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Friend of Bill @hinzelmann.bsky.social · 25d

I understand that...

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Friend of Bill @hinzelmann.bsky.social · 25d

Kind of looking like an election rally...

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Friend of Bill @hinzelmann.bsky.social · Sep 9

Police protecting their community... There is hope...

Friend of Bill @hinzelmann.bsky.social · Jul 16

Secular AA: Stonehenge...

www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

A moment that changed me: I stopped drinking – and realised what friendship really meant

I always thought hitting the bottle made me the life and soul of the party, but sobriety helped me to be honest with myself – and make genuine connections with other people

www.theguardian.com

Friend of Bill @hinzelmann.bsky.social · May 24

Does anyone here have any experience of UK national returning to UK after 20 years with US spouse?

#UKvisa

Friend of Bill @hinzelmann.bsky.social · Apr 5

Welcome to America...

I was a British tourist trying to leave America. Then I was detained, shackled and sent to an immigration detention centre

Graphic artist Rebecca Burke was on the trip of a lifetime. But as she tried to leave the US she was stopped, interrogated and branded an illegal alien by ICE. Now back home, she tells others thinking...

www.theguardian.com

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The Onion @theonion.com · Mar 31

Pete Hegseth Calls For Steep Cuts To Number Of Steps In AA Recovery

WASHINGTON—Lambasting the current program as wasteful, bloated, and entirely unnecessary, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth called for steep cuts Monday to the number of steps in the Alcoholics Anonymous...

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Friend of Bill @hinzelmann.bsky.social · Jan 28

Jason of #SleafordMods speaks about substance abuse

What I will say to anybody that desperately wants to rid themselves of the albatross that is a chemical rut ... at the dread of the daylight coming up because they’ve run out of drugs, the mornings become something so beautiful it’s indescribable.

“The Mornings Are My Afterlife” - Jason Williamson

YouTube video by joe bloom

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Friend of Bill @hinzelmann.bsky.social · Jan 3

1462 days... I've earned my four year chip... but a cup of tea will have to suffice.
Thanks #SecularAA. You don't have to submit to your imaginary friend.
Be seeing you...
www.worldwidesecularmeetings.com/meetings
#alcohol #substanceabuse #zoomzoomzoom

Friend of Bill @hinzelmann.bsky.social · Dec 24

Check this out... Message me for log in details...

#AA #AlcoholicsAnonymous #SecularAA

Friend of Bill @hinzelmann.bsky.social · Dec 23

Christmas Day: 25 December
Secular AA Zoom meeting
We're suspending our usual agenda for today. All fellow sufferers welcome to our ad hoc meeting...
6.00pm UK
1.00pm USeast
10.00am USpacific

Send Chat message to me for details...

Friend of Bill @hinzelmann.bsky.social · Dec 23

Christmas Day: 25 December
Secular AA Zoom meeting
We're suspending our usual agenda for today. All fellow sufferers welcome to our ad hoc meeting...
6.00pm UK
1.00pm USeast
10.00am USpacific

Send Chat message to me for details...

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Friend of Bill @hinzelmann.bsky.social · Jun 13

Got this from someone in a band I follow...
hth...

#friendofbill #secularAA

I’m 8 years clean this week.
I still think the first 3 lagers and then a good tug on the nose is possibly up there with free climbing just above the roof of mist that saturates some distant rain forest in Venezuela. And let’s not forget the slow stroll out of the pub and into the smoking area for a nice nicotine dessert and a good old tap tap on your phone.
But, I didn’t care and that’s not cool is it?
I think the reason we all put up with grey walls and car parks full of nub ends is because lager helps dull the pain of it all. I found so much solace in the drunken eye, the fat chromed lager pumps with condensation running down them. The burgundy boarders around the menus, the familiar sound of the hinges on the door that led up the stairs to the toilets.
Manifestations were made, paranoia set. Wages spent. Debts were pinned to me for endless bags of gear that bought with them the lives of others who rolled chaotic snowballs much bigger than mine, down the hill.

Of course this isn’t life for 'most people'. And now, after 8 years, I think I’m part of that ‘most people’ group. There is another life possible. It’s still full of contradictions, and to a lot of those still in the pub, those contradictions are unacceptable and occasionally I get a good telling off as when you change, people don't necessarily change with you.
It's taken me a long time to forgive myself, but out of that has come a happiness, a state of being that was unknown to me. That's not to say that it's easy street, it isn't. In some respects it's harder as there's nowhere to hide, however the challenge is manageable. Sobriety for me is a very positive place to be in and I truly believe it can be that for everybody.

Friend of Bill @hinzelmann.bsky.social · May 21

Beating addiction...
#aa #friendofbill #12stepping

www.theguardian.com/music/articl...

‘I hadn’t thought about a drink. Then I saw the pub. Game over’: singer-songwriter Michael Head on beating addiction – again

He’s a national treasure to many, with a remarkable songbook spanning more than 40 years. But after kicking heroin twice, he spiralled back into drinking – until an ardent fan saved his life

www.theguardian.com

Friend of Bill @hinzelmann.bsky.social · May 10

Here I am on day 1224 since I kicked alcohol. I say "kicked", but who knows...
Anyhow, I've built this feed to help us find each other.
Al, FoB Friend of Bill

Friend of Bill @hinzelmann.bsky.social · Apr 30

Friend of Bill, but not of God?

World-wide secular AA Zoom meetings here:
www.worldwidesecularmeetings.com/meetings

Secular AA World Conference, Orlando, Florida

Happy Hour - WhatsApp group, Stonehenge Secular

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Friend of Bill @hinzelmann.bsky.social · Apr 20

Bypass the paywall... archive.ph/7T6M0

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Friend of Bill @hinzelmann.bsky.social · Apr 19

The driver will be okay? So fuck pedestrians, cyclists and people in sh!t cars?

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Friend of Bill @hinzelmann.bsky.social · Apr 19

Yeah... they're suckers for a selfy in that town...

Friend of Bill @hinzelmann.bsky.social · Apr 7

So sorry...

... reposted.

Kevin Bonafide, you say? Monmouth Beach, NJ.

pos

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Five iPads @tomorrowarchive.com · Feb 5

if anyone wants to harass my dead mom's landlord because he is trying to get into her apartment 3 days after her death despite her paying rent for this month already, his name is kevin bonafide and he lives in monmouth beach nj!

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