Matthew Sparks

@sparksm

BS Behavioral Neuroscience: addiction and addiction treatment armchair-expert with a past toxic relationship with opioids. Aspiring terminal degree holder. Lifelong musician, metalhead, tech nerd and PC gamer, and open-mic night standup comic. Accidentally blew up on YouTube for screaming in my car.

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There is no more intoxicating fantasy than to feel extraordinary

I make a mentor out of every man that I meet
A lover out of every person I pass in the street

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come. The resulting marriage penalty discourages marriage and rewards single parenthood. Combined marriage penalties across federal and state welfare programs can reach tens of thousands of dollars per year for a given family. One component of the marriage penalties comes from state-level free or subsidized preschool programs. In addition

Benjamin Paris • How Welfare Programs Discourage Marriage: The Case of Pre-K Education Subsidies

Politics

This is absolute garbage. If you search “marriage penalties and federal welfare programs”—which is in their Project 2025, this trash is the first result.

Our debut full length album “Highly Irresponsible” is out October 25th through @sharptonerecs The first single “A White Horse Covered In Blood” is out everywhere tomorrow, July 31st. For early access to pre-orders head to highlyirresponsible.com, sign up and check your... See more

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Music and Metal

YO THIS SHIT IS GONNA BOP SO HARD, WILL PUTNEY IS A GENIUS ONGOD FRFR

Addiction is a brain disease, and it matters - PubMed

A I Leshner pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

Addiction and Neuroscience

This is one of the foundational papers that established the more medicalized brain disease model of addiction (which AA and treatment facilities would borrow from, if I were to put it lightly. Hijack is a more appropriate term)

Fleshgod Apocalypse Attain Eternal Life with New Track "I Can Never Die"

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New Fleshgod, baby!

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If you consider yourself a technologist, here’s your imperative: build things that are unabashedly, beautifully tangled into all else in life — people and relationships, politics, emotion and pain, understanding or the lack thereof, being alone, being together, homesickness, adventure, victory, loss. Build things that come alive, and drag... See more

Create things that come alive

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Technology can be art; an application can evoke and represent emotion; I can sound like a wanker waxing poetic about the JavaScript I’m writing right now

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