Singapore executed a guy yesterday for allegedly trying to bring in 2 pounds of weed - I wrote about the city’s neo-pagan rave scene that serves as an escape and countervailing force against the iron grip of the pleasure police
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Singapore executed a guy yesterday for allegedly trying to bring in 2 pounds of weed - I wrote about the city’s neo-pagan rave scene that serves as an escape and countervailing force against the iron grip of the pleasure police
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Thank you Larry!!!! Last Donut of the Night is such a good music newsletter name btw 🍩
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OK, new newsletter is out, it's a great interview with journalist @MichelleLhooq about drugs, clubbing, protests, death, and her work covering the counterculture last-donut-of-the-night.ghost.io/michelle-lhooq
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on a family vacay walking around the streets of thailand marveling at the emergence of ASIAN STONER CULTURE and giving my parents a smell of their first nug grown by local Thai farmers was so beautiful my god i could feel the ground shifting
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"For me, drugs are just a little powerful spice. It’s not the main course, it’s not the thing that it’s really about. It’s a little thing that just tweaks aspects of the experience."
@mckenziewark on the archetypes and etiquette of the dance floor.
interviewmagazine.com/literature/mck
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Took a trip to Thailand to behold the surreal wonders of legal Thai weed shops !!!
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Do we need alcohol to party and commune? 🍄🪩 A recent experiment, a shroom rave called “Mushwomb,” by journalist Michelle Lhooq () suggests not.
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+ an exclusive Q&A with , from the frontlines of psychedelics and rave culture.
Hit the link in our bio to read the full newsletter, and subscribe for the next one 👉 🫠
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"yassifying the k-hole" is a phrase i truly never thought i would read in this lifetime
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wrote about how it feels when a lil essay you wrote about sex and drugs gets you dragged in FOX News
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Cheers to for being called “the worst of an emergent polytheistic paganism” over this lucid piece on chemsex 🥂(emoji is Martinelli's if you're still CA sober.)
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towards more sustainable modes of partying; or: how i embraced becoming a geriatric raver / cc <3
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the unherd piece has some dandy links
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put a media analysis spin on how my essay on druggie orgies caused the latest satanic spiral...
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Oh dear Americans have just discovered what chemsex is. Never been more of a signifier of good journalism than when the braindeads at Fox News disapprove.
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most based thing anyone has ever said about my work 🙏 thx JP!
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And the immature impulsive hedonism continue, unabated: possession by basic biological drive elevated into object of unconscious worship. The worst of an emergent polytheistic paganism. With all the requisite pseudo-intellectual jargon. "Chemsex." unherd.com/2023/02/we-nee
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its hilarious what happens when a conservative magazine that claims to "challenge the herd with new and bold thinking in philosophy, politics and culture" actually does that
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I wrote about a growing movement to destigmatize chemsex and the conservative cucks are sooooo mad
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Check out the howling freaks in the replies and quote tweets lol
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shroom gummies buzzing in my belly as im driving around rainy SF on a quixotic mission to find the shitty dive bar where carlos souffrant is playing a secret ambient set
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A new Substack essay picks up where I left off w/ "Exit the Clout Matrix" -- this one goes even deeper down the rabbit hole of the ambiently ironic post-Dimes Square scene vis a vis the Bushwick rave scene. The discourse never ends!
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I spent about 3 weeks of my life immersing myself in NYC’s emerging post-Dimes-Square arts scene for some reason and this is what I found out
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Calling our LA friends! Don’t miss MUSHWOMB: A CALI SOBER RAVE this Sunday🍄⚡
A shroom-themed rave. A booze-free bar. Underground DJs. LA's most beloved (secret) queer club. This is the party your soul has been waiting for.
Get tix: ra.co/events/1639621
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#ketamine is EVERYWHERE these days, leading me to stop & wonder what it's doing for us. for 6 months i researched, spoke to experts, and listened to ppl who have struggled w/ over-use, to learn how K is helping & harming our community. for
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Back in the lawless rave days formal harm reduction measures weren’t a thing & the consequences were literally deadly.
I’ve loved reading ’s writing on how harm reduction is being embraced in nightlife & have wondered where capital W wellness and harm reduction…
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To cap off this year of nightlife, I wrote about the post-Dimes Square "ambiently woke" party scene—and how it compares to the Bushwick techno world I came up in
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Really need the tea on how someone put an ice skating rink in a warehouse in Bushwick
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Imagine how much pussy I would get if I were a dude... femcels are just Chads trapped in women’s bodies
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is the rave mogul ! Austin texas is keeping it Real af . commentary . Staying in your city can be very impactful and positive .#organicraving
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wrote about austin's guerilla rave scene + the emerging zeitgeist of homegrown party cities
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personally im just delighted that twitter is interesting again
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Berlin’s dance floors are like putrid petri dishes where experimental drugs get tested for mass market adoption, and #3-MMC was everywhere this summer. So what is it and why is it trending? Reporter investigates.
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For a mid-week lift, read another preview from our new issue: investigates the brave new world of GMO marijuana & considers what could be gained and lost from making the world’s favorite drug “pharmaceutically predictable.” 📸 by
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Michelle Lhooq, who also writes the exuberant Substack Rave New World, is hands-down my favorite up-n-coming drug culture writer. Edgy, funny, wise. @doubleblindmag now features some RNW posts, and there's this Grow piece on Frankenweed: bit.ly/3WmfIXQ
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Welcome to another edition of Substack Reads.
This week we’re reading , , , , , , and more:
read.substack.com/p/substack-rea 🧵
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i just feel like the berghain model of nightlife (apocalypse aesthetics, BDSM looks, comically mean bouncers, TSA-style security) is so boring tired and elitist — conformist clout-chasing status anxiety is no fun. if raves are utopias this is not the future i want to live in
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im so sorry guys but i wrote about berghain
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