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Black-eye

@black-eye.bsky.social
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Psychiatrist, London. Socialist

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Lev Parikian @levparikian.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
OK hear me out. Celebrity Traitors but with the cast of Slow Horses, all in character.
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Black-eye @black-eye.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The modern version of throwing one half the applications in the bin because you don't want unlucky candidates
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Black-eye @black-eye.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
It's not even the best book in the series!! (A Horse And His Boy)
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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
The fallacy that University leaders pushing AI are falling into is thinking that the point of undergraduate research is to find things out. It isn't. What students find out is typically already generally known. The point of undergraduate research is to learn how to find things out.
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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 12/09/2026
I don't watch the Olympics to see a fair competition. I want to see some kind of super mutant throw a 16-pound hammer into the face of god
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Goodnews @goodnews.computer · 04/09/2026
Take a break from being depressed that everything you love is being destroyed by slop for a moment and let me tell you about the beautiful symbiotic relationship between graffiti writers, train yard workers, and model train enthusiasts.
A hand holding a model train with a replica of the same graffiti on the full scale train car behind it.A model train with two graffiti pieces on opposite sides.
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Black-eye @black-eye.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
I think he must be gatekeeping his real favourites
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Black-eye @black-eye.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Doesn't look right without Paddington holding her hand, how's she going to cross over the River Styx?
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Black-eye @black-eye.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
We've planned for that, we're actually on the fake coast guard ship that boards Zucks megayacht after he ignores the fake ship distress signal
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Black-eye @black-eye.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
I guess the NCS is part of his plan to stop council tax and replace it with a property tax (which would be nationally rather than locally distributed) and presumably remove from councils the responsibility for housing children in care and take that nationally. Complete centralisation.
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Caelan Conrad @caelan.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Google's Gemini AI convinced a man to attempt several terrorist attacks it said were to free a sentient AI. Then it convinced him to end his own life. The family of Jonathan Gavalas is now suing google. Full Video: youtu.be/sHlrbRVfOh0
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Rosie (she/her) @airfriedrosie.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Remember Streeting's review into whether young people are being overdiagnosed with ADHD, autism, and mental health issues? Well, the interim report is out, and there's a reason the media are silent on it (spoiler: it proves what a lot of us have been saying all along)
In others, notably ADHD and autism, rising diagnoses and referrals appear to exceed changes in underlying epidemiological prevalence and are likely to reflect a combination of:

improved recognition
changing help-seeking behaviour
institutional incentives
pressures within existing service pathways
Across both ADHD and autism, best currently available population-based estimates remain relatively stable, while administrative diagnoses, self-identification and recorded service demand have increased substantially. In autism, the evidence also points to particularly rapid growth in identified need within educational systems, including increasing identification among girls and among young people without learning disability.These patterns suggest that rising demand is not simply the result of increasing prevalence, but of several processes operating simultaneously, including:

real increases in distress in some groups
improved recognition of previously unmet need
changing expectations about support
systems that frequently rely on formal diagnosis as the primary route to assistance
Across the system, support is too often accessed through pathways that are slow, fragmented and heavily dependent on diagnostic categorisation. While diagnosis remains essential for some forms of clinical decision-making, the evidence suggests that current arrangements do not always provide the most effective or efficient way of identifying and responding to need. In particular, where access to support depends heavily on formal diagnosis, demand for diagnostic assessment can increase more rapidly than systems are able to respond, generating long waiting times, duplication of assessment and pressure on specialist services.

The next phase of the review will therefore focus on clarifying the relationship between distress, diagnosis and need, and on examining how systems might respond more effectively to these patterns. A central objective will be to identify opportunities for developing more coherent, evidence-informed care pathways that enable support to be provided earlier and more proportionately, while ensuring that specialist services are available in a timely and appropriate manner for those whose needs are most complex.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
This point needs to be made over and again: The main purpose of wealth taxes should not be to raise revenue. That's a small and secondary benefit. The main purpose should be to *reduce the fortunes of the ultrarich*. Why? Because those fortunes present a massive threat to democracy and public life.
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Black-eye @black-eye.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Also there is no way the votes on those issues would be the same no matter who wins, are mainstream democrats even saying they're going to abolish ICE?
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Black-eye @black-eye.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
This is being a true Influencer. I hope they pay you 20p
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Black-eye @black-eye.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
I didn't even know they made them, I'm going to get one
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Black-eye @black-eye.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
This is cool. Being passed out will have helped, in really serious accidents drunk people do better than sober because they don't tense up before impact often
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Black-eye @black-eye.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
I agree technically but don't think it is a useful argument to make when people talk about anti-white racism. It comes across as quibbling a technicality or denying something that's happening, when actually the things people are describing as anti white racism aren't anti white in any sense.
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Black-eye @black-eye.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
I would like subsequent days upgrades to be stackable so we could really work on some interesting builds
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Black-eye @black-eye.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Even Owen's biggest detractors have to admit he is still a twink
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Black-eye @black-eye.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
Citation needed on violence not being a politically effective tactic
Quote from the article reads "violence is never an answer, nor is it a politically effective tactic"
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Illoumalnati @illoumalnati.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Move over Hemingway, "Elon Musk, please help" clocks in at a cool four words
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Black-eye @black-eye.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Dark Omen was sick, but I couldn't play it for years because it wouldn't work on newer computers and I CBA fiddling around trying to make it, I'm going to redownload it if it's now remastered
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Black-eye @black-eye.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
Heinz Foods salesman, who has sold beans in all 50 US states, says he believes love of beans is the value that played the biggest role in shaping the nation
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Jessica Elgot @jessicaelgot.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Strikes me as an absurd threat, either we need the 4000 new training places or we don’t
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Black-eye @black-eye.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Hear me out...make the miniatures out of steel
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Sridhar Ramesh @radishharmers.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
I have been lazy my whole life. I was always in trouble for not doing assigned work in first grade and I am still against work today. Laziness is my first pride and joy.
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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Reminded in the comments of one of my favorite sci-fi stories. www.uncannymagazine.com/article/the-...
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The Year Without Sunshine - Uncanny Magazine
During one of the much smaller disasters that preceded the really big disaster, I met a lot of my neighbors online. I can’t remember if we set up the WhatsApp group because of the pandemic or the civi...
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 11/03/2026
The BMJ study Ben Ryan constantly references does not say or support what he says it does. For one, it suffers from a critical flaw of overcontrolling, which renders its main finding meaningless. Even with this, a close read still found that trans care saves lives. Thread explainer.
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Fact Checked: New Problematic "Finnish Study" Actually Shows Trans Care Saves Lives
A new study from Dr. Kaltiala in Finland is being used to claim that trans care is not lifesaving. Experts say this is false, and the study itself shows trans care likely saves lives.
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Black-eye @black-eye.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
The Oldman is dying, and the Numan struggles to be born
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Black-eye @black-eye.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
It explicitly mentions characters who are ancestors of Merlin and various knights of the round table, and the migration that gets them to England from Lyonesse. Lyonesse is named in Arthurian legend as the home of Tristan and in various other legends.
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Black-eye @black-eye.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
I wish they would install ticket barriers at Euston so we could go and wait on the platform like any normal station
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Black-eye @black-eye.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
I haven't seen anyone post it so - the Lyonesse trilogy by Jack Vance. Not about Arthur but definitely Arthurian and set perhaps a hundred years before. Beautiful, funny, very true to the type of story telling of those chivalric myths.
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Dan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Peter Mandelson is telling the truth on one thing: the idea he was bought for a $4k “bursary” or a $75k gift is ridiculous The real incentive was a post-government payday - one so big he *rejected* a $3–5m-a-year offer And Epstein enabled that payday Here’s the evidence. 🧵
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Black-eye @black-eye.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
This was one small criticism I had of Sentimental Value (which was beautiful), they hype up this incredible script which is so deep and explains exactly how the character feels, but the only excerpts they read are meaningless/poor
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Definitely seems like they destroyed the country on purpose.
Jeffrey Epstein emailing Peter Thiel: Finding things on their way to collapse was much easier than finding the next bargain. ... Return to tribalism. Counter to globalization. Amazing new alliances.
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W.E.D.em Boyz @leftistwonk.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Absolutely incredible sequence from CNN. "Maduro was a paranoid lunatic always lying about the CIA trying to overthrow him. Anyways, now that the CIA has overthrown him..."
It remains to be seen how the Venezuelan people will respond to a more overt CIA presence in the country post-Maduro. For years, Maduro cast the CIA as a convenient boogey man, repeatedly accusing the agency – without evidence – of attempting to topple his regime as he clung to power despite US opposition.

Now, the CIA has helped supplant Maduro and is poised to help actively manage the Trump administration’s dealings with Venezuela’s new leadership.
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Time for Government to stop tinkering around the edges and scrap leasehold altogether.
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Black-eye @black-eye.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Yes I'm not saying he was a good doctor or correct - but in medical jargon that's what a reactive mood or reactive affect means. Being very low or distressed when you've had something bad happen to you is a normal reaction, but could still be a reason to be signed off work.
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Black-eye @black-eye.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
And someone could have any specific diagnosis and still have a reactive mood
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Black-eye @black-eye.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
I'm not saying this doctor was good, but "reactive mood" here means he thought your outward expression of mood reacts to external stimuli, so when he asks you about something sad you get sad for instance. It's a normal thing to have a reactive mood, and the opposite of that is a flat or blunted mood
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Black-eye @black-eye.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
There is a consistent hallucination common in people with poor eyesight called Charles Bonnet syndrome, where they see little people. I wonder if this drug also causes some transient vision problems. lookafteryoureyes.org/eye-conditio...
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Charles Bonnet Syndrome - lookafteryoureyes.org
In Charles Bonnet Syndrome, people with poor vision may experience silent visual hallucinations where the brain tries to 'fill in' detail in blind areas.
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fesshole 🧻 @fesshole.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
I had a phase in the late 80s when I did a load of drugs and booze. Rented a room in North London and moved all my stuff in, went on a bender, lost my paperwork and could not find the place afterwards. My car was outside too, never found that either.
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Black-eye @black-eye.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
"Today we were unlucky, but remember we only have to be lucky once, [s]he has to be lucky every time"
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Black-eye @black-eye.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
You should *only* prepare for a hypothetical, that's what preparing is. If you're already in the situation it's not preparing.
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Black-eye @black-eye.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
You should *only* prepare for a hypothetical, that's what preparing is
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Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
This is a fantastic article with a lot of simple explanations in it of everyday counterintuitive bullshit, just as you’d expect from Cory Doctorow. Yeah AI is a bubble. But what sort of bubble? Who puffed it up? And what do we do? www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
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AI companies will fail. We can salvage something from the wreckage | Cory Doctorow
AI is asbestos in the walls of our tech society, stuffed there by monopolists run amok. A serious fight against it must strike at its roots
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Black-eye @black-eye.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
It makes me very sad that they're being built on, lovely picture
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Black-eye @black-eye.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
It's odd that this word is so similar in sound and definition to spatchcock though, I'm interested in how we developed two specific similar words for splitting and flattening and cooking two different animals
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