I'm trans, broke, and also people say things like this about my book regularly. So - buy it, help me pay rent, and see what they're raving about. If you're trans and too poor to buy it right now? DM me. www.pastitch.com/aftertaste-a... #booksky #trans #lgbt #writesky

Emoria - Aftertaste OUT NOW@emoria.bsky.social · last wk.

I'm Emoria Oh, and I wrote a book! It's a trans horror-romance called Aftertaste, and let me tell you, it's probably a good idea to buy six copies of it right now. I mean, I did, and now I have a copy for every room!!! Ebook and print edition: www.pastitch.com/aftertaste-a... #booksky #trans

Also, this album is on other services. Apple music: music.apple.com/us/album/ker... Spotify: open.spotify.com/album/5jNPMu...

Kernel Panic by Exile To Mars on Apple Music

Album · 2024 · 13 Songs

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Exile To Mars@exiletomars.bsky.social · yesterday

It's my birthday, it's bandcamp Friday, and this album turns 2 years old on Sunday. How about you give it a listen? exiletomars.bandcamp.com/album/kernel... #music #electronicmusic #exiletomars

It's my birthday, it's bandcamp Friday, and this album turns 2 years old on Sunday. How about you give it a listen? exiletomars.bandcamp.com/album/kernel... #music #electronicmusic #exiletomars

Kernel Panic, by Exile To Mars

14 track album

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In the Portland area I see a lot of graffiti that is the words QUESO QUESO in stencil, and so when I saw it on the sidewalk by Commonwealth skate during day 2 of Polacon PDX I took a pic. #polacon #polaconpdx #quesoqueso #polaroid

Some people might not know I make music. I make music, you should check it out! exiletomars.bandcamp.com #music #electronicmusic

Exile To Mars

Synthesizers are neat. No AI used.

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Polaroid I took a few weeks ago at Polacon PDX. This was at the arcade ground kontrol, and it was this pixel display thing. #polaroid #photography #polacon #polaconpdx

not only does this piece not cite a single fact re: the many potential benefits of kratom, there is no indication that the author has ever spoken to someone who has as much as tried it. And certainly no perspective from the many people who are living pain and drug free because of it.

~500 people OD on acetaminophen every year, just for some context. More than 5 million Americans have tried kratom, and death with responsible use of botanicals (vs synthetics) is EXTREMELY rare. www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK441...

One more thing: the author acknowledges that the AKA is only advocating for natural kratom & supports banning synthetics, but wantonly conflates the two. She then tries to suggest that McCurdy knows that natural kratom may be fatal. Click through to learn that this is in possibly 36 cases. 36.

Anyway, I didn't know who Christopher McCurdy was before I read this and I'm not defending him here. I have been interested in kratom's potential for many years and happen to know a lot about it; obviously I have a bias here. But this is a really strange choice of inaugural kratom pieces for PP

Ricaurte is responsible for many ppl believing that MDMA will put holes in your brain bc he (and this is 100% true) switched out the MDMA he was testing on monkeys with *pure meth* & had to run the most embarrassing retraction in scientific history when caught pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

Just as a comp I just went looking and can't find a single hit piece about George Ricaurte, a man who somehow still has a job at Johns Hopkins after doing NOTHING with his entire career but produce debunked research on behalf of the DEA to justify criminalization of psychedelics (inter alia)

the main point appears to be that this researcher has not disclosed industry ties, which is unfortunately fairly common across the world of scientific research as I understand it. I have no problem with keeping this man honest, but I do really have one with how is work is characterized in this

there is a direct analogue here between natural cannabis sativa and the extremely harmful synthetic K2/"spice" which appeared in the vacuum created by the criminalization of marijuana. It's fairly 1:1, except that synthetic kratom products are much worse health.clevelandclinic.org/dangers-of-s...

The Dangers of Synthetic Weed

Synthetic weed is often falsely marketed as a “safer” alternative to natural marijuana. Our addiction psychiatrist explains why the chemical creation may actually be more dangerous.

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You'd also never know from this piece that kratom in its natural form has been used by humans in moderation for thousands of years to treat pain, something it is *remarkably* effective at pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

First, the piece essentially handwaves away the *extremely vital* difference between healthy natural kratom and deadly synthetics. The first sentence sets the tone by calling it "a substance that has left a trail of death and addiction around the world" w/o making that distinction at all

this is the first time in my life that I have finished a ProPublica article and had a strong urge to write a comprehensive response to it. Nothing against this reporter or PP generally, but this story with this angle at this time is truly (as the kids say) not it. A few points:

You know that the zeitgeist around kratom is *dire* when ProPublica is carrying the DEA's water! This is the only story PP has ever published on anything relating to kratom, and it is absurdly prohibitionist. We are about to make the same mistake with mitragyna speciosa that we made with cannabis.

Anjeanette Damon@anjeanette-damon.bsky.social · 4d ago

The kratom industry spends heavily lobbying states & Congress to keep the psychoactive plant available in gas stations and smoke shops. It enlisted the help of the foremost kratom researcher who hasn't been open about his financial ties to the industry. My latest: www.propublica.org/article/krat...

inventing one of these that lets you use the microwave with its door wide open

Face Stretch Manipulated Polaroid. I-type film shot on Polaroid Now gen one. #polaroid #polaroidmanipulation #polaroidemulsionmanipulation #photography #experimentalphotography #filmphotography

Absent face. Manipulated Polaroid, i-type film shot on first generation Polaroid Now. #polaroid #polaroidmanipulation #polaroidemulsionmanipulation #photography #experimentalphotography #filmphotography

Should I post in progress music on here?

girl bulge, but it's her bulging lithium ion battery

Anyways, if anyone here wants to listen to my music you can check it out here. I do have some music in pretty complete stages, so I might release some stuff by the end of the year, but idk. exiletomars.bandcamp.com

Exile To Mars

Synthesizers are neat. No AI used.

exiletomars.bandcamp.com

🚨BREAKING: Our union of over 12,000 baristas are officially calling for a Starbucks boycott. Read this statement penned by Starbucks workers on why a boycott from ALL customers, allies, and organizations is necessary to fight back against corporate greed:

Hi there #polaroid #photography

I wish more of my friends actually listened to my music and told me about it, or even shared it with people. Like, I try to be supportive of friends who do artistic stuff, and I feel like I don't get any sort of reciprocal support and it relly hurts and makes me feel like my music sucks.

I think if she had said that she supported men with “intractable same-sex attraction” being gay, everyone would recognize it as an anti-gay statement

Transgender World@transgenderreport.com · 2w ago

JK Rowling issues surprising message of support for trans adults www.lgbtqnation.com/... #transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA

Managed to get a really fascinating image of a television changing images on this slideshow my partner and I have set up on the tv.