Advice if you love/care about an addict but they’re not ready for abstinence. This is meeting people where they’re at- the most important part of harm reduction
suboxone and methadone are treatment drugs for opioid withdrawal symptoms btw! they’re meant to be a kind of transitional drug for people who want to quit but don’t want to suffer through the cold turkey method, which a lot of harm reduction advocates see as needlessly difficult and cruel
There is a lot I can say about harm reduction as someone who is close to people who work in harm reduction and recently helped host the table for our harm reduction center but another big thought I have with harm reduction is: you cannot stop someone from doing drugs or having sex but you can help make sure they do it safely.
Even if you only use substance sometimes, always do it safely.
the group chat when i ask whos available to hang out next week
[ID: A video compilation showing clips of Tom Scott, a British YouTuber. In each clip he explains in one sentence either where he is geographically, or he narrates what he is doing. Each clip is filmed similarly, though there is slight variation. Scott is a thin pale white man with mousy brown hair - he generally stands in front of the camera, talking to it directly and gesturing at his surroundings with his hands. Over the course of the video, Scott says;
“I’m in Weldon Springs. I’m in Gävle. I’m in the abandoned city of Pripyat. I’m inside one of the Inchindown oil tanks. I’m off to the Arctic for three weeks. I am not inside a fusion reactor. I’m in Hull. I am at Disney World. I am in an airplane bathroom. I am in an unpowered glider. I am in Iceland. I’m flying a few thousand feet over Lincolnshire. I’m at platform 9¾. I’m under the English Channel. I am still in the Arctic. I’m on top of a hill. I’m in Baton Rouge! I am squinting into the sun. I’m in Swindon. I am about to cross a road! I’m in Bristol. I’m on my way back from the Arctic. I’m at Space Camp. I am putting myself at risk of being sued. I’m at a party. I’m at the Eureka Weather Station. I am with Norm! I am back with Norm! Last time I was outside this pub with Norm he taught me how to strangle someone. I am back in the UK and I have a cold.” /End ID]
My favourite thing about the latest Twitter meltdown is all the artists reanimating their dead Tumblr accounts today and immediately being greeted with hundreds of notes because even a Tumblr account they literally have not posted to in 3–5 years has more active and engaged followers than the Twitter account that they’ve been updating daily.
one of the weirdest things about switching back to tumblr is that my promotional posts on here do wildly better than they do on twitter, even though i have 12% of the following i have on twitter, and part of that is that i’m newer so my audience hasn’t heard The Good Word as much, but also ?!? twitter just sucks for finding people who like your stuff?
Byron Howard, co-director of Zootopia and Tangled and animator for Lilo & Stitch and Brother Bear, shares his take on the characters of Winnie the Pooh (x)
I know it doesn’t make a lot of sense for Cardassians to lay eggs but humor me for a second here because imagine the culture that could evolve around it.
You know how reptile eggs shouldn’t be rotated during incubation otherwise the baby will die, so breeders will often mark the top of an egg so they know the proper orientation? What if Cardassians do this too. And what if it’s evolved from simple markings to, like, auspicious sigils. Like, you can wish your baby health/prosperity/filial piety/etc. by painting or stamping the corresponding symbol on top of their egg. Of course it’s superstition that this actually affects the baby’s fate, but even non-superstitious people do it anyway, just because it’s tradition.
The substance that the symbol is painted with also supposedly affects the baby. This is a bit more scientifically sound, since chemicals can penetrate the shell and influence the fetus’s development. Traditionally you’d use different kinds of herbal dye, but in modern times people are getting more scientific about it and using dyes imbued with chemicals that are proven to be beneficial to fetal development.
There are established symbols that signify different well-wishes, but of course people get creative with it. You can incorporate multiple symbols in your design, or hire a fortune teller to come up with a personalized design for your baby, or just add your own little flourishes. The designs can get quite elaborate. In modern times, parents who don’t believe in the superstition of it have started painting other things on their eggs. A pretty design incorporating the baby’s name, writing a letter to their baby, drawings with sentimental but not spiritual importance.
If the baby hatches in a way that doesn’t damage the design, parents will often preserve the portion of the shell that has the design on it as a keepsake. If the baby does damage the design when they hatch, it’s considered a bad omen, and a sign that the baby’s fate will be the opposite of whatever the design symbolized.
When you walk into a Cardassian hospital’s incubator room, you’ll see eggs with all sorts of different designs—and some unmarked eggs, too. Those are probably orphans or bastards, babies without parents who care enough to wish them well. Sometimes hospitals will stamp those eggs with a generic, simple design wishing health. Usually not, though.
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