Samuel Paul Douglas, PhD
@samdphd.bsky.social
Psychedelic nonprofit cat-herder/space-holder, writer & philosopher. Will exchange words & knowledge for $. All opinions my own etc. He/him.
Website: https://www.psychedelicoverground.com/
LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/dr-samuel-douglas-62061871
Website: https://www.psychedelicoverground.com/
LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/dr-samuel-douglas-62061871
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Still recovering from 4 days of extreme socialising, information overload and sleep-deprivation at Entheogenesis Garden States: Regeneration.
Currently starting a write-up for the next issue of The Ethical Trip. I'd love to hear from anyone else who was there (on or off the record.)
Currently starting a write-up for the next issue of The Ethical Trip. I'd love to hear from anyone else who was there (on or off the record.)
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Brooklyn Park police chief Mark Bruley: "We're hearing people being stopped with no cause & being demanded to show paperwork to determine if they're here legally. We started hearing from our police officers the same complaints. Every one of these individuals is a person of color... it has to stop"
January 20, 2026 at 5:31 PM
Brooklyn Park police chief Mark Bruley: "We're hearing people being stopped with no cause & being demanded to show paperwork to determine if they're here legally. We started hearing from our police officers the same complaints. Every one of these individuals is a person of color... it has to stop"
This is an extremely accurate description of Australia’s attitude to dealing with ‘great powers’.
Countries like Canada “compete with each other to be the most accommodating,” he said. “This is not sovereignty. It is the performance of sovereignty while accepting subordination.”
January 20, 2026 at 10:18 PM
This is an extremely accurate description of Australia’s attitude to dealing with ‘great powers’.
Dr Amber Domberelli and I are kicking off what we hope will become a Mid-North Coast regional chapter of the Australian Psychedelic Society.
First informal meetup: Feb 15, 10:30am, Coffs Harbour Botanic Gardens (Creek Side picnic area; café if raining). Look for the purple shirts.
First informal meetup: Feb 15, 10:30am, Coffs Harbour Botanic Gardens (Creek Side picnic area; café if raining). Look for the purple shirts.
January 20, 2026 at 8:49 AM
Dr Amber Domberelli and I are kicking off what we hope will become a Mid-North Coast regional chapter of the Australian Psychedelic Society.
First informal meetup: Feb 15, 10:30am, Coffs Harbour Botanic Gardens (Creek Side picnic area; café if raining). Look for the purple shirts.
First informal meetup: Feb 15, 10:30am, Coffs Harbour Botanic Gardens (Creek Side picnic area; café if raining). Look for the purple shirts.
This is just fucken nuts now.
Good diplomatic reasons for Europeans to try to appeal for calm and work it out behind the scenes with the US.
But just this morning Trump posted pictures of him putting the flag on Greenland, and presenting his conquests of Greenland and Canada to European leaders.
But just this morning Trump posted pictures of him putting the flag on Greenland, and presenting his conquests of Greenland and Canada to European leaders.
January 20, 2026 at 7:46 AM
This is just fucken nuts now.
If you're publishing on Substack I can no longer read your work (as I'm not keen to verify my identity with them.)
January 19, 2026 at 10:32 PM
If you're publishing on Substack I can no longer read your work (as I'm not keen to verify my identity with them.)
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Yes, and to show this isn't a fluke:
January 19, 2026 at 7:46 PM
Yes, and to show this isn't a fluke:
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New tariff just dropped.
Americans set to pay an additional 10% tax on all goods from Germany, the UK, France, the Netherlands, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, and Finland.
It starts in two weeks, rising to 25% by June.
(Aside: A trade war with one EU country is a trade war with the entire EU).
Americans set to pay an additional 10% tax on all goods from Germany, the UK, France, the Netherlands, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, and Finland.
It starts in two weeks, rising to 25% by June.
(Aside: A trade war with one EU country is a trade war with the entire EU).
January 17, 2026 at 5:26 PM
New tariff just dropped.
Americans set to pay an additional 10% tax on all goods from Germany, the UK, France, the Netherlands, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, and Finland.
It starts in two weeks, rising to 25% by June.
(Aside: A trade war with one EU country is a trade war with the entire EU).
Americans set to pay an additional 10% tax on all goods from Germany, the UK, France, the Netherlands, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, and Finland.
It starts in two weeks, rising to 25% by June.
(Aside: A trade war with one EU country is a trade war with the entire EU).
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BREAKING: Judge enters TRO blocking feds from interfering with or arresting peaceful protesters in Minnesota. Judge Kate Menendez, Biden appointee. Order: www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
January 17, 2026 at 1:02 AM
BREAKING: Judge enters TRO blocking feds from interfering with or arresting peaceful protesters in Minnesota. Judge Kate Menendez, Biden appointee. Order: www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
Definitely block the ICE account. (Also, I know that Bluesky has effectively bent the knee to these assholes, but still, WTF?)
You want to block this account
✅ @icegov.bsky.social has been verified by @bsky.app.
January 17, 2026 at 12:49 AM
Definitely block the ICE account. (Also, I know that Bluesky has effectively bent the knee to these assholes, but still, WTF?)
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ICE has kidnapped one of my MN News Guild siblings
January 16, 2026 at 4:03 PM
ICE has kidnapped one of my MN News Guild siblings
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Occasional reminder that Joe Lonsdale recently bragged about co-founding Palantir to cleanse the western hemisphere of communists — a term which, per this Politico piece, he defines extremely broadly.
January 16, 2026 at 7:33 PM
Occasional reminder that Joe Lonsdale recently bragged about co-founding Palantir to cleanse the western hemisphere of communists — a term which, per this Politico piece, he defines extremely broadly.
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⚠️ Help needed ⚠️
Researchers are trying to collect & inform on hostile media/agitators that can be referenced during ICE escalations.
Tag with #hostilemedia & location identifiers. Ex:
#hostimediaMN #hostilemediaME #hostilemediaCBUS #hostilemediaMNPLS
We've started an example thread here (1/🧵)
Researchers are trying to collect & inform on hostile media/agitators that can be referenced during ICE escalations.
Tag with #hostilemedia & location identifiers. Ex:
#hostimediaMN #hostilemediaME #hostilemediaCBUS #hostilemediaMNPLS
We've started an example thread here (1/🧵)
January 15, 2026 at 9:41 PM
⚠️ Help needed ⚠️
Researchers are trying to collect & inform on hostile media/agitators that can be referenced during ICE escalations.
Tag with #hostilemedia & location identifiers. Ex:
#hostimediaMN #hostilemediaME #hostilemediaCBUS #hostilemediaMNPLS
We've started an example thread here (1/🧵)
Researchers are trying to collect & inform on hostile media/agitators that can be referenced during ICE escalations.
Tag with #hostilemedia & location identifiers. Ex:
#hostimediaMN #hostilemediaME #hostilemediaCBUS #hostilemediaMNPLS
We've started an example thread here (1/🧵)
Perhaps not the most important thing happening right now, but, IMO, still fucking disgraceful.
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
‘It’s AI blackface’: social media account hailed as the Aboriginal Steve Irwin is an AI character created in New Zealand
More than 180,000 people follow the Bush Legend’s accounts across Meta platforms, but its Aboriginal host is a work of digital fiction
www.theguardian.com
January 15, 2026 at 10:52 PM
Perhaps not the most important thing happening right now, but, IMO, still fucking disgraceful.
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Stop scrolling & post two characters who bring you happiness.
January 15, 2026 at 9:53 AM
Stop scrolling & post two characters who bring you happiness.
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ICE agents fled from the crowd and left behind their CONOPS battle plan for Minneapolis, including agent's names, hotel rooms, phone numbers, boxes of license plates, and tac radio frequencies.
January 15, 2026 at 7:04 AM
ICE agents fled from the crowd and left behind their CONOPS battle plan for Minneapolis, including agent's names, hotel rooms, phone numbers, boxes of license plates, and tac radio frequencies.
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so some news from the MPLS people in my group chats: ICE seems to be moving into the black/brown enclaves of North Minneapolis ahead of weather conditions that will likely hinder their movement; they want to spend this time making content specifically sparring with minorities, slave patrol shit
January 15, 2026 at 6:39 AM
so some news from the MPLS people in my group chats: ICE seems to be moving into the black/brown enclaves of North Minneapolis ahead of weather conditions that will likely hinder their movement; they want to spend this time making content specifically sparring with minorities, slave patrol shit
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Noting today’s apology in the SMH, I feel it important to say that I stand with @cathywilcox.bsky.social & @michaelwestbiz.bsky.social
#auspol
Australian’s should be governed by Australian not foreign interests. All, irrespective of faith, have a right to free speech & protection from hate speech.
#auspol
Australian’s should be governed by Australian not foreign interests. All, irrespective of faith, have a right to free speech & protection from hate speech.
The two pieces that most accurately capture the events of this week #auspol
January 11, 2026 at 6:37 AM
Noting today’s apology in the SMH, I feel it important to say that I stand with @cathywilcox.bsky.social & @michaelwestbiz.bsky.social
#auspol
Australian’s should be governed by Australian not foreign interests. All, irrespective of faith, have a right to free speech & protection from hate speech.
#auspol
Australian’s should be governed by Australian not foreign interests. All, irrespective of faith, have a right to free speech & protection from hate speech.
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Even Richard Fidler & Jacinda Ardern have joined 100 others in the Adelaide Writers boycott. i.e. basically everyone with profile.
It can’t proceed like this.
Complete silence from the board & the premier now selling them out.
Running scared all of them.
I’d guess they have 24hrs to fix it, if that.
It can’t proceed like this.
Complete silence from the board & the premier now selling them out.
Running scared all of them.
I’d guess they have 24hrs to fix it, if that.
January 11, 2026 at 2:47 AM
Even Richard Fidler & Jacinda Ardern have joined 100 others in the Adelaide Writers boycott. i.e. basically everyone with profile.
It can’t proceed like this.
Complete silence from the board & the premier now selling them out.
Running scared all of them.
I’d guess they have 24hrs to fix it, if that.
It can’t proceed like this.
Complete silence from the board & the premier now selling them out.
Running scared all of them.
I’d guess they have 24hrs to fix it, if that.
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if cops weren't killing and hurting and abducting people anywhere and some randos were just damaging property for no reason I'd say, what the fuck, but given that one side is "shooting moms in the head" and the other side is "making it harder for the shooter's friends to sleep" i know who I back
January 11, 2026 at 12:25 AM
if cops weren't killing and hurting and abducting people anywhere and some randos were just damaging property for no reason I'd say, what the fuck, but given that one side is "shooting moms in the head" and the other side is "making it harder for the shooter's friends to sleep" i know who I back
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Reminder that even if you can’t see or smell smoke, Melbourne & Victoria is being covered in a fine layer of bushfire ash.
Wear a P2 or N95 mask when you’re outside, as you’ll be breathing it in.
Even more important if you’re pregnant, have asthma, or otherwise medically vulnerable.
#VicFires
Wear a P2 or N95 mask when you’re outside, as you’ll be breathing it in.
Even more important if you’re pregnant, have asthma, or otherwise medically vulnerable.
#VicFires
January 10, 2026 at 4:43 AM
Reminder that even if you can’t see or smell smoke, Melbourne & Victoria is being covered in a fine layer of bushfire ash.
Wear a P2 or N95 mask when you’re outside, as you’ll be breathing it in.
Even more important if you’re pregnant, have asthma, or otherwise medically vulnerable.
#VicFires
Wear a P2 or N95 mask when you’re outside, as you’ll be breathing it in.
Even more important if you’re pregnant, have asthma, or otherwise medically vulnerable.
#VicFires
Found in the wild on Reddit. Guess ‘Microslop l’ isn’t going anywhere. www.reddit.com/r/pcmasterra...
January 10, 2026 at 5:01 AM
Found in the wild on Reddit. Guess ‘Microslop l’ isn’t going anywhere. www.reddit.com/r/pcmasterra...
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Adelaide Festival board member Tony Berg AM is of course a governor of the Australia-Israel Chamber of Commerce.
In case you were wondering. #auspol
aiccwa.org.au/leadership/
In case you were wondering. #auspol
aiccwa.org.au/leadership/
LEADERSHIP - AICCWA
Leadership AICC(WA) Board Members AICC(WA) PRESIDENT Mr Graham Laitt Managing Director, Milne AgriGroup; A Governor, Australia-Israel Chamber of Commerce AICC(WA) Vice-PRESIDENT Mr Larry Lopez Partner...
aiccwa.org.au
January 10, 2026 at 1:44 AM
Adelaide Festival board member Tony Berg AM is of course a governor of the Australia-Israel Chamber of Commerce.
In case you were wondering. #auspol
aiccwa.org.au/leadership/
In case you were wondering. #auspol
aiccwa.org.au/leadership/
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Any writer’s festival that would let politicians dictate who is allowed to speak isn’t an event worth associating with
January 10, 2026 at 2:26 AM
Any writer’s festival that would let politicians dictate who is allowed to speak isn’t an event worth associating with