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Caroline Ritchie
@nanonanu.bsky.social
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Semi-retired psychiatrist, full-time carer. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 ADHD etc.
Love comedy, all kinds of music (percussion!), neuroscience, shoes, mobiles (dangly ones), alebrijes, Edinburgh Festivals, dancing, overdressing, stopping to smell the flowers.
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Interesting piece. This paragraph in particular contains information of which I was not previously aware.

www.counterpunch.org/2025/09/30/t...
A screenshot of a paragraph of text from a longer article: “And the change in rules and norms that allow CEO pay to explode also allowed for top end pay to rise in other contexts. Longer and stronger patent and copyright monopolies made many STEM workers millionaires or even billionaires. The abuse of bankruptcy laws by private equity companies, also created many millionaires and billionaires. This is a mix of wages and profits, since the private equity partners who get the big bucks are ostensibly working for their money. The bloated financial sector more generally has also made for many big paychecks.”
September 30, 2025 at 12:37 PM
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Tee hee! They know how to troll IQ47 in the North East.
A post by The National newspaper from Facebook stating “A Jeffrey Epstein memorial plaque has been installed at Donald Trump’s Aberdeenshire golf course.” There are 3 pictures of the plaque. In the first, it is held by a hand with a bench in the background. In the second it is held close to the bench. In the last picture the hand indicates that it is now attached to the bench in the position typical of a memorial bench.
September 10, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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That’ll go down like a lead balloon in the Dear Green Place.
A Facebook post by The National newspaper about the OVO Hydro serving only vegan food during Billie Eilish’s upcoming concerts. There is a picture of the Hydro at night lit up green.
July 7, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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Wee jaunt to Cardiff. Went for a walk around Cardiff Bay. Spoke to a couple of very chatty people. Bristol tomorrow. Or maybe Bath.
Bronze sculpture with the appearance of the inside of a wooden boat which is the memorial to merchant mariners. In the background is the Welsh Parliament (Senned) building.
June 24, 2025 at 10:07 PM
nanonanu.bsky.social
Norman Sartorius! He’s 90 you know. #RCPsychIC
Prof Norman Sartorius speaking at Royal College of Psychiatrists International Congress. Giant slide states “Psychiatry 2025: Challenges and responses”
June 23, 2025 at 11:40 AM
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#RCPsychIC25
Dr Lade Smith, President of Royal College of Psychiatrists giving welcome address at RCPsych International Congress 2025. Standing on stage behind podium next to giant slide.
June 23, 2025 at 11:00 AM
nanonanu.bsky.social
I’ve found Wally so I might as well head home now
#michaelschenker
A crowd of people viewed from above, in the middle of which is a man in a red & black striped t-shirt.
May 13, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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If you see this, post the most recent photo of yourself from your camera roll. No cheating!
Two women in bee suits checking the inside of a beehive in a field with trees and two other hives in the background. One of the bee suits is candy pink.
May 7, 2025 at 12:29 AM
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As this post seems to be gaining traction, I feel that I should post this to ensure that @fozmeadows.bsky.social gets full credit for their original post in 2021 (which I couldn't find to share). I was right up to the character limit in my previous post and I don't think it was clear enough.
A screenshot of a Bluesky post by Foz Meadows from 15 November 2021 stating "human gender and sexuality are very much like animal taxonomy, in that both look structured and simple on the surface, but once you start investigating, it turns out there's actually no such thing as a fish despite the fact that we all know what a fish is, and that's okay" There is a response by futureevilscientist stating: "As a biologist, that is a fantastic comparison. We talk about «Fish" (which, cladistically, do not exist, there is no monophyletic group of "fish" that simultaneously includes all organisms we understand to be "fish"-like while also excluding, say, humans) because, despite the utter fiction that is fish, it's still a useful label when we talk about certain features that «fish" tend to have in common. Gender is absolutely the same way."
March 26, 2025 at 12:51 AM
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A trouser crime, presumably. @occupydemocrats.bsky.social
An image from a Facebook post by Occupy Democrats. In the top left quarter - a newspaper headline: The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans". In the top right quarter, a picture of Fred Wellman, Army Veteran, St. Louis, Missouri, who is quoted in the bottom half as follows, "That silence you hear is the ENTIRE Republican Party and propagandists waiting for their talking points to excuse one of the MOST outrageous outrageous national security breeches (sic) in modern times by ALL of the leading idiots of the Trump Administration."
March 25, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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Capitalism is slowly strangling us.
A black & white picture of Vladimir Lenin bearing the quotation, “Fascism is capitalism in decay.”
March 25, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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For fellow hot cross bun aficionados, these Tesco Strawberries & Clotted Cream bad boys are the mutt’s nuts.
A film packet of 4 Tesco Finest Strawberries & Clotted Cream Hot Cross Buns. The outside of the packaging is part red, part clear and part a picture of hot cross buns with some strawberries. The crosses on the buns in the packet have a pinkish hue.
March 25, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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So the Cybertruck is a skip on wheels, making it the Lada Niva of the 21st century. The irony that the Lada was a Russian car should not be lost on us.
A picture of a rusty skip on wheels labelled “Container bin, India, 1968” above a picture of a motor vehicle labelled “Cybertruck, America, 2023”. There is a striking similarity in their shape.
March 21, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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Post your favourite Doctor Who. Wrong answers only.
A black and white picture of a young Ken Dodd in a suit and tie with his hair standing on end in a disorganised style. His mouth is open showing his teeth in a goofy smile and he is making gestures with both hands similar to the devil horns sign.
March 19, 2025 at 4:20 AM
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Did Tunnocks sponsor those astronauts that were stuck on the ISS for 286 days? #tunnocksteacakes
An image of the sea above which are the 4 parachutes which slowed the descent of the space capsule which brought back to earth the two astronauts who were stuck on the International Space Station for 286 days. The parachutes are in the process of deflating and on each white parachute is a red starburst pattern resembling that on the flattened foil wrapping of a Tunnocks Tea Cake.
March 19, 2025 at 3:13 AM
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From Russell Stephen Edwards on Facebook - Brick Lane, London yesterday.
A photograph of a poster featuring images of Elon Musk, Nigel Farage, Vladimir Putin, Benjamin Netanyahu & Donald Trump in Nazi uniforms.
March 16, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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Tonight I was feeling inexplicably sad on my way home so I went full Embra and treated myself to a Deep Fried Mars Bar supper with sauce (but not salt cos that’s bad for you). IYKYK.
Lit window of an Edinburgh fish and chip shop with a neon sign saying Pizza & Kebabs. Underneath is a sign saying Deep Fried Mars Bar with a Saltire hanging from the side. The inside walls of the shop are covered with pictures of customers.
March 12, 2025 at 10:37 PM
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Bad news for metalheads! Mind you, looking at the bill for Ozzy Osbourne’s Back to the Beginning farewell show, Sharon is doing her bit to single handedly rebalance any US metal trade deficit with the UK.
Headline stating “Trump says no exemptions with metal tariffs to start in March”. Underneath is a picture of Donald Trump spouting nonsense.
March 12, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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I’m very grateful to have spent most of my life in a place that has all the advantages of a city but with good air quality as evidenced by the lichen growth in my garden.
Extensive growth of grey-green lichens on the branches of a leafless hawthorn tree.
March 11, 2025 at 12:25 PM
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On my bucket list. Apparently includes a visit to Walt’s office where his ghostly manifestation has been reported.
Image advertising official tour of Walt Disney Studios in Burbank with multiple sepia tones images of the studios.
March 7, 2025 at 9:45 AM
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Not all forensic psychiatrists are psychopathic. Who knew? #rcpsych Forensic Faculty Conference.
A tray of pastries with a blackboard sign stating “Vegan Croissants”.
March 7, 2025 at 9:26 AM
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First slides of the day at RCPsych Forensic Faculty conference. #rcpsych
Picture of slide with text beginning “In colonized countries like New Zealand, Australia and Canada, it is customary to begin with an acknowledgment of the traditional owners of the land. European settings often lack this tradition, focus on oneself, not one’s past or context. Māori tradition emphasises connection to place, people and ancestors rather than just names and qualifications.” Text slide entitled “CAMH Land Acknowledgment”
March 6, 2025 at 9:26 AM
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It’s a hood rather than a hat.
A woman wearing glasses with her face framed by the iridescent feathered hood of her jacket with snow and leafless trees in the background.
February 27, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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I could never forget something this adorable There’s a farm along the road from me at which they breed Clydesdales. The road in question goes to…Clydesdale.
A Clydesdale horse with a white face and legs and a light brown body, standing behind to a stob & wire fence in a field with the Pentland Hills and leafless trees in the distance.
February 9, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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The Times Letters 24th Jan 2025
#nobloodypoint
A letter published in The Times on 24/01/25 advocating for wide scale replacement of kitchen knives with sharp points with knives with blunt ends in the aftermath of the killings in Southport. It states that mores than half of knives used in homicides are kitchen knives and it is the points that cause death.
January 24, 2025 at 6:15 PM