I'm taking a week out from social media because I just got my PIP reassessment text and my mood/functioning is so crap that it's going to take work to dig myself out whilst I also put my PIP form together. Be excellent to each other, fuck the DWP and don't let the bastards push you toward the void!

I published about this last year - wellcomecollection.org/stories/medi... An earlier reference is in 'The History of the Syon Monastery at Lisbon and Brentford' from 1450 (wasn't widely known when this was written in February 2025). Prior to this we debate what is 'language' and what is 'gesture'.

My latest blog: reviewing Charles Pillers Doctored- with reflections on the quality of mental health research lindagask.com/2026/02/09/d...

Your emotional responses and your comfort level with different emotions is good enough, it's unique to you and there is no universal scale of how you 'should' feel. I'd argue there is no universal set of innate human emotions. If you struggle to be *in* anger, fear, joy, contentment, that's fair.

Final print looks significantly less like Ponyta 🐎🔥 #YearOfTheHorse

I'm sorry. Did you say "glory hole?" 📽 GHOSTWATCH (1992) 🎲 GHOST 🎲 1990's 🎙 @happierman.bsky.social & @cecilbaldwiniii.bsky.social 🎨 #davidbaldwinart #RandomHorror9 #RNGHPN9 #randomnumbergeneratorhorrorpodcastno9 #ghostwatch

⚠️ Despite all the hype, chatbots still make terrible doctors. Out today is the largest user study of language models for medical self-diagnosis. We found that chatbots provide inaccurate and inconsistent answers, and that people are better off using online searches or their own judgment.

Song of Quietness BY Robinson Jeffers. Drink deep, drink deep of quietness, And on the margins of the sea Remember not thine old distress Nor all the miseries to be. Calmer than mists, and cold As they, that fold on fold Up the dim valley are rolled, Learn thou to be. /1

I just stumbled across this and thought some of you might like to see it. A letter from E.B. White to a man who'd written he'd lost all hope:

Johannesburg’s Nyamakop Studios turns African artifact repatriation into a bold heist game. Protagonist Nomali and a crew of ordinary citizens reclaim 70 real-life artifacts taken during the colonial era. The 30-person dev team includes people from Zimbabwe, Ghana, Nigeria, Ethiopia and Tanzania.

Also, interesting that running to tattle tale to the Telegraph with your full names and photos is not a declarative political act that might make clients second guess your neutrality....

OK, fess up fellow radical lefties, who didn't send me the memo that we had captured the British Psychological Society of Bootstraps Psychologists With Neutral Faces Who Aren't At All Political? 🤣 www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/02...

Torrez "alleged that Meta proactively served underage users explicit content, enabled adults to exploit children on the platform, allowed Facebook and Instagram users to easily find child pornography, and allowed an /1 www.wired.com/story/meta-c...

"When we help, we become aware of our own strength. But when we serve, we don’t serve with our strength; we serve with ourselves, and we draw from all of our experiences. Our limitations serve; /1 www.dailygood.org/story/218/he...

Can we simply accept people as they are, even in their deepest moments of insecurity, and connect with them as we connect with ourselves? , Be Gentle!

CW: suicide Self destruction gets romanticised by fascists and this is a thought provoking episode on the way someone's longing for a livable world away from a punitive state gets twisted into a longing to die like a penguin in a Herzog film. podcasts.apple.com/zw/podcast/w...

I got my dental costs refunded! It took NHSBSA 4 months to refund £27.40 but we got there. If you are claiming, get your HC5 form, receipt from dentist, monthly statement from UC and tell dentist to put in for refund. If you can, photograph papers for when NHSBSA loses your application.

💻Live Q&A - Autistic Parenting & Mental Health Services 🗓️Tuesday 10th February at 7pm. Laura Richmond will be joining @tanyaadkin.bsky.social live on our public Facebook page for a Q&A session on the topic of Autistic Parenting & Mental Health Services. 1/6

I think you have to have lived an utterly charmed life to the point of denial to think anybody can come out of a DHS concentration camp and not potentially be deeply traumatised for their rest of their life. Let alone a child in Liams position. Liam isn't a mascot of happy ever after, he's a person.

Post a banger that's not in English. youtu.be/0Z9w8s2l8NM?...

Draw a horse and watch it run! Feel happy again. gradient.horse

For months, people have asked me about the popular Telepathy Tapes podcast, and its premise of non-speaking autistics reading minds. And I’m here to tell you: The Telepathy Tapes is a hot, complicated mess—but not for the reasons you may think. At TPGA: thinkingautismguide.com/2026/02/the-...

CW: BPD, CSA & the Epstein files I've been looking through some of the Epstein files and found some court papers for Ghislaine Maxwell's case. A psychiatrist for her defence evaluated one of Epstein’s victims in 2009 (named as "Victim 4"), regarding the victims civil suit against Epstein. 1/8

I actually think everyone should resign

“We’re familiar with the phrase ‘poor historian’ when it comes to a patient, but what is the term for the health professional who will inevitably scan your past and come to the wrong conclusion?” Had the pleasure of reviewing All My Worldly Joy by Laura Richmond for NSUN this week.

A very important question to start the week...What are your thoughts on crumpet toppings? Today is World Pizza Day, and although we don't have any pizza in our collections we did find this recipe in the Barnsley Chronicle in 1974 by Margaret Hollingworth for crumpet pizza.

As journalism re-embraces community as a core component of audience work, we’re going to see publishers make the cardinal sin of community management: Believing they own the community. You can never own the community. You can host it, sure. You can - and should - serve it. But you never own it.

Seriously does anyone have any instructions for an ark? We might need one here in Devon…

You wake up in Britain. Take 1d12 psychic damage.

Another resistance quilt finished this week. The eye is my own design, the letters are a fpp pattern by QuiltByNight, the rounded corners and black binding are meant to resemble the phones we the people are using to document the horrors and disprove the government’s lies about what they are doing.

Just have to do #SuperbOwl 😉 Little owl limited edition linocut print with watercolour. catamongstthepigeons.etsy.com/listing/1505... #printsky #etsy #linocut #print

did someone say superb owl? #superbowl 15% off in my shop at the moment 👀 shop.frankduffy.co.uk/product/anrh...

Since Valentine's Day is approaching, I'm reposting some of my past Valentine's comics.

I think a lot of politicians & commentators see all this very differently from most of the country. They see it as part of an ongoing story about decision-making, personalities, probity, money etc. For everyone else it’s part of a long series of events: Saville, Huw Edwards, Rotherham & more (1/)

A heart in turmoil cannot be silenced with haste , its pain must be cradled, not dismissed.

This workshop is full enough to run, but I can fit a few more seats in if anyone wants to join us - by donation

#leeds #scalarama #holbeck #diy #filmscreening #goodnightbrooklyn

I did promise to make more textiles this year Please let your rich friends know #textiles #illustration www.sonnyross.com/shop/hand

I’ve been thinking about it all day and I’ve decided that the golden snake with golden eyes that can snap at cars and spit fire should be the symbol of New York under Mamdani

Be the wrench you want to see in the works.

Discussing Puritanism when teaching The Handmaid's Tale yesterday and used the phrase 'rejection of Popery' and a student said, "well, to be fair, those little bowls of smelly dried leaves ARE weird"...

i love european olympics opening ceremonies. the second the ioc names a european host city the prime minister calls the culture minister into their office and says "find me your strangest homosexuals. give each of them a period of our great nation's history, a kilo of cocaine, and Ten Million Euros"

Tatiani Elliot was brave today. She is a survivor of childhood sexual abuse and gave her testimony in front of Washington state legislators. And they silenced her. “Now that some of us are finally speaking, the rules are changing.” ~ Tatiani “Can you please wrap up?” ~ Committee 1/2

If you hate AI you might like this week's episode. @justinkey.bsky.social joins me to discuss his new medical techno-dystopia THE HOSPITAL AT THE END OF THE WORLD. We cover the horrors of med school, what Justin has learned about character from his work in psychiatry, and the evils of screens!

i think we all need to step back and realize that peak art was made when neolithic pot in the shape of a pig was fired

Now we've shared the official highlights of our Collections Development Week, it's time for the unofficial ones, starting with the moment Keeper of Archives Gary Brannan found a (pristine) pair of paper underpants in one of our recent additions.

Competition shortlist will be running next week. In the meantime you are stuck with us #manishotmarvinintheface

"Rootling" a 3 layer reduction in green or pinx! Thinking about the lost native species of the UK and what a pre enclosure landscape might be like. #reductionprint #boar #linoprint

Participants wanted! 👥 Take part in an online survey on minority stress & neurodiversity (20–40 mins), inc. focus on burden from administrative systems! Open to neurotypical & neurodivergent adults (18+), English proficient, no location limits 🌍 🔗 durhamuniversity.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

#PPOD: This very impressive, and little-known, image of a meandering squiggle of high-altitude clouds on Saturn was captured by the Cassini spacecraft on July 18, 2010. It almost looks like one of these fancy latte art designs! Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SSI/CICLOPS / @jpmajor.bsky.social 🧪 🔭