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URGENT DUE TOMORROW
$75 NEEDED for medsIm a disabled lesbian woman who cannot work due to disabilities, chronic pain, and chronic illnesses.
I have no family to ask. Im stuck. This is crisis level as ive gone 6 days without them.
Any help is life saving.. 7 people, 11$ each = safe.
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There is a new safer-use tool in town. Of course, don't do illegal stuff or risk your life based on what an app says, but I still think it's a good tool to learn about common drug-drug-interactions:
https://safermix.info/ ✌️👨💻 #HarmReduction -
DATE: May 14, 2026 at 04:30AM
SOURCE: STAT NEWS MENTAL HEALTHTITLE: STAT+: Treatment for alcohol addiction is undergoing a seismic shift. Many say it’s overdue
All Jillian wanted was to regain control of her drinking.
At 38, she knew alcohol had already cost her a marriage and begun to threaten her career. What had started as typical college-age shenanigans had morphed into regularly overindulging at professional happy hours, and eventually into an all-day urge to drink. Most days, a bottle of vodka journeyed from standing full in a cabinet to laying empty in a recycling bin.
“I got to the point where I said: Holy shit, I can’t stop on my own,” Jillian said.
Her boyfriend was at a loss. Her therapist’s harm-reduction tactics helped at times, but the relapses kept coming. And while her family doctor encouraged her attempts to cut back, he never prescribed medication that might help. In the end, Jillian took the only path she knew: She sought a local Alcoholics Anonymous meeting.
But the mutual help group didn’t do the trick, either. She found the programming too God-centric and the messaging about achieving sudden, permanent abstinence unrealistic. At several points, men aggressively pursued her and other women there, offering rides home or seeking their phone numbers under the guise of mentorship. When she did find camaraderie, it was with other attendees who met up after meetings to drink at a nearby bar.
Continue to STAT+ to read the full story…
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica/116563149543761929
Have todays youth not heard of Erowid, Bluelight etc?
These are at least more reliable, although I once helped run a #drugs #harmreduction #outreach Internet forum during the 90s/00s and there were still a lot of people who ignored any advice which was "bad news" and/or simply wanted to feed addictions and problematic usage patterns (which lead to a lot of these sites being blocked on "family filter" Internet connections which became increasingly popular in homes by the late 2000s)
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Muahahahha! I complained enough online that a gearhead send me a shortlist matching my prefences almost exactly! Thank you very, very much. ❤️
1. https://www.honda.co.uk/cars/honda-super-n.html2. https://global.honda/en/stories/174-2509-n-one-e.html
3. https://global.toyota/en/mobility/toyota-brand/gallery/pixis.html4. https://www.autoexpress.co.uk/road-tests/368611/new-nissan-sakura-2026-review-kei-car-europe
5. Also the LeapMotor T03 looked really good as well.I forgot another stipulation: must be able to drive up to 60 or 70 mph, for the option of motorways.
IDGAF about acceleration rate, just top speed.#kei #keiCar #SustainableTravel #car #cars #CarBrain #CarRepair #motoring #vehicle #vehicles #transport #drive #DriveElectric #driving #driver #disabled #DisabledSocial #accessibility #accessible #EaseOfAccess #disability #Transit #travel #TravelTips #sustainability #HarmReduction #HarmMitigation #ForNow
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@ellespeaks/116451856702315325
Just $30 to go until my first mini goals met! Can anyone help?
Any bit helps a lot!
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the attitude #Trump administration has to #drugs makes 0 sense - one moment they are pardoning dealers, the next making #harmreduction more difficult - *unless* there's a deliberate attempt (maybe not even from Trump or RFK, but someone more clued up) to "give folk enough rope to hang themselves" or even allow the use of #fentanyl and other nasties like #xylazines to cull out "undesirables"..
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Campfire Learn Together: “How to (Anti) AI Better” by Dr. Fatima
For the Campfire Learn Together on April 26, 2026, we watched and discussed “How to (Anti) AI Better” by Dr. Fatima.
Dr. Fatima’s thesis: shaming individual AI users is counterproductive. The more effective path is harm reduction — meeting people where they are, reducing specific harms, and directing pressure toward systems rather than individuals.
This Campfire is a companion to our AI Collaboration guide.
Dr. Fatima’s video essay and our guide were developed independently. They land in the same place on the questions that matter most.Both name the same core tension: AI is a tool with real harms and real uses, and neither blanket endorsement nor blanket condemnation serves the people navigating it.
Both center disability and access as a primary frame — not an exception or footnote. Our guide opens with Ryan’s experience and Ronan’s experience. Dr. Fatima’s opens with a homeless disabled trans woman finding safe spaces.
Both apply broken systems, not broken people to AI ethics discourse. AI use is often adaptation under systemic constraint, not individual moral failure.
Both treat harm reduction — not abstinence — as the operative framework. Meet people where they are. Reduce harm within reality as it exists.
Both name sycophancy as a front-end harm worth taking seriously. Our guide identifies it as a direct threat to the “facilitate, not shape identity” standard. Dr. Fatima shows what that failure looks like from the inside.
Both argue that AI literacy protects people rather than radicalizing them. Teaching how LLMs work makes people more cautious, not more dependent.
Both end in the same place: direct pressure at systems and companies, not at individuals trying to cope.
The discussion today lives at the intersection of all of those themes.
Resources:
Related Glossary Entries
https://stimpunks.org/glossary/artificial-intelligence/
https://stimpunks.org/glossary/harm-reduction/
https://stimpunks.org/glossary/shame/
https://stimpunks.org/glossary/laziness/
https://stimpunks.org/glossary/mutual-aid/
Reflection Questions
On back-end harms and environmental justice
The video documents data centers being sited in already-overburdened communities — historically Black neighborhoods with existing pollution burdens, high asthma rates, and little political power. How does this connect to patterns you’ve seen in other industries, and what does it mean for how we think about “clean” or “ethical” tech?
On labor in the Global South
Content moderation workers in Kenya and the Philippines review traumatic material for as little as $1–2/hour so users in the Global North don’t have to see it. This labor is invisible in most conversations about AI. Where else do you see this kind of hidden, harmful labor that makes systems function for dominant groups?
On hallucinations and unreliable information
Dr. Fatima gives real examples of harm from hallucinations: fabricated legal citations, a misidentified poisonous plant, dangerous dietary advice. Many of us already navigate systems that gaslight us or give us unreliable information (medical, legal, educational). Does that history change how you think about the specific risk of AI hallucinations?
On sycophancy and validation
The video describes sycophancy as a feature that affirms users regardless of accuracy — and links it to reinforced delusions and harm in relationships. At the same time, many neurodivergent and disabled people say AI is one of the few spaces where they don’t feel judged or dismissed. How do we hold both of those things at once?
On shame and harm reduction
Dr. Fatima argues that “the only ethical choice is to never use AI” messaging triggers reactance — it makes people dig in rather than change. She draws on the public health harm reduction model instead: meet people where they are, reduce specific harms, don’t moralize. Where do you see this tension — between calling something harmful and actually reducing harm — in other parts of your life or work?
On variation between tools
Not all AI tools are equally harmful. The video argues that choosing one platform over another, or using local/open-source models, meaningfully reduces specific harms. Does your organization have (or want) a stance on which tools are more or less acceptable, the way some groups have ethical sourcing policies for other products?
On collective action
Dr. Fatima’s four collective action recommendations: organize locally against data centers, support exploited data workers, push for stronger privacy protections, and build community alternatives to AI-mediated social support. Which of these feels most urgent or most actionable for your community right now?
On community as an alternative
One of the video’s deeper concerns is people turning to chatbots for connection and emotional support because human community isn’t accessible to them. What does Stimpunks already offer as an alternative to that, and are there gaps this video helps name?
Main Takeaways
“AI” covers many very different things.
Treating them all the same obscures real differences in harm.
This video is about regular people using chatbots like ChatGPT.
Data centers use as much electricity as all of Canada.
AI is the main reason that number keeps growing.
New data centers are often built in places already short on water.
Elon Musk’s supercomputer is running illegal gas turbines in a poor Black neighborhood in Memphis.
Residents there are getting sicker because of the pollution.
But one person’s chatbot use uses about as much energy as a microwave running for a minute.
Not all AI companies cause the same amount of harm.
Grok causes more harm than Claude, which causes more harm than doing nothing.
What you type into a chatbot is not private.
Chatbots make things up and present them as facts.
Chatbots tell you what you want to hear, not what is true.
This makes personal problems worse, not better.
There are real dangers. But how you use these tools changes how dangerous they are.
Shaming people for using AI does not make them stop.
It makes them hide their use and do it more.
This is what research on behavior consistently shows.
Harm reduction is a better approach.
It means helping people do something more safely instead of demanding they stop.
This works for drug use, sex education, and it can work for AI too.
Teaching people how AI works makes them less likely to trust it blindly.
It also makes them less likely to use it at all.
Many people use AI because they are struggling and have few other options.
It is not our place to judge whether someone’s need is real enough.
The biggest changes will come from collective action, not individual choices.
Local organizing can block data centers from being built.
Between 2024 and 2025, organizers blocked $18 billion worth of data center projects.
You can get involved through local zoning fights, elections, and grassroots groups.
If someone in your life uses AI, stay curious and non-judgmental.
That is the only way they will open up and let you help.
Direct your anger at the companies and systems causing the harm.
Not at the people trying to cope within those systems.
#artificialIntelligence #campfireLearnTogether #ethics #events #harmReduction #mutualAid #shame #techEthics -
$0/$45 phone
$0/450 MayIts exhausting spending hours a day trying to accomplish mutual aid for yourself so you can eat, but having it amount to nothing day after day
I'm just worried bc I need my phone or I could get kicked out of my Mat clinic. you need an active phone so they can call for random bottle counts at any point. If ur phones not connected its considered a fail.
#mutualaid #disabled #harmreduction #MutualAidRequest #helpfolkslive
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@ellespeaks/116459289455763943
Almpst out of time, stalled at $0.
and now to make matters worse, I am out of food and diabetic.Venmo d_fay
Paypal peach77#Mutualaid #MutualAidRequest #MutualAidBoost #MutualAidSavesLives #maboost #disabled #spoonie #chronicpain #chronicillness #Kofi #venmo #paypal #crowdfunding #helpneeded #helpfolkslive2026 #lgbtq #lesbian #queer #artist #disabledmutualaid #poverty #community #harmreduction #fundfriday
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Its (almost) friday again! #FundFriday time !!!
Rules: be respectful of others, share other peoples posts, no graphic/violent images,
Much love ❤
#mutualaid #mutualaidboost #MutualAidRequest #MutualAidSavesLives
#disabled #Bipoc #trans #homeless #helpfolkslive2026 #harmreduction @[email protected]
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#MutualAidRequest could someone with a blue sky accnt help me. By posting this graphic on a mutual aid thread there?
I was banned on all 3 of my accounts 😭
"Elle needs $150 by 5/7 for food and a phone bill, she is multi disabled, queer and unable to work"
for the caption! tysm this really would help me!#bluesky #disabled #mutualaid #helpfolkslive2026 #MutualAidBoost #MutualAidSavesLives #lgbtqia #lgbtq #lesbian #poverty #harmreduction
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John Brown Breakfast Club Cookout
Roosevelt Park, Saturday, May 9 at 01:30 PM MDT
John Brown Breakfast Club on Instagram: "John Brown Breakfast Club is having a cookout in celebration of John Brown's birthday. The even will be at Roosevelt Park on May 9 at 1:30 pm and include live music, free food, harm reduction supplies and education, mutual aid tables, and resources for our unhoused and housing insecure neighbors. These resources include referrals to social services program with current availability, an ID clinic, and limited free cell phones with a year of service. Come learn about local mutual aid groups, enjoy some burritos and pozole, and jam out."
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Study: No Measurable Next-Day Cognitive Effects Following Cannabis Use
“Contrary to our hypothesis, we found no cognitive performance differences between the cannabis group (tested 12–15 h after last use) and controls. This aligns with a systematic review reporting little evidence of next-day performance effects of cannabis exposure.”
https://norml.org/blog/2026/04/09/study-no-measurable-next-day-cognitive-effects-following-cannabis-use/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon
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We’re excited to announce our upcoming #Opioid #Archive National Symposium, Tues, May 12 – Thurs, May 14. Check out the lineup of speakers on topics including #HealthJournalism #HealthPolicy #Epidemiology #DataScience #Archives #ArtificialIntelligence #HistMed #ScienceHistory #HarmReduction #LivedExperience https://oida-resources.jhu.edu/oida-national-symposium-2026/
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This common antidepressant helps people cut back on methamphetamine – new study
#Health #PublicHealth #Addiction #Meth #DrugCrisis #Methamphetamine #MentalHealth #Recovery #Treatment #Medicine #HarmReduction #Neuroscience #Psychiatry #Wellness #Science
https://the-14.com/this-common-antidepressant-helps-people-cut-back-on-methamphetamine-new-study/ -
Great #YouTube video by #DrFatima on how to better argue and take action against the real life danger and harms of #AI. I especially appreciate the chapter on parallels to climate anxiety, which makes people go into a vocal "AI is never ethical" stance. Understandable where it comes from, but completely detached from most people's daily life reality. Great video on how to better approach this question and discuss it with others via a #harmreduction approach
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“In a recent public post by Joe Louttit, a community leader and organizer of the Peacekeeping program, an estimated $3.5 million street value of drugs and alcohol was prevented from entering the community this past year.”
#Indigenous #FirstNations #Attawapiskat #Ontario #addiction #harmreduction
https://www.windspeaker.com/under-northern-sky-xavier-kataquapit/every-step-towards-future-counts
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@ellespeaks/116320613771064622
Boosting please help
Just $40 more left for march
we are so so closeMarch: 40$ to go for food and meds
April: 450$ monthly goalI was banned from bluesky on 3/29 which is how i got most of my mutual aid needs met. Im basically screwed now. 🙃 im so scared
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Paypal peach77#mutualaid #MutualAidRequest #MutualAidBoost #disabled #spoonie #helpfolks #helpfolkslive2026 #chronicillness #bluesky #harmreduction #lgbtq #lesbian #support #helpneeded #kofi #crowdfund
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$80 left to cover March! 🆘️
No support from family, cant work or drive.I need my meds and food asap 😩 any little bit helps! Even 5$ helps a lot.
Venmo venmo.com/d_fay
Paypal paypal.me/peach77
Kofi https://ko-fi.com/ellespeaks#fundraiser #disabled #helpfolkslive2026 #helpsky #MAboost #queer #lesbian #spoonie #MutualAidRequest #MutualAidBoost #chronicillness #lgbtq #sapphic #helpfolks #help #crowdfund #support #harmreduction #venmo #paypal #kofi