Richard Saville-Smith PhD

Richard Saville-Smith PhD

@dranamorphosis.bsky.social

Mad studies in conversation with psychiatry & religious studies. Also #Celt #indyref2 #psychedelics. And we run The Fairy House on Skye, see AirBnB: your magical retreat Book: Acute Religious Experiences: Madness, Psychosis & Religious Studies (Bloomsbury)

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Trump is a twisted twist on predictive processing theories. His hyper-priors override the naive assumption that bottom up sensory data is true by making it safe. CNN/MSNow/Politico are lies because to be true would involve rejecting Trump which takes way too much (free) energy.

We grow lilies on the Isle of Skye - for no reason, apart from them being spectacular and they look great in our wee AirBnB 'The Fairy House'. Last ones went out today, but there'll be even more next year - who would believe we could grow these on Skye? It's the hydrangeas next!

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Reporter: Donald Trump says you're full of shit. What do you say to that? Abdul Al-Sayed: At least I don't let mine go in the middle of the Oval Office. 🤣 I wish I could vote for him!!

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David Byrne performed "Life During Wartime" at the Hollywood Bowl in front of ICE raid footage. His "Who Is the Sky?" tour is becoming a concert film directed by Oscar nominee Brady Corbet, following past films with Jonathan Demme and Spike Lee. This ain't no disco.

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Among things Trump isn't good at is geography. A critical piece of the shipping route connecting America’s Great Lakes ports to the Atlantic runs through infrastructure controlled by the very country Trump keeps picking trade fights with. Canada could close it any time. #ProudBlue

This👇

Mo Ryan@moryan.bsky.social

every billionaire & tech mogul, they all want to be adored & celebrated without doing the things Dolly did with a fraction of the power & money. What she had, she gave away. I'm sure she was comfortable (& that's good!). But she just relentlessly helped. It's not that difficult. Love. Care. Help. 💚🌸

Trump sent militarized force into American cities, tried regime change in Venezuela and Iran, threatened Greenland and blew up fishermen. One might conclude that he likes using force... ...so watch out for his coming attempt to bomb the Federal Reserve to obliterate the deficit once and for all😱

The DOJ civil rights department should be intervening to protect the first amendment against tyranny?

Radley Balko@radleybalko.bsky.social

The president is threatening to sue a think tank for $5 billion unless they retract a report stating that his National Guard deployments to American cities under the guise of fake emergencies didn't make those cities safer. It's like a Con Law exam question about executive abuse of power.

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I found these lovely people visiting from America... nothing wrong with a bit of eclecticism... missing are tickets from The Tubes, Iggy Pop (the psychedelic furs blew him away) and the B52's (1st album) - look at the prices!!! - Americans made me what I am today.

I found these lovely people visiting from America... nothing wrong with a bit of eclecticism... missing are tickets from The Tubes, Iggy Pop (the psychedelic furs blew him away) and the B52's (1st album) - look at the prices!!! - Americans made me what I am today.

Can anyone explain why Spain still has territories in Africa like Ceuta? Due to the Muslims or Spanish imperialism? Come to think of it, why is Gibraltar (just across the water from Ceuta) still British? What a weird web colonialism weaves.

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Their incompetence is breathtaking. TRUMP AIDE 1: "We need at totally non-weird, non-strange, non-bizarre, super-masculine he-man to be our spokesperson to undermine James Talarico." TRUMP AIDE 2: "Is Stephen Miller available?" TRUMP AIDE 1: "Genius!"

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Morgan McSweeney confirms that Mandelson and George Osborne were the two choices for ambassador to the US, suggesting that everyone in No10 must have been smoking crack.

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Here’s the paper: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... Computational data up next! Follow up grant Not Discussed 🤪

Phil Corlett@philcorlett.bsky.social

Our first empirical paper on the effects of songmaking on psychosis - featured here medicine.yale.edu/news-article... @wutsaiyale.bsky.social