At the Margins @almostdrgus.bsky.social · 02/08/2026Sober recovery is not a character war, it's not a willpower war (though some willpower is involved), it's not a war of self…it's a neurological one where we have to do the hard, sometimes boring work of community, structure, skill building, radical honesty and acceptance, and creating new pathways 100 0
At the Margins @almostdrgus.bsky.social · 27/07/2026It's about time! Finally finished the final article in the Recovery Curriculum series. This is about where we came from as a addiction professionals, and where we desperately need to go next. Read and share, won't you? I'd love to hear your thoughts. atthemargins.org/recovery-cur...atthemargins.orgRecovery Curriculum 401Workforce, advocacy, and what we owe the field that raised us Some might say this field was born from trouble. It wasn’t created in universities or boardrooms. It wasn’t created in the offices of li... 100 0
At the Margins @almostdrgus.bsky.social · 16/06/2026Nobody gets clean in a vacuum. The sixth piece in the Recovery Curriculum is about the family systems, attachment histories, and relationship dynamics that shape whether recovery is possible — and what it actually asks of everyone in the room. atthemargins.org/recovery-cur...atthemargins.orgRecovery Curriculum 301cThe research is clear that family involvement in recovery improves outcomes. Not because family saves the person but because belonging to something, being accountable to people who matter, having some... 000 0
At the Margins @almostdrgus.bsky.social · 03/06/2026Recovery isn't the absence of substance use. It's the reconstruction of a self. And that reconstruction works differently when the community offering to help you rebuild wasn't built with you in mind. Recovery Curriculum 301b is live at atthemargins.org/recovery-cur... Please read and share!atthemargins.orgWho You Become: LGBTQ+ Identity and RecoveryRecovery is the reconstruction of a self. Whether that rebuilding works depends on whether the community waiting on the other side was built with you in mind. 000 0
At the Margins @almostdrgus.bsky.social · 12/05/2026The science on why AA works is actually pretty clear: it restructures your social network. Who you spend time with changes. That changes everything. But in rural areas, there's often only one meeting a week, in a church basement. In English. New piece in the Recovery Curriculum: atthemargins.orgatthemargins.orgAt The MarginsEssays on recovery, practice, and the systems that shape both — from the rural edges of American behavioral health. 000 0
At the Margins @almostdrgus.bsky.social · 25/04/2026Article 2 of the Recovery Curriculum is up! Whether you've worked in treatment or been through it — what did the description of treatment leave out? What would you redesign first? atthemargins.org/the-recovery... #RecoveryCurriculum #AddictionCounseling #SUD #BehavioralHealth #RuralHealthatthemargins.orgThe Recovery Curriculum - 201Many people approach treatment with expectations shaped by everything except firsthand experience...and that picture rarely matches what they find. Sometimes, it's considerably better than imagined, a... 000 0
Reposted by At the MarginsVenus Bivar @vbivar.bsky.social · 18/04/2026For all those looking for a good laugh. Best cat adoption advert I have ever read. 14614 0
At the Margins @almostdrgus.bsky.social · 17/04/2026We tell people addiction is a disease. Then we treat them like moral failures. The first piece in the Recovery Curriculum series is up. It's about the structural contradiction at the heart of American recovery culture — and what it looks like on the ground. atthemargins.orgatthemargins.orgAt The MarginsEssays on recovery, practice, and the systems that shape both — from the rural edges of American behavioral health. 000 0
At the Margins @almostdrgus.bsky.social · 16/04/2026I'll be a keynote speaker at this event in June - come talk with us about rural substance and recovery work. the-rural.org/services/ #SUD #Recovery #Sobriety #AddictionTreatmentthe-rural.orgThe RuralNational Rural Institute on Alcohol, Drugs and Addictions: June 2026 The annual Conference and Meeting of NRADAN, IncTraining for Addiction Prevention, Treatment, and Recovery Professionals Institu… 020 0
At the Margins @almostdrgus.bsky.social · 16/01/2026You know, I started to say something here several times and erased them all. There just aren’t words. 101 0
Reposted by At the Marginsem. rowene @queerenigma.com · 10/01/2026Hi folks, I'm seeing a lot of "Eyes on Minneapolis" & "We support Minnesota" sentiment. Here's a tangible way you can help: Trump just suspended federal funding for SNAP benefits to Minnesota. Second Harvest Heartland is an MN-based hunger-relief org. Please donate what you can. www.2harvest.org2harvest.orgSecond Harvest Heartland | Local Minnesota, Wisconsin food bank | 2harvest.orgThere is more than enough food for everyone. As one of the nation’s largest hunger relief agencies, it’s our job to make sure healthy, nutritious food gets to the households who need it. Every day, we... 1920732184 0
At the Margins @almostdrgus.bsky.social · 11/01/2026media.tenor.comthe green bay packers are playing against the chicago bearsAlt: the green bay packers are playing against the chicago bears. Several players doing touchdown celebrations-dancing and pointing at camera. 000 0
Reposted by At the MarginsNick Benson @ottergoose.net · 06/01/2026ICE observers in the Twin Cities are in need of dash cams to prevent further intimidation and frivolous claims. Cams are $110, memory cards $35, and ship to us directly via this wish list: www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/... If you've been looking for a way to help, we'd sure appreciate it! 11215541142 0
At the Margins @almostdrgus.bsky.social · 01/01/2026Happy New Year, Bluesky. May this one be better than the last. 🎉 010 0
At the Margins @almostdrgus.bsky.social · 25/12/2025Snoop does Christmas halftime in Minneapolis! Yes please. 000 0
At the Margins @almostdrgus.bsky.social · 25/12/2025Success! Italian Christmas cookies are a big yes around here now! #foodsky 010 0
At the Margins @almostdrgus.bsky.social · 24/12/2025I’ll tell you what no one else seems to tell you about making butter toffee…how to clean the daggone pan!! Lots of boiling hot water and scrubbing. Maybe some choice words too. That’s how. 000 0
At the Margins @almostdrgus.bsky.social · 24/12/2025Let’s try Italian Christmas cookies next, shall we? #foodsky www.thekitchn.com/italian-chri...thekitchn.comMy Italian Christmas Cookies Are Super-Soft and Impossibly Easy (I'm Making Them All December!)They’re soft, pillowy, and perfect. 000 0
At the Margins @almostdrgus.bsky.social · 24/12/2025Trying my hand at butter toffee…peanut butter blossoms were a success! #foodsky 010 0
At the Margins @almostdrgus.bsky.social · 24/12/2025My wife and I are on our own for the holiday so it is Baking Day. It’s therapeutic, passes the time, and gives me things to offer as gifts along the way on our trip to see various family members post Christmas. 000 0
Reposted by At the MarginsThe Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 21/12/2025#MedicareForAllNOW 12946021630 0
At the Margins @almostdrgus.bsky.social · 19/12/2025The simple, powerful truths here…too many to list. I'm a nobody from nowhere, but this is how I strive to impact people when I do my work too. We need so much more of this. Urban Consulate: Jason Reynolds & Tressie McMillan Cottom www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uwwn...youtube.comUrban Consulate: Jason Reynolds & Tressie McMillan CottomYouTube video by Urban Consulate 011 0
At the Margins @almostdrgus.bsky.social · 19/12/2025apnews.com/article/brow...apnews.comMan suspected in shooting at Brown University has been found dead in New Hampshire, AP source saysA man who is suspected of killing two and wounding several others at Brown University has been found dead in a New Hampshire storage facility, a law enforcement official and a person familiar with the... 000 0
At the Margins @almostdrgus.bsky.social · 18/12/2025Cruelty upon cruelty…they're just aiming it in another direction today. 000 0
Reposted by At the MarginsBjørn Sætrevik @satrevik.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 18/12/2025I just added this to my email signature. #no2ai #noAI #no_AI #AIslop #AcademicChatter 173 0
At the Margins @almostdrgus.bsky.social · 17/12/2025Not feeling great about the latest job market chatter/reality as I’m eyes deep in end of semester hell. Hope is about all we have at this stage in our programs, you know. Try not to kill it. #academicsky #phdlife #jobmarket 020 0
At the Margins @almostdrgus.bsky.social · 15/12/2025It's no accident that folks who watched their college peers push for The Civil Rights Act, protest the Vietnam War, push against apartheid, support BLM and diversity are the same folks loudly dismantling every aspect of higher education they can. Of course they want to control campuses. #academicsky 010 0
At the Margins @almostdrgus.bsky.social · 14/12/2025Devastating news about Brown today and my thoughts are with all involved. This is horrible, heartbreaking, and infuriating as well. As graduate student instructors we have to think about these things as well, though no one really talks to you about it as you begin teaching. That should change. 000 0
Reposted by At the MarginsI Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 13/12/2025The right is doing its best to normalize racism and we can’t keep responding with “oh that’s clickbait” while actual people are being targeted by the state and leading institutions. 933690 0
At the Margins @almostdrgus.bsky.social · 08/12/2025Why yes, yes I did just go down an academic rabbit hole on attachment theory and digital experience while I was supposed to be grading and working on my thesis data. Why do you ask?? But it's going to be a really good article! Someday. In my spare time. 😂😂😂 #academicsky #phdsky #highered #gradlife 030 0
At the Margins @almostdrgus.bsky.social · 07/12/2025Where do I even begin… iowacapitaldispatch.com/2025/12/05/w...iowacapitaldispatch.comWhat's wrong with higher ed? Panelists at intellectual freedom center blame liberals • Iowa Capital DispatchPanelists at the University of Iowa Center for Intellectual Freedom's event suggested certain people and ideas have stifled academic freedom. 010 0
Reposted by At the MarginsInside Higher Ed @insidehighered.com · 03/12/2025@ttu.edu Puts Its Anti-Trans Rules In Writing Race and sexuality course content is also caught up in the university system’s expansive new content review policies. bit.ly/3K9pQ4X #EDUSky #AcademicSky #HigherEd 013 0
At the Margins @almostdrgus.bsky.social · 02/12/2025As a grad student who happens to be trans…this terrifies me. I also work in a location that isn't exactly hospitable. #academicsky #highered #phdsky 1131 0
Reposted by At the MarginsAmerican Sociological Association @asanews.bsky.social · 02/12/2025ASA community, we need your help to meet an urgent need among sociology students! We are asking 100 ASA members to make a gift by midnight tonight to help us reach our goal of raising $20K for the Student Travel Award. Give now! www.asanet.org/donate. #ASA #sociology #donate 041 0