Also I've just been "at the gym" for nearly 3 hours because 90+ minutes of my trip here was spent on the phone with a friend while I sat in my car in the parking lot. Typical Thursday shit.

Came all the way back here just to say that this shit is so embarrassing.

Thank you to my boyfriend who just came home and immediately found the thing I had spent all day looking for and also brought me a milkshake.

today marks 40 years since Philadelphia police bombed the Black liberation group MOVE's home in West Philadelphia. 6 adults and 5 children burned to death. over 60 homes were destroyed from the resulting fire, and over 250 people left homeless. (resharing @kimkelly.bsky.social in @teenvogue.com)

Quite possibly the most "me" picture of me ever taken. Courtesy of Alyssa Kitlas ❤️

This Open Letter from addiction and mental health experts was sent late Monday evening to congress! Major to SAMHSA, CDC and HRSA are unacceptable #fentanyl @jencarroll.bsky.social @chadsabora.bsky.social @brownpublichealth.bsky.social @defendpublichealth.bsky.social www.npr.org/2025/05/13/n...

Just a reminder that there is 1 week left on our chuffed fundraiser for harm reduction orgs in Ukraine who have provided services non-stop since Russia invaded in 2022. The material need is real and great. Every share or donation helps. Funds are being delivered next week chuffed.org/project/1187...

Elon Musk reportedly spent $40M on #Superbowl    ads calling #USAID wasteful. Here’s how USAID would’ve spent that $$: 🏈Shipped the 29K metric tons of US food on US ships instead of letting it rot in a Texas warehouse. youtu.be/PqUESHfuO_8 #saveforeignaid #standwithUSAID

Musk reportedly spent $40M on #Superbowl    ads calling #USAID wasteful. Here’s how USAID would’ve spent that $$: 🏈Protected 30M football fields of tropical forest in Africa to stop China from exploiting minerals youtu.be/PqUESHfuO_8 #saveforeignaid #standwithUSAID

Elon Musk reportedly spent $40M on #Superbowl    ads calling #USAID wasteful. Here’s how USAID would’ve spent that $$: 🏈Slowed the flow of migrants to our borders by providing job training to 50K people in Central America youtu.be/PqUESHfuO_8 #saveforeignaid #standwithUSAID

Elon Musk reportedly spent $40M on #Superbowl    ads calling #USAID wasteful. Here’s how USAID would’ve spent that $$: 🏈Bought 29K tons of produce and vegetable oil from American farmers to feed people, reducing mass migration youtu.be/PqUESHfuO_8 #saveforeignaid

Musk reportedly spent $40M on #Superbowl    ads calling #USAID wasteful. Here’s how USAID would’ve spent that $$: 🏈Purchased HIV treatment from U.S. pharma companies to keep 1M pp alive for 1 year. Tell Congress to #saveforeignaid and #standwithUSAID youtu.be/PqUESHfuO_8

The disruptions at USAID are directly impacting essential services in Ukraine, including life-saving services offered by Club Eney in Kyiv. Please consider supporting our fundraiser for Club Eney or sharing it with your friends. Every bit helps and is so very needed! chuffed.org/project/1187...

A HUGE THANK YOU IS DUE. We sold 49 shirts + 8 posters, w 100% of the funds benefitting Club Eney, Kyiv’s harm reduction org doing harm reduction *in wartime* like utter rockstars. 🥹 Thank you to everyone who purchased or boosted! Thank you to my co-conspirator, @jencarroll.bsky.social!

Is it just me, or does young Kier Egan look an awful lot like now Paul Rudd, and how inconsolable am I going to be when Paul Rudd doesn't show up by the season finale?

This week's Internet winner goes to...

The price of eggs in the US is spiking, mostly due to #H5N1 bird flu. Solving the problem requires urgent, important communications from the CDC & FDA* and rapid development of research by the NIH** * Currently paused by Executive Order ** Grant reviews now all canceled www.kcur.org/news/2025-01...

Putin has set up a trap for Trump by repeating his claim that russia is always prepared to negotiate, but cannot negotiate with Zelensky because he's illegitimate. Pu also flatters Trump by referring to the 2020 election as stolen. I hope Trump's advisors hold him off from falling into the trap.

Let's talk about why sunflower seeds. 🌻 are a symbol of Ukrainian culture and identity. But also, there is this lady: "You are occupiers, you are fascists! At least put (🌻)seeds in your pockets so that when you fall and die (in battle) flowers will grow there." www.theguardian.com/world/video/...

Also posters! rawpaw.ink/collections/...

It's not too late to order one of these AMAZING shirt (or posters) designed by @clairezagorski.bsky.social. You can pre-order your own until 1/28. The text reads "harm reduction is love" in Ukrainian and all $ goes directly to Klub Eney, a peer-led Harm Reduction org in 🇺🇦 rawpaw.ink/collections/...

It's not too late to order one of these AMAZING shirt (or posters) designed by @clairezagorski.bsky.social. You can pre-order your own until 1/28. The text reads "harm reduction is love" in Ukrainian and all $ goes directly to Klub Eney, a peer-led Harm Reduction org in 🇺🇦 rawpaw.ink/collections/...

Harm reduction orgs in Ukraine are doing SUCH important, life saving work, even military threat and daily missile strikes. Help us support them by donating to our fundraiser. Every penny goes to Club Eney, which offers support with food, medicine, diapers, everything. chuffed.org/project/1187...

I think there's a lot of good things to be said about RedNote, but one ongoing question I have is that if a CCP-controlled app is where 🇺🇸 people are encountering Chinese culture for the first time, what's the available platform for encouraging them to Google "uygjur internment" for the first time?

Propaganda? Puh-lease A very authentic Soviet joke: Man walks into a completely empty store and scoffs: Not a single loaf of bread, what are we supposed to eat?? Annoyed sales woman responds: Comrade, here we don't have shoes. They don't have food next door.

Reminds me of that time I crashed my bike as a little kid, and I told my mom, who always warned me about reckless "hotdogging" in the street, that I fell because I was "trying to be a hamburger." This is instance 184/infinity when it inexplicably occurred to zero adults to screen me for autism.

Cool! Cool. Cool cool cool. Has anyone checked to see if the CEO of Bioemergent is actually Sauron? Cause it might actually be Sauron, actually. www.nasdaq.com/articles/eme...

I must interrupt you to bring you this important update: cats love bathtubs.

Johnson is spot on, of course.

For those interested in Fassin's Enforcing Order, the PDF of the whole book is online for those who want to Google. If you are curious, you can listen to my DIY audio version of the prologue here: jumpshare.com/s/CeZcRkBLzN... It's a great book. Whet them appetites! I'll be posting about it shortly.

Snagged the e-book subscription 😸 Link again: www.haymarketbooks.org/pg/book-club

We finished the 1st week of our anth/soc of the criminal justice system class. We covered some classic theories of policing, including why the War on Drugs is always in the room with us. We have common readings (Fassin's Enforcing Order) and focus readings. This thread is about our focus reading. 1/

Also, if you're interested in supporting the cause but already have enough cool harm reduction t-shirts in your life (impossible, but, sure, let's go with your version of events), you can make a regular donation to our fundraiser for Ukrainian harm reduction here: chuffed.org/project/1187...

One other interesting thing--I asked students what it meant to say that race is a social construct or that gender is a social construct. They had thoughtful, thorough, and accurate answers. I then asked them what it meant to say that crime is a social construct, and got a lot of hesitant stares...

Yesterday was syllabus day. We had intros and watched a short video animation of The Monster at the End of this Book, starring Grover, because @prisonculture.bsky.social warped my brain. Asking students to suggest reasons I showed it in this class was a wild conversation,but they mostly got it...1/

Shirts: rawpaw.ink/collections/... Poster: rawpaw.ink/products/see... 100% of the money raised from these will go to Club Eney, providing harm reduction, HIV testing and treatment, food, medical care, and social supports for people in need in Kyiv.

It’s also available as a poster! Our friends at Raw Paw are accepting pre-orders until January 28th, and will then screen print all items by hand here in Austin. The design is sunflower seeds in the colors of the Ukrainian flag. Links below!

The amazing @jencarroll.bsky.social and I have teamed up to help raise urgently-needed, unrestricted funds for harm reduction efforts in Kyiv. (As you can imagine, doing harm reduction in the midst of an invasion is…a lot.) The text translates to “harm reduction is love”. ❤️

I'm sitting in on an o chem class this semester, for reasons, and the prof asked students to answer the question "what are you hoping to learn in this class?" in an anonymous e-poll. The best answers: -walter white -something, hopefully -how to not cry over a test -how to serve in my flop era

If you wanna tag along real close, here's the books we'll be reading cover to cover between Tuesday of next week and April 22nd. Lots of supplemental readings along the way too.

If you’re up for it, check out this journal article that takes a stab at ranking different drugs based on their relative risk. I discuss it when I talk to our medical students about substance use in their patients. Some quick ‘n dirty takeaways: www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

So, I'm teaching a class on the anthropology and sociology of the criminal justice system this semester. 14 weeks focused on the methodological and ethical challenges of research with police, prosecutors, and prisons. Wondering if folks are interested in regular posts and recaps for following along?

Harm reduction doesn't encourage or enable drug use; banning syringes & naloxone & using jail to try to push treatment simply spreads infectious disease & death. how many times do we need to run this experiment to get it?

Anyway, I took a month-long break from social media for mental health reasons and now I'm back to share with you all the best cheese videos.

This is truly the most satisfying thing I've ever seen/heard/felt deep in my soul.

All the times that I'm late to a meeting, this is why I'm late to the meeting.

In which no one is surprised

May I introduce you to Sleepy Derp and Sleepy Derp Derp.

Several Montana Republicans joined Democrats on Tuesday to block a measure that would have barred transgender lawmakers from using the state Capitol bathrooms that aligned with their gender identities.