David Knight - OCD Specialist @simplecbt

Mark your calendars. September 3 is officially Body Dysmorphic Disorder (BDD) Awareness Day! 💙 Every person living with Body Dysmorphic Disorder deserves to be seen with compassion, understood without judgment, and reminded that recovery is possible. Together, we can raise awareness, reduce stigma, and help more people find understanding, support, and hope. Stay tuned for more information. #BDDAwarenessDay

@Gwani_bukhari Arabic came a 1000 years after Hebrew and Aramaic

🔴 NEW How George Cottrell’s Reform UK Network in Montenegro Is Tied to Sanctioned Russian Oligarchs By @NafeezAhmed Nigel Farage's criminal funder runs a Montenegro company whose corporate advisors work for a Belgrade Russian-arms dealer and individuals tied to Russian state-linked enterprises Subscribe to support fearless independent journalism. bylinetimes.com/2026/07/27/how…

I watched Trump’s speech at the Correspondents’ Dinner last night. It’s hard to articulate how sad it made me. Sad and embarrassed and exhausted. Here is the thing about a man who is a joke. He can’t tell one. People think humor is a talent. It isn’t. It’s a capacity. To make someone laugh you have to be able to laugh at yourself, and to laugh at yourself you have to step outside of yourself and see what everyone else sees. For one second you have to be just another person in the room. Most people can do this by the time they are nine years old. He has never once managed it. Not in fifty years of cameras. Not for a second. That is not a quirk. It is a symptom. The muscle that lets you tell a joke is the same one that lets you feel what another person feels. A man who cannot survive being laughed at cannot imagine being anyone but himself. He will only ever be generous when it is photographed. He will only ever be kind when it is filmed. There is a name for it. So he stood up there and did what he always does. He hit down. He made jokes about people’s weight. He made jokes about their intelligence. He made jokes about how women look. He read out the names of people he doesn’t like, and mocked them. Always mocking. And when no one laughed he blamed his speech writers. The cruelty dressed as humor has worn so thin. And for the 30% of you still in the cult who will inevitably call me a crackhead and blame it all on my Dad, all I can say is please, for the love of God, open your eyes. Wake the fuck up. Have some dignity. Have some pride. Joe Biden wasn’t standing at that podium last night. Donald Trump was. And at the end of it he put on a red hat that said Trump 2028 and told the room he was running again. No one laughed because everyone knows he has no intention of leaving. Just another joke at our expense.

@TheLinkPanda @QuintenFrancois @Ryanair Their safety record is 7 stars. The highest you can get. Their service though definitely not 7 stars

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@NicHulscher The statistics in question originate from a highly flawed, un-peer-reviewed preprint paper that was so heavily criticized for its faulty methodology that the preprint server, Preprints.org (managed by MDPI), withdrew it entirely in January 2026.

"Ultra-processed foods increase inflammation in the body, and it takes us away from better decision-making." @DavidPerlmutter David is a board-certified neurologist who has spent decades studying the relationship between our lifestyle choices and the health of our brains. And this idea in particular is one I keep coming back to. For me, this goes far beyond brain health in later life. It speaks to the decisions we're making right now, every single day. And as David explains, that creates a cycle that is very difficult to break. Which is precisely why understanding it matters so much. In this week's new episode of my 'Feel Better, Live More' podcast, David connects the dots between what we eat, how we think and where our brain health is heading. Tune in to episode 674: The Daily Habits That Protect Your Brain At Any Age

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Very cool, entertaining and with high production values: if I were @Nigel_Farage, I’d consider dipping into that £5 million to try to get out a video that can compare to it.

@MikeGrayson_ @JonErlichman Magna carta was signed in 1215. The us constitution was heavily based on this

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@_TallGuyTycoon Neither produce any significant cancer risk. It can't be built anywhere as needs huge water supply. Solar can be built anywhere. Solar is now cheaper. You can't compare radioactive waste with waste from Solar. Nuclear waste lasts over 1000 years!

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After thirty years of clinical practice, I keep coming back to the same handful of techniques because they work. The Thriving Blueprint is my attempt to put those techniques into people’s hands directly #CBT #MentalHealth #SelfHelp

@randgroup Add in health care and the US drops to the bottom of the chart

@QuintenFrancois This is not the official government report, thats not out yet. It is from Restore Britain a far right political party. The figure is an estimate by them covering the last 70 years. Always check your sources

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A Norwegian neuroscientist spent 20 years proving that the act of writing by hand changes the human brain in ways typing physically cannot, and almost nobody outside her field has read the paper. Her name is Audrey van der Meer. She runs a brain research lab in Trondheim, and the paper that closed the argument was published in 2024 in a journal called Frontiers in Psychology. The finding is brutal enough that it should have changed every classroom on Earth. The experiment was simple. She recruited 36 university students and put each one in a cap with 256 sensors pressed against their scalp to record brain activity. Words flashed on a screen one at a time. Sometimes the students wrote the word by hand on a touchscreen using a digital pen, and sometimes they typed the same word on a keyboard. Every neural response was recorded for the full five seconds the word stayed on screen. Then her team looked at the part of the data most researchers had ignored for years, which is how different parts of the brain were communicating with each other during the task. When the students wrote by hand, the brain lit up everywhere at once. The regions responsible for memory, sensory integration, and the encoding of new information were all firing together in a coordinated pattern that spread across the entire cortex. The whole network was awake and connected. When the same students typed the same word, that pattern collapsed almost completely. Most of the brain went quiet, and the connections between regions that had been alive seconds earlier were nowhere to be found on the EEG. Same word, same brain, same person, and two completely different neurological events. The reason turned out to be something nobody had really paid attention to before her work. Writing by hand is not one motion but a sequence of thousands of tiny micro-movements coordinated with your eyes in real time, where each letter is a different shape that requires the brain to solve a slightly different spatial problem. Your fingers, wrist, vision, and the parts of your brain that track position in space are all working together to produce one letter, then the next, then the next. Typing throws all of that away. Every key on a keyboard requires the exact same finger motion regardless of which letter you are pressing, which means the brain has almost nothing to integrate and almost no problem to solve. Van der Meer said it plainly in her interviews. Pressing the same key with the same finger over and over does not stimulate the brain in any meaningful way, and she pointed out something that should scare every parent who handed their kid an iPad. Children who learn to read and write on tablets often cannot tell letters like b and d apart, because they have never physically felt with their bodies what it takes to actually produce those letters on a page. A decade before her, two researchers at Princeton ran the same fight using a completely different method and ended up at the same answer. Pam Mueller and Daniel Oppenheimer tested 327 students across three experiments, where half took notes on laptops with the internet disabled and half took notes by hand, before testing everyone on what they actually understood from the lectures they had watched. The handwriting group won by a wide margin on every question that required real understanding rather than surface recall. The reason was hiding in the transcripts of what the two groups had actually written down. The laptop students typed almost word for word, capturing more total content but processing almost none of it as they went, while the handwriting students physically could not write fast enough to transcribe a lecture in real time, which forced them to listen carefully, decide what actually mattered, and put it in their own words on the page. That single act of choosing what to keep was the learning itself, and the keyboard had quietly skipped the choosing and skipped the learning along with it. Two studies. Two countries. Same answer. Handwriting makes the brain work. Typing lets it coast. Every note you have ever typed instead of written went into your brain through a thinner pipe. Every meeting, every book highlight, every idea you captured on your phone instead of on paper was processed at half depth. You did not forget those things because your memory is bad. You forgot them because typing never woke the part of the brain that would have made them stick. The fix is the thing your grandmother already knew. Pick up a pen. Write the thing down. The slower road is the faster one.

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