If a narcissist is in the studying phase of you and something traumatic happens in your life they will use it to manipulate you and create closeness in the lovebombing phase. It’s not genuine, it’s a way in.

Had to go to court today - shared the lobby with 19 words, a full stop, 3 commas, and a hyphen. They were sentenced before lunch.

I have a smashed ankle that was fixed badly and healed wrong, can't walk far without intense pain, and I'd still rather crawl than be seen in public on one of these things. Hell, I'd rather use my Sinclair C5 (except getting out of it is Not Pleasant)

AKA: A mortgage in 5 years.

This is offensive to cellos Trump is a kazoo.

if your response to a post like this is "everyone deals with this, just stop," 1. you're either lucky that it's not a problem to the point of causing dysfunction in your life or 2. no, everyone doesn't deal with this, i hope you get support

GB News now broadcasting calls to remove the ethnic minority MPs from parliament

Contact us if you have been affected by the policy changes of Girl Guiding or the Women's Institute. This could be as an individual, or because you lead a local Brownie group who don't want this policy change. We want to help protect trans inclusion. goodlawproject.org/about/contact/

The @ec.europa.eu has gone berserk. It wants to open the EU water framework directive to allow mining corporations to pollute water and increase costs for all, the interests of the few before that of all of us Out of control Folks - please repost, inform, resist @epsu.bsky.social @politico.eu

If I was head of the WI and an 80 year old trans woman told me it was the only place she'd ever felt respected as a woman, and the British State told me she wasn't allowed to bebin the WI any more, I'd be putting out a public statement declaring the WI to now be an armed guerilla organisation.

It astounds me how easily people can discuss legal issues, without considering media coverage, inter-family prejudice and behaviour modelling, and childhood bullying and trauma. Tribalism in childhood lasts generations. WI, on the other hand, should be utterly ashamed of itself. It /should/ fight.

🎶hold me closer, tiny dancer, hold me closer, tiny dasher, hold me closer, tiny prancer, hold me closer, tiny vixen, hold me closer, tiny comet, hold me closer, tiny cupid, hold me closer, tiny donner, hold me closer, tiny blitzen

Forks Out www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJxz...

Pelucat.

Andrew should speak to the tenancy deposit scheme. It won't achieve anything but I'm sure they'd be entertained.

I have no idea but it might be measurable in minutes because someone offered me a swap right after I bought it or something. I'll say the Humber Sceptre Arrow-series I bought at auction, drove home and then one of the local car bods spotted and offered me something interesting for.

My brain hurts

Broadcast (inc web) media has developed FOMO in the face of increasing competition and it all follows the engagement metrics. I expect balance from the BBC but things like "Top Stories" and a finite space to present it all, finite resource to create it.

Once you achieve machine sentience, you have machines capable of love and grace. It would be nice if there were still meadows, siblings, and deer by the time capitalism decided we could be free of our labours though.

Familiar, but not. Cardle 4/5 Streak 26🔥 Total Score 793 🔴 🔴 🟢 🔴 🔴 🟢 🔴 🔴 🟢 🟢 🟢 🟢 www.playcardle.com

Blackmail - pure blackmail www.theguardian.com/business/202...

I love these. Mine died of rust and diesel pump seals.

Ampera insured again (because taking it for an MOT would be difficult) and trying something. Having been able to check the ABS sensor plug now it was off the ground, and secure it to the clip whereas before I'd had to work blind inside a splash shield fused by rusted spire clips...

I’m a moron for not knowing it was this lucrative. Explains everything about why lefties bash Bluesky on Twitter. He’s paying them to do it. I’ll shut up about trying to understand these folks. They work for Elon. Got it.

This was one of my dream cars to find and I never did. Really wanted an XT6, weird steering wheel, air suspension combo - and I am fairly sure whatever Subaru's clever suspension was, it was even in the brochure for the rusty Brat I had.

Mason declares that in his judgement we have been misled by Rachel Reeves. It feels unprecedented that the BBC has made a "call" on a story, and is something that was absent throughout the terms of notorious liars such as Johnson. There were certainly no "calls" about Brexit lies. #r4today

What’s behind door number one on your HappyToast advent calendar?

Walmart and McDonald’s are among the top employers of workers who rely on food stamps. McDonald's CEO raked in $18.2M last year — over 1,000x the company's median employee pay. Walmart's CEO pocketed $27.4M — 930x the company's median employee pay. See the problem?

Existence is overrated. But diffusion gives it meaning for the perceiver.

I named my fists Brown and Ian because their motion is determined by how hot I am

I cannot believe this awesome song (and album) is over 25 years old 😢 And no-one learned a thing. atomandhispackage.bandcamp.com/album/atom-a...

If there's one thing I learned from American TV at the end of the '90s/early 2000s, it's that there's a good chance of demonic classmates, and that's okay

The more empathy you have, the more you want your almost powerless existence on this timeline to end. Crazy thing is, Atom and His Package said "scoop up the no good dudes and put 'em on an island in the middle of the sea". And the dudes did it themselves. But didn't stay there :/

Amazing

If I still had cars to test, I would eat the £3K loss of this vehicular turd and scrap the damn thing. No energy/strength for fixing things like this and if it weren't for this thing being a rotten heap of damaged "repaired" junk, I wouldn't have needed to move Mazda before renewing every pipe :(

"Your Party"

There's no magic money tree, there is a money ecosystem. Remember the water cycle? Rain, oceans, heat, steam, clouds? Earn, tax, spend what you earn - loads or not, enjoy government or private services, more people are paid, more tax. Rain, oceans, steam, clouds. Musk et al? Infinite bottles.

We snuck in once to watch. Got chased out, but not before we caught a glint of gold as the Arch-Lubricator wielded St Breville's Spatula above the altar. It was a special day.

A car with an I6 I'd like to own:

I'm all for making money. And profiting from your creativity and innovations and investments. But the more I think about it, the more global stock markets just look like money laundering to hide the capital taken from citizen and state. Not the old "invest in new thing, watch it grow" but trading.

You underestimate the UK We not only have sweet potatoes. We have sweet potato oven chips. Candied potatoes are called Honeybreads and only eaten on St. Breville's day.

So, that's actually worse than when I started and I have no idea where it's coming from other than "everywhere" and either the fuel line I researched over and over before buying is actually wrong, the only clamps that fit are wrong, or lines under the car hated being moved so much they're fountains.

I have managed to contort my hands and wrists enough to ensure all the fuel lines are in place and clipped so when the battery has charged, I'll find out if the petrol leak was a bad connection, an error of mine leaving the charcoal canister disconnected because it's a PITA, or the main pipes leak.

My Dad has had the second of two cataract operations this week. A quick search tells me that it would have cost him between $3,500 and $7000 per eye in the USA. We must not let Streeting, Farage, or anyone else privatise and destroy the #NHS.

What's your favourite transformers character. Wrong answers only

CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1965: 20-1 CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1 CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 280-to-1 Trickle-down economics was always a sham. Nothing has ever trickled down.

And the award for the most gratuitous use of censorship on a social media platform goes to...

Silent Running

"Who, me?" the entire town hall meeting asks at once.