Ùna M B
@unaofthepeatbog.bsky.social
Racking up the diagnoses 👑💊
writer | shetland isles
researching intersections of magic, Madness & the occult |
📚 Muses No More: Portraits of Occult Women (Hexen Press)
she/they | M.E. so be patient with moi
unamariablyth.com
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writer | shetland isles
researching intersections of magic, Madness & the occult |
📚 Muses No More: Portraits of Occult Women (Hexen Press)
she/they | M.E. so be patient with moi
unamariablyth.com
linktr.ee/unaofthepeatbog
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Cooking in maximum security (prisons in Italy). Just ordered & looking forward to sharing with folks in US prisons
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Cooking in Maximum Security
Cooking in Maximum Security was compiled by Matteo Guidi, working with people detained in the high surveillance sections of Italian prisons, through a continuous exchange of letters between 2009 and 2...
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November 10, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Cooking in maximum security (prisons in Italy). Just ordered & looking forward to sharing with folks in US prisons
halfletterpress.com/cooking-in-m...
halfletterpress.com/cooking-in-m...
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things change:
authors and wizards are not always to be trusted:
nobody can explain a dragon.
authors and wizards are not always to be trusted:
nobody can explain a dragon.
November 10, 2025 at 8:17 PM
things change:
authors and wizards are not always to be trusted:
nobody can explain a dragon.
authors and wizards are not always to be trusted:
nobody can explain a dragon.
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Like to know more about Mad in America or rethinking psychiatry more broadly? On our #podcast, Robert Whitaker will answer your questions. Email questions to [email protected] by November 30 and we’ll pick a selection. #mentalhealth #QandA
November 10, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Like to know more about Mad in America or rethinking psychiatry more broadly? On our #podcast, Robert Whitaker will answer your questions. Email questions to [email protected] by November 30 and we’ll pick a selection. #mentalhealth #QandA
BIG DAY
On this day in Horror History, CHILD'S PLAY was released in 1988.
November 9, 2025 at 4:51 PM
BIG DAY
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Baubi Urquhart of Yell, Shetland: "photographs of Baubi were once used to illustrate two quite different stories – one about folklore, specifically tales of ‘seal women’ or ‘selkies’ from the Northern Isles of Scotland, and the other about women’s work in the rural economy of the 19th century."
The Story of a Seal-Woman from Shetland – MAA Digital Lab
Baubi Urquhart’s portraits tell two stories—mythical ancestry and rural industry. Eona Bell explores how this woman embodied both in 19th-century Scotland.
www.maadigitallab.org
June 17, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Baubi Urquhart of Yell, Shetland: "photographs of Baubi were once used to illustrate two quite different stories – one about folklore, specifically tales of ‘seal women’ or ‘selkies’ from the Northern Isles of Scotland, and the other about women’s work in the rural economy of the 19th century."
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Studies have already shown that fake smiling and surface acting (pretending to be happy when you're not) produce a very short-lived dopamine boost. Long term, it's actually horrible for your mental health, even if you're not openly neurodivergent.
November 8, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Studies have already shown that fake smiling and surface acting (pretending to be happy when you're not) produce a very short-lived dopamine boost. Long term, it's actually horrible for your mental health, even if you're not openly neurodivergent.
True fact: unmasked, I am not a smiler. Do not make me "smile more"
I can promise everyone on this planet, nobody wants to see neurodivergent people like me try to "smile more." For everyone's sake, don't make us do this.
November 8, 2025 at 8:40 PM
True fact: unmasked, I am not a smiler. Do not make me "smile more"
Finally! A book bursting with my dear friend ~ echolalia!!
November 8, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Finally! A book bursting with my dear friend ~ echolalia!!
...& what a relief that is.
CPTSD is going to try to convince you that your involuntary thoughts, feelings, & reactions "define" you-- but they don't. They are evidence of your conditioning-- no more, no less.
We are defined by our thoughtful, values-congruent choices, not our unchosen reflexes.
We are defined by our thoughtful, values-congruent choices, not our unchosen reflexes.
November 8, 2025 at 6:06 PM
...& what a relief that is.
This really is spot on. Thank you @shrinkingtrump.bsky.social
Incredible article, dissembling the Governments floored Welfare plans by leading Psychotherapist and Activist @shrinkatlarge.bsky.social substack.com/inbox/post/1...
The 'Avoiding Avoidance' Trap
How Britain's Welfare Policy Weaponizes Therapy.
substack.com
November 7, 2025 at 5:59 PM
This really is spot on. Thank you @shrinkingtrump.bsky.social
My quality of life has massively improved since I shifted the way I listed to music, by ditching streaming & reverting to CDs. Seriously! Better sound, more conscious listening, burden of choice relieved. Oh, and NUMBER ONE: artists get paid more.
The only pain in the ass is the initial outlay.
The only pain in the ass is the initial outlay.
November 7, 2025 at 5:11 PM
My quality of life has massively improved since I shifted the way I listed to music, by ditching streaming & reverting to CDs. Seriously! Better sound, more conscious listening, burden of choice relieved. Oh, and NUMBER ONE: artists get paid more.
The only pain in the ass is the initial outlay.
The only pain in the ass is the initial outlay.
Neuk Collective Bipolar Creative meet up later this month! neukcollective.co.uk
NEUK – Neuk Collective is a new collective of neurodivergent artists, formed as part of a project funded as part of Creative Scotland’s Create:Inclusion funding stream.
neukcollective.co.uk
November 7, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Neuk Collective Bipolar Creative meet up later this month! neukcollective.co.uk
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I love stim culture for embracing our bodies’ rhythms. But we need to talk about how racialized surveillance changes what ‘safe stimming’ means. Not all of us can stim in public without fear
November 3, 2025 at 12:01 AM
I love stim culture for embracing our bodies’ rhythms. But we need to talk about how racialized surveillance changes what ‘safe stimming’ means. Not all of us can stim in public without fear
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‘For many stately homes and historically significant buildings, ghosts continue to be marketable commodities, even if this sometimes makes things awkward for historians and curators.’
Jon Day on things that go bump in the night.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Jon Day on things that go bump in the night.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Jon Day · Gloomth: Haunted Houses
Haunted house stories tend to end in one of two ways: either the family flees, or the ghosts are soothed, and everyone...
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November 5, 2025 at 7:08 PM
‘For many stately homes and historically significant buildings, ghosts continue to be marketable commodities, even if this sometimes makes things awkward for historians and curators.’
Jon Day on things that go bump in the night.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Jon Day on things that go bump in the night.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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I'm full of taps, can't hold you in
November 4, 2025 at 8:29 PM
I'm full of taps, can't hold you in
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Prison abolitionist Mariame Kaba has long called prisons “death-making institutions.” The rise in incarceration coupled with the nation’s lax approach to Covid-19 makes this characterization (yet again) a frighteningly accurate prophecy.
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
We've Entered the Gaslighting Phase of Covid in Prisons
Covid is spreading, but incarcerated people are being told vaccines aren't necessary.
www.thenation.com
October 24, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Prison abolitionist Mariame Kaba has long called prisons “death-making institutions.” The rise in incarceration coupled with the nation’s lax approach to Covid-19 makes this characterization (yet again) a frighteningly accurate prophecy.
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
Psych Lit classics: From Esmé Weijun Wang's foreword to "I Never Promised You a Rose Garden" (Joanne Greenberg, 1964)
November 4, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Psych Lit classics: From Esmé Weijun Wang's foreword to "I Never Promised You a Rose Garden" (Joanne Greenberg, 1964)
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“You know... the thing that is so wrong about being mentally ill is the terrible price you have to pay for survival.”
― Joanne Greenberg
― Joanne Greenberg
March 25, 2025 at 2:58 PM
“You know... the thing that is so wrong about being mentally ill is the terrible price you have to pay for survival.”
― Joanne Greenberg
― Joanne Greenberg
Shake me + I'll rattle no.1: 10 days til I see consultant psych (awkwardly, a friend's husband...classic Shetland situation) & certain he'll agree to a Pregabalin reduction. Manic depressive jangles eradicated vs. being able to fully focus. In this game the choices are frustratingly endless.
November 4, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Shake me + I'll rattle no.1: 10 days til I see consultant psych (awkwardly, a friend's husband...classic Shetland situation) & certain he'll agree to a Pregabalin reduction. Manic depressive jangles eradicated vs. being able to fully focus. In this game the choices are frustratingly endless.
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David and his co-guest editor Helene Speyer, put together a compelling group of articles ultimately called Broadening Understanding of Individual Choices About Psychiatric Medication Use in Psychiatric Rehabilitation. You can find it here: psycnet.apa.org/PsycARTICLES...
APA PsycNet
psycnet.apa.org
December 18, 2024 at 2:22 PM
David and his co-guest editor Helene Speyer, put together a compelling group of articles ultimately called Broadening Understanding of Individual Choices About Psychiatric Medication Use in Psychiatric Rehabilitation. You can find it here: psycnet.apa.org/PsycARTICLES...
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The mental health field is packed with pseudoscience and unsupported treatments. Exhibit XXXX. www.thecut.com/article/trut... @jonathanstea.bsky.social
The Truth About IFS, the Therapy That Can Break You
Internal Family Systems is a widely popular trauma treatment. Some patients say it’s destroyed their lives.
www.thecut.com
October 31, 2025 at 1:44 PM
The mental health field is packed with pseudoscience and unsupported treatments. Exhibit XXXX. www.thecut.com/article/trut... @jonathanstea.bsky.social
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On MKUltra: "Cameron destroyed the lives of his subjects, many of whom were exceptionally vulnerable, & achieved nothing of scientific value. His work is a catalogue of exploitation & abuse. Yet there is no comprehensive account of Cameron’s studies to be found anywhere in the bioethics literature."
What Research Scandals? Welcome to the Bioethics Memory Hole - Carl Elliott | Hastings Center Bioethics Forum Essay www.thehastingscenter.org/what-researc...
What Research Scandals? Welcome to the Bioethics Memory Hole : The Hastings Center for Bioethics
It is striking how many notorious cases of abuses of human research subjects go almost entirely unmentioned in the bioethics literature.
www.thehastingscenter.org
November 4, 2025 at 4:26 AM
On MKUltra: "Cameron destroyed the lives of his subjects, many of whom were exceptionally vulnerable, & achieved nothing of scientific value. His work is a catalogue of exploitation & abuse. Yet there is no comprehensive account of Cameron’s studies to be found anywhere in the bioethics literature."
Interesting so many occultists are returning from Occulture Berlin raving about "community". Ftr I pulled out of lecturing this year because I don't support embracing or even platforming Scarlet Imprint's transphobic founders. That's not my community. #occult #occulture #witchsky
November 4, 2025 at 11:17 AM
Interesting so many occultists are returning from Occulture Berlin raving about "community". Ftr I pulled out of lecturing this year because I don't support embracing or even platforming Scarlet Imprint's transphobic founders. That's not my community. #occult #occulture #witchsky
My anorexic, pre~teen body was a very public, unconscious & runaway train protest. My tattooed 17 yr old body became a force for autonomy & privacy
‘Altering the body can be a means of reclaiming it, of asserting ownership over something society seeks to regulate. ’
Em Hogan on a history of tattooing.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Em Hogan on a history of tattooing.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Em Hogan · An Anchor and a Cross: Tattoo Me
The notion of the tattoo as something concealed – waiting to be uncovered – lends it an erotic quality. The...
www.lrb.co.uk
November 4, 2025 at 11:04 AM
My anorexic, pre~teen body was a very public, unconscious & runaway train protest. My tattooed 17 yr old body became a force for autonomy & privacy