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Nuwan Dissanayaka

@drdiss.bsky.social

A psychiatrist in sunny Leeds

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New painting

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Happy Fragile Straight Man Month!

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POPCORN TIME PEEPS 🍿

05.06.2025 19:27 β€” πŸ‘ 409    πŸ” 38    πŸ’¬ 43    πŸ“Œ 8
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#booksky

04.06.2025 21:55 β€” πŸ‘ 9250    πŸ” 1139    πŸ’¬ 108    πŸ“Œ 72
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Loved NYC

05.06.2025 18:54 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Went to this place we saw on Somebody Feed Phil πŸ•

01.06.2025 17:31 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Incredibly powerful

Richard Dimbleby describes the horrors of Bergen-Belsen concentration camp

History has many lessons for us

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Thousands of people are ditching Tesla. Here’s one of them with a message you can see from space.

Location: Black Rock Sands, Wales, UK

Led By Donkeys is 100% funded by small donations.

17.03.2025 18:15 β€” πŸ‘ 16847    πŸ” 7078    πŸ’¬ 536    πŸ“Œ 851
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Experts criticise Streeting for saying mental health problems overdiagnosed Health secretary’s comments that too many people are β€˜written off’ prompts warnings against stigmatising people

Health Secretary Wes Streeting’s comments that there is an β€œoverdiagnosis” of some mental health conditions has prompted experts to warn against stigmatising and punishing people

www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

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Trump was recruited by KGB with codename 'Krasnov', claims ex-Soviet spy Former Chairman of Kazakhstan’s National Security Committee Alnur Mussayev claims the Soviet KGB recruited Donald Trump before the collapse of the USSR, assigning him the alias Krasnov

A former Soviet intelligence officer has claimed Donald Trump was recruited by the KGB in 1987 and given the codename "Krasnov"

Who would have guessed

www.mirror.co.uk/news/us-news...

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A picture of the Joint Chiefs, in full uniform in front of flags representing the military services.

A picture of the Joint Chiefs, in full uniform in front of flags representing the military services.

I wonder if you can guess, without reading the headlines, which TWO people in this picture just got fired from the Joint Chiefs.

Go ahead, take a wild guess. Pick two.

22.02.2025 03:42 β€” πŸ‘ 774    πŸ” 261    πŸ’¬ 22    πŸ“Œ 13
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NHS England has no idea about GPs Reform will only happen when the organisation confronts how lamentably wrong-headed it has been.

β€˜There is simply no conception (within NHS England) of how pivotal GPs are to the cost-effective performance of the health service - let alone to holistic patient care’
So says the ever-insightful
@pwhitakerwriter.medsky.social
www.newstatesman.com/politics/hea...

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New painting of the church in my village πŸ‘¨β€πŸŽ¨

21.02.2025 17:38 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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New painting of the church in my village πŸ‘¨β€πŸŽ¨

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The β€œlibertarian” mentality

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The only important thing in comedy is being funny

Maybe try that

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If the UK was really, really smart, it would now plough tens of billions into research centres and take in all the American academics fleeing the US. Spoiler: the UK is not smart. πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§

08.02.2025 10:01 β€” πŸ‘ 1543    πŸ” 379    πŸ’¬ 86    πŸ“Œ 36
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First painting in a while

08.02.2025 10:55 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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So how’s it going so far?

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I’m with Bernie

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John Launer: Losing touch with NHS reality A wonderfully absurdist NHS fantasy has been doing the rounds on social media. It stemmed from a case vignette in a government document, Reforming Elective Care for Patients ,1 in a text box illustrat...

www.bmj.com/content/388/... interesting read

15.01.2025 20:10 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Duckworth: How many nations are in ASEAN?

Hegseth: We have allies in South Korea, Japan, and Australia

Duckworth: None of those countries are in ASEAN

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