Rachel
@rrowanolive.bsky.social
Give it to the lesbians, they love a banner | Rent-a-mental (autistic type): research/art/writing | Linguistics, disability, psy disciplines
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we should not be letting any company get away with blaming AI for their failures. I'm not even sure how we got to this point. people are like "it's just a tool" okay so is a forklift and we still hold somebody responsible when it goes wrong and hurts someone. this is YOUR AI!
November 10, 2025 at 4:05 PM
we should not be letting any company get away with blaming AI for their failures. I'm not even sure how we got to this point. people are like "it's just a tool" okay so is a forklift and we still hold somebody responsible when it goes wrong and hurts someone. this is YOUR AI!
The way we stop UK ICE operating with this level of impunity is to resist them now, before they are empowered by a full scale fascist regime. Join your local anti raids migrantsrights.org.uk/anti-raids-r...
November 10, 2025 at 6:08 PM
The way we stop UK ICE operating with this level of impunity is to resist them now, before they are empowered by a full scale fascist regime. Join your local anti raids migrantsrights.org.uk/anti-raids-r...
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Truly dreadful and insane, but I will be back next week #wool #knitting #nonsense #twaddle #drivel #rubbish #utterrubbish #gameofwool
November 9, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Truly dreadful and insane, but I will be back next week #wool #knitting #nonsense #twaddle #drivel #rubbish #utterrubbish #gameofwool
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"If you're only going to give us half the time we need, you're only getting half the sleeve you want." #GameOfWool
November 9, 2025 at 8:38 PM
"If you're only going to give us half the time we need, you're only getting half the sleeve you want." #GameOfWool
Their transphobia is contributing to the misery of my friends
Their attacks on disability benefits have me living in horror
Their failure to fund the nhs puts my life at risk
Their continuing marketisation of the university sector means I don’t have a future career
Their attacks on disability benefits have me living in horror
Their failure to fund the nhs puts my life at risk
Their continuing marketisation of the university sector means I don’t have a future career
As a Safety manager in the NHS, Labour is most likely making me redundant, and I could lose my house. Making NHS patients less safe in the process.
How are Labour policies changing your life?
How are Labour policies changing your life?
Why aren't Labour's life-changing policies connecting with voters - and what can the party do? It's down to messaging, how it's told, and the messengers...
November 8, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Their transphobia is contributing to the misery of my friends
Their attacks on disability benefits have me living in horror
Their failure to fund the nhs puts my life at risk
Their continuing marketisation of the university sector means I don’t have a future career
Their attacks on disability benefits have me living in horror
Their failure to fund the nhs puts my life at risk
Their continuing marketisation of the university sector means I don’t have a future career
Are any suicide researchers working on this? Feels like it’s worth asking why people turn to ChatGPT for this, what they get from it, what alternatives we can build
Panera’s moderately caffeinated lemonade was loosely associated with 2 deaths before it was taken off market.
This article alone has 4 examples of ChatGPT encouraging young people to commit suicide, and OpenAI’s own public stats estimate over a million users discuss suicide with ChatGPT each week.
This article alone has 4 examples of ChatGPT encouraging young people to commit suicide, and OpenAI’s own public stats estimate over a million users discuss suicide with ChatGPT each week.
I fully believe in the corporate death penalty and believe we would be a better world if OpenAI lost its corporate charter and was forcibly dissolved.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
November 8, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Are any suicide researchers working on this? Feels like it’s worth asking why people turn to ChatGPT for this, what they get from it, what alternatives we can build
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OVER A MILLION USERS
DISCUSS SUICIDE WITH CHATGPT
EVERY *WEEK*
what the fuck are we DOING here
DISCUSS SUICIDE WITH CHATGPT
EVERY *WEEK*
what the fuck are we DOING here
Panera’s moderately caffeinated lemonade was loosely associated with 2 deaths before it was taken off market.
This article alone has 4 examples of ChatGPT encouraging young people to commit suicide, and OpenAI’s own public stats estimate over a million users discuss suicide with ChatGPT each week.
This article alone has 4 examples of ChatGPT encouraging young people to commit suicide, and OpenAI’s own public stats estimate over a million users discuss suicide with ChatGPT each week.
I fully believe in the corporate death penalty and believe we would be a better world if OpenAI lost its corporate charter and was forcibly dissolved.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
November 7, 2025 at 10:59 PM
OVER A MILLION USERS
DISCUSS SUICIDE WITH CHATGPT
EVERY *WEEK*
what the fuck are we DOING here
DISCUSS SUICIDE WITH CHATGPT
EVERY *WEEK*
what the fuck are we DOING here
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I recognise both cruel optimism & suicide postponement as states that we wrestle with at Not the Void UK. We do discuss what it will mean when/if a member dies, what responsibility to each other but not for each other actually means.
doi.org/10.1177/0038...
doi.org/10.1177/0038...
November 6, 2025 at 5:03 PM
I recognise both cruel optimism & suicide postponement as states that we wrestle with at Not the Void UK. We do discuss what it will mean when/if a member dies, what responsibility to each other but not for each other actually means.
doi.org/10.1177/0038...
doi.org/10.1177/0038...
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🌈 Do you know anyone passionate about researching LGBTQ+ suicide, suicide prevention and suicide bereavement, experienced in qualitative methods, and looking for work?
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November 4, 2025 at 9:50 AM
🌈 Do you know anyone passionate about researching LGBTQ+ suicide, suicide prevention and suicide bereavement, experienced in qualitative methods, and looking for work?
Send them my way because I'm recruiting for a post-doctoral research fellow!
elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
Send them my way because I'm recruiting for a post-doctoral research fellow!
elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
Reading this journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... from @hazelmarzetti.bsky.social @amychandler.bsky.social et al and I have so many thoughts about the mental health system’s work as “suicide postponement” not “suicide prevention”. I think I love it as a concept
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November 6, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Reading this journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... from @hazelmarzetti.bsky.social @amychandler.bsky.social et al and I have so many thoughts about the mental health system’s work as “suicide postponement” not “suicide prevention”. I think I love it as a concept
List of local anti raids groups and socials / contacts here: migrantsrights.org.uk/anti-raids-r...
MRN are hosting it while the anti raids website gets its shit together. Contact your local group. Make some trouble.
MRN are hosting it while the anti raids website gets its shit together. Contact your local group. Make some trouble.
November 6, 2025 at 10:21 AM
List of local anti raids groups and socials / contacts here: migrantsrights.org.uk/anti-raids-r...
MRN are hosting it while the anti raids website gets its shit together. Contact your local group. Make some trouble.
MRN are hosting it while the anti raids website gets its shit together. Contact your local group. Make some trouble.
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Gardner is correct, please locate & support your local deportation resistance orgs now if you haven't because by the time we need them we'll be behind 🙏🙏🙏 they're already doing some good work & have been for years
I know how they got to that point.
Because we’re a few steps behind, living through the “getting to that point” right now in the UK.
Because we’re a few steps behind, living through the “getting to that point” right now in the UK.
I don’t know how many times I’ve watched this video.
I don’t know how we’ve gotten to the point where men in full balaclavas can abduct daycare teachers while they’re watching children.
But I do know that this isn’t sustainable. Abolish ICE. There is no way to reform this.
I don’t know how we’ve gotten to the point where men in full balaclavas can abduct daycare teachers while they’re watching children.
But I do know that this isn’t sustainable. Abolish ICE. There is no way to reform this.
November 6, 2025 at 10:18 AM
Gardner is correct, please locate & support your local deportation resistance orgs now if you haven't because by the time we need them we'll be behind 🙏🙏🙏 they're already doing some good work & have been for years
The fireworks have been going for four and a half hours now. Please. Enough.
November 5, 2025 at 10:30 PM
The fireworks have been going for four and a half hours now. Please. Enough.
Also do none of these people realise they’re in government? They don’t need inspiration and momentum! They already have power! The problem is how they are using it
Absolutely insane.
Labour would have purged and smeared someone like Zohran Mamdani.
Wes Streeting's politics align far more closely with Andrew Cuomo.
The lessons from Mamdani are about how to defeat both the right - and the bankrupt "centre".
Labour would have purged and smeared someone like Zohran Mamdani.
Wes Streeting's politics align far more closely with Andrew Cuomo.
The lessons from Mamdani are about how to defeat both the right - and the bankrupt "centre".
November 5, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Also do none of these people realise they’re in government? They don’t need inspiration and momentum! They already have power! The problem is how they are using it
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labours doge
today's Labour party posting versus yesterday's Labour party posting:
November 5, 2025 at 11:32 AM
labours doge
I disagree with this. If universal school based interventions have been found not to help, and to have some negative effects, we should let them die and focus on something else. There are so many research areas that are funding-starved, why flog this dead horse?
We therefore suggest a compromise: if more trials *are* run, they should be optimally designed to test for possible mechanisms and individual differences. We give detail about how to do this
This will enable us to understand why negative effects sometimes happen in trials and who is most at risk
This will enable us to understand why negative effects sometimes happen in trials and who is most at risk
November 4, 2025 at 11:39 AM
I disagree with this. If universal school based interventions have been found not to help, and to have some negative effects, we should let them die and focus on something else. There are so many research areas that are funding-starved, why flog this dead horse?
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Okay so my lukewarm take on #GameOfWool is that the title is stupid and also they’ve really fluffed on what knitters want to see. Give them more time, let them knit a proper fair isle jumper, stop calling crochet knitting.
November 2, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Okay so my lukewarm take on #GameOfWool is that the title is stupid and also they’ve really fluffed on what knitters want to see. Give them more time, let them knit a proper fair isle jumper, stop calling crochet knitting.
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So it wasn't fireworks. It was a calculated and deliberate attempt at the mass murder of men, women and children.
www.thetimes.com/article/0887...
www.thetimes.com/article/0887...
CCTV catches moment intruder torched asylum centre housing children
Gardai have rebranded attack in Drogheda as a potential attempted murder after camera footage was released
www.thetimes.com
November 1, 2025 at 9:12 PM
So it wasn't fireworks. It was a calculated and deliberate attempt at the mass murder of men, women and children.
www.thetimes.com/article/0887...
www.thetimes.com/article/0887...
Is this (tentative) good news???? www.disabilitynewsservice.com/dwps-plans-i...
DWP’s plans ‘in tatters’ as McFadden scraps white paper on further disability cuts
Ministers have dumped plans for a major white paper containing a swathe of further cuts and reforms to disability benefits, following months of activism by disabled people and allies that forced th…
www.disabilitynewsservice.com
November 3, 2025 at 10:51 AM
Is this (tentative) good news???? www.disabilitynewsservice.com/dwps-plans-i...
CBT thought diaries when you’re a radical leftist
November 2, 2025 at 8:12 PM
CBT thought diaries when you’re a radical leftist
I’ve decided to start working on some CBT shit with my very non-CBT therapist, because I need to do something about the level of worry I get into without even realising I’m doing it. Because she isn’t a CBT therapist, I trust her not to gaslight me with it. The trouble is all the resources are shit.
November 2, 2025 at 11:06 AM
I’ve decided to start working on some CBT shit with my very non-CBT therapist, because I need to do something about the level of worry I get into without even realising I’m doing it. Because she isn’t a CBT therapist, I trust her not to gaslight me with it. The trouble is all the resources are shit.
When you fill in the anonymous student survey and then get a follow up email…
October 31, 2025 at 1:40 PM
When you fill in the anonymous student survey and then get a follow up email…
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The news is out so I can finally point at this. Yes this is my publisher of the Vivi novels. I’m devastated that another company started to change things up in this industry has failed to thrive. I don’t know any more so pls be compassionate to the authors.
www.thebookseller.com/news/indepen...
www.thebookseller.com/news/indepen...
October 29, 2025 at 9:43 AM
The news is out so I can finally point at this. Yes this is my publisher of the Vivi novels. I’m devastated that another company started to change things up in this industry has failed to thrive. I don’t know any more so pls be compassionate to the authors.
www.thebookseller.com/news/indepen...
www.thebookseller.com/news/indepen...