Mícheál Ó Domhnaill
@psymod.bsky.social
Clinical Psychologist interested in HIV care, stigma, long-term health, trauma, mind-body connection | Music enthusiast | 🇮🇪 in Bristol, UK | Views are my own, reposts don’t necessarily = endorsement.
Today the North Bristol NHS Trust name disappears as part of a new merged trust. I joined NBT early in my career 10 years ago & proudly work here today. It's a symbolic ending of the named place that held years of my professional becoming. A chapter closes, even as the work continues.
Episode one of Russel T Davies new show Tip Toe aired last night on C4. A sobering and resonating reminder here about life for LGBTQ+ folks in 2026, delivered through superb writing. www.radiotimes.com/tv/drama/tip...
Tip Toe review: An urgent, state-of-the-nation drama from Russell T Davies
This five-part series, starring Alan Cumming and David Morrissey, isn't just sobering – it's visceral and chilling.
radiotimes.com
Durham County Council, run by Reform, pulled £2,500 from Durham Pride. But the Durham Miners Association, mindful of the support from LGBT communities during the miners strike, stepped in and, along with other Unions made contributions to make this year’s Durham Pride bigger than ever before. 🏳️🌈💪❤️
‘Bigger and better than ever’: how Durham Pride beat Reform’s funding axe with help from the miners
Solidarity between LGBTQ+ people and unions has saved an event denied ‘a single penny’ of council money
theguardian.com
Lidl has opened a pub in Belfast… this video breaks down the historical religious, legal, and financial reasons behind it youtu.be/HV0wDx3rbD0?...
Why Lidl is opening a pub in Belfast | In Case You Missed It
YouTube video by BBC News
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We should avoid reducing chemsex to simply “bad choices,”, impulsivity, or purely biomedical risk. Instead, aim to understand what need it meets (e.g., connection), what it functions to regulate (e.g., shame), and the individual context (e.g., stigma, trauma). www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Chemsex, HIV and gay men: an object relations perspective
There is growing concern and controversy surrounding the rise of ‘chemsex’ – the use of psychoactive drugs during sex – among gay men. Concern centres on public health implications and the social c...
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HIV prevention and treatment is a public health matter, not a political one. This is tet another desperate attempt to further divide and scapegoat www.attitude.co.uk/news/nigel-f...
Nigel Farage pledges to deny asylum seekers access to NHS HIV treatment
Nigel Farage pledged yesterday (14 April) that he will double down on his 2015 promise to ban asylum seekers from HIV/AIDS NHS treatment.
attitude.co.uk
A sad day for Donegal. Rest peacefully Moyà Brennan - the First Lady of Celtic music. youtu.be/YmUxa_nSKZE?...
Téir Abhaile Riú (Go Home With You, Now) - Clannad, 1976
YouTube video by CR's Video Vaults
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An impressive win for county Donegal against Kerry in the GAA senior league final in Croke Park today 🔰 Donegal were outstanding last year, but suffered an out-of-character loss at the All Ireland 25. Crushing. When a team can bounce back from the pain of that = a great example of using a loss well.
Ocean FM Sport@oceanfmsport.bsky.social · 4mo agoDonegal win Division 1 league title in style Donegal 3-20 Kerry 2-10 www.oceanfm.ie/sport/donega...
I’ve always found what Nina said so effing striking. Freedom isn’t happiness, success or comfort. She says it’s when fear no longer rules… to live authentically in a world that often tries to silence, diminish, or endanger people…
This Wolf Alice gig at Laneways Festival gets ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ What a band 📢 Charisma, uniqueness, nerve and talent ✅ youtu.be/jlWy_fPGBLI?...
Wolf Alice | Full Set (live at Laneway 2026)
YouTube video by triple j
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If you are part of a university or UK facing research organisation, publisher, funder, learned society and they are still posting on X - they're in a rather uncomfortable minority now. Perhaps point them to the eXit. My piece for the @lseimpactblog.bsky.social blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci... 1/3
The Spice Girls bringing the energy to the Brit Awards 1997. I was only a wain. First time seeing the Brits. It was the height of ‘spice mania’. It was so exciting 😍 I’m so ready for the Brit Awards 2026 tonight 🤘
The little pockets of space we used to have in the NHS have been gradually redefined as 'waste'. Space to respond well to a dynamic context; space to have MDTs to support good care; space for listening & to hear how everyone's doing. It is not better for everything & everyone to be completely full.
I shared this article with the incredible HIV specialist nurses in our clinic. Like many NHS workers, they ‘do more with less’ - going above and beyond on good will. They bring so much heart to the role. I hope they found this validating. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
@england.nhs.uk Many patients - particularly those with histories of trauma, coercion, abuse, stigma, immigration insecurity, or mental health crisis - already carry a baseline fear of surveillance. www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
NHS deal with AI firm Palantir called into question after officials’ concerns revealed
Exclusive: in 2025 briefing to Wes Streeting, officials warned reputation of tech firm behind US ICE operations would hinder rollout of data system in UK
theguardian.com
📢 In our latest newsletter: ➡️Welcome to our new Chair, Tim Whittlestone ➡️National HIV Testing Week: where to get tested, plus more sexual health news ➡️ Get involved with NIHR #BePartofResearch Read: mailchi.mp/bristolhealt... Subscribe: bristolhealthpartners.org.uk/newsletter/
I watched ‘I Swear’ & I’m still feeling it in my chest. It’s heartbreaking and beautiful. I’m thinking a lot about the people who didn’t persecute John Davidson-who chose curiosity, steadiness, and support when society rejected him. They gave me relief. 10/10 - do watch! www.imdb.com/title/tt3151...
I Swear (2025) ⭐ 8.4 | Biography, Drama, History
2h | R
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Finally, a politician prepared to fight against the huge roll in public life being handed over to Palantir by our corrupt govts. Why is Palantir being given NHS contracts? They are reportedly involved with rounding up migrants in the US and targeting mainly civilians in Gaza.
Farrukh@implausibleblog.bsky.social · 6mo agoZack Polanski, "Palantir.. £240 million contract last month" "That was lobbied by Global Counsel which is Peter Mandelson's lobbying group" "The idea that a defence company from the US has its fingerprints all over our healthcare system, alongside Peter Mandelson"
This is v worrying. The NHS Trust I work for have signed a contract to use Palatir’s software. This company is associated with corruption. If you work in the NHS, it is possible to influence the road ahead here notopalantir.goodlawproject.org/email-to-tar...
Say no to Palantir in the NHS
NHS England is rolling out software to run our health records from Palantir - fight back
notopalantir.goodlawproject.org
LittleGravitas, →EU immigrant, UK→ emigrant, anti-Brexit@catanonim.me · 6mo agoPalantir :: Mandelson :: McSweeney :: Labour :: UK :: NHS. This completely stinks.
At Christmas, we often try to summon old feelings, those of joy, warmth, and belonging, as if they can be reactivated on command. But what if we didn’t force it? Christmas doesn’t have to be remembered joy. It can be present truth. This piece really resonated.
The Conversation UK@uk.theconversation.com · 8mo agoThe pressure to be joyful can make Christmas feel isolating. A psychologist explains how you can find connection on your own terms.
A look at the use of aversion (shock) therapy in the NHS to ‘treat homosexuality’ in the 60s and 70s. So frightening. My heart goes out to the survivors of this abuse www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
Shock Treatment: The Gay Therapy Scandal
New evidence reveals how the NHS subjected hundreds of LGBT+ people to controversial electric shock therapies. Survivors now want answers on how it was allowed to happen.
bbc.co.uk
This World AIDS Day, 1 December, we remember those we’ve lost to HIV. Join with our community to promise, pledge and take a stand for people living with HIV – because it’s more than a ribbon. Donate now. https://www.tht.org.uk/pin
1st Dec is World AIDS Day, seems even more significant this year. HIV in 2025: science surges. Politics lags-funding cuts, rights crackdowns & service disruptions threaten 2030 goals. Progress is real, yet increasingly unequal by country & community. I’ll be wearing my pin in solidarity this year ✊
The Trump administration’s cuts to AIDS funding will result in roughly 3 million additional deaths over the next five years.
Apoorva Mandavilli@apoorvanyt.bsky.social · 8mo agoSCOOP: The Trump administration has instructed employees and grantees not to use U.S. funds to commemorate World AIDS Day — because the observance was started by the World Health Organization. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/h...
Up until the year 2000 it was illegal exist as a sexual minority person in the British Military. LGBT people faced extreme persecution, even imprisonment. Painful. Some people have shared their stories as part of a short BBC documentary www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
I Was There - Booted Out by the Gay Ban
Until the year 2000, it was illegal to be gay in the British military. LGBT+ people in the forces faced intrusive interrogations and in some cases imprisonment. This is their story.
bbc.co.uk
Participants in the included studies describe sexual and physical violence, verbal abuse, experiencing homelessness, and stigmatisation and discrimination relating to HIV status among the barriers to attendance 2/2
