I remember about a year ago when I first... started speaking out about what is happening to our country. I had a British born Muslim in my inbox threatening to “cut my head off like Lee Rigby”. Saying the usual things I often see them say: “We have infiltrated every level of your society from law, education to politics”. “I was born here and we’re going nowhere”. “This is our country now”. “Where are your big hard football hooligans now?” I can remember feeling truly defeated because I knew he was right. I knew how many were born here who hate us that were stuck with and many more are coming. He knew it and I knew it too. But it makes me proud to see that people are fighting back. I would love to see his thoughts on all of this now 😂 I know many more think like him too and they will be absolutely raging. They thought we were easy. They mistook our niceness for weakness and thought we would stay silent for ever. Our people conquered the world. Never underestimate the spirit of the British people. They could never conquer us. The only reason they have come close is because our government allowed them here and spoon fed them. So if we have to take on the government too then it must me done 🇬🇧show more

We’re going to see more and more of this... now I’m afraid. People are talking absolutely no chances. Our government have allowed that many hostile people into our country who have committed crimes against women and children within the first few months of being here, people are now extra vigilant and will act wether people are guilty or not. We cannot blame this on racism or nationalism. We can only blame the government. They have betrayed both the British people and immigrants who have come here and done everything the right way and don’t harm anyone. It is them who will bear the brunt of the nations fury.show more

The reason we knew of the cancer inflection is... because we did the work the trolls were not willing to do (remember, they are always lazy - one trick ponies)... Our system tracked NUMEROUS (25+) associated data schema - far too many to be imported to GitHub... because the morons who insisted that I do this had never really done it themselves. It was an act - they were pretending... I wasn't.show more

I think a lot of us woke up this... morning feeling this way. I knew they hated us, but I honestly thought those people were in the minority. After yesterday, I think the vast majority of them hate us and would do the same thing to us if they thought they could get away with it.show more

Today was the day. I gifted my mother $10,000.... Something I dreamed of in the start of my trading journey. My parents have always been there for me. At first they didn’t believe in my journey, yet still they supported me. I promised them MULTIPLE TIMES that I was going to take care of them, yet the only thing they did was laugh it off. Yet here we are. Why do I trade? To provide to my family and to the ones that supported me. To achieve all the goals that 18 year old me set out to achieve. I was lost, yet I didn’t stop because I knew that I had bigger things planned for me. Was it hard? Absolutely. Was it worth it? Absolutely. After 3 years of putting the work in, I became profitable, and now, 5 years in, I’m able to provide to myself and my family…and that’s the only thing I care about.show more

Obviously this guy is just grasping at straws in... a feeble attempt to defend #AI (as if he cares about people), but it does remind me of something important… Me and every director I knew made every effort possible to get to know our outsourcing studio animators (they were people… humans… artists… not an algorithm). I would say stuff like, “This scene’s got a fire monster… I’ll bet you have someone there who loves drawing fire, right?” and I’d hear them laugh and say (through the translator) “We’ve got three… we’ll let them fight over it!” They weren’t faceless drones… they were part of the team to me. Moreover, I was taught that the best way to ensure that they weren’t overworked was by making sure that everything we ever sent was clear, detailed and easy to understand. There were lots of “They’ll fix it in Korea” directors. We referred to them as “hacks.” And we shunned them. Because we cared.show more

Hey FRSC, NIGERIA you people have been hiring kidnapper,... thug among you people, this f00lish people stop me with my Ladies bike because I was not going too far and I was going to IJAN ekiti to collect something for my sick girlfriend and I told them but all they could said is I should bring my key that they are taking the bike to their office because I don't have driver licence for bike and helmet and this is the scope they have been using to extort money from young guys in Ado here , I told them they should wait that I want to call the person I'm going to meet for my sick girlfriend so it won't be as if I delay him but immediately they started carrying my bike so I have to use one hand to hold the bike that I said they should wait , I'm with you here, I'm not running to anywhere but they were behaving like thug and people that didn't pass through training at all, they said they will use me as scape goat inside this bush and nothing will happen, they started doing video only where I use one hand to hold my bike that they should wait and calm, they didn't do video where they are beating me and they don't allow me to do video of them, one of them hitted my stomach so bad which I nearly fainted and the red mark in my stomach is there in the video, but I didn't raise my hand on anyone of them because they said if anything happen to me here nobody will question them and I don't want to die because I was the only one in the bush with them, now to the form they wrote which is 12,000 I said I don't have 12k that I have 5k but they negotiated with me which they Collected 8,000 from me, and they didn't allow to pay it to bank direct, one of them that drinking Ogogoro regar said they will use the form to book another victim bike, he said that's how they use to do it that they can use 1 form to collect money from like 3-5 people, I wanted to do transfer but they see I have many followers on twitter so they describe where I'm going to use POS in nearest filling station, one was drunk and even offer me to drink Ogogoro regar and I said I don't drink that was after everyone calm after we negotiated, he said I should drink Ogogoro with him but I said no, he return the regar back to his pocket. They beat me and I'm going to hospital now to treat myself, they have my video where I only hold my bike that they should calm but I didn't raised my hand on them so they won't k!ll me inside bush as one of them said earlier that they will use me as scape goat here and nothing will happen. You people are thief Imagine using one form to collect money from like 3-5 victim thief thief thief thief and the money go to their pocket not government accountshow more

I graduated!!! I earned a Bachelor of Arts in... Sociology with a concentration in Psychology, summa cum laude! Five years ago, I started this journey with an eighth-grade education, and even that was from a Scientology school, where critical thinking was discouraged and the quality of instruction was subpar, to say the least. I did not get here alone. Thank you to NYU School of Professional Studies and Angie Kamath. Thank you to everyone who supported me, encouraged me, and believed in me, especially on the days I was not sure I could do this. And there were plenty of those days. To my therapist, who told me not to give up when I was told I likely would not be accepted into a prestigious program. To my tutor, without whom I likely would have given up at the harder points along the way. To all those here who have sent me loving messages on social media. And to everyone else who has cheered me on in person through the ups and the downs of it, it means more than I can put into words. It got me over this finish line of being a student again and graduating. That goal once seemed impossible. To those who have asked me, “Why this? Why now?” I pursued higher education to reclaim a piece of myself. When you come out of a high-control group like Scientology, or even a high-control family, there are parts of you that were never allowed to fully develop. Those parts include your curiosity and your ability and right to question. Education was discouraged because knowledge creates confidence in your ability to trust your own mind and navigate the world. That leads to true independence, and that would never be allowed. I wanted that back. But more than that, I needed to understand. I needed to understand how my mother could have us join Scientology when I was just eight years old, and how my family and I could be part of something like this and stay in it for so long. I needed to understand how these systems work, how they influence people, and how they take hold. Without education, access to real information, and support, people can fall into systems that work against their best interests. Some assume that because they are educated, even highly educated, they would never fall for something like this. But it turns out that is not necessarily true. What many of us are impacted by, but never quite understand, is how high-control groups operate. Many still do not understand how misinformation spreads, and how tribalism and radicalization shape what we think, what we believe, and who and what we trust. Without that awareness, none of us are immune. Today, we are seeing how these forces can influence good people and distort reality. History has shown us that this is not new; it just comes in a different form now. Social media connects us in ways we never imagined, but it also creates echo chambers that reinforce beliefs and justify behavior without question. Real critical thinking is hard when we are fed so much by algorithms designed to appeal to us. In learning and achieving this milestone in my own life, it has helped me take a good, hard look at my own beliefs and ideologies. This journey was about healing for me, but also about figuring out how to help others in whatever way I can in the future. So what is in my future? I am considering continuing my education and possibly pursuing a master’s degree, with the goal of contributing to advocacy and policies that protect people, not systems. For now, I am taking this moment in. I am proud of myself. And I am grateful. Thank you for being on this journey with me.show more

How bold of you to lie and say that... I cleared our chats. I knew you would try to pull this off, so I was prepared for it. 😉 I took a record of our chat before you cleared it. I have screenshots too, but if I posted those, you would have said they were edited. So I made a video instead. You can clearly see from my conversation with you that I was skeptical about taking the deal because everything just seemed shady to me. I don't care about the amount of money you want to pay me for promotion. If a project can't provide evidence that its team is legitimate and not trying to pull off some shady acts, I won't accept any deals from them.show more

Today is my daughter’s birthday and she truly is... my whole world. When I look at her, I see innocence, hope and a future that deserves to be safe, secure and full of dignity. I never wanted to be the person standing on the frontlines but life gave me no choice. The establishment and the police failed me and they failed so many of you. As a parent, how could I stay silent? This journey has cost me more than people will ever understand. I’ve lost financially, emotionally, and even people I once called family and friends walked away. But if speaking the truth for our children’s safety makes me lose everything, then so be it because my daughter’s future is worth more than my comfort. I fight so that no parent has to go through what I did. I fight so that our daughters grow up in a country that protects them, not ignores them. I fight because love for our children is stronger than fear, judgement or loss. Happy Birthday, my princess. You are the reason I stand tall, even when it hurts. I promise you one day, you’ll look back and know your parent stood up for you and for every daughter in this nation.show more

The Australian government does not deserve our trust, or... our respect. Today, Minister Penny Wong sat back in her chair grappling for words, desperately looking for the right lie to tell. It is worse than dishonest - it is an absolute lack of care. Penny Wong came to this country when she was 8 years old. She came to a country that afforded her the ability to become who she is, and she is now doing her part to destroy it. Back in the 70’s, when she came, Australia was a fair-minded place and a great place to be. Yet here she is... Here in Australia. Undermining our country and lying to our faces. Because she can’t tell the truth. Because if she did, it would destroy any semblance of care for Australia tied to her old party’s Labor brand. It would say the quiet part out loud. The truth. The truth that the Albanese government is more interested in the fortunes of the ISIS brides, women who chose to leave this country to go and fight against our people, than those of us that can’t find or afford a place to live here at home. I am tired of being told how to think by people that completely lack morals and couldn’t care less. People that are elected and paid to operate in the national interest but always put their twisted ethics and back pockets ahead of our nation and our people. I don’t know when Labor stopped caring about Australian workers or worse, when they started hating Australia, but they have and they do. The absolute lack of opposition, the lack of authentic choice has pushed us into a place where these absolute traitors to the interests of the people who pay them - goes entirely unchecked. We are careening out of control, unchecked migration, an energy grid that is just about to collapse, no industry to speak of, and no good reason to start or maintain a business in this place. It happened fast, but those of us who pay our taxes and take risks to make Australia a better place, are being undermined and white-anted by our politicians. The people we are forced to trust, and must pretend to respect, because they have the force of law on their side. Not because they are any good at their jobs. Not because they have earned our affection. No. Simply because they are in charge and there is little to nothing that can be done about it. It is becoming apparent that the two party system has outlived its useful life. Too much corruption, too many words too carefully chosen in a pantomime between to political forces that don’t really want to change anything. They just want to have their go, to have their turn to jam their grubby hands into the till. Surely with this major and catastrophic failure by the so-called Honourable Minister Senator Wong, the people will be able to see through the veil and into the absolute and irresponsible lack of care at the heart of this deceitful Labor government. They lie about everything, and they can, because they don’t have an opposition worthy of the title. I am growing more confident by the day that the only solution to our woes is a new political force, a fresh, Australia first force, that will act in the national interest and put all these corrupt and useless used-car salesmen red and blue in the dustbin of history. It can’t come soon enough. Time is short. I just want Australia back.show more

I know this post is a little late but... I was blessed enough to spend ur whole birthday with U and we’re still celebrating 🍾🥂💃🕺 Our bond is so perfectly matched in the most organic way. I kno it was God that brought us 2gether. If ppl only knew how big of a role u play in my life and in my career. If they only knew ur a big part of the reason the beehive is getting new music right now. U are my motivation and that voice that is always cheering me on. Ur so intelligent and such a boss. If they only knew the things we figure out 2gether, how we can talk with our eyes and be on the same page. How we are each others rock, the late night talks, the gut wrenching laughs we share, the arguments, the debates. U get on my nerves sometimes 🙄 😩 but it also brings me great pleasure to annoy u cause I’m annoying 👋 Hi Even after I annoy u, u always give me the biggest smile. Which if anyone knows u, they know that u barely do and that’s why it makes me so happy to annoy u 😹 😻 It’s so weird how we became so close because it happened out of nowhere but I’m really proud of what we’re building and most of all the unconditional love we have for each other. Ur a sweet gangsta and I love it! I always want the best for u and I wanna see u go all the way to the top where u belong. U deserve it. My twinn, my bestfrennn. So proud to call u my artist. I Love u 4 Ever @realtayybrown 🫶❤️❤️❤️ HBD month!show more

Jason Bateman says people who inherit fortunes are often... the cheapest people he knows “As a kid, I knew I could generate money, so I was never that nervous about spending it. I felt I could replace it” “I’ve got some friends who are incredibly wealthy because their parents were incredibly wealthy; they inherited a bunch of money” “And they’re the tightest people I know. Because they didn’t make that money, so they feel every dollar going out as one they’re never going to get back”show more

🫂Chef Khaled made his delicious yellow rice for the... camp today, my friends, and people were very happy when they received their meals because it's a favorite for many. I wanted to tell you we are working daily to distribute food and water for the camp, and we do this even when I do not mention it in my updates. These poor people rely on us to help them survive, and we wish we could do more for them in these cruel and miserable times. It is awful to see the horrific pictures of people living in tents who have nothing to save them from a bomb or a fire. My heart breaks for the animals too, my friends, because they are also helpless and they are suffering terribly in these conditions. I want to help them, my friends, and I can do this only with your generosity and help. If you could, will you please consider donating and sharing my message? You are our only hope in these desperate times and we are so grateful for your help 🙏 🫂🚨🆘️ 🙏💚🌱 🐾🐈🙏 🐾🆘️ 🕊show more

A witness's memoir. The first days of a full-scale... war. Massacre on the Zhytomyr highway, Kyiv region. Every Ukrainian killed by Russian soldiers is not a number. It is a person, people. Read this memoir. We were driving in the opposite lane. Almost as soon as we entered the stretch [of the Zhytomyr highway towards Kyiv - ed.] we heard shots. We stopped, the car was not moving. Maksym jumped out and started waving: "There are children here! Children!" It was all in front of me. He fell down. Ksenia started to rattle. Once, twice. Hordii said: "Why is mom rattling?" I turned around and took Hordii. I put him [in the driver's seat] and covered him [with myself]. I got a bullet (points to his right forearm - ed.). They were shooting for a long time. And then there was silence. I opened the door and there were Buryats with machine guns... I realized that they were Russians. I said immediately: "There are children here, don't shoot, please, there are children here." And they: "The child first". Hordii went out, but I couldn't go out... I got out and saw Maksym's legs. I wanted to approach him, but [the Russian] did not let me pass. He said: "That's it! That's it!" I started saying, "Ksenia is here! Mom is behind!" He looked: "Cover the child's eyes". I covered Hordii's eyes, I had a shawl. And he took us in that direction (to the area behind the gas station - ed.). There was a pit there. I asked him [the Russian who brought us]: "Are you serious now? Don't do that." And he said: "I'm sorry. My child is also six years old. I'm sorry." I thought they were going to shoot us. But a Russian officer appeared behind the pit and shouted: "Who opened fire? Who shot? Who brought her here?" I started to tell him: "We were on our way, we evacuated, they are shooting... we have children...", "You had no identification marks". I said: "We had white ones... and [the inscription] 'children' both in front and behind". Someone behind me said: "What are you going to do with them?" He looked me in the eye for so long, and then said: "Let them go." They took us out through the gas station and we left with Hordii. Another Buryat took Hordii in his arms and asked, "What's your name?" "'Hordii'. "I'm sorry, I know you won't forgive me, but I'm sorry." I think he was the one who shot and killed my parents. Mass murder on the Zhytomyr highway: map, chronology and investigation of the Russian crime:show more

Remember this clip? "I hope with our innovation they... will want to come out and show that they can dance. I want people to know that we made them dance.” The irony is that it was precisely the competitor they were trying to expose that ended up making OpenAI and Microsoft dance. Pride comes before a fall.show more

"Explosion in Kharkiv" or something along those lines is... the most frequent post I make. I've probably made a thousand of them by now, if not more. Air raid alerts are so frequent here that I usually don't even post about them. They can last for days, and the citizens of Kharkiv are forced to disregard them. Or we can have twelve of them in a day, and we will also be forced to disregard them. I often see online how central or western Ukraine complains about the alerts, and oh, how much I would give to have an actual solid warning about an attack like them. But "explosions in Kharkiv" always arrive unexpectedly. How surreal it is that we are forced to live like this. How horrific it is that thousands of bombs, missiles, and drones fall on a major city in Europe daily, and all the major press and political figures just pretend it doesn't happen. Because if they admit that it happens and they just watch it year after year, then what kind of people are they? Do they care at all?show more

Israeli extremists have attacked the West Bank village of... Ma'aleh. They burned cars, homes, and physically attacked residents by throwing stones. 3 Palestinians were reportedly killed. Listen, I get that it's hard. I'm posting this with the full knowledge that the people who hate me will read it with glee. But we can't stop calling out the violent sect of our people, even if the world will use it as ammo against all Israelis. We must show our moral clarity. These actions are, by definition, terrorism; they are meant to terrorize a population. I want Israel to survive, but I also want it to be a country I can be proud of. Letting these hateful radicals get away with violence is unacceptable. And I know there are many others like me, horrified by this news, but scared that calling it out will just make the abuse we face all the worse. We can’t let fear make us ignore our morals.show more

Fun fact. Stoopee (the black one) wandered into our... house a week after our dog Watson passed. A month after we adopted him, he made sure to bring his friend from the street Lucy (the white one) by. We knew it would have to be both of them adopted together. Now during the day, whenever they sleep they like to be in each others eye line. At night, she sleeps in the bedroom and he makes sure to sleep in a bed right outside the bedroom door. Like he’s keeping watch on the three of us. We moved back to Mumbai exactly a year ago. With our two goa indies. We were so stressed about whether they would adapt. Strangely, the minute they got to the city, away from the street they lived on, it’s like they knew they were set for life. Because the reminder of the street they used to live on was gone, so they weren’t always on edge. They know now, Wherever we go, they know they are coming. Seeing them settle here, sleep 16 hours a day without a care in the world, is I think the greatest moment of this year for me. It’s been an amazing amazing blessing 🧿show more