefty dudebros will boycott Sainsburys for placing adverts on a right wing news channel - but take away their wank fix and it's a civil rights violation.

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@digitalynn That sounds good. Wasn’t an option for us unfortunately! I’ve been very lucky to have flexible working, but of course it’s a big factor that my wife has a year off work.

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As a dad, I’m learning that there are *hundreds* of factors that tilt the burden of parental responsibility onto the mother. It’s so invisible and subtle that you get to about 6 months and feel like someone’s played a trick on you. I’m exhausted and I’m still doing less.

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@rachelcoldicutt Yes I agree; I’d much rather the police were shutting down prostitution rings and not MasterCard.

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@rachelcoldicutt I mean… who is engaged in a “moral panic” here? The people trying to prevent human trafficking, revenge porn and and underage sex… or internet dudes claiming our rights of access to online material is being taken away by Christian prudes?

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@rachelcoldicutt I simply don’t agree that “consent” is a master ethic - nor do I believe that it’s possible for platform technologies to be values agnostic.

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We told ourselves for decades that free markets and liberal societies create strong incentives for meritocratic advancement in society and hold governments accountable. Can we now put that myth to bed?