cures for the void: a helpful guide

It’s like the Kardashians hooked up with the Squid Game, gave birth to a Sopranos reboot and we’re supposed to pretend it’s the West Wing.

Stranger Things gave us some particularly fine descriptive subtitles, like my favourite..

This is very powerful. #MentalHealth

Where the separate divisions of ANTIFA landed on the beaches of Normandy on June 6, 1944:

BREAKING: Disney+ is to replace the two-season run of Andor with a recut version that runs for only five minutes, and is just Mon Mothma apologising profusely to Darth Vader for any inconvenience, and letting him have whatever he wants.

Actor Harry H. Corbett visiting his childhood area, Ardwick, Manchester, early 1970s (Mirrorpix). He lived on Earl Street and later in Wythenshawe.

If I’m being honest, I’m feeling pretty crap about my small business. It’s so bloody difficult at the moment with rising costs, US tariffs, Brexit nonsense and the threat of AI. Please have a look at what I do and repost to spread the word gailmyerscough.co.uk

Peter Greenaway's Confessions of a Window Cleaner (would be worth it for the Philip Glass soundtrack alone)

Oh my god the payoff

This site has always been an incredible resource for anyone interested in ACT and related areas: can't wait to check out the redesign!

Starmer never learns, does he?

Because everything is shit I would like to report that I just chatted with Nile Rodgers while boarding a flight and he was extremely nice. So let us not lose hope. Also his trousers were amazing.

I have no breath left in my lungs 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

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The power of metaphors: if you follow them through, sometimes they show you a possibility that the original situation (the "target" of the metaphor) didn't give you.

ACT was never meant to be static. In this workshop, I’ll walk you through its next chapter, and how you can apply it in your practice. Early bird tickets only available until August 15. Click here to learn more: stevenchayes.me/3S2eXlE

This is amongst the most impactful two minutes of broadcasting I’ve ever seen. By Emma Murphy, International Editor, ITV News. #Gaza

To everyone managing invisible chronic conditions: Your exhaustion from looking 'fine' is real. Your decision fatigue from constant symptom monitoring is valid. Your social energy running out faster is reasonable. You're doing more than people can see.

my new ai device will sit in a beer garden that backs onto a small river and drink three to five pints on a sunny late summer afternoon for you, leaving you free for more meetings and business calls

Last time I checked, no striking resident doctor had ever ripped the NHS off for £200m of unusable PPE

I mean... I can see that...

A remarkable scholar and teacher. She evoked both respect and a measure of fear in undergraduates and graduates alike back in the mid 80s

'The heart stops first' (potentially reversible cardiac arrest) vs 'everything is stopping, & the heart will stop last' (irreversible dying). How do we discuss this important difference with patients & families? Listen to cardiology, ICU & palliative care experts discuss via @theracp.bsky.social ⬇️

I mean, this is surely peak sci-fi (Children of Ruin by @aptshadow.bsky.social)

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Proms season again, innit. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p...

"i asked grok" "i asked chatgpt" yeah well i asked carl sagan and he said the greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge 🧪

There’s a nonzero chance you will die from a cancer that could have been curable because people who couldn’t pass 7th grade biology and are scared of things like “mRNA” and “riboflavin” and “walkable cities” decided to make their ignorance everybody else’s problem

Imagine how difficult it would be if you had two colleagues, one called Ian and one called Iain, but Iain only had one eye.

The Telegraph today carries a news story about someone paying £7.4 million for a handbag (Hello, Lady Bracknell!). And an opinion piece describing a wealth tax as a ‘moral abomination’. What a time to be alive.

I'm old enough to remember when the Prime Minister felt it was important to give us a running commentary of his thoughts on the entire Glastonbury lineup

1977: why would the bartender in star wars even care if some robots with artificial intelligence came into his bar 2025: ohhh ok

If Asimov had written “Six Characters In Search of an Author,” this is what it would have read like. This, and @aptshadow.bsky.social’s moral themes about how people treat people in a world of automata, makes this novel a major contender for this year’s Hugo! #booksky @huxleyandhiro.bsky.social

Bradshawgate, Bolton, in the swinging 1960s (Bolton News).

What could be more exciting than buying a new Adrian Tchaikovsky @aptshadow.bsky.social book? Having to climb a ladder at Topping & Co's Edinburgh bookshop to get it!

‘… we must not fall into the trap of mistaking the outputs of writing (which are increasingly substitutable through technology) from the value of the cognitive process of writing (which hones mental development and cannot be substituted by a machine’

IBS relief? There’s an app for that. The first-ever ACT-based app for IBS just showed promising results: -Less GI anxiety -Better quality of life -More IBS acceptance zurl.co/qS2YA #ACBS #JCBS #IBS #MentalHealthApp #ACT #DigitalTherapy #GutHealth #IBSrelief #PsychFlex

What actor's expression in a movie will stay with you for the rest of your life

This picture always gives me an image of the afterlife: I wake up, in the fog, this old guy walks towards me and says "Come on, lad: we'll have a pint while I tell you what appens next.."

Always keen to repost this photo: love it

Derby Arms pub, Ordsall, Salford, 1976, photo by John Bulmer.

Computers used to scream every time they connected to the Internet. They knew. They tried to warn us. We did not listen.

www.tumblr.com/gammija/7858... finally, a good explanation of how evolution really works.

Abide With Me, painting by Peak District artist Clare Allan. #WomensArt #NorthernArt

Corporation Street, Manchester, painting by urban landscape artist Angela Wakefield. #WomensArt #NorthernArt

Getting into a physical fight with my own ventriloquist dummy in front of a baffled crowd because I can't get it to say what I want