Working my way through these over the festive period on Held has been my favourite so far.
28.12.2024 19:47
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Working my way through these over the festive period on Held has been my favourite so far.
Looking forward to watching this tonight.
Word of the day is βapanthropyβ (18th century): a dislike of company and the desire to be left alone.
Imagined item of clothing:
those god awful red baseball caps but embroidered instead with the entirety of Langston Hughes' Let America Be America Again.
In this podcast I am having a very informal conversation with George Holliday about Why #Delusions Matter youtu.be/sDVwLS_IKZI
OK, here we go #TimsListeningParty starting right now on Absolute Radio
Songs Of A Lost World is our featured album, with Robert Smith as my special guest over the next two hours. Join usβ¦
Been enjoying this record over the last couple of days: Midwinter Swimmers
open.spotify.com/album/0Ufe9a...
This.
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I was at this lecture. It was my first visit to the V&A in Dundee and was really interesting. The lecture and then the questions from the audience were interesting and seeing the recording process was also pretty cool.
Worth a listen.
Missed this earlier, but it's fascinating.
Very occasionally, with the right conditions, human brains are preserved long after death and archaeologists stumble across them.
A study catalogued them and found 4,000+ examples from a time span of *12,000* years www.atlasobscura.com/articles/mys...
IMO these π are valid and important points, e.g. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... However, itβs also important to note that in certain instances the quality of evidence is better for psychotherapy than for psychopharmacology, e.g. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Literally/literarily
Rowan Williams does a great job on Jordan Petersonβs Bible Weird β¦ GuardianBooks
It really does. I'm still not π― sold on it right enough. Wasted quite a lot of time on social media already in my life. π€£
One for you @murrayeaston.bsky.social
Very interested in this idea...
Hi BlueSky! My name is Steph. Iβm a post-doc in Glasgow and am just finishing up first year of a three year fellowship developing support for fears of recurrence in psychosis.
Doing a wee introduction thread about me and my research. Would love to connect with others.
As this feels like classic twitter I feel like doing what I used to do: talking about books that I'm enjoying.
This one is really good.
Word of the Day is a true favourite, as some of you will know.
Apricity (17th century) is the warmth of the sun on a winterβs day.
I'm afraid not. Much more prosaic than that. π
My first job aged 14. I gathered up the empty glasses (tumblers) in a social club and washed them. π
1. Tumbler Lifter in a social club
2. Electronics factory operative
3. Postman
4. Trolley boy
5. Warehouse operative
They all taught me something valuable about work.
Nice one Chris. Didn't know this.
Trying Bluesky out for a bit before deciding whether I'll stay or not.