Robin
@robinpsy.bsky.social
Aspiring psychologist
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All opinions my own and subject to change.
Liking or reposting is not necessarily an endorsement.
Someone who is upset about government decisions might protest at a public square or government buildings.
Someone seeking an opportunity to be publicly racist would protest where asylum seekers are residing.
Someone seeking an opportunity to be publicly racist would protest where asylum seekers are residing.
August 23, 2025 at 9:28 AM
Someone who is upset about government decisions might protest at a public square or government buildings.
Someone seeking an opportunity to be publicly racist would protest where asylum seekers are residing.
Someone seeking an opportunity to be publicly racist would protest where asylum seekers are residing.
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Disabled people have been warning for years that the pandemic response (or lack thereof) was going to lead to fascism
We begged you to wear a mask. To fight for clean air. To refuse “the vulnerable” aside just because you wanted to to “back to normal”
Include us in resistance efforts. We can help
We begged you to wear a mask. To fight for clean air. To refuse “the vulnerable” aside just because you wanted to to “back to normal”
Include us in resistance efforts. We can help
April 6, 2025 at 8:25 AM
Disabled people have been warning for years that the pandemic response (or lack thereof) was going to lead to fascism
We begged you to wear a mask. To fight for clean air. To refuse “the vulnerable” aside just because you wanted to to “back to normal”
Include us in resistance efforts. We can help
We begged you to wear a mask. To fight for clean air. To refuse “the vulnerable” aside just because you wanted to to “back to normal”
Include us in resistance efforts. We can help
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To write this @newstatesman.com column, I asked colleagues about their enduring memories of working on Covid wards.
Their messages, sent as voicenotes, had one thing in common: each respondent broke down in tears.
What does that rawness mean for today's NHS? 🧵
www.newstatesman.com/politics/hea...
Their messages, sent as voicenotes, had one thing in common: each respondent broke down in tears.
What does that rawness mean for today's NHS? 🧵
www.newstatesman.com/politics/hea...
NHS staff are still traumatised by the pandemic
Despite their continuing levels of severe distress, funding has now been withdrawn from mental health hubs.
www.newstatesman.com
April 5, 2025 at 12:43 PM
To write this @newstatesman.com column, I asked colleagues about their enduring memories of working on Covid wards.
Their messages, sent as voicenotes, had one thing in common: each respondent broke down in tears.
What does that rawness mean for today's NHS? 🧵
www.newstatesman.com/politics/hea...
Their messages, sent as voicenotes, had one thing in common: each respondent broke down in tears.
What does that rawness mean for today's NHS? 🧵
www.newstatesman.com/politics/hea...
Isn't this what money was invented for?
Trade deficit. I have bought food from say, Chilis. They have never bought food from me.
There is a trade deficit with Chilis. I’m still doing fine.
The trade deficit argument SOUNDS compelling, but it’s a straw man with no relevancy
There is a trade deficit with Chilis. I’m still doing fine.
The trade deficit argument SOUNDS compelling, but it’s a straw man with no relevancy
April 6, 2025 at 12:10 PM
Isn't this what money was invented for?
Anyone that says "Stocks go down as well as up" has just told you everything they know about economics.
April 4, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Anyone that says "Stocks go down as well as up" has just told you everything they know about economics.
Cost of greed crisis
There is no Cost of Living Crisis.
Supermarkets have permanently quadrupled their profits.
Energy Companies have permanently x10ed their profits.
It is a Cost of Greed Crisis and it needs to be reversed.
Supermarkets have permanently quadrupled their profits.
Energy Companies have permanently x10ed their profits.
It is a Cost of Greed Crisis and it needs to be reversed.
April 3, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Cost of greed crisis
Happy austerity day everyone!
If you can afford to drive, please do so carefully. None of us can afford to become disabled.
If you can afford to drive, please do so carefully. None of us can afford to become disabled.
March 26, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Happy austerity day everyone!
If you can afford to drive, please do so carefully. None of us can afford to become disabled.
If you can afford to drive, please do so carefully. None of us can afford to become disabled.
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#DisabilityBenefits cuts will cost more in every way.
“For every pound that someone loses in benefits, you know that – if a council has to step in to cover the shortfall – it’s about £1.50 additional impact”- Disability Policy Centre.
Important piece by @cjayanetti.bsky.social tinyurl.com/3vun5uz8
“For every pound that someone loses in benefits, you know that – if a council has to step in to cover the shortfall – it’s about £1.50 additional impact”- Disability Policy Centre.
Important piece by @cjayanetti.bsky.social tinyurl.com/3vun5uz8
Councils and NHS could face millions in extra costs due to disability benefit cuts
Government plans for Pip cuts will drive up costs for local authority social care services and NHS, campaigners warn
tinyurl.com
March 22, 2025 at 3:46 PM
#DisabilityBenefits cuts will cost more in every way.
“For every pound that someone loses in benefits, you know that – if a council has to step in to cover the shortfall – it’s about £1.50 additional impact”- Disability Policy Centre.
Important piece by @cjayanetti.bsky.social tinyurl.com/3vun5uz8
“For every pound that someone loses in benefits, you know that – if a council has to step in to cover the shortfall – it’s about £1.50 additional impact”- Disability Policy Centre.
Important piece by @cjayanetti.bsky.social tinyurl.com/3vun5uz8
Only the rich boomers like Ferrari sat about enjoying the sun during COVID. The majority of the population worked the entire lockdown and struggled to stay safe.
"I like that! Now that is a good idea..."
@nickferrarilbc.bsky.social is generally underwhelmed by Labour's benefits crackdown... but he has spotted one nugget in there that he likes.
@nickferrarilbc.bsky.social is generally underwhelmed by Labour's benefits crackdown... but he has spotted one nugget in there that he likes.
March 21, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Only the rich boomers like Ferrari sat about enjoying the sun during COVID. The majority of the population worked the entire lockdown and struggled to stay safe.
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The govt is basing its decisions on an erroneous version of the medical model - i.e. that disability is located in the person, rather than adopting a social model approach which recognises how a lack of societal adjustments and supports creates/exacerbates disablement.
March 19, 2025 at 8:54 AM
The govt is basing its decisions on an erroneous version of the medical model - i.e. that disability is located in the person, rather than adopting a social model approach which recognises how a lack of societal adjustments and supports creates/exacerbates disablement.
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I'll tell you what does drive people to despair: money worries. The idea that you can improve someone's mental health by giving them more money worries should be an obvious mistake of thinking. But it isn't. Because years of right wing rhetoric has made it impossible to see people's needs clearly
March 19, 2025 at 7:49 AM
I'll tell you what does drive people to despair: money worries. The idea that you can improve someone's mental health by giving them more money worries should be an obvious mistake of thinking. But it isn't. Because years of right wing rhetoric has made it impossible to see people's needs clearly
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The UK, a place where mental illness which is real, is fake.
But greed which is very real and the biggest problem, is great and needs to be fed and kept completely tax free.
But greed which is very real and the biggest problem, is great and needs to be fed and kept completely tax free.
March 16, 2025 at 7:54 PM
The UK, a place where mental illness which is real, is fake.
But greed which is very real and the biggest problem, is great and needs to be fed and kept completely tax free.
But greed which is very real and the biggest problem, is great and needs to be fed and kept completely tax free.
Of course it's not poverty that's the issue.
It's never poverty, or we might actually have to do something about poverty.
It's never poverty, or we might actually have to do something about poverty.
Wes Streeting has an undergraduate degree in history. That’s it; that’s his full qualifications in medicine.
March 16, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Of course it's not poverty that's the issue.
It's never poverty, or we might actually have to do something about poverty.
It's never poverty, or we might actually have to do something about poverty.
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The problem: our mental health is getting worse.
The government's solution: blame us, and punish us by taking away our financial safety net. 1/4
www.theguardian.com/society/2025/mar/12/mental-ill-health-is-behind-soaring-disability-benefits-bill-in-england-and-wales-report-says
The government's solution: blame us, and punish us by taking away our financial safety net. 1/4
www.theguardian.com/society/2025/mar/12/mental-ill-health-is-behind-soaring-disability-benefits-bill-in-england-and-wales-report-says
Mental ill-health is behind soaring disability benefits bill in England and Wales, report says
Institute for Fiscal Studies says half of the rise in working-age people claiming the benefit last year is linked to mental health
www.theguardian.com
March 13, 2025 at 2:52 PM
The problem: our mental health is getting worse.
The government's solution: blame us, and punish us by taking away our financial safety net. 1/4
www.theguardian.com/society/2025/mar/12/mental-ill-health-is-behind-soaring-disability-benefits-bill-in-england-and-wales-report-says
The government's solution: blame us, and punish us by taking away our financial safety net. 1/4
www.theguardian.com/society/2025/mar/12/mental-ill-health-is-behind-soaring-disability-benefits-bill-in-england-and-wales-report-says
Throughout history, countries biggest growth were times when they invested in workers.
If you cut health and welfare, how can you possibly expect anything to get done?
If you cut health and welfare, how can you possibly expect anything to get done?
“Isolate growth from public good and you are simply planning for breakdown: individual psychological collapse...... and collective implosion as limited resources run out, competition becomes more violent and gross inequalities of power are intensified”
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
When politicians tell us to focus on growth we need to ask: ‘Why, and for whom?’
Isolate growth from public good and you are simply planning for breakdown. My research shows that a resilient society should be rooted in wellbeing, not wealth, says former archbishop of Canterbury Ro...
www.theguardian.com
March 13, 2025 at 10:46 AM
Throughout history, countries biggest growth were times when they invested in workers.
If you cut health and welfare, how can you possibly expect anything to get done?
If you cut health and welfare, how can you possibly expect anything to get done?
How can you look at the outcomes of a history of austerity, plus what is happening in America right now; and think this is a good idea?
www.bbc.com/news/article...
#kierstarmer #bbc #austerity
www.bbc.com/news/article...
#kierstarmer #bbc #austerity
Keir Starmer pledges to tackle 'overcautious' and 'flabby' state
The PM will promise to cut regulations and use AI to make the Civil Service more efficient in a speech later.
www.bbc.com
March 13, 2025 at 10:16 AM
How can you look at the outcomes of a history of austerity, plus what is happening in America right now; and think this is a good idea?
www.bbc.com/news/article...
#kierstarmer #bbc #austerity
www.bbc.com/news/article...
#kierstarmer #bbc #austerity
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Important: The Institute for Fiscal Studies has just published a report saying that more people are claiming disability benefits “because more people are suffering from mental health problems” with evidence to that effect. This a vital counter to insinuations it’s suggestibility.
March 12, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Important: The Institute for Fiscal Studies has just published a report saying that more people are claiming disability benefits “because more people are suffering from mental health problems” with evidence to that effect. This a vital counter to insinuations it’s suggestibility.
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New: Labour plans to cut disability benefits instead of imposing a wealth tax. Ben Jennings’ cartoon nails it.
A government that fines disabled people while letting the rich park wherever they want—both literally and politically.
A government that fines disabled people while letting the rich park wherever they want—both literally and politically.
March 12, 2025 at 8:48 PM
New: Labour plans to cut disability benefits instead of imposing a wealth tax. Ben Jennings’ cartoon nails it.
A government that fines disabled people while letting the rich park wherever they want—both literally and politically.
A government that fines disabled people while letting the rich park wherever they want—both literally and politically.
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Michael Sheen giving Alexander Armstrong a major lesson in how to understand his privilege
March 8, 2025 at 8:20 AM
Michael Sheen giving Alexander Armstrong a major lesson in how to understand his privilege
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Safe secure affordable housing is a mental health intervention.
March 7, 2025 at 7:37 AM
Safe secure affordable housing is a mental health intervention.
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Let's take from the poor and sick, so the rich will lend us back the money they drain from the middle.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Chancellor set to cut welfare spending by billions
Cuts to areas including welfare will be put to the official forecaster ahead of the Spring Statement.
www.bbc.co.uk
March 5, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Let's take from the poor and sick, so the rich will lend us back the money they drain from the middle.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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It would be helpful if more people understood renewable energy is actually an extremely disruptive technology and the reason monied interests are trying to make folks hate it is that they are the ones which will be disrupted.
March 5, 2025 at 6:09 PM
It would be helpful if more people understood renewable energy is actually an extremely disruptive technology and the reason monied interests are trying to make folks hate it is that they are the ones which will be disrupted.
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I’ll tell you what’s a ‘stain on this country’, @RachelReevesMP:
- 2 million on mental health waiting lists
- Austerity gutting youth services, community centres & SEN support
You can’t strip away support and be surprised by the consequences.
- 2 million on mental health waiting lists
- Austerity gutting youth services, community centres & SEN support
You can’t strip away support and be surprised by the consequences.
March 5, 2025 at 9:41 AM
I’ll tell you what’s a ‘stain on this country’, @RachelReevesMP:
- 2 million on mental health waiting lists
- Austerity gutting youth services, community centres & SEN support
You can’t strip away support and be surprised by the consequences.
- 2 million on mental health waiting lists
- Austerity gutting youth services, community centres & SEN support
You can’t strip away support and be surprised by the consequences.
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The United Nations just called out the UK’s #disability benefits system. PIP & ESA don’t cover basic costs. Disabled people are being pushed into poverty by welfare cuts. The government must fix this and stop treating disabled people as morally suspicious: tinyurl.com/2fxmr3cn
tinyurl.com
March 4, 2025 at 1:42 PM
The United Nations just called out the UK’s #disability benefits system. PIP & ESA don’t cover basic costs. Disabled people are being pushed into poverty by welfare cuts. The government must fix this and stop treating disabled people as morally suspicious: tinyurl.com/2fxmr3cn