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Cake day: July 31st, 2024

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  • I suggest that people don’t use an election as a way of protesting. I think that if people want to change things they need to protest it more often than every four years. In between those years is their chance to have actual change for the better. Unfortunately, people usually forget about politics unless it’s an election year.

    To put it a different way, it is important to cast your vote so that you can help shape politics within the country to the best of your ability with the hope that if it cannot get better at the moment at least it can’t get worse. After the election, then focus on pressuring politicians to make systemic changes.

    The idea of refusing to vote is just absolutely absurd to me. The math is so easy to work out.


  • Psilocybin can cause intense alterations in perception, thought, and emotion. In some cases, these experiences may resemble or trigger psychotic symptoms — such as hallucinations, paranoia, or disorganized thinking. However, in most people, these effects are temporary, or a “bad trip.”

    A bad trip can feel overwhelming or distressing, but typically resolves as the drug wears off, usually within 4 to 8 hours. For a small subset of users — particularly those with a personal or family history of psychosis, bipolar disorder, or other serious mental illness — psilocybin may trigger a longer-lasting or more serious episode of psychosis. These cases are rare, but they do happen. It’s also important to understand that many things besides psychedelics can cause psychosis.

    So while the risk of psychosis is real, it’s not unique to psilocybin. For most people without underlying vulnerabilities, the acute psychedelic state is temporary and doesn’t lead to chronic mental illness.