Mark Brown
@markoneinfour.bsky.social
Mental health/tech stuff. Sell ads for local newspapers, keeping local public interest news alive. Former writer in residence @centreforMH. Ask me to write MH things. Director Social Spider CIC. DMs open. Podcast @BBCOuch
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"My face is slack
And kidneys burn in the small of my back
Will never learn
Well I'm not going back to the slow life
'Cos every step is a drag...
I just think think think
Too fast to write
Too fast to work
Just burn burn burn"
#fallfriday
youtu.be/UJS8SowVBWs?...
And kidneys burn in the small of my back
Will never learn
Well I'm not going back to the slow life
'Cos every step is a drag...
I just think think think
Too fast to write
Too fast to work
Just burn burn burn"
#fallfriday
youtu.be/UJS8SowVBWs?...
Fiery Jack
YouTube video by The Fall - Topic
youtu.be
November 14, 2025 at 8:25 AM
"My face is slack
And kidneys burn in the small of my back
Will never learn
Well I'm not going back to the slow life
'Cos every step is a drag...
I just think think think
Too fast to write
Too fast to work
Just burn burn burn"
#fallfriday
youtu.be/UJS8SowVBWs?...
And kidneys burn in the small of my back
Will never learn
Well I'm not going back to the slow life
'Cos every step is a drag...
I just think think think
Too fast to write
Too fast to work
Just burn burn burn"
#fallfriday
youtu.be/UJS8SowVBWs?...
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Mum's heart will remain ❤️
The volunteers were at Parliament today to hear the government announce that our beautiful memorial is to be made permanent. It was an emotional day, as we have fought so long and hard to ensure that our beloved dead are not forgotten. We are grateful and happy. ❤️
November 13, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Mum's heart will remain ❤️
Problem with late stage capitalism 'what we need in power is fucking fools' oligarchy is when you get your fucking fools, they are in fact fucking fools and rather than giving you power to do what you want, you get the power to be hated because nothing works and you've sucked up to fucking fools
November 12, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Problem with late stage capitalism 'what we need in power is fucking fools' oligarchy is when you get your fucking fools, they are in fact fucking fools and rather than giving you power to do what you want, you get the power to be hated because nothing works and you've sucked up to fucking fools
I wonder what would have happened if an entirely boring competent government had been formed last year after GE. I think any Westminster government would have ended up jerking around on the style of reporting that you could call 'everything is a crisis all the time forever' which grew from 2007 on
November 12, 2025 at 4:41 PM
I wonder what would have happened if an entirely boring competent government had been formed last year after GE. I think any Westminster government would have ended up jerking around on the style of reporting that you could call 'everything is a crisis all the time forever' which grew from 2007 on
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This is what I try to always tell people: food banks can do way more with your money than you can, due to bulk buying deals. And they can do way, way more with your money than with the canned goods you didn’t want to eat
spoke with the executive director of my local food bank today and got this really incredible line: "if you donate 1 can of green beans, we can give away 1 can of green beans. but if you donate a dollar, we can give away 6 cans of green beans"
November 11, 2025 at 9:21 PM
This is what I try to always tell people: food banks can do way more with your money than you can, due to bulk buying deals. And they can do way, way more with your money than with the canned goods you didn’t want to eat
Imagine being in opposition for so long with nowt to do but read blogs and biographies and dream of what you'd do if you were in power and then when you are it's 'god I wish were the opposition again, this is horrible'
November 11, 2025 at 11:13 PM
Imagine being in opposition for so long with nowt to do but read blogs and biographies and dream of what you'd do if you were in power and then when you are it's 'god I wish were the opposition again, this is horrible'
My counterpoint is maybe Trump should be more careful about what he says and will say so there's no chance he can be badly clipped in the way every single other public figure has to be.
November 11, 2025 at 1:39 PM
My counterpoint is maybe Trump should be more careful about what he says and will say so there's no chance he can be badly clipped in the way every single other public figure has to be.
Do keep thinking that much discussion about the failings of the BBC is in the same category as 'the bus doesn't stop in front of my house so all buses are rubbish'. The BBC has lots of problems, but problems in society won't be removed by removing the BBC.
November 11, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Do keep thinking that much discussion about the failings of the BBC is in the same category as 'the bus doesn't stop in front of my house so all buses are rubbish'. The BBC has lots of problems, but problems in society won't be removed by removing the BBC.
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Hello team. How's your SAD doing this year? Mine is making me feel like an inside out football sock forgotten in a half term sports bag.
November 10, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Hello team. How's your SAD doing this year? Mine is making me feel like an inside out football sock forgotten in a half term sports bag.
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Well this is a bit of a dream meeting – 3:16 of gothic pop excellence:
thequietus.com/news/charli-...
thequietus.com/news/charli-...
Charli XCX & John Cale Unveil Noisy Wuthering Heights Collab | The Quietus
Charli XCX and John Cale have released a video for gothic pop dirge belter ‘House’, written to appear on the soundtrack for Emerald Fennell’s forthcoming adaptation of Emily Brontē’s novel Wuthering H...
thequietus.com
November 10, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Well this is a bit of a dream meeting – 3:16 of gothic pop excellence:
thequietus.com/news/charli-...
thequietus.com/news/charli-...
I really wish every time someone complained of left wing bias in something they were asked the question:
'OK, what would this be like without left-wing bias? What would you leave out and what would you put in instead?'
Because that'd be a very good measure of what they actually mean.
'OK, what would this be like without left-wing bias? What would you leave out and what would you put in instead?'
Because that'd be a very good measure of what they actually mean.
November 10, 2025 at 6:24 PM
I really wish every time someone complained of left wing bias in something they were asked the question:
'OK, what would this be like without left-wing bias? What would you leave out and what would you put in instead?'
Because that'd be a very good measure of what they actually mean.
'OK, what would this be like without left-wing bias? What would you leave out and what would you put in instead?'
Because that'd be a very good measure of what they actually mean.
Hello team. How's your SAD doing this year? Mine is making me feel like an inside out football sock forgotten in a half term sports bag.
November 10, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Hello team. How's your SAD doing this year? Mine is making me feel like an inside out football sock forgotten in a half term sports bag.
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The two-child limit disproportionately affects children in larger families. Nearly half of children in households with 3 or more children are in poverty because of the two-child limit and benefit cap. Scrapping the two-child limit immediately lifts ~330,000 children and saves another 150K by 2029-30
NEW: Rachel Reeves signals she intends to remove the two-child cap *in full*
"I don't think a child should be penalised because they're in a bigger family through no fault of their own," she tells BBC.
"I don't think a child should be penalised because they're in a bigger family through no fault of their own," she tells BBC.
November 10, 2025 at 5:26 PM
The two-child limit disproportionately affects children in larger families. Nearly half of children in households with 3 or more children are in poverty because of the two-child limit and benefit cap. Scrapping the two-child limit immediately lifts ~330,000 children and saves another 150K by 2029-30
A good set of prescriptions here, all of which lead to a healthier prognosis. Making stuff better is more than jumping to the tune of voices singing a song of moral panics who would really like things that make things worse
The key is to raise taxes enough to actually be able to do something with it, beyond placating the OBR and bond markets
Breaking the tax pledge is the right call...and politically sulphurous. Reeves must argue, far more forcefully, that taxes are *the* essential downpayment we all pay for a fairer society.
Patrick Diamond and I wrote for @renewaljournal.bsky.social. Key points in 🧵 👇
renewal.org.uk/blog/if-labo...
Patrick Diamond and I wrote for @renewaljournal.bsky.social. Key points in 🧵 👇
renewal.org.uk/blog/if-labo...
November 10, 2025 at 5:15 PM
A good set of prescriptions here, all of which lead to a healthier prognosis. Making stuff better is more than jumping to the tune of voices singing a song of moral panics who would really like things that make things worse
For me it's whatever was happening in American mainstream music during the period 1993-2000. There was no MTV in my world, so nearly a decade of what the internet seems to remember most just floated past me.
What is your biggest musical blindspot for someone precisely your age?
For me - an elder millennial - it is that I have never knowingly listened to INCUBUS, nor could I name even one of their songs if you put a gun to my head.
For me - an elder millennial - it is that I have never knowingly listened to INCUBUS, nor could I name even one of their songs if you put a gun to my head.
November 10, 2025 at 10:43 AM
For me it's whatever was happening in American mainstream music during the period 1993-2000. There was no MTV in my world, so nearly a decade of what the internet seems to remember most just floated past me.
The farming of men's anxieties is very lucrative business and one done with very little care for the actual men it targets. Mens wellbeing discussion often comes served with a huge side order of biological essentialism, often leaving out the actual wellbeing bit
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Social media misinformation driving men to NHS clinics in search of testosterone they don’t need
Endocrinologists warn taking testosterone unnecessarily can suppress the body’s natural hormone production
www.theguardian.com
November 8, 2025 at 1:36 PM
The farming of men's anxieties is very lucrative business and one done with very little care for the actual men it targets. Mens wellbeing discussion often comes served with a huge side order of biological essentialism, often leaving out the actual wellbeing bit
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
"So now I sleep in ditches
And hide away from nosey kids
The wings rot and feather under me
The wings rot and curl right under me
A small alteration of the past
Can turn time into space
Small touches can alter more than a mere decade"
#fallfriday
youtu.be/6m2lfk4Bm34?...
And hide away from nosey kids
The wings rot and feather under me
The wings rot and curl right under me
A small alteration of the past
Can turn time into space
Small touches can alter more than a mere decade"
#fallfriday
youtu.be/6m2lfk4Bm34?...
The Fall - Wings (Official Video 1983)
YouTube video by Cherry Red Records
youtu.be
November 7, 2025 at 11:18 PM
"So now I sleep in ditches
And hide away from nosey kids
The wings rot and feather under me
The wings rot and curl right under me
A small alteration of the past
Can turn time into space
Small touches can alter more than a mere decade"
#fallfriday
youtu.be/6m2lfk4Bm34?...
And hide away from nosey kids
The wings rot and feather under me
The wings rot and curl right under me
A small alteration of the past
Can turn time into space
Small touches can alter more than a mere decade"
#fallfriday
youtu.be/6m2lfk4Bm34?...
There is something hugely endearing about the peerless Steve Dillon's inability to draw dogs and cats and the sheer amount of times he had to do so in his career. Him and Carlos Ezquerra: best faces in business.
November 7, 2025 at 12:42 AM
There is something hugely endearing about the peerless Steve Dillon's inability to draw dogs and cats and the sheer amount of times he had to do so in his career. Him and Carlos Ezquerra: best faces in business.
If The Doctor in Doctor Who had been a time minimum wage employee rather than a time lord, the time lords would have cracked down on them right away and given them a time lord equivilent of an ASBO. Instead, as they were a fellow Lord, they could just be an eccentric gentleperson adventurer
November 6, 2025 at 1:34 PM
If The Doctor in Doctor Who had been a time minimum wage employee rather than a time lord, the time lords would have cracked down on them right away and given them a time lord equivilent of an ASBO. Instead, as they were a fellow Lord, they could just be an eccentric gentleperson adventurer
Now that we have BBC Sounds, it would be amazing to have a website that reviewed BBC audio drama because those dramas have a longer tail then ever before. Like: there's lots of it and you can listen to it for ages after broadcast. Audio and Radio drama is amazing but few pay it much attention
November 6, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Now that we have BBC Sounds, it would be amazing to have a website that reviewed BBC audio drama because those dramas have a longer tail then ever before. Like: there's lots of it and you can listen to it for ages after broadcast. Audio and Radio drama is amazing but few pay it much attention
It's amazing the extent to which people swallow the lie that if 'normal' people propagate and vote for extreme right wing policies it's only natural but if 'normal' people propagate and vote for even moderately left wing policies they are either under malign foreign influence or misguided
November 5, 2025 at 6:40 PM
It's amazing the extent to which people swallow the lie that if 'normal' people propagate and vote for extreme right wing policies it's only natural but if 'normal' people propagate and vote for even moderately left wing policies they are either under malign foreign influence or misguided
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All Souls' Day, and in the blue dusk light, carrying a lantern, Old Fox walked down to the churchyard. A barn owl called down from the tower, and was answered somewhere in the trees.
November 2, 2025 at 6:54 AM
All Souls' Day, and in the blue dusk light, carrying a lantern, Old Fox walked down to the churchyard. A barn owl called down from the tower, and was answered somewhere in the trees.
This is interesting, mainly because the AI apocalypse is experienced in Internet enabled knowledge machines the majority of us have in hands, pockets, bags or on our desks. We're experiencing the great adoption as much as the AI apocalypse where change can be pushed out rapidly globally at scale
Many dystopian films are about the human fear of machines taking over. Right now, pretty much everyone thinks AI is scary and will make the world worse, yet we're apparently incapable of stopping it. The machines have already taken over.
November 5, 2025 at 5:08 PM
This is interesting, mainly because the AI apocalypse is experienced in Internet enabled knowledge machines the majority of us have in hands, pockets, bags or on our desks. We're experiencing the great adoption as much as the AI apocalypse where change can be pushed out rapidly globally at scale
Our monthly titles cover four London boroughs in print. If we had a team of 85 we'd be able to do so much more!
Met the former editor of the York Evening Press last night, who said in the mid-90s he had 85 people working directly for him, including nine staff photographers. All that to serve a city and surrounding area of about 200k people. Local news was wilddddd.
November 4, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Our monthly titles cover four London boroughs in print. If we had a team of 85 we'd be able to do so much more!
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Met the former editor of the York Evening Press last night, who said in the mid-90s he had 85 people working directly for him, including nine staff photographers. All that to serve a city and surrounding area of about 200k people. Local news was wilddddd.
November 4, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Met the former editor of the York Evening Press last night, who said in the mid-90s he had 85 people working directly for him, including nine staff photographers. All that to serve a city and surrounding area of about 200k people. Local news was wilddddd.