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Lotus Redding
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Trauma focused LCSW & elderly punk rock malcontent
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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
Now this is why the internet was made
youve awakened an ancient eldritch thirst
cant believe i straight up opened photoshop and made this before work
and yet microsoft teams will follow me into hell
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.
except for that hobbit song about the shire's swinging community that was removed for obscenity
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This is so important.
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. 🎃🐾
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.
"Sorry chief, his alibi checks out... apparently 'hype man' for a 'ska band' is an actual thing"
"we are all, how you say, trying to find l'homme who did this"
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
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?
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..
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
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.
FIRST off, its a donkey. And SECOND, its my landlord. Now! --back to my false equivalencies...
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.
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
Interest on rental deposits. The current system actively punishes long-term tenancy
...and accountability 🤣
bsky.app/profile/jazz...
lowkey if david byrne ever runs into me while i’m not dressed up like him in blackface, he’s caught me slipping
Me when I'm just biking around and run into someone carrying a sign with something I said the night before
ngl recently there's been a couple times ive looked around and wondered if we might be there --all the best to you.
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.
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...
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