Ray Owen

move slow and repair things

This is the concept at the center of human well-being. Psychological flexibility is the ability to open up to what you're experiencing, stay engaged with the present moment, and direct your behavior toward what genuinely matters to you, even when your thoughts and feelings are difficult.

It's a good point: basically Dedra Meero in winter plumage

Book Group The last Thursday of every month was Book Group,
when the books would gather together to discuss Brian. “It’s no fun here any more,” remarked Bleak House, glumly.
“Why doesn’t he read us?” whined the Grapes of Wrath. “It makes me so angry!” 
“I’m sure he only bought me so he can show me off to his friends,”
complained Ulysses, in a stream of self-consciousness. “I bet he can’t even remember my name, The Idiot,”
muttered a voice from the Russian literature section.
“That’s because he avoids you like The Plague,” said another.
“C’est vrai!” came a cry. “It is like I do not exist.” “Let’s not give up on him yet.” It was Brave New World.
After some Persuasion, they agreed to give him one last chance.
“Be quiet!” cried Waiting for Godot with Great Expectations.
“Here he comes now!” Brian entered the room, with his phone.
He sat down and watched some videos of baby pandas falling over.
After an hour or so, he started googling cats dressed as celebrities. On the shelf, the books waited with uncracked spines,
their silence speaking volumes. Brian Bilston

In celebration of World Book Day, here’s a poem called ‘Book Group’.

The harder you try not to feel something, the more central that feeling becomes in your life. I've seen this in research, in practice with clients, and even in my own experience. The struggle itself becomes the story.

When someone says „Scientists do not want you to know“ you can dismiss everything from there on. Scientists want you to know. They are desperate that you know. They can’t shut up about what they found out and want you to know.

I think about this Tony Benn speech much more than I used to

Heartwarming to see both Vimto and Hollands Pies in a single image

the-unflappablewolf Who would you trust more? total stranger in a star trek shirt? 94.5% total stranger in a star wars shirt? 5.5% 99.421 Stimmen • Verbleibende Zeit: 2 Tage 23 Stunden thebaconsandwichofregret No exaggeration, the vote split on this poll is hysterical.

No but this is entirely correct

Attempts to resurrect "Christian Britain" prey on the anxieties of a changing world by offering the false comfort of a mythical past. Only if we accept what Britain actually is today – a vibrant, diverse, and majority non-religious nation – can we face the future with confidence.

Tweet that reads Leo Xander @STALLEON Stop taking social media so serious. Nothing here is real. Look at this chicken V - it is bigger than the car

I think about this tweet every time I feel something online start to curl its annoying little grip into my head

Ah, the siren call of "one more search". Beware: that is the way of Casaubon!

No cheating, your last saved picture of a celebrity is your therapist.

Honestly, I've met worse. Arguably, I AM worse

I never read the pamphlets in pills. There just there to remind me I’ve opened the box from the wrong end.

How many times, in how many contexts, in how many ways am I going to have to say that this is what "AI" does— what it fundamentally *is*— before it sinks in? That all Bullshit engines do is statistically correlate training data & inputs via their weights to produce outputs you are likely to accept…

To the tune of Summer is Icumen In

@neilkbrand.bsky.social 's thoughts on music are always worth listening to: looking forward to new episodes of All About the Music!

I remember when my wife first started watching Strictly Come Dancing, and we'd see the Pros do a couple of new group dances each week. Suddenly thought "What the HELL were Pan's People doing?"

the Epstein files are really devastating because they remind me of how many girls and women miss out on professional opportunities, mentorship and careers because of how many powerful, rich and influential men only view girls and women — and interactions with them — through the lens of sex

Lessons from Ostrom – and collaboration through a water scheme Collaboration only works if people have the human skills to use them under pressure, writes Lisa Sims.

🙌ProSocial World’s collaborator, Lisa Sims, draws on Elinor Ostrom’s collaboration design principles and shows how they matter in real-world water governance.

🔗Read the article: www.farmersweekly.co.nz/opinion/less...

Pleased to hear you enjoyed the TV series of Murderbot too. Wasn't sure how they'd balance SecUnit's own description of things without it becoming voice-over heavy: I thought they did it really well. And respect to Alexander Skarsgard for excellent "discomfort" acting!

Scenes from Ivor the engine. A man walks across a landscape. The words a ghost story have been added

The signal man from Ivor The Engine

Ivor going in a tunnel

A lady arms outstretched from Ivor looking like she’s crying out

The Signalman (Postgate, 1976)

In fairness, that is pretty much the level of the Welsh dialogue in Henry V.
Fluellen: "Captain Macmorris, I think, look you, under your correction, there is not many of your nation..". And that's before he starts banging on about eating leeks!

Pleased to announce I've been hired to do the marketing for this campaign

Good news: the UK Government is now offering free short courses on how to use the rabid monkey that comes taped to every computer now for some reason! You'll learn how to...

- dodge the monkey's angry fists!
- understand its tortured screams!
- write invoices in bits of poo he's left on your desk!

Board of Peace - Season 1

Quote skeet a gif with a clue of where you're from...

Can't wait!

For me, it was especially the next moment when everyone else reached out, because so many had a loss as tragic as Agnes'