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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While going through the showcase of pages made using Svelte/Sveltekit, this one that tells stories through data, presented in beautiful, single-page scrolling fashion, was especially memorable. Enough to warrant it being added here.

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

Awesome Quotes and Impactful Writing, Lyrics, etc.

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

One thing I'd argue as a starting point is there is no "theory" or a "model" of addiction as a disease. The arguments associated with that claim are actually not that cohesive. A common position associated with addiction as a disease is that it is an essential category, which is an idea we can get our arms around a bit better and which I discuss... See more

Toward a Unified Field Theory of Human Flourishing

Addiction

Tattoo Ideas

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

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Music and

New Fleshgod, baby!

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.

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

Impactful Writing, Lyrics, etc.

Regulation of the L-type calcium channel

Regulation of the L-type calcium channel by phosphorylation and G proteins in various tissues and eukaryotes, affecting calcium influx and signal transduction in excitable and non-excitable cells.

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Addiction

A new approach for evaluating the behavioral effects of antipsychotic drugs (Heyman, Beer) 1987

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