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Tom Zimbardo
@TomMostlyZen
Clinical Psychologist working in neurorehabilitation. Passionate about neuropsychology, mindfulness, geopolitics, Zen. Not related to the famous Zimbardo.
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Aug 2 • 8 tweets • 3 min read
Here is a thread of poems about psychiatric medicines

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

Some by me, some by others

All with AI art by me and Midjourney v6.1

A thread 🧵

/1 - Diazepam /2

Prozac

I went to the land of Fluoxetine
Many years ago
But it was filled with Alien Flowers
Who decided the fate of all beings
Arbitrarily condemning them to death
So I stopped taking it Image
Jan 9 • 13 tweets • 4 min read
Naming conventions in psychiatric and neuropsychiatric conditions.

A thread 🧵

There’s lots of ways of naming all the ways our brains and emotions can go wrong or cause us to suffer. One convention is to name them after Dudes.

Know who this dude is?

That’s Alzheimer

/1 Image There’s a whole bunch of conditions that are named after dudes (and occasionally dudettes) of medicine.

For example, there’s Parkinson’s, Huntington’s, Asperger’s, and my personal favorite Munchausen’s Syndrome (see below)

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May 5, 2023 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
In the depths of World War 2, the Russians were running seriously low on manpower.

Faced with the possibility of losing the War, the Russians decided to start recruiting Muppets to fight for them

a short historical thread 🧵

/1 Image The Muppet people once had their own country, but were absorbed by the Russian empire in the late 1700s like so many other ethnic groups.

Though not ideologically Communist, Muppet divisions became particularly feared by the Nazis due to their total inability to blink

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May 5, 2023 • 15 tweets • 5 min read
Once upon a time, in a world not unlike our own, a little parrot lived in a vast jungle. The parrot was happy and was friends with all the other animals who lived there, many of whom he knew by name.

Then one day, a fire started to rage through his home…

/1 Image The parrot saw the flames coming and quickly flew away. He realised that he could escape the fire, and felt relieved, but then he realised that his animal friends who couldn’t fly were not so lucky, and he worried that many of them might die

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May 4, 2023 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
Muppets that never actually existed… Image Dark Crystal muppets that never actually existed… Image
May 4, 2023 • 11 tweets • 4 min read
See this photograph of a Ukrainian Azovstal soldier? Well it’s not a photograph, it’s an AI generated image from @midjourney version 5.1

A short thread 🧵 on AI art and propaganda

(I checked with some Ukrainians and former soldiers if they thought this was ok)

/1 Image Firstly, to my eye, this picture isn’t distinguishable from a real photograph. I’m sure a professional could tell the difference but I can’t.

Secondly, this took less than 60 seconds to make an cost me 6 US cents (I get 200 images a month for $12).

We are in a new age

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Mar 25, 2023 • 29 tweets • 6 min read
I wanted to write something about what happens when fallible human beings get involved in war and social media at the same time. Although I’m thinking carefully, this is from the heart

🧵/1 Start from this basic premise. We all want to be happy, and to avoid suffering.

Then a war happens. The illegal invasion and genocide in Ukraine. What do you do?

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Mar 19, 2023 • 35 tweets • 10 min read
A thread in which a Neuropsychologist talks to an Open AI Chat GPT instance, asks it questions about itself and it’s abilities, and conducts some basic memory assessments, with interesting results /1 Interesting because despite having good language ability and semantic memory capabilities that vastly exceeds that of human beings, it demonstrates retrograde amnesia & confabulation (false memories) and lacks awareness that it does. We see this in people with brain injuries /2
Mar 18, 2023 • 8 tweets • 4 min read
Today, the Culinary Institute of America (CIA) has announced new weapons are being sent to Ukraine.

First up is the Kompromat (компромат) missile system. It homes in on the mobile phone signal of Russian generals who have followed a specific link to a Donkey Porn website

#NAFO Next is the German SitzPinkler ground attack missile. It specifically targets Russian army toilets, literally catching them with their pants down
Mar 9, 2023 • 20 tweets • 6 min read
So, there’s this live space right now entitled #Twitterfiles and it’s got 5800 or so listeners. It’s generally insane wingnut conspiracy theory bullshit. Here’s who’s on the panel: Image As an avid listener of #MriyaReport, I’m often dismayed to think “are there really 10x more wingnut conspiracy theorists than there are who listen to our space?” Because that’s what it looks like. So I decided to investigate
Nov 21, 2022 • 20 tweets • 5 min read
Book Review: I’ve recently finished listening to Connected Soldiers by Col. John Spencer @SpencerGuard

A thread 🧵 on why I think it’s a useful reflection on modern warfare

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amazon.co.uk/Connected-Sold… Connected Soldiers is really two books in one.

The first is a memoir of two tours of duty in Iraq; in 2003-4 and again in 2008-9, as well as the story of his early military life, and his life as a stay at home dad of 3 young kids when his military wife was deployed.

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Oct 1, 2022 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
A thread of threads on the illegal war and invasion of #Ukraine 🇺🇦 by #Russia 🇷🇺

Mostly about the psychology of the conflict:

1) How Psychopathic is Vladimir Putin? 2) Why I and some nuclear physics experts think most people are worrying too much about Zaporizhzia Nuclear Power Plant #ZNPP
Sep 24, 2022 • 19 tweets • 8 min read
Why do Russians Lie So Often?

A thread 🧵 on Russian Lying, Denial and Accusing others of the own crimes.

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stopfake.org/en/russia-s-to… Everyone knows that Russia lies. Putin lies, Lavrov lies, their media lies, their soldiers lie, and their citizen lie.

But why do they lie so often?

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Aug 21, 2022 • 44 tweets • 15 min read
What is #Psychopathy? And is Vladimir Putin a #Psychopath?

A thread 🧵 based on what we know about his personality and history, and the Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience of the condition

/1 Image People describe #Putin as a bully, a mafia boss, a barbaric war criminal, or simply as evil.

All of these views are correct, but Psychopathy is in many ways an attempt at a scientific understanding of evil



/2en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychopat…
Aug 13, 2022 • 24 tweets • 9 min read
There is clearly a lot of fear about the #Zaporizhzya Nuclear Power Plant at present. The Russians are making threats, but how seriously should we take them?

What are the real likelihood AND severity of of these threats?

A thread 🧵/1
#ZaporozhyeNuclearPowerPlant I work as a Clinical Psychologist and have a background in Physics. Last night, I discussed the possible Russian threats to the ZPP with nuclear experts Mark Nelson @energybants and Eugene Shwageraus @shwageraus on the #MriyaReport Twitter Space @MriyaReport /2
Apr 22, 2022 • 16 tweets • 5 min read
In this video, watch Putin from 21m40 to 21m49s. At 21m49 he appears to notice an involuntary pill-rolling movement in his left hand, looks distinctly annoyed about it, and moves his left hand down to his side. The sudden noticing and annoyed expression, combined with removing his hand to conceal it suggest an uncontrolled movement. Pill rolling movements are generally considered a Parkinsonian symptom. Of course, we shouldn’t diagnose people via the internet.