iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Niki @fizzbw.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

My boy was 26 yesterday ❤️ we’ve been together since he was 6 months old. He’s as unphotogenic as ever, but his heart is the most true. Love you Cirrus ❤️

Grey and bay pony in a blue hood looking a bit derpy.

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John Launer @johnlauner.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

New series of facilitated case-based conversations from Human Values in Healthcare Forum.

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Disability Daily Podcast @disabilitydaily.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

Today on the #Disability Daily #Podcast we celebrate #paraplegic professional #wheelchair #dancer Chelsie Hill. Listen & read transcript: disabilitydaily.podbean.com/e/episode88/ #Rollettes #LA #dance #paraplegia #adaptive #paralysis #EduSky #a11y #accessibility #DisabilitySky #fashion #women

Chelsie Hill with her hair pulled back wearing hooped earrings, a black leather jacket over a white pushup bra, and blue jeans. She is seated in a wheelchair with her hands on her hips in front of a light pink door and wall decorated with butterflies.

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Niki @fizzbw.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

Bit stressed & sad today, my dog is not doing great with the changes in our lives & I’m finding figuring out the options hard. Maybe it’s a hint to get going more with Pain Coaching but I love my 10hrs at the community shop as it roots me in my community otherwise I get too lonely. Sad.

Deceptively sad white long dog with his head resting on my hand.

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Niki @fizzbw.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

Came home after a shitty morning to find a friend had bought me a present; a treadle hen feeder! Rural gift giving 🥰 I’m on a low income & trying to literally carve out a new home in a bramble patch & my 3 inherited hens have been joined by rats but my budget feeder wasn’t helping deter. Touched 🥰

Green and silver treadle hen feeder with two brownish red hens showing no interest at all in the background

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Niki @fizzbw.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

Took my friend José & her son in law to a hospital appt in Newport, Gwent. Found this amazing tea rooms in a park to wait at. José told me lots of old WWII stories (she’s 100!) it was marvellous as she was on top form ❤️

Beautiful tea rooms in a red and brown brick building with a fancy glass conservatory on the right.

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Niki @fizzbw.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

I made a dead hedge. We have the old railway posts and willow posts (hoping some will become living fence posts). Great way to get rid of my brash & smaller branches. Making a space to live out of rubble & brambles. No where to rent in my rural area if you are single low income. It’s 🤞🙈💪🏽🙏🏼

A dead hedge, willow posts containing a large amount of cut brash and branches.

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Niki @fizzbw.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

Recovery (from pain in my case) is a privilege. So much has to support it. At base, a sense of safety is key. So much harder in poverty, in stress, in fear, in loss, and not in control. I was lucky. I’m grateful. I had to work hard, but I was further up the ladder than many. We need to notice.

Blue sky with tree branches spangled over it as we look up through them

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Niki @fizzbw.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

To read later as I can’t bookmark 😅

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Isaac Rowlett @isaacrowlett.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

from “Parable of the Talents” by Octavia Butler

From EARTHSEED: THE BOOKS OF THE LIVING
Choose your leaders with wisdom and forethought.
To be led by a coward is to be controlled
by all that the coward fears.
To be led by a fool is to be led
by the opportunists who control the fool.
To be led by a thief is to offer up your most precious treasures to be stolen.
To be led by a liar is to ask to be told lies.
To be led by a tyrant is to sell yourself and those you love into slavery.

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Leila Heelas @lheelas.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

Do join us for this webinar, free to Physio Pain Assn members.

Academic writing skills webinar. 1st April 2025

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Susie Dent @susiedentwords.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Word of the Day is ‘quockerwodger’ (19th century): a puppet individual whose strings are pulled entirely by someone else.

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Rex Chapman @rexchapman.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

This is so cool…

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Niki @fizzbw.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

A poem that was part of a presentation is did for the BPS in the summer. Page 18 onward. Opioid withdrawal when the care is lacking. And I was/am so motivated. It wouldn’t be hard to do better. www.britishpainsociety.org/media/resour...

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Niki @fizzbw.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

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Dan Kaszeta FRHistS @dankaszeta.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

The Papua New Guinea Courier is in rare form.

Screenshot from "Letter from our correspondent" in "Papua New Guinea Courier"

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FND Portal @fndportal.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

Extensive, step-by-step guide on how to secure your digital life. The best effort-to-reward ratio I could design after a couple weeks of thinking about it. Designed for people who would appreciate a friendly hand with security. Keep the weirdos out of your stuff!

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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

If you are not yet familiar with the shocking #IPPscandal, one of the most cruel & monumental injustices of the past half-century, please watch this update & follow campaign group @ungripp.bsky.social for more information We must end this injustice, NOW youtu.be/nkBs2D0Wz_g?...

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🚨 No one should spend 12 yrs in jail for stealing a mobile phone! It’s unthinkable! #IPPscandal

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Niki @fizzbw.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

This could be any one of us/all of us.

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FND Portal @fndportal.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

Great feature on the non-duality of (all) illness, with nice discussions of FND! Hat tip @shakinginmyboots.bsky.social for sharing

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Ouiser_B @gingerbabes.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

This is written by the bishop who stood up to Orange Voldemort. Everyone should be buying this. It's available on Amazon for $14. I'm an atheist and I'm buying it. #booksky

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Jane Liebschutz, MD MPH (she/her) @liebschutz.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

All NIH study sections canceled indefinitely. This will halt science and devastate research budgets in universities.

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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

I’m the daughter of a fighter pilot and even I’m in awe of these pilots because JAYSUS

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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 09/01/2025

I am a climate scientist and this is correct ⬇️

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Lisa B. 🐝 @lisabraudrick.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

Word of the day is 'recrudescence' (17th century): the return of something terrible after a time of reprieve. #TheCoupIsOngoing

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Thoroughbred Daily News @thetdn.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

What happens to broodmares and stallions no longer wanted in the breeding shed? This glaring hole in the industry’s aftercare plan was exposed in last month’s rescue by the KY Humane Society Equine CARE program of 13 horses including War Envoy.

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War Envoy Story Highlights the Vulnerability of Ex-Breeding Stock

It was the Christmas present the horses involved didn't deserve, and one that horse racing didn't need. Last month, the Kentucky Humane Society's Equine CARE program rescued 13 horses from a Franklin ...

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Niki @fizzbw.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

Without downloading any new pics, what’s your energy going into 2025?

White greyhound in the dark with a red coat on, a blue lit up collar and red glowing eyes. Looking Utterly demonic.

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Niki @fizzbw.bsky.social · 25/12/2024

This is an absolute travesty of injustice just hiding in our midst. Often prisoner are in a catch 22 as “good mental health” becomes a requirement of release. HOW can you have stable MH if you are on an indefinite stay? It’s obscene. Labour did this, labour should undo it.

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Science News @scinews.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

A detailed new look at dopamine signaling suggests neuroscientists’ model of reinforcement learning may need to be revised. #MIT "Dopamine release plateau and outcome signals in dorsal striatum contrast with classic reinforcement learning formulations" #NatureCom www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Robert Macfarlane @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

Happy Winter Solstice to all in the northern hemisphere. The turn of the year's tide, a pivot-point, a day of hope—when the dark stops rising & after which the Sun begins its slow climb back. A day I celebrate more than Christmas or New Year. Fiat lux! 📷 by @annieworsley.bsky.social

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Gabino Iglesias @gabino.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

Write that thing. Pluck it outta your soul with rusty pliers. Hit the keyboard like it owes you money. Write whenever, wherever you can. Tell your story. Make the words dance. Whatever you want—a novel, a short story, an agent, a movie—it all starts with the writing.

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Forgotten Poets @forgottenpoets.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

"I don't think I'm allowed to kill something because I am frightened." —Nikki Giovanni 💔 #poem #poems #poetry

I killed a spider
Not a murderous brown recluse
Nor even a black widow
And if the truth were told this
Was only a small spider
Sort of papery spider
Who should have run
When I picked up the book
But she didn't
And she scared me
And I smashed her

I don't think
I'm allowed

To kill something

Because I am

Frightened.

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Joshua W. Pate, PhD @joshuawpate.com · 08/12/2024

The invisibility of chronic pain was covered by SBS World News on TV tonight. I was interviewed about research on the burden and stigma that so many people face. I’m grateful to get to speak up about it, because it is such a huge challenge. We are heading toward better understanding and support!

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Phil Corlett @philcorlett.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

This was a fun episode of MindChat with Andy Clark on predictive processing- seemed to be plenty of consilience between @philipgoff.bsky.social @keithfrankish.bsky.social and @fluffycyborgii.bsky.social views www.youtube.com/watch?v=taDM...

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S04E06 The Experience Machine

YouTube video by Mind Chat

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Flippin' Pain @flippinpain.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

We're pleased to announce that we won a Bright Ideas in Health Award! The award was for Innovation in Clinical Education and we're absolutely chuffed. Thank you to everyone who has supported us or come to an event over the past year! 💙🧠💪 www.flippinpain.co.uk/news/innovation-is-our-middle-name

A photograph of the Flippin' Pain team accepting an award at the Bright Ideas in Health awards 2024.

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Iain Broome @iainbroome.com · 21/11/2024

Excellent guide to making accessible PowerPoint presentations here from the Welsh government, no less. Covers arranging slides, image accessibility, colours and styles, slides for people with Dyslexia and alternative formats. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 👍

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How to create accessible PowerPoint presentations | GOV.WALES

Instructions for improving the accessibility of PowerPoint presentations.

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Flippin' Pain @flippinpain.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Today is the day! We’re shortlisted for two awards tonight: The HSJ Awards and the Bright Ideas in Health Award. The team are at different ends of the country to celebrate both. ✨✨ We couldn’t have gotten here without our partners, Teesside University being one of them. 💙

A quote from Jill Kent, Head of Department (Allied Health Professions) at Teesside University, saying: "Working together, we ensure the future workforce gain valuable experience to understand how to support our communities, as well as develop and deliver high quality research to inform practice."

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