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'There are moments when twiddling is about all a fellow feels himself equal to.' (P G Wodehouse) | she being the cat’s mother
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The Green Party has complained about this cartoon of Zack Polanski by the The Times.
They’re deeply unhappy with it. Whatever you do, do not repost!
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Every year, this comes up in my memories.
Every year I share it because it is quite simply the best Facebook post of our time.
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I drink tea for the ritual but this morning I finally read brewing instructions on bottom of a packet of Yorkshire Tea.
Brew 4 mins 30 secs.
I usually leave bag in water for 30, 40 secs.
I followed instructions, 40 yrs after I made my first cup.
Banging.
Never too late to learn.
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Have to admit that I was floored by news that the recent stabbing rampage against London Jews was carried out by a Somali jihadist named “Essa Suleiman.”
This is not what smash Netflix series Adolescence prepared me for
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Imagine a 19-year-old scrolling TikTok. She watches a creator list five "signs you have undiagnosed anxiety." She recognizes three in herself. By the end of the week, she's describing herself as anxious to her friends. A month later, she's avoiding situations she used to handle fine.
What went wrong?
In a new paper by my PhD student Dasha Sandra, titled "Why mental health awareness can harm: Converging explanations for a societal problem", we argue that well-meaning mental health awareness can backfire, and we identify how. Four separate literatures (concept creep, nocebo effects, prevalence inflation, and illness self-labeling) have been circling the same problem from different angles. We show they converge on three mechanisms:
1.Awareness lowers the threshold for what counts as a disorder.
2. It trains people to scan their inner lives for symptoms and reinterpret normal distress as pathology.
3. Once someone adopts an illness identity, they behave in ways that confirm and deepen it.
The evidence is wide. Learning that loneliness is harmful makes solitude feel worse. Learning that stress is harmful worsens well-being and performance. Awareness videos about fake conditions like "wind turbine syndrome" produce real headaches. Trigger warnings raise anticipatory anxiety without reducing distress.
This does not mean awareness should stop. It means awareness can have unintended consequences, including manufacturing the suffering it tries to prevent. Inoculating people against these mechanisms works, and we already have evidence it does.
Link to paper: michael-inzlicht.squarespace.com/s/The-psycholo…
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I was intrigued by the history of HMS Trump. Delighted to find this mention in a local newspaper in 1961…
“The British submarine Trump is going to the aid of the yacht Lolita.”
Marcus Walker@WalkerMarcus
This is the single most genius diplomatic gesture I have ever seen.
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@MLJHaynes Lovely, but slightly scary to see this as my daughter is on this pilgrimage.
Big Brother is watching me 🤔
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NOW: Pilgrims process out from early morning traditional Mass in St Mary Major, beginning their 3-day pilgrimage
It is the inaugural edition of the Latin Mass pilgrimage Our Lady of Christianity, from Rome to Subiaco
🎥@MLJHaynes
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The Catholic Church has consistently taught that each human life, from the moment of conception until natural death, is sacred and deserves to be protected. Indeed, the right to life is the very foundation of every other human right. For this reason, only when a society safeguards the sanctity of human life will it flourish and prosper.
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Today, we mark the 111th anniversary of the 1915 Armenian Genocide, during which Turkish and Kurdish Muslims killed 1.5 million Armenian Christians, as well as another 1 million Chaldean, Syriac, Assyrian, and Greek Christians. Men, women, and children were brutalized, raped, tortured, and murdered through execution or starvation, and their ancestral lands and properties were taken.
We remember and honor our ancestors who suffered and all the victims. Rest in peace to our 2.5 million Christian martyrs.🙏🏼✝️
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Top-tier example of tweeslop here. Unable to engage with the detail and massive holes in the legislation exposed by opponents, Kim wafts these criticisms away with generalised #BeKind mush. We've seen *a lot* of that during this debate
Genevieve Holl-Allen@genevieve_holl
Kim Leadbeater MP has just likened the legalisation of assisted dying to legalising gay marriage On Sky News: 'It is a choice, it's a bit like gay marriage isn't it? Marry who you want to marry, love who you want to love. It's nothing to do with anybody else'
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@Katy_Faust The Times too. Puff piece here.
What it’s like to be a single dad (with a child via surrogacy)
thetimes.com/article/53c6ae…
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Stephen Meyer explaining why the discovery of the structure of DNA presented an unexpected challenge to the atheistic worldview:
"What's really fun is that Francis Crick was a codebreaker in World War II and he ended up breaking the ultimate code. The irony is that Crick and Watson were also strict scientific materialists. They were atheists and they were looking for the material basis for life, and they thought they found it in 1953 until Crick realized it's not just a molecule. It's a molecule that contains code.
And that discovery ends up being foundational. It provides evidence of what we're going to call Intelligent Design. And it has created a complete impass in evolutionary theory. People cannot account for the origin of the information needed to build the first life or subsequent forms of life...
Even though Watson and Crick were looking for the material foundation for life, what they actually found was something more like software. And Bill Gates has said that DNA is like a computer program but far more advanced than ever any we've ever created."
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Historian Tom Holland explaining the revolutionary impact Christianity made on gender and sexuality which is so often taken for granted now in the West:
"Because of Christianity, I mean, I think every society has had an idea of binaries, that in sex there are two roles that people have to play to have sex, and for us, it's based on gender. It's based on the idea of there being men and women and that's again an inheritance ultimately from Genesis, God creating men and women separate. But for the Romans, that wasn't the case. For the Romans, the binary was between the male Roman citizen and everybody else, and the male Roman citizen could do what he liked to everybody else...
So you know you're a Roman slave owner, you can do what you like to your slaves sexually, any it doesn't matter what the gender of the slave is. It doesn't matter what the age is. You can just treat them as you want, and of course Christianity radically, radically changes that. And you know, if you are a scullery maid in a Roman household (a bit like a Yazidi girl in an Isis household), there's nothing to stop you being raped every day. Nothing to stop you. No legal power, I mean, no sense of moral disapproval at all, and so you can imagine the radical effect of getting a letter from Paul being told, 'you are the like the church.' It's utterly transformative."
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U.S. Bishops’ Chairman on Doctrine Issues Clarification on Just War Theory
“When Pope Leo XIV speaks as supreme pastor of the universal Church, he is not merely offering opinions on theology, he is preaching the Gospel and exercising his ministry as the Vicar of Christ.”
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@JournalistJill I genuinely don’t understand this. The medical profession is now more than 50% female and women are known to be better at looking after their health and seeking advice. Isn’t it just poor care that’s the problem?
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Interesting anecdote from Streeting just now about a female relative who visited GP in intense pain. It was only when she went back for a third time with her male partner and HE vouched for her pain, that action was taken.
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Vance gives converts a bad name. What a dangerous, deluded plonker.
Christopher Hale@ChristopherHale
NEW: JD Vance, who converted to Catholicism in 2019, tells Pope Leo XIV to be “more careful” when “opining on theology.”
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@FT Robertson, a former Nato gen-sec, had kept his counsel & tried to work constructively behind scenes til now, but ran out of patience
‘We are underprepared. We are underinsured. We are under attack. We are not safe... Britain’s national security & safety is in peril,’ he’ll say
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