#like fentanyl

[rochenn]

I think we should write more straight relationships with 2010s TV queerbait tactics. Let that man and that woman's lives be horribly intertwined, let them take bullets for the other, let them be each other's meaning but NO KISSING. They are holding each other platonically. You're crazy for reading anything romantic into it at all tbh

[best-beelieve]

Soundscape, petrichor Mack Daddy

I'm stealing this from Twitter

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I am a high-definition gateway drug body double!

[mcelquotes]

My first job will always be to cheer you up, so honestly, if I need to bomb on Sawbones to put a smile on your face, I will absolutely do it every time.

Justin McElroy

[angelnumber27]

[allgremlinart]

zuko in that promo gesturing at me like he's gonna sell me his shitty weed... I dont want your shitty weed I know your weed would be so fucking bad...

[goodluckclove]

Portland's not weird anymore!

Yeah man and the only movies they make are Marvel movies. Taylor Swift plays on every radio station regardless of whether it's AM or FM. The only place to eat is Subway and it's not even as good as it was 15 years ago because everything was way, objectively better across the board 15 years ago and that's all anyone should talk about.

Everything's all bad now when it used to be all good and that must be true based on the amount of subjectivity and effort to understand people who say that apply - which is always "none" and "oh, so much" respectively. Obviously the solution is to complain constantly to people who ask and people who don't. And if someone points out how often you complain you should imply they're asking you to repress yourself, because healthy emotional processing of positive and negative feelings and just saying every thought in your head on a mass scale are synonyms.

If one more "Local" tells me I just moved to this fucking city when I've been here for four years I'm going to coordinate a massive naked bike ride to block traffic right as they really need to go home and use the bathroom.

[ducktollers]

listening to marianas trench is the only thing that makes me feel patriotic

[jasontoddenthusiastt]

It is not classist that Jason, a vigilante in a *family of vigilantes*, is violent like the rest | just | because he comes from a poor family

What's (more likely) classist is writers thinking he needs to be taught right vs wrong from Bruce and co and that he consequently makes snap judgments out of some childish grudge-fueled rebellion which makes him dangerous the way a toddler holding a knife is dangerous

[anotherpapercut]

I agree that drugs should be legalised and not stigmatized but you're delusional if you think "most drugs can be consumed completely safely with almost 0 risk to the user"

I think the key here is the word "can" by which I mean that if consumed in safe doses and safe environments and from safe sources etc most like mainstream drugs (I'm thinking of like mdma, LSD, shrooms, ketamine, coke) CAN be consumed safely with very little risks. I know this to be a fact #1. because I've done a lot of actual research on this where I've read numerous sources from scientists doctors and users as opposed to just say taking in the abstinence only information I received during school, reading a couple Tumblr posts and assuming I know everything there is to know about the topic and #2 I've used every drug I just listed and more and never suffered any adverse effects because I did my research, tested them for impurities when appropriate, and took other measures to ensure my safety

there are obviously exceptions and drugs that just shouldn't be fucked with (meth and heroin is what I'm thinking, but I also know people who have consumed these once or twice with 0 repercussions because that's how human experience works), but if you're actually interested in learning more about the many ways in which you were lied to about how "illegal drugs" are somehow automatically much worse for you than prescription drugs or socially acceptable drugs (like caffeine and alcohol) then feel free to either 1. do your own ACTUAL research that does not involve trusting for profit rehab centers and abstinence only educators (I'll even get you started with a couple good resources) or 2. message me off anon to have a real discussion about the mechanisms by which the most common drugs operate and the ways in which they can be consumed as safely as you can consume alcohol cigarettes and energy drinks but sending me your half cocked uninformed and unnecessarily insulting opinion on anon is not exactly productive. additionally, I'm sure you can see why I struggle to see or believe that you ACTUALLY think drugs should be destigmatized and aren't just parroting what you think the correct woke opinion is when you refuse to even take the very first step to destigmatizing drugs, drug use, and drug users and actually unlearn all the stigmatizing things you've been taught

I know that it's a lot easier just to port over all the things you've learned from dubious sources that you trusted implicitly because they claimed to be an authority and not actually do the work required to achieve the goals you claim to support, but easier doesn't mean right

[batwynn]

Remembering that time when I was five and didn’t even know filters existed—never mind knowing how to stop talking—and I was out with my grandmother (divorced from my grandfather) having a lovely day in a lovely little Maine town in the 90s.

The thing about Maine in the 90s was certain things like smoking weed was illegal across the country and generally frowned upon, but Mainers simply Did Not Care and more than happily grew and smoked pot anyway. The other thing about Maine is most of those Lovely Little Towns are constantly full of out of state tourists coming to buy kitch and eat lobster. These tourists tended to be from states that generally did not have the same attitude about pot as Mainers did. It was still considered a Very Bad Thing To Do.

So when my five year old self saw an older gentleman smoking a classic tobacco pipe amongst a crowd of tourists I remarked, on the top of my lungs, that my grandfather had a pipe too! Not that kind of pipe, though!

There was literally a beat of shocked silence before my grandmother laughed a little too loudly and said something about it being a different color or some nonsense. Of course no one, like, ratted out my five-year-old self and my grandfather out to the police for that. But there were definitely some shocked button-upped folks in that lovely little town that day.

Anyway, that was the one and only time I was a snitch.

[juniperhillpatient]

no one ever talks about how the signature adhd thought process that gets you from one place to another illogically from the outside but the sequence makes total sense To You can be so Toxic actually omg like. it can go from silly to dark & back in moments & sometimes it’s like. Bestie. Chilllle 🙌

[starstuffandalotofcoffee]

I love when alleged leftists are like "wow it's fucked up how much we've normalized caffeine addiction, the tool of capitalism." Like obviously I am speaking as a person who is very much addicted to caffeine, but stimulant use and addiction across world cultures well pre-dates capitalism, and more importantly it feels like the takeaway you should have from this is "wow, we should consider the way we treat addicts generally, and understand that if a drug is legal it reduces violent crimes related to obtaining it, and makes quitting safer and more feasible." We should also though probably have the takeaway of "it is in fact normal to have a much more lax attitude about use of a drug that, even among most addicts, has few ill effects other than mild jitters and staining your teeth, and if you quit it, will give you bad headaches and make you cranky for a week or two; vs. drug that, if you quit it, you will hallucinate and possibly die without supportive treatment."

[angelnumber27]

I can’t wait for the temperature to be low enough that it’s bearable for me

[vibinwiththefrogs]

We were turning on our water at a city building yesterday and the lady was telling us about the drug problem in the past 2-4 years and how, "this used to be considered one of the safest towns in Georgia and it's all changing".

And this is the fourth time I've heard this in a different town from a local in the region about their own town. I keep hearing drug scares and shootings and people in crisis for basic necessities (like a guy panicking at the water building because his bill was $70 and he couldn't afford that) and I'm like... I don't think this is unique to your town, or a unique thing about 2024 even, I think this is just poverty. In 2018 I was renting a small two bedroom apartment for $580. Now you can't find anything in South Georgia for under $900 unless you want to live in actual slum conditions. A house me and my spouse rented in 2021 for $1150 a month is now $2400 a month. Rent prices have pretty much doubled in like 2-4 years while nothing changes about the buildings. And every time you bring it up everyone knows and is upset about it but doesn't know how to stop it.

People around here keep making drugs out to be an individual moral problem and like these people are corrupted and whatever. But of course you'll have a lot of people turn to drugs in poverty. When you can't control anything else except how you feel and make it through a day. I wish I knew how to talk to more people about this in person but there's just such extreme polarized reactions to drugs.

[pjharvey-moved]

idk why my little brothers are literally obsessed with getting into terrible accidents while skateboarding or snowboarding etc it’s like their favorite hobby

[leguin]

i suspect that there's more to the faked death situation than anyone remembers/is willing to share at this point - he might've been abusive or an alcoholic etc. but my great-aunt (the only one still alive who remembers this) said she was really amazed at how normal it seemed at the time that a man would permanently disappear to try and keep his family from being ashamed of/shamed by his financial failure, and how bizarre and pointless it seemed to her now that she was in her 80s. lot of shifting cultural and economic expectations...but also idk. at some point people just still being in your life probably starts to seem more valuable than anything else.