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Brian Vastag
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Occasional science reporter at The Washington Post and elsewhere. Disabled by complex chronic post-viral illness. Living on #Kauai #Hawaii. Sometimes […]

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@aarbrk Well there's general overlap with the entire psychedelics scene but I can't say much beyond that for kratom.
June 28, 2025 at 1:27 AM
And there have been quixotic attempts to develop it into an FDA-approved therapy, including a grassroots movement...possibly the only grassroots drug-development movement in history.

Anyway, it's a fascinating story and I'm sorry I'll never get to finish the book. No one else has tackled the […]
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June 28, 2025 at 1:22 AM
From 2005-2010 or so I spent quite a bit of time in this subculture and developed a book project. I had an agent ready to go, and then WaPo offered me a job and I took that instead of write the ibogaine book. Then while at the Post I developed a disabling chronic illness, so the book never got […]
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June 28, 2025 at 1:21 AM
@rjblaskiewicz Ideologues advancing a project don't GAF about anything else.
June 27, 2025 at 7:24 PM
She's just trying to spectate a cat fight in the yard below. Pretty good yowly slap fight going on with the neighborhood furballs.
June 25, 2025 at 4:44 AM
I kept going to work too for 6 months after getting sick and then I was bedbiind for two years.
June 25, 2025 at 12:46 AM
Article from May: '"It’s led to him having energy zaps and stamina ebbs and flows over the last couple of months, and he felt that he had actually turned the corner right as the playoffs started in mid-April,” Charania said. “But in his own words, he had a crash right before Game 1 of this […]
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June 25, 2025 at 12:45 AM
@ckr Is....Hotel Harrington somehow not a heap of lumber and masonry splayed on the ground yet?
June 24, 2025 at 10:14 PM