Currently reading and almost finished Outside Looking In [2019] by T. C. Boyle which is great fictionalized history of LSD and it's discoverers and early "scientific" users. It's also a bit horrible to take in - cause Boyle is not taking sides or talking morale, staying neutral in telling the story from different people's perspectives. Absolutely weird. And fascinating.

#TCBoyle #bookstodon @bookstodon #LSD

A single atomic swap in the molecular structure of #LSD results in a compound that excels in stimulating neuron growth, but does not cause hallucinations! #chemistry #brain #science https://cen.acs.org/pharmaceuticals/drug-discovery/LSD-atom-swap-tunes-hallucinations/103/web/2025/04

Happy Bicycle Day to all! Today we celebrate the first intentional LSD trip ever taken, when the Good Doctor Hofmann drop 250 mcg and revealed the mystery of that molecule to the world. In honor of his trip, I wrote this track:

https://etherdiver.bandcamp.com/track/any-day-can-be-bicycle-day-if-your-mind-is-in-the-right-gear

Enjoy on *your* trip!

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Today in Labor History Today in Labor History April 19, 1943: Albert Hoffman, inventor of LSD, tested his first dose and went for a bike ride. This day is now celebrated as Bicycle Day. “... Little by little I could begin to enjoy the unprecedented colors and plays of shapes that persisted behind my closed eyes. Kaleidoscopic, fantastic images surged in on me, alternating, variegated, opening and then closing themselves in circles and spirals, exploding in colored fountains, rearranging and hybridizing themselves in constant flux ...” And from that date forward, working class people could finally afford to go on a trip. Hoffman later went on to isolate psilicyben, the active hallucinogenic ingredient in mushrooms, which he also enjoyed experimenting with.

Sandoz originally marketed the drug as Delysid and sold it in 100 microgram doses. From the late 1940s, through the early 1960s, the drug was legal and numerous psychologists and researchers began experimenting with it as a form of therapy. Many were willing participants in the CIA’s UKUltra mind control experiments, in which LSD was given to people, most of whom without their consent or knowledge. Cary Grant was a frequent and enthusiastic user. As early as the late 1940s, anthropologists Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson became enthusiastic about its potential to unleash a new era of peace and expanded consciousness. The founder of Alcoholic Anonymous was also an early user and said that it was far more effective at treating alcoholism than any other treatment he knew of. Researcher John Lily, along with Gregory Bateson, began dosing dolphins in the early 1960s, in experiments connected with the U.S. military, in an attempt to learn to communicate with the animals and deploy them as weapons in the cold war. You can read more about Mead and Bateson’s role in promoting hallucinogens and in collaborating with the military and intelligence communities in Benjamin Breen’s book, Tripping on Utopia.

Today is #BicycleDay, on this day. On this day 82 years ago, Albert Hofmann discovered the psychoactive properties of #LSD while riding home on his #bicycle. Today at Tempelhofer Feld, Berlin from 3:00 PM on we will be gathering signatures to call on the EU commission to promote, approve and support Psychedelic Assisted Therapies (PAT) across the EU.
To sign the petition, go to https://www.psychedelicare.eu It takes 5 minutes or less...

If you're planning to celebrate Bicycle Day tomorrow --or even if you're not but you know what it is-- check this out:

https://etherdiver.bandcamp.com/track/any-day-can-be-bicycle-day-if-your-mind-is-in-the-right-gear

That's a track I wrote a couple years ago to celebrate this most holy of psychedelic holidays. Enjoy!

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Happy Anniversary of the discovery of Lysergic Acid Diethylamide to all who celebrate it. (#LSD)

Today in Labor History April 13, 1953: CIA Director Allen Dulles launched the MKUltra mind control program. The program ran from 1953 to 1973. It involved giving human subjects LSD and other drugs, often without their knowledge. Then, researchers would try to “weaken” their minds and force confessions through brainwashing and psychological torture. Over 7,000 U.S. war veterans were unwitting test subjects, as well as many Canadian and U.S. civilians. The program was a continuation of Nazi mind-control experiments, which utilized mescaline against Jews and Soviet prisoners, hoping it could be exploited as a “truth” serum. The Office of Strategic Services (OSS), precursor of the CIA, recruited many of these Nazi torturers in the wake of World War II to exploit their knowledge and research. MKUltra was headed by Dr. Sidney Gottlieb, who later devised plans to kill Fidel Castro with an exploding cigar, and saturating his shoes with radioactive thallium to make his beard fall out. He also tried to assassinate Patrice Lumumba, Prime Minister of Congo, with poison. Several well-known liberals and radicals knowingly participated in MKUltra and its OSS predecessors, either as test subjects (e.g., Ken Kesey, Allen Ginsberg, Robert Hunter), or as researchers (e.g., anthropologists Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson). Others who have been alleged to have been victims or volunteers include Sirhan Sirhan, Ted Kaczyinski, Charles Manson, and Whitey Bulger.

For a really fascinating look at Margaret Mead's and Gregory Bateson’s exploration with hallucinogens and their connection to MKUltra, check out the recent book, Tripping on Utopia, by Benjamin Breen. And for a truly amazing documentary on the 1961 CIA-supported coup in Congo, check out the 2024 documentary, “Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat.” But the film is really about so much more than the coup. It covers Cold War machinations, propaganda, and covert operations in the early 1960s; the superpowers’ jockeying for control of puppet regimes and spheres of influence in the global south; the Pan-African movement; racism in the U.S., the Civil Rights movement, and the repression against it; and, of course, jazz music, including tons of interviews and live footage of Lumumba, Ghanian president and revolutionary Kwame Nkrumah, activist and writer Andree Madeleine Blouin, Malcolm X, Louis Armstrong, Nina Simone, Duke Ellington, Dizzy Gillespie, Miriam Makeba, John Coltrane, Ornette Coleman, surrealist artist Rene Magritte.

#workingclass #LaborHistory #cia #mindcontrol #torture #lsd #mkultra #castro #nazis #oss #allenginsberg #lumumba #malcolmx #coltrane #jazz #imperialism #kenkesey #margaretmead #charlesmanson #mescaline #castro #soviet #coldwar #books #nonfiction #ussr #communism #film #documentary @bookstadon

Have you explored psychedelics as a tool for self-healing or personal growth?

Today in Labor History March 25, 1957: U.S. Customs seized copies of Allen Ginsberg's poem "Howl" on obscenity grounds. Poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti, and City Lights manager, Shigeyoshi Murao, were arrested on obscenity charges for publishing and distributing the poem. Howl was inspired, in part, by a terrifying peyote vision Ginsberg had in which the façade of the Sir Francis Drake Hotel, in San Francisco, appeared as the monstrous face of a child-eating demon. The obscenity charges stemmed from homophobic responses to his explicit references to homosexuality. Ginsberg’s first experience with LSD, as well as Kerouac’s and Burroughs’s, was with acid provided by the anthropologist Gregory Bateson, one-time husband of and long-time collaborator with Margaret Mead. You can read more about Bateson and Mead’s early experimentation with, and promotion of, psychedelics (and their collaboration with the CIA) in the recent book, “Tripping on Utopia.”

#workingclass #LaborHistory #poetry #howl #lgbtq #allenginsburg #homophobia #lawrenceferlinghetti #citylights #obscenity #censorship #bannedbooks #kerouac #williamburoughs #lsd #peyote #margaretmead #gregorybateson #psycheldelics #books #writer #author #poet @bookstadon

I’m no expert, and it’s been a few decades since I have ingested #LSD, but I never would have thought that Microdosing would help with #ADHD. Depression maybe, but I am not surprised to hear it wasn’t efficacious.

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapsychiatry/fullarticle/2831639

#LSD meaning [[Liquid Shape Distortions]]:

https://collidingscopes.github.io/liquid-shape-distortions/

Study finds that #MDMA and #LSD might have protected the survivors in the 7.10.2023 Hamas attack from severe #ptsd , and even helped some escape the attack.

Very readworthy, even though the paper's hyperfocusing on Israeli trauma while totally silent about the ongoing genocide against Palestinians appears obscene to me. Or is DJ Netanyahu about to send MDMA to Gaza prior to throwing the next rave of mass murder of civilians by bomb shellings?

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c9wpy14wyd0o

303 day was yesterday. Still have something to post :P

#303day #tb303 #acid #lsd #techno #jc303 #midilab #ardour #911calls

https://diode.zone/w/66aeuxq8bdp1f2UL6NnEZR

Remember my Xiaomi Redmi Note 12S? Remember that I said how I got it to work again even though Limited. It has done something stupid very stupid and then I reacted in an aggressive manner towards a lcd Panel which was broken already. It had two vertical stripes on it two lines of that pixels

Now it has a few more
Nothing happened to the Xiaomi, it's case protected it

Tuesday 19 February 1963

Motorists in London will soon be given “space flight” heart checks to measure the strain of rush-hour driving. Recorders will monitor heart rates as motorists fume in traffic jams, jockey for lane positions, and rage at other drivers.