Mary MacCallum Sullivan

Retired UKCP reg psychotherapist & teacher, Scotland. More democracy. Practise love; acknowledge power; realise justice. 'Cradling the Chrysalis'

[Peter MacDonald @BlackIslePMD]

Here's an *actual* problem that the unions could be properly tackling. Every minute/penny/joule that is spent on gender nonsense while this happens is a direct betrayal of workers.

[Mary MacCallum Sullivan @MacPsy]

What a work has been achieved here!

[Andy Wightman @andywightman]

MAY 2026 UPDATE Who Owns Scotland now published with a total of 5000 landholdings (76.95% rural Scotland). All records updated & 19 new ones including an estate sale that I will highlight in a blog. New subscriptions welcome - they start at £6. Link in bio

[Janet Pontin @janetpontin]

@catdeans @QcWynter @denbypottery There is a parliamentary petition they started at Denby, now for any remaining pottery industry as too late for them, for government to take special protective measures. It's almost at required 100k for debate. Needs to be pushed over that number.
https://t.co/UrJeuu5CuU

[Simon Forrest @SimonForrest11]

Industrial strategy is futile without cheap energy.
UK Govt is entirely to blame for this. Taxes & red tape on employment, compounded by high energy bills- caused, not by the cost of energy, but how we calculate it.

Final pieces fired at Denby Pottery.
https://t.co/2o6qmaP3Oe.

[Mary MacCallum Sullivan @MacPsy]

Don’t rule it out...

[𝙾𝚟𝚎𝚛𝚕𝚊𝚗𝚍𝚎𝚛 @overlandertheb1]

Scotland should do this over the shooting estates but we're too polite. Don't want to make a fuss.

[Mary MacCallum Sullivan @MacPsy]

@WingsScotland @Graeme_Berry @meljomur and because it was 'ring-fenced’!

[Wings Over Scotland @WingsScotland]

@Graeme_Berry @meljomur Also, NOT only SNP members were scammed. All kinds of people donated to that fundraiser BECAUSE it was for indy, not for the SNP.

[𝙾𝚟𝚎𝚛𝚕𝚊𝚗𝚍𝚎𝚛 @overlandertheb1]

@SimonForrest11 They all seem to know each other. We need distance and scepticism and diligence, we get collusion.

[𝙾𝚟𝚎𝚛𝚕𝚊𝚗𝚍𝚎𝚛 @overlandertheb1]

This is how the Internet changed the game. A blogger from Bath is aided by the Dean of the Faculty of Advocates, both working in the public interest against a malfunctioning state apparatus.

Politicians and media are mere observers.

[Prem Sikka @premnsikka]

Dreaming of a home?

UK worker share of gross value added down from 71.9% in 1975 to 59.3%.

Employee median wage £31524. Can you buy a home?

Private sector rents up 28% in 3 yrs.

Social housing depleted since the 1980.

Govts besotted with neoliberalism
https://t.co/pOUoJsmCE9

[Mary MacCallum Sullivan @MacPsy]

@DrHannahBelcher Psychotherapy & psychoanalysis depend on relationship which practitioner can establish & maintain with client/patient. The more severe the ‘problem’, the more is demanded of the therapist, & of the framework within which the work takes place - a good combo not easily found.

[Neale Hanvey🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @JNHanvey]

This legislation rests on a toxic lie.

It is not a ban on conversion therapy it IS conversion therapy for young lesbian & gay people who would be transed to fit heterosexist approximations of their opposite sex.

Speech, worship, parenting, talk-therapy will all be criminalised

[Sall Grover @salltweets]

My daughter is about to turn 4. My dream is that when she is 18, we’re having a drink & I’m telling her what I was doing for the first 5 years of her life & she is laughing saying, “thats the stupidest thing I’ve ever heard” and I can say, “You can laugh because we won.”
We will never take women’s rights for granted.

[Joanna Cherry KC @joannaccherry]

Keep going. Delighted to see your letters to Crown Office & Police Scotland were informed by independent legal advice from the Dean of the Faculty of Advocates. We need more transparency of decision-making in Scotland. If it takes legal action or a Westminster inquiry so be it.

[Mary MacCallum Sullivan @MacPsy]

There are many in the relevant professions who want to know the answers to @Woodmoose’s questions. We also want our professional organisations to want to know and to support good practice rather than ‘follow the herd’.

[Suz Jamieson 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @SuzJamieson]

More emails sent by @WingsScotland this morning.

https://t.co/BG6zOLHRwM

[Woodmoose 💜🤍💚 @Woodmoose]

@Jebadoo2 @JaneMactaggartL @StephenMorganMP Are you able to clarify the statistics regarding conversion therapy in the UK? How is it defined? How do we provide evidence based care to children and young people struggling with gender issues (as per Cass) without breaching this new law?

[Believe in Scotland @believeinscot]

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Don't Let Them Block Our Indyref Mandate.

✍️ Sign our Action-Petition today and all your elected representatives and the Prime Minister will be emailed to tell them to agree to the Scottish Parliament demand for a new independence referendum: https://t.co/njqPicGQDQ

[ScotNews @indyscotnews]

Things could get really scary, so why aren’t we preparing?

First published by Common Weal

You want to hear something unnerving? JP Morgan recently modelled what is going to happen to the oil prices based on a range of assumptions. The result was so sc… https://t.co/2XhLBuGB7j

[Nick Kapur @nick_kapur]

Compelling essay by sci-fi writer Ted Chiang on why LLMs are nowhere near consciousness, but why it serves the interests of LLM companies to constantly suggest that they might be.

I've pulled one quote below, but the whole article is worth reading.