Mark Brown
@markoneinfour.bsky.social
Mental health/tech stuff. Sell ads for local newspapers, keeping local public interest news alive. Former writer in residence @centreforMH. Ask me to write MH things. Director Social Spider CIC. DMs open. Podcast @BBCOuch
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Yes!
November 23, 2025 at 12:24 AM
Yes!
I keep thinking about the ways that anti trans panic refuses to conceptulise trans people as people. And how the results of it are attempts to reintroduce shame, futiveness and isolation back into the lives of people who are just trying to live their lives. An orchestrated attempt to stigmatise
Obviously this shouldn't exist, but while it does, I don't think there's any way of framing this law that could prevent people from just routinely checking every MP, TERF and so on every time they try to assert their gender.
'So you also go by Robert Galbraith? Hmmmm. We've flagged you.'
'So you also go by Robert Galbraith? Hmmmm. We've flagged you.'
"Trans people could be asked about whether they should be accessing single-sex services based on their physical appearance."
No. not "trans people". ANYONE. This moral panic leads inexorably to the policing of women based on their appearance deemed to be "unfeminine".
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
No. not "trans people". ANYONE. This moral panic leads inexorably to the policing of women based on their appearance deemed to be "unfeminine".
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
November 21, 2025 at 5:04 PM
I keep thinking about the ways that anti trans panic refuses to conceptulise trans people as people. And how the results of it are attempts to reintroduce shame, futiveness and isolation back into the lives of people who are just trying to live their lives. An orchestrated attempt to stigmatise
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"You are Glam Rick
You've cut my income by one third
You are working on a video project
You hog the bathroom
And never put your hand in your pocket"
#fallfriday
youtu.be/XJ38X5YicuQ?...
You've cut my income by one third
You are working on a video project
You hog the bathroom
And never put your hand in your pocket"
#fallfriday
youtu.be/XJ38X5YicuQ?...
Glam Racket
YouTube video by The Fall - Topic
youtu.be
November 21, 2025 at 12:55 PM
"You are Glam Rick
You've cut my income by one third
You are working on a video project
You hog the bathroom
And never put your hand in your pocket"
#fallfriday
youtu.be/XJ38X5YicuQ?...
You've cut my income by one third
You are working on a video project
You hog the bathroom
And never put your hand in your pocket"
#fallfriday
youtu.be/XJ38X5YicuQ?...
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You ever just sit down and realize that the rise of 21st century fascism is capital's answer to climate change?
November 21, 2025 at 9:25 AM
You ever just sit down and realize that the rise of 21st century fascism is capital's answer to climate change?
I'm old enough to remember the pre-internet age and in that time the idea that anyone starting from nothing who didn't get in the music press might have a platform and an audience seemed impossible. I edited a user submitted creative writing website just before blogger arrived. I'm old! But...
this week's newsletter is titled "aren't you tired of feeling insane all the time?" and I think it speaks for itself
it is also free to read
youngvulgarian.substack.com/p/arent-you-...
it is also free to read
youngvulgarian.substack.com/p/arent-you-...
November 21, 2025 at 11:53 AM
I'm old enough to remember the pre-internet age and in that time the idea that anyone starting from nothing who didn't get in the music press might have a platform and an audience seemed impossible. I edited a user submitted creative writing website just before blogger arrived. I'm old! But...
I think my sister probably would still be here if it wasn't for these people and their failure. I know perfect is the enemy of good, but being tit awful is the comparison not some perfect golden response. They didn't do the right things at the right times in the right ways when they could have.
‘Chaotic and indecisive’: key findings of report on UK’s Covid response under Tories
‘Chaotic and indecisive’: key findings of report on UK’s Covid response under Tories
Second pandemic report focuses on decision-making, organisation and messaging by senior politicians including Boris Johnson
www.theguardian.com
November 20, 2025 at 7:28 PM
I think my sister probably would still be here if it wasn't for these people and their failure. I know perfect is the enemy of good, but being tit awful is the comparison not some perfect golden response. They didn't do the right things at the right times in the right ways when they could have.
Thinking a bit about respect and who has it how they know. There's a weird thing in the UK where people confuse law with respext. Like it's not against the law to imply all people seeking asylum are awful, so no harm done. But it's not showing those folks any of the respect that someone might expect
November 19, 2025 at 11:57 AM
Thinking a bit about respect and who has it how they know. There's a weird thing in the UK where people confuse law with respext. Like it's not against the law to imply all people seeking asylum are awful, so no harm done. But it's not showing those folks any of the respect that someone might expect
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Issue 3 of Lip Service, the Vagina Museum zine, is here! Enjoy 40 pages of commentary, poetry and reflections exploring the theme of reproductive justice in digital or print format vaginamuseumshop.co.uk/products/lip...
Lip Service Issue #3 - Reproductive Justice
Lip Service is a quarterly publication by the Vagina Museum in the style of old school community magazines. In this 40-page A5 zine, the content ranges from expanded exhibition content and other longf...
vaginamuseumshop.co.uk
November 19, 2025 at 11:42 AM
Issue 3 of Lip Service, the Vagina Museum zine, is here! Enjoy 40 pages of commentary, poetry and reflections exploring the theme of reproductive justice in digital or print format vaginamuseumshop.co.uk/products/lip...
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I feel it's more a case of 'what can you do to prevent context collapse?' Phone ins live streamed to video that can be watched back are very clippable. Same with most rolling news and broadcast telly now, too. If it's clippable it's context strippable. We are swimming in people's idea of' good bits'
One way to take some of the heat out of politics, which is within the BBC's control, is to drop phone-ins and vox pops.
November 17, 2025 at 11:44 AM
I feel it's more a case of 'what can you do to prevent context collapse?' Phone ins live streamed to video that can be watched back are very clippable. Same with most rolling news and broadcast telly now, too. If it's clippable it's context strippable. We are swimming in people's idea of' good bits'
I think 'illegal migration' is an abstract idea for most people full of blood for reducing it but ties the current government to very concrete numbers. I think this is the war on terror mark fucking two. An 'acceptable' wrapper for horrible fantasy shit and prejudice made into really awful policy
November 17, 2025 at 9:12 PM
I think 'illegal migration' is an abstract idea for most people full of blood for reducing it but ties the current government to very concrete numbers. I think this is the war on terror mark fucking two. An 'acceptable' wrapper for horrible fantasy shit and prejudice made into really awful policy
I feel it's more a case of 'what can you do to prevent context collapse?' Phone ins live streamed to video that can be watched back are very clippable. Same with most rolling news and broadcast telly now, too. If it's clippable it's context strippable. We are swimming in people's idea of' good bits'
One way to take some of the heat out of politics, which is within the BBC's control, is to drop phone-ins and vox pops.
November 17, 2025 at 11:44 AM
I feel it's more a case of 'what can you do to prevent context collapse?' Phone ins live streamed to video that can be watched back are very clippable. Same with most rolling news and broadcast telly now, too. If it's clippable it's context strippable. We are swimming in people's idea of' good bits'
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A very Happy Birthday to Wendy Carlos, the woman who changed everything for the young me.
November 15, 2025 at 7:41 AM
A very Happy Birthday to Wendy Carlos, the woman who changed everything for the young me.
None of us know what we'd have been like if we had grown up in a time and place with different technologies. Technologies extend us and expand us in ways that seem natural only once they're a common experience.
November 15, 2025 at 4:58 PM
None of us know what we'd have been like if we had grown up in a time and place with different technologies. Technologies extend us and expand us in ways that seem natural only once they're a common experience.
I'm not the first person to say this: but life would be much nicer for rich people if poorer people were richer and rich people know it.
November 14, 2025 at 11:48 PM
I'm not the first person to say this: but life would be much nicer for rich people if poorer people were richer and rich people know it.
Tune!
It was Danny Fields' birthday yesterday. Not enough celebrations were happening so here's a photo of him looking like the winner of a 'Meet The Ramones' competition. Maybe that's how he became their manager.
Danny Says now on the Late Show.
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Danny Says now on the Late Show.
buff.ly/hjUCj3q
November 14, 2025 at 11:40 PM
Tune!
I've been wonder this past week, with my circadian rhythm all out of whack and looking like one of them scalextrix tracks with the flyovers, what wellbeing looks like for a person who doesn't have the same body clock as the intended norm? My night self is the right self, but it's one I'm not allowed
November 14, 2025 at 11:11 PM
I've been wonder this past week, with my circadian rhythm all out of whack and looking like one of them scalextrix tracks with the flyovers, what wellbeing looks like for a person who doesn't have the same body clock as the intended norm? My night self is the right self, but it's one I'm not allowed
"My face is slack
And kidneys burn in the small of my back
Will never learn
Well I'm not going back to the slow life
'Cos every step is a drag...
I just think think think
Too fast to write
Too fast to work
Just burn burn burn"
#fallfriday
youtu.be/UJS8SowVBWs?...
And kidneys burn in the small of my back
Will never learn
Well I'm not going back to the slow life
'Cos every step is a drag...
I just think think think
Too fast to write
Too fast to work
Just burn burn burn"
#fallfriday
youtu.be/UJS8SowVBWs?...
Fiery Jack
YouTube video by The Fall - Topic
youtu.be
November 14, 2025 at 8:25 AM
"My face is slack
And kidneys burn in the small of my back
Will never learn
Well I'm not going back to the slow life
'Cos every step is a drag...
I just think think think
Too fast to write
Too fast to work
Just burn burn burn"
#fallfriday
youtu.be/UJS8SowVBWs?...
And kidneys burn in the small of my back
Will never learn
Well I'm not going back to the slow life
'Cos every step is a drag...
I just think think think
Too fast to write
Too fast to work
Just burn burn burn"
#fallfriday
youtu.be/UJS8SowVBWs?...
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Mum's heart will remain ❤️
The volunteers were at Parliament today to hear the government announce that our beautiful memorial is to be made permanent. It was an emotional day, as we have fought so long and hard to ensure that our beloved dead are not forgotten. We are grateful and happy. ❤️
November 13, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Mum's heart will remain ❤️
Problem with late stage capitalism 'what we need in power is fucking fools' oligarchy is when you get your fucking fools, they are in fact fucking fools and rather than giving you power to do what you want, you get the power to be hated because nothing works and you've sucked up to fucking fools
November 12, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Problem with late stage capitalism 'what we need in power is fucking fools' oligarchy is when you get your fucking fools, they are in fact fucking fools and rather than giving you power to do what you want, you get the power to be hated because nothing works and you've sucked up to fucking fools
I wonder what would have happened if an entirely boring competent government had been formed last year after GE. I think any Westminster government would have ended up jerking around on the style of reporting that you could call 'everything is a crisis all the time forever' which grew from 2007 on
November 12, 2025 at 4:41 PM
I wonder what would have happened if an entirely boring competent government had been formed last year after GE. I think any Westminster government would have ended up jerking around on the style of reporting that you could call 'everything is a crisis all the time forever' which grew from 2007 on
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This is what I try to always tell people: food banks can do way more with your money than you can, due to bulk buying deals. And they can do way, way more with your money than with the canned goods you didn’t want to eat
spoke with the executive director of my local food bank today and got this really incredible line: "if you donate 1 can of green beans, we can give away 1 can of green beans. but if you donate a dollar, we can give away 6 cans of green beans"
November 11, 2025 at 9:21 PM
This is what I try to always tell people: food banks can do way more with your money than you can, due to bulk buying deals. And they can do way, way more with your money than with the canned goods you didn’t want to eat
Imagine being in opposition for so long with nowt to do but read blogs and biographies and dream of what you'd do if you were in power and then when you are it's 'god I wish were the opposition again, this is horrible'
November 11, 2025 at 11:13 PM
Imagine being in opposition for so long with nowt to do but read blogs and biographies and dream of what you'd do if you were in power and then when you are it's 'god I wish were the opposition again, this is horrible'
My counterpoint is maybe Trump should be more careful about what he says and will say so there's no chance he can be badly clipped in the way every single other public figure has to be.
November 11, 2025 at 1:39 PM
My counterpoint is maybe Trump should be more careful about what he says and will say so there's no chance he can be badly clipped in the way every single other public figure has to be.