Black-eye
@black-eye.bsky.social
Psychiatrist, London. Socialist
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I don’t use these phrases myself, as you’ll have noticed. But I am here to tell you that if we could impose an effective blanket ban on use of any particular phrases and symbols, then this bullshit would instantly shift to different phrases and symbols at exactly the same intensity.
December 18, 2025 at 11:38 AM
I don’t use these phrases myself, as you’ll have noticed. But I am here to tell you that if we could impose an effective blanket ban on use of any particular phrases and symbols, then this bullshit would instantly shift to different phrases and symbols at exactly the same intensity.
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Can I just shock you? I think public transport infrastructure is good and these people should fuck off.
‘We hate it. It’s desecration’: the real cost of HS2
‘We hate it. It’s desecration’: the real cost of HS2
The long read: Ten years after I first followed the proposed route, I retraced my steps to see what life was like along the world’s most expensive, heavily delayed railway line
www.theguardian.com
December 16, 2025 at 11:12 AM
Can I just shock you? I think public transport infrastructure is good and these people should fuck off.
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Blair, Cameron & Starmer’s dishonest halfway house to NHS privatisation by a million stealth decisions is extraordinarily expensive in terms of management time. Which is why English NHS, just 10-15 yrs ago so administratively cost effective (compared internationally), has rapidly lost that advantage
December 15, 2025 at 10:24 AM
Blair, Cameron & Starmer’s dishonest halfway house to NHS privatisation by a million stealth decisions is extraordinarily expensive in terms of management time. Which is why English NHS, just 10-15 yrs ago so administratively cost effective (compared internationally), has rapidly lost that advantage
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Richard Madeley "How realistic is it for any profession to expect to be paid in real terms what they were paid in 2008?"
The UK is the 6th largest economy in the world & the rich have never been richer, but Madeley thinks the rest of us should just accept being poorer #GMB
The UK is the 6th largest economy in the world & the rich have never been richer, but Madeley thinks the rest of us should just accept being poorer #GMB
December 11, 2025 at 6:42 AM
Richard Madeley "How realistic is it for any profession to expect to be paid in real terms what they were paid in 2008?"
The UK is the 6th largest economy in the world & the rich have never been richer, but Madeley thinks the rest of us should just accept being poorer #GMB
The UK is the 6th largest economy in the world & the rich have never been richer, but Madeley thinks the rest of us should just accept being poorer #GMB
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“the pharaoh’s tomb is cursed! the necromancer’s ring is cursed! the witch’s grimoire is cursed!” that’s how you sound. everything is fucking cursed with you bro. i don’t care. i’m taking this skull.
December 4, 2024 at 8:25 PM
“the pharaoh’s tomb is cursed! the necromancer’s ring is cursed! the witch’s grimoire is cursed!” that’s how you sound. everything is fucking cursed with you bro. i don’t care. i’m taking this skull.
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Trump Threatens To Sue BBC Over Misleading Edit Of ‘The Vicar Of Dibley’ https://theonion.com/trump-threatens-to-sue-bbc-over-misleading-edit-of-the-vicar-of-dibley/
November 10, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Trump Threatens To Sue BBC Over Misleading Edit Of ‘The Vicar Of Dibley’ https://theonion.com/trump-threatens-to-sue-bbc-over-misleading-edit-of-the-vicar-of-dibley/
This measurement of how much people contribute ignores the fact that a lot of the low paid "negative" contributors are earning a lot of money for employers/bosses, and doing essential jobs. If we got rid of all hospital cleaners would we be better or worse off as a society? just pay them more
Lam believes her policy would deport all of the proportion in pink - keeping the thin group in black - of the post-2021 legal migrant arrivals. (The draft legislation proposes similar thresholds/rules for all past grants too). She says jar is 3.5m people: an astonishing scale of mass deportations
October 22, 2025 at 7:56 AM
This measurement of how much people contribute ignores the fact that a lot of the low paid "negative" contributors are earning a lot of money for employers/bosses, and doing essential jobs. If we got rid of all hospital cleaners would we be better or worse off as a society? just pay them more
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This isn’t an unavoidable fact of life. It’s the direct result of policy choices made my those in power.
It doesn’t have to be this way.
It doesn’t have to be this way.
October 8, 2025 at 2:24 PM
This isn’t an unavoidable fact of life. It’s the direct result of policy choices made my those in power.
It doesn’t have to be this way.
It doesn’t have to be this way.
Oh what a revelation, the starving child already has rickets - a completely unrelated disease in no way related to longer term malnutrition
I’m kind of speechless with this one. I can’t imagine the kind of person who continues to make the argument that it doesn’t count as real starvation if the kids were already sick.
August 18, 2025 at 8:33 AM
Oh what a revelation, the starving child already has rickets - a completely unrelated disease in no way related to longer term malnutrition
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Posting this again. Not enough electricity left to build affordable homes in 3 west London boroughs, because all capacity has been used by a data centre.
#affordablehousingUK
www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/repo...
#affordablehousingUK
www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/repo...
Report: Home building to halt in West London, due to data center power demands
All the electricity capacity is already used up, GLA tells developers
www.datacenterdynamics.com
August 14, 2025 at 6:37 AM
Posting this again. Not enough electricity left to build affordable homes in 3 west London boroughs, because all capacity has been used by a data centre.
#affordablehousingUK
www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/repo...
#affordablehousingUK
www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/repo...
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I filed a FOIA request with the FTC to get user complaints about ChatGPT.
In one case from Utah, a mother reports her son was experiencing a delusional breakdown and ChatGPT told him to stop taking his medication. The AI bot also told him that his parents were dangerous.
In one case from Utah, a mother reports her son was experiencing a delusional breakdown and ChatGPT told him to stop taking his medication. The AI bot also told him that his parents were dangerous.
'This Was Trauma by Simulation': ChatGPT Users File Disturbing Mental Health Complaints
Gizmodo obtained consumer complaints to FTC through a FOIA request.
gizmodo.com
August 13, 2025 at 2:52 PM
I filed a FOIA request with the FTC to get user complaints about ChatGPT.
In one case from Utah, a mother reports her son was experiencing a delusional breakdown and ChatGPT told him to stop taking his medication. The AI bot also told him that his parents were dangerous.
In one case from Utah, a mother reports her son was experiencing a delusional breakdown and ChatGPT told him to stop taking his medication. The AI bot also told him that his parents were dangerous.
I think AI related psychosis will have at least a couple of sub types - one more an actual psychosis, precipitated or made more likely by AI use, and one more like a Folie A Deux which would probably resolve with removal of the AI interaction and not necessarily lead to further episodes
In cases of psychosis involving ChatGPT, people already say it’s the user’s mental health that is the issue, not the technology. I disagree on several counts. First, the technology is intentionally designed to be sycophantic and imitate sentience, so it’s not comparable to other technologies.
August 11, 2025 at 10:19 AM
I think AI related psychosis will have at least a couple of sub types - one more an actual psychosis, precipitated or made more likely by AI use, and one more like a Folie A Deux which would probably resolve with removal of the AI interaction and not necessarily lead to further episodes
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BBC International Editor Jeremy Bowen has confirmed that the entire Al Jazeera team in Gaza City has been killed.
August 10, 2025 at 10:33 PM
BBC International Editor Jeremy Bowen has confirmed that the entire Al Jazeera team in Gaza City has been killed.
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In cases of psychosis involving ChatGPT, people already say it’s the user’s mental health that is the issue, not the technology. I disagree on several counts. First, the technology is intentionally designed to be sycophantic and imitate sentience, so it’s not comparable to other technologies.
August 7, 2025 at 1:39 PM
In cases of psychosis involving ChatGPT, people already say it’s the user’s mental health that is the issue, not the technology. I disagree on several counts. First, the technology is intentionally designed to be sycophantic and imitate sentience, so it’s not comparable to other technologies.
We can now see that the "male priests terrified of being caught in Ireland's biggest lingerie department" episode of Father Ted was not a joke but a wish on the part of Graham Linehan
Notably in here: "Sex Matters" now taking the position that even the "Men's" and "Women's" sections of a clothing retailer should be regarded as prescriptive "single sex spaces" where anyone they judge to be the "wrong" sex/gender should not be allowed.
August 6, 2025 at 4:51 PM
We can now see that the "male priests terrified of being caught in Ireland's biggest lingerie department" episode of Father Ted was not a joke but a wish on the part of Graham Linehan
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We recently covered a new study that showed that unemployment insurance increases bargaining power and thus wages (by 10%) which to me provides further evidence that universal basic income would increase bargaining power, and thus wages, especially for jobs people don't really enjoy.
New study shows that unemployment insurance provides increased bargaining power. #UBI would too.
YouTube video by Scott Santens
youtube.com
August 6, 2025 at 4:06 PM
We recently covered a new study that showed that unemployment insurance increases bargaining power and thus wages (by 10%) which to me provides further evidence that universal basic income would increase bargaining power, and thus wages, especially for jobs people don't really enjoy.
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There should be a wealth cap at enough for a comfortable retirement. If I gave a specific number, you'd haggle with me, but $N million for some single digit N. No one needs more than that. It doesn't incentivize any useful behavior to let people accumulate more power than that.
August 6, 2025 at 11:12 AM
There should be a wealth cap at enough for a comfortable retirement. If I gave a specific number, you'd haggle with me, but $N million for some single digit N. No one needs more than that. It doesn't incentivize any useful behavior to let people accumulate more power than that.
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3 Aug 25 - New study shows vast "over-representation of trans boys" turns out to be vast _under-representation_ of trans girls bec. they: a) come out ~10 years later; b) start puberty later; & c) delay transitioning longer because of deep social animus towards AMAB femininity.
tinyurl.com/yrwvmxws
tinyurl.com/yrwvmxws
August 3, 2025 at 1:17 PM
3 Aug 25 - New study shows vast "over-representation of trans boys" turns out to be vast _under-representation_ of trans girls bec. they: a) come out ~10 years later; b) start puberty later; & c) delay transitioning longer because of deep social animus towards AMAB femininity.
tinyurl.com/yrwvmxws
tinyurl.com/yrwvmxws
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Some things continue to go well. Just allow yourself a moment to experience it.
Is this the beginning of the end of HIV/AIDS? Lenacapavir “offers 100% protection” against contracting HIV and there are already 6 generic manufacturers lined up to produce the drug under royalty-free licensing agreements. [newatlas.com]
The first 100% effective HIV prevention drug is approved and going global
An epidemic that’s been sustained for 44 years might finally be quelled, with the milestone approval of the first HIV drug that offers 100% protection with its twice-yearly injections. It’s a landmark achievement that stands to save millions of lives across the globe. The makers are also providing a
newatlas.com
July 28, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Some things continue to go well. Just allow yourself a moment to experience it.
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OMG! TOO CUTE??? ❤️ Scientists taught rats to drive tiny cars and found that even when they didn't give them treats, they would still intentionally get into car crashes for the purpose of sexual gratification
June 19, 2025 at 12:17 PM
OMG! TOO CUTE??? ❤️ Scientists taught rats to drive tiny cars and found that even when they didn't give them treats, they would still intentionally get into car crashes for the purpose of sexual gratification
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An admirably clear summary of how the ratchet only goes one way, tbf
May 8, 2025 at 9:23 PM
An admirably clear summary of how the ratchet only goes one way, tbf
I'm sorry I cannot hear the Falconer, things are falling apart.
Falconer: EHRC will issue toilet & changing room ban against trans women
Kishwer Falconer gleefully announcing EHRC will ban trans women from women's toilets & changing rooms and from all women's sport. If you can stomach it, play linked recording from 2h10m42s.
Kishwer Falconer gleefully announcing EHRC will ban trans women from women's toilets & changing rooms and from all women's sport. If you can stomach it, play linked recording from 2h10m42s.
BBC Radio 4 - Today, 17/04/2025
News and current affairs, including Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day.
www.bbc.co.uk
April 17, 2025 at 3:54 PM
I'm sorry I cannot hear the Falconer, things are falling apart.
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“anything we can actually do, we can afford”
stamp this on the head of anyone who asks how we can afford universal health care or universal child care or public pensions or free college
stamp this on the head of anyone who asks how we can afford universal health care or universal child care or public pensions or free college
Posting this extract from a lecture by John Maynard Keynes, speaking on the BBC in the middle of the Second World War, to every Labour cabinet minister
April 8, 2025 at 2:16 PM
“anything we can actually do, we can afford”
stamp this on the head of anyone who asks how we can afford universal health care or universal child care or public pensions or free college
stamp this on the head of anyone who asks how we can afford universal health care or universal child care or public pensions or free college
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Someone pointed out that influencers use serotonin/dopamine/cortisol/oxytocin like they’re the four humors and now I can’t stop seeing it
March 20, 2025 at 2:49 AM
Someone pointed out that influencers use serotonin/dopamine/cortisol/oxytocin like they’re the four humors and now I can’t stop seeing it