He said he’d stop drinking but he never said he wouldn’t start parachuting oxy

I’m going through a similar thing with alcohol and nic vapes. I finally convinced myself that continued personal growth was impossible (for me) if I couldn’t get a handle on them. I realized these things were a crutch and inhibiting me from living the life I wanted. And I finally refused to allow that any longer. I know it’s not the same as nicotine but alcohol was a huge part of my identity. But … so many aspects of my identity have already been discarded from my life… some withered away and some I had to intentionally destroy. Getting rid of one more is no big deal.

Perhaps you could search inside for a neglected part of your identity to tend to. That’s what I’m doing. Long-forgotten shoots are sprouting and it feels good to cultivate them instead of spending my precious time reinforcing the self-destructive parts of me. I know it’s easier said (and thought) than done. Best of luck.

PS - this is day 4 of no alcohol for me and while I’ve gone longer without it in the past, I’ve always kinda known I’d eventually drink again. This is the first time I’ve really felt like: if I never drink again that would suit me just fine.

I just realized Trump’s re-inauguration coincides with MLK Jr Day, the man who famously warned of the dangers of white moderates… the people whose feckless liberalism left wide open the door for Trump and the mask off fascists in the first place. Now they’ll be formally in control again, on the very day meant to honor the man who called it 62 years ago.

https://letterfromjail.com/

Read this and get jokerfied with me.

I’ll check it out, thanks for the rec

Will was extra insufferable in this one, truly a dogshit interviewer. I couldn’t finish it.

I’m not a nurse but I’ve worked in healthcare in the US a long time and it’s infuriating to me how nurses are treated. They get to take all the abuse from patients and their families who are themselves victims of this inhumane money machine dressed up like a first world healthcare system. They get to do that with a continually shrinking pool of resources whether through admin’s incompetence or malice. It’s fucking criminal what they have to deal with. Like people should go to jail for what they’ve done to make it this way. Exactly like the way they’ve done teachers, my friend.

Anyway, I’m not a nurse but I would still be down for a healthcare-related comm. As you say, nurses are primed to be radicalized. Corporate retail pharmacy workers (CVS, Walgreens, Walmart, and other assorted scumbag entities) are also ready IMO. They got rocked pretty hard on all sides by the pandemic, I mean imagine being a public face of healthcare in the middle of all that when literally any can waltz in to where the big scary vaccine is being given and act like a literal child berating people in line to get it, but saving their best verbal (and sometimes physical) abuse for the technician (who doesn’t even make a fucking living wage) because their copays went up because they’re also a victim of this horrible evil system. It’s victims all the way down but there are potential comrades there too.