drugs, PSA
BTW, @aschmitz added some wonderful advice onto this that I highly recommend you read. I'd just like to add two more things myself:
1) Not only is injectable naloxone cheaper, but intramuscular injection is generally more effective, so if you're comfortable with IM injections, that's definitely the preferred route.
2) If you ever administer naloxone, you need to get that person into a hospital or otherwise transfer them to emergency care (say, EMTs). It's not a substitute for that.
re: drugs, PSA
@auravulpes Oh! Also. When you use naloxone, you're bringing someone off a high *really* fast, and they're not likely to be thrilled. Ideally it doesn't happen but people have been known to lash out even if they wouldn't normally, so be prepared and stay safe.
Finally, the instructions say this but it's worth repeating: if someone overdosed and was unresponsive, you should bring them to the hospital *anyway*: naloxone can wear off faster than opioids, so they're not out of danger.
re: drugs, PSA
@auravulpes Additional useful things:
* If you are comfortable around needles, injectable generic naloxone is way, way cheaper than the name brand spray.
* Read the instructions! They're not hard, but it's the sort of thing you want to at least mentally think through using before you need it.
* Depending on your location, there may be a place that gives out kits for free, especially if you're likely to need it. Search for "free naloxone [city]".
drugs, PSA
Hey, did you know you can just *get* naloxone? Yeah! In the US, you can just go into pharmacies in most (all?) states and ask for naloxone and get it. There's even a nice piece of paper to help you get NARCAN, a nasal spray version: https://www.narcan.com/static/NARCAN-Prescription-Aid.pdf
Naloxone is *really* useful to have around, especially if you or someone you care for have opioids, as it can reverse the effects of overdose long enough for EMTs to get on scene. Definitely worth having around, just in case.
It is with great sadness I announce the death of my trusty Nexus 5X. She served me well these past 4 years, but I'm afraid she's not long for this world. It seems she's fallen to the same hardware issues many of her siblings have. I just spent the past half hour huddled in the freezer, desperately trying to pull data off, but I've gotten all I can and, despite the cold air, she's still freezing up and crashing. So, it's with a heavy heart I let her go. Good night, sweet princess. 🖤
drugs, PSA
Hey, did you know you can just *get* naloxone? Yeah! In the US, you can just go into pharmacies in most (all?) states and ask for naloxone and get it. There's even a nice piece of paper to help you get NARCAN, a nasal spray version: https://www.narcan.com/static/NARCAN-Prescription-Aid.pdf
Naloxone is *really* useful to have around, especially if you or someone you care for have opioids, as it can reverse the effects of overdose long enough for EMTs to get on scene. Definitely worth having around, just in case.
covid, uspol
Like, when I was walking home from getting my meds last week, I was trying to figure this out and the only thing I could figure is that no one mentioned it near him.
He literally suggested bleach aspiration after finding out that it (predictably) kills SARS-CoV-2. I wouldn't be surprised if *no one* in his staff has mentioned the current findings on remdesivir near him, after that debacle and the debacle on chloroquine.
covid, uspol
So, I finally saw what Trump actually said about bleach being a cure and, just,,,my gods. From what I can tell, he wasn't suggesting ingesting it. He was suggesting *aspirating* it. That's,,,what,,,no! that's not,,,no! Good gods, why?!
On the bright side, it does confirm my suspicions as to why he pushed (hydroxy)chloroquine so hard, but not remdesivir: no one's actually mentioned the latter near him, probably for fear of him assuming it's a cure too.
okay i cant find the post so im just going to re-write it. trans masc pol
I appreciate all the rallying behind trans masc people today but i want to make something abundantly clear
i dont need people to "not all men" for me. i internalized this before i transitioned, but i have always understood jabs at men not meaning that all men do [thing] but simply that 99% of people who do [thing] are men. it does not offend me. i really dont care. most of the time, i agree.
and instead of getting mad at random people for venting about men, i would much rather we put our energy into reshaping trans spaces that are so hostile to masc folks. say cis men when you mean cis men. dont say that T is poison. dont conflate "trans" with "trans woman." dont create dichotomies in the trans community to exclude trans masc people. i could go on and on you get my point.
we're in this together, and everything i do is to try to bring us together without pretending we're the same. we can acknowledge our different needs and experiences without excluding eachother.
important quote from article, intersectionality, black trans men, feel free to boost
"[T]rans men’s relationship to gender cannot be understood by adding the privilege of maleness to the oppression of transness; the interaction between these axes substantively transforms both such that it generates an experience qualitatively different from either alone.
This qualitative difference is particularly salient for Black trans men and transmasculine people, whose experiences at the intersection of race, gender, and trans status are especially ill-captured by a sex-class approach. The assumption that masculinity necessarily means freedom from gender oppression ignores how race/ism is always gendered, and in particular how Black masculine people are gendered as inherently dangerous (and targeted for anti-Black violence on the basis of that “danger”)."
a piping hot take on transmasc support
"we support trans mascs!" really just comes across as "please don't forget we support you too haha" when like. we wouldn't be out here forgetting if non transmasc people actually engaged with us on issues or took accountability for when their behavior hurts as lmao
re: stupid coding joke regarding happenings on deviantart
Incidentally, I never even used eclipse back then. I always used netbeans.
kink, nsfw, mildly macabre, oh gods kat stop
Ya know, a cock is shaped sorta like an oropharyngeal airway, so if you ever want to know what one of those feels like, just have someone deep throat you with the curvature of their cock facing down along the bottom of your mouth
kink, nsfw, mildly macabre, probably worse
Google: maintaining airway patency while shoving my thick cock down my pathetic little sub's throat
context re:kink?, nsfw, mildly macabre? so you don't have to go googling
Airway patency is how open it is. A patent airway is fully open and unobstructed. As you might could guess, shoving a cock down a throat could compromise that.
Phlebotomist. Cyberwitch. Artist. Fighter. Accidental breaker of computers.
Genderfluid enby. Pansexual/-romantic. Kitsune-kin (9-tailed)/Incubus-kin. Plural, with a bunch of headmates.
DAMNED PROUD ANTIFASCIST and an anarchocommunist.
Be warned: In theory, I post both lewd/NSFW and incredibly personal stuff.
(In practice, it's been a while, but who knows?)