Guy Harvey

@guyharvey70.bsky.social

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Out-of-date Psychiatry, Archaeology, Cycling and Climate Science. Tax wealth not work. 'Promoting individual action weakens will for and focus on political / social action'

Age distribution bar chart of long COVID, with 3-17 years encompassed in one metric of about 0.5% of the population.
A bowl filled with ripe blackberries.
Info-graphic showing how tax is evaded by tourist souvenir shops in London by cycling through paper ownerships, called phoenixing.
Chart showing rate of ministerial resignations increasing over time since 1979.
Photo of the rear of a bicycle with a camera and a camera warning sign.
Meme showing cascading sickness and disability from routine surgery when delirium is not treated early, but with an extra stage inserted at the top saying that it could all have been avoided if you travel by bike.
A stone inlaid to a wall outside a green corrugated village hall, with a carved inscription which says, "Capheaton Institute erected by public subscription in the year 1921". We can see the entrance in a porch with a sign that reads "Shut".
Screenshot. Scapegoating is a psychological defense mechanism where a specific member of a group is unfairly blamed for the group's problems. It is an unconscious need to locate all its faults in one person.
Screenshot of article that can be found here rcpsych-insight-35---spring-2026.pdf https://share.google/4RVNytFDIsVtFLzd0
Front cover of the first edition of the adventure novel, Rogue Male by Geoffrey Household.
PETER NORTON The Mismeasure of the American Street The urban ground floor of the typical American city is comparatively privatized, exclusive, and unconducive to diverse local purposes. Proponents of more versatile and inviting urban environments are likely to hear that their proposals face insuperable cultural obstacles. In fact, these obstacles themselves began as contested, heterodox, and farfetched innovations. In the twentieth century, the typical American city street was radically transformed. Novel standards, initially controversial, legitimized and ostensibly necessitated the changes. The new measures were prescriptive, mandating vehicular storage, speed, and throughput over other important urban functions. Valuable street uses that were inconsistent with these criteria were either redefined as nuisances or, more often, omitted from calculations entirely, thereby mismeasuring their value at zero. The effects included privatization of public space and public services, the erosion of proximity and its practical benefits, the neglect of local needs in favour of regional demands, burdensome expenses for those seeking to retain practical mobility, and mobility impairment for the rest. More inclusive measures remain marginalized as heterodox 'alternatives', and are therefore often thwarted. Their ultimate success will require demystifying the predominant standards by revealing their contested origins as the original heterodox and farfetched alternatives. Inclusive histories of the authoritative measures of the American street reveal them to be unscientific mismeasures, historically anomalous and therefore unworthy of the authority they still hold. an early leader of the transform- In 1922 ation. Edward Mehren, called it a 'radical revision of our conception of what a city street is for' (Mehren, 1922). Mehren's efforts and those of his allies were intensely con- troversial, and their opponents strenuously resisted them. It was a complex revolution, evident in…
Screen shot of the IEA industry carbon emissions wed page which shows reductions are 'not on track' to meet net zero requirements.
One of the Banana Bunch. A big bear/monkey thing with a big toothy grin, shades and a fireman's hat.
Exterior of the chancel section of the church including a blocked doorway with a simple lintel and narrow high window with Saxon type shaped arch.
Apologies there's a lot of text and I'm having trouble copying it. Here's the link to the original document which is quite short. https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/696e0eae719d837d69afc7de/National_security_assessment_-_global_biodiversity_loss__ecosystem_collapse_and_national_security.pdf?ref=technosphere.earth
Screen shot from the BMJ study showing nine graphs of different exercises plotted against all cause mortality. Some, eg. walking show benefits others, like cycling less.
JOINT STATEMENT Statement by Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, and the United Kingdom. As members of NATO, we are committed to strengthening Arctic security as a shared transatlantic interest. The pre- coordinated Danish exercise "Arctic Endurance" conducted with Allies, responds to this necessity. It poses no threat to anyone. We stand in full solidarity with the Kingdom of Denmark and the people of Greenland. Building on the process begun last week, we stand ready to engage in a dialogue based on the principles of sovereignty and territorial integrity that we stand firmly behind. Tariff threats undermine transatlantic relations and risk a dangerous downward spiral. We will continue to stand united and coordinated in our response. We are committed to upholding our sovereignty.
A large boulder (the size of a small boulder) with Neolithic cup and ring markings picked out by the low winter sun.
Frontice piece of a book by V. Gordon Childe called The Aryans dated 1926
Wild fire engulfing Arthur's Seat in Edinburgh
We are looking at the outside of Durham Cathedral where an old entrance way has been walled up but there are three carved stone faces remaining (or maybe collected and put in?) above is an arched stained glass window.
The porch and tower of the medieval All Saints church in Sutton on Trent.
Slide from traffic reduction presentation showing two examples where public consultations have been found to include fraudulent responses.
Room with overturned table and broken TV and other rubbish scattered about. The result of 72 hours confined together with only a conversation menu for company.
A view of a tussocky field with an information board explaining it is the site of a temporary Roman fort now called Pennymuir.
Photo of distant landscape with the line of the ancient Roman road Dere Street in green and the site of Pennymuir roman fort in red.
Road and metal sign decorated with sheep and lambs saying ”Buchtrig (only)"
View of Moat Knowe hillfort from the west showing several banks and earthworks on the side of a steep outcrop, in the rain.
Double line of orthostat standing stones lining a pathway rising up to a citadel hillfort.
Green circular enclosure on brown winter hillside with a single building set into the boundary.
Deep ditch between high banks of a hillfort.
Two standing stones and earthworks of an iron age hillfort.
View northwards along Dere Street as it crosses the green brown hills of the Cheviots with three hills on the distant horizon.
Old signpost reading Dere Street pointing up to a hill in the Cheviots.
Screenshot from the TV ad for Honesty Box showing a man with a bike who claims to only be interested in cycling because he's not allowed to drive. He is very fit looking, slim with massive thighs.
A still from the 1958 film Geneveive about the vintage car rally from London to Brighton.
Screenshot of text, "there exists a subterranean world where pathological fantasies disguised as ideas are churned out by crooks and half-educated fanatics for the benefit of the ignorant and superstitious. There are times when this underworld emerges from the depths and suddenly fascinates, captures and dominates multitudes of usually sane and responsible people".
Screenshot of Brake road safety charity's website that says 'we commit to campaigning for solutions that we know will have the biggest impact on stopping road crashes'.
Sharon Griffin ceramic sculptures of the head and shoulders of two figures.
Interior of an abandoned farm house with no roof and bits of old wood and tumbled-down stone walls
Man in jeans and red top disappearing into a tiny church door
Aerial view of green and brown landscape with large obvious rectilinear double earthworks around an old medieval settlement.
Aerial view of green and brown landscape with oval enclosure beside an ancient trackway which leads to a wide avenue lined with stones.
Small grassy mound with nearby standing stone on a sunny winter's day.
Aerial view of green and brown landscape with a curvilinear enclosure with roundhouses within and a trackway, on the edge of a large brown 'lake'.
Flat hillside landscape with large surface of boggy tufts looking like the surface of a small lake. Green and brown winter vegetation and blue sky.
Low stone walls, now partially collapsed and overgrown outlining a large rectilinear enclosure with a smaller one adjacent.
Aerial view of green and brown landscape with various earthworks and trackways.
Isuzaki Mitzuru Bizen flower vase with a mixed spray of tulips, carnations and other yellow, pink, purple, red and green flowers.
Screenshot of a photo atrachment to a Bluesky post with a large opaque grey arrow covering a vital section making the text on the photo unreadable.
Screenshot of scientific paper about health benefits of antioxidants.
Bar chart showing the number of seats won by each party at the UK General election in 2024.
The process of transition info graphic by J M Fisher, 2000. It shows an emotional transition from anxiety through fear, threat, guilt, depression, false hope, hostility to acceptance and change.
The psychological climate change journey infogrsphic. Denial 'it can't be that bad, something will come along', Understanding 'shit!`, Grief `oh no', Realisation 'someone's got to do something. I've got to do something', Acceptance, Action.
Three upright stones on a tussocky northumbrian hillside.
Large standing stone at the entrance to a 1800 year old settlement. These stones are known as orthostats and are structural, architectural and/or decorative features of these sites.
Countryside road fording the Coldwater Burn in Northumberland with woods and solar powered warning sign and depth indicator.
Orthostat set in the entrance to a complex series of earthwork enclosures.