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Standing across the River Mersey with the tide out and fog rolling in around the city of Liverpool.

Can AI help with mental health?

This week Buzzfeed announced 10 reasons why they would be using AI to help write content on their site, and you’ll never believe what happened next! Mass firings! I really feel for the writers there. Surely they can’t be replaced by AI? If you’ve played any video

Venice. Tall white buildings stand against a blue sky. The middle one has columns and a cross on top.

Yearly Theme Review

I believe that attempting to force restart your life 6 days after Christmas when you’ve probably got a tax return to start is a bad idea. Setting New Year Resolutions is setting yourself up for anxiety leading to depression. Unless, oddly, that’s your resolution but then if you

Black and white photo. People taking photos from Brooklyn promenade of the Manhattan skyline.

Hello 2023

Word up! It’s 2023! I hope you’re as happy as a sandboy, which is apparently a thing meaning blissfully happy. That sounds like a nice place to be. It goes without saying, which is why I’m writing this, that it’s OK to be as happy as

At dusk a single street light is turned on illuminating the promenade.

Happy Queermas?

Let’s put a pin in Christmas for now. I’m half way through and I’m at the stage all I want for Christmas is not be disabled, able to just do stuff and not suffer from depression. My brain does not make it easy to do anything. I’

Dusk on the banks of the River Mersey. A new moon rises and there's a slight orange glow on the horizon behind the city of Li

Happy Queermas

After spending the last few weeks wondering, “What is Christmas? Why is Christmas? Who is Christmas?” I bumped into a phrase via BBC 6 Music. Queermas. My brain lit up. Queermas! By Jove, they’re onto something. Would it be possible to dump the issues with Christmas and instead celebrate

Stars in the sky above the Liverpool waterfront.

Acceptance

That is all I want for Christmas. Acceptance and whisky. Double up on the acceptance please and thank you.