Cath Beard
@seabeard.bsky.social
Books | Birth | Brains
Peer support and coproduction lead
Plays fast and loose with Lego instructions
Peer support and coproduction lead
Plays fast and loose with Lego instructions
One of the more tedious imports to modern life is Black Friday deals. That span an entire month. Basically nothing is ever the price it actually is from Halloween to Christmas Eve. It’s a hollow practice and I hate it. We don’t do Thanksgiving. We don’t have a Black Friday?!
November 21, 2025 at 11:28 AM
One of the more tedious imports to modern life is Black Friday deals. That span an entire month. Basically nothing is ever the price it actually is from Halloween to Christmas Eve. It’s a hollow practice and I hate it. We don’t do Thanksgiving. We don’t have a Black Friday?!
Weirdest timeline
November 20, 2025 at 11:37 PM
Weirdest timeline
When you try and give the short version of the thing you’re going through and realise it is actually quite quite awful (I’m ok and supported and loved and all that but fucking hell)
November 20, 2025 at 7:21 PM
When you try and give the short version of the thing you’re going through and realise it is actually quite quite awful (I’m ok and supported and loved and all that but fucking hell)
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"It’s okay not to be okay if it’s temporary and quickly remedied, getting you to return to work and not disrupt the state."
Jay explores the impossibility of good mental health in a dystopian world, on the NSUN blog.
www.nsun.org.uk/the-impossib...
Jay explores the impossibility of good mental health in a dystopian world, on the NSUN blog.
www.nsun.org.uk/the-impossib...
The impossibility of good mental health in a dystopian world
We are interconnected to the world around us and that is where our problems and solutions reside.
www.nsun.org.uk
November 18, 2025 at 1:42 PM
"It’s okay not to be okay if it’s temporary and quickly remedied, getting you to return to work and not disrupt the state."
Jay explores the impossibility of good mental health in a dystopian world, on the NSUN blog.
www.nsun.org.uk/the-impossib...
Jay explores the impossibility of good mental health in a dystopian world, on the NSUN blog.
www.nsun.org.uk/the-impossib...
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Posted this last night. In case you missed it, Hope Projects does amazing work with people utterly abandoned by the state. Giving them some money will annoy Nigel Farage, Shabana Mahmood, Lee Anderson, Tommy Robinson and the Daily Mail.
Shabana Mahmood and the Labour government have appalled me so much that it’s time to give The Hope Project, which supports destitute refugees, the equivalent of my old Labour Party membership fee again.
You can too: click I Want To Help and scroll down to Donate
hope-projects.org.uk/about-hope/
You can too: click I Want To Help and scroll down to Donate
hope-projects.org.uk/about-hope/
About Hope - The Hope Projects
Why does Hope exist?
Imagine fleeing persecution and having to seek protection in another land. You’d hope for welcome, sympathy and for your rights to be respected. Sadly the British asylum system i...
hope-projects.org.uk
November 18, 2025 at 9:49 AM
Posted this last night. In case you missed it, Hope Projects does amazing work with people utterly abandoned by the state. Giving them some money will annoy Nigel Farage, Shabana Mahmood, Lee Anderson, Tommy Robinson and the Daily Mail.
What perfect album came out the year you turned 16?
Well it was 1996 so stiff competition. So I’m going with this
Well it was 1996 so stiff competition. So I’m going with this
November 17, 2025 at 11:08 PM
What perfect album came out the year you turned 16?
Well it was 1996 so stiff competition. So I’m going with this
Well it was 1996 so stiff competition. So I’m going with this
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The line “vote for us or you’ll get the far right” doesn’t really work when the policies you’re enacting are barely distinguishable from what the far right propose.
November 17, 2025 at 8:16 AM
The line “vote for us or you’ll get the far right” doesn’t really work when the policies you’re enacting are barely distinguishable from what the far right propose.
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2015 Shabana Mahmood really needs to have a word with 2025 Shabana Mahmood
November 16, 2025 at 8:14 PM
2015 Shabana Mahmood really needs to have a word with 2025 Shabana Mahmood
The luxury of a chance to say what is happening and not have to consider a single other human beings feelings. Alas. No such luxury for me (or for many women caught into that Venn diagram of teenage children/aging parents/carer fuckwittery)
November 14, 2025 at 5:14 PM
The luxury of a chance to say what is happening and not have to consider a single other human beings feelings. Alas. No such luxury for me (or for many women caught into that Venn diagram of teenage children/aging parents/carer fuckwittery)
About to brave Birmingham’s public transport system
November 13, 2025 at 1:11 PM
About to brave Birmingham’s public transport system
New hyper fixation seems to the Father John Misty. Could be worse?
November 13, 2025 at 12:01 PM
New hyper fixation seems to the Father John Misty. Could be worse?
I went out to try and see the aurora when my app pinged. I am 45 and managed approx 3 minutes before making my husband get out of bed and come outside with me to keep the zombies away
November 13, 2025 at 2:13 AM
I went out to try and see the aurora when my app pinged. I am 45 and managed approx 3 minutes before making my husband get out of bed and come outside with me to keep the zombies away
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Giving a lecture on the drafts of The Waste Land tomorrow and all the strange and haunting lines that Eliot and Pound decided to cut
November 12, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Giving a lecture on the drafts of The Waste Land tomorrow and all the strange and haunting lines that Eliot and Pound decided to cut
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there are no bad Jen Frantz poems
via Bennington Review
via Bennington Review
November 12, 2025 at 2:13 PM
there are no bad Jen Frantz poems
via Bennington Review
via Bennington Review
Check your listings! It’s currently impossible to search for items using size criteria too. Such a mess. Manually changing everything was ‘fun’.
Vinted have changed their sizing and all your listings will be wrong.
You’re welcome.
You’re welcome.
November 11, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Check your listings! It’s currently impossible to search for items using size criteria too. Such a mess. Manually changing everything was ‘fun’.
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Morning.
🖼️ Carson Ellis
🖼️ Carson Ellis
November 11, 2025 at 10:26 AM
Morning.
🖼️ Carson Ellis
🖼️ Carson Ellis
I’ve just finished another near future AI-takes-over-the-world-and-this-book-is-a-story-generated-by-that-AI-bet-you-didn’t-see-that-coming novel. Third I’ve read this year. Heavily eco-speculative. Is this the New Thing?
November 11, 2025 at 12:54 PM
I’ve just finished another near future AI-takes-over-the-world-and-this-book-is-a-story-generated-by-that-AI-bet-you-didn’t-see-that-coming novel. Third I’ve read this year. Heavily eco-speculative. Is this the New Thing?
Can confirm this is the case 🙁
Oh look. There really are "no go areas" in England.
And they're marked by St George's flags
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
And they're marked by St George's flags
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
NHS staff who visit patients at home say St George’s flags can mean ‘no-go zones’
Black and Asian staff left feeling ‘deliberately intimidated’, according to chief executive of one NHS trust
www.theguardian.com
November 11, 2025 at 12:10 PM
Can confirm this is the case 🙁
Can anyone recommend a book about cryptids suitable for a 12/13 year old girl who is a precocious reader and a bit of a weirdo (I made her)
November 10, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Can anyone recommend a book about cryptids suitable for a 12/13 year old girl who is a precocious reader and a bit of a weirdo (I made her)
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This morning at the Remembrance Sunday service at our parish church, I read Wilfred Owen's Dulce Et Decorum Est.
It is an excoriatingly angry poem and I delivered it as such.
If what war does to human beings, especially the young, does not make you incandescently angry there is something wrong.
It is an excoriatingly angry poem and I delivered it as such.
If what war does to human beings, especially the young, does not make you incandescently angry there is something wrong.
November 9, 2025 at 2:41 PM
This morning at the Remembrance Sunday service at our parish church, I read Wilfred Owen's Dulce Et Decorum Est.
It is an excoriatingly angry poem and I delivered it as such.
If what war does to human beings, especially the young, does not make you incandescently angry there is something wrong.
It is an excoriatingly angry poem and I delivered it as such.
If what war does to human beings, especially the young, does not make you incandescently angry there is something wrong.
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‘For the women who gave birth in the dark’: a portrait of motherhood in Gaza
‘For the women who gave birth in the dark’: a portrait of motherhood in Gaza
Diana Shams wrote a book because ‘no one explains how to carry your baby through fire, hunger and fear – and still sing to her at bedtime’
www.theguardian.com
November 8, 2025 at 2:44 PM
‘For the women who gave birth in the dark’: a portrait of motherhood in Gaza
Happy birthday to me, who did something brave yesterday and has spent all day with a tummy ache as a result.
November 6, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Happy birthday to me, who did something brave yesterday and has spent all day with a tummy ache as a result.
Last day of being able to round my age down to the nearest 0 and have it hit 40. As my eldest keeps reminding me.
November 5, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Last day of being able to round my age down to the nearest 0 and have it hit 40. As my eldest keeps reminding me.
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Ellie has her priorities in order
November 5, 2025 at 8:59 AM
Ellie has her priorities in order
Oh, lovely news from NYC. :)
November 5, 2025 at 7:32 AM
Oh, lovely news from NYC. :)