As Fallout 4 Anniversary Edition drops soon, remember how the game asked us to “find Shaun,” yet most of us wandered off and built settlements instead. That narrative flaw created cognitive dissonance only a meme could resolve. Let’s dissect why. #GameDesign #Fallout4

Trump’s true legacy? Not the wall. Not the 'deals'. Not groceries. 2016: Popularizes “fake news” to attack the press. 2025: Upcycles it into a full-blown thought-terminating cliché. Considering his limited lexicon, that’s quite an achievement. #DumpTrump #Fakenews #Discourseanalysis #USPolitics

When a guest collapsed in the Oval Office, Trump didn’t move. It reveals less about his health than about a politics that prizes domination over decency, indifference over action and strength over empathy. Weird how fainting is more common in totalitarian regimes. #PoliticalPsychology #USPolitics

Eight wars, please… All pomp, no peace. A presidency that mistook sycophantic applause for achievement. #Trump #ForeignPolicy #FactCheck #Leadership #ThePeacemakerIllusion

The Supreme Court meets Nov 7 to decide if it will reopen Obergefell; the ruling that gave the US marriage equality. Kim Davis wants to roll back these rights. We can’t sit this out. LGBTQIA+ people & allies: stay loud, stay organized, stay unbreakable. #ProtectMarriageEquality #LGBTQIA+

Bloodlines 2 lets you be an immortal elder vampire leaping across Seattle’s moon-kissed rooftops… yet somehow it makes the undead feel lifeless. The horror here is wasted potential. #VampireTheMasquerade #Bloodlines2 #GameDesign #RPG #GamingPsychology #VampireLore

Trump’s claim of "not knowing who he is" collapses under the weight of clear evidence linking him to CZ/Binance. Here is what we found... #Trump #Binance #PoliticalTrade #FinancialCorruption #Clemency #PowerForProfit #PoliticalFavor

Quote of the day from the Daisy Chain: "The Pentagon’s public justification, that this armada (warships in the Caribbean) is there to fight drug traffickers, insults the intelligence of observers who understand military signaling. You do not need a nuclear-capable bomber to sink a fishing skiff."

Ten thousand U.S. troops, a carrier group, Tomahawks in the Caribbean and Trump calling it “counter-narcotics.” Is this really about drugs, or is Trump positioning for war with Venezuela?

In ’97 Geri Halliwell’s Union Jack dress screamed irony & inclusion. In Britain, now the same flag shouts fear from overpasses and lampposts. Symbols don’t change; we do. Pride turned paranoid; patriotism stopped dancing & clenched its fists. #CoolBritannia #BritishPolitics #UKCulture #UnionJack

Press X to continue… the genocide. Welcome to the unskippable cutscene of reality. Gaming giants aren’t neutral. Xbox cashflows, Unity sims, NVIDIA GPUs; all double as fuel for the military-industrial complex. “Console wars” aren’t just market rivalries. They bankroll real ones. #Gaming #Ethics

Karoline Leavitt officially announced the "Launch of a large-scale investigation to find the people behind 'No Kings.'" I've saved her some time.

The Supreme Court meets Nov 7 to decide if it will reopen Obergefell; the ruling that gave the US marriage equality. Kim Davis wants to roll back these rights. We can’t sit this out. LGBTQIA+ people & allies: stay loud, stay organized, stay unbreakable. #ProtectMarriageEquality #LGBTQIA+

Trump loves to call women and people of color “low IQ.” This isn’t strength, it’s projection. Every insult aimed at AOC or Jasmine Crockett screams insecurity and anti-intellectualism. The attack says nothing about them and everything about him. #Trump #AOC #JasmineCrockett #Politics

Happy to help smash the myth of the "lazy streamer" Streamers manage intense, cross-modal multitasking, integrating chat, gameplay, commentary, and alerts creating an exhausting working memory bottleneck Arguably harder than a lot of jobs out there #StreamingSkills #CognitiveLoad #Twitch #Gaming

Back in 2017 a survey found that 70% of people said they’d rather have their hand cut off than have a swastika tattooed on their forehead. Now it’s showing up in group chats and on congressional walls on TV? This is the normalization of radicalized ideologies unfolding in real time.

Mike Johnson calls Trump’s flying faecal fantasy “satire” and hails him as a social media genius. Let’s be clear: humiliating citizens with AI isn’t wit, it’s authoritarian conditioning. When leaders laugh at contempt, they invite cruelty to rule. #NoKings #Resist #PoliticalPsychology

How childish! When power reaches for scatology, it’s not humor; it’s humiliation management. Actual shitposting that reeks of desperation. #NoKings #DefendDemocracy #AuthoritarianFragility #PoliticalPsychology #Propaganda

Despite being labeled terrorists, despite troop deployments and threats to invoke the Insurrection Act, No Kings stayed peaceful. This restraint is more than symbolic. It proved the resilience of a movement defending democracy without sinking to the level of its detractors. #NoKings #Democracy

When the White House website sounds like a campaign rally, mocking “Crazy Bernie” & “leftist lunatics” instead of explaining policy, we’re not reading governance. We’re reading propaganda. This isn’t leadership. It’s democracy's death rattle. #PropagandaWatch #Shutdown #PoliticalPsychology

The far right doesn’t always arrive with marching boots. Sometimes it hides in private chats and ingroup symbolism, where talk of gas chambers and use of slurs are passed off as harmless banter. The danger isn’t just the words, it’s how normal they’ve become. When we stop reacting, we stop resisting

❌👑 No Kings protests are defending democracy 👑❌ In prep for Oct 18: Stay safe, follow official guidance, document responsibly, and reject fear-driven narratives. Transparency protects freedom. #NoKings #NoKingsProtest #PeacefulProtest #DefendDemocracy #StaySafe #TransparencyMatters

Reform UK claims to speak for “the people.” In truth, its creed is contempt: flags for the poor, tax cuts for the rich, and silence while schools, hospitals, and the planet burn. #ReformUK #UKPolitics #ClimateCrisis #NHS #Inequality

Armed with nothing but absurdity and still more effective than the federal fist. This frog isn’t just a mascot. It’s a middle finger with a smile and a wink, a memeable evolution of the "flowers in the barrel" 60s protests, and a reality check against the false narrative. #NoKings #Portland

Over 40 government officials were indicted or jailed over Watergate. From the U.S. Attorney General to the White House Chief of Staff; history often repeats itself. Those in positions of power need a reality check and look at their futures; kings don’t last forever. #Resist

Explaining this moment in history to the next generation is going to be an odd experience. Orange GodKing, Masked Raiders, Frontline Frogs.... 'Demi-Frogs'?

Trump’s Domestic Violence Awareness Month message exploits survivor trauma to fuel anti-immigrant hate. His manipulation turns empathy into propaganda; harming real victims and ignoring the real problem... People like him. #DomesticViolenceAwarenessMonth #PoliticsOfFear

Refreshening to see a study taking a top-down view of Greta Thunberg’s leadership: asking not what draws followers to her, but how activists themselves perceive and make sense of her role. Leadership as identity work, not just charisma. #PoliticalPsychology #SocialIdentity #ClimateActivism

Struggling to keep up with all the news, almost as if it’s designed to spread the opposition too thin to mobilize. Political psychology calls this the firehose of falsehood. Anyway, here’s a protest haiku: Gold leaf hides the rust, Echo chambers crown a fool, Truth waits at the gate.

“Most-Favored-Nation” drug pricing is not new. Europe tried it. Results? Drug delays, withdrawn medicines from countries to protect prices, and minimal real-world savings. Trump’s latest deal with AstraZeneca is optics over impact; profits over patients, packaged as a victory for the people.

This Halloween let’s over-analyse ghosts. What goes bump in the night might not be a guiding spectre, but a hallucinating, memory-fractured, rage-filled echo of a broken mind. We applied our craft to the earthbound afterlife. It’s not comforting. It’s not scientific. It’s just bleakly entertaining.

Britain once called suffragettes criminals. Now some protests are still dismissed as nuisance, while others are branded terrorism. The comparison between PA and JSO says a lot about where the UK's democracy is headed. #Protest #CivilLiberties #Rights

Trump’s words are getting simpler, blunter, angrier. Our 2018–2025 speech analysis shows shorter sentences, a shrinking vocabulary, and sharper grievance rhetoric. Decline or design, the outcome is the same: harder populism that fuels violence and binds his base simplyputpsych.co.uk/global-psych...

I understand this. Please tell me you do, too.

Trump’s 79 and not tech-savvy, but he’s posting pro-edited AI videos? Yeah... He’s not making them. These are storyboarded, scripted, edited and approved. This isn’t proof of a cognitive decline, it’s an administrative one. And if taxpayer staff are involved... That’s a Hatch Act violation.

Moral reframing once built bridges. Trump burned them down. His politics thrives on amplification, not persuasion, but it cracks when mocked. That’s why Obama’s unity, Sanders’ justice, Newsom’s satire, and even Kimmel’s jokes form an updated arsenal. #DemocracyUnderThreat #Authoritarianism #Resist

I think we've seen this before... Create the crisis, prolong the suffering, blame the opposition, watch the suffering, grab power to 'fix' the problem, then crown yourself the saviour, it is the oldest trick in the authoritarian playbook. #DefendDemocracy #WeThePeople #StandTogether #CivicAction

This shutdown is not gridlock, it is hostage politics. Millions are left without paychecks, aid, or health coverage. 50k Americans a year will die while billionaires celebrate tax cuts. Government has become a weapon against its own people. #PeopleVsPower #DefendDemocracy #WeThePeople #CivicAction

Research shows that when leaders invent threats, supporters accept harm just to punish “outsiders.” This fight is no longer left vs right, it’s people vs power. Civil rights were never gifted from above. They were demanded from below. #DefendDemocracy #WeThePeople #CivicAction #StandTogether

Fortnite pulled a Peacemaker dance after the show’s twist. This isn’t a branding hiccup, it’s 'accidental' brilliance: a live case study in the psychology of symbols and blind complicity. #Fortnite #Peacemaker #Psychology #MediaStudies #CulturalCritique

Bush was the political equivalent of tripping over a coffee table: embarrassing, painful, but survivable. Trump, on the other hand, is like handing the coffee table a flamethrower and then electing it president. 🤣🤣🤣

Ever notice how Mario is always Player One, while Luigi waits as Player Two? For those with siblings, it feels familiar: the older in the spotlight, the younger finding their own way to shine. Here’s how that simple setup reflects real sibling dynamics. #Mario #Luigi #Gaming

Surprisingly, the three central Gems; Amethyst, Pearl, and Garnet from Steven Universe map well onto Sigmund Freud’s structural model of the psyche: the id, the superego, and the ego. #MediaPsychology #PopCulturePsych #PsychInMedia #Freud #Psychoanalysis

Nothing exposes authoritarian fragility like comedy. Trump’s tantrum at Jimmy Kimmel shows why laughter is democracy’s sharpest weapon. So let's explore why that is: #Trump #JimmyKimmel #Authoritarianism #Comedy

Just read a paper on honeybees, with around 1 million neurons, bees show abstract numerical reasoning once thought unique to primates. Meaning: ✔️ They can count (up to about 4–5). ✔️ They can even add & subtract, when trained with colour cues!! #AnimalCognition #Neuroscience #ComparativeCognition

We’ve rounded up the best tools and resources every psychology student should know about covering: ✅ Research & citation tools ✅ Study aids & writing support ✅ Mental health resources ✅ Podcasts & YouTube channels Most are free (or student-discounted) #Psychology #AcademicLife #APA #PsychStudent

Golden from K-Pop Demon Hunters has been on repeat in my brain for weeks now, this phenomenon is known as an earworm. From the phonological loop to the DMN, and the surprising way the song works like a real-life Honmoon; shielding against shame and self-doubt. #Psychology #Kpop #Earworms #Golden

Are algorithms quietly radicalizing us? Not through conspiracies or foreign plots, but as a by-product of chasing engagement by amplifying outrage, novelty, and fear. #Algorithms #Radicalization #Polarization #ThinkPiece

Emma Watson’s instinct to combine compassion with disagreement is admirable, but compassion must not soften the evidence. Rowling’s views are not only harmful, they are logically inconsistent and unsupported by psychology or social science. #ProtectTransYouth #EndTransphobia #TransRights #LGBTQ