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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I wish we could have a return of Guards Vans on intercity services.
February 2, 2026 at 12:22 PM
I wish we could have a return of Guards Vans on intercity services.
I wonder how many famous/rich people took the opportunity to say to their other famous/rich friends 'no, I don't think I'd like to go to Epstein's island'. And why they didn't.
February 1, 2026 at 10:50 PM
I wonder how many famous/rich people took the opportunity to say to their other famous/rich friends 'no, I don't think I'd like to go to Epstein's island'. And why they didn't.
Kind of amazing recasting emotional relationships with a loved one a service they provided to you and then inserting your tech bro self and your creepy chat bots in as an alternative provider
February 1, 2026 at 9:24 PM
Kind of amazing recasting emotional relationships with a loved one a service they provided to you and then inserting your tech bro self and your creepy chat bots in as an alternative provider
Actually quite enjoying tech bros who could easily spend money on making the world better deciding there is no profit in an actually better world but infinite profits in a simulation of one. 'oh gee, it sucks your sister is dead, here's a digital simulation of her which will die again if you cancel'
February 1, 2026 at 9:21 PM
Actually quite enjoying tech bros who could easily spend money on making the world better deciding there is no profit in an actually better world but infinite profits in a simulation of one. 'oh gee, it sucks your sister is dead, here's a digital simulation of her which will die again if you cancel'
Quite enjoying the phase of capitalism that says 'can we do things to make people's lives better? No, where's the glory in that. Instead, let's try to extend suffering indefinately with a scalable subscription service model'
absolutely fuck this sideways so hard a fucking kidney pops out
AI “deadbots” aim to replace the dead—and raise plenty of ethical issues, Charley Burlock argues. “Perhaps the biggest question is how such a product might shift our experience of personal grief and collective memory.”
February 1, 2026 at 9:17 PM
Quite enjoying the phase of capitalism that says 'can we do things to make people's lives better? No, where's the glory in that. Instead, let's try to extend suffering indefinately with a scalable subscription service model'
Gee, rich people sure do enjoy knocking about with sexual predators don't they?
January 31, 2026 at 8:22 PM
Gee, rich people sure do enjoy knocking about with sexual predators don't they?
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A small but deeply meaningful local project - digitising issues of 90s Scottish trans magazine The Tartan Skirt so all of us can access them.
It's a really modest fundraising target with a significant outcome, please share or contribute if you can!
It's a really modest fundraising target with a significant outcome, please share or contribute if you can!
Donate to Help The Tartan Skirt Go Digital, organized by Julia Gordon
Hi, I'm Julia Gordon and for several years in the 90s I was involved in working for wide… Julia Gordon needs your support for Help The Tartan Skirt Go Digital
www.gofundme.com
January 31, 2026 at 12:48 PM
A small but deeply meaningful local project - digitising issues of 90s Scottish trans magazine The Tartan Skirt so all of us can access them.
It's a really modest fundraising target with a significant outcome, please share or contribute if you can!
It's a really modest fundraising target with a significant outcome, please share or contribute if you can!
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Newcastle and Gateshead public health chief Alice Wiseman has warned that food inequality is driving “unmanageable healthcare demands on the NHS”
Almost one in four North East households can't afford adequate food
Almost one in four North East households can't afford adequate food
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January 31, 2026 at 3:04 PM
Newcastle and Gateshead public health chief Alice Wiseman has warned that food inequality is driving “unmanageable healthcare demands on the NHS”
Huge robotic parkie rising from a hidden hanger under a tennis court to bellow 'come in number seven your times up' which of course as libertarians they all ignore
January 31, 2026 at 3:17 PM
Huge robotic parkie rising from a hidden hanger under a tennis court to bellow 'come in number seven your times up' which of course as libertarians they all ignore
I've always been a bit suspicious of advice or treatment for lack of sleep that amounts to 'have you tried really really really hard to go to sleep? Like reaaaaaally hard?'
January 31, 2026 at 2:32 AM
I've always been a bit suspicious of advice or treatment for lack of sleep that amounts to 'have you tried really really really hard to go to sleep? Like reaaaaaally hard?'
This is a major point made in Michael Wolff's Trump books - people with no good name to lose. People who may have feared the derision of others but just pushed through it and found a new life rolling around in the shitty red mush of everything worst about humans.
thinkin a lot this week about how those who formed the core of the Nazi party were those who had failed in public life, had become figures of fun, and were consumed by a relentless desire to debase the society they could not flourish in
January 31, 2026 at 12:11 AM
This is a major point made in Michael Wolff's Trump books - people with no good name to lose. People who may have feared the derision of others but just pushed through it and found a new life rolling around in the shitty red mush of everything worst about humans.
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thinkin a lot this week about how those who formed the core of the Nazi party were those who had failed in public life, had become figures of fun, and were consumed by a relentless desire to debase the society they could not flourish in
January 31, 2026 at 12:01 AM
thinkin a lot this week about how those who formed the core of the Nazi party were those who had failed in public life, had become figures of fun, and were consumed by a relentless desire to debase the society they could not flourish in
I have had, for the last couple of months, had the unshakable and unexplainable thought that spectre of the detritus of British 70s and 80a pop culture will somehow be the power that will vanquish the wrong 'uns in US public life, like a plague found in a defrosted glacier sample.
Why US cinemagoers are dressing as Jimmy Savile to see 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple
January 31, 2026 at 12:08 AM
Fascinated by the dunderhead collecting process that is 'appoint a government of sycophants when you yourself are fucking rubbish', all of them running about trying to make sure they outrun future justice by making enough bank now to afford the same kinds of lawyers as their cock of a boss
January 30, 2026 at 11:52 PM
Fascinated by the dunderhead collecting process that is 'appoint a government of sycophants when you yourself are fucking rubbish', all of them running about trying to make sure they outrun future justice by making enough bank now to afford the same kinds of lawyers as their cock of a boss
LDRS really operates as a wire, but the reporters are all employed by publications. The angle here is less about LDRS I think than 'you should pay us not them because we're the good guys'. Which may or may not be true. But I'd guarantee for many it's the first they've really heard of LDRS
January 30, 2026 at 10:57 PM
LDRS really operates as a wire, but the reporters are all employed by publications. The angle here is less about LDRS I think than 'you should pay us not them because we're the good guys'. Which may or may not be true. But I'd guarantee for many it's the first they've really heard of LDRS
We employ three LDRS reporters, because we pitched for contracts and won them (one of the few independent news orgs to succeed). Amongst wider independent local news sector there is a lot of ill feeling about the big local news companies complying with the letter of the contract but not its spirit
January 30, 2026 at 10:51 PM
We employ three LDRS reporters, because we pitched for contracts and won them (one of the few independent news orgs to succeed). Amongst wider independent local news sector there is a lot of ill feeling about the big local news companies complying with the letter of the contract but not its spirit
On brexit day I was helping give hundreds of vulnerable people their first dose of covid vaccine in the cold about a fortnight after my sister died. Combination of human bravery and doing what needed to be done and abject horrific political careerism fucking everything up. And numb, dumb grief.
I doubt many people would instinctively recall that January 31st 2026 tomorrow is the sixth anniversary of actual Brexit day. (The tenth anniversary of 23rd June 2016 will be a much bigger deal).
The Daily Express can't claim to speak for Britain with his headline - but clearly feels it does
The Daily Express can't claim to speak for Britain with his headline - but clearly feels it does
January 30, 2026 at 10:45 PM
On brexit day I was helping give hundreds of vulnerable people their first dose of covid vaccine in the cold about a fortnight after my sister died. Combination of human bravery and doing what needed to be done and abject horrific political careerism fucking everything up. And numb, dumb grief.
But one of those arguments is all 'we're big serious people' and the other is seen as silly.
January 30, 2026 at 4:51 PM
But one of those arguments is all 'we're big serious people' and the other is seen as silly.
Feel a bit confused by the idea of it not being fair that those who don't go to university are subsiding those who do.
A counter argument is low paid people and people out of work or unable to work are kindly subsidising the lives of those who live from profits and ownership by not making demands
A counter argument is low paid people and people out of work or unable to work are kindly subsidising the lives of those who live from profits and ownership by not making demands
January 30, 2026 at 4:48 PM
Feel a bit confused by the idea of it not being fair that those who don't go to university are subsiding those who do.
A counter argument is low paid people and people out of work or unable to work are kindly subsidising the lives of those who live from profits and ownership by not making demands
A counter argument is low paid people and people out of work or unable to work are kindly subsidising the lives of those who live from profits and ownership by not making demands
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A man with serious and credible threats of sexual assault against him pivoting to Men's Mental Health has wound me right up.
It's said best in the piece below by @markoneinfour.bsky.social These guys hate "weak" men as much as they hate women.
markoneinfour.medium.com/fear-of-othe...
It's said best in the piece below by @markoneinfour.bsky.social These guys hate "weak" men as much as they hate women.
markoneinfour.medium.com/fear-of-othe...
Fear of other men teaches us to hate women
Men are afraid of other men. We learn this early. Other men teach us to hate women
markoneinfour.medium.com
January 30, 2026 at 2:16 PM
A man with serious and credible threats of sexual assault against him pivoting to Men's Mental Health has wound me right up.
It's said best in the piece below by @markoneinfour.bsky.social These guys hate "weak" men as much as they hate women.
markoneinfour.medium.com/fear-of-othe...
It's said best in the piece below by @markoneinfour.bsky.social These guys hate "weak" men as much as they hate women.
markoneinfour.medium.com/fear-of-othe...
I can see how growing up you'd be waiting to escape from angry men talking over you and then reaching adulthood only to find there is a national hoard of angry men talking over you and thinking 'fuck this for a game of soldiers, I want better'
January 30, 2026 at 3:56 PM
I can see how growing up you'd be waiting to escape from angry men talking over you and then reaching adulthood only to find there is a national hoard of angry men talking over you and thinking 'fuck this for a game of soldiers, I want better'
I would absolutely snap up a republished collection of Moorcock era New Worlds.
The cover of New Worlds magazine for February, 1969, edited by Michael Moorcock. On the cover, "Jeremiad", a Jerry Cornelius story by the late James Sallis; inside there's one of Thomas Pynchon's earliest short stories plus JG Ballard on Salvador Dalí, and Moorcock's obituary for Mervyn Peake.
January 30, 2026 at 12:25 PM
I would absolutely snap up a republished collection of Moorcock era New Worlds.
If you ask folks what they'd prefer, unless they are angry regressive men, the answer is usually 'not angry regressive men'. The positioning of angry regressive men as having the right to literally and metaphorically speak over others is keenly felt, I think. And 'that's not the world I want' shows
January 30, 2026 at 12:11 PM
If you ask folks what they'd prefer, unless they are angry regressive men, the answer is usually 'not angry regressive men'. The positioning of angry regressive men as having the right to literally and metaphorically speak over others is keenly felt, I think. And 'that's not the world I want' shows
In the panic of that period and the growing threat of MAGA America, folks who should know better just swallowed what was really the most regressive possible view 'listen to the angry me, but only when they are angry and regressive, no one else is a threat'. It's no wonder people diverge from that
January 30, 2026 at 12:08 PM
In the panic of that period and the growing threat of MAGA America, folks who should know better just swallowed what was really the most regressive possible view 'listen to the angry me, but only when they are angry and regressive, no one else is a threat'. It's no wonder people diverge from that
The right populism play book often creates the idea that angry men breaking stuff is the end result of angry men not getting their way, while at the same time centering and privileging only those angry men as the only meaningful group in any debate while only making them more angry.
January 30, 2026 at 12:06 PM
The right populism play book often creates the idea that angry men breaking stuff is the end result of angry men not getting their way, while at the same time centering and privileging only those angry men as the only meaningful group in any debate while only making them more angry.