Local Humorless Decriminalization Advocate

We favor drug use.

[Mel @melbee4444]

@life_is_art___ @highway_dave Pain management has adopted the paternalistic care & surveillance that’s been practiced in methadone clinics for decades. It’s not quite as bad but there’s nothing good about any of it.

[David Frank, PhD @highway_dave]

The construct of ‘addiction’ is the most useful tool for prohibitionists and people who want to take away the rights of people who use drugs. It’s so loosey-goosey and un-critical they can apply it to any situation to righteously justify whatever draconian measures they want.

[klorgbrett the destroyer @phantomtransy]

So true

[Assal Rad @AssalRad]

The New York Times wrote a Haiku to avoid saying Israel massacres Palestinians that they’re deliberately starving in Gaza.

[Taleed El-Sabawi, JD, PhD @el_sabawi]

Being Palestinian American right now
--is having to listen to a video of your family members detailing how they have been tortured
--listening to it over and over again so that you can translate it & caption it in English, so that their trauma can be broadcast for an English-speaking audience.
....In the hopes, that maybe, just maybe, helping to raise awareness will prevent them from being killed. Or maybe someone with power somewhere will make it all stop.
And then showing up to work as if everything is just fine.

[MJM @MikeJMele]

Not only are those who are struggling with mental illness doing their best to manage the illness, but they also have to fight to maintain the façade of positive mental health. It is exhausting and a fight that no one who is struggling should have to partake in.

[Kelly L.⭐⭐ @Irishbrat1966]

WTF!?! 😔😢🤦‍♀️🤬

[Guy Oron @GuyOron]

Community members are holding a candlelight vigil outside of Seattle City Hall on the winter solstice to remember the more than 334 people who have died while homeless in King County this year. Last year, 269 homeless people died in King County.

[🔥Temporary Solutions💉 @TSBurkhardt]

danielle is one of the rare academics who isn't a massive idiot loser.
she's long been one of us on an impressive career arch, helping us.

here's her latest article, a unique perspective on the differences between Australia & America for methadone patients.
(pic related)

[Local Humorless Decriminalization Advocate @DecrimAdvocate]

@StefanKertesz No, every word has to reflect individual and singular insight to the point of complete unintelligibility.

[John🩻 @shdwstar]

If your doctor wants you to take genetic testing to determine if you have the 'addiction' gene you should probably find a new one. That will only be used to make you suffer. #JustSayNo

[Local Humorless Decriminalization Advocate @DecrimAdvocate]

@stephenHRNRP Prohibitionist mental hygiene is to pretend the world is as desired and to annihilate discrepancies, who are often people. You get a lot less of this violence and self-motivated delusion among drug users, and more taking of honest pleasure.

[guyfelicella🇨🇦🍁 @guyfelicella]

The toxic drug supply makes recovery harder.

Detox programs are seeing much more complicated withdrawal since benzos became more prevalent in the unregulated drug supply. People experiencing withdrawal from benzos need a medical detox model with 24-hour monitoring.
https://t.co/raEJ5XFfpK

[Local Humorless Decriminalization Advocate @DecrimAdvocate]

@addictionandlo1 At least with drug use the potential for pleasure within the identity-experience is realizable without immense cognitive distortion of our shared reality (viz "Just say no!").

[Local Humorless Decriminalization Advocate @DecrimAdvocate]

Bill W. found Truth in an entirely original way and "got sober."

He found a cure. What does it imply about the disease?

To me, it implies that prior to his epiphany, Bill W. could not find Truth in the world.

[Local Humorless Decriminalization Advocate @DecrimAdvocate]

Style guide: "Israel-Hamas War" is less accurate than "the humanitarian crisis in Gaza."

[Local Humorless Decriminalization Advocate @DecrimAdvocate]

@pukeuprainbows I mean, remember what they did with Origin of Species? Descent with modification is mind-blowing, but the results of its inapposite application were devastating to disfavor social groups.

[Local Humorless Decriminalization Advocate @DecrimAdvocate]

Now is a good stopping point for particle physics. We've got the standard model, and do we really want to know what all that dark matter is?

[Local Humorless Decriminalization Advocate @DecrimAdvocate]

@pukeuprainbows And during its incomprehensible time, it could reinforce extremely dangerous tendencies in other meaning systems.

And particle accelerators don't come cheap.