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feral streep @seanpaulmahoney.bsky.social · 3h

a member of my team has been supporting an extremely sick trans woman with HIV in the hospital for the last week. I just got the call that she passed over the weekend. she was 23😭
this death is 1000 percent a system fail aided by bigotry and stigma. I fucking hate it here

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Lotus Redding @panchovillian.bsky.social · 6h

Now this is why the internet was made

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Lotus Redding @panchovillian.bsky.social · 7h

youve awakened an ancient eldritch thirst

Lotus Redding @panchovillian.bsky.social · 7h

cant believe i straight up opened photoshop and made this before work

clippy coming back from hell asking if we miss him yet

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Lotus Redding @panchovillian.bsky.social · 8h

and yet microsoft teams will follow me into hell

Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 9h

AWS outages are interesting because each time it affects more and more disparate things, each is a snapshot scan of the metastatic cancer infecting the internet.

Lotus Redding @panchovillian.bsky.social · 8h

except for that hobbit song about the shire's swinging community that was removed for obscenity

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Lotus Redding @panchovillian.bsky.social · 8h

why is it NEVER TEAMS

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Dr Eleanor Janega @goingmedieval.bsky.social · 10h

This is so important.

Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium @ptdefiancezoo.bsky.social · 4d

Ever seen a 750-pound muskox face off with a 210-pound pumpkin? 💥 Hudson did, and won! 🏆 Catch more pumpkin-smashing, leaf-crunching, fall fun during #ZooBoo, October 18 & 19. 🎃🐾

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Lotus Redding @panchovillian.bsky.social · 13h

On the very rare occasions I have said the words: assless chaps -- someone appears to clarify this in what I now assume is a Faustian bargain.

I'm sure we say they're assless b/c that is critical info for most people uninitiated to assless pants world.

Lotus Redding @panchovillian.bsky.social · 14h

"Sorry chief, his alibi checks out... apparently 'hype man' for a 'ska band' is an actual thing"

Jerry Chen @jcsalterego.bsky.social · 17h

"we are all, how you say, trying to find l'homme who did this"

the very dapper man from today's photo from the Louvre heist

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Lotus Redding @panchovillian.bsky.social · 14h

Protestantism confirmed

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Lotus Redding @panchovillian.bsky.social · 14h

lmaoo clearly all of us here... im not a luddite abt absorbing info ive done audio books since the pandemic, and all my old people friends were like, thats not the same its not learning -- def shared that article of them showing via MRI the same parts of the brain are activated with audio books

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Lotus Redding @panchovillian.bsky.social · 14h

this is why people will lay themselves down for organized religion and cults -- its easy to doubt yourself on this path. So my only recs are be relentlessly on your own side when you are truly examining internally. and this is an ongoing process of beginning again.

any books youre interested in?

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Lotus Redding @panchovillian.bsky.social · 14h

lemme stfu and quote levar burton on an important point in exploration: but you dont have to take my word for it.

self-explored spirituality is definitely different than what our macro cultural practices are. it will push into self-doubt, likely some grief, and def some attachment trauma..

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Lotus Redding @panchovillian.bsky.social · 14h

I think cosmology is absolutely spirituality -- the carbon in our bodies was fired in an ancient forge both impossibly unknowable in distance and time. That is now organized into all of us -- and we will pass that shit along to whatever organization is next

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Lotus Redding @panchovillian.bsky.social · 14h

Spirituality, to me at least, can be fundamentally defined as an acknowledgement of forces incomprehensibly greater than myself. Through practice (and the demands of recovery 😅) I have sometimes immense gratitude that my existence is a small but real product of those forces.

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Lotus Redding @panchovillian.bsky.social · 15h

FIRST off, its a donkey. And SECOND, its my landlord. Now! --back to my false equivalencies...

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Lotus Redding @panchovillian.bsky.social · 17h

This guy has never believed in anything he’s said except for it being necessary to get what he wants, or more accurately, believes he’s entitled to.

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Lotus Redding @panchovillian.bsky.social · 17h

a truly depressing exchange in this thread w/ppl from other countries where this is uncontroversial/something that happens.

wait till they hear about our privacy laws

Simon Norris @simonnorris.bsky.social · 1d

Interest on rental deposits. The current system actively punishes long-term tenancy

Lotus Redding @panchovillian.bsky.social · 17h

...and accountability 🤣
bsky.app/profile/jazz...

samantha parkington @jazzpomegranate.com · 1d

lowkey if david byrne ever runs into me while i’m not dressed up like him in blackface, he’s caught me slipping

Chris Steller @chrissteller.bsky.social · 1d

Me when I'm just biking around and run into someone carrying a sign with something I said the night before

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Lotus Redding @panchovillian.bsky.social · 18h

ngl recently there's been a couple times ive looked around and wondered if we might be there --all the best to you.

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Lotus Redding @panchovillian.bsky.social · 18h

abt our personal worth & lovability, the things it tries to abuse you of, so it can control you more directly.

You can change these ruminations. We're all worthy of dignity & love. You deserve to experience this truth in the ways it makes sense to you.

10 years in recovery here -- I mean this.

Lotus Redding @panchovillian.bsky.social · 18h

Thoughts about suicide are actually common and worth talking about. My theory is its a response to chronic stress/pain/suffering as a baseline looking for relief through control. How it then gets expressed as self-injury and destruction is likely the fucked up shit the environment baked into us...

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Lotus Redding @panchovillian.bsky.social · 18h

about how many lines we reading between bud?

lemme be an annoying social worker real quick:
you got narcan? are you injecting with someone? Clean needles?

here's the best harm redux strategies, I think w/o any preambles about the dangers of a substance that PWUD clearly are aware of

Safer Drug Use | Southside Harm Reduction Services

A little library of safer use handouts/literature created by us and other harm reduction groups. Below you will find these handouts categorized into the following topics: the basics, drug supply, admi...

southsideharmreduction.org

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Lotus Redding @panchovillian.bsky.social · 19h

www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdLv...

Strange Overtones

YouTube video by David Byrne - Topic

www.youtube.com