Work done about us without us, that doesn't give us power and allow us to create new structures, it will fail and it will erode psychiatric survivor rights gains.
Cath Beard
@seabeard.bsky.social
Books | Birth | Brains Peer support and coproduction lead Plays fast and loose with Lego instructions
Deep distrust of today’s rhetoric around ‘academic’ (!) focussed schools. Working class kids deserve art for arts sake, literature for literatures sake, science for science sake. Because that’s what it really means- a two tier system where middle class kids get a classical education >
The Lindsay Clancy case is unbearable, and a shocking indictment of our society that it is being televised. In the UK we have dedicated mental health services for people facing moderate to severe mental health conditions in pregnancy and two years postnatal. Your GP, MW, HV can refer you
This seems like a fascinating and important book. Anyone out there working with adolescent OCD who might be interested in receiving it with an eye on writing a review?
Off to Brum to see Joe Lycett’s exhibition. A first installment in what I am terming ‘Mummy Adventure Fridays’ (they are 13 and nearly 18). They are thrilled.
I'm begging the normals to consider listening to all the mad people and all the MANY decades of data we have that confirms locking up undesirables in psych hospitals is not the answer to antisocial behaviour. It doesn't fix this problem and we have rights to liberty like you do.
Sam@samd.bsky.social · last wk.I don’t think they should be thrown in jail. I think we need well-funded and humane conservatorship programs at mental hospitals so people like this can get better instead of continuing to spiral downwards and likely ending up in jail anyway
On a train and just heard described, as a unit of measurement, ‘something that would have been a big deal in 2009’ and I love this?
Amid the social and political panic about falling birthrates, why not ask new mothers what they think? | Lucy Jones
Amid the social and political panic about falling birthrates, why not ask new mothers what they think? | Lucy Jones
New research reveals deep anxieties. Medals and cash bonuses have been mooted as incentives, but the real need is for women to have their feelings valued, says author and journalist Lucy Jones
theguardian.com
I enjoyed The Odyssey, leaving me out of step with Bluesky zeitgeist yet again. It’s a retelling. One of many. As with most Nolan films, one for the big screen and the volume up.
Marge Simpson's Exasperated Look
Alt: Marge Simpson's Exasperated Look
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The slight ‘oh an Eng lit graduate finally has the reigns’ pride dissipated bloody quickly. How Green indeed. It’ll be Ayn Rand for social care next.
The authoritarian community of pure Welsh society run by the very purest men is gone, hence the retrospective title. It’s probably Britain’s most overtly fascist novel. Obviously the much-loved 1939 film cuts all of this and just features every Irish actor in America singing a lot.
Private Eye tells me that How Green Was My Valley is one of Andy Burnham’s favourite books. Oh dear. I write a PhD on 1930s Welsh mining novels, including a whole chapter on Llewellyn’s work. I even read the terrible sequels. It really, really isn’t a story of working-class solidarity etc.
"Our findings suggest that, without focused climate mitigation efforts, temperature-related suicide mortality could increase substantially in the coming decades owing to rising temperatures, underscoring the urgent need for integrated public health strategies /1 www.nature.com/articles/s44...
Multi-country projections of temperature-related suicide mortality - Nature Mental Health
Using data from 751 locations in 26 countries and climate projections under 3 emissions scenarios, this study models temperature–suicide associations and projects future temperature-related suicide mo...
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Les Femmes se battent, by Louis Léopold Boilly, 1818, 📸 by @CTriballeau
I have similar trews and went flying over a step in my house, bouncing off a cast iron radiator on the way down. 😬
Eleanor G@zaichishka.bsky.social · 3w agoSinging "treacherous trews" to the Roobarb theme, and "danger-pants" to the Danger Mouse theme.
My kids had a valuable life lesson last night- no one should ever expect England to lose more than the English. My first World Cup memory was Italia 90. It’s a rite of passage.
Congratulations to the government on saving 2700 jobs by nationalising British Steel. Now, about the 18,000 university jobs lost in the last 18 months, with more coming…
Sad to hear of Sam Neill’s death. Loved him in pretty much everything and parenting a dinosaur obsessed autistic kid means he became a solid feature of the past 18 years in our family life. Thanks Sam x
Lamentation (flipped, detail), by Gerard David, 1515-23, 📸 by Roberto Schmidt
A six-month investigation by Byline Times reveals that with the support of Palantir's Peter Thiel, Reform's policy chief James Orr has used the University of Cambridge as a student recruitment ground for a hard-right, theocratic political project aimed at bolstering talent in Farage’s party
Palantir Co-Founder Peter Thiel and Reform UK's Cambridge University Recruitment Pipeline Project Revealed
The world-renowned academic institution has nothing to say in response to a six-month investigation by Byline Times raising serious concerns about the safeguarding of students and foreign influence at...
bylinetimes.com
When I was a youngen and the Guardian for some reason felt it appropriate to give me a newspaper column, I wrote a piece about what it means to be a Welsh woman - inspired by Bonnie Tyler www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
What Welsh women can teach the world | Ellie Mae O'Hagan
Ellie Mae O'Hagan: We're not 'country girls' as the media would have it, but creative, passionate, open and free. Just ask Bonnie Tyler
theguardian.com
Oh Bonnie Tyler. I worked at Swansea Debenhams throughout my undergraduate grad and postgrad years. Most famous person I ever sold cushions to (second was Mike from The Alarm). This is why @plashingvole.bsky.social called me the Hunter S Thompson of soft furnishings btw.
Binface: Vote for me and you wont need another by election later on so I'll be saving the tax payer £350k without having to do anything. Put that on the side of a bus Presenter is humourless but this worth a watch 😂😂
Count Binface on Newsnight
YouTube video by Nimrod Kamer
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"Lived experience narratives are mobilised as proof that the system is listening, rather than evidence that it is not working." An anonymous NSUN member writes on the extraction, curation and management of lived experience voices. www.nsun.org.uk/lived-experi...
Lived experience without change is just storytelling
Narratives are increasingly extracted, curated, managed, and circulated within systems that remain fundamentally unchanged.
nsun.org.uk
Being kept alive is not the same as feeling safe. 🛡️ New UK interview study: former patients define psychological safety as validation, fairness and protection from lasting harm. buff.ly/1xU1JTJ #MentalHealth #InpatientCare
