Autumn

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[Autumn @aut264]

@RAVENSCOON STL!!! We loved your show out here in the Midwest 🤩🤩

[Lukas (computer)🔺 @SCHIZO_FREQ]

Learning about fentanyl years ago made me realize drugs are actually unironically dangerous now

At first I was like "whatever, it's not like I use enough to overdose even if there is some in my drugs."

Then I learned it only takes like 1mg to kill you and I was like "hmmmm... okay, guess I was wrong. Well, doesn't matter anyway - I only use uppers and there's no way dealers are cutting their uppers with downers that counteract the effects and kill their customers, that'd be totally retarded!"

Then I see like 500 people posting test results showing their cocaine has fentanyl in it for some reason, and I'm forced to accept that my theory about drug dealers being rational capitalistic market participants may have been misguided. (to this day I still don't know why dealers do this - best explanation I've heard is that it's unintentional cross-contamination from multiple products)

I deploy my final druggie cope:

"Even if there is some in my drugs, I should be fine if I'm using the same batch other people used without dying!"

Then I learn it clumps up, so you can have a bag of cocaine where like 98% of it won't be an issue but that last bit has a tiny 3mg crumb of fentanyl and kills you instantly. Even batches that test negative can kill people sometimes!

It's insane. It's like it was specifically designed to lure people into a false sense of safety before just pulling the plug and erasing their lives.

There's basically no safe way to do drugs now unless you carry around a bunch of test strips, and nobody does that because it defeats the entire purpose of drugs by making them dorky. I'm old now so this doesn't really impact me, but if they rolled fent out while I was a kid I 100% would have died.

19-year-old Lukas would read this exact post I'm writing, laugh, yell "okay BITCH!!" and gigadose whatever random powder he had on hand as a middle finger to the author. He'd probably be fine, but now there's this constant tiny chance he's not, and his mom gets a call about her dead son the next day instead. It's not good.

I have no idea what the solution is other than like, giving the dad of every dead kid a shotgun, the address of his kid's dealer and a legal contract absolving him of any laws he may break in the following 24h.

[frederique @FrederiqueD1]

okay i need y’all to understand that BOUNDARIES are about what YOU are gonna do, they’re not rules or expectations on someone else’s behavior, they are YOUR personal response to other people’s behavior

[AshleyStevens @The_Acumen]

American voters will demand more from a fast food worker than the politicians they vote for, and that will never not confound me. They’ll literally curse at and fight a cashier, but have all the excuses in the world for people with actual power. Y’all are trained dogs.

[Gabriele Corno @Gabriele_Corno]

Underwater Sweetness

🎥 Ben Burville

[E Krebs, PhD 🧂 @SaltySicky]

It's #WorldSuicidePreventionDay!
As a suicidologist and someone who has experienced chronic suicidality since age 9, I want to offer some insights that mainstream prevention orgs don't often share. 🧵

[Danny Murphy @kashmeredanny]

me at a restaurant I didn’t want to go to after saying “im literally down for wherever”

[martin saw the 1975 @DH01242]

arctic monkeys, the 1975 and taylor swift releasing albums in october then suddenly it’s 2014 again

[Autumn @aut264]

Yessss ask anyone who works in schools this is so common. They politely correct adults and fiercely defend their friends too it’s beautiful to see 💓 I learn from the kids daily and hope our world starts to look this.

[sally darr @sallydarr]

Selena Gomez just revealed in an interview that her hit song “Come & Get It” is about an all you can eat buffet

[Autumn @aut264]

@abbydidier Will never understand the Aldi slander. Do people hate saving money???

[Boze Herrington, Library Owl 😴🧙‍♀️ @SketchesbyBoze]

kids today are like “so what did y’all do before the internet? did you just not know anything?” and the answer is yes. you would ask your aunt Marge a question, she’d give you the wrong answer and you’d carry that misinformation for twenty years.

[Autumn @aut264]

@abbydidier What’s more embarrassing is everyone watching you golf on that little ledge you’re the real winner here

[Emily Calandrelli @TheSpaceGal]

If you’re like “I don’t know anyone who’s had an abortion” what you’re actually saying is:
“No one I know trusts me enough to tell me about their abortion”

[NoelCaslerComedy @caslernoel]

When folks talk about American spirit they would do well to look towards the mom in Uvalde, TX who left her job, drove 40 mins, was put in cuffs, got out, hopped a fence, knew exactly what classroom her kids were in, measured the distance of gunshots to safely rescue them…

[Evie Ebert @ohevie]

My main parenting advice works for adults too which is that when someone has a tantrum then eventually collects themself enough to rejoin the group, you really don't need to embarrass them about it? You can just be cool and say "hey glad you're here"

[Autumn @aut264]

Yepppp told my brother he gets $20 for every A in high school and this man all the sudden has a 4.0 all year 🥴

[Vincent Jurist @VincentJurist]

Promised my younger brother an iPhone if he performs well at school this year and he’s been scoring 90s in all his tests since the year started.

[Keke Palmer @KekePalmer]

My lil sis just turned 21. We were having a convo & I said something along the lines of “they’re better than that” & she said, “no, ppl are what they show u. That’s your optimism.” I’m stunned because my optimism is a “positive” quality. But maybe it creates delusions too.

[Amy Mason @AmyCMason]

My therapist just said 'kids are very resilient' and I said 'why do all adults need therapy then?' And she just looked into the middle distance for a bit + seemed to reassess quite a lot of things