Hungary banned anything that “promotes homosexuality,” which means Pride. However, today over 500,000 people in Budapest told the government to fuck off. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

Choose 20 albums that have stayed with you or influenced you. One album per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 20/20

Choose 20 albums that have stayed with you or influenced you. One album per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 19/20

Choose 20 albums that have stayed with you or influenced you. One album per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 17/20

FM John Swinney endorsing the charter and confirming that it’ll be embedded in policy making in Scotland. Highlights the increased role of human rights based approaches (HRBA) in Scottish policy.

Choose 20 albums that have stayed with you or influenced you. One album per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 15/20

On 13th December, I'll be talking in the 'Stigma Shorts' online webinar series on how #drugpolicyconstellations helps us understand the role of traditionalist stigma (and responses of compassion) in the making of drug policies.

Choose 20 albums that have stayed with you or influenced you. One album per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 14/20

Choose 20 albums that have stayed with you or influenced you. One album per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 13/20

Choose 20 albums that have stayed with you or influenced you. One album per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 12/20

Choose 20 albums that have stayed with you or influenced you. One album per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 10/20

Choose 20 albums that have stayed with you or influenced you. One album per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 9/20

Choose 20 albums that have stayed with you or influenced you. One album per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 7/20

Choose 20 albums that have stayed with you or influenced you. One album per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 6/20

Richard Pryor was born on this day in 1940! Here's a piece I wrote about him for Flavorwire: flavorwire.com/369513/richa... (This became the prologue of my book about him, which I won't link to because, sigh, it's only on Amazon)

Choose 20 albums that have stayed with you or influenced you. One album per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 5/20

Choose 20 albums that have stayed with you or influenced you. One album per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 4/20

Choose 20 albums that have stayed with you or influenced you. One album per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 3/20

The rise of ketamine addiction in the UK - podcast

Choose 20 albums that have stayed with you or influenced you. One album per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 2/20

Choose 20 albums that have stayed with you or influenced you. One album per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 1/20

Lego workshop on Tuesday the 26th Everyone welcome. Great way for people to connect.

I’m moving house in less than 3 weeks so I’ve decided to try and finish this George Orwell collection on audiobook as I get packed up. There is a LOT of complex lego to move!!

As President of the Kettil Bruun Society for Social and Epidemiological Research on Alcohol, I welcome the alcohol research community to Scotland for the KBS 50th Anniversary Symposium organised by the Universities of Stirling and Glasgow (9-13 June 2025): kbs2025scotland.org/home.html

I'm very excitied to he hosting @profalexstevens.bsky.social in 3 weeks time to discuss how the themes in his book might help us think about tackling Stigma. www.trybooking.com/uk/EEBA

I had these 2 poems at either side of a not book when I was a teen. I think I hoped to walk somewhere between them.

Think as way of introducing myself to Bluesky I’ll share some of my favourite songs, books, videos etc. Starting with this. youtube.com/watch?v=EsQo...

Watching this as I do a bit of prep for next months Stigma Short session. It's really helped me have discussions with people with opposing view points. 👏@profalexstevens.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=MKSp...