Mark Twomey.
@marctwomey.bsky.social
Psychoanalytic psychotherapist. Couples therapist. Techno enthusiast.
Help Asmaa & her little girls survive in Gaza and rebuild chuffed.org/project/1128...
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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June 21, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Help Asmaa & her little girls survive in Gaza and rebuild chuffed.org/project/1128...
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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...
January 24, 2025 at 10:02 AM
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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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...
www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle-co...
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
www.irishexaminer.com
January 18, 2025 at 10:15 AM
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...
www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle-co...
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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.
https://mondoweiss.net/2025/01/israeli-lawmakers-demand-military-destroy-all-food-and-energy-resources-in-gaza/
#Palestine #Israel
https://mondoweiss.net/2025/01/israeli-lawmakers-demand-military-destroy-all-food-and-energy-resources-in-gaza/
#Palestine #Israel
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.
mondoweiss.net
January 4, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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.
https://mondoweiss.net/2025/01/israeli-lawmakers-demand-military-destroy-all-food-and-energy-resources-in-gaza/
#Palestine #Israel
https://mondoweiss.net/2025/01/israeli-lawmakers-demand-military-destroy-all-food-and-energy-resources-in-gaza/
#Palestine #Israel
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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...
December 25, 2024 at 8:29 PM
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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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
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
December 25, 2024 at 2:10 PM
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
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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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*
also the feds: *treat him like they’ve captured the joker*
December 19, 2024 at 7:20 PM
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*
also the feds: *treat him like they’ve captured the joker*
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@zeets.bsky.social wrote the best post on this I've seen, at @flaminghydra.com
flaminghydra.com/safe-and-bea...
flaminghydra.com/safe-and-bea...
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...
flaminghydra.com
December 19, 2024 at 1:46 PM
@zeets.bsky.social wrote the best post on this I've seen, at @flaminghydra.com
flaminghydra.com/safe-and-bea...
flaminghydra.com/safe-and-bea...
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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...
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.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:jjfethf2y735ux2mhcy46crq/bafkreiglnzxoplsvffuhw6r257kirizidrogiharovvcjthkp7krbvwh7y@jpeg)
December 19, 2024 at 7:48 AM
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...
archive.ph/NVG4p#select...
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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.
The law only ever serves capital.
‘Impossible’ to create AI tools like ChatGPT without copyrighted material, OpenAI says
‘Impossible’ to create AI tools like ChatGPT without copyrighted material, OpenAI says
Pressure grows on artificial intelligence firms over the content used to train their productsBusiness live – latest updatesThe developer OpenAI has said it would be impossible to create tools like its groundbreaking chatbot ChatGPT without access to copyrighted material, as pressure grows on artificial intelligence firms over the content used to train their products.Chatbots such as ChatGPT and image generators like Stable Diffusion are “trained” on a vast trove of data taken from the internet, with much of it covered by copyright – a legal protection against someone’s work being used without permission. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
January 8, 2024 at 4:34 PM
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.
The law only ever serves capital.
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“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
Horrifying beyond comprehension.
This is what Syrian refugees escaped, & it is the end of this horror they’re celebrating #r4today
December 18, 2024 at 8:14 AM
“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
Horrifying beyond comprehension.
This is what Syrian refugees escaped, & it is the end of this horror they’re celebrating #r4today
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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...
www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...
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
www.irishexaminer.com
December 18, 2024 at 9:19 AM
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...
www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...
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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
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
December 6, 2024 at 4:33 PM
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
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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what's coarser: people doing posts online or people dying because their health insurance sees their death as more profitable than their life
It’s so interesting to see these urgent exhortations to reestablish decorum. I have not seen evidence of a “coarsening” of American society. If anything, the opposite: I’ve seen thousands of individuals asserting their humanity and protesting the indignity of the system UHC profits from.
December 6, 2024 at 1:47 PM
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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A doctor’s letter to United Healthcare for denying nausea meds for a child on chemo
December 5, 2024 at 3:01 PM
A doctor’s letter to United Healthcare for denying nausea meds for a child on chemo
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Displace or Die. Terrified people fleeing the Israeli military in Northern Gaza. This is ethnic cleansing. And you can’t claim ignorance.
December 5, 2024 at 12:17 PM
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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This story is uh, insane www.cbsnews.com/news/police-...
December 5, 2024 at 12:52 PM
This story is uh, insane www.cbsnews.com/news/police-...
Monstrous. Again.
Israel bans the importation into Gaza of anaesthetics. Hence, the scores of children who are amputated daily, following Israel's bombings, are put to the knife without anaesthesia - if they are lucky to be taken to a functioning medical facility and not be bombed when in it.
December 5, 2024 at 8:07 AM
Monstrous. Again.
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Putin's thug allies closing down democracy in Georgia
Mass repressions have begun in Georgia.
Opposition leader Nika Gvaramia was just dragged out of his party’s office
Opposition leader Nika Gvaramia was just dragged out of his party’s office
December 4, 2024 at 5:26 PM
Putin's thug allies closing down democracy in Georgia
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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...
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.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:d56idxm2oyqwwn2uxnegm2yo/bafkreicxk5xed5no2jm57oz6mzrtrenufehvmqn7ig4cqrgdeuiu52hqwu@jpeg)
December 3, 2024 at 7:34 AM
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...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...