“Labour may be losing seats to Reform, but that is mostly because they are losing actual votes to the Greens.” @adambienkov.bsky.social bylinetimes.com/2026/05/08/l...

No one expected Keir Starmer to solve our pressing problems overnight. But what we did expect – and had every right to expect – was that he would lay out a clear vision and roadmap for doing so. Instead, we’ve had drift, appeasement and a startling absence of ideas, values and ambition. 🧵1/6

Some useful public speaking tips from Freud here.

Check your Sertraline if you're on it in the UK www.gov.uk/government/n...

A NHS Trust was ordered to pay compensation to a patient over use of Oxevision (LIO) - what does this mean for other Trusts? What does the guidance from NHS England and CQC say about its use? Plus, read our letter to NHSE asking them to take action stopoxevision.com/2026/04/29/t...

I jest here slightly but i am actually really proud of myself for the work I’ve managed this week. I have extended my analysis of the MCA’s statutory concepts into its philosophical conceptual implications (which should have been obvious the first time I saw it but better late than never I guess)

New post – The fall of the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill: A constitutional outrage? publiclawforeveryone.com/2026/04/24/t...

Fun to have ADHD, where you use deep work/hyper-focus to procrastinate from saying morning prayer, thereby delaying your entire morning routine,& subsequent scheduled tasks from activation. Is it productive if something is produced,but the morning routine is barely done before the afternoon begins?

“there is absolutely no reason to deny people the social and political advantages of collective identity based on a narrow interpretation of what constitutes scientific validity” From my recent blog - relevant to invited panel on “many autisms” at #INSAR2026 medium.com/@suefletcher...

I can't include links to that week's stories because I post the news stories and send them to subscribers before I have the links. But here's the link: www.disabilitynewsservice.com/reform-uk-st...

"If you’re looking for a sign from God as to whether hanging out with the richest man on Earth is right for you, pay attention when he sends you not one plague, but two." Holy shit Noah Hawley is good (and this very clearly demonstrates that he understands the Alien assignment).

I am so unconvinced on the impossibility of scientifically studying will. It cannot be right to reduce decisional processes down to behavioural observations, or simply say we can only gather evidence via attitudinal processes. This seems to be where the world of the MCA and psychology overlap.

No10’s account is incredible. I held Developed Vetting for nearly ten years and spent three years at the heart of the Cabinet Office. I have never heard of a Developed Vetting denial being overruled. Here’s why…🧵 www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Sometimes a thing doesn't make sense, and one should keep looking until it makes sense. Would be literally incredible for a senior civil servant to overturn a vetting decision without ministerial approval - or a paper trail. This is inherently the most unlikely of all possible scenarios. Odd.

Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch has backed calls to incorporate the UN disability convention into law and to introduce a right to independent living for disabled people… but only in Wales. #UNCRPD #CRPD #Senedd #Elections www.disabilitynewsservice.com/badenoch-bac...

Our team received a report of intermittent app outages at about 11:40pm PDT on April 15, 2026. They worked through the night to mitigate a sophisticated Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attack, which intensified throughout the day.

Ok I take this somewhat back. Had the intro session on qual/quant today & can see that whilst it can be somewhat instrumental & solution foreshadowing, it doesn’t have to be & can see the need to integrate scientific research methods in with humanities, esp for my mental/legal capacity idea.

Finding, so far on my boot camp, the gap between philosophy & design theory to be frustratingly large. Realising that most research does not aim for investigating what is true through root cause analysis & falsification/verification, but sits somewhere between surface level behaviour change/nudging,

“A whole civilization will die tonight” is the most vile thing a US president has ever said, certainly during the post-1945 era when they’ve had the power to kill civilizations with the dropping of a bomb. I’m staring into the darkness. May this not be one of the most fateful days in human history.

losing contact with the earth for 40 minutes sounds nice

Easter Sunday around the world – in pictures

Slept through my alarm this AM after the long Vigil in the gale last night! Made it to mass; disheveled & in the nick of time-what a joy to sing with the enthusiastic children’s choir too & ring in Easter, complete with baptism & welcome reinforcement choristers! Have a peaceful happy day everyone!

(Probably tmi and a post to be avoided for non Xians) but Good Friday hit me particularly hard this year- I sang Pontius Pilate in the Gospel yesterday & Palm Sunday (apparently in character or so I was told) & it lead me to thinking & feeling intensely into his role in the crucifixion more-

I thought it might be useful to people on APs to post an update. Not sure it’s placebo as there’s no evidence directly indicating increased energy/decreased lethargy from GPL1s, but I’m definitely experiencing that-

A thoughtful blog from @awaisaftab.bsky.social on the mysticism/ madness interface. ‘If the goal is to help someone move through an acute state with less coercion and more dignity,’ www.psychiatrymargins.com/p/what-do-we...

1st day on weight loss meds to tackle antipsychotic obesity. Hope to lose 10-15kg & maintain with metformin, which recently stopped the weight gain, privately, as GP won’t prescribe it off label (despite psychiatrist’s stipulation) as NICE haven’t updated their guidelines despite stated intent.

Kathleen Murphy-Hollies asked whether AI causes or exacerbates psychosis at our workshop on AI psychosis, hearing voices and suicidality last week. Here is a recording of her talk: youtu.be/IMd82BhbOqI... #BPF2026 #philosophymatters Kathleen Murphy-Hollies @triphilosophy.bsky.social

If you missed the hearing as it was happening, you can watch it now on the court's own YouTube channel here. It's "Re Gardner (Deceased)" www.youtube.com/channel/UCjS...

Just reading the new NDTI report on their research re an advocacy membership organisation (report here: www.ndti.org.uk/wp-content/u...) I think my fav part was the comment about the need for a good acronym(surely this field must win the prize for the largest number of obtuse acronyms already!!).

Does open justice apply in the Court of Protection? Public hearing in Court of Appeal on 25th March 2026 It's an appeal against Poole J's judgment on disclosure of position statements Background info blog here (with links to earlier blogs) openjusticecourtofprotection.org/2025/09/23/l...

‘Fascism, in other words, was not a breakdown of reason but a particular form of reason that reorganised violence, consent, and coercion in order to restore a threatened social order.’ 1/2

Haven’t been posting as life has changed hugely for me:mum finally discharged after 6 month hospital stay, &had a bumpy transition to care at home-I’ve been filling in the gaps as an unpaid carer again. Things finally calmer &we’re finding a routine,so hopefully I’ll find time for my own work again.

Niche ND help post- If you have time-blindness, planning and sequencing issues,I can’t recommend using the following 3 apps together enough: 1) Minimalist- a sleek list making app with a pomodoro timer and more features- great for making lists of life areas and getting tasks out of working memory.

Rest is *good*, unscheduled time is *good.* You are not always either producing or decaying. Creativity flows from shutting things up enough to hear yourself, to be able to synthesize everything you’ve taken in lately.

Just realised it’s ‘and the tender, soothing flute’, not ‘and the tender, soothing fruit’ in King Jesus has a garden. Obsessed with the assonance in that song. Assonance is such a pleasing poetry- less obtrusive than alliteration.

Just realised the way I wrote this is slightly fudging the causality- it’s less a distilling of intellect and more a synthetic production of intelligence, but the stripping of intelligence from other mind features is the main point I’m trying to communicate.

Up early before church, miraculously, & wrote some more yesterday on this. Might have to make this into a blog, tho my adhd mind finds long threads chunked into smaller sections more accessible. Now in this thread, you could accuse me of straw manning

Inspired to finally read (& finally able to read again) Bostrom’s Superintelligence, which I picked up in 2017, pre AI going mainstream to consumers. It was written at the cusp of modern day techno-Utopian transhumanist popularity (circa 2014) & I’m intrigued to see if how it’s aged.

I just saw the classic 1968 Basaglia work The Negated Institution has now, for the first time, been fully translated into English by @footymac.bsky.social. An incredibly important book in the history of critical approaches to psychiatry. And its open access! punctumbooks.com/titles/the-n...

One thing about cognition, specifically for people like me with aphantasia/anauralia, which fascinates me, is that thought isn’t verbal or images but is something that precedes those symbols/representations. For me, I experience thought as ‘sensations’ or a kind of ‘shaped movement’ in my mind

A talk I gave earlier this year has, unfortunately, become relevant again this week so I've published it here. open.substack.com/pub/neurodiv...

“exhibition of design by and for “Disabled, Deaf, and neurodivergent people”” Victoria and Albert Museum until 15th February, 2026 Kenny Fries www.e-flux.com/criticism/67...

Rest in Power, Alice Wong.

Rosalia’s new album Lux is a total masterpiece and I commend it to you with the English translations as the most mesmerising music of the ‘pop’ genre to grace your ears for the whole of 2025. It’s restoring my soul.

I’m sure lot of ink has been spilled on this already (and if you know of some good article on this do share)- of how a great deal of medical ableism & doctorly closing of ranks around it, goes unchallenged under the guise of ‘functional reserves’.

I am utterly emotionally exhausted.My whole adult life has been consumed by this tragedy of ‘medicine’.I just don’t know what more to do to remedy it.Mum now likely in catatonia, caused either by head injury or stopping the medication that caused this degeneration,&might be the only ‘cure’ for it.

Extubation failed for different reasons twice. Hard seeing mum today with a tracheostomy. I didn’t realise the ventilator settings will need to be much lower before she will be able to speak with it. We’ve a long way to go before we get there. ❤️‍🩹

Mum seems to have turned the corner today 🤞 Extubation tomorrow. Expected that she will stay in icu for another couple of days. And now the long road to recovery. ❤️‍🩹

🚨 BREAKING: Labour MPs back calls to restore NHS Covid vaccines for all Clinically Vulnerable people! After pressure from CVF members and supporters - a rapid U-turn appears to be underway. WELL DONE! #KeepCovidBoosters campaign a HUGE success!

Still in ITU, still ventilated, still between life and death. Every thought, every future plan is if/when, if/when, if/when. Life on hold, her life on hold, my life on hold, our lives on hold. Every future bleak it seems, just some less bleak than others. No point planning. Each minute, a days sake.