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  • we fucked like gods

    sex, sweat, and divine jealousy in a motel room lit by sin and stardust

    July 10, 2025
  • Patient-Led “Press-Pulse” Metabolic Cancer Protocol

    So as a junior lab rat/researcher I have no idea how to validate my hypothesis other than lab ratting myself out, but I wanted to post this very detailed, very technical breakdown of my combined protocols that I have named “Kill Switch” I first heard that term in relation to fighting cancer listening to a…

    July 9, 2025
  • Rise.

    A poem about surviving darkness, facing death with courage, and finding strength in every scar left behind.

    July 8, 2025
  • Facing the Death Sentence with No Silver Lining

    A brutally honest reckoning with Stage 4 cancer, financial ruin, and the lack of alternative treatment in America.

    July 8, 2025
  • No Rides Left in Kolkata a Trip Through Chaos, Chai, and Sound

    In 2016 I roamed the streets of Kolkata with a camera and a beat. No plan, just people, noise, and a track by Horrorshow that made it all feel cinematic.

    July 4, 2025
  • Good Things Happen When You Smile, or When You’re Naked (The Gods Are Still High)

    A goddess once worshiped for wisdom shows up barefoot, high, and half-naked, here to remind you truth isn’t polite, it’s primal.

    July 4, 2025
  • Why Your Substack Posts Aren’t Showing Up in Google (and How to Fix It)

    You’re writing great stuff on Substack, so where are the search results? Here’s how we solved the indexing problem, step-by-step.

    July 2, 2025
  • Naked, Tripping, and Hunting Stars in the Oregon Woods

    A surreal descent into primal madness, brotherhood, psychedelics, and the holy absurdity of freedom.

    July 2, 2025
  • Trestles and Ghosts

    A lyrical ride through Southern California’s iconic break, where memory, solitude, and the sea crash together.

    June 29, 2025
  • Every God I’ve Met Was High: The God of L’s and Broken Beats

    He’s not saving souls, just lighting blunts and keeping the rhythm alive in a godless world.

    June 29, 2025
  • Every God I’ve Met Was High: The God Who Loved Too Loud

    He was the patron saint of broken hearts and bong rips, showing up stoned with a lighter, a limp prayer, and nothing left to lose.

    June 29, 2025
  • Mirrors and Rituals

    A raw, defiant, dread. Stubborn pride collide.

    June 29, 2025
  • Pardons, Payoffs, and MAGA Betrayal

    A hard look at the GOP’s love affair with corruption, Trump’s selective pardons, and how the base gets left in the dirt.

    June 27, 2025
  • Midnight Thoughts from the Cancer Research Center

    One man’s heartbreak over what America has become, and the grifter who broke it.

    June 27, 2025
  • Let the Empire Choke: Mamdani, Socialism, and the Death Rattle of the Old Guard

    When politics are this broken, it’s not radical to want better, it’s survival. A rant on Mamdani, socialist dread, and why the centrist elite are the real extremists now.

    June 25, 2025
  • Every God I’ve Met Was High: The God Who Left the Bong Burning

    A poem soaked in smoke, heartbreak, and divine indifference.

    June 25, 2025
  • Every God I’ve Met Was High: The Gospel of Burnt Jukeboxes

    Where gods crawl through sand and stardust, and the universe runs on scrolls.

    June 25, 2025
  • The High-Stakes Reality of RSO in a Non-Legal State

    Why managing your cancer treatment shouldn’t require breaking the law, or your body.

    June 24, 2025
  • The Cancer Diary: A Smart Journal System to Outmaneuver Disease

    A GPT-powered tracker for chemo, ketosis, cannabis, and chaos. Designed for clarity in the fight against cancer and chronic illness.

    June 23, 2025
  • To the Last Fucking Breath

    A poem had to come out, it did today. I feel fucking good.

    June 23, 2025
  • Kill Switch Juice: The Ultimate Cancer-Fighting Green Juice That Won’t Spike Your Blood Sugar

    A savage green juice built for healing, not hype. Sugar-free, inflammation-smashing, and fully armed for metabolic war.

    June 23, 2025
  • Kill Switch Protocol.

    Rewiring the Fight Against Cancer with Metabolic Warfare + Plant Medicine

    June 22, 2025
  • I’m Not Fighting Cancer. I’m Fighting a System

    Why Stage 4 Patients Deserve Better Than Outdated Oncological Playbooks and 70-Year-Old Toxic Protocols

    June 22, 2025
  • Metabolic Fight, Emotional Train Wreck

    Here’s the truth behind the pain and the plan to keep going.

    June 20, 2025
  • How I’m Fighting Stage 4 Cancer with Metabolic Therapy, Cannabis, and Chemo

    A two-week rotating plan that blends ketogenic cycles, RSO and CBD support, fasting, hydration, and chemo into one survivable blueprint

    June 19, 2025
  • My Car Smells Like Fast Food, Lucky Strikes, and Fear

    So this story is about the desperate things, desperate people do…

    June 19, 2025
  • The Floor, the Breakdown, and the Climb Back: My Recent Thoughts on Depression

    What 2022 taught me about depression, what last week reminded me, and why facing the truth is the only way out.

    June 18, 2025
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