Wait. Are you my Dad?

God that's a bad picture, the more you look, the worse it gets. Why is there steam coming out of everything.

These types run on repeating something until it becomes truth. It has to be said a heap of times. These sentences are aimed at emotionally immature, knee jerk reactors. They know once something is embedded in someone like that, not only is it almost impossible to change their minds, as people in general aren't great at listening to different opinions openly, or changing their mind once an opinion is embedded (if you are able to do that, keep working that skill out, it's a ridiculously valuable skill to have) and then they have control over whatever nefarious means they're seeking. If they take away abortion, then they can force a whole workforce to be born, they need those workforces, that's entirely how they make all their money. They also need us divided and raging against each other, so we don't organise.

I'm so glad he's an ex. I'm so glad you got away from that. I absolutely get it, I have a similar ex, he didn't rage out about gaming, because he wasn't a gamer, but nothing else was safe. He had other words he tried to "normalise". They think they're gods, but really they're a dime a dozen, you could pick one up at your local tip shop, half price because so many people throw them out.

Or it's like putting a bandaid on an amputated limb expecting that to stem the blood flow and sew the skin. And it is now showing that.

Yeah I almost absolutely agree with you, just on the fact that the "blood" hasn't been stemmed, I respectfully disagree. And it's salve for the soul to see someone so informed across the various topics causing the issue. It is and always was a multipronged attack. (That they're trying to distract us from, currently, by pointing to immigration)

Quite often I notice a policy put in place, and it does nothing for the actual issue, it's just that the people are screaming for change, so they have to do something, the policy merely looks in the direction of the issue, the person putting the policy in place touts it to be a grand thing that resolves 3/4ths of the problem, (when it doesn't even scratch the surface) the Murdoch media runs a massive scare campaign to the degree and equivalent to rioting and eliciting rioting. Imaging a puddle to be a catastrophic flood. Eliciting the emotionally immature to jump at these created shadows, and then change their tune and scream to return to the previous systems that were previously eliciting screams for change. And then said politician will say, I tried and y'all didn't want it, so we're going in the other direction and building more orphan crushing machines. Look that's what everyone is asking for. And I can't help but feel it's entirely coordinated.

I was studying an electrical apprenticeship when they were all cut by Tony Abbot, in his first run through of decimation. Julia Gillard got through a record amount of policies even though having a hung parliament worse than seen since, but she did that by selling us all down the river and catering to the elite that the Liberal party represent. If I believed in hell, it would be paved with politicians.

It's not necessarily trying to stop them burning the books, just stop their ability to monopolise the knowledge, that's their aim, lock the knowledge behind a subscription, Anna's archive will always be available for all, so why pay for their subscription if its available for free.

Oh thanks, I'm sorry, I didn't mean to imply you should have explained. They're definitely exactly the stuff I'm into. I've always had a deep interest in medicine. It's been kicked up a notch after watching "the pitt". I actually have a couple of podcasts you might like, your explanations reminded me of them I found through tiktok, I'll just go find them and come back. I've been struggling to find a good podcast app since moving away from Spotify because of all the evil.

Eta here's one: "who did what now" Whoever said history was boring obviously wasn't paying attention. Each week, join Katie Charlwood, history harlot and reader of books. as she delves into the people, places and events that make history a bit more interesting.

I have a list of actors who speak up, he's going on it. I'll support anything they do.

Thanks! I absolutely avoid reddit, but ultimately it is our contributions, I'll give it a go digging over there for some ideas etc, thanks thanks!

Those podcasts sound like they'd be right up my alley, just from the titles alone!

Yeah absolutely, and the more proof of what we know that we can gather, the less manoeuvring they can do to get around it. Corruption can't exist blatantly or they wouldn't invest so much in propaganda. It's certainly does exist blatantly, but then it's about a power struggle. Ultimately they need 'us' (collectively not individually) to engage to a degree, to say the benefits outweigh the costs. To keep using Facebook because the algorithms have caused addiction and our friends are on there. If anything overpowers that drive, and we all collectively turn away. They cease to exist. I mean obviously that's why they try so desperately to intricate themselves in politics and weapons, an oroborous.

We need this information, collectively. We need society wide disgust.

I absolutely love stardew Valley! Holy socks, I had absolutely forgotten about that gem! I feel like I've been playing it wrong, though. I need to look up a game play strategy or list of achievements and secret / easter eggs etc. I am absolutely going to deep dive that again.

I'll have to check out thrifty business! Sounds fab!

Previously I've loved, (besides Stardew) pvz, otherworlds, ugh, I can't think of any others right now, my brain is too full of rattling screws and lost paperclips or something.

I am trying to get into podcasts. Listening to people talk absolutely helps me power through the drudge of cleaning. I'm trying to declutter my life, currently. I had a move scare (renting and the owners sold, but new owners signed me on, yay!) And I haven't decluttered in years. I either worked a few jobs, so no time, more recently grandson and no supports = zero time. It's a next level of boredom, though, doesn't just feel soul draining, feels like it also drains the souls of my ancestors, it's that boring (gee, I wonder why I avoided it for so long).

Long story short, if you happen to have any podcast recommendations, I'd be hugely grateful.

I agree, but disagree about the grey rocking, that is entirely recommended when dealing with narcissistic and worse variations.

I'm on a similar path. Here's my current playlist.

U-Huh by Tkay Maidza

Little Girl Gone by Chinchilla

Bad Girls and Paper Planes by M.I.A

Side note: I wanna listen to Bjork because I feel like the media really tried to steam roll her, back in the day, I'm not sure. I haven't had vibes for her style to look deeper into it yet.

Chappell Roan, Lorde and Billie Eilish can fill the void, sometimes too.

Kids (ain't all right) by Grace Mitchell

Flawless by Dorothy

Golden to Thrive by Samsaruh

Talk Deep by E^ST (her voice! Swoon!)

Habits by Tove Lo

Exs and ohs by Ellie King. (I have mad respect for her for all she went through with her Dad)

Not entirely just femme but this one has a beautiful premise and fem singer, *white blood by oh wonder. They wrote the song after their friends battle with cancer. It's representative of white blood cells fighting for your life, but as personification.

Beautiful by Joydrop. (I deep dived into my younger selves music and absolutely loved this, and still do in this version of myself, it seems.)

Fire fire by flyleaf (which addresses the toxic lies that shape young people struggling with family dysfunction and personal identity. )

This one is just beautiful and I love it so much. Saved the best for last. *Ngana Nyunyi by Tilly Tjala Thomas

What games do y'all play?

I'm caring for my grandson and I get literally zero time in a day for myself, but his mum has started taking him on the weekends so I can actually have a bit of a break, I want to just sit with my feet up and absolutely zone into something, like I used to. But it's been so long! I don't know where to start, I'm absolutely getting decision paralysis. Help pls! I gotta rebuild my coordination back up and everything.

But also just curious what you do to enjoy just being, too. What things do you do, that have no purpose other than to bring you joy (best purpose of all)?

Yeah, that looks glorious, can you recommend a recipe? Eta, nevermind, comments didn't load for me. I see it.

It could be seen as ablest or inclusive, really. I think what they're getting at is you don't need a steady hand, literally anyone could draw this way. This style opens up opportunities for people to draw, who may have felt that ability was lost to them. The name certainly gets to the point quickly and concisely. I don't know if naming the style anything else would portray that same level of explanation. Well at least, I just can't think of anything that would similarly portray the accessibility of the style.

Omfg he tried to use the "it was just a joke" defence when called out. 🤣 What's next "you're too sensitive" or "actually I'm the victim".

This is not about social media bans, it's against the corrupt government. It's being reframed. If you think about it, if the only problem was social media ban, they'd just all get vpns. They're not stupid. They're trying to frame it as silly kids, (because they're all gen z and Gen alpha, in their school uniforms, so as to be less likely to be shot) who can't live without social media. But it's not, it's protesting deep government corruption. If word gets out that it's a protest against government corruption, other people facing similar oppression, may become emboldened, so it's being buried.

I commented this below, but in case it gets lost, I'll attach here too, this is not about what main stream media is trying to reframe it as. They tossed their monarchy and decided they'd have a two party system, what could go wrong, the two parties decided to join as a coalition, so only one party, and then went absolutely mad with power enriching themselves and cutting all vital services to and for the people and they were ramping up the evil, by the day. The people said fk that, you're going down, en masse. Not about social media at all. You don't hear what's really going on in places, from the news, they tell you what serves their billionaire owners agenda.