Scientific fraud is the most baffling thing ever to me like do they think they're just going to make a huge breakthrough and no one will notice that it's fake by trying to replicate their results
Yeah actually I just discovered how to turn plastic into gold. Oh you want to know how I did it
Starts running away cutely
Well, you know, some bathroom graffiti offers insight.
Red marker handwriting on a bathroom wall. Text reads:
“Boss made a dollar Granddad made a dime But that was a poem From a simpler time.
Boss made a thousand Gave pa a cent But that penny paid the mortgage Or at least it paid the rent
Now Boss makes a million And gives us jack Smugly blames the workers For the labor that he lacks.”
Day #1: Afters hours upon hours of practicing my Sonic the Hedgehog impressions, I find myself becoming closer to my, nay, THE ultimate goal of becoming Sonic the Hedgehog.
I am not yet Sonic the Hedgehog.
Day #3,859: I’ve been Sonic for a couple years now. I’d never wish this hell upon anyone else.
Advice if you love/care about an addict but they're not ready for abstinence. This is meeting people where they're at- the most important part of harm reduction
suboxone and methadone are treatment drugs for opioid withdrawal symptoms btw! they’re meant to be a kind of transitional drug for people who want to quit but don’t want to suffer through the cold turkey method, which a lot of harm reduction advocates see as needlessly difficult and cruel
Ok idk very much about it but I'm pretty sure withdrawal from a wide variety of substances that form chemical dependency can capital-k Kill You.
like I had a relative who was an alcoholic and went to jail and alcohol withdrawals ended him up in the ICU for a MONTH
The main substances where stopping cold-turkey can kill you are alcohol and benzodiazepines (Xanax, Valium, Klonopin, ect.) In both cases the most dangerous part of withdrawal is seizures. Delirium and overheating are also a problem, mainly with alcohol. Cold-turkey withdrawal from opioids can sometimes be fatal but it's rare. Opioid withdrawal fatalities are usually from dehydration as a result of vomiting/diarrhea.
Never tried doing a transcript before but a reblog asked for one and I can't seem to find any myself so here's my attempt (most filled pauses such as "um" and "uh" have been removed for readability).
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Ask id: Rely to user claym4ti0n's comment "i rllyyy wish i could've seen that video please upload again soon" /end ask ID
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Video id: "Hi, my name is Courtney and I'm a harm reduction worker in the South Bronx.
So someone basically asked me what to do when they love somebody in their life who's in active addition.
They don't wanna lose this person, but this person is not ready to get clean yet, and they don't know what to do to help them. And I wanna tell you guys what we do in harm reduction and an individual-centred approach.
So the most important part of harm reduction is meeting people where they're at, and we do a person-centred approach, which our cases for each individual is going to be completely different because each individual experiencing addiction is completely different.
For some people, forced treatment may help them, but it's still a punitive measure and we don't wanna force people into treatment because for a lot of people it ends up being traumatic and you don't get the results they want if they're not ready to get clean and they don't wanna get clean.
And by the way, it's okay for them to not wanna get clean yet or not be ready; they're on their own timeline and their own journey.
So I'm going to make up a hypothetical person so you guys can understand what meeting someone where they're at basically means.
So say I'm working in harm reduction. We have someone new come in and I do an intake. They say that they shoot heroin and fentanyl about eight times a day. They're an IV (intravenous therapy) user, they're houseless, and they're not on any form of M.A.T (medication-assisted treatment) or anything like that in any program.
I can ask them what they wanna gain from coming to the harm reduction center, like 'what is your goal; you obviously came here for an intention.' A lot of times it'll be like clean syringes or fentanyl testing strips, or they wanna like store their syringes and exchange them properly. Something like that.
So we can make a goal for them to start using clean syringes every time they use (drugs), and that is a major goal to achieve! So we set that goal. And say they come back in two weeks and they've been using clean syringes every time they use (drugs). They're still using (drugs), but they're using clean syringes, which is way safer than what they were doing before, and that's an amazing goal and we celebrate them achieving that goal.
We don't shame or stigmatize their use; it's okay. So once they achieve I could be like 'okay, do you wanna, like, achieve another goal? Let's get you on, maybe, maintenance.', M.A.T if they're ready. So they join a methadone program and they're still using (drugs) but they're only using two times a day, now, they're using clean syringes, and they're on maintenance; they're on methadone. So that is a huge achievement! And if they achieve that goal, that is something to be celebrated. Like, that is harm reduction and meeting someone where they're at.
So when this case first came in - think about it - they were using eight times a day, they were using dirty syringes, which is a risk for HIV, hep C (hepatitis C), and infections, and y'know they weren't on maintenance. All this stuff.
Now they're only using two times a day, they're using clean syringes, they're disposing of them properly, and they're on maintenance. That's an amazing achievement in itself, so we celebrate that.
(I'm unsure what this word is) say they're ready to housing because housing is a form of harm reduction. I can get them into a shelter, maybe an apartment, or we can work something out depending on the individual and what they're… you know, accessible, what's accessible to them.
So they go from being houseless to being in a shelter, only using (drugs) two times a day, being on maintenance, and using clean syringes. That in itself is an amazing achievement. So they didn't stop (drug) use, they didn't get totally clean, they're not totally abstinent, but they're, like, way… they're using (drugs) in a way safer way than they were before.
And you might think that's not an achievement, 'oh my god, they can only achieve this much', but to the… anybody else this is a huge achievement, and this is something that should be celebrated!
Then one day, say they're ready to come in, and they're like 'yeah, I wanna get on Suboxone. I want to stop using completely.' or 'I wanna go to detox', then we can help them with that as well.
Like, it all depends on the individual and the person themselves, and meeting them where they're at.
So if someone you love is using (drugs), and you know they're using, and you wanna help them, don't help them in a stigmatized way. Don't stigmatize their drug use, don't shame them, don't force them to get clean. That is basically not helping in any type of way. And I know your intentions are probably good but the outcome is not always good.
So try given them fentanyl testing strips, try giving them access to clean syringes, try hooking them up with harm reduction centers, try anything anything you can. AA and NA, I mean, I'm not big fans of AA or NA but it works for some people. Like, anything you can, but meet the individual where they're at and be prepared for what that individual is ready for and do it on their timeline. That's the most important part.
And I hope this explains it well, I know it's a really long video, I'm sorry. But I'm just trying my best to explain a really complicated matter and like, as short and simple as possible. I hope it helps!"
Courtney reaches to turn off the camera.
The next shot is of a yellow poster with the words 'END THE DRUG WAR' with a bottle of hand sanitizer next to it. Courtney makes a peace sign with the hand in view of the camera.
Text on-screen appears stating 'END THE DR^G WAR!!! save lives!!!! 🖤🖤
The video ends in a TikTok clip with the username "court0o0" displayed on screen.
/end video ID
I follow this creator on tiktok and she recently got kicked out of her shelter for not being there for One night and she's asking for help and donations!! her venmo is court-dourt and she's looking for a roommate or place to stay in nyc, she does a lot of good work so please help her out if you can
Resources mentioned: Likelihood Art, Artistik Freedom, SamDoesArts, Ethan Becker
Pasteups in NYC denouncing Facebook for collaboration with Nebraska police to sentence a teenage girl to 90 days in jail for using using the abortion pill to terminate her pregnancy.
Facebook gave the cops ALL THE DATA of the teen and her mother, based on a hunch by some random fucking cop. This included years worth of photos, videos, 'private' chats and THEIR FUCKING LOCATION DATA.
DON'T TRUST SOCIAL MEDIAS WITH ANYTHING
ID: Text pasted on a wall reading “Facebook gave Nebraska cops a teen’s DMs so they could prosecute her for having an abortion” /End ID
This is such an important and genuinely terrifying post. I could completely go off on the rise of anti-science, but for now I’ll just add: it isn’t just boomers that get deceived. This is a warning to all of us.
Pay ATTENTION to what you are being told. If you think you cannot be deceived, you leave yourself open to deception. Question, doubt, research research research. Learn about your personal biases, dig up any subconscious cognitive dissonance. Keep an eye on your mind.
It needs to be stressed that biases, not a lack of intelligence, is very much the issue here. Being aware of the need to fact check yourself is key: Intelligence won’t protect you from bad or unhealthy mental states, or keep you safe from cults of any sort. Intelligence will just make it easier for you to rationalize and attempt to justify the malformed tools you’ve taken/been given to yourself and others. You need to be wise enough to challenge yourself.
As a cult survivor, this is lethally accurate.
I'm an anarchist who firmly believe that it's silly and selfdestructive of all leftist ideologies to not try and learn from each other. Sure, I may disagree with aspects of Marxism, but that doesn't mean I won't read Marxist writers just because I disagree with like 10% of it.
Expanding out horrisons to better understand each other won't hurt, our infighting may become a bit productive, and it'll be easier to put our differences aside to curbstomp capitalism before resuming our endless arguing.
100%, of course with the caveat that tankies can still eat shit.
I'm a survivor of the terror attacks who lived 4 blocks east of the World Trade Center. I lost my home that day, spent years homeless and destitute, and I carry a Zadroga Act diagnosis of 9/11-connected PTSD. If anyone who's doing this RP needs character coaching or if you need help with authentic scenarios, I'm available for consulting services at reasonable rates. DM me here or leave your number on the men's room wall at any leather bar and it'll get to me in 24 hours. Happy 9/11 y'all, and remember fireworks are unsafe and illegal in most jurisdictions.
listen. There's a whole mentality shift that needs to happen culture wide here, from the schools to the public infrastructure to pet ownership to the justice system
The proper response to your dog doing a natural behavior you dislike (digging/barking/protecting etc) it to give them an appropriate time and place to engage in that behavior
The proper response to skateboarders damaging infrastructure is to build more and better skate parks, or build skate elements into the public infrastructure on purpose.
The proper response to homeless people sleeping on park benches is to build them houses.
you see how there's like, a commonality at play here?
The proper response to a disruption is to address the root of the disruption directly, not somehow attack the disruption itself -
you don't invent a muffler by swinging a bat at the engine noise, you don't relieve your hunger by punching yourself in the stomach, you don't resolve public unrest by sending armed men to control them and you don't prevent homeless people using bus shelters as a roof by removing the bus shelters.
a whole ass shift in a basic mindset, i'm tellin' you. We need it.
I’m a busy man. Got two caution signs to remind me to slow down sometimes. Got a vibrating megaphone. Clocks. Radiation. Four goats. Got half a tank of simple columnar epithelial tissue. 60% through my day. Half a tank of gas. And it’s only 10:50.
I'm not corrupted by the amulet or anything but people who might try to touch or steal it from me definitely have to die. just as a moral thing
hey can I touch and/or steal your amulet
i wish i could take an ad by the neck and strangle it with my bear hands
learning that self deprecation isnt cool and just makes the people around you uncomfortable unironically improved my mental health a lot. like if you just stop saying negative shit about yourself you will genuinely like yourself more and other people wont be repulsed by your attitude and you will have more friends. it's true.