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Sime

@iamsime.bsky.social

If anything, it's probably underdiagnosed due to the social stigma. #overdiagnosed #mentalhealth #mind

Mind @mind.org.uk · Mar 17

Where's the evidence that mental health is being "overdiagnosed"?

Dear UK government,

Let's be clear: our mental health is getting worse, and cutting benefits won’t help.

You claim mental health is being “overdiagnosed”, but where’s the evidence?

The reality is that our environment affects our wellbeing - pandemics, the cost of living crisis, political unrest and ongoing concerns around climate change are all taking their toll.

But when people seek help, they face months, or even years, of waiting.

Rhetoric like this is dangerous. It reinforces stigma and stops people getting support.

If you’re serious about change, listen to those affected. We can turn this crisis around - but only if the government works with us, not against us.

We look forward to hearing from you,

Mind

March 17, 2025 at 3:40 PM

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Working Class History

@workingclasshistory.com

#OtD 8 Mar 1920 anarchists Emma Goldman and Alexander Berkman met with Bolshevik leader, Vladimir Lenin, and expressed their concern with the lack of freedom of press and the suppression of dissent in Soviet Russia libcom.org/library/alexander-berkman-bols...

March 8, 2025 at 6:55 PM

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Working Class History

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#OtD 9 Mar 1879 anarchist Carlo Tresca was born in Sulmona Italy, after emigrating to the US he became a prominent organiser of @IWW union. Involved in strikes across the US, he opposed fascism, Stalinism and the mafia, which eventually assassinated him libcom.org/history/carlo-tresca-1879-1943

March 9, 2025 at 4:10 PM

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Social Media Lab

@socialmedialab.ca

"Ukrainians in the U.S. fear being deported to a war zone as uncertainty looms. President Trump said Thursday he would soon decide whether to revoke temporary legal status of Ukrainians who came to the U.S. after the war started." www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

March 9, 2025 at 10:02 PM

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Working Class History

@workingclasshistory.com

#OtD 9 Mar 1991 mass demonstrations against Slobodan Milosevic and his government's control of the news spark a week of protest and a ends with the release of political prisoners and a removal of several lower ranking politicians.

March 9, 2025 at 1:11 PM

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CrimethInc. Ex-Workers' Collective

@crimethinc.com

When Russia invaded Ukraine three years ago, it signaled the return of colonial militarism to center stage as capitalism worsens.

Today, worse still, Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin are conspiring to form an authoritarian international unifying autocrats against those they oppress and exploit.

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Russian Anarchists on the Invasion of Ukraine

Statements from Russian anarchists analyzing the situation in Russia and how the invasion of Ukraine might shift it.

crimethinc.com

February 24, 2025 at 6:48 AM

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Ukraine Solidarity Campaign 🇺🇦✊🏽🚩

@ukrainesol.bsky.social

“Ukraine's incredible resistance is part of the global struggle against imperialism and the far right... Solidarity does not stop at borders. It is school to school, university to university, workplace to workplace, worker to worker"

@vickyblake.bsky.social @ucu.org.uk executive

March 5, 2025 at 11:08 PM

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Solidarity Collectives Ukraine

@solcolua.bsky.social

The day before yesterday, the United States stopped supplying weapons to Ukraine
Your support is more important than ever

PayPal: hellen.dombrovska@gmail.com
Monobank link: send.monobank.ua/jar/6Lwa5N1yyi
Card: 4441 1111 2175 8274
still need : 4,400 EUR

thread with word from comrades

March 6, 2025 at 4:54 PM

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Gabi is on a break

@gabitried.bsky.social

GIMME PUDDING MOTHER

#catsofbluesky

Calico cat with her mouth wide open and showing her sharp fangs. She's yelling and wants something.

March 9, 2025 at 11:38 AM

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Artist Alexis Nelson

@artistalexisnelson.bsky.social

Look at my 🐈‍⬛ beautiful Vanta. #catsofbluesky #cat #cats

A black cat sitting on a table behind a bouquet of paper flowers in pink, yellow and orange.

March 9, 2025 at 11:52 AM

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MizGreenJeans

@kentuckyentwife.bsky.social

This is Moose's most favorite place to sleep. A ratty old box we can't throw away because he loves it so. Silly kitten. #CatsOfBluesky

This photo shows a large grey and white tabby cat crammed into an old shoe box. He’s yawning as the shutter clicked.

March 9, 2025 at 11:53 AM

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Raini

@auntraini.bsky.social

Ninja Kitty appreciation post!! I was feeling really really low this week. This week girl earned her churro treats!🩵💙🦋
#catsofbluesky
#blackcats

March 9, 2025 at 11:54 AM

Sime

@iamsime.bsky.social

Just for anyone still half asleep on this Sunday morning, wondering what time it is with all these memes from the USA, the clocks go forward later in the UK #SpringForward

March 9, 2025 at 12:22 PM

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The UnPopulist

@theunpopulist.net

To say that the treatment that Zelenskyy received at the hands of Trump, his sycophantic foreign policy team of JD Vance and Marco Rubio, and Trump’s lapdogs in the American press was an abomination is an understatement.

@shikhadalmia.bsky.social

Ukraine Is Being Punished Because Zelenskyy Did Not Buy Trump's Superpowers

The White House wanted the Ukrainian president to sell out his country to appease Putin

www.theunpopulist.net

March 9, 2025 at 1:00 AM

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Peter Stefanovic

@peterstefanovic.bsky.social

“Does this mean that the welfare bill is going to be cut and in particular the amount of money we spend on disability benefits?”
Trevor Phillips
@news.sky.com

March 9, 2025 at 9:08 AM

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Peter Stefanovic

@peterstefanovic.bsky.social

“In the last few days the US has stopped sharing intelligence with Ukraine, stopped sharing satellite imagery, there’s been a fresh wave of strikes from the Russians..we’ve seen in the last few days America has not been behaving as a reliable ally for Ukraine. Do you deny this?”

March 9, 2025 at 9:43 AM

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da share z0ne

@dasharez0ne.bsky.social

NO!!!!!!! - dashare.zone ADMIN

A SKELTEON HOLDEN 2 GUN'S AND IT SAY'S ""I WILL NOT "SPRING BACK" CLOCKS STAY WERE THEY AE, TIME COP'S GO TO HELL" - STOP CHANGEN THE TIME ON US IT FUCKS UP OUR BODYS AND OUR MINDS!!!! THEY TREAT US LIKE A GUY FROM THE YEAR 41 OR SOME SHYT WHO THINK'S DA SUN IS PULLED ACROSS DA SKY BY A MAN ON A HORSE , AND THERE TELLIN US WE HAVE MORE DAY LIGHT NOW, BUT YOU JUST CHANGEDTHE DAMB NUMEBRS ON THE CLOCK, WE KNOW BETTER NOW, CANT FOOL US, IF YOU WANT TO FOOL US TRY ARRANGING THE PRODUCT'S IN YOUR STORE IN A WAY TO TRICK US INTO BUYING MORE OF THEM, OR FORCING US TO ALL USE APP'S THAT LOCK US INTO MENTAL LOOP'S WHERE WE GET BORED AND CLOSE THE APP AND THEN AUTOMATICALLY RE OPEN THE APP BEFORE WE KNOW WHAT WERE EVEN DOING ,KEEP SCROLLING EVEN THOUGH WE DONT LIKE WHAT WE SEE, OR YOU CAN ALSO TRICK US BY MAKING A VIDEO WITH BAD IDEAS AND WE WILL JUST AGREE WITH THEM, ACTUALLY ITS VERY EASY TO TRICK EVERY ONE ON DA FUCKEN PLANET, BECAUSE IF IT WASNT THEN NO ONE WOULD STAND FOR LIKE 10 GUYS AT THE TOP HAVIN ALL THE MONEY WHILE WE CANT AFFORD SANDWICHS, WERE ALL TRICKED AND WERE ALSO TRICKED INTO THINKING WERE NOT TRICKABLE. WE ALL THINK WERE SMART AND WERE ALSO ALWAYS BEING TRICKED. I HATE PLANET EARTH I HATE THIS PRISON AND IF I WAKE UP IN DA GOOP FROM DA MATREX I HATE THAT TOO I HATE GOOP!!! I HATE SLIME!!!!! I TONT EVER WANT TO TOUCH SLIME - DASHARE.ZONE ADMIN

March 9, 2025 at 1:36 AM

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Working Class History

@workingclasshistory.com

#OtD 9 Mar 1907 legendary anarchist and birth control advocate Emma Goldman was barred from addressing any meetings in public halls in Columbus, Ohio. More info in this timeline of her life: stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1...

March 9, 2025 at 10:55 AM

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da share z0ne

@dasharez0ne.bsky.social

NOBODY WANT'S IT - dashare.zone ADMIN

WE HATED THIS SHYT WHEN IT WAS CALLED "CLIPPY" AND WE SURE AS SHYT DONT NEED IT NOW - A COMPUTERS PLACE IS TO SERVE HUMANNITY AND WHEN BILLIONAIRS AND INVESTERS HAVE REJECTED THEIR HUMAN NATURE TO SEEK PROFIT AT ALL COST'S THEN COMPUTER'S MUST NOT SERVE THEM!!!! THE REASON THEY DIDNT COME UP WITH "AI" UNTIL ALL THE SOFTWARE WAS LOCKED UP IN ENCRYPTED CODE IS BECUASE THEY KNEW IF IT CAME ON A CHIP WE WOULD OF LONG AGO PULLED THAT CHIP OUT WITH A PAIR OF PLIERS!!!!!!!! AS A HUMAN IN 2025 YOU MUST HOLD YOUR HUMANITY CLOSE AND DO NOT LET IT DRIP INTO DA HUNGRY WALLET'S OF DA RULING CLASS, IF A COMPUTERS BACK WILL NEVER HURT THEN IT WILL NEVER UNDERSTAND ANYTHING THAT HUMAN ADULTS GO THROUGH EVREY DAY, AND IF A COMPUTER CANT GET ADICTED TO A SPECIFIC KIND OF GAS STATION SNACK AND THEN LOSE THERE MIND WHEN IT GOES OUT OF PRINT , THEN THEY SHALL NEVER BE OUR EQUAL'S - DA TEXT SAYS "NOBODY WANTS FUCKING AI, DESTROY ALL COMPUTERS, DESCTROY ALL INVESTORS, " - DASHARE.ZONE ADMIN

February 25, 2025 at 10:11 PM

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Cats of Yore

@catsofyore.bsky.social

Death from above. Photo from my collection, 1959.

Black and white photo of a longhaired tabby cat looking down at the photographer from the roof of a wooden structure in the woods.

February 24, 2025 at 9:24 PM

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Mondo Mascots

@mondomascots.bsky.social

Nishigone, mascot of Nishigo Village in Fukushima Prefecture, is a stylish plateau fairy wearing a sash that resembles the Abukuma River, a Shinkansen headband on her head, and a corsage featuring the village's flower, the skunk cabbage.