First time having Portokalopita today even with my sweet tooth it was a little too sweet but polished it off.

My #PauseForMind Pompom is rather wonky mind need to give it another go! @mind.org.uk

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Sexism is alive and well!

I love living in Kansas City, but Missouri makes it tough each day. Reading to our young kids is essential for their development. There are currently 169,000 Missouri kids in the program, which sent out half a million books in the first three months of the year. Most won’t get new books.

We should try to introduce in our modern villages and towns what was always the lovely feature of English and Welsh villages, where the doctor, the grocer, the butcher and the farm labourer all lived in the same street... to see the living tapestry of a mixed community. — Aneurin Bevan, 1949

If you’re a UNISON member you should engage with this. This has the potential to be so so powerful.

Really enjoyed #SettingTheStage the #Eurovision exhibition at @mediamuseum.bsky.social more photos to follow but this one was particularly fun

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Correcting the wrongs of #Eurovision 2015, #JusticeForAnnSophie enjoyed Setting the Stage: 70 Years of the Eurovision Song Contest @mediamuseum.bsky.social

Can tell it’s the end of half term kids running feral on tram parent switched off reading new paper deliberately sat them away from themselves.

Rishi Sunak tells Radio 4 that "AI is changing every aspect of our economy and our lives, and if I was back in office and looked at my diary and where I was going to spend my time, I would spend it on that" At no point does he or the BBC mention the £373,000 given to him every year by an AI company

The #MorningStar has an excellent article on #ProstateCancerScreening, the harms of indiscriminate PSA testing really are clear, based onthe JCVI reprot last year www.morningstaronline.co.uk/article/pros...

Excellent brief article on the #StarHomes that have been trailed in #Tanzania they cost $8818, were allocated by lottery and resulted in 44% less malaria on the children living in them!

Book 16 of 2026 #Deviants by #SantanuBhattacharya, can’t wait to discuss at Book club in a few weeks #BookSky #QueerBookSky

I still find it really weird that somebody thought it was a good idea to name a coworking space Colony I get it probably referring to worker bees.

This headline is fuel for the right-wing anti-migrant reaction machine, but the article reveals the employer knowingly brought her to the UK under a visitor visa to employ her, then denied her a work permit—and most importantly!—refused to pay her any wages. This looks approximate to modern slavery

Bangaranga #Eurovision

Come on Aidan #Malta #Eurovision

A reminder not that we needed it that JJ is an excellent vocalist #Eurovision

“… the genie of shame has finally escaped the bottle; you don’t know what the future holds, but you know the genie will never go back in.” #Deviants by #SantanuBhattacharya #BookSky #QueerBookSky #QueerLit #Shame

96% of all medical graduates from 1800-1850 were from Scottish Universities with many eminent graduates going on to establish medical schools across the world including in North America and Australasia #HistoryOfMedicine #HistoryOfMedEd

Had an excellent day at the @parkinsons.org.uk Mental Health Hub held @bpsofficial.bsky.social. Lots of interesting things to reflect on. Connections made and to make and great resources to share. Really love the idea of hopamine that was shared today pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36806516/

UK School Report 1983 by #TamJoseph currently on display at the @wellcomecollection.bsky.social it shows a black student moving through the education system from Good at Sports , to likes music to needs surveillance. A comment on the adultification of black children #Racism #RacismInUK

“I feel better for writing it out. It is almost as efficacious as swearing would be and much more respectable.” L. M. Montgomery 1904

“…you’re bad at everything you were supposed to be good at, bad at sports, at having male friends, bad at carrying an unwieldy body, at mastering the butch gait, your hips ever so slightly swinging even if you don’t will them to.” Deviants by #SantanuBhattacharya #Booksky #QueerLit #QueerBookSky

23% of people using the #NHS received an appointment invitation after it had already elapsed! From #King’sFund Healthwatch England National Voices via @bmj.com

Book 15 of 2026 #Valencia by @michelletea.bsky.social, finished just in time for #BookClub. Some excellent prose in this. I think the other book club I’m in is going to read it too. #BookSky #QueerBookSky

Sharing, without comment, British newspapers’ depictions of the only Jewish person currently leading a UK political party . Times. Mail. Telegraph. Sun.

In Law & Order SVU S11 E19 Conned from 2010 they show unmodified ECT i.e without anaesthetic. The use of modified ECT has been forty widespread since the 1960s. Interesting that they choose to depict ECT in this way which would not have been common practice in New York in 2010. #PsychiatryInTheMedia

(Audio) book 14 of 2026 The Palestine-Israeli Conflict: A Beginner's Guide By Dan Cohn-Sherbok and Dawoud El-Alami. Honestly parts of it read like a timeline on Wikipedia. The discussions at the end were more interesting and would’ve been better to be integrated throughout #BookSky

“The music would cease, one of us would die or else we’d just break up and this drove us to drink from each other like two 12-year-olds sneaking vodka from the liquor cabinet … “ #Valencia by #MichelleTea #BookSky #QueerBookSky #QueerLit #LesbianLit

If you are on #PrEP the new Liverpool Drug Interactions interaction checker is now written in in none medical language. Currently in Beta and looking for feedback #HIV prep-druginteractions.org

I’m so obsessed with Pierre De Maere And his new single Je pense à vous youtu.be/kb3VccFdBpw?...

Season 11 episode 11 of L&O SVU has Benson saying “even with an undetectable viral load, you can still spread the [#HIV] virus”. Episode is from 2010 so two years after the Swiss Statement but several years prior to U=U being accepted more widely. Should the episode have a scientific disclaimer?

(Audio) book 13 of 2026 #MontmorencyReturns by #EleanorUpdale read the original 5 in school. It is fun how the historical events are woven into the narrative #BookSky #YAFiction

RSV vaccination is being rolled out to 3 million more older people in the England will offered to all over 80 and all living in care homes. I hope uptake is good. #Vaccines #RespiratorySyncytialVirus #RSV

US #SupremeCourt has overturned the Colorado state ban on “ #ConversionTherapy” to minors as it “probably” violates constitutional protections on #FreeSpeech. Sad day for the United States. #LGBTQRights #HumanRights

'Moreover, among those waiting over 72 hours in the ED, almost a quarter (24%) are mental health related and include people with dementia, people with serious mental illness and those in mental health crisis.' /2

'Around 3% of all ED attendances are mental health related. However, people experiencing mental health problems are twice as likely as other patients to remain in the ED for more than 12 hours....' /1

New report from Health Services Safety Investigations Bureau #HSSIB. It highlights the absence of clear legal powers to lawfully prevent vulnerable individuals from leaving the ED while awaiting assessment or admission. #MHA #LiaisonPsychiatry #PatientSafety www.hssib.org.uk/patient-safe...

I am very sad to hear of the Death of #AggreyBurke. He was an inspirational teacher that taught me as a white middle class medical student, and confronted me about race and racism in Britain. He changed my whole worldview. RIP a Great Briton. www.theguardian.com/society/2022...

Dr #AggreyBurke studied the “repatriation” of mentally ill people to Jamaica and found some had died by suicide and others were ostracised, there was a widely held belief “England mad you”.

Dr #AggreyBurke and his collaborator Joe Collier wrote to the Equal Opportunities Comission once they had established St George’s was using a computer algorithm with consistently gave women and “non-Europeans” lower scores resulting in fewer admissions. #RacismInMedicine #SexismInMedicine

#PeterRabbit is eating long scarlet short top radishes not carrots! Makes sense that he has a radish binge!

Book 11 of 2026 #GameChanger by @rachelreidwrites.bsky.social, felt naughty to watch the series before reading so I feel I must read this before reading #HeatedRivalry. #QueerBookSky #BookSky

After the recent stories re Marmalade and the U.K.- EU trade deal, I can’t stop looking at Marmalade and lo and behold here is Marmalade in the #LakeDistrict in the U.K. that already states what fruit it is made from #Brexit #Marmalade #EU

This week, Brexit finally killed our family business. We cleared out our warehouse, handed back the keys, paid the final bills and said goodbye to our last employee. What was once a thriving firm died a slow, sad death, all thanks to Farage, Johnson and the gullible idiots they conned. 1/18

(Audio) book 10 of 2026 #YouDontHaveToBeMadToWorkHere by Dr. #BenjiWaterhouse. Two things that stuff with me nothing to do with psychiatry but the NHS - a queue in the canteen waiting for chips and teabags literally being padlocked away.

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