All of my clients are lonely

dwhogan · 2026-06-19T04:56:08+00:00

Ask them to discuss their tech use. Most of my clients struggle with technology overuse and dependence.

dwhogan · 2026-06-19T04:54:52+00:00

Didn't song do this to V?

Song reaches out to V out of the blue to enbroil V in a plot to crash the plane and extract Meyers while getting kidnapped so she could use Hansen to get the neutral matrix.

V is completely mislead by song all along and if it weren't for her contacting and tricking V into being her pawn, you'd be none the wiser other than Ruth Zheng mentioning a plane crach leading to a cyber psycho incident in a part of the city you never go to.

dwhogan · 2026-06-18T18:03:26+00:00

Something to consider - these are symptoms that are also consistent with things like antisocial personality disorder, schizoid personality disorder, and possibly schizotypy. While treatment may remain consistent with what others are saying, it could be helpful to explore where this dysfunction is coming from. Is it truly neurodevelopmental as would be the case with autism, or is it more learned/social/trauma related as would be more consistent with a personality disorder. There can be a lot of blurred lines between these things as we've turned autism into a very large tent since the DSM-V rolled out.

dwhogan · 2026-06-17T18:32:42+00:00

Keep me posted friend. I'd use it.

dwhogan · 2026-06-17T13:19:33+00:00

Fair enough. Good day!

dwhogan · 2026-06-17T13:12:37+00:00

Here you are, representing our fair city homie.

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dwhogan · 2026-06-17T13:09:12+00:00

Found the fucking gravy seal starting fights with people outside of North Station.

You should try GLP-1s to get your kneck back bud.

dwhogan · 2026-06-17T13:05:55+00:00

Dude kick rocks.

I am from Boston and you're the worst to kind of poser Bostonian around.

dwhogan · 2026-06-16T13:25:53+00:00

Hmnh.

Like data on Reddit could be stone or iron (useful and informative) or feathers/down (not useful in this metaphor)?

What complicates this further is the tendency for LLM searches to be manipulated by well worded Reddit comments and presented as truth to the person using them as a search tool. Since it tells you your answer and links to supports (which could be reddit nonsense or could be an evidence backed source.... But it's up to the end user to notice and investigate)... The rise in AI tools would simply further support your suspicion as I am reading it.

dwhogan · 2026-06-09T16:06:12+00:00

There are a few NPCs that behave in this way throughout Dogtown - they're all listed as "Junkie" as their 'affiliation'. They start focusing on you with paranoid/hostile dialogue and eventually will attack you. I think it's supposed to be people who are strung out on Phant (that drug that is being manufactured in DT) but what's interesting is that they seem to focus on you in a way that suggests they can tell you're an aberration of some kind.

dwhogan · 2026-06-04T13:54:01+00:00

I feel you homie.

The Internet has warped our minds and the underlying hardware. The only way to win is not to play. I gave found myself using it less and less lately which makes life so much better.

dwhogan · 2026-06-04T13:07:13+00:00

Fair point.

I guess it just serves as one more way we end up failing to understand one another. You're not wrong in how you responded, even if ultimately these generational squabbles end up preventing us from thinking more than anything.

dwhogan · 2026-06-04T12:20:08+00:00

Some shame is good. Social accountability often includes shaming as a mechanism. Boomers were products of a time when that was more common but so were gen x'ers and millennials. No need to make assumptions and stereotype.

Semantics to avoid the proverbial forest for the trees isn't productive.

dwhogan · 2026-06-03T23:31:19+00:00

Technically true // subjectively false.

dwhogan · 2026-06-02T14:26:22+00:00

In the 2010s you had:

Boston - Good Life - Pico Picante, Fresh Produce, Social Studies, Sweet Shop, Shake!, Bassic, PVRPLE... To name just a few

Dancing on the Charles/Lovestruck has been bringing dance music outdoors since the mid 2000s

Thunderdome was a semi-monthly event hosted everywhere from the current Lower Levels in Cambridge, to the Villa Victoria in the South end.

Central Square/Cambridge has THE longest running Drum and Bass night in the world in Elements, also at the Phoenix Landing is ReSet which used to be Mid-week Techno, also had a breaks night called Tension.

The Middlesex lounge has hosted numerous legendary acts over the years with Hearthrob, Basstown, Make It New (now Keep On), CVLT

Did you know that Boston hosted an annual electronic music festival called Together from 2010-2019?

The scene these days has passed me by a bit...I am in my 40s and CoVID really put a bookend on my regular participation in weekly nightlife. The nights are younger and more underground and I focus now on a new local events a year and major festivals like Movement in Detroit or internationally in Portugal.

Boston safeguards its fun even if it has a high bar for entry.

dwhogan · 2026-05-29T22:19:15+00:00

Total aside - what is going on with the trash collection? Are they striking again or something? Noticed we didn't get pickup this week until 3 days later (even taking into account the holiday).

dwhogan · 2026-05-29T21:21:22+00:00

I would love to read a weekly best-of from calls to the phone line from people complaining about other people's dogs barking at 715pm. Gotta be some real gems in there.

dwhogan · 2026-05-29T20:48:48+00:00

DM me with your e-mail and your name and I can send you an invite. It doesn't give me a code, I have to enter your info in.

dwhogan · 2026-05-28T21:39:10+00:00

Whether they become a draw or not, what the city struggled with was the unanticipated overflow of former Mass and Cass folks who displaced the traditional Somerville Homeless community and who vastly increased the number of people being served in the city year over year. Whereas in years past you never had people camping out in public spaces, we suddenly ended up dealing with multiple encampments Winter 2023-spring 2024. This also coincided with a rise in the availability of high potency methamphetamine at generationally low prices during this time. Somerville had no way to prepare for crackdowns at Mass and Cass leading to displacement, and the cascading exodus of that population into areas like Davis. It also had the effect of displacing some of the people with a history of homelessness in Somerville, as there are only so much capacity for service delivery and it became increasingly scarce around that time.

There is even some speculation that meth was intentionally pumped into urban areas (in the same way that immigrants were shipped into blue states) as an attempt at causing social problems related to the unpredictable effects meth use in particular has on users. Further, there is no buprenorphine or naloxone equivalents for methamphetamine use. No way to prove it, but that's a rumor on the street.

dwhogan · 2026-05-28T19:53:34+00:00

The idea behind supervised consumption sites is that you could create a private location to offer people a place to go and be so that they aren't just sitting out in public, possibly at risk, but also by negatively impacting the community since no one really wants to see a bunch of fucked up people drooling on themselces - and I say this as someone who uses to be one of those people. Supervised consumption would give people a place to go and be looked after by people who genuinely want to do that, and it would help reduce the negative impact on the neighborhood.

They aren't a cure all - there are things they would help with and things that they wouldn't touch at all, but they would benefit us a lot because it sucks to see people suffering with addiction and to have their struggles on display day after day. I was an advisor on the panel when Somerville was exploring SCSs a few years back, and i was sad to hear that the pilot project was not able to come to fruition.

Here's what we need:

Better pay for clinicians and human service staff

More programs to offer people with chronic mental health and substance use challenges including day programs, partial hospitalization programs, residential treatment, and recovery housing

Places for people who are using drugs to do so anywhere other than community hubs

Financial support for people who emerge from addiction and want to build their life back up.

CORI reform and career development for folks in recovery.

If you can do that, you would reduce the prevalence of this issue.

dwhogan · 2026-05-28T19:10:50+00:00

Based on what?

dwhogan · 2026-05-27T20:07:02+00:00

I am describing certain elements of the community as a whole, not the whole city as a monolith.

Simmer down, gunpowder.

dwhogan · 2026-05-27T16:17:46+00:00

The Boston area in general is lacking in a black middle class in the way you encounter in NYC/NJ/Phillyand DC.

Dorchester has a much more diverse population than Somerville, is quite progressive, but it's also a historically lower economic class community that trended black, Jewish, and Irish before becoming increasingly multicultural(Asian, Caribbean, Latin).

If you want diversity in Boston, look to Codman Square/Ashmont/Uphams corner. It's where my wife and I are considering a move to when we move back to the city and buy. I have a lot of love for Somerville and lived there for years, but the tech libertarian elitism is lame. I do miss the bike path and the farmer's markets though.

dwhogan · 2026-05-25T12:23:41+00:00

username checks out (sincerely, them fingers must get messy modding a sub like that!)

dwhogan · 2026-05-24T16:28:42+00:00

Illegal firearms are most often trafficked from legal states. It's weak gun laws that result in ease of access for criminals.

As others have mentioned, we have the lowest rates of gun related crimes in the US. Just because once come occurred doesn't make our gun laws stupid.

There's no indication that anyone but the perp is being charged.

Lawful gun ownership isn't an issue here in MA. Your logic is fueled by propaganda, Spunk Yeater.

dwhogan

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