I'm 1,200 days #sober. Woot!

Before the awful festivities of tomorrow's holiday, I wanted to take a moment to reflect, as it will mark 17 years of #sobriety for me, personally.

It's been a tough road, and 45/47 definitely has made the past decade rough as all hell. But I keep showing up, one day at a time.

My health has declined since the first COVID infection in 2022, but even with these symptoms, it's a world of difference being sober. My liver and kidneys aren't constantly filtering poison from my body, and after 17 years of time off, maybe they're doing pretty great. Take a look at the before and after photos below...70 extra lbs is a lot to carry!

If you are questioning whether you need to stop drinking, or picking up that drug of choice: Don't lie to yourself. It's incredibly easy to lie to yourself, very difficult and admirable to reject lying to yourself in this moment.

If I can do this, you can do this. Stay strong. Stay alive.

Here's to tomorrow's challenges, which I will face like I did today's: With effort, but also resolve

Time for an #Introduction post. I’m a #liveaboard #sailor (www.svloka.com) and full time #nomad who is also a #creative #artist. I play #guitar, #crochet, paint (#watercolor & #acrylic), and draw #penandink. I love #yoga and use #meditation to manage my #anxiety. Got #sober in 2020.

I am a recovering #softwareengineer (#programmer) and #ITmanager. I focused a lot on #leadership & effective #communication, and I still enjoy #mentoring people on those topics. I still tinker with tech on occasion.

[11:12] Chefkok Peter (34) uit Ten Post moest Groningen verlaten van zijn baas. ‘De Groningse culinaire wereld liep achter’

Hij is een van de meest veelbelovende koks in Nederland, chefkok Peter Bogema uit Ten Post. Een gesprek over de AVG van zijn moeder, Knorr Wereldgerechten, koken met een heel varken en zijn Restaurant Sober in Limburg.

https://sikkom.nl/grunngids/horeca/Topkok-Peter-ruilde-Groningen-in-Limburg-voor.-%E2%80%98Ze-zeiden-dat-ik-weg-moest-want-de-Groningse-culinaire-wereld-liep-acht-45813692.html

#Nederland #PeterBogema #TenPost #AVG #KnorrWereldgerechten #Sober #Limburg

Guarda il testo della canzone “Sober” di P!nk
#PNk #Sober
https://daletra.online/p-nk/testi/sober.html

Veja a letra da música “Sober” de Lorde
#Lorde #Sober
https://daletra.com.br/lorde/letra/sober.html

Berliners, you should know that my dear Gene Sophia @the_bogolepov is playing a very cosy concert tonight with her band, and that it's still possible to get tickets at ridiculously low prices (from 3 EUR):

https://bogolepov.eu/2025/02/19/09-03-25-bogolepov-friends-live-engels-berlin-talks-music/

Guarda il testo della canzone “Sober” di Childish Gambino
#ChildishGambino #Sober
https://daletra.online/childish-gambino/testi/sober.html

Guarda il testo della canzone “Sober” di Childish Gambino
#ChildishGambino #Sober
https://daletra.online/childish-gambino/testi/sober.html

really thinkin about drinkin rn, but I'm stronger than that

#Sober
#SoberSky
#ToughAssBitch

[07:15] Met 100 mensen wonen in een oude autogarage in Veendam: ‘We maken er het beste van’

Eind maart beslist de raad van Veendam over de omgevingsvergunning, of de noodopvang voor asielzoekers langer openblijft. Sinds april vorig jaar verblijven zo’n honderd asielzoekers in een voormalige showroom/autogarage op een bedrijventerrein in Veendam. Hoe is dat? ,,Sober, met heel weinig privacy en veel onzekerheid.’’

https://dvhn.nl/groningen/veendam/Met-100-mensen-wonen-in-een-oude-autogarage-45542386.html

#Veendam #aprilvorigjaar #Sober

I can’t fathom staring at the bottom of an empty bottle of any kind in 2025

And…

I am fucking grateful to be 19 years clean and sober today. I had a wild night in northern Croatia before getting on a 12-hr overnight bus ride on the old coastal highway February 9th, 2006, that was a shit choice to be loaded for. I was 21.

You don’t have to wait for tomorrow y’all. Grateful for today #ottawa #sober

Check out the lyrics for the song “Sober” by Lorde
#Lorde #Sober
https://daletra.com/lorde/lyrics/sober.html

Found this French company that puts fine teas in wine bottles. I need this or something like it for my beverage program. Don't think they have distribution in the US.
https://www.grands-jardins.com/

#non-alcoholic #wine #tea #beverage #sober

hello! new intro post since it's been a while!

my name is maren and I'm stillgreenmoss on the internet. I live in asheville NC in the US, a beautiful and frustrating place in the Appalachian mountains. most of my work is place-based here in asheville

I recently quit my job to focus on starting @bunkcomputer with two other amazing cooperators

I help @firestorm with sysadmin-ish work -- I'm a friend and not a member of the coop

I'm a trans woman and very glad for it, despite the horrors

computing and its discontents is the dominant public activity in my life, though I do also love techno and breakcore and acid and house music and and and -- do you know where the rave is? please tell me where the rave is

i spent most of the last 7 years working in big, corporate tech jobs. I think that those are pretty broken places and I hope to never go back. if the computer coop doesnt work out, I daydream about becoming a civil engineer

if you live in asheville or western NC or the rest of NC or southern Appalachia and you care about building a better world of computing, I literally want to talk to you so bad, please reach out

thanks for reading, fedi4life, plur, etc,

#asheville #coop #cooperative #techcoop #permacomputing #northcarolina #wnc #trans #techno #sober #vegan

Six years #sober. It’s gonna be one hell of a challenge getting to seven. I have a feeling this year’s gonna test me like never before.

New Year’s Eve is almost upon us, as are the festivities marking it. It’s worth remembering that not everyone celebrates with alcohol, for a whole bunch of different reasons. Please respect that.

Me? If I manage to avoid drinking for the next 48 hours, I’ll be six years #sober. (I think I’ll be fine. Champagne was never really my thing.)

https://hachyderm.io/@digichelle/113692721526889543

La nave di Nemo
[versione Blog]

#riemersione #dipendenze #alcolismo #tossicodipendenze #recovery #sober #ulisse #nemo #blog #blogger #droga #droghe #dipendenzepatologiche #addiction #salutementale #identita #metafora #riflessioni

https://riemersione.blogspot.com/2024/12/sono-nemo.html

I guess I should probably introduce myself, even though I've never even bothered doing one of these before.

I migrated this account from another server.

Things I think are awesome:
#Cybersecurity
#GrapheneOS
#Infosec
#Nixos
#Privacy
#Qtile

Things that describe me:
#ADHD
#Sober
#TS (Tourette Syndrome)
#Unicycle

My current age as of writing is some prime number greater than thirty. My location is somewhere north of the equator and six hours west of Greenwich when daylight savings is observed.

In case you're wondering: my bio is an experiment in data poisoning against LLMs tasked with scraping social media profiles, and I would like to thank @alice for that idea because it wasn't my own.

Also, not that you were wondering, and not that I even know the character limit for bios on this server offhand for that matter, but however many characters that is, that's exactly how many mine is. If there's one thing I'm really good at, it's matching character limits exactly, and that is why I stopped using Tinder. Don't ask.

If you're reading this and I'm following you, I can tell you with absolute certainty that you're awesome. If you're reading this and I'm not following you, I probably should be, and I'll assume you're awesome unless and until you show me otherwise.

Thank you, and #MerryChristmas

#introduction
#introductionpost

EDIT: a word.