David V Glasgow

@PaulSuttonKing Is there another sign to avoid the sewage? #dirtybusiness #cleanwater

Mick & Keith causing trouble again #SignsOnSunday

@alisonbeach611 @PaulSuttonKing Ah! But insist that Google distinguishes between Belisha, the politician who introduced it, and those who actually thought it up!

@iPsychApps @PaulSuttonKing I just googled it - with his full name Leslie Hore-Belisha it was genius using the alliteration with Beacon. 👍👍👍

A double header for the Friday no googling #Postcard challenge. Town centre redevelopment underway. Too easy? I’m tempted to think so.

@PaulSuttonKing @alisonbeach611 And now I've been down a rabbit hole to urgently discover who designed the Belisha beacon. The closest I have got is thetimes.com/travel/advice/…

@iPsychApps @alisonbeach611 Excellent!

@alisonbeach611 @PaulSuttonKing belishabeacons.com

@PaulSuttonKing I rather miss the old Belisha beacons. 😔 😔 😔

@AntiqueRoadTrip Oh no. Not another weird Frankenstein clip show. 🙄

Last but certainly not least, prepare yourself for The Battle of the Movie Stars! 📽️🎬 Scottish actress Clare Grogan will take on About A Boy’s Victoria Smurfit, and the unforgettable Charles Dance, in an antique buying extravaganza. ➡️Tune in at 4.30pm on BBC One

@theiaincameron @morrison_derek1 Buuut... Rockall is in the UK.

@morrison_derek1 'In and around the UK'. Rockall is miles away.

Loch Morar lies in the west Highlands, just a short distance from effectively the Atlantic Ocean. At around 310 metres (1,017 ft) deep, it is the deepest freshwater loch in the UK; deeper even than its more famous cousin, Loch Ness. In fact, it’s just a few metres short of being the deepest water in and around the UK. 1/4

@Bricktop_NAFO They were trespassing. No evidence they were thieves. That means there were no legal grounds for arrest or restraint by either the police or a citizen. The National Farmers' Union offer good advice on how to deal with trespassers on farmland.

A British farmer caught thieves on his land. Tied them up and tied them to his quad and drove them to the local police station. The farmer also got charged with unlawful imprisonment but that’s not the point 🤣 Absolute Legend.

@ChurchTimes "Outsiders"? Exactly what attributes are they more likely to lack (or suffer), compared with 'insiders'?

‘To be judged only in public and by outsiders is not a guarantee of justice either’ #Echobox=1769864631" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2026/…

@KitzingerCelia Lots to be said about this! Just 3 points: much less regard is given to LPoA in overstretched & under-resourced services. Needs assessments are performatively detailed, but do not determine the reality of care provided. Having always to flex LPoA in decision making is exhausting

I despair about Lasting Powers of Attorney. I've lost faith in their value. On the one hand Bad People abuse them with ease and impunity. On the other hand, exercising LPAs (esp in hospital) seems impossibly difficult & I've not got anyone to respect mine What's the point?

@ReshapersCIC Having read & thought about it, I think it's a worthy if complex proposal. But I don't see anything that will mitigate the shocking & constitutional lack of empathy, compassion and insight that still characterise so many letters, decisions & statements. I mean, Soul Survivor?🫣

@iPsychApps Interested to hear what you think

Surprised to see Nye quoted as saying 'the new approach had been shared with many victims and survivors.' Last I looked there were only 3 survivor members on the Board and there's been no open call to discuss or feed into the new model.

@AndhaBandar @DrJessTaylor Some cases are 'pushed' from public to private law. If an allegation is made by a child with separated parents, social services advise mother to stop contact. If she does, thus (technically) removing risk, SS may withdraw. In response alleged perpetrator -> private law.

How Family Courts Are Failing Britain’s Sexually Abused Children. open.substack.com/pub/suzannemar…

@ReshapersCIC Thanks!

@iPsychApps Hi David, there's a paper published that is going to Synod next month churchofengland.org/sites/default/…

@MelseleDude @Bricktop_NAFO Might have been.... 😌

@iPsychApps @Bricktop_NAFO well spotted, you were looking for these, weren't you 😆

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@PsychToday Every once once a while, I would set my favourite exam question: "Why are children in the same family different"

Despite growing up in the same household and sharing half their DNA, research finds that siblings' personalities are about as similar as those of any two strangers. There's a reason for that. psychologytoday.com/us/blog/uncons…

@ulrichettinger @NatMentHealth @joseph_kambeitz Really? The overlap between different psychometric measures of the 'same' disorder is far from impressive (eg eiko-fried.com/wp-content/upl… ). Surely LLM methods risk generating 'structures' derived from the biases seemed to be slurped up rather than psychopathology irl?

"The empirical structure of psychopathology is represented in large language models" - new paper out now in @NatMentHealth! Thank you for a great effort @joseph_kambeitz and colleagues! nature.com/articles/s4422…

@Capacitylaw I've never really thought about this issue before. What if the communication arm came first? So before considering capacity, (and the rather idiosyncratic MCA definition of decision becomes live) consider communication. Might that help?

@iPsychApps Completely agree as to why people feel the desire to fill it in, but I’m nerdily obsessed with making sure that people don’t think that just because someone is communicating they are communicating a decision, as opposed (potentially) to (very important) wishes and feelings.

Communicating the communication limb of the capacity test: mentalcapacitylawandpolicy.org.uk/short-note-com…

@Capacitylaw Ha! I always thought the Act doesn't really get round to defining a decision - but I agree that affirming the communication bit is redundant. However, from a psychological perspective it is not meaningless, and that may explain folks filling it in.

@iPsychApps This one, nerdily, I can’t let go: the MCA has a very specific definition of what a ‘decision’ is, and a person who can’t understand, retain, use/weigh the relevant decision can’t make a ‘decision’ for purposes of s.2 MCA 2005 - see paras 45 ff of this: 39essex.com/sites/default/…