MacPsych

MacPsych

@macpsych.bsky.social

Irish 🇮🇪 | Psychologist 🧠 | Dubliner, now Londoner | Massive geek 🚀 | Probably planning my next trip to Japan ✈️🇯🇵 | A big old gay 🏳️‍🌈 ✏️ https://www.macpsych.blog | 🐘 https://social.lol/@macpsych |

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elia ayoub
@ayoub.bsky.social

I’m seeing people reacting by pointing out that he’s obviously wrong. I appreciate that, but it’s also a pointless exercise. The problem isn’t that he’s wrong. The problem is that this is normal in American politics — and it’s been normal for a while.

The Bulwark@thebulwark.com

RFK: "There's five hundred million Arabs in the world. And yet they don't produce science. They don't win the Nobel Prize. They don't win the Fields Prize. They don't win the Wolf Prize. They don't produce literature."

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Alex Andreou
@sturdyalex.bsky.social

BBC News just interrupted its coverage to go, live, to Nigel Farage - a man with no contitutional standing in our setup - responding to the budget - a document which nobody has seen yet. WHY

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Edwin Hayward
@edwinhayward.com

Reform plan to bring back imperial measurements to help boost US trade, not realising that US imperial measurements are different from UK ones. So dense a black hole is empty space by comparison.

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George Monbiot
@georgemonbiot.bsky.social

The lessons from Brazil and Serbia? Don't concede one inch of ground to the far right. Don't appease. Don't triangulate. Don't grovel. Don't say they have "legitimate concerns". Mobilise your base, and fight them with all the democratic means at your disposal.

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The Spaceshipper 🚀
@thespaceshipper.com

Oh no 😭 One of the last members of the USS Enterprise has left. RIP Walter Marvin Koenig (1936-2026) Star Trek, Babylon 5, Moontrap, The Starlost, The Questor Tapes, Futurama... What a career in sci-fi. I will miss Pavel Chekov. Again 😞

Jesse Thorn@jessethorn.bsky.social

My pal Danielle Koenig shared that her father Walter Koenig passed away last night at age 90. A performer whose kindness and warmth shone through the screen. He will be well remembered.

MacPsych
@macpsych.bsky.social

Enjoying a much-needed coffee here in Zagreb. Sluggish after a terrible night’s sleep and some cold and damp weather. But I’m fuelled on caffeine and will persist with the exploration! #zagreb #croatia #hrvatska🇭🇷 #coffee #citybreak

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Humanists UK
@humanists.uk

Humanist campaigning against so-called conversion therapy has gone on display, showing decades of political inaction on banning it. Conversion practices, ‘conversion therapy’ or colloquially ‘praying the gay away’, are harmful practices aimed at changing who LGBT+ people are or who they love.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers
@mrsbettybowers.bsky.social

If you think a test for dementia is an IQ test, you have dementia. If you don't realize you have been given a test for dementia because your physician suspects you have dementia, you have dementia. If you think being able to tell a giraffe from a whale makes you a genius . . . you have dementia.

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Marisa Kabas
@marisakabas.bsky.social

SCOOP: 'Tommy' from the now-viral exchange with Abdul El-Sayed is Thomas Teepell, a former staffer for Republican Senator Josh Hawley with close ties to Christian Nationalist Sean Feucht. He's the son of a former Bobby Jindal staffer whose consultant work was instrumental in getting Hawley elected.

thehandbasket.co'Tommy' from viral El-Sayed video is former Sen. Hawley staffer with Christian nationalist tiesThomas Teepell is the son of a former long-time Bobby Jindal staffer who's close to Sean Feucht.

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Cat Neilan
@catneilan.bsky.social

Exclusive: Reform mayor Luke Campbell is under police investigation for allegedly cyberflashing a female member of staff Campbell, an Olympic gold boxer, is accused of having shown a a senior female officer four fully “naked and sexualised images” of himself observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

observer.co.ukReform mayor under police investigation for alleged cyber...Luke Campbell, an Olympic gold medallist boxer and rising star in Nigel Farage’s party, is accused of showing naked pictures of himself to female colleague
MacPsych
@macpsych.bsky.social

I think my drink tastes even nicer with a light sprinkling of schadenfreude at the imminent exit of another vacuous blonde liar from the Trump 'administration'. Next up: hopefully one or more of the psychotic *men* unleashing violence and misery on innocent people around the world. #KatieZacharia

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Kenny Campbell
@mrkennycampbell.bsky.social

Oh. Boy.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

😬 Katie Zacharia's first press briefing was brutally bad 😬 Trump managed to find a press secretary who can barely read, but she does have the number one qualification -- looking like Ivanka Here's a supercut from Zacharia's first briefing, which made Karoline Leavitt seem like Ronald Reagan

MacPsych
@macpsych.bsky.social

Awake, with zero side-effects after yesterday’s Covid vaccination. Except for a very sore arm! Last year, I had flu-like symptoms for a couple of days. Relieved to be feeling much better this time round.

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Tony Yates
@t0nyyates.bsky.social

Obvious... but great that ex military people with credibility are pointing it out, so that voters can take notice

OSINTRadar@osintradar.bsky.social

Norway’s former Chief of Defence, General Sverre Diesen: “Under the current Trump administration, we cannot consider the United States our ally. Trump’s America is a hostile actor that, in the event of a conflict in Europe, would side with Russia rather than with us and other European countries.”

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Luke McGee
@lukemcgee.bsky.social

Replying to @lukemcgee.bsky.social

Two most important facts: 1) since Trump became President, attacks on Ukraine have grown substantially in volume and scale. 2) Since Trump became President the US has committed zero (yes, zero) new dollars to support Ukraine.

MacPsych
@macpsych.bsky.social

Managed 6.44km this morning and it was very comfortable. Fairly consistent pace. But most of all, the sunshine was beautiful and powered me along! ☀️ First run since the Pride 10k and it felt really good! 🏃🏼‍♂️

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Aidan O'Sullivan
@aidanosullivan.bsky.social

It’s that time of the year again, when I carve a Hallowe’en turnip, in honour of this marvellous painted cast of an original turnip from Baile na Finne, Co. Donegal collected in 1910 and held in the National Museum of Ireland #Halloween #Ireland #Samhain (pronounced “sow-in” (to rhyme with the pig)

MacPsych
@macpsych.bsky.social

I finally managed to get my hands on some of the peach flavoured -196 from Suntory and I'm happy to report that it's as delicious as I'd hoped! 🍑 Maybe even nicer than the lemon version. 🤔 かんぱい #Suntory #Shochu #Vodka #Japanese #Alcohol

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Dr T🎃ny K👻inth
@tonykainth.bsky.social

This is not just bullshit… This is ✨tory✨ bullshit. *cue sultry music and slow motion clips of tears falling down kemi’s face*

Ian Dunt@iandunt.bsky.social

She's comparing the Tories with M&S, something about a boring brand that's back in fashion, I don't know, I can't focus on what she's saying, it's not possible.