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Topher B (Chris Bye)

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Lecturer in Mental Health (MH) Nursing at Uni of Staffs, OU MSc Adv HCP (Doctoral Student in Education). Interests: MH Nursing professional identity, community assertive outreach, recruitment, MHcare H&S, & mens MH. I Enjoy Haiku & Lego. All my own views.

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Topher B (Chris Bye) @testingnewapp.bsky.social · Sep 8

How Do Mental Health Nursing Students in the United Kingdom Experience Assessment Against the NMC Generic Standards of Proficiency? A Cross‐Field Comparison -Kenwright, McCrorie, Bye, Awty, Doherty & Cromar-Hayes -2025- IntJ of MH Nursing -Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

How Do Mental Health Nursing Students in the United Kingdom Experience Assessment Against the NMC Generic Standards of Proficiency? A Cross‐Field Comparison

In 2018 the UK's Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) moved from field-specific to generic standards of proficiency in training all four fields of nursing practice. Some educators claim these proficie....

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Topher B (Chris Bye) @testingnewapp.bsky.social · 13h

pebble thrown lightly,
pond moves mirrors reflections.
small wave distorts view.

#haiku #micropoetry #haikumicropoetry #haikupoetry
#haikusaturday

Topher B (Chris Bye) @testingnewapp.bsky.social · 16h

It would be important to understand how stats are broken down. Mental Health issues are important to understand in context of reality to NRP suicide, CMS profit making, inflated cost, homelessness, debt, affordability & any state enforced alienation behaviour. I am not sure it is straight forward?

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Reuters @reuters.com · 2d

Emotional Prince William holds back tears as he discusses impact of suicide reut.rs/4haefPa

Emotional Prince William holds back tears as he discusses impact of suicide

Prince William choked back tears as he discussed the devastating impact of suicide with a woman whose husband took his own life in a short film released by the British royal's office on Friday to mark World Mental Health Day.

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Keanu Heydari @keanuheydari.bsky.social · May 31

“Our object is […] to understand power by looking at its extremities, at its outer limits at the point where it becomes capillary….” – From Foucault, “Society Must Be Defended,” p. 27.

Paragraph from p. 27 of Michel Foucault’s “Society Must Be Defended,” which reads, “Methodological precautions. Our object is not to analyze rule-governed and legitimate forms of power which have a single center, or to look at what their general mechanisms or its overall effects might be. Our object is, on the contrary, to understand power by looking at its extremities, at its outer limits at the point where it becomes capillary; in other words, to understand power in its most regional forms and institutions, and especially at the points where this power transgresses the rules of right that organize and delineate it, oversteps those rules and is invested in institutions, is embodied in techniques.”

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Maria Popova @mariapopova.bsky.social · 7d

Heed your daemon – Rudyard Kipling on writing www.themarginalian.org/2025/10/05/r...

Heed Your Daemon: Rudyard Kipling on Writing

It is worth remembering that anything worth doing, anything bound to earn its keep in the house of tomorrow, takes a long time, takes riding the troughs of doubt with unassailable devotion, takes b…

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Maria Popova @mariapopova.bsky.social · 7d

"Where you are tender, you speak your plural."

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Eight Takes: How to Tell a Truer Love Story

“Mistake” is another word for a working draft we are unable or unwilling to revise, a draft that stands at odds with the story we wish to tell about who we are and what we want. It is a…

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Topher B (Chris Bye) @testingnewapp.bsky.social · 8d

#haiku #micropoetry #haikumicropoetry #haikusaturday #haiku575 #haikupoetry #haikufeels

frog pauses and looks.
mayfly scates across water.
ripples as echos.

(5-7-5) mayfly

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Maria Popova @mariapopova.bsky.social · 12d

The art of choosing love over not-love – on Rumi's birthday, his immortal antidote to our human tragedy www.themarginalian.org/2022/04/02/r...

The Art of Choosing Love Over Not-Love: Rumi’s Antidote to Our Human Tragedy

“You’ll long for me when I’m gone… You’ll kiss the headstone of my grave… Kiss my face instead!”

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Susan (Morhar) Andrews @andrewssusanm.bsky.social · 15d

#HaikuSaturday #haiku
5/7/5:
a hummingbird zips
to a wilting blue salvia--
last sips of summer

short form:
wilting blue salvia--
a hummingbird's last sips
of summer

Please add a version if you feel like it.

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Topher B (Chris Bye) @testingnewapp.bsky.social · 14d

mirror is not eyes.
mine is not explanation.
me is not enough.

(5-7-5) mine beyond word

Topher B (Chris Bye) @testingnewapp.bsky.social · 14d

Thank you John for an interesting article. I worry well-being exp. of NRPs is being lost on a gov. ideological drive rather than sensible understanding. This is not to negate exp. of 1 parent families but I would also critique the 'Fix the CMS' Report for not addressing NRP exp. @jrf-uk.bsky.social

Topher B (Chris Bye) @testingnewapp.bsky.social · 15d

Thank you Susan

Topher B (Chris Bye) @testingnewapp.bsky.social · 15d

Thank you Teresa

Topher B (Chris Bye) @testingnewapp.bsky.social · 15d

#haikupoetry #haiku #haikufeels #haikupoem #575haiku #haikuwriter #micropoetry #haikumicropoetry #poetry #haikusaturday #dailyhaiku #Saturdayhaiku

liminality,
low mist hovers serenely,.
ghostly border place.

(5-7-5) mist

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Topher B (Chris Bye) @testingnewapp.bsky.social · 21d

#haikupoetry #haiku #haikufeels #haikupoem #575haiku #haikuwriter #micropoetry #haikumicropoetry #poetry #haikuSunday #dailyhaiku #Sundayhaiku

spiral dancing form,
the heart too a coiled shape.
delicate its space.

(5-7-5) felt

Topher B (Chris Bye) @testingnewapp.bsky.social · 22d

#haikupoetry #haiku #haikufeels #haikupoem #575haiku #haikuwriter #micropoetry #haikumicropoetry #poetry #haikusaturday #dailyhaiku #Saturdayhaiku

old rivers course pass,
modern time & changing routes,
aquaducts serve well.

(5-7-5) changing flow

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Topher B (Chris Bye) @testingnewapp.bsky.social · 22d

#haikupoetry #haiku #haikufeels #haikupoem #575haiku #haikuwriter #micropoetry #haikumicropoetry #poetry #haikusaturday #dailyhaiku #Saturdayhaiku

little morning chimes,
are so beautiful to me
dark curtains open.

(5-7-5) little garden chimes

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BBC Radio 3 Unwind Now Playing Bot (Unofficial) @bbcradio3ubot.bsky.social · May 22

BBC Radio 3 Unwind
Piano Focus: Supportive piano tracks to clear your mind

Now Playing
Emile Mosseri
Minari Suite

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Topher B (Chris Bye) @testingnewapp.bsky.social · 23d

The play of the piano on this is truly beautiful ❤️ 🙏

Topher B (Chris Bye) @testingnewapp.bsky.social · 23d

www.papaorg.co.uk/post/are-the... Important & interesting views here attached. I think evidential warrant may suggest punitive language of the CMS means arguably 'punitive solutions are never enough'. Where there are suicides of NRPs (often fathers) & use of CMS, there are questions to be explored.

Are the Child Maintenance Service (CMS) Destroying Lives?

The Child Maintenance Service (CMS) has been a topic of heated debate among parents, policymakers, and social advocates like PAPA. While its goal is to ensure children receive necessary financial supp...

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Parental Alienation @pacumbria.bsky.social · Dec 8

Parental alienation is a form of emotional child abuse.

#ParentalAlienation

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Parental Alienation as Child Abuse and Family Violence

Stopping parental alienating behaviors is imperative for the promotion of the best interests of children and the health of families.

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Topher B (Chris Bye) @testingnewapp.bsky.social · 29d

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Topher B (Chris Bye) @testingnewapp.bsky.social · 29d

#haikupoetry #haiku #haikufeels #haikupoem #575haiku #haikuwriter #micropoetry #haikumicropoetry #poetry #haikusaturday #dailyhaiku #Saturdayhaiku

crow plans its flight path,
shrew lifts its head from the corn.
too late, autumn end.

(5-7-5) flight path

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Topher B (Chris Bye) @testingnewapp.bsky.social · 29d

#haikupoetry #haiku #haikufeels #haikupoem #575haiku #haikuwriter #micropoetry #haikumicropoetry #poetry #haikusaturday #dailyhaiku #Saturdayhaiku

birds chirp not ticked time,
listening in peaceful space,
spring breeze felt not passed.

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Raven @ravenbranhard.bsky.social · Sep 12

the space between walls
as you open your heart
the light enters

#Photography PierPaolo
@pierpaolo.bsky.social

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