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I'm a PhD student that researches surveillance technologies used in mental health wards. I look at the organisation of time, and how it contributes to iatrogenic harm.

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Stop Oxevision @stopoxevision.bsky.social · 20h
10 mental health trusts have been referred to the CQC over their use of Oxevision (now LIO) it has been revealed at the Lampard inquiry hearings this week www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Ten NHS trusts referred over monitoring consent - Lampard Inquiry
Infrared technology is used in patients' bedrooms and can monitor their breathing and pulse.
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ESRC Digital Good Network @digitalgoodnet.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Read Blue Maignien's latest blog on surveillance technology in health and social care, written as part of their Digital Good Network internship with Geeks for Social Change. @gfsc.community gfsc.community/how-health-t...
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Just Treatment @justtreatment.org · 01/10/2026
TODAY: Patients, NHS workers and campaigners are taking action against US spy-tech company Palantir at over 40 locations across England. We're calling on every NHS trust and ICB to reject Palantir, and on the government to use the break clause and end the contract.
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Stop Oxevision @stopoxevision.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
We warmly welcome the publication of the MHC of Ireland's recent Code on surveillance in mental health settings. As far as we understand, this precludes any use of Oxevision within bedrooms. We urge NHSE to follow suit. stopoxevision.com/2026/09/23/s...
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Stop Oxevision welcomes recently published guidance on the use of digital monitoring (surveillance) technology in Ireland - Stop Oxevision
Stop Oxevision is a lived experience campaign aStop Oxevision welcomes recently published guidance on the use of digital monitoring (surveillance) technology in Ireland
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Tech Policy Press @techpolicypress.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Palantir has hired former Labour deputy leader Tom Watson ahead of a December government decision on a break clause that could end its £330 million role in the NHS's data platform. Foxglove's Martha Dark writes that his "new position contrasts starkly with his public views a decade ago."
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Palantir's New Senior VP Swaps Lords Pass for Labour Leverage
Lord Tom Watson’s new position contrasts starkly with his public views a decade ago, writes Foxglove's Martha Dark.
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Asylum Magazine @asylummagazine.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
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What does people’s use of AI reveal about the unmet needs of those using mental health services?
The most interesting question isn’t why people are turning to AI chatbots, but what kind of support is proving difficult to find elsewhere.
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Marxism and Disability Network (MDN) @marxdisability.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Towards an Historical Materialist Critique of Ableism - first Marxism & Disability Network pamphlet (check website) marxismdisability.wordpress.com/2026/09/08/r... #Pamphlet #Marxism #Disability #Ableism
Title of pamphlet on a black background and yellow writing
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ana valdivia @anavaldi.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
This study is particularly relevant for those who believe that AI for sustainability will mitigate climate change. It will not: "Parallel adoption of AI across fossil fuel and renewable energy pathways increases net global annual emissions by 0.47–1.8 Gt CO₂." www.nature.com/articles/s44...
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AI-driven productivity gains enable more CO₂ emissions than they avoid in a global energy–economy model - npj Climate Action
npj Climate Action - AI-driven productivity gains enable more CO₂ emissions than they avoid in a global energy–economy model
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Marxism and Disability Network (MDN) @marxdisability.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Looking forward to our autumn series of monthly seminar events! Join us on Tuesday, 1st September, 6:30pm BST for an event with Clara Thurner, who will be presenting on 'Biocertification in the Capitalist State' The abstract is available here: marxismdisability.wordpress.com/2026/08/06/s...
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September 2026 – Clara Thurner: Biocertification in the Capitalist State
Abstract: This paper aims to understand anti-disability laws from a historical materialist standpoint as crisis management of capitalist states. While disability theorists have mostly interpreted s…
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National Survivor User Network @nsunnews.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
"When the power shifts to a community owning the language, there is profound discomfort in medical spaces and beyond." @pidgewilliams.bsky.social responds to a recent paper claiming that the diagnostic threshold for autism has become ‘too broad’. www.nsun.org.uk/uta-frith-co...
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Uta Frith confirms my longstanding grudge against psychology: there’s a problem with power and permission
When the power shifts to a community owning the language, there is profound discomfort in medical spaces and beyond.
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Blue @bluehmgn.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
on assited dying it's really a shame that french parliamentaries - many much to the left of burnham - couldn't grasp the very simple concept he articulated as "personally, I think there’s something that needs to happen first. That is the fixing of the funding of palliative care and social care."
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Blue @bluehmgn.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
i know the notion of reinstitutionalisation has been debated but in a very short period of time the UK abandoned the cheshire west acid test and the US the olmstead act - both are major legal protections for disabled people from institutional abuse and coercion.
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Blue @bluehmgn.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
this summer i'm taking a phd break to intern for @gfsc.community - i wrote a blog about their community technology partnership approach & why i think it matters to the care sector. I talk about the hell that oxevision is and the key work of the stop oxevision campaign. gfsc.community/how-health-t...
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How health technology is replacing care with surveillance
Surveillance technology in health and social care like Oxevision is intrusive, coercive and not fit for purpose, and much of its development links to warfare. Why is it being commissioned, and where c...
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Stop Oxevision @stopoxevision.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
So who DOES still use Oxevision (now LIO Health)? This is what we know
an image of an Oxevision camera. Who still uses Oxevision?
13 NHS Trusts use Oxevision in at least some patient bedrooms.
5 NHS Trusts use Oxevision in seclusion or 136 suites alone.
2 police forces use Oxevison in some or all police cells.Trusts that use Oxevision in some or all patient bedrooms and seclusion rooms.
Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust
Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust: Reduced usage to older adult wards, overnight only
Cumbria, Northumberland, Tyne and Wear NHS Foundation Trust Derbyshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust Essex Partnership University NHS Trust
Lancashire and South Cumbria Foundation Trust: LSCFT will not be renewing their contract with Oxevision beyond the end of 2026
Midlands Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare NHS Trust
Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust
Rotherham Doncaster and South Humber NHS Foundation Trust
Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
Tees, Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Trust West London NHS TrustTrusts that only use Oxevision in seclusion rooms and/or 136 suites.
Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
East London NHS Foundation Trust
North East London NHS Foundation Trust
NELFT stopped using Oxevision within patient bedrooms but continue to use it in seclusion rooms.
Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust
South West London and St George's Mental Health NHSOther private, police and prison settings that use Oxevision.
Active Care Group (formerly Huntercombe) Use Oxevision in patient bedrooms.
Devon and Cornwall Police Use Oxevision within all police custody suites in Devon and Cornwall.
Metropolitan Police Use Oxevision in Wood Green police station, North London.
HMP Woodhill Use Oxevision in an extra care wing/ clinical assessment unit operated by Central and North West London NHS Trust.
Care homes Oxevision has been used in care homes in Oxfordshire and Sweden.
As care homes are generally privatised, it has been very hard to map exactly where it is used.
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Blue @bluehmgn.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
this is an incredibly important step and all thanks to the hard work of the campaign - thank you to them
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david-s.bsky.social @david-s.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
"The steering group is constrained to stick within currently predicted spending" Disabled people are being asked to 'coproduce' cuts. As in The Care Crisis by Emma Dowling, this is Participatory Austerity. Labour's #PIP review is about the ideological needs of politicians, nothing else.
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Stop Oxevision @stopoxevision.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Damning evidence from the Lampard Inquiry today about Oxevision (now LIO health). An EPUT nurse admits the benefits are “very minimal”, that it is “incredibly intrusive” and it doesn’t make observation rounds any quicker or more effective, as Oxehealth (now LIO) claim. #LampardInquiry
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Frances Ryan @francesryan.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Disability benefits assessment must be redrawn as part of a “radical overhaul” as the system is “not fit for purpose,” the government’s landmark review into Pip will say. @jessicaelgot.bsky.social exclusively outlines the major early findings from Timms report. www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
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Disability benefits in England and Wales not fit for purpose, Timms review to find
Exclusive: Landmark review by disability minister will call for ‘dehumanising’ assessment system to be redrawn
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SHAC: The Social Housing Action Campaign @shacaction.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
SHAC Article: Over 100 Southwark Families Face Eviction from Former Notting Hill Genesis Homes 🚨 shaction.org/2026/07/08/a... Corporate landlord BMR Group Ltd bought the homes from social landlord NHG. Residents are fighting back, demanding action from Southwark Council. #NoEvictions
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Social Housing Action CampaignA Community Under Threat: Southwark Families Fight Mass Evictions
Housing Campaigners Demand Council Action as Corporate Landlord BMR Group Targets More Than 100 Families Tenants on the St James Estate in the London Borough of Southwark are fighting mass eviction…
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Andrew Kersley @andrewkersley.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Chelsea and Westminster is the poster child for Palantir – the first hospital to use its tech. It claims to have cut waiting lists there by 183,000. But when I investigated for @londonermag.bsky.social, I found evidence that wasn't true. Now MPs are calling for an inquiry. Read my full expose:
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Palantir cleared 183,000 patients from one hospital's waiting list. Or did it?
Chelsea and Westminster Trust claimed the tech giant’s software helped it clear a patient backlog, even as its actual waiting list was rising fast
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Blue @bluehmgn.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
I didn't know Diana Rose had passed and I just found out today and I feel so deeply sad! I didn't know her but her work gave me a lot of hope and also courage. I think about her words very often.
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Recovery in the Bin @ritb.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Purnell is one of the most vile DWP ministers this country has ever seen. He hates disabled people with a vengeance, & this bodes very badly for life under a Burnham government. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Andy Burnham picks former Blair minister James Purnell as chief of staff
Decision is one of Makerfield MP’s most significant since his Westminster return as he builds his team for government
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Blue @bluehmgn.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
it's been a bit since i read health communism by adler-bolton and vierkant but i think the changing state of tech in mental health supports their key argument. ppl who face institutionalisation used to face abuse. it's the same today except now we also extract value from them through data collection
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Blue @bluehmgn.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
if it was indeed streeting's submission to the case, well, am i so not surprised that he went the authoritarian controlling judgemental way
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Blue @bluehmgn.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
in my research i get told by ppl who were admitted in psych wards they didnt complain or advocate for their needs bc they didn't know they could - specifically about tech. the new supreme court ruling feels like the continuation of that, ppl are "happy" about being spied on bc they didn't complain
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Stop Oxevision @stopoxevision.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
Would you want to be watched in your bedroom while you're ill in hospital? @novaramedia.com youtube.com/shorts/FwQkm...
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The NHS is Paying for 'Spy Cameras' in Patient Bedrooms
YouTube video by Novara Media
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Stop Oxevision @stopoxevision.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Untangling the threads: The installation of Oxevision by Oxford Health NHS Trust part two Following on from the piece earlier in the week we are now sharing part two of our deep dive into Oxford Health’s seemingly irrational decision to install Oxevision stopoxevision.wordpress.com/2026/02/05/u...
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Untangling the threads: The installation of Oxevision by Oxford Health NHS Trust part two
Image from Charlotte Wood Twitter, 2021, showing Oxford Health and Oxehealth winning an award for the Oxvision pilot project On 3rd February we shared part one of a timeline outlining the installat…
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National Survivor User Network @nsunnews.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
"Ten years later and I’m still faced with coercive practice at every turn, both from the gender clinic and the specialists that work with them." Read 'Accessing gender-affirming care should not be a source of trauma' by NSUN member, Oscar. www.nsun.org.uk/accessing-ge...
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Accessing gender-affirming care should not be a source of trauma
As a child, I had no reason to doubt the motivations of the people and the systems that I was told were there to help me.
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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 15/01/2026
are you displeased with today’s AI safety evaluation landscape and curious about what greater conceptual clarity, methodological soundness, and rigour in AI evaluation could look like? if so, consider coming to Dublin to pursue a PhD with me apply here: aial.ie/hiring/phd-a... pls repost
About the PhD: 
Audits and evaluation of AI systems — and the broader context that AI systems operate in — have become central to conceptualising, quantifying, measuring and understanding the operations, failures, limitations, underlying assumptions, and downstream societal implications of AI systems. Existing AI audit and evaluation efforts are fractured, done in a siloed and ad-hoc manner, and with little deliberation and reflection around conceptual rigour and methodological validity.

This PhD is for a candidate that is passionate about exploring what a conceptually cogent, methodologically sound, and well-founded AI evaluation and safety research might look like. This requires grappling with questions such as:

    What does it mean to represent “ground truth” in proxies, synthetic data, or computational simulation?
    How do we reliably measure abstract and complex phenomena?
    What are the epistemological or methodological implications of quantification and measurement approaches we choose to employ? Particularly, what underlying presuppositions, values, or perspectives do they entail?
    How do we ensure the lived experiences of impacted communities play a critical role in the development and justification of measurement metrics and proxies?
    Through exploration of these questions, the candidate is expected to engage with core concepts in the philosophy of science, history of science, Black feminist epistemologies, and similar schools of thought to develop an in-depth understanding of existing practices with the aim of applying it to advance shared standards and best practice in AI evaluation.

The candidate is expected to integrate empirical (for example, through analysis or evaluation of existing benchmarks) or practical (for example, by executing evaluation of AI systems) components into the overall work.
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Disability News Service @johnpring.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
Ministers leave door open to continuing ‘absolute scandal’ of inappropriate Mental Health Act detention #MentalHealthBill #MentalHealthAct www.disabilitynewsservice.com/ministers-le...
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Ministers leave door open to continuing ‘absolute scandal’ of inappropriate Mental Health Act detention
A disabled MP has failed to persuade ministers to show exactly what progress they are making towards ensuring there are enough community services to halt the “scandal” of disabled people being inap…
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Disability News Service @johnpring.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Controversial government legislation that has now become law provides no solution to the culture of abuse, neglect and exclusion within the mental health system, or its continued structural racism, say disabled campaigners. #MentalHealthAct www.disabilitynewsservice.com/new-mental-h...
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New Mental Health Act ‘offers no solution’ to abuse, exclusion and racism in mental health system
Controversial government legislation that has now become law provides no solution to the culture of abuse, neglect and exclusion within the mental health system, or its continued structural racism,…
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Blue @bluehmgn.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
the only thing streeting is good at is exploiting contradictions no meds because it's not actually medical no psychosocial because it's not "proven" against disease 100% suffering left
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david-s.bsky.social @david-s.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
"Each technological advancement that could free up physician time has instead tightened the productivity ratchet: these “efficiency gains” have simply been used to squeeze more visits, more billing, and more profit out of every hour." 🔥
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 27/10/2025
“‘Clinical-grade’” is an example of marketing puffery designed to borrow authority from medicine without the strings of accountability or regulation. It sits alongside other buzzy marketing phrases like ‘medical-grade’ or ‘pharmaceutical-grade’ for things like steel, silicone, and supplements…”
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‘Clinical-grade AI’: a new buzzy AI word that means absolutely nothing
Chatbot mental health companies are getting into clinical cosplay.
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Stop Oxevision @stopoxevision.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
In January the BBC covered a story about our campaign and concerns around the use of Oxevision. This is the video from the BBC South West coverage (although there was other national and regional coverage) Oxehealth have now rebranded as LIO Health youtu.be/uhrGw_jjtfQ?...
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Stop Oxevision (now LIO Health) on the BBC
YouTube video by Stop Oxevision
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david-s.bsky.social @david-s.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
It can't be underestimated how important this is. Like 'SIM', this scandal has been uncovered by survivors themselves, not professionals. Anyone concerned about patient safety, the merging of the private sector & the state, misuse of technology, research ethics & human rights needs to read this.
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Blue @bluehmgn.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
the fatigue of listening to the lamprd inquiry
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Tympanic & Frisketty @luckyerica3.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
This afternoon, @stopoxevision.bsky.social are giving evidence at the Lampard Inquiry into uee of Oxevision in wider context of 2,000 patient deaths at Essex Partnership NHS Trust between 2000-24. You can watch the live stream on YouTube here www.youtube.com/@thelampardi...
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The Lampard Inquiry
The Lampard Inquiry (formerly known as the Essex Mental Health Independent Inquiry) is a an independent statutory inquiry into the deaths of mental health inpatients in Essex.
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Recovery in the Bin @ritb.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
www.turn2us.org.uk/policy-campa...
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Experiences of the UK social security system
How the experience of accessing benefits support impacts claimants and the overall effectiveness of the social security system.
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Blue @bluehmgn.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
important work to be done here :) apply!
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Rick B @rickburgess.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
FYI Universal Credit for a single person is £4,801.68 per annum for which you will be harassed, coerced and threatened constantly via your own mobile phone by the DWP, while in media you will be called scrounging workshy scum by the LABOUR party.
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Disabled People Against Cuts - DPAC @dis-ppl-protest.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
#HousingDiscrimination Join @shacaction.bsky.social on zoom Thursday 11th September 2025 at 6.30pm in discussion with Adam Gabsi of @inclusionlondon.bsky.social to discuss discrimination in the housing sector Details below ⬇️⬇️⬇️ Check it out 📢
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Stop Oxevision @stopoxevision.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
Finally, inspired by Ruha Benjamin’s call for a radical reimagining of what technoscience might look like outside of carcerality, we imagine how mental health technologies could be otherwise. Enter: FishVision cameras
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Stop Oxevision @stopoxevision.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
While drawing attention to the oppressive & violent nature of technologies such as Oxevision (now LIO), we ultimately reject the notion that mental health technologies are, in themselves, either ‘good’ or ‘bad’ but inherently entangled with the violent injustices of psychiatry and its carceral tools
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Stop Oxevision @stopoxevision.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
Our paper - ‘Towards a Mad Technoscience: revealing, repurposing, and reimagining carceral mental health technologies’ is out now (limited access here) bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journal... You can get full access to our original here: www.researchgate.net/publication/...
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Just Em 🏳️‍⚧️ [illegal lesbian] @agirlcalleddave.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
Sex Matters has managed to raise the 50K to take Hampstead Heath's Ladies' Pond to court for being inclusive. Let's spread the word and encourage people to donate to GoFundMe to help combat this bigotry. www.gofundme.com/f/working-fo...
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Donate to Keep the Ladies Pond Inclusive: Fund Trans Rights, organized by TransLucent Community
Keep Hampstead Heath's Ladies' Pond Inclusive: Fund Trans Righ… TransLucent Community needs your support for Keep the Ladies Pond Inclusive: Fund Trans Rights
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Disability News Service @johnpring.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
Disabled activists warn Labour MPs who vote for cuts: ‘The gloves will be off’ www.disabilitynewsservice.com/disabled-act...
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Disabled activists warn Labour MPs who vote for cuts: ‘The gloves will be off’
Labour MPs were given their final warning by disabled activists at a sweltering rally outside parliament on Monday that, if they vote for cuts to disability benefits, the “gloves will be off”. Elle…
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Dr Jay Watts @shrinkatlarge.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
The NHS Long Term Plan promised all mental health services would be trauma-informed. The Women’s Mental Health Taskforce said the same. Now, the 10-Year Health Plan doesn’t mention trauma-informed care at all. Such a sad, telling step backwards. assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/686639...
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