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alex @unfinishedlines.club · 18/08/2026

this movie never fails to amaze: - largest international cast of the period - terrence young left james bond to work on it - ending his time with the franchise - ends with a thank you to reza shah - absolute garbage

The film is based on an idea by Ian Fleming, the James Bond creator. Funded in part by a grant from Xerox, it was produced by the United Nations and the stars received a salary of $1.[2] Terence Young left the direction of Thunderball to make the film.

One of the props from Thunderball features in the beginning of the film - the underwater watch provided to James Bond (Sean Connery) by Q (Desmond Llewelyn), with a built-in Geiger Counter which in the former film is meant to detect a nuclear weapon, and in this production to permit long-range tracking of drug shipments which contain a radioactive marker.

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alex @unfinishedlines.club · 11/07/2026

"it was great, it's crack, gets you real high"

Mr. Show, Bob Odenkirk attached to a lie detector test is asked what crack feels like

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alex @unfinishedlines.club · 08/07/2026

update not a wasp... what in the world is this thing

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alex @unfinishedlines.club · 08/07/2026

me: should i go work outside today? giant black wasp: you should!!! it's so beautiful outside, seize the day me: 🫡🏃🏽‍➡️

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alex @unfinishedlines.club · 29/06/2026

wonder how they came to this crystal clear analysis

"Despite the extensive and unambiguous historical documentation, the Armenian Genocide remains to this day the subject of an institutionalized campaign of denial and minimization, including a manipulative rewriting of history, mainly by the Turkish government," said Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saar, who brought the decision to the government."

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alex @unfinishedlines.club · 15/06/2026

the idealist Hegel only gets a bust

me with a photo of a hegel bust on a stone column behind me in berlin

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alex @unfinishedlines.club · 12/06/2026

well why would we care about adverse impacts or the production of inferior social outcomes. do the rich not see the seizing of their wealth as an adverse impact that produces inferior social outcomes for them?

The more compelling argument against billionaires has to do not with the ethical implications of the extreme inequality that they arguably promote, but with the adverse real-world consequences, which you don't have to be a fire-breathing Marxist to acknowledge. There is plenty of evidence that extreme inequality produces inferior and even perverse social outcomes.

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alex @unfinishedlines.club · 08/06/2026

AI can't replace a lack of supports (which is what the report says is the issue) also, in the auditor generals report notes that incarcerated Indigenous & Black people were more likely to have their initial assessment overriden & put in higher security & less likely to receive overrides for minimum

We also found that Indigenous offenders were more likely than non‑Indigenous offenders to have their initial security placement increased to a higher level through overrides of the Custody Rating Scale’s results. As well, we found fewer overrides down to minimum security for Indigenous offenders than for non‑Indigenous offenders.

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alex @unfinishedlines.club · 06/06/2026

my decade long goal of getting photos of/with radical philosopher statues continues - rousseau (2026) geneva - marx (2019) budapest (no longer accessible bc of Orban) - marx again praha - Spinoza (2017) amsterdam

selfie (blue hair) of jean jacques rousseau in the top right of the the photo atop a monument with his name

me with very long hair beside my boy marx

my bike (rip) with a statue to an artistic rendering of spinoza, with his coat covered in birds

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alex @unfinishedlines.club · 06/05/2026

missed this story in the ottawa citizen last week - basically all their cuts are from atip ottawacitizen.com/public-servi...

LAC is eliminating 161 positions over three years, including 56 permanent employees. The bulk of the savings $13.6 million access to information and privacy (ATIP) unit. The choice to slash ATIP, an arm of LAC's operations that routinely misses legislated timelines, raised eyebrows among opposition MPs at an April 21 meeting of the Commons committee on government operations, studying public service cuts.

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alex @unfinishedlines.club · 05/05/2026

most satisfying part of my day was finishing a reel (9 to go)

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alex @unfinishedlines.club · 17/03/2026

reading thru records/reports from thailand's early crop substitution (now called "alternative development") & rehabilitation programme it's sort of strange to see someone be absolutely shocked that the prohibition of opium led to heroin use (circa 1972)

Heroin was not a problem until opium was totally band [sic] in 1959
and then it spread like wild fire. Until about only a year ago it was mainly consumed by smoking of the heroin (crystals in a cigarette) or by "chasing the dragon" (inhaling the smoke from heated heroin through a "straw" or rolled up piece of paper). But today increasing numbers are using injection.

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alex @unfinishedlines.club · 08/03/2026

for international women's day, i bring these articles written by addiction science journalist and the editor of the Addiction Research Foundation's 1970-80s publication "The Journal" from International Womens Year 1975, Anne MacLennan 1/ #histsci #histsky #Drugsky #HarmReduction

Cartoon on right, two women sitting together in one of their houses, dishes piled up behind them. The woman sort of 'manspreading' (one could say), says, "I envy him his tough day at the office - it's such a perfect excuse to get smashed..."

Text of Anne's article
Equal time for women
FOR THE addictions field to believe that the call for attention to women's specific needs and problems is a middle-class phenomenon that can be taken lightly, is wrong.
Slowly but certainly, the mistake of lumping women alcoholics and addicts with men is beginning to haunt us. That we ignore them a t our peril and, more important, at the peril of the next generation, was dramatically illustrated in a paper presented to the National Drug Abuse Conference in New Orleans.
Of 118 women in 44 therapeutic communities, 44% had had incestuous relationships by the time they were 15 years old. One can
only surmise what sort of homes those children lived in, what
other relationships they had. But today, some of their children are in custody or treatment for alcoholism, addictions, and other "anti-social" behavior.
As the paper's presenter, Dr. Judianne Densen-Gerber, put it:
How often can we expect a female child, violated at three, four,
or five years old by a man from whom she had every right to
expect protection from sexual exploitation, develop into a coping.
functioning member of society? And what can we expect of her
children? (Many of the women studied had several, said Dr. Judianne Denser Gerber.)
Although more investigation is needed, to deny the potentially profound implications o f this study in the etiology of alcoholism and addiction in women would be rash.
Troubled men and troubled women make troubled children to-
gether. To set women above men would be no more right than
having neglected them. But to fail to give them equal time and
attention is to fail the next generation.

C

In Memoriam IWY
JUST TWO months to go and we all can relax. International
Women's Year will be over.
Interesting, stimulating. Occasionally even amusing Just about everyone, for instance, had or heard a ribald laugh at some stage about the government's chief contribution to the year — the slogan Why Not? They may also have heard the rumor that in 1976, the new buttons would read Not Bloody Likely.
But that's the way many will remember it. And they will think, and even say,: "That's it. We've listened. Now get on with it and let the rest o f u s get back t o reality:" To be fair, there will be women as well as men thinking this way.
In the alcohol and drug field, as in almost every other, awareness of women and their problems increased this year. Women seemed suddenly more obvious, more prominent. For as much a s any other reason, perhaps it was simply because they were now beginning to be seen as something more than a research sub-section on wives, mothers or daughters of alcoholics. They were beginning to be seen a s people with their own problems.
In the context of the emphasis everywhere on women, the focus on them i n this field probably created the mistaken impression that a n inordinate amount of time and energy was being devoted to their needs. Women are "cutting themselves off", "doing exactly the same thing men have been doing", some people said. Their aims are fine, they said, but their tactics... Implicit in the unfinished suggestion needed a few men to show them how to get things done.
These people, and they include women, thought they were seeing their fears confirmed when, in August, in Levis, Quebec, the Canadian Foundation on Alcohol and Drug Dependencies held its consultation on women and, in September, when the ARF's Eastern Ontario regional office, with the aid of the Non Medical Use of Drugs Directorate, held a provincial consultation on women with alcohol and drug problems.
The first was attended by men and women representing the
field across Ca…

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alex @unfinishedlines.club · 04/02/2026

people say this but then act like anarchists all the damn time davidgraeber.org/articles/are...

If there's a line to get on a
crowded bus, do you wait
your turn and refrain from
elbowing your way past
others even in the absence of police?
If you answered "yes", then you are used to acting like an anarchist!

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alex @unfinishedlines.club · 03/02/2026

monday night watching, "A Revolut that Never Ends"

antonio negri, grey hair gold rimmed thin glasses, "the following saturday the unions called for more overtime"

But they couldn't do anything because the factory's power had been blown

All of the electrical pylons had been sawed through and fallen down

"I can tell you these things because i've already been convicted of them" negri says with the hugest grin about to appear

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alex @unfinishedlines.club · 02/02/2026

may have found the most cursed cigarette brand in the world

multipack of che [Guevara] branded cigarettes - with a good reminder
"Smoming seriously harms you and others around you"

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alex @unfinishedlines.club · 02/02/2026

like you really can't say that he didn't fucking call it (1995)

an essay which originally appeared in Le Monde Diplomatique, Virilio maps the social consequences:

What lies ahead is a disturbance in the perception of what reality is; it is a shock, a mental concussion. And this outcome ought to interest us. Why? Because never has any progress in a technique been achieved without addressing its specific negative aspects. The specific negative aspect of these information superhighways is precisely this loss of orientation regarding alterity (the other), this disturbance in the relationship with the other and with the world. It is obvious that this loss of orientation, this non-situation, is going to usher in a deep crisis which will affect society and hence, democracy.

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alex @unfinishedlines.club · 01/02/2026

borderless can have all the dopamine as a treat

really stupid drug graph from the youtube channel fern which says an orgasm leads to 80% release of dopamine, cocaine ~300%, crystal meth (crossed out for "liking, reposting and replying to borderless"

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alex @unfinishedlines.club · 29/01/2026

i take a lot of my inspiration for thinking about scale from Max Liboiron's "Pollution is Colonialism" counting the harms of alcohol-human engagements over a persons life & by quantity, then comparing them to the violence of the drug supply is what they call "scalar mismatch"

Scales of Harm and Violence

Scale is not about relative size. Scale is about what relationships matter within a particular context." For example, if you look at live skin cells under a micro-scope, you'd notice osmosis (flowy water movement) and other activities taking place within the cellular membrane. If you put away the microscope and look at the arm the skin cells come from, you'd notice goose bumps and tattoos. Even though arms are made of skin cells, they do not act like skin cells, and chopping an arm into little pieces does not produce skin cells-though it might produce a prison sentence. Cells and arms are fundamentally different things, even though they are intimately, inextricably related. Scale is a way to talk about this onto-logical shift, where the processes that matter (relaaaatiooooons!) are of a fun-damentally different sort at different scales without severing relations that cross scales. My example from the introduction of the difference in your relations with your daughter versus the mail carrier is an example of scale: who is closer? What kinds of relationships and obligations matter, depending on how "close" someone is? You can talk about the differences between types of kin as scale.

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alex @unfinishedlines.club · 27/01/2026

he should run now, this city could use a bit of humour

person on instagram asking adam zivo to run for mayor

adam zivo: maybe one day in the far future

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alex @unfinishedlines.club · 27/01/2026

im fairly certain this wasn't in front of my apartment earlier

bike with front cage and mitts locked to nothing in the snow

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alex @unfinishedlines.club · 27/01/2026

on my walk earlier today i found a few bikes that will be unfreeable til march

bicycle with a front cage and baby carriage on the back almost completely covered in snow

another bike just peaking out of the snow. on either side there is probably about 4 feet (just over 1m) of snow

another bicycle, which is further out of the snow, but there is over 1m of snow width wise between it and the curb

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alex @unfinishedlines.club · 26/01/2026

TL;DR Health Canada added stipulations to keeping the Parkdale SCS open that were arbitrary and impossible/unreasonable to meet at least one person is already dead - this at a moment where TOs drug supply is basically all medetomidine, super potent xylazine/clonidine-like drug

Health Canada’s new requirements
But on Nov. 7, just two weeks before the site’s provincial funding was to run out, Health Canada said it would require the centre to meet two new conditions.

The first was that the site secure its own funding, which Robertson says was possible to do for one year.

Health Canada’s second condition was that the site create a “community safety plan” that was approved by local police. The site had only eight days to comply, according to Robertson.

Robertson says that the government’s language indicated the site was expected to take responsibility for vandalism, theft and disorder — not just on its property but across the entire neighbourhood.

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alex @unfinishedlines.club · 21/01/2026

like... this is from the first UN coca Inquiry (1950), which despite still racist argued against restricting coca in Aymara & Quichuas communities in Bolivia & Peru - note how (despite colonialism) it says not addictive what did the WHO expert committee come back with? 'it's basically addiction;

In the light of this definition, the observations of the Commission show that coca-leaf chewing is not an addiction (toxicomania) but a habit. It may, however, in some individuals, become an addiction, but generally it can be given up like other habits.
Coca-leaf chewing has all the characteristics of a habit. It is easy to teach the young soldier not to chew.
No abstinence symptoms are seen. But if he comes back to his fotiner surroundings, where everybody chews, he quickly becomes a chewer again.
Chewing in primitive Indian society means to be grown up, manlike, and is the reason why most boys chew after they reach puberty.
As a habit, coca-leaf chewing is not bound to certain climatic conditions. Workers from the Altiplano who work on the San Lorenzo Islands, near Lima, were found to chew. They sere absent from their homes for about six montns, but had not abandoned their habit.
The Commission learned that wild Indians of the Urubamba Valley, from the jungle of the plainland south-east of Quillabamba, acquired the habit of chewing from contact with the half-civilized Indian workers.

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The Report of the Commission of Enquiry on the Coca Leaf clearly shows that coca chewing is detrimental to the individual and to society.
The committee, therefore, was of the opinion that coca chewing comes so closely to the characteristics of addiction as defined at its second session that it must be defined and treated as an addiction, in spite of the occasional absence of some of those characteristics

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alex @unfinishedlines.club · 21/01/2026

even nancy, my supervisor, doesn't have ibogaine on her list and she wrote the book on Lexington (well 2)

Compounds tested at Lexington included many in regular use today: alcohol; barbiturates; buprenorphine; clonidine; codeine; cyclazocine;
Demerol; Dilaudid; heroin; LSD; mescaline; methadone; nalorphine, nalox-one, naltrexone, and other narcotic antagonists used to reverse opiate over-dose; major and minor tranquilizers, such as Miltown and Equanil; sedative-hypnotics, such as Seconal; marijuana and delta-9-THC; and cough syrups. Buprenorphine, a pharmacotherapy for opiate addiction not FDA-approved until 2003, was pioneered at the ARC by Donald Jasinski, who first glimpsed its potential in the 1970s.

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alex @unfinishedlines.club · 21/01/2026

it would honestly be easier to list what drugs weren't tested on incarcerated heroin users in up til 1970 at this point

The first phar maco dynamic studies of ibogaine have been performed during 1901-1905. First anti-addictive attempts were done by Harris Isbell in 1955, administering doses of ibogaine of up to 300 mg to eight already detoxified morphine addicts at the United States. Addiction Research Centre in Lexingfon, Kentucky."

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alex @unfinishedlines.club · 19/01/2026

ok that's a lie yesterday i also bought comics, zines & books yesterday too 😌

a series of several books & zines stacked on top of each other, from top left to right

Midwest comedown, ito palaganas, big mouth with person andrew pills
the chromatic fantasy art magazine by H.A.
An Essay on Liberation - Herbert Marcuse
Century's End: the black order brigade The Hunting Party - Bilal Christian
The Philosophy of social science (very old ) - Rosenberg
Multitude - Hardt & Negri (first edition mf)

The other wind - Ursula K. LeGuin

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alex @unfinishedlines.club · 19/01/2026

thanks! ok admittedly my cousin and i got brunch at this amazing egyptian brunch place on the east side of TO I'd never been to before

left said, foole with devilled eggs and bread

right side, falafel with eggs softboiled and potatoes

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alex @unfinishedlines.club · 23/12/2025

idk why but max liboiron's "Pollution is Colonialism" has been calling to me i actually read it a few xmas' ago, no notes, not skimmed, just completely absorbed i still consider it one of the most important books ive read over the past 5 years good last minute gift for, well anyone imo

hand holding "Pollution is Colonialism" by Max Liboiron. cover is black with a white circle. inside the circle i believe are plastics

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alex @unfinishedlines.club · 22/12/2025

wait i got the negative label for like 30 seconds and then it disappeared 😡 give me back my negative sentiment analysis labeller im angry and this is bad

Negative Post
Post label. This post has been found to be possibly toxic. Negative does not necessarily mean "bad", "rude", or "inappropriate", but rather that the sentiment of the post was found to be possibly negative. False positives may occur, and you should use caution if deciding to Hide based on this label.

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alex @unfinishedlines.club · 20/12/2025

like this is wild... you think SACA, where the LPC literally strung the ndp along on dental & pharma for months was a victory it's not that these weren't good things, but the LPC took advantage of NDP unpreparedness to stall the agreement, forcing ndp compromise... that's the point of failure

What made the 2025 election even more devastating for many New Democrats, was that it followed the historic policy gains the Party achieved in the 44th Parliament through its Confidence and Supply Agreement (CASA) with the Liberals Dental care, pharmacare and anti-scab legislation were a source of enormous pride for New Democrats (yes, some invariably proclaimed "it didn't go far enough!" as New Democrats are want to do..). In some parts of the country, not only did the Party not reap any electoral rewards for the results accomplished through the CASA - it was punished. In some regions, voters told our candidates and volunteers that because of CASA the NDP was too closely linked to Justin Trudeau, whose deep unpopularity had rendered him toxic to many voters.

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alex @unfinishedlines.club · 17/12/2025

hey look marx took this long to explain capital, and this is only the first volume so i say hilary can write 80 pages on capitalism as a treat

capital by Karl marx, the halloween edition (black cover with orange text for capital, white for karl marx) and oscillates between orange and white for 'volume i' and name of translator

holding the book sideways it's chonky af

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alex @unfinishedlines.club · 11/12/2025

making gluhwëin for 40 people is going to be an interesting experiment i don't think this box is enough

me making a wonky face with headphones and glasses on holding a red and white box of jackson-triggs Cabernet Sauvignon 4L. dark grey winter coat and grey mitt holding the box

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alex @unfinishedlines.club · 11/12/2025

lapointe succinctly nails everything that is wrong with the eby approach to OD crisis - expert advice ignored (unless your name rhymes with ego) - govt writes blank cheque for unregulated recovery industry, ignores systemic abuse of patients - calls for nonmedical safe supply rejected out of hand

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alex @unfinishedlines.club · 08/12/2025

patients are supposed to be put on buprenorphine for 7 days minimum, prior to sublocade induction (if you go online the people who tend to do best on sublocade often have been on bup for a long time) doi-org/j.ajem.2024....

BUP-ER is indicated for people with moderate to severe OUD who have been initiated and stabilized on a transmucosal buprenorphine-containing product for a minimum of seven days (Indivior UK Limited, 2022). The product monograph suggests that individuals receive a BUP-ER injection of 300 mg/month for two months, followed by 100 mg/month; however, they may be transitioned back to 300 mg/month if they do not demonstrate a satisfactory clinical response to the 100mg dose (Indivior UK Limited, 2022). BUP-ER must be administered via abdominal subcutaneous injection by a healthcare provider, with a recommended dosing interval of 28 days (Indivior UK Limited, 2022; META:PHI, n.d.).

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alex @unfinishedlines.club · 06/12/2025

canadian liberals: "oh its an opinion piece! where is your proof" me: right here in the legislation canadian libs: ah no the truth it burns my eyes

quote of my post from the article demonstrating the government is not denying that in bill c-15 they gave ministers sweeping powers to avoid regulations

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alex @unfinishedlines.club · 06/12/2025

here you go it's on page 300-301 of bill c-15

exemptions
12 (1) Subject to subsections (3) and (7), a minister may, by order, fora specified validity period of not more 20 than three years and on any terms that the minister considers appropriate, exempt an entity from the application of
(a) a provision of an Act of Parliament, except the Criminal Code, if the minister is responsible for the 25 Act;
(b) a provision of an instrument made under an Act of Parliament, except an instrument made under the Criminal Code, i (i) the minister is responsible for the Act, or (ii) the body that made the instrument is accountable, through the minister, to Parliament for the conduct of its affairs; or

(c) a provision of an Act of Parliament, except the Criminal Code, or a provision of an instrument made under an Act of Parliament, except an instrument made under the Criminal Code, if the minister administers or enforces the provision.

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alex @unfinishedlines.club · 06/12/2025

look i think it's good to be critical of journalists, and i have my criticisms of althia raj myself, but she's good at her job the quote above is from a bloc mp & the govt is not denying it

Hidden in the federal government's 634-page omnibus bill C-15, the Budget Implementation Act, is a mneasure that has so far escaped scrutiny. Under the pretext of regulatory efficiency, Prime Minister Mark Carney plans to grant cabinet ministers the power to exempt any individual or company from any federal law on the books except for the Criminal Code for up to six years. The measure wasn't included in the version of the Liberals' Nov. 4 budget that was given to reporters. It was not discussed in the government's speeches in Parliament about this bill. No opposition party aside from the Bloc Québécois seems to have noticed it was there until the Star pointed it out.

While the bill lays out a plan for a minister to partially inform the public of such an order, there are no timelines. The minister may also "exclude information that, in the minister's opinion, would be inappropriate to make publicly accessible for reasons that include safety or security considerations or the protection of confidential or personal information."

The Treasury Board Secretariat suggests the measures are necessary for regulators to keep pace with technological change and find flexible ways to evaluate whether products or services can be safely introduced in the Canadian marketplace.

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alex @unfinishedlines.club · 06/12/2025

there is this idea that sublocade, a subcutaneous injection of a buprenorphine formulation, gradually releases peaking in the 2nd week and then faltering off i don't know where this myth comes from indivior's graph shows a sharp spike and then drop

graph showing levels of buprenorphine first with suboxone, with peaks and drops as each 24 hour dose is taken. on the blue line which is sublocade the line shoots up at day 1, and based on the comparison of suboxone i would say a week of peak effects and then it drops like a sharp diagonal

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alex @unfinishedlines.club · 06/12/2025

oh fuck, i wasn't 100% sure so i didn't want to say it, but that's not even what they're talking about... they're talking about using sublocade (which holy shit is not a vaccine for overdoses)

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alex @unfinishedlines.club · 06/12/2025

it's easy to forget this in the fentanyl era, but ODs can happen from many substances - a "vaccine against overdose" doesn't exist and if you've taken away their drug of choice w/o their consent, they're probably going to be reckless w/ something they're less familiar with

Opioid blockers
There is also medication, long-acting opioid antagonist (blockers) that can be administered, but only if under care, while the person is detoxing. It requires a period of time in hospital to have it be given.
"It is not, but it is almost like a vaccine against overdose for a period of time," Eby said.
He said if a child who is addicted receives that medication, it gives them protection against brain injury and death due to overdose.

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alex @unfinishedlines.club · 05/12/2025

i may be misremembering this but im pretty sure carnap & the vienna circle got neurath to just yell "M!" every time he wanted to call something metaphysics, because he used to say it in meetings so often closest i can find in reisch is this reference

the multiplication of worlds is fatuous metaphysics, neurath would say, much as he barked, "metaphysics!" "metaphysics" (and later to save his voice just "M!")

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alex @unfinishedlines.club · 05/12/2025

it's true that marx isn't santa, but mostly because piotr kropotkin was actually santa www.opendemocracy.net/en/transform...

But there was also a family link. As everyone knows, Kropotkin could trace his ancestry to the ancient Rurik dynasty that ruled Russia before the upstart Romanovs and which, from the first century CE, controlled the trade routes between Moscow and the Byzantine Empire. Nicholas's branch of the family had been sent out to patrol the Black Sea. But Nicholas was a spiritual man and sought an escape from the piracy and brigandage for which his Russian Viking family was famed. So he settled under a new name in the southern lands of the Empire, now Greece, and decided to use the wealth that he had amassed from his life of crime to alleviate the sufferings of the poor

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alex @unfinishedlines.club · 04/12/2025

how much css do you know? an easier work around is to change the height dimensions of your graphs so they can fit more info - you should be able to adjust height by px or % in plotOutput/fixedRow also your labels can prob be smaller if you want to work with css, you're going to need {bslib}

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alex @unfinishedlines.club · 04/12/2025

because at this point we're basically squeezing the people who have been on these programs for years, for whom it's working... and they're going to die - even the bccsu guidelines for navigating this change says that www.bccsu.ca/wp-content/u...

My patient is discontinuing PA. How do I taper and discontinue prescribed alternatives?
Individuals who discontinue PA and are not co-prescribed or transitioned to long-acting medications such as OAT or
fentanyl patch are at high risk of returning to unregulated opioid use and experiencing related harms, including drug
toxicity death. Discontinuation of PA medication without transition to alternative pharmacological options should be
viewed as a last resort
Discuss and document the risks of medication discontinuation (e.g., drug poisoning if returning to the unregulated
supply) with patients and encourage transition to alternative options
If indicated, increase the OAT dose for people who have been receiving both OAT and PA as PA is discontinued, in
order to address cravings and withdrawal symptoms
Individuals who expressly wish to discontinue PA without transition to OAT or other medication options should be
offered a gradual taper in order to manage withdrawal symptoms and cravings and reduce the risk of subsequent drug
poisoning
Tapering doses of PA for existing patients does not need to be witnessed if it is completed by December 29, 2025
Patients who report they have not been using their prescribed medication do not need a taper

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alex @unfinishedlines.club · 04/12/2025

also the graph here doesn't seem to change based on the moving the publication do you have a github repo for this? i've built a few shinyapps in a similar style, and they can be finnicky as heck, i'd love to help b/c this project seems cool!

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alex @unfinishedlines.club · 04/12/2025

this is really neat, although i just wanted to flag there seems to be some issues with the label scaling & if yr not running off a dynamic dataset (like something that updates weekly/monthly), this thing would run a lot smoother if you preprocessed more of the data

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alex @unfinishedlines.club · 03/12/2025

so in 1948, even prior to the UN Declaration of Human Rights adoption - they scrambled out an international treaty that would allow them to bring these substances under control 7/

The States Parties to the present Protocol, Considering that the progress of modern pharmacology and chemistry has resulted in the discovery of drugs, particularly synthetic drugs, capable of producing addiction, but not covered by the Convention of 13 July 1931 for Limiting the Manufacture and Regulating the Distribution of Narcotic Drugs, as amended by the Protocol signed at Lake Success on
11 December 1946,
Desiring to supplement the provisions of that Convention and to place these drugs, including the preparations and compounds containing these drugs under control in order to limit by international agreement their manufacture to the world's legitimate requirements for medical and scientific purposes and to regulate their distribution,

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