Belgium decriminalised sex work in 2022. Recently, they published the laws that will regulate sx work there. Here, a sex worker speaks about the new rights that she has gotten through decriminalisation. www.youtube.com/watch?v=6JhE...

RIP to the great bassist Danny Thompson, who played on some of the best records of all time.

Our new article showing the immense problem of staff burnout and shortages among US SSPs. 58% and 43% of US SSPs reported staff burnout and shortages, respectively. Law enforcement harassment associated with burnout and shortages. @alexkral.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Now more than ever!

School uniform. :)

#StandingStoneSunday Men Scryfa #Cornwall #Kernow @megalithic.bsky.social

Caught today’s @arsenalfc.bsky.social match with Spike Lee in Fort Greene (not a sentence I ever thought I'd get to write).

Linton Kwesi Johnson was a massive influence on me. A fundamental part of my being. Brooklyn, September 20.

Close link between street sweeps, overdose and systemic harm: SFU study "were significantly associated with non-fatal overdoses, violent victimization, and barriers to accessing essential services." www.sfu.ca/sfunews/medi...

Here’s CDC’s priority statement where they trash harm reduction and overdose prevention centers. I wish other countries could issue their own report cards on failed US drug policies. Give us a taste of our own imperialist arrogance!

Legal Action Center Statement Regarding SAMHSA’s Updated Strategic Priorities

scroll down to read: SAMHSA’s New Priorities Can Undercut 25 Years of Progress in Behavioral Health By Ron Manderscheid, PhD Adjunct Professor Johns Hopkins University and University of Southern California September 11, 2025

Respect

Class on the field and off

"And what of the writers, the thinkers, and the pundits who cannot separate the great crime of Kirk’s death from the malignancy of his public life?"

In London, hate will never win.

In a Hitleresque speech, JD Vance says there can be no unity with the left and vows to use the government to dismantle non-profit NGOs and liberal civil society who he says promote violence and terrorism.

Magnificent Rob Mazurek and Chad Taylor as Chicago Underground Duo at Public Records 9/13 @intlanthem.bsky.social

In terms of major trophies, Portsmouth have won two English league titles and two FA Cups, while Saints have an FA Cup win to their name from 1976.

CDUHR investigators Alex Bennett and Luther Elliott are leading a peer-led overdose prevention program in NYC, connecting at-risk veterans with life-saving resources and support. www.nyu.edu/about/news-p...

The biggest sporting event in the world is happening in our backyard. But most New Yorkers will be priced out of watching it live. Sign our petition calling on FIFA to put game over greed: zohranfornyc.com/gameovergreed

Ben James Wood is part of a new generation of Cornwall-based producers, mixing and matching modular and desktop/ soft & hard synths to reboot Braindance for the 21st Century barn dance Kernow Craft: Oh Mr James Interviewed buff.ly/z8Wo2c9

Happy 71st Birthday to Ruby Bridges, who at the age of 6 desegregated the New Orleans public schools. She’s younger than 30 senators and our last two presidents—and only 7 years older than Barack Obama. The past isn’t past.

Nice tribute to Monte Levine

On behalf of the 177 organisations, we are writing to urge the World Health Organization to maintain and resource its strong presence, expert capacity, normative guidance and diplomatic voice within the harm reduction.

we lost an absolutely wonderful person & powerful activist yesterday (The attached is an article I wrote about her a few years back)... my heart is just broken www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017...

Wasn't so long ago that cctv was the theat

#CDC directors going back to 1977 tell the truth about #RFKJr: he is endangering the health of every American. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...

Buildings across to New York lit in purple to remember those friends, family, colleagues and neighbors who we have lost to overdose

Governor Hochul Announces Lighting of State Landmarks for International Overdose Awareness Day

On this day in 1968, Garfield Sobers (captaining Nottinghamshire against Glamorgan in Swansea) became the first batsman to score six sixes in a single over. Malcolm Nash was the unfortunate bowler.

BREAKING: Big moment as CDC staff stage a mass walkout. They have lined the street outside its HQ to greet and salute the four top officials who have resigned in protest at RFK Jr’s attack on the agency’s science base. (🎥 AP)

Demetre Daskalakis' resignation letter. One for the history books. www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/the-resign...

The great Ralph Vaughan Williams died on the 26th August 1958, precisely 18 years before I was personally premiered in 1976. I’ll be celebrating the great man by posting some of my favourite RVW discs. Please do join me and let me know which RVW discs you love.

Adding behavioral therapy to buprenorphine treatment and medical management for #opioid use disorder showed no additional benefit for retention or functioning outcomes. ja.ma/47EArho

Visit our Drug User Health table at the Great New York State Fair in the Science and Industry Building. Pick up your free naloxone and learn how to use it to save a life. Available from 10am-6pm. More information on Naloxone and Harm Reduction services: www.health.ny.gov/community/op...

Free Naloxone trainings at the New York State Fair! Visit our drug user health table located in the Science and Industry Building from 10am-6pm to learn how to save a life and receive free Naloxone. More info on Naloxone and Harm Reduction services: www.health.ny.gov/community/op...

Stripple Stones: A shaded LiDAR image of the henge, we have photos on our page, below. A ruined 44.8m (147-foot) diameter circle-henge - some estimates say that the circle may have once consisted of as many as 28 standing stones!

Here are 10 of my favourite new experimental trad folk releases, compiled and reviewed for your pleasure in my latest Radical Traditional column over at @thequietus.com !

The bureaucrats running HHS are “a mix of Lysenko and the Gang of Four, with a taste for pseudoscience, vengeance, and political purges.” Scathing and on target as usual from @gregggonsalves.bsky.social, on how pandemic revisionist history fuels the MAHA science apocalypse

Chilling in the Amen Corner with Tim Kaine

I admire Mo Salah's restraint. "Farewell". Really? Suleiman al-Obeid was killed by the IDF as he was queuing for food in Gaza. Say it, you cowards.

Donald Trump has three candidates in this race for mayor.

analysis of its latest financial statements reveals that the team (Pompey) now has the strongest capital structure in its 127-year history with no debt and net assets of $33.5 million (£26.5 million) as of June 30, 2024.