I think leftblr is a little too quiet about sensible drug policy and that’s really telling 🤔
Access to clean needles should be free
Testing kits for fentyl and stricnine and other laces should be free
Narcan should be free (and is given out by a lot of opioid awareness groups thank god)
Access to methadone and suboxone should be free
And this is all like… really basic stuff. I personally want full repeal of the scheduling system and other measures regarding the prison system
Drug addiction is a direct result of suppression of certain populations and the pharmaceutical industry’s push for the normalization of opiate use.
Anti drug policy is almost entirely rooted in racism and it serves to build up our prison system, while simultaneously denying addicts access to safe withdrawal measures. The war on drugs never served to help the people as a whole, and always served to isolate people of color and divide the classes even further. There’s a reason mostly poor people and/or people of color face real time for drug charges.
A lot of you are inherently against drug addicts and supplying them with clean materials because you have no idea how addiction works. If you come off certain drugs like meth, heroin, or spice cold turkey, you could DIE. Needle exchanges provide safety, health screenings, and information on recovery while providing disease free, smooth needles to taper with.
And if we don’t destroy the system that enables addicts (capitalism) then we’re not going to solve the 97% relapse rate that addicts have.
You can’t claim to align with the left if you want addicts to die. It’s a blatant ignorance of why addicts become addicts and it’s an engrained hatred of neurodivergent people.
Not to mention alcohol withdrawal as well! That shit can kill you hard fucking core and you’re in agony the whole goddamn time. Helping people taper off of drugs and alcohol in a safe environment with a lot of support is the best way for most folks to get sober AND STAY SOBER.
They’re still people. They deserve basic human respect. They deserve safety. They deserve to live, for fuck’s sake.
fun fact: you dont qualify for disability if you own things that are worth more than $2000 AND this includes stuff you’ve given away in the last five years
Fun fact: this includes housing and vehicles and other things that would make you more affordable to support.
If you inherit a house, instead of just letting you keep it and pay the land tax and bills, which is pretty affordable… they make you sell it, make you live off of the money until it’s gone, and then you have to re-apply, even if that means they have to spend hundreds more in tax money continuing to support you each month.
…And there’s a limit on total assets too, so if you have a nice enough computer that’s helping you to do work, and a shop full of too many expensive tools that are all letting you be productive enough on your own time, when you can, to make at least SOME money for yourself… if the total value of that gets to high… you are cut off, forced to sell the things that let you be productive, until you don’t have enough to live on, re-apply, and then go without the resources that would let you support yourself better by making some income…
Collection of something worth money you’re saving to sell for secondary education? Nope, have to sell it off now and live off that money till it’s gone.
Some really nice jewelry that has been in the family for CENTURIES??? You are forced to sell it off and live off the money till it’s gone. Then hope they let you back on… Or you’ve killed your families work to hold onto their traditions and culture to starve in the street anyway.
…Because disabled people can’t possibly have a quality of life, or be part of a family line or tradition of inheriting anything, or be given the resources to be able to help support themselves, or be allowed to intelligently manage their own resources to cost tax payers less, or have anything set aside in case of a disaster or to leverage for a better future… Can’t have it.
It’s almost like they don’t think disabled people should be people at all.
Burnout Measure
You can use this measure to track how you’re doing this semester. If you start to get burned out, take a break!
Rate these items using the scale below:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7
never almost never rarely sometimes often very often always1. Tired
2. Disappointed with people
3. Hopeless
4. Trapped
5. Helpless
6. Depressed
7. Physically weak/Sickly
8. Worthless/Like a failure
9. Difficulties sleeping
10. Telling yourself, “I’ve had it”Scoring: Add your responses to the 10 items and divide by 10.
Interpretation:
- >2.4 – you’re doing just fine
- 2.5 to 3.4 – if you keep pushing you may get burnout
- 3.5 to 4.4 – you’re burned out, take a break
- 4.5 to 5.4 – very serious burnout, reduce commitment and increase self-care right now
- 5.5 – seek immediate professional help
Malach-Pines, A. (2005). The Burnout Measure, Short Version. International Journal Of Stress Management, 12(1), 78-88. doi:10.1037/1072-5245.12.1.78
The photo above is the closest humanity has ever come to creating Medusa. If you were to look at this, you would die instantly.
The image is of a reactor core lava formation in the basement of the Chernobyl nuclear plant. It’s called the Elephant’s Foot and weighs hundreds of tons, but is only a couple meters across.
Oh, and regarding the Medusa thing, this picture was taken through a mirror around the corner of the hallway. Because the wheeled camera they sent up to take pictures of it was destroyed by the radiation. The Elephant’s Foot is almost as if it is a living creature.
Friendly reminder that this blob of core material was so hot and dense, it melted/burned through three floors of the building before coming to rest in the lowest basement.
And there’s now a unique species of black mold that feeds off the gamma radiation it produces.
Is no one else seriously freaked out by that mold? No? Just me, then?
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