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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 🍿

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#booksky

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Loved NYC

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Went to this place we saw on Somebody Feed Phil 🍕

01.06.2025 17:31 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 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 — 👍 16847    🔁 7078    💬 536    📌 851
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Experts criticise Streeting for saying mental health problems overdiagnosed Health secretary’s comments that too many people are ‘written off’ prompts warnings against stigmatising people

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

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

17.03.2025 10:19 — 👍 376    🔁 116    💬 82    📌 15
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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...

21.02.2025 23:11 — 👍 1501    🔁 629    💬 138    📌 56
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 — 👍 774    🔁 261    💬 22    📌 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.

‘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...

22.02.2025 10:02 — 👍 131    🔁 64    💬 5    📌 4
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New painting of the church in my village 👨‍🎨

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New painting of the church in my village 👨‍🎨

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The “libertarian” 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. 🇬🇧

08.02.2025 10:01 — 👍 1543    🔁 379    💬 86    📌 36
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First painting in a while

08.02.2025 10:55 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 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

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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

14.01.2025 18:03 — 👍 12553    🔁 2823    💬 602    📌 553

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