I want to hit you hard so you can see the Light

At low doses (5-80μg), it's a CNS stimulant. It's primarily a dopaminergic (both an agonist and a reuptake inhibitor), but also has some lesser action with serotonin receptors. It's almost exclusively active at the CNS, there's a little PNS activation but far less than comparable drugs. There is a substantial analgesic effect as well. It's deeply euphoric but is quite safe at this low dose; no risk of neurotoxicity like with methamphetamine or high-dose amphetamine, and while it's rather addictive the withdrawal symptoms are comparatively mild. It's worth noting that, at extremely low doses, the stimulant effect can be overpowered by the analgesic effect of the drug, and the drug itself can act as a CNS depressant.

At moderate doses(80-450μg), the stimulant and euphoric effects are more pronounced, but there are diminishing returns. Instead, as the dose is increased there is an aphrodisiac effect on the target, subtle at first (this can be used for persuasion, or alongside more blatant forms of hypnosis). As the dose increases and the effect strengthens, the target's suggestibility (particularly to carnal pleasures) increases dramatically; at the upper end of this range, the target is effectively limited to begging for sex, or performing alternate sexual acts as suggested. The senses (particularly tactile and olfactory/gustatory) are sharply enhanced, corresponding to dose. In addition to the steady overproduction of sexual fluids (mass production of cum as well as constantly leaking pre; mass production of vaginal lubrication), the penis/clitoris and nipples will remain firmly erect for the duration of the drug's effects and orifices (obviously including vagina, anus, and mouth/throat, but also the urethra, nipples, ears, nostrils, tear ducts, and navel, along with any ostomy or other substantial wounds) will be more elastic and more easily relaxed. The increased action at serotonin receptors will effectively halt motility in the stomach through the small intestine, though the pharynx and large intestine will be quite active. In addition to sexual fluids, the body will rapidly produce red blood cells, urine, and milk (if lactating). Combined with the strong stimulant effect of the drug, the aphrodisiac effect can produce an OCD-like obsession in the target, almost exclusively focused on sex or sensuality. At the upper end of this window, the analgesic effect begins to taper off, likely due to the overall increase in sensation. The target usually doesn't mind this - at this dose, they are being driven entirely by their immediate lust and will gladly accept greater pain as a strong source of stimulation. They can tell that they are experiencing pain, but even those typically averse to pain play find the sensation of pain pleasurable and become eager masochists, with no concern for the long-term consequences of whatever inflicts that pain.

At high doses (450μg-1mg), these same effects continue to build, the target being immensely stimulated and orgasming unpredictably to the sensation of clothing, minor air currents, and even the floor underfoot. Soon after analgesia gives way to masochistic please, the target beging to experience growing paralysis. The mechanism is unclear, but is believed to have something to do with serotonergic pathways? Fortunately for the target, the loss of fine motor skills for skillful masturbation is accompanied by even greater increases in sensitivity, giving them a hair-trigger easily set off by their desperate pawing at their most sensitive parts.

At extreme doses (1-2.5mg), the nature of the drug as a venom becomes more apparent as the effects become more lasting damage. The target is overstimulated, uncontrollably aroused with no way to resolve this problem - masturbation and repeated orgasm only increase the effect. The sensitivity of the target continues to increase, causing unbearable agony. It is not possible to get good data from targets mid-experience, but survivors variously claim sensitivity so high that slight air movement was like razor blades, or that every sensation was pleasant but that this further fueled the aphrodisiac effect to the point of torment. As the effect increases, the target loses motor control (beyond the usual effects of CNS stimulants as seen with doses below this window) and is unable to do much but try to vocalize (with dropping clarity) a need for sexual release. At the upper half of this window, the stimulant effect becomes more powerful and euphoria increases rapidly - this is due to an effect similar to methamphetamine, where neurons are burst open to release a shower of dopamine. Simultaneously with the growing paralysis of the body, cholinergic activity begins to occur as the drug is metabolized in neuron explosion and as stored acetylcholine is released. The target is reduced to a desperate, twitching mess, unable to do anything but moan and hope it is raped.

Also, from doses of approximately 200μg and up, the serotonergic effects have an additional effect on the target. The stimulation the target experiences goes from being similar to a 'traditional' stimulant like cocaine or amphetamines, to also encompassing some psychedelic effects. The extent to which this occurs, and the ways in which it manifests, vary wildly between targets with no known pattern. For some it is similar to the classic psychedelics - LSD or psilocybin. For others, it's more comparable to the 'entheogenic' effects of MDMA. For others still, it's a very mild influence in perspective. For a select few, it can release latent schizophrenia or DID. And for 40-50% of targets, it never shows up at all and the effects remain simply those of a CNS stimulant and an aphrodisiac while this dose is maintained.

I'm a huge proponent of public transit, rail in specific, and I'm very glad that the greater Seattle area is finally starting to see some solid light rail infrastructure sprouting up in the form of the 1 and 2 lines, but that in no way stops me from critiquing the decisions made in planning and implementation.

Light Rail, in it's colloquial form here in the US, is basically always a compromise solution. It's cheaper than subways, can make good use of existing right-of-way around freeways, and can function as a kind of low-capacity commuter rail in the subways while behaving more like a tram or streetcar in downtown areas. It is crucially, however, not a streetcar, nor is it a commuter rail. Streetcars make frequent stops and are optimized for dense areas with lots of traffic. Commuter rails are larger and stop lest frequently, optimized for bringing suburban residents into city centers. Commuter rail should, however, be independent of street traffic so it can travel at higher speeds. For this reason, most of the Link light rail system in seattle is actually not at-grade (street level), but on either elevated or sub-grade track. Downtown, the lightrail actually functions as a low-capacity low-frequency subway system in what used to be the bus tunnel (we don't have time, but yes it was stupid). Everywhere else, it's up on elevated tracks that largely follow the freeway system.

There are three stations, all immediately south of that Mount Baker elevated station, where the Link actually runs at-grade. These stations run through the historic low income immigrant neighborhoods of southeast seattle. Here, the trains are forced to stop at red lights, interact with crossing and left-turning traffic, and even cross through terrifyingly narrow pedestrian islands. They could have built elevated track here, as they did everywhere else, but they didn't. they didn't want to spend the money. I have personally watched light rail cars carrying hundreds of people have to wait two full minutes for cars turning left in front of them, delaying trains so like, 5 people could drive there. Once it reaches the end of this low income immigrant-dominant neighborhood, however, the Link returns to it's above-grade status, with Mount Baker being the first elevated stop. You want to know how this woman, who claims she was misdirected by her GPS, probably ended up here? I would bet anything she tried to make a turn at the intersection just before the stop and got confused. The intersection, for reference, looks like this:

I'm not saying it's an easy mistake to make, but given the number of people who drive through here every day, it's honestly not that surprising that someone, especially someone who is from out of town, or someone who is used to shared streetcar lanes, would eventually make this mistake. When you're dealing with a city of hundreds of thousands of people, it's only a matter of time before a mistake like this happens. but it is only possible for it to happen because of the decisions made in the planning process, and one of those decisions was "we can save money if we make everything worse in that part of town where all the foreign poors live", and so they built the thing at-grade, instead of keeping it elevated like everywhere else.

HAPPY PRIDE MONTH EVERYBODY*

here's the lgbtq tag trending as it does regularly due to multiple porn bots catfishing using the same stolen pictures of the same trans woman on the same page

remember the year in review? this was one of the featured tags. note that despite neither the image nor video in the posts in this screenshot being marked as mature content, this screenshot of them is going to mark this post as mature content as soon as I post it

here's some of the lovely messages of positivity you can expect to get if you're a transfem on this platform! I cropped the real-life gore images out of the first one, the person in the second one has made multiple posts like this + pedojacketed me and still has that same account and does that same shit, and the the person in the third took weeks for tumblr to do anything about, because:

here's tumblr staff stating that making explicit death threats towards transfems is not a violation of the ToS or user guidelines!

and here they are stating it again! and while we're on the subject of who the user guidelines apply to:

here's SPECIFICALLY AND EXCLUSIVELY MY CONTENTLESS REBLOG of a year-old post with 15,000 notes being flagged as sexually explicit (over 100 times in case you thought it was maybe a fluke) despite the image in the post not actually showing anything, SPECIFICALLY AND EXCLUSIVELY MY CONTENTLESS REBLOG of a heated rivalry gifset showing two fully nude dudes fucking center frame getting flagged as sexually explicit, which it is according to tumblr's definition, but despite that it has tens of thousands of notes and in fact is so popular and shared that if you look over to the third image you can see that same gif as one of the trending tag thumbnails! and on that note:

here's an episode of an anime available on youtube with a TV-14 age rating that I posted a screenshot of that got flagged as sexually explicit, had the appeal denied twice, got fully nuked off the site, and then got my entire blog marked as mature for posting!

and here's that same already-marked-as-mature blog curiously being marked as mature a second time out of the blue 15 minutes before they dropped the age verification update that would hide mature content!

and here's my first blog of 13 years getting a SPECIAL type of mature flag that marks all of my posts as mature content individually and separately from the actual mature content label!

you don't get to appeal these terminations btw! they automatically and instantly deny your appeal and send you the rejection before you even get the email telling you they got the appeal and will carefully review it

not that appealing will do anything anyways! here's tumblr staff terminating me for explicit content when I appealed the explicit flag on a post that they accepted the appeal on after terminating me for it,

and here's tumblr staff denying my appeal on that termination, lying about why i was terminated, terminating my already-and-still-terminated blog a second time to change the termination reason to one i can't appeal, which they then upgraded from an account deactivation into a postmortem full account nuke! isn't that wild?

here's them doing it to me a second time

and here's tumblr staff terminating me FIVE TIMES in multiple weeks it took them to do anything about a burner blog and a post pedojacketing me and encouraging people to harass me forever over completely fabricated claims that everyone spreading it around admitted were false on the post itself by the way! note also how only the burner blog got deleted - but the main account? just a post removal. after weeks of it being reported and spread around. the fastest of my terminations during this period was three hours after making the account by the way!

which isn't an isolated occurrence, either! they'll pass over multiple open, avowed nazis posting swastikas and slur-filled nazi race science shit about how they think black people are biologically inferior subhumans for months on end to nuke some random transfem off the site in as little as 10 minutes after account creation, then take MULTIPLE MONTHS to respond to your report of someone sending you harassment messages to tell you that the content you reported has already been removed (because it's an ask in the inbox of an account they already terminated along with four others in the time it took them to respond)!

And to really send a clear message about where they stand, they've REALLY ramped up the termination of transfems since the start of pride! And everybody will act like you deserve it and are a subhuman unworthy of life if you don't openly support the multiple ongoing harassment campaigns against transfems, all enabled and quietly endorsed by tumblr staff and moderation!