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Mark Brown @markoneinfour.bsky.social · 14h

"No one in this era of hubris—erecting bridges, highways, and smelters—spares a thought for their future ruination."

Murderland by Caroline Fraser

Mark Brown @markoneinfour.bsky.social · 23h

Oh, I also found a badger latrine.

Mark Brown @markoneinfour.bsky.social · 1d

If life is fucking awful for many people, imagine how much more fucking awful it is for people who are also living with things that others do not. We die earlier, poorer and with fewer social ties. Another world is possible, but change will be painful for those doing all right #worldmentalhealthday

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Mark Brown @markoneinfour.bsky.social · 1d

The reality of mental ill-health, distress and trauma is so disquieting to those who do not experience it that they, with societies endorsement, will invent immense comforting fantasies about how well people stay well at the cost of making change to support those who are not #worldmentalhealthday

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Mark Brown @markoneinfour.bsky.social · 1d

Most societies do not know how to avoid marginalising and discriminating against those who experience mental ill-health, distress and trauma and most societies went presented with ways to avoid it will refuse because the changes seem too radical and too costly. #worldmentalhealthday

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Mark Brown @markoneinfour.bsky.social · 1d

Most societies treat those living with mental ill-health, distress and trauma far worse than those who do not and allow people to become poor, unwell and unsupported. No person should become poor because they live with mental ill-health, distress and trauma. But too many do #worldmentalhealthday

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Mark Brown @markoneinfour.bsky.social · 1d

Medical research will find better ways of treating symptoms of mental ill-health but only changes in social organisation will change the circumstances of those who experience it. Mental ill-health, distress and trauma will exist even in 'perfect' worlds. Utopia won't erase us #worldmentalhealthday

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Mark Brown @markoneinfour.bsky.social · 1d

I sat under it, I should say.

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Mark Brown @markoneinfour.bsky.social · 1d

Radio mast

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Mark Brown @markoneinfour.bsky.social · 1d

Been away at a youth hostel for the night. Was subject to the shreik of owl in the bright moonlight, saw bats and jackdaws and larks, dst under a radio mast and managed to bring home a Devils Coach Horse in my bag

A devil's coach horse beetle, long and black with strong pincers, looking sorry for itself trapped in the bottom of an empty mug

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Mark Brown @markoneinfour.bsky.social · 2d

Bloke sat next to me on train watching Tommy Robinson on GB News on phone. Robinson lit like a Rubens glistening as if recently oiled like a wrestler. Bloke chortling. Arrived to find someone had screwed St George Cross to my favourite bridge. It's not that I hate my country, it's these cocks I hate

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A Whole Damn Town! @im.a.whole.damn.town · 2d

Twin Peaks: Donna in the girls bathroom at Twin Peaks High School.

Donna in the girls bathroom at Twin Peaks High School. Twin Peaks S01E05 - The One-Armed Man.

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Assigned Media @assignedmedia.org · 2d

A fringe group wants the field of psychiatry to regress back to the days when stereotypes and prejudices resulted in mental illness diagnoses for marginalized populations.

In a new reported piece, @evanurquhart.bsky.social examines Genspect's call for the re-psychopathologization of trans identity.

Hate Group Calls for Re-Labeling Transness as Mental Illness — Assigned

A fringe group with no expertise pushes the field of psychiatry to regress to a pre-scientific, prejudice-soaked view of trans people. It coincides with the far-right political agenda.

www.assignedmedia.org

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Petra Boynton @petraboynton.bsky.social · 2d

The British Newspaper Archive now includes Jackie and I was delighted to note problem pages in prominent position blog.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/2025/10/06/j...

Hot Off The Press – New Titles This Week

We welcome iconic best-selling teen magazine Jackie to The Archive. Browse every single edition of the weekly magazine for girls, from 1964 through to 1993.

blog.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk

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Mark Brown @markoneinfour.bsky.social · 2d

The refrain 'I don't want to do this. You bring it on yourself' has a very familiar ring. Cock piece patriots and snidey racists are the worst thing about this country. I'm the most white British person you'll ever meet and I fucking deplore them.

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Mark Brown @markoneinfour.bsky.social · 2d

Just an endless parade of puffed up tits just waiting for the smallest perceived sleight to go full fash. You could raise money for charity. You could help vulnerable people in your area. Nope. Get pissed up, have shout, do a flag, whinge that no one listens to you while shouting over everyone else.

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Mark Brown @markoneinfour.bsky.social · 2d

They slammed the door shut with brexit and now I'm trapped it's like 'where are you going to go? You're not going anywhere sunshine'. Men who are just hard for other men's approval but never gay. Hobby fascists on away days to make everything worse. If you cared about your country you'd help people

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Mark Brown @markoneinfour.bsky.social · 2d

Bloke sat next to me on train watching Tommy Robinson on GB News on phone. Robinson lit like a Rubens glistening as if recently oiled like a wrestler. Bloke chortling. Arrived to find someone had screwed St George Cross to my favourite bridge. It's not that I hate my country, it's these cocks I hate

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Mark Brown @markoneinfour.bsky.social · 3d

I'm genuinely interested in what might happen to the UK if fewer people were spending large proportions of their earnings on a place to live and were able to study and learn in way that wasn't limited by their income. A place to call home and something to be getting on with as a policy

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Mark Brown @markoneinfour.bsky.social · 4d

Just realised that in the UK we could just give everyone in the country a bicycle and a smartphone if we wanted to. Just one day, everyone gets a smartphone and a bicycle. No questions asked, here's your bike and your phone.

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Mark Brown @markoneinfour.bsky.social · 4d

I keep thinking how much richer the UK would be if everyone had a council flat or council house and everyone who fancied it could go to university.

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Mark Brown @markoneinfour.bsky.social · 4d

People are allowed to have interests and allowed to have intellectual grounding in things. What you learn shapes what you are later interested in, broadens your choices of who and what to be. It's fun to have intellectual passions that run parallel to what you do for money,that underpin your self

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Mark Brown @markoneinfour.bsky.social · 4d

What if, just hear me out now, education is part of a path to following your passions and if you have a craft, a skill, a passion, a curiosity then it is something in your life that enriches it until you die, offsetting the changing drudgery of putting food on the table and a roof over your head?

Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 4d

Badenoch and Co see education only as a means to a massive income in some soul destroying career.

Devoid of imagination and the power of knowledge they view life entirely through the prism of the CV.

My advice always is to study what interests you and the rest will follow

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Mark Brown @markoneinfour.bsky.social · 4d

I notice you rarely see press releases saying 'majority think this particular thing needs to be fixed', you always get stuff about a range of issues people are interested in or concerned about. Crowing Britain is broken gets us nowhere because it disguises specific reasons people are fed up

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Mark Brown @markoneinfour.bsky.social · 4d

Stuff like this infuriates me. It's very easy to go all excitable 'everyone thinks Britain is broken!' but it means precisely fuck all. Ask people to agree with a statement absolutely anyone can agree with based on their own interpretation and you get agreement

liveapp.inews.co.uk/category/396...

Britain is broken, two thirds of voters say – in blow for Starmer

Most voters of all parties from Reform UK to the Green Party and Labour agree that Britain is broken, a new poll by JL Partners reveals

liveapp.inews.co.uk

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