#firstnonbinarypresident

[growup-gloup]

What was your old username? I donf recognize you but I'm totally in for another adulting blog

I’ve had the same username for over two year, since I first started this blog. 

Adulting bogs are a godsend. @howtogrowthefuckup and @yournewapartment saved my life at some point, no joke.

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I love your blog but I never know what you're talking about cuz you're always referencing some tv show I've never heard of lmao 😂 you're all doing gr8 tho btw

Thats my reaction when I look at our inbox tbh. I'm just like " I'll leave that for one of the other mods 😅"

Mod TZ

[elfwreck]

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“(19 M) I bought a vape for $143 from a friend who worked in the local...”

@elfwreck @ademainalors house. My worst fear is that it causes lung damage or something because I have a disposition to cancer and I wear a binder and i already have MCTD which can in some cases make your breathing worse tho it doesnt make it as bad as asthma (idk if mctd affects my lungs currently but it could someday)

@firstnonbinarypresident If you’re smoking, you’re damaging your lungs. However, you’re also damaging your lungs by spending time near campfires or charcoal grills, or walking on streets where cars are driving, or being in facilities with strong chemicals and inadequate ventilation. I’m not saying these are all equal, just that “smoke weed” is only one aspect of modern life that can damage lungs.

Smoking weed contains several lung risks:

You’re breathing smoke - wood particulates. This clogs the lungs even if there’s no chemical effects.

You’re breathing in the chemicals inherent to the plant. Tobacco smokers get nicotine and tar, which have their own issues apart from wood smoke. There’s not a lot of study for marijuana chemicals because it’s been blocked for years.

You’re drawing in very hot air that can sear the throat and cause damage to the lungs.

You’re not breathing enough oxygen for the time you’re breathing smoke. You need to make sure you spend extra time making up for that, taking deep breaths and staying healthy enough to get full effect from the O2 you get. 

You need to figure out how much you’re damaging your lungs, and how to reduce that damage. Unfortunately, there’s no simple way to calculate “how much” because people have different sensitivities. I can’t tell you if a binder changes how you breathe in a way that changes how smoking affects you. (See also: Lack of longterm research of any sort about trans people, and lack of medical research about marijuana.)

If your binder affects your breathing, make sure to take extra time to take deep breaths, probably without the binder so your lungs aren’t working extra-hard for that. Focus your attention on the internal body and not the external shape; visualize drawing in clean air that gets sent out in your blood to “charge up” your body. 

Not-smoking is less damaging than smoking. Cooler smoke is less damaging than hot smoke. Most lung problems take years to show up, sometimes decades, which means you shouldn’t work yourself into a panic today trying to make changes - do some research, figure out what method is best for you in the long run, and work towards having the resources to use that.

[elfwreck]

firstnonbinarypresident replied to your post: (19 M) I bought a vape for $143 from a friend who...

@elfwreck @ademainalors so yall have some education on this, I’m wondering a couple things. I dont vape, I smoke weed but only in very secluded places or with other smokers (it’s pretty much legal here but I still avoid it) is it still dangerous to smoke if I’m secluded? Is smoking weed dangerous for me health-wise if I use a bowl and avoid papers or any of that? What is a bong and is it safer/healthier like what are the benefits? Is cooking edibles a contaminant for

This got really long, so summary version:

Smoking alone avoids endangering other people, as long as the smoking isn’t building up in a way that will expose them later.

Edibles are safest. They take getting used to. They may not work for some conditions.

Wax and vaporizers are next. They take expensive equipment and supplies. You can’t prepare the usable part yourself, which means you’re trusting someone else’s process and paying for their work.

Bongs filter some toxins and cool the smoke; this is safer than direct smoke. Keep them clean to make them work better.

Pipes cool the smoke a bit; they’re safer than joints. What it’s made of matters - glass and stone are best, but stone requires research.

All plants are made of wood. If you’re smoking a plant, you’re inhaling wood smoke. There is no “safe” way to do this; it’s all about “less unsafe.” 

The risks to other people are avoided by not smoking around other people. “Around other people” includes both nearby and in a place where the smoke builds up and they have to deal with it later. If you’re smoking alone/secluded in an area that has decent ventilation, you’re not endangering other people with the smoke.

(Mostly. There are still some risks for people with extreme allergies or other sensitivities, but that’s a different issue. You are not obligated to never do anything that might bring harm to other people, just to avoid obvious risks. If people let you know they are very sensitive, try not expose them to even small amounts of smoke, like the kind that builds up on furniture.)

For yourself - edibles probably the safest method. With marijuana, unlike tobacco, the health risks aren’t tied so much in the active ingredients as the fact that you are burning something and inhaling smoke. There is no smoke that is safe to inhale. Some types of smoke are much more dangerous than others, and you’re not just getting “whatever this plant is” but “whatever happened to it while it was growing.” (While people don’t tend to spray weed with insecticides, you are getting some of whatever was in the rain that fell on it, and whatever was in the ground nearby.) However, edibles take getting used to, and won’t work for “fix this anxiety attack in five minutes.” 

Bongs mitigate some of the health risks - the water filters out some of the toxins, and cools down the smoke, both of which reduce the damage. Vaporizing is even better, but the equipment costs more and requires starting with something other than weed itself. This goes for the other alternate methods like wax - you avoid the health problems of burning wood (all plants are wood), but you can’t do the prep yourself unless you have access to a lab. 

Pipes are better than joints, if only because they cool down the smoke more and you’re not getting whatever chemicals are in the paper. (And that’s about all the advantage they provide, although they may have filters that keep you from inhaling particles you don’t want to inhale with joints anyway.) 

Avoid wooden pipes -  some are indeed gorgeous, but if you’re putting coals in wood, you’re burning the wood itself, and getting extra chemicals you haven’t accounted for. (Also, especially avoid exotic hardwoods. If Amazonian rain forest bugs won’t eat that wood, you don’t want it in your lungs.) 

Glass and stone are best; stone has an extra caveat in that some kinds are much, much safer than others. Pipestone or catlynite is best - it’s inert at any temperature you might get close to your face, and if you scrape bits of the dust off, it’s nontoxic. Other safe stones are lepidolite, some kinds of marble, and jadeite. Quartz, obsidian, and agates tend to be safe - they have a risk of silicosis with extended breathing of the dust, but they are so hard you won’t be likely to scrape them with standard pipe-cleaning tools. (They are also so hard that nobody makes pipes out of them except for rare novelty/art pieces.)   

Research stone before you use a pipe made of stone, or with a stone bowl. Soapstone often contains asbsestos. Don’t use a soapstone pipe. (Ditto turquoise.) Malachite is toxic as dust/particulates, which you’ll get if you scrape the bowl; don’t use a malachite pipe. And so on.

Fossilized marine ivory, like hippo teeth or walrus tusk, make great pipe bowls. (Note that whatever critter was involved, died more than 5000 years ago; this is not contributing to animal mistreatment.) But you won’t find them in ordinary sales places.

Glass pipes are nicely safe for the end user but glass pipe production tends to kill the artist eventually. A lot of the pretty colors involve very toxic chemicals.  They’re inert once the glass is set, but when they’re working with molten versions, they’re getting exposed to the vapor. And some peopel are very careful with fume hoods and masks, but a lot are not, because it’s not something you notice right away. 

[healthgnome]

I mean not only are these two completely separate matters but this was a pretty understandable question met with intensely harsh response from an obvious supporter. Since they.. donated to the raid.

Which was. For every reason a bad idea anyway.

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[healthgnome]

FAK is a Liar

Was going to make a post about this with all the screenshots BUT I was looking through my texts and came across this.

Now, I found out that he was in a discord server in which he doxxed someone, and spread super crappy and blatant lies about us, amongst manipulating and whatnot.

Here’s what he said:

Yellow is STOLEN FROM ME. I said that I didn’t like doing this bc it sets off my paranoia, morally it can hurt me, and that I need help to control myself bc when everyone gets a thousand things it feels like I Need to as well.

Red is a blatant lie; he got us caught that day bc of something mindnumbingly stupid, didn’t get in trouble and put everything back, of course. We didn’t make him steal money. If he chose to he did, I took picket change.

Blue is for a reason; he’d be blamed BECAUSE IT WAS HIS FAULT

Green is not how that happened; he wanted us to steal, and Allan kinda got he roped into it a couple times. Allan wanted him to steal alcohol, and moreso than Tobias would have wanted to.

I clearly wasn’t super into it- not really, I don’t want to “collect” from Macy’s.

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READ THIS EVEN IF YOU READ NOTHING ELSE

(Posted with permission)

TOBIAS (AKA FOR-ABUSED-KIDS) TRACKED DOWN A MINOR HE SEXUALLY HARRASED AND IS TRYING TO GET HER TO KILL HERSELF.

SHE IS 14. HES ALMOST 19.

DO NOT FUCKIN LET HIM GET AWAY WITH THIS.