Stephen Heller-Murphy 🍉
@heller-murphy.bsky.social
Internal family systems & psychodynamic psychotherapist - 🏴 Edinburgh, Glasgow & online.
www.psychotherapy.scot
www.psychotherapy.scot
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Raisin' Hell by Run DMC was arguably the first hiphop album to properly tackle grape intolerance
October 28, 2025 at 9:06 AM
Raisin' Hell by Run DMC was arguably the first hiphop album to properly tackle grape intolerance
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I have an undergraduate degree in social anthropology (from a very long time ago).
Everything that the "gender critical" movement (and their centrist apologists) insist as inviolable truth – all of it – was debunked in the very first term of the first year.
GCs are fanatical fantasists.
Everything that the "gender critical" movement (and their centrist apologists) insist as inviolable truth – all of it – was debunked in the very first term of the first year.
GCs are fanatical fantasists.
'centrists', liberals, whatever you want to call them who think that facts will beat out fascism and that science will win the day should be reminded of things like this
they all keep saying transphobia is 'reasonable concerns' or 'common sense' while completely ignoring what scientists have to say
they all keep saying transphobia is 'reasonable concerns' or 'common sense' while completely ignoring what scientists have to say
September 22, 2025 at 9:44 AM
I have an undergraduate degree in social anthropology (from a very long time ago).
Everything that the "gender critical" movement (and their centrist apologists) insist as inviolable truth – all of it – was debunked in the very first term of the first year.
GCs are fanatical fantasists.
Everything that the "gender critical" movement (and their centrist apologists) insist as inviolable truth – all of it – was debunked in the very first term of the first year.
GCs are fanatical fantasists.
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Could we please stop pretending that the flags being hung from streetlamps or painted on roundabouts are innocent expressions of patriotic pride? This is the far right marking out its territory. It uses these flags to intimidate its traditional victims and opponents. 🧵1/3
September 9, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Could we please stop pretending that the flags being hung from streetlamps or painted on roundabouts are innocent expressions of patriotic pride? This is the far right marking out its territory. It uses these flags to intimidate its traditional victims and opponents. 🧵1/3
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I’m so tired of the wrong answers. So, so tired. It’s the Yeats poem, except the best don’t lack conviction at all, they just get ignored. On climate, on rights, on peace, on AI.
June 24, 2025 at 3:37 PM
I’m so tired of the wrong answers. So, so tired. It’s the Yeats poem, except the best don’t lack conviction at all, they just get ignored. On climate, on rights, on peace, on AI.
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The neoliberal austerity guy who fucked us an economic force by impoverishing a generation and further enriching transnational corporate elites, precipitating a neo-fascist backlash led by techno-feudal oligarchs is the good guy. Right. Got you.
There hasn’t been a ‘big chancellor’ since Osborne: IFS chief gives final mark
There hasn’t been a ‘big chancellor’ since Osborne: IFS chief gives final mark
As he steps down after 14 years, Paul Johnson says politicians and voters refuse to accept economic tradeoffs
“In my lifetime, who have been the big chancellors?” says Paul Johnson, as he prepares to hang up his spreadsheets as the director of the Institute for Fiscal Studies. “You’ve had Healey, Lawson, Clarke, Brown. Arguably Osborne. We haven’t had one since then. They’re the long-lasting ones.”
The fact that Rachel Reeves is not on that list will elicit no surprise in No 11, where Johnson is seen as a nitpicking critic, naive about the constraints of politics. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
June 14, 2025 at 10:05 AM
The neoliberal austerity guy who fucked us an economic force by impoverishing a generation and further enriching transnational corporate elites, precipitating a neo-fascist backlash led by techno-feudal oligarchs is the good guy. Right. Got you.
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“We attacked a foreign people and treated them like rebels. As you know, it's all right to treat barbarians barbarically. It's the desire to be barbaric that makes governments call their enemies barbarians.”
― Bertolt Brecht
― Bertolt Brecht
June 13, 2025 at 11:38 AM
“We attacked a foreign people and treated them like rebels. As you know, it's all right to treat barbarians barbarically. It's the desire to be barbaric that makes governments call their enemies barbarians.”
― Bertolt Brecht
― Bertolt Brecht
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You’ll be too young to remember, but there was a time when you could wake up as many as three mornings in a row and not find the world had lost its fucking mind.
June 13, 2025 at 6:48 AM
You’ll be too young to remember, but there was a time when you could wake up as many as three mornings in a row and not find the world had lost its fucking mind.
Ten writers by whom I’ve read more than five books:
Irvine Welch
Iain (M) Banks
Mick Herron
Ursula K LeQuin
Robert Anton Wilson
RA MacAvoy
CJ Cherryh
PN Elrod
Anne Rice
Tony Hillerman
Irvine Welch
Iain (M) Banks
Mick Herron
Ursula K LeQuin
Robert Anton Wilson
RA MacAvoy
CJ Cherryh
PN Elrod
Anne Rice
Tony Hillerman
Ten writers by whom I've read (much) more than five books
Patrick O'Brien
Terry Pratchett
Iain (M.) Banks
Nils-Olof Franzén
Joe Abercrombie
Robert Rankin
Georges Simenon
Agatha Christie
Margery Allingham
Arthur Conan-Doyle
John Buchan
Patrick O'Brien
Terry Pratchett
Iain (M.) Banks
Nils-Olof Franzén
Joe Abercrombie
Robert Rankin
Georges Simenon
Agatha Christie
Margery Allingham
Arthur Conan-Doyle
John Buchan
Ten writers by whom I've read (much) more than five books
Anita Brookner
Barbra Comyns
Charles Dickens
Celia Fremlin
Shirley Jackson
Henry James
Jonathan Raban
Elizabeth Taylor
Evelyn Waugh
Edith Wharton
Anita Brookner
Barbra Comyns
Charles Dickens
Celia Fremlin
Shirley Jackson
Henry James
Jonathan Raban
Elizabeth Taylor
Evelyn Waugh
Edith Wharton
June 13, 2025 at 9:39 AM
Ten writers by whom I’ve read more than five books:
Irvine Welch
Iain (M) Banks
Mick Herron
Ursula K LeQuin
Robert Anton Wilson
RA MacAvoy
CJ Cherryh
PN Elrod
Anne Rice
Tony Hillerman
Irvine Welch
Iain (M) Banks
Mick Herron
Ursula K LeQuin
Robert Anton Wilson
RA MacAvoy
CJ Cherryh
PN Elrod
Anne Rice
Tony Hillerman
I once blanked Princess Anne, thought she was talking to the person next to me.
Right folks. Feeling rather down at the moment so bringing back an oldie
Please Quote this with your most minor celebrity interaction
Please Quote this with your most minor celebrity interaction
June 13, 2025 at 9:26 AM
I once blanked Princess Anne, thought she was talking to the person next to me.
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This is a sponsored ad on Instagram.
In 2023, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) required BetterHelp to pay $7.8 million to customers due to their deceptive privacy practices. It shared customer data including personal health questions for targeted advertising on social media.
In 2023, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) required BetterHelp to pay $7.8 million to customers due to their deceptive privacy practices. It shared customer data including personal health questions for targeted advertising on social media.
June 12, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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In 2023, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) required BetterHelp to pay $7.8 million to customers due to their deceptive privacy practices. It shared customer data including personal health questions for targeted advertising on social media.
In 2023, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) required BetterHelp to pay $7.8 million to customers due to their deceptive privacy practices. It shared customer data including personal health questions for targeted advertising on social media.
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As the mixed-race son of a technically "black" British mother, whose children would identify as "white", this report is laughable at best. It's the comments underneath that terrify me.
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/06...
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/06...
White British people will be a minority in 40 years, report claims
Shifting ethnic dynamic of the UK driven by immigration predicted to cause dramatic changes
www.telegraph.co.uk
June 4, 2025 at 10:13 AM
As the mixed-race son of a technically "black" British mother, whose children would identify as "white", this report is laughable at best. It's the comments underneath that terrify me.
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/06...
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/06...
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Honestly, this is the most comforting news I’ve read in a long time. “By the year 2100, the report expects 60 per cent of people living in the UK to have at least one immigrant parent.”
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
White Brits will be a minority in the UK in 40 years, report claims
A study into birth rates and migration levels has predicted that white British people will make up only 33.7 per cent of the UK population by the end of the century.
www.dailymail.co.uk
June 4, 2025 at 10:20 AM
Honestly, this is the most comforting news I’ve read in a long time. “By the year 2100, the report expects 60 per cent of people living in the UK to have at least one immigrant parent.”
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
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if you're on the other side of history from the Quakers, you kinda might wanna think about what side of history you're on
The Telegraph going after the Quakers because the Quakers won't be assholes to trans people.
That opening paragraph by Daniel Martin is lol. It's Helen Joyce doing the accusing.
That opening paragraph by Daniel Martin is lol. It's Helen Joyce doing the accusing.
May 27, 2025 at 4:44 PM
if you're on the other side of history from the Quakers, you kinda might wanna think about what side of history you're on
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The client’s emotional impact on the therapist is arguably the most neglected area in therapist training.
- Karen Maroda
- Karen Maroda
May 23, 2025 at 3:16 PM
The client’s emotional impact on the therapist is arguably the most neglected area in therapist training.
- Karen Maroda
- Karen Maroda
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I'm watching the Parliamentary debate about the self-ID e-petition and my JAW IS ON THE FLOOR.
The MPs speaking are hitting ALL the key pro-trans talking points:
- transphobic bias in EHRC
- nightmare of SC ruling
- toilet bans are awful
- must hear trans voices
- IGLA rainbow map
1/
The MPs speaking are hitting ALL the key pro-trans talking points:
- transphobic bias in EHRC
- nightmare of SC ruling
- toilet bans are awful
- must hear trans voices
- IGLA rainbow map
1/
May 19, 2025 at 4:35 PM
I'm watching the Parliamentary debate about the self-ID e-petition and my JAW IS ON THE FLOOR.
The MPs speaking are hitting ALL the key pro-trans talking points:
- transphobic bias in EHRC
- nightmare of SC ruling
- toilet bans are awful
- must hear trans voices
- IGLA rainbow map
1/
The MPs speaking are hitting ALL the key pro-trans talking points:
- transphobic bias in EHRC
- nightmare of SC ruling
- toilet bans are awful
- must hear trans voices
- IGLA rainbow map
1/
Punched myself in the eye putting a fitted sheet on my mattress.
What's the stupidest way you've hurt yourself?
Oh I'm so glad you asked! I knocked myself out with a frozen bag of omelettes.
Oh I'm so glad you asked! I knocked myself out with a frozen bag of omelettes.
May 20, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Punched myself in the eye putting a fitted sheet on my mattress.
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It will never not astound me that as we watch the rise of Nazism in real time a century later, appeasement is again the gameplay, despite a century of understanding how and why that doesn’t work.
May 15, 2025 at 7:08 AM
It will never not astound me that as we watch the rise of Nazism in real time a century later, appeasement is again the gameplay, despite a century of understanding how and why that doesn’t work.
I think now Tony Gilroy should be encouraged to do another Star Wars show just called Bothan.
May 15, 2025 at 9:49 AM
I think now Tony Gilroy should be encouraged to do another Star Wars show just called Bothan.
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The Cover of George Orwell’s 1984 Becomes Less Censored with Wear & Tear
The Cover of George Orwell’s 1984 Becomes Less Censored with Wear & Tear
In 2013, Penguin released in the UK a series of new covers for five works by George Orwell, including a particularly bold cover design for Orwell's best-known work, 1984.
www.openculture.com
May 14, 2025 at 6:23 AM
The Cover of George Orwell’s 1984 Becomes Less Censored with Wear & Tear
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OK, this is wild.
In September 2023, geophysicists across the world started monitoring a very odd signal coming from the ground under them.
It was picked up in the Arctic. And Antarctica. It was detected everywhere, every 90 seconds, as regular as a metronome, for *nine days*.
What the HELL?
1/
In September 2023, geophysicists across the world started monitoring a very odd signal coming from the ground under them.
It was picked up in the Arctic. And Antarctica. It was detected everywhere, every 90 seconds, as regular as a metronome, for *nine days*.
What the HELL?
1/
May 12, 2025 at 3:20 PM
OK, this is wild.
In September 2023, geophysicists across the world started monitoring a very odd signal coming from the ground under them.
It was picked up in the Arctic. And Antarctica. It was detected everywhere, every 90 seconds, as regular as a metronome, for *nine days*.
What the HELL?
1/
In September 2023, geophysicists across the world started monitoring a very odd signal coming from the ground under them.
It was picked up in the Arctic. And Antarctica. It was detected everywhere, every 90 seconds, as regular as a metronome, for *nine days*.
What the HELL?
1/
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Newark Mayor Ras Baraka released from ICE facility in NJ
He was clearly arrested while on the public side of the fence. Heads must roll.
He was clearly arrested while on the public side of the fence. Heads must roll.
Newark Mayor Ras Baraka released from ICE facility in NJ
NEW JERSEY (PIX11) — Newark Mayor Ras Baraka has been released after he was arrested for allegedly trespassing at an ICE facility in New Jersey Friday, officials said. The politician said he …
pix11.com
May 10, 2025 at 3:25 AM
Newark Mayor Ras Baraka released from ICE facility in NJ
He was clearly arrested while on the public side of the fence. Heads must roll.
He was clearly arrested while on the public side of the fence. Heads must roll.
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"Masked security forces captured an opposition leader in the coastal province of New Jersey as regime officials continue their months-long crack-down against pro-democracy elements in the embattled United States. The arrest comes as the regime issued calls for summary detentions without trial."
HAPPENING NOW: Newark Mayor Ras Baraka was just taken into custody while protesting outside the Delaney Hall ICE detention center
May 9, 2025 at 10:10 PM
"Masked security forces captured an opposition leader in the coastal province of New Jersey as regime officials continue their months-long crack-down against pro-democracy elements in the embattled United States. The arrest comes as the regime issued calls for summary detentions without trial."
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A clinician’s working conditions are not incidental to the care they provide.
What is imposed on the therapist is imposed on the patient.
What is imposed on the therapist is imposed on the patient.
Hospitals and counseling centers are currently under relentless pressure to "do more with less" - a maddeningly patronizing piece of self-serving magical thinking that invites clinicians to spin straw into gold.
- Nancy McWilliams, Psychoanalytic Supervision
- Nancy McWilliams, Psychoanalytic Supervision
May 5, 2025 at 2:34 PM
A clinician’s working conditions are not incidental to the care they provide.
What is imposed on the therapist is imposed on the patient.
What is imposed on the therapist is imposed on the patient.