After WIRED contacted Kofsky for comment, some of PsychoticMammal’s posts about drugs were deleted, and their Poshmark avatar was changed to a picture of characters from the Star Wars movie Attack of the Clones.
This right here is the funniest goddamn thing I have ever read. Way to confirm it’s your account AND confirm your a huge unserious dork.
To be fair, “gas station heroin” is a pretty apt description.
And the way it’s sold, people get hooked before they realize what’s going.
It’s crazy that’s stuff legal but cannabis isn’t.
I mean, this dude is likely a giant asshole, and fuck him.
But this stuff fucks over a lot of lives of people with no idea what they’re taking.
What is gas station heroin if you wouldn’t mind filling me in?
Thanks.
Crazy stuff.
The drug’s true identity emerged after researchers figured out it’s a type of opioid — one that does, in fact, work in a way that’s similar to heroin
Aptly named at least. Honestly was not expecting actual opiates for sale with petrol.
It has Mu receptor activity at very large doses, it is a (somewhat) effective anti depression response at low doses.
What that all means is that the withdrawals from long term use as an opiate, rather than an antidepressant are absolutely legendary. Imagine having to withdraw from Heroin… but also you have to withdraw from a large dose of antidepressant at the same time… terrifying.
You know what else does that? Massive amounts of loperimide. It also causes heart problems and can kill you, but you get a minor buzz from it if you eat 100 of them.
I will never understand someone who clearly already has a drug dealer choosing to do dirtier versions of their drugs. Why not drop the cocaine and stick to those dick pills they sell at the gas stations at that point?
While I’m at it, I don’t understand coke heads either. What an awful drug to try and enjoy.
I will never understand someone who clearly already has a drug dealer choosing to do dirtier versions of their drugs.
Then you don’t fully understand the bottoms of addiction and the unreliability of drug dealers. People will go through extreme efforts to avoid withdrawal.
Too right they will.
They sell my drug in all the gas stations, advertise it on TV, billboards and radio, just about every restaurant serves it.
And yet, there are still alcoholics that will drink sanitizer if that’s all they can get and the shakes and sweats have started. I never drank sanitizer, but that doesn’t mean much, knowing what I did do when I still drank.
How are news organizations suddenly tieing people to their internet handles? They have to have proof I’d think.
Is this the new thing cause I’m sure a ton of people thought they could say whatever under a random name and noone would ever know.
From the article:
A WIRED investigation shows Kofsky is also the person posting as PsychoticMammal. The account has posted personal details that precisely match Kofsky’s résumé, and has linked to a little-followed Instagram account dedicated to photos of Kofsky wearing preppy outfits. A review of publicly available material from data breaches provided by Constella Intelligence shows that Kofsky’s personal email address was used to set up a “PsychoMammal” account on a photography site. Furthermore, the PsychoticMammal name was used on Poshmark by a user whose avatar is a photo of Kofsky. It was also used on Tumblr by someone who linked to—and claimed as his own—a Blogspot maintained by a user named Aaron Kofsky, who posted personal details that match details of Kofsky’s biography.
Apparently, this guy left a huge trail… Edit: plus data breaches…
