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[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 12 points 14 hours ago (3 children)

Noted on Bluesky:

Tomorrow Grimes will DJ a livestream of immortality influencer Bryan Johnson tripping on shrooms to determine its effect on longevity. Mr. Beast and the CEO of Salesforce will be there too.

Now, folks out there are calling this a Biblically accurate blunt rotation, but to be fair, it's missing Aella.

[–] Amoeba_Girl@awful.systems 4 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

I was tempted to gawk but then I realised... the guy's just going to see some shapes in the light and it's going to be boring as shit

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 4 points 3 hours ago

(not in any way meaning to stan the weirdo) at that dosage it might be more than that, but also it’s ??? to me to consider taking that much while also being exposed to a bunch of people like that around me

and that it’s even the dosage it is feels like it tells you a hell of a lot about the extent of his baseline intake too

these creeps are doing a better job at antidrug messaging than any propaganda I ever saw

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