Marc
@marcmas.bsky.social
Not sure how I'm using this yet. Interested in things related to being:
Humanistic counselor, trainee gestalt psychotherapist and group psychotherapist. Buddhist. Leftist. Academic (psychology/law). Queer. Hoping to find more beauty/joy here...
Humanistic counselor, trainee gestalt psychotherapist and group psychotherapist. Buddhist. Leftist. Academic (psychology/law). Queer. Hoping to find more beauty/joy here...
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Marc
@marcmas.bsky.social
· Nov 21
should there be hashtags? No idea what I'm doing but also other modalities of #psychotherapy, #activism, the care element of abolitionism, as well as #care more generally and #abolitionism more generally. Maybe throw a dash of #tarot and #poetry in there too. Thanks! #gestalt #buddhism #joy #queer
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The main issue facing any UK government isn't actually the number of people seeking asylum, in the grand scheme, proportionally, we aren't talking about huge figures, especially when compared per capita to countries such as France, but the constant images we see in the media. 1/
September 1, 2025 at 7:01 AM
The main issue facing any UK government isn't actually the number of people seeking asylum, in the grand scheme, proportionally, we aren't talking about huge figures, especially when compared per capita to countries such as France, but the constant images we see in the media. 1/
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When a week feels like years,
Take a mindful breath.
Feel the earth under your feet.
Be where you are.
As you breathe in, say to yourself, I know that I am breathing in.
As you breathe out, say to yourself, I know that I am breathing out.
Repeat as needed. And it will be needed repeatedly.
Take a mindful breath.
Feel the earth under your feet.
Be where you are.
As you breathe in, say to yourself, I know that I am breathing in.
As you breathe out, say to yourself, I know that I am breathing out.
Repeat as needed. And it will be needed repeatedly.
August 1, 2025 at 11:24 PM
When a week feels like years,
Take a mindful breath.
Feel the earth under your feet.
Be where you are.
As you breathe in, say to yourself, I know that I am breathing in.
As you breathe out, say to yourself, I know that I am breathing out.
Repeat as needed. And it will be needed repeatedly.
Take a mindful breath.
Feel the earth under your feet.
Be where you are.
As you breathe in, say to yourself, I know that I am breathing in.
As you breathe out, say to yourself, I know that I am breathing out.
Repeat as needed. And it will be needed repeatedly.
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Long ago, a stone felt a tingle on its skin. Moss.
A new feeling. A green feeling.
The granite spoke of ages in the heat of deep Earth.
The moss sang the taste of sunlight and the softness of salamander bellies.
They named one another. And told those names to no one at all.
A new feeling. A green feeling.
The granite spoke of ages in the heat of deep Earth.
The moss sang the taste of sunlight and the softness of salamander bellies.
They named one another. And told those names to no one at all.
August 16, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Long ago, a stone felt a tingle on its skin. Moss.
A new feeling. A green feeling.
The granite spoke of ages in the heat of deep Earth.
The moss sang the taste of sunlight and the softness of salamander bellies.
They named one another. And told those names to no one at all.
A new feeling. A green feeling.
The granite spoke of ages in the heat of deep Earth.
The moss sang the taste of sunlight and the softness of salamander bellies.
They named one another. And told those names to no one at all.
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Instructions for living a life.
Pay attention.
Be astonished.
Tell about it.
- Mary Oliver
Pay attention.
Be astonished.
Tell about it.
- Mary Oliver
August 16, 2025 at 9:12 AM
Instructions for living a life.
Pay attention.
Be astonished.
Tell about it.
- Mary Oliver
Pay attention.
Be astonished.
Tell about it.
- Mary Oliver
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Israel's massacre of Palestinian journalists has been unconscionable.
And the silence of western journalists has been an utter abomination to our profession. And to humanity.
www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/8/...
And the silence of western journalists has been an utter abomination to our profession. And to humanity.
www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/8/...
Anas al-Sharif among five Al Jazeera journalists killed by Israel in Gaza
Al Jazeera staff killed in targeted Israeli attack on a tent housing journalists near al-Shifa Hospital, Gaza City.
www.aljazeera.com
August 11, 2025 at 2:31 AM
Israel's massacre of Palestinian journalists has been unconscionable.
And the silence of western journalists has been an utter abomination to our profession. And to humanity.
www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/8/...
And the silence of western journalists has been an utter abomination to our profession. And to humanity.
www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/8/...
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We can now confirm that every arrestee from the Lift The Ban sign-holding action has been released. None have been charged.
Hundreds of the arrestees were taken to police cells. Hundreds were processed in pop-up gazebos after queuing for hours.
www.wedonotcomply.org
We can now confirm that every arrestee from the Lift The Ban sign-holding action has been released. None have been charged.
Hundreds of the arrestees were taken to police cells. Hundreds were processed in pop-up gazebos after queuing for hours.
www.wedonotcomply.org
August 10, 2025 at 5:49 PM
RELEASED
We can now confirm that every arrestee from the Lift The Ban sign-holding action has been released. None have been charged.
Hundreds of the arrestees were taken to police cells. Hundreds were processed in pop-up gazebos after queuing for hours.
www.wedonotcomply.org
We can now confirm that every arrestee from the Lift The Ban sign-holding action has been released. None have been charged.
Hundreds of the arrestees were taken to police cells. Hundreds were processed in pop-up gazebos after queuing for hours.
www.wedonotcomply.org
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As peaceful protestors are arrested for holding placards, starving Palestinians are being shot in the street.
This will go down as one of the most shameful moments in British legal history.
No amount of suppression can hide the truth: our government is complicit in genocide.
This will go down as one of the most shameful moments in British legal history.
No amount of suppression can hide the truth: our government is complicit in genocide.
August 10, 2025 at 12:45 PM
As peaceful protestors are arrested for holding placards, starving Palestinians are being shot in the street.
This will go down as one of the most shameful moments in British legal history.
No amount of suppression can hide the truth: our government is complicit in genocide.
This will go down as one of the most shameful moments in British legal history.
No amount of suppression can hide the truth: our government is complicit in genocide.
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August 6, 2025 at 8:30 AM
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"When I came out as trans at 17, my school counsellor was one of the first people I ever told. Her unquestioning support meant everything to me... That was the first time I truly felt accepted by someone..." @uglastefania.bsky.social not only do we still lack conversion therapy ban we have a new s28
Sir Queer Harmer and his disgusting government will need to pay for this. NEVER let them forget the damage they have done.
metro.co.uk/2025/07/31/l...
metro.co.uk/2025/07/31/l...
Labour’s school guidance is Section 28 all over again for LGBTQ+ people
It’s not just a red flag – it’s a blaring siren.
metro.co.uk
August 2, 2025 at 9:40 AM
"When I came out as trans at 17, my school counsellor was one of the first people I ever told. Her unquestioning support meant everything to me... That was the first time I truly felt accepted by someone..." @uglastefania.bsky.social not only do we still lack conversion therapy ban we have a new s28
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This seems to be a good route for sending help to Gaza. I've just donated. Please share widely chuffed.org/project/help...
North Gaza: Food, Water & Other Distributions
Translating Falasteen (Palestine), in collaboration with The Sameer Project, launched a fundraising campaign to support families in Gaza facing severe hardships. Our mission is to provide essential ai...
chuffed.org
July 29, 2025 at 7:44 PM
This seems to be a good route for sending help to Gaza. I've just donated. Please share widely chuffed.org/project/help...
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An open letter has been launched today (27/7/25) for members of the UK academic community (academics and other university staff) to sign, to press the UK Home Office to facilitate safe passage out of Gaza for 40+ students with offers for UK universities.
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Open letter from UK university staff: Request for biometric deferral and safe evacuation of incoming Palestinian students and scholars from Gaza to UK Universities
More than 40 students currently trapped in Gaza with full scholarships to UK Universities are asking for a safe route to come and study. We, the academic community hoping to welcome these scholars, ca...
docs.google.com
July 27, 2025 at 9:48 PM
An open letter has been launched today (27/7/25) for members of the UK academic community (academics and other university staff) to sign, to press the UK Home Office to facilitate safe passage out of Gaza for 40+ students with offers for UK universities.
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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this is one of the worst crimes in human history and the entire global north and all of us in it share the responsibility
July 22, 2025 at 1:58 AM
this is one of the worst crimes in human history and the entire global north and all of us in it share the responsibility
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The contrast could not be more stark.
July 23, 2025 at 8:48 AM
The contrast could not be more stark.
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In Vietnam, there are myriad little lakes formed from bomb craters—in which lotus flowers grow. That image sticks with me. The Zen master and peace activist Thich Nhat Hanh taught, no mud, no lotus. Without the mud, the flower cannot grow. What will we grow from the mud we are collectively in?
July 21, 2025 at 2:37 PM
In Vietnam, there are myriad little lakes formed from bomb craters—in which lotus flowers grow. That image sticks with me. The Zen master and peace activist Thich Nhat Hanh taught, no mud, no lotus. Without the mud, the flower cannot grow. What will we grow from the mud we are collectively in?
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Ireland has had "sELf iD" for 10 years now and not one single issue that the media, government and anti-trans movement predicted has come to pass. Not one.
If it works in Ireland why would it not work here? No one who opposes it can give a good answer, because the real answer is transphobia
If it works in Ireland why would it not work here? No one who opposes it can give a good answer, because the real answer is transphobia
Ten years ago, on this day 15 July, the Irish Oireachtas passed the Gender Recognition Act 2015 (An tAcht um Inscne a Aithint, 2015).
It was a piece of legislation that allowed me to live my life authentically & I'm forever grateful.
Despite what others may have you believe, the sky did not fall in.
It was a piece of legislation that allowed me to live my life authentically & I'm forever grateful.
Despite what others may have you believe, the sky did not fall in.
July 15, 2025 at 9:50 AM
Ireland has had "sELf iD" for 10 years now and not one single issue that the media, government and anti-trans movement predicted has come to pass. Not one.
If it works in Ireland why would it not work here? No one who opposes it can give a good answer, because the real answer is transphobia
If it works in Ireland why would it not work here? No one who opposes it can give a good answer, because the real answer is transphobia
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“I tell my students, when you get these jobs that you have been so brilliantly trained for, just remember that your real job is that if you are free, you need to free somebody else. If you have some power, then your job is to empower somebody else.”
— Toni Morrison, interview 2003
— Toni Morrison, interview 2003
July 15, 2025 at 7:25 AM
“I tell my students, when you get these jobs that you have been so brilliantly trained for, just remember that your real job is that if you are free, you need to free somebody else. If you have some power, then your job is to empower somebody else.”
— Toni Morrison, interview 2003
— Toni Morrison, interview 2003
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I started a blog where I will be nerding out about Merleau-Ponty and gestalt stuff. I’ve got a couple of posts up. You can even subscribe if you want.
Merleau-Ponty Was Not the First to Describe Gestalt as Melody — Ontology and Sense
I’ve heard commentators on Merleau-Ponty’s Structure of Behavior mention a few times now that he uses the example of a melody to demonstrate the notion of gestalt. I wanted to dedicate a short blog ...
www.ontologyandsense.com
July 6, 2025 at 6:51 PM
I started a blog where I will be nerding out about Merleau-Ponty and gestalt stuff. I’ve got a couple of posts up. You can even subscribe if you want.
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These sections from the final version of my puberty blocker ban paper. They clearly show CT in the “new” GIDS…
July 6, 2025 at 10:37 PM
These sections from the final version of my puberty blocker ban paper. They clearly show CT in the “new” GIDS…
So the Hero has decreed through his mouthpieces the Lawgivers, first, that the proper shape of the narrative is that of the arrow or spear, starting here and going straight there and THOK! hitting its mark (which drops dead); second, that the central concern of narrative... is conflict...
July 4, 2025 at 10:17 AM
So the Hero has decreed through his mouthpieces the Lawgivers, first, that the proper shape of the narrative is that of the arrow or spear, starting here and going straight there and THOK! hitting its mark (which drops dead); second, that the central concern of narrative... is conflict...
“It is culture that sets the limits on the self-stories we can imagine, construct, and live – and culture that continues to color and inform those stories, even at times and places where we were sure we had violated or transcended those limits...
June 28, 2025 at 3:55 PM
“It is culture that sets the limits on the self-stories we can imagine, construct, and live – and culture that continues to color and inform those stories, even at times and places where we were sure we had violated or transcended those limits...
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Israel keeps firing on starving people looking for food. We keep supporting them militarily and diplomatically but Palestine Action are the terrorists. And I could face 14 years in the gaol for posting this message.
June 25, 2025 at 9:48 AM
Israel keeps firing on starving people looking for food. We keep supporting them militarily and diplomatically but Palestine Action are the terrorists. And I could face 14 years in the gaol for posting this message.
[Gestalt therapy] does not require therapists to show themselves as better at living... but that we are experienced in holding contact even when anxious, and are able to use the supports around us...to be able to hold the relationship with ethics and commitment wherever it leads.- Peter Philippson
June 24, 2025 at 5:26 PM
[Gestalt therapy] does not require therapists to show themselves as better at living... but that we are experienced in holding contact even when anxious, and are able to use the supports around us...to be able to hold the relationship with ethics and commitment wherever it leads.- Peter Philippson