This is literally an Onion post.

One more nudge - I've got some really interesting responses so far! Thank you to those who responded. Would love to represent more views. A few more participants would really make this a useful piece of research on how counsellors & psychotherapists make decisions. #TherapistsConnect #TherapistSky

Have you seen those videos of runners failing just before a marathon finish-line, and being picked up and carried across by others? Turns out if you let people talk about their feelings about those it's incredibly revealing (potentially in very disappointing ways, buyer beware).

Watching videos from Ukraine I can only imagine our armed services are shitting themselves. It's like nothing we currently practice in our country. The vehicles and autonomous things and the defenses necessary to resist them are just out of this world.

First strawberries of the season! One of the things I miss about the east of England is driving at the weekend and pulling in at random laybys for punnets of fresh fruit from the local farms. It should be cherry season in the next few weeks, I think?

When working with people who said this casually, I'd often explore their own health history, and then we'd find out they were effected by a variety of health conditions. However the could rarely connect to the idea that they were actually the ones at risk that they were referring too so callously.

Applied to a PG uni course in September and it's absolutely wild to me that there's NO date by which I can expect a response. I just have to hang around for months guessing if I'll have to rearrange my life or not. Imagine if I had a PAYE job?

Any regular person who hears Kemi Badenoch talk about just 'one British culture' should be worried, because she sure as hell isn't talking about poor, or working class, or northern (or welsh/NI/Scots) culture. She's talking about middle class, social-climber, southern English 'British' culture.

My shitty Samsung phone is barely 3 years old and I've now gotten two £60 fines because it intermittently won't talk to the local transport system, and today its spent the whole morning intermittently refusing to pass audio to my headphones. So hard not to be angry and demoralised about tech atm.

Lib dems posting orange rebel alliance logos is peak cringe. You were literally in shared government with the Conservative Party. You offer zero meaningful 'resistance' to the current system. Framing themselves as the only answer to Reform is wild.

With @romanpalace.bsky.social apparently being told to knock it off, it quietly seems @maryrosemuseum.bsky.social had also gone dark. If this is a wider trend in the museum space it's to be regretted. Museums don't just exist to hold stuff. They tell stories about the past - and ourselves now.

Just a PSA: 'processing that' doesn't mean just fucking ruminating the shit out of it okay? Depending on your way, you nay get quite a narrow window between 'having a good think, understanding something new and appropriately interpreting meaning and implication' and straight up catastrophising.

The answer is apparently that they are just voting as directed, and it's all so tiresome we should feel sorry for them, rather than horrified that many MPs are just voting like mindless drones.

If you can't drive a car after a few pints, why on earth are we okay with people voting on whether we get disability benefits or the right to die after a few drinks?

I have supervision this morning, but before that I'm listening to my partner very patiently explain to a client why the job they sent through last night is...definitely not 'just a couple of hours work'.

As someone who works with people in health crises across the income/class/professions I could tell you SO MUCH about the different ways the same Employers treat different wage brackets with the same problems. The assumption that the poor are feckless is SO deeply embedded in English psychology.

Ultimately this drinking at work discourse just highlights how the poor/working class are heavily judged for their health and productivity (thanks Protestant Victorians) where the middle/up are treated with compassion and understanding and 'what else can we expect poor diddums so stressful'.

As someone who has gaps in my working day (between clients) which sometimes runs late into the evening (8pm etc) you can do something other than be bored and drink, you know? Read a book, work, or if you're too tried, sit and relax somewhere quietly and poke your phone. You know - self regulate.

The green MP is specifically calling out the disconnect between most/establishment and the real world and this comment just demonstrates it. There are a bunch of real world jobs quite like this. And if voting is 'mindless' then that's a whole additional problem.

I think this willfully misses point in the green MPs words - it's not appropriate to drink on the job, even if the job is 12hrs long. Regular working jobs would sack people for doing that. It's not okay to take drugs whilst you're supposed to be making decisions about our lives.

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Showed a new tenant around their studio today and they are so excited. They said 'if I'd received this offer via email I'd have asssumed it was a wildly specific scam' because it fits their needs so well, which really made me smile.

Reflected on this exact thing last weekend when my city and neighbourhood hosted a marathon. All the buses were diverted, turning 20min journeys into 45-60 min ones, roads closed across the area so driving very difficult/impossible to cross some areas (eg north to south), for more than 12hrs.

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"logic of Musk’s empire is total. X shapes the discourse. Grok automates it. Grokipedia rewrites the historical record. Starlink can deliver it all, everywhere, to everyone. Each layer reinforces the others. It’s not about winning arguments in the public sphere. It’s about building a replacement."

Lovely morning of sunshine and good vibes, and a normal day where I just need to be a therapist and not some kind of expert in fifteen different business related activities, what a relief!

Saw Akira at IMAX this evening and my brain is thoroughly discombobulated.

I can't with how disrespectful this is to fans. You want to watch the new movie? You need to pay to watch the old one first which we promise we've made really critical tweaks to. Please.

I was once in a lift in Foyles UK; it stopped and a man in navy military-style kit got in and smiled at me. There was a handgun strapped to his leg. The lift began to rise again and I mashed the next floor button and got out ASAP. I didn't want to find out what kind of movie it was going to be.

Skimmed the Men's Fitness magazine from the library. I've been wondering why even I have noticed some of the 'information' was... well...not rigorously researched. Then saw an article this month with this VERY clearly AI image ACROSS A DOUBLE SPREAD. Shameless slop! They didn't even check the hands!

Smashed out a day of lrp system admin and plot writing powered largely by coffee, sourdough toast and some really very impressive churros from our local Lounge franchise.

My library has free online magazine subscriptions, so I've read a few of the 'mens fitness' mags. They remind me so much of the low key ana tips you used to get in teen girl mags c.2000. "Make custard with fat free milk so you can have a pudding with everyone else" etc.

Sam Altman is the most dangerous man in Silicon Valley right now. The board that fired him? Replaced. The safety team that questioned his priorities? Dissolved. The nonprofit structure that was supposed to keep mission above profit? Restructured. The employees who wanted to speak out? Silenced.

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I will be voting Green for the first time ever, in this local elections. I feel really sad, as I have met and benefited from the work of our local Labour Councillors, and on that level I don't want to lose them. But I can't vote Labour. I feel quite heartbroken by the situation.

The UK must immediately and unequivocally suspend support for the US military. The Government have tried to appease him, then they tried to say they're standing up to him. Words aren't enough - it's time for action.

Sir 'I off-shored my 'UK business' production to save money' now thinks it's valuable to have local industry huh? Imagine that.

Soon the UK national museums will be able to charge entry to tourists. But there's a horribly back door surveillance state aspect to this. Because if you want to get in to see the museums you pay for for free, you'll need to show not just identity documents, but residency/passport.

As someone who's default setting is a) interest in learning new things and b) an unfortunately absolutist approach to taking people I already have any form of relationship with seriously/genuinely, I really hate April fools jokes.

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In perhaps a surprise to no one, I have learnt nothing about electricity, but I have once again learnt a lot about someone else's life, including what happens if someone drops a bath on your leg, and how easy it is to get lost in a hospital after hours.

Art Studio things: electrician in to do certificate check. Even though I know all is well it still causes substantial anxiety, like somehow he's going to say GOTCHA YOUR ELEXRIRICY HAS ACTUALLY BEEN ON FIRE FOR THREE MONTHS YOU MUST NOW GO STRAIGHT TO JAIL.

It says a lot that my insurance broker is voting Green. An insurance broker. A man who has made his living wearing a suit. Not a guy who anyone would have pegged for a green voter five years ago.

Art Studio things; looking for commercial building insurance means meeting brokers, today in person, which is lovely but feels very old fashioned. Also now I know a surprising amount about my insurance broker's family and personal history and, on reflection, not actually that much about insurance.

God bless Zinnser and their half a dozen different paint formulations for old, crumbly, weirdly painted or stained houses.

How do you decide what to do when a client discloses they are involved with a proscribed organisation? I'm really interested in finding out your views for a study that I am currently carrying out as part of my work at the University of Westminster: app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/westminste...