Coruscate Counselling
@coruscate.bsky.social
therapist | activist | amateur bookbinder | academic escapee | interests: climate, community, grief, religion, apocalypse, temporalities | Also here for sci-fi & music chat! (she/her) 🏴
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I don't follow many folk, but I do use lists A Lot. I often add followers to lists I've created & keep all lists pinned to my home tab. I also use a 'followers' feed (also pinned) for folk that don't fit lists.
This gives me the best chance to see your posts & engage without feeling overwhelmed. 💜
This gives me the best chance to see your posts & engage without feeling overwhelmed. 💜
'Without downloading new pics, what is it like to date you.'
November 22, 2025 at 5:00 PM
'Without downloading new pics, what is it like to date you.'
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I dont think everyone needs a gender transition but everyone needs to practice the radical self-knowledge, abolition and community building inherent in the practice and that part DOES threaten this world and Im so fucking proud of each and every one of us who shows the world that
November 22, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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Someone’s done the Wrath of Khan Starfleet Field Coat as a unisex cardigan.
November 21, 2025 at 10:14 AM
Someone’s done the Wrath of Khan Starfleet Field Coat as a unisex cardigan.
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For those of you in the UK, especially if you are a UK citizen, can you please take part in the consultation on changes to Indefinite Leave to Remain (Settlement) that were just proposed by the UK government. We need as many people as possible to reject these proposals. www.gov.uk/government/c...
Earned settlement
The government is consulting on how the current settlement system should be reformed and how those reforms should be implemented.
www.gov.uk
November 21, 2025 at 11:13 AM
For those of you in the UK, especially if you are a UK citizen, can you please take part in the consultation on changes to Indefinite Leave to Remain (Settlement) that were just proposed by the UK government. We need as many people as possible to reject these proposals. www.gov.uk/government/c...
The BMA should be challenging the EHRC stuff as a serious health risk, beyond just access. Almost every trans & gender non-conforming person I know regularly risks serious long-term health issues, by (understandably) restricting food/drink intake on days where they would need to use public toilets.
November 21, 2025 at 10:06 AM
The BMA should be challenging the EHRC stuff as a serious health risk, beyond just access. Almost every trans & gender non-conforming person I know regularly risks serious long-term health issues, by (understandably) restricting food/drink intake on days where they would need to use public toilets.
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On TDOR, we share the names of just a number of the 281 trans people murdered in the past year. Most were Black and Brown trans women. Activists are being targeted too. We come together in grief and care, and keep pushing for a world where trans lives are safe and full of joy. @tgeuorg.bsky.social
November 20, 2025 at 10:38 AM
On TDOR, we share the names of just a number of the 281 trans people murdered in the past year. Most were Black and Brown trans women. Activists are being targeted too. We come together in grief and care, and keep pushing for a world where trans lives are safe and full of joy. @tgeuorg.bsky.social
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Today is International Men’s Day and we want to highlight LGBT Foundation’s ‘Man Enough’ campaign.
“Man Enough was created to challenge harmful stereotypes about masculinity and to celebrate the visibility of gay, bi, and trans men.”
Find out more at: lgbt.foundation/manenough/
#ManEnough
“Man Enough was created to challenge harmful stereotypes about masculinity and to celebrate the visibility of gay, bi, and trans men.”
Find out more at: lgbt.foundation/manenough/
#ManEnough
November 19, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Today is International Men’s Day and we want to highlight LGBT Foundation’s ‘Man Enough’ campaign.
“Man Enough was created to challenge harmful stereotypes about masculinity and to celebrate the visibility of gay, bi, and trans men.”
Find out more at: lgbt.foundation/manenough/
#ManEnough
“Man Enough was created to challenge harmful stereotypes about masculinity and to celebrate the visibility of gay, bi, and trans men.”
Find out more at: lgbt.foundation/manenough/
#ManEnough
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👨 Happy International Men's Day! Today, we launch our Men's Health & Wellbeing Service for men facing trauma & addiction. Meet our friendly Support Workers! 💪
Learn more or refer: https://www.glasgowcouncilonalcohol.org/mens-service/
The National Lottery Community Fund
Learn more or refer: https://www.glasgowcouncilonalcohol.org/mens-service/
The National Lottery Community Fund
November 19, 2025 at 10:01 AM
👨 Happy International Men's Day! Today, we launch our Men's Health & Wellbeing Service for men facing trauma & addiction. Meet our friendly Support Workers! 💪
Learn more or refer: https://www.glasgowcouncilonalcohol.org/mens-service/
The National Lottery Community Fund
Learn more or refer: https://www.glasgowcouncilonalcohol.org/mens-service/
The National Lottery Community Fund
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I'm gonna do an eligibility post because I don't expect any other publications this year.
Writing in 2025:
1. The Flaming Embusen (short story) available in text and audio:
1/4
Writing in 2025:
1. The Flaming Embusen (short story) available in text and audio:
1/4
The Flaming Embusen - Uncanny Magazine
Jero cleared his throat before he continued speaking into the phone. “Up to this moment it could not positively have been asserted that the man, in spite of his tantalizing declaration, was really in ...
www.uncannymagazine.com
November 19, 2025 at 10:57 AM
I'm gonna do an eligibility post because I don't expect any other publications this year.
Writing in 2025:
1. The Flaming Embusen (short story) available in text and audio:
1/4
Writing in 2025:
1. The Flaming Embusen (short story) available in text and audio:
1/4
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of course peak Scotland to finally qualify for a World Cup over which there will be serious ethical questions about participating in
November 18, 2025 at 10:08 PM
of course peak Scotland to finally qualify for a World Cup over which there will be serious ethical questions about participating in
Get to know your mutuals. List ten things that you like.
1. The smell of woodfire
2. Cats purring
3. Plan cancellations on rainy days
4. Autumn sun
5. Shows with spaceships
6. Being in nature
7. Good coffee
8. The afterglow of a good protest
9. Beautiful books
10. Dead things
Your turn! 🤗
1. The smell of woodfire
2. Cats purring
3. Plan cancellations on rainy days
4. Autumn sun
5. Shows with spaceships
6. Being in nature
7. Good coffee
8. The afterglow of a good protest
9. Beautiful books
10. Dead things
Your turn! 🤗
Get to know your mutuals. List ten random things you like.
1. The crackle of a fire
2. The smell of old books
3. Old time radio horror
4. The first warmth of spring
5. The first chill of autumn
6. A good storm
7. A glass of sauvignon blanc.
8. Good coffee
9. Bad 80s horror movies
10. Hugs
1. The crackle of a fire
2. The smell of old books
3. Old time radio horror
4. The first warmth of spring
5. The first chill of autumn
6. A good storm
7. A glass of sauvignon blanc.
8. Good coffee
9. Bad 80s horror movies
10. Hugs
Get to know your mutuals. List ten random things you like
1. Reading everything
2. The Sound/scent of Rain
3. Strong coffee
4. The X-files
5. Listening to Music
6. Walking on the beach in the Winter when no one is
7. Fire
8. The first snow of the Winter
9. Cooking
10 Full English Breakfasts
1. Reading everything
2. The Sound/scent of Rain
3. Strong coffee
4. The X-files
5. Listening to Music
6. Walking on the beach in the Winter when no one is
7. Fire
8. The first snow of the Winter
9. Cooking
10 Full English Breakfasts
November 16, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Get to know your mutuals. List ten things that you like.
1. The smell of woodfire
2. Cats purring
3. Plan cancellations on rainy days
4. Autumn sun
5. Shows with spaceships
6. Being in nature
7. Good coffee
8. The afterglow of a good protest
9. Beautiful books
10. Dead things
Your turn! 🤗
1. The smell of woodfire
2. Cats purring
3. Plan cancellations on rainy days
4. Autumn sun
5. Shows with spaceships
6. Being in nature
7. Good coffee
8. The afterglow of a good protest
9. Beautiful books
10. Dead things
Your turn! 🤗
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today's niche #foodhist query - can anyone recommend a book/chapter/article on the history of sugar that covers PRE-COLONIAL use, e.g. in country of origin Papuan use etc. (We don't have a copy of Abbot's Bittersweet in the uni library & I can't figure out if she covers it eno' to warrant an ILL) 🗃️
November 7, 2025 at 9:38 AM
today's niche #foodhist query - can anyone recommend a book/chapter/article on the history of sugar that covers PRE-COLONIAL use, e.g. in country of origin Papuan use etc. (We don't have a copy of Abbot's Bittersweet in the uni library & I can't figure out if she covers it eno' to warrant an ILL) 🗃️
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CFP: Bodies That Breathe – The Politics of Air, Health, and Survival. Volume 1 of the “Earth and Us” Book Series sturges-mcgregor.org/earth-and-us...
Earth and Us: The Book Series
sturges-mcgregor.org
November 5, 2025 at 9:07 AM
CFP: Bodies That Breathe – The Politics of Air, Health, and Survival. Volume 1 of the “Earth and Us” Book Series sturges-mcgregor.org/earth-and-us...
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I'm planning to run tomorrow's Science Group (for Autistic teenagers) on the topic of AI.
I'll be trying not alienate kids who use and/or play with AI, *or* those who are stridently against what they see of it!
Any suggestions for what to include, or what to steer well clear of?
I'll be trying not alienate kids who use and/or play with AI, *or* those who are stridently against what they see of it!
Any suggestions for what to include, or what to steer well clear of?
November 2, 2025 at 12:31 PM
I'm planning to run tomorrow's Science Group (for Autistic teenagers) on the topic of AI.
I'll be trying not alienate kids who use and/or play with AI, *or* those who are stridently against what they see of it!
Any suggestions for what to include, or what to steer well clear of?
I'll be trying not alienate kids who use and/or play with AI, *or* those who are stridently against what they see of it!
Any suggestions for what to include, or what to steer well clear of?
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Delighted that Being a Therapist in a Time of Climate Breakdown is now available free online under a Creative Commons licence. Thank you and congrats to Judith Anderson for making this climate psychology book widely available
@climatepsychol.bsky.social
www.routledge.com/Being-a-Ther...
@climatepsychol.bsky.social
www.routledge.com/Being-a-Ther...
Being a Therapist in a Time of Climate Breakdown
This book introduces readers to the known psychological aspects of climate change as a pressing global concern and explores how they are relevant to current and future clinical practice.
Arguing that ...
www.routledge.com
November 1, 2025 at 11:43 PM
Delighted that Being a Therapist in a Time of Climate Breakdown is now available free online under a Creative Commons licence. Thank you and congrats to Judith Anderson for making this climate psychology book widely available
@climatepsychol.bsky.social
www.routledge.com/Being-a-Ther...
@climatepsychol.bsky.social
www.routledge.com/Being-a-Ther...
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Something about rejecting the Faster, Easier, Cheaper of capitalism. About having a relationship with our material world. About valuing the resources we take from our environment. About how we spend our time. About outsourcing everything creative in our lives. About imagination and play and skill...
November 1, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Something about rejecting the Faster, Easier, Cheaper of capitalism. About having a relationship with our material world. About valuing the resources we take from our environment. About how we spend our time. About outsourcing everything creative in our lives. About imagination and play and skill...
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Meditating this morning, as I learn weaving on a small loom, on what it is about the slow, laborious, and expensive qualities of many crafts people embrace
that feels anti-capitalist and human at its core.
Weaving a scarf for a friend, maybe not on its own revolutionary, but also, not NOT, either.
that feels anti-capitalist and human at its core.
Weaving a scarf for a friend, maybe not on its own revolutionary, but also, not NOT, either.
November 1, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Meditating this morning, as I learn weaving on a small loom, on what it is about the slow, laborious, and expensive qualities of many crafts people embrace
that feels anti-capitalist and human at its core.
Weaving a scarf for a friend, maybe not on its own revolutionary, but also, not NOT, either.
that feels anti-capitalist and human at its core.
Weaving a scarf for a friend, maybe not on its own revolutionary, but also, not NOT, either.
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happy halloween from samwise gamgee and frodo baggins! cloaks vests and shirts handmade by grandma, lembas bread by fig newtons corporation
October 31, 2025 at 1:14 PM
happy halloween from samwise gamgee and frodo baggins! cloaks vests and shirts handmade by grandma, lembas bread by fig newtons corporation
I used to love dressing up my younger pseudo-sibs for Halloween back when I was a teen. My proudest moment was sending the youngest off to nursery dressed as Pubert Addams, complete with Thing attached to her tunic. She had loads of fun. The nursery staff were less amused. 🤣
October 31, 2025 at 3:50 PM
I used to love dressing up my younger pseudo-sibs for Halloween back when I was a teen. My proudest moment was sending the youngest off to nursery dressed as Pubert Addams, complete with Thing attached to her tunic. She had loads of fun. The nursery staff were less amused. 🤣
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Job Opportunity!
Teaching Fellow in Twentieth Century Black British History
University of Leeds - Faculty of Arts, Humanities & Cultures - School of History
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPF977/t...
Teaching Fellow in Twentieth Century Black British History
University of Leeds - Faculty of Arts, Humanities & Cultures - School of History
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPF977/t...
Teaching Fellow in Twentieth Century Black British History at University of Leeds
Discover Teaching Fellow in Twentieth Century Black British History jobs and more in higher education on jobs.ac.uk. Apply for further details on the top job board.
www.jobs.ac.uk
October 31, 2025 at 10:19 AM
Job Opportunity!
Teaching Fellow in Twentieth Century Black British History
University of Leeds - Faculty of Arts, Humanities & Cultures - School of History
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPF977/t...
Teaching Fellow in Twentieth Century Black British History
University of Leeds - Faculty of Arts, Humanities & Cultures - School of History
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPF977/t...
Bluesky reminding me today that 1989 was a banger of a year for music releases! 🔥
October 29, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Bluesky reminding me today that 1989 was a banger of a year for music releases! 🔥
Like many queer kids, I was actively queer (bi) as a young teen without realising it was even a thing. It was being 'labelled' by others (using homophobic slurs) that made me realise that I was 'different'. Then I became an adult and 'coming out' became a semi-regular event. 🙄 Oh, and I'm 50.
Queer Bluesky: how old were you when you came out and how old are you now?
44 and 52. It’s my comingoutiversary on Thursday.
44 and 52. It’s my comingoutiversary on Thursday.
Queer Bluesky: how old were you when you came out and how old are you now?
Questioning? 35
Came out? 35
Now? 40
It's normal to not have known. 💜
Questioning? 35
Came out? 35
Now? 40
It's normal to not have known. 💜
October 28, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Like many queer kids, I was actively queer (bi) as a young teen without realising it was even a thing. It was being 'labelled' by others (using homophobic slurs) that made me realise that I was 'different'. Then I became an adult and 'coming out' became a semi-regular event. 🙄 Oh, and I'm 50.
Hurricane #Melissa is going to be devastating for communities in Jamaica. The Global Empowerment Mission (GEM) has relief supplies ready to go, once it's safe. If you want to help, this looks like a good option:
www.globalempowermentmission.org/mission/hurr...
www.globalempowermentmission.org/mission/hurr...
Hurricane Melissa - Global Empowerment Mission
Summary Stats in aid committed for Jamaica $ 0 Cargo planes within 48 hours 0 Containers in transit to Jamaica 0 Containers in transit to Haiti 0 Phase 1: Immediate Response Currently, Tropical Storm ...
www.globalempowermentmission.org
October 28, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Hurricane #Melissa is going to be devastating for communities in Jamaica. The Global Empowerment Mission (GEM) has relief supplies ready to go, once it's safe. If you want to help, this looks like a good option:
www.globalempowermentmission.org/mission/hurr...
www.globalempowermentmission.org/mission/hurr...
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Asylum seekers, housed in hotels in Manchester, are reaching out in their own words to address the concerns of the local community.
Please take a minute to read their letter, & share it with the people in your life who need to hear the truth about the people they are protesting.
Please take a minute to read their letter, & share it with the people in your life who need to hear the truth about the people they are protesting.
October 27, 2025 at 11:41 AM
Asylum seekers, housed in hotels in Manchester, are reaching out in their own words to address the concerns of the local community.
Please take a minute to read their letter, & share it with the people in your life who need to hear the truth about the people they are protesting.
Please take a minute to read their letter, & share it with the people in your life who need to hear the truth about the people they are protesting.
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As a GP, I am not allowed to receive a pen or post-it note pad from a pharmaceutical company rep
Govt banned them in case I was influenced to prescribe medications
This should also be banned
Influence being bought in Govt
Patients should influence not the healthy & wealthy
Govt banned them in case I was influenced to prescribe medications
This should also be banned
Influence being bought in Govt
Patients should influence not the healthy & wealthy
October 26, 2025 at 9:16 PM
As a GP, I am not allowed to receive a pen or post-it note pad from a pharmaceutical company rep
Govt banned them in case I was influenced to prescribe medications
This should also be banned
Influence being bought in Govt
Patients should influence not the healthy & wealthy
Govt banned them in case I was influenced to prescribe medications
This should also be banned
Influence being bought in Govt
Patients should influence not the healthy & wealthy