ALL Cops Are Bastards.

I think a lot of the (understandable) knee jerk opposition people have to calls to defund or abolish the police has to do with the misapprehension that police exist to protect individuals or that they are part of the mechanism for serving justice. Protection and justice are not what the police are for, no matter what…

You’re a bad person, and literally everyone around you knows it.

Zero proof? What are you wanting? Eye witnesses? A blood and semen stained dress? Multiple victims reported their rape at the time to ethics officers within Scientology, and the prosecution was able to obtain those ethics reports. One also went to the police in 2004, and that spooked Masterson enough that he…

To be fair, the source article is a bit too vague to attribute her death to a failure of the medical system. We don’t know if she was receiving regular prenatal care. We don’t know if she was deemed a high risk pregnancy or already diagnosed with pre-eclampsia.

There is no safe amount of alcohol. It is literal poison. I don’t have any shame about my previous drinking (aside from when I got too drunk and did dumb stuff). I gave my perspective of how I was a product of my alcohol-centric environment and how it took a long time to get away from feeling obligated to drink that…

Big hugs to you Devonna. Thank you for sharing.

I just wrote half a novel in the comments saying basically the same thing. You capture it perfectly in fewer words. I was the “could never have one” person because what’s the point? I didn’t sip a cocktail for the taste, I wanted the taste AND the buzz. And once I had the buzz, I wanted to keep it.

Anytime. I think you’re one of the people who had been very supportive of me back in 2021 when I stopped drinking and would write about my experience on SNS. Thank you for that. I just wrote a longer reply to Disco Sucks about my experience. I’m honestly shocked that pro-drinking mean girl shit is being posted in…

For the people this article is talking about, “cheap and easy pleasures” don’t stop there. People come to rely on their substances to deal with trauma, stress, and the ups and downs of everyday life. It can be hard to step back from drinking even when you want to because our society revolves around it and “casual”…

Thank you for saying this. 

I’ve been sober since 2004 and it’s been amazing for me. I loved alcohol, my favorites were beer and vodka. At the end, when I was buying tall boy Budweisers from a bodega after having been to rehab twice, it was clear I was in a huge downward spiral. I lost friends, relationships, and jobs. I almost lost my car and I…

Being in recovery is hard. Addiction is a disease for many people, and for others, addictive behaviors are trying to fill some sort of hole left by trauma. It makes sense that one person would replace a substance addiction with something else, especially if you’re learning how to live in the world without the crutch…

Meeting people just gets harder when you’ve stopped drinking. You realize just how much people’s entire ideas of leisure and recreation consist of “let’s go to a bar” and “let’s have a few drinks.”

Loved this. I quit drinking a few weeks before the start of the pandemic which makes it...checks watch...just over 3 years. My drinking wasn’t out of control when comparing it to the narrative we’ve been fed around what qualifies as worth quitting over but it certainly was gray area and as a daughter of an alcoholic…

This has been similar to my experience. I got sober at the end of ‘20 remained sober through ‘21 and I’m still sober. It’s crazy that we got sober through this shit and have stayed sober. I’ve never even been to an in person meeting. Keep rockin it!! xoxo

This is so great! Good job, and also, you are rad independent of your success here. Bumps on the road as you progress can’t diminish your merit.

This was really helpful for me to read today. I relate to a lot of your internal experience and ways of seeing yourself and use alcohol and marijuana to numb and disassociate from my emotions every day. I want to stop, but have so much fear about facing the person I am without those crutches, crutches that cripple me…

This! Cobra Kai is even more infuriating re: contact fighting. As a lapsed karate practitioner, that’s not how reputable tournaments are run. They’d NEVER get insurance, for one thing. Also, concussions are now a thing, and with all the head trauma, on of those kids definitely had one.