Don't smoke your life through someone else's filter, but this is experiential advice. Take it or leave it.
04.11.2025 17:36 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0@simontwolf.bsky.social
Cis: he/him/his, gay, HIV+, Out, Loud & Proud, living on Wadda warrung country in Naarm; Gondwana. This is an autobiography of sorts...
Don't smoke your life through someone else's filter, but this is experiential advice. Take it or leave it.
04.11.2025 17:36 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0coconut oil to suspend the active ingredient.
It's basic temperature and time control in both stages - no need for lab equipment - and the quantities I've worked out, work for me and my budget so that my process is much less than half the expense profile of smoking it had been.
Just remember:
indicate their "special" status as under the influence of illusion and prone to assuming the best, when the worst was occurring - death by a thousand pin pricks.
In the last decade I have perfected my process to extract the #d9-THCยช and "cook" it to make it bio-available after ingestion, by using
far the most insidious of adictions. Meth was just too easy to get hold of, so I cut that entire social set out of my life - I had to write off "friendships" and because "the scene" is awash with drugs I also have to stay away from my favourite "social" activity.
Those two terms are "..."ed to
tolerance: this many years (48 at time of writing) will develop a certain amount of it.
I stopped smoking pot over 10 years ago - I stopped smoking at the same time... that was the gateway if there was one: tobacco.
The two drugs I found hardest to quit were tobacco and meth, but tobacco was by
I've been self-medicating since I was 12. Alcohol to marijuana; temptation placed everything else on the table and I partook... except for heroin. I just didn't get why with that one. By the time I was 23, I had acquired a taste for a little alcohol and a lot of marijuana - I also have high
04.11.2025 17:36 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0Since the first, this young man has a wisdom beyond his years; I listen to him because I don't have the patience, he is saying exactly what I would say who... Plus, he deserves the credit and the audience more than I do.
#JoshJohnson
youtu.be/PLI8f6X5bS8?...
intellectual competition, which is an error I've made a couple of times. The cost of those #errors were #friendships.
If you've found yourself with 5 good friends, you are indeed fortunate. Two best friends is striking it rich.
I am indeed fortunate and incredibly rich in this regard.
most of this is a reflection of my self; it's why I keep myself on my toes en garde of the temptation to deploy those tools very selectively - I run my cynical and critical reasoning unfettered on that fuel.
Friendships and personal relationships need emotional intelligence far more than they need
underpin or brain's mental growth as well as society and the economy. What they can't process is politics. There's certainly #Machiavellian schools of thought better suited; even #de_Sade's works have better reflection here than any other I've come across.
Fortunately for the vast majority, I know
systems are feedback loops of response or reaction, the inputs from which change the next cycle's repetition input variables - see a #Mandelbrot-Set illustration - to adapt to changed circumstances or local conditions.
#Chaos-Theory and #Complexity-Dynamics are universal applications. They
sets of complex interaction traffic signalling systems for vehicles perform the same functions but for different modes, e. g. roads and rail traffic use light signals to indicate conditions but the systems are not interchangeable due to physical, structural conditions.
Incorporated into all these
being human requires wisdom for knowledge and experience to hang themselves upon, for there to be structure to our thoughts, dreams and ideas.
Logical intelligence and emotional intelligence use completely different subsystemic traits to perform the same "functions" within those frameworks: like
#Neuroplasticity is the brain's ability to "rewire" itself as a function of conscious and subconscious learning. The "lessons" can come in environmental, social, physical and personal forms and always involve intelligence AND emotion in their feedback systems. Like Drama's children Tragedy & Comedy
03.11.2025 23:22 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0gratefully accept, that comes from these younger generations is quite surprising considering the political environment I grew up in vis ร vis society reflecting the world, was a lot less, a lot, lot less courteous.
It's because of this I know we will get through the technological #great-filter.
injuries (the damage I caused myself). I use a walking stick or crutches and I use a mobility scooter to do the shit a taxi would be useless for.
The thing I've noticed is the amount of humanity abundant in these two cohorts. The amount of assistance I get offered, which I graciously and
#GenZ and #GenAlpha deserve some flowers for something.
A couple posts ago I went off at the end of manners; I worked hospitality, not too many pleases or thank yous in the late 90s through the noughties.
I'm retired, not by choice, and I'm differently able than I used to be due to damage and
#USA now is the time to do to #Trump et al, the reverse flood of the zone. DO NOT LET ONE INSTANCE GO UNCHALLENGED! This is the tactic used against business and world trade, drilled down to individual pressure tactics to achieve broad political effect: #the-chilling-zone
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I'd drop everything and go be the volunteer.
I want to live forever. With this universe, boredom isn't going to be an issue.
I want to watch humanity grow and reach for the stars and I want to be there at the head of the parade!
#transhumanist
the processor and memory requirements to run a full blown human virtualisation that isn't a virtualisation. Distributed neuronal processor nodes รกtt joints and in the spine to leave more space in brain box for hardware and a little wetware for the interface to consciousness.
If #RayKurzweil asked
preempt a guest as to their drinks most of the time. That's just getting able to read people and not only can I read, I have my own library coz reading is what? Fundamental.
My hope is that I live long enough to upload my consciousness. Then it's a matter of putting a metal body together,
fell in love with hospitality so chased all those qualifications instead.
Find something you love to do and you'll never work a day in your life. Employment? A job? No. A vocation is what hospitality became for me. One upside of my mother expecting me to be a mind reader, was the ability to
cashless society in the early 80s and I'm still waiting on the office conversion; who carries cash these days?
When I learned how readily corruptible our system in economics, international laws and trade agreements; besides domestic politics, I decided to take it one day at a time as a barman -
10 years of age; 2 years later I had COBOL under my hat too.
Languages are as easy as 2+2=4 is for a mathematician, for me. I speak five, can read & write at university essay level in three of those, so computer languages, except Fortran, were wheelhouse ready.
I was promised a paperless and
electronic engineer who taught physics, mathematics and engineering and then ran the Gordon TAFE in Geelong... for nine months while there were changes and holidays, from his position as Head of Staffing and Planning... well all that, gave me an incredible head start. I was programming in BASIC at
01.11.2025 11:47 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0I'm about as O.G. GenX as you can get. The first with a computer console game, the first with a computer, the first to have a. MOOG Synthesiser to play with as well as the upright grand and the classical guitar; the first analogue to digital kid at my school anyway. My dad being an electrical and
01.11.2025 11:47 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0tis the nature of the spiders who control the money supply
01.11.2025 11:12 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0I keep getting told to watch #White-Lotus. Why? Is it because I'm gay? Fashionably flamboyant (in my much younger days)? Some #BDSM kink that gets explored, that might tickle my fancy (careful...my tastes are very particular)? I tried watching it and couldn't get through the first half an hour.
01.11.2025 03:32 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0#Cheddar-Rd #sunshine through leaves, #dappled pavement shadows, #shade
01.11.2025 02:10 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0#Reservoir-Station #parallels
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