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Mark Twomey.

@marctwomey.bsky.social
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Psychoanalytic psychotherapist. Couples therapist. Techno enthusiast.

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Mark Twomey. @marctwomey.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
Help Asmaa & her little girls survive in Gaza and rebuild chuffed.org/project/1128...
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Help Asmaa & her little girls survive in Gaza and rebuild
Hi, I'm Eren and I'm running this fundraiser to help Asmaa, who has been displaced from the North of Gaza Strip. Asmaa's husband is missing and she is left alone with her two little girls in a tent, w...
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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 24/01/2025
Great reporting. The Israeli army said that most people killed in bombing a Beirut apartment block were Hezbollah. The BBC found that nearly all were in fact civilians, and a third were children. www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Letters from A Psychotherapist @jemoyer.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
I wrote this on eternal life and ceaseless cringe. And how I've no interest in living forever if it's in a world ruled by the weird, brittle freaks we call tech CEOs. www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle-co...
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Séamas O'Reilly: The world is an objectively worse place because of tech-bro oligarchs
As Zuckerberg pontificates about masculinity and traditional values, he does so in soundbites as lifeless as his former paeans to gender and racial equality
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Mondoweiss @mondoweiss.net · 04/01/2025
Israeli lawmakers are urging the military to intensify the genocide in Gaza by destroying any possible sources of energy, food, and water in the territory. mondoweiss.net/2025/01/israeli-lawm… #Palestine #Israel
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Israeli lawmakers demand military destroy all food and energy resources in Gaza
Israeli lawmakers are urging the military to intensify the genocide in Gaza by destroying any possible sources of energy, food, and water in the territory.
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Mark Twomey. @marctwomey.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 25/12/2024
I saw a few people describe Curtis Yarvin as "dumb," despite his reputation as the far-seeing philosopher-king who's inspired Peter Thiel, JD Vance, & many on the New Right. So I did some reading and, well, yikes, "dumb" is an understatement. He's just Lou Dobbs w/ bigger words. For example...
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Jon Drake @jondrake.bsky.social · 25/12/2024
Dear Santa, You didn’t get me the thesaurus I asked for and now I’m mad. You made me really mad. I’m mad at you
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David Mack @davidmackau.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
the feds: stop trying to turn this guy into some cool antihero with a badass public image also the feds: *treat him like they’ve captured the joker*
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Maria BOO!stillos @mariabustillos.com · 19/12/2024
@zeets.bsky.social wrote the best post on this I've seen, at @flaminghydra.com flaminghydra.com/safe-and-bea...
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Safe and Beautiful World
by Zito Madu A rush of essays, articles, posts, and news reports on the death of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson presented the actions of his alleged killer, Luigi Mangione, as chilling, unimag...
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Djamé 🟥 @zehavoc.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
Fucking hell... Seriously, there's no going back from this. If it were not from Haaretz, nobody would believe it. Worse part? Nobody fucking cares. archive.ph/NVG4p#select...
A recently discharged Division 252 officer describes the arbitrary nature of this boundary: "For the division, the kill zone extends as far as a sniper can see." But the issue goes beyond geography. "We're killing civilians there who are then counted as terrorists," he says. "The IDF spokesperson's announcements about casualty numbers have turned this into a competition between units. If Division 99 kills 150 [people], the next unit aims for 200."

These accounts of indiscriminate killing and the routine classification of civilian casualties as terrorists emerged repeatedly in Haaretz's conversations with recent Gaza veterans.
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Nick Land Acknowledgement 🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈 @lonestartallboi.bsky.social · 08/01/2024
20 years ago we were suing teenagers for millions of dollars because they were torrenting a single Metallica album and now billionaires are demanding the free right to every work in history, so that they can re-sell it. The law only ever serves capital.
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Zoe Gardner @zoejardiniere.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
“We haven’t really seen anything like this since the Nazis” says a war crimes investigator collecting evidence from the Assad regime’s mass graves. Horrifying beyond comprehension. This is what Syrian refugees escaped, & it is the end of this horror they’re celebrating #r4today
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Cianan Brennan @ciananbrennan.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
This is instructive if you're ever trying to understand how the health budget increased by billions in recent years and yet nothing seemed to improve www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...
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To understand why the HSE is in such a financial mess, look no further than Cork's Glenwood House
Millions of euro were spent, a great deal of it wasted, on Glenwood and other mental health facilities in Cork
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Chris Thorburn @cbthorburn.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
SIMPLY HAVING A
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Nick Knudsen @nickknudsenus.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
Endorse
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AlexWattsEsq @alexwattsesq.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Patient: I'm so depressed Psychiatrist: You must go and see the great gladiator Spartacus, he's in town tonight Patient: But doctor, I am Spartacus Psychiatrist: No, I am Spartacus
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Jack Mirkinson @jackmirkinson.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
what's coarser: people doing posts online or people dying because their health insurance sees their death as more profitable than their life
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CONFLICT NEWS FELLA @warosintfella.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
A doctor’s letter to United Healthcare for denying nausea meds for a child on chemo
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Tony - Pod Guy - Groves @tonygroves.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Displace or Die. Terrified people fleeing the Israeli military in Northern Gaza. This is ethnic cleansing. And you can’t claim ignorance.
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Sam “The Great Pumpkin” Thielman @samthielman.com · 05/12/2024
This story is uh, insane www.cbsnews.com/news/police-...
Adair, Iowa, had a population of 794. So, it seemed suspicious when its three-person police department asked regulators to buy 90 machine guns, including an M134 Gatling-style minigun capable of shooting up to 6,000 rounds of ammunition every minute.
Federal agents later discovered Adair's police chief, Bradley Wendt, was using his position to acquire weapons and sell them for personal profit. A jury convicted Wendt earlier this year of conspiracy to defraud the United States, lying to federal law enforcement and illegal possession of a machine gun.
Wendt is unapologetic and has appealed his conviction.
"If I'm guilty of this, every cop in the nation's going to jail," Wendt told CBS News just days before a federal judge sentenced him to a 5-year prison term.
Wendt's crimes appear to be part of a nationwide pattern.
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Mark Twomey. @marctwomey.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Monstrous. Again.
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Putin's thug allies closing down democracy in Georgia
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Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
France has just had a review of healthcare for young trans people and it has come out entirely the opposite to Cass. But then again the personnel involved had not been specifically selected to arrive at a politically-required outcome. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
The most recent international guidelines [12] suggest that GAH should be initiated in transgender adolescents whose gender incongruence has been confirmed according to the criteria outlined in the ICD-11 (Table 1). Additionally, these adolescents should demonstrate sufficient emotional and cognitive maturity to provide informed consent for treatment. Unlike strict age criteria, other factors such as the duration of gender incongruence, medical follow-up history, persistence of transition requests, psychological distress, and the individual's maturity level should be considered when determining the optimal timing for introducing GAH.
In situations where GAH is introduced before Tanner stage 5 (especially when GnRHa has been previously prescribed), suppression can be maintained upon the introduction of GAH to prevent the action of endogenous hormones and the appearance or continued progression of secondary sexual characteristics in the undesired gender.
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Michael Harriot @michaelharriot.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
For five years, I have been covering what is unquestionably the biggest criminal justice scandal in American history. Today it ended when the most corrupt cop in history took his life. But it's not over. A thread.
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J🌲K E @guess-what.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
THERAPIST: I’m not sure it’s healthy to take a studio audience with you everywhere you go. STUDIO AUDIENCE: *oooooOOOOOoooo*
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Mark Twomey. @marctwomey.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
I can't recommend this podcast enough. Every episode is a short story by some of the best to ever do it with a discussion afterwards. This episode gives you eldritch dread in dulcet tones just as the nights are drawing in. What more could you want? open.spotify.com/episode/3HaL...
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Episode 65: The Color Out Of Space by H P Lovecraft
The Great Stories · Episode
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Mike Royce @mikeroyce.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
"Twitter isn’t real life" turned into "leaving Twitter is ignoring reality” very quickly!
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merr-itt came from outer space @merrittk.com · 08/05/2023
Dune 2? Yeah I like Dune 2. Dune 2 chicks at the same time after unlocking the genetic memory of my countless past incarnations and instantly mastering the Honored Matre style of sex magic
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Simon McGarr @tupped.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
A vote in Motion is a Vote still At Work.
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C.M. Rosens @cmrosens.com · 28/11/2024
This post labelled "Content Warning" is a Palestinian account belonging to Balsam Ibrahim, and contains a video of cooking bread with nothing graphic or disturbing in shot, and the post is asking for donations to the GFM but has a note of hope, thanking contributors.
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Joe Noonan @joenoonan.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
The UN has made 41 attempts to aid the 1.6 million people besieged in North Gaza so far this month. Not one attempt succeeded.
Of the UN’s 41 attempts to support people besieged in North Gaza so far in November, all were either denied (37) or impeded (four).
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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Here we go: France says Netanyahu has immunity. Which so-called democracy will next prove to us all that international law does not apply to Israel? www.diplomatie.gouv.fr/fr/dossiers-...
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Israël - Cour pénale internationale (27.11.24)
La France respectera ses obligations internationales, étant entendu que le Statut de Rome exige une pleine coopération avec la Cour pénale (…)
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Wolfmanning Skull 🎃 @manningkrull.bsky.social · 06/10/2024
*Enya voice*
Hardware store display of three stacked boxes that say Snake-A-Way
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Zito @zeets.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
This shit is pathetic. Sure Israel is credibly committing genocide and has starved a population of people, but it should be allowed to investigate itself along with its “vibrant, independent media”.
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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
As of today, all gov-funded bodies in Israel are prohibited from communicating with "Ha'aretz," Israel's longest-running daily newspaper: www.haaretz.com/israel-news/... It was inevitable that if Israel maintained the Occupation, eventually illiberalism would come home within the Green Line.
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Israeli government imposes sanctions on Haaretz, cuts all ties and pulls advertising
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Ian Power @ihpower.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
WHAT DO WE WANT? MORE SUSPENSE! WHEN DO WE WANT IT? ...
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Letters from A Psychotherapist @jemoyer.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
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Small Robots @smolrobots.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Genuinely hadn't occurred to me before reading this, but that's why journalists are banging the "Bluesky is an echo chamber" drum, right? They can't use this platform for scraping news stories. Not only is there no outrage farming, but the nuclear block also limits their ability to follow discourse.
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Jonathan Liew @jonathanliew.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
this week's column www.theguardian.com/sport/2024/n...
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Sport may be a blunt tool of social change, but it’s time to take a stand against Israel | Jonathan Liew
As the bombardment continues in Gaza, bodies such as Fifa and the IOC have evaded taking a stand. But fans’ solidarity with Palestinians is growing and should not be ignored
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damniel spookradski @self.agency · 21/11/2024
the sheer fucking chutzpah of mass murdering tens of thousands of civilians, deliberately restricting aid to them, and then crying that you are a victim of antisemitism, turning all jews into a human shield for your crimes against humanity
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Netanyahu's office calls ICC warrants a 'modern-day Dreyfus trial' - JNS.org
"Israel rejects with disgust the absurd and false actions and charges against it by the International Criminal Court."
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Carl Kinsella @carlkinsella.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
GEORGE: She recommended me to all of her friends. JERRY: What, she starter packed you? GEORGE: She starter packed me! JERRY: She's a starter packer! KRAMER: [bursts in] I need 44 billion dollars
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Claire Mullaly @clairemullaly.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Israel has impounded a fire engine donated by Scottish firefighters to aid Palestinian firefighters. A solidarity act with the sole aim of 'saving and protecting lives'. Letter from Fire Brigades Union to the Israeli ambassador to UK demanding that the fire engine reaches Palestinian firefighters.
Letter from Fire Brigades Union to Israeli Ambassador to the UK demanding that a seized fire engine donated from Scottish firefighters to Palestinian firefighters be released by Israel.
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Adam Ellis @adamtots.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
I heard we’re posting our post popular art from The Bad Place
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James Kelleher @jameskelleher.pilcrow.ie · 19/11/2024
I had a good time, but I had no idea that I was living through a golden age of Dublin club culture in the 1990s. Great article by @carolineanno.bsky.social on the withering of a cultural ecosystem:
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View of The Steady Decline of Club Culture in Dublin
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James Kelleher @jameskelleher.pilcrow.ie · 14/08/2024
An erotic short story in three acts
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SwiftOnSecurity @swiftonsecurity.com · 19/11/2024
Don't mistake my cautions on mass blocklists — I've been a LONG-TERM advocate for suffocation of engagement as a tactic. Don't even dance on their grave except by exception.
If it seems like someone would have to know the right answer to be this wrong, that's because they do. And they posted it anyway, which means you are entering an interaction they engineered for a purpose. You are entering a shooting gallery from the wrong end.
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JP @jpbrammer.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
I briefly put principles and values aside to make a saltier, crankier case for leaving X: Elon Musk is uniquely insufferable holapapi.substack.com/p/x-out
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X Out
A salty, cranky case for letting Twitter die
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