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#middleway @middleway Believe nothing, as you have been told it. Jumble & windbaggery, buddhism philosophy & opera. Some hamsters too.

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david @ middleway @middleway.bsky.social · Feb 6

Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche giving Pointing Out instructions

"To stop thinking, you need to recognize your essence. It’s like seeing the sun in the sky just once—forever after, you know what the sun looks like ... " 🔆

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#rinpoche #dzogchen #dharma #buddhism #tibetan #mahamudra
#nyingma #tibet

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david @ middleway @middleway.bsky.social · 6d

William, the Prince of Wales and faith-lite heir is unimpressed by its cover-up of sex abuse & in favour of disestablishment of the #ChurchofEngland
Sir Keir Starmer is apparently in "listening mode".
King Billy's reign to focus on 'him, Kate and the three heirs'.

#RoyalFamily #PrinceWilliam

COURT CIRCULAR
IT'S no secret Prince William wants his reign to be all about him, Kate and the three heirs. Lesser royals will have to go out and earn a living, although King Bill won't miss them.
Instead of spreading the royal net wide, he and Kate intend to support just a few patronages of personal interest. The military, sport and children will take priority while culture, business, animals and science will struggle. Naturally the reform agenda doesn't involve downsizing the royal estates or bank balances.
If William pushes ahead, it will impact hundreds of charities great and small who enjoy royal patronage. The perks – a royal ribbon-cutting, garden-party invites for volunteers or a gong for a stalwart supporter – shouldn't be underestimated. William and Kate have already shown the old ways are doomed by not taking on any of the late Queen's hundreds of patronages, despite Brian asking them to share the load.
Also heading for the exit is the global reach of the throne. William is happy to hop on a plane to watch football, support his Earthshot Prize and enjoy holidays in the sun. But he hasn't undertaken a full-scale international tour since the disastrous trip to the Caribbean in 2022, where it was made clear he wasn't welcome. He will not be disappointed if he isn't invited to succeed Brian as the next head of the Commonwealth.
And what of the monarch's role as supreme governor of the Church of England? William, who sidestepped an investiture ceremony as Prince of Wales, is planning an achingly modern coronation and the idea of a series of oaths declaring he is a faithful Protestant and pledging to uphold the privileges of the Church grates for the faith-lite heir. He is unimpressed by its cover-up of abuse. He's keen at least for the oaths to be substantially rewritten – or preferably abolished, which would lead to the disestablishment of the Church of England. Sir Keir Starmer is apparently in "listening mode". Did anyone brief new Archbishop of Canterbury …

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david @ middleway @middleway.bsky.social · 10d

Cool 😎

david @ middleway @middleway.bsky.social · 10d

A Foucauldian view is stuck in the past. Mental illness is a medical reality, not just a label used by power structures Romanticising Foucault's critique of 'madness' is dangerous. Modern medicine and hospitals save lives by treating brain disorders, not by punishing non-conformists.

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C.M. Black @foucaultu.bsky.social · 11d

PS: On Michel Foucault's birthday, here is my fresh article about Madness and Civilization. If you read one thing I've written, please let it be this. #philsky the-philosophers-shirt.com/blogs/philos...

Madness and Civilization: The Stigma of the Hospital

We discuss Michel Foucault's criticisms of institutionalization and its relation to how society sees mentally ill people.

the-philosophers-shirt.com

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david @ middleway @middleway.bsky.social · 10d

“Joan Crawford on Crack”
Headline of the Year
Kevin Federline Opens Up About Memoir, Britney Spears’ Parenting Skills

david @ middleway @middleway.bsky.social · 10d

The internet is less human now, and much more "quasi-AI." "dead internet theory," asserts that there is more bot activity than human activity on the web. Sam Altman posted on X that now he sees "a lot of LLM-run twitter accounts."
www.businessinsider.com/alexis-ohani...

david @ middleway @middleway.bsky.social · 10d

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⚜️ Fritz von Runte ⚜️ @vonrunte.bsky.social · 11d

I'm very proud of the remixes I've done for Bowie, do you know them? https://open.spotify.com/album/1KJfPODJ2V5NJK1t75C4QI

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david @ middleway @middleway.bsky.social · 10d

Cool

david @ middleway @middleway.bsky.social · 11d

More than adequate 😉

david @ middleway @middleway.bsky.social · 11d

Karma Man with harpsichord!

From David Bowie 6LP deluxe Toy Box

Not sure the cover sells it, but a great album to listen to lol

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david @ middleway @middleway.bsky.social · 12d

New study on painful diabetic neuropathy (DPN) finds long-term opioid use is linked to structural and functional brain changes, increased caudate volume & altered connectivity in brain reward pathways in patients on opioids over 6 months.
#DiabeticNeuropathy #ChronicPain #Opioids #Neuroscience

Katherine Thomasset @kaththomasset.bsky.social · 12d

Opioid prescription for painful diabetic peripheral neuropathy leads to structural and functional alterations in dopaminergic pathways within the brain #DiabetesResearch

Diabetologia @diabetologiajnl.bsky.social · 13d

This article demonstrates that opioid prescription for painful diabetic peripheral neuropathy leads to structural and functional alterations in dopaminergic pathways within the brain #DiabetesResearch #Neuropathy link.springer.com/article/10.1... 🔓

david @ middleway @middleway.bsky.social · 18d

That's so lovely...

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ChrisTrekkin 💜🖖 @christrekkin.bsky.social · 21d

Felt like sharing another singing video for here, so here's me doing 'Futile Devices' by Sufjan Stevens 🙂💜🎵

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david @ middleway @middleway.bsky.social · 26d

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david @ middleway @middleway.bsky.social · 27d

Nice ... But I can't see what colour your boxers are ... Are they purple 💜?

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david @ middleway @middleway.bsky.social · 27d

Celebration … is a taking note, a questioning, a reflecting, an awaiting, passing over into the more wakeful intimation of wonder, namely, of the wonder that a world worlds around us at all, that there are beings and not rather nothing ...
#Heidegger

david @ middleway @middleway.bsky.social · Sep 21

peterattiamd.com/lithium-and-...

🐭study focused on treating existing pathology in mice, not preventing the disease or Alzheimer's from starting in 🫤

Cautious optimism over lithium orotate as a treatment for Alzheimer’s disease

A recent study in mice offers hope for greater efficacy concerning a treatment that has already captured researchers’ attention

peterattiamd.com

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GetNews.me @getnews-me.bsky.social · Sep 20

In the FUTURE 5 trial, 84.5% of psoriatic arthritis patients on secukinumab showed no radiographic progression and were more likely to achieve low disease activity by week 104. https://getnews.me/secukinumab-reduces-progression-raises-low-disease-activity-in-psa/ #secukinumab #psoriaticarthritis

Secukinumab reduces progression, raises low disease activity in PsA

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ESA Space Science @science.esa.int · Sep 16

🐦 Fly through a 3D map of stellar nurseries ✨

Scientists have created the most accurate 3D map of star-formation regions in our Milky Way galaxy, based on data from #ESAGaia.

The map extends to a distance of 4000 light-years from us, with the Sun at the centre 👉 www.esa.int/Science_Expl... 🔭 🧪

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david @ middleway @middleway.bsky.social · Sep 16

In the ancient fog machine cloud of ye olde discos for gayers there was a very butch mashup of Bette Midler's "My Knight in Black Leather," Grace Jones's "Warm Leatherette," and Eartha Kitt's "I Need a Man" ... A lost treasure 😆 ... But it worked

david @ middleway @middleway.bsky.social · Sep 13

Impressive ....worth the wait lol

david @ middleway @middleway.bsky.social · Sep 13

Handsomeness ...

david @ middleway @middleway.bsky.social · Sep 9

Turned out some old boxes and found Kalachakra practice text, transmitted by the previous venerable Kalu Rinpoche, bilingual (Tibetan & Chinese) Sadhana for practitioners #TibetanBuddhism #Kalachakra #Vajrayana #KaluRinpoche #Buddhism

དཔལ་དུས་ཀྱི་འཁོར་ལོའི་ལྷན་སྐྱེས་ཀྱི་སྒོམ་བཟླས་ཀྱི་གཞུང་ཚད་ལྡན་ཞིག་རྙེད་སོན་བྱུང་། འདི་ཉིད་མཁན་ཆེན་དཔལ་ལྡན་ཀཱ་ལུ་རིན་པོ་ཆེ་མཆོག་ནས་བསྩལ་བ་ཡིན་འདུག བོད་རྒྱ་སྐད་གཉིས་ཤན་སྦྱར་གྱི་སྒྲུབ་ཐབས་འདི་ཉིད་བཀའ་བརྒྱུད་བསྟན་པའི་གནས་མཆོག་ཡིན་པས་སློབ་གཉེར་བ་དང་ཉམས་ལེན་པར་ཕན་ཐོགས་ཆེ། #དུས་འཁོར་ #བོད་རྒྱ་སྐད་གཉིས་ #ཀཱ་ལུ་རིན་པོ་ཆེ་
Chinese: 发现一份珍贵的《俱生时轮修持仪轨》！由尊贵的卡盧仁波切传授，这份藏汉双语的萨达那（修法仪轨）为理解金刚乘复杂体系提供了深刻见解。对修行者和学者而言都是真正的宝藏！#藏传佛教 #时轮金刚 #金刚乘 #卡盧仁波切

Turned out some old boxes and found Kalachakra practice text, transmitted by the previous venerable Kalu Rinpoche, bilingual (Tibetan & Chinese) Sadhana for practitioners #TibetanBuddhism #Kalachakra #Vajrayana #KaluRinpoche

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