Lisod jod ning wala kay love sa imong self noh kay sayon ra kaayo musulti'g mga butang nga mas hait pas dagom ug kutsilyo sa imong kaugalingon. Unayon man ang self oy!
Ug huna-hunaon, murag normal mani nga panghitabo. Makalagot man jod atong self usahay kay magbuhat man gud ta ug mga binogo nga butang. Sa akoang case, di na jod nako maihap kapila na nako nafail akoang self. Dili ko perfect nga tao. Masayop man jod ko pero lisod kaayo dawaton ang kani nga kamatuuran.
Dili ko kabalo muvalidate ug murecognize sa akong mistakes. Imbes mamotivate to become better, ma-demotivate man nuon. Ganahan ko usbon ni nga batasan pero murag wa najod koy mabuhat, ing-ani na jod siguro ko forever.
One year na ko aning trabahoa pero dili ko fulfilled sa akong work. Feel nako daghan pako'g room for improvement pero the sad thing is, I don't try at all. Siguro tungod kay dili jod siya para nako. Why am I even here? Nigraduate ug food tech pero nag-ESL teacher bisag ganahan mag-graphic designer? Nasaag ka dae?
Ako ang type nga tao nga mulihok ras mga angay ug naa najoy mupugos or if wala na jod koy choice. I don't know what my friends are fighting for right now but I know they are also fighting their own battles.
Graduating is fun but after graduation, ara jod ka masagpa. If swerte ka, makakita dayon kag nindot nga trabaho. If malas ka, you have no choice but to settle for less lang sa.
Ana si mama, ang mga butang magsugod jod na sa gamay. Gamay ba nga butang ma nga usa na tuig kapin nako nagtrabaho diri pero maglisod gihapon kog sustento ninyo?
Ang uban siguro sa usa nila ka tuig sa ilang trabaho, makafeel na silag improvement sa ilang self pero bali man sa akoa. Wala jod koy mafeel. It's the same feeling as my last work pero mas grabe jod tong previous job nako. Mao jod toy wake-up call nako nga dili jod para nako magwork sa hospitality industry.
Kani kaya nga work. Feel nako wake-up call naman ata ni pero di ko ganahan muresign pa kay naa pakoy installment shunatay. Ug maimpas na ni akong cellphone, unsa kahay next step nako? Muresign na ba? Kapoya bitaw oy.
Naa koy student ganiha nga gicriticize jod ko. Nasundan pa jod ug shunatay nga Taiwanese ug Vietnamese nga student. Kalami raba tuk-on sa mga giatay.
So mao to, nademotivate si main character. Ambot oy ug unsay dagan ani akong storya pero kung kinsa may direktor ani, ug imo kung bugnoon ug padayon, tagae nalang kog uyab.
Nya unsaon man nato tong nacrush nako? Heart-heart lang tas IG ani? Pasulyap-sulyap ug paligaw-ligaw tingin? Kay murag need na jod kog inspiration ba. Kay nagkalaay na jod ang work. Lord, mupatol na jod kog putot promise. Gwapo man sya, mura lag fuckboy ang dating pero okay rana oy! Di nata magchinoosy. Basin uyab ray solusyon ani.

The profusion of identical green tents at this spring’s anti-Israel protests struck many as odd. “Why is everybody’s tent the same?,” asked New York mayor Eric Adams. Like others, the mayor suspected “a well-concerted organizing effort” driving the protests. More recent reporting shows a concerted push behind the Gaza protest movement. But it is not as simple as a single organization secretly rallying protesters or buying tents. Instead, the movement’s most determined activists represent a network of loosely linked far-left groups. Some are openly affiliated with well-known progressive nonprofits; others work in the shadows.
The movement also draws on diverse but generous sources of financial backing. Those funding streams may soon be augmented by the federal government. As I chronicled last year in a Manhattan Institute report, “The Big Squeeze: How Biden’s Environmental Justice Agenda Hurts the Economy and the Environment,” the administration’s massive program of environmental justice grants seems designed to prioritize the funding of highly ideological local groups. The Inflation Reduction Act, for example, earmarks $3 billion for “environmental and climate justice block grants” intended for local nonprofits. Today, hundreds of far-left political groups include language about environmental issues and “climate justice” in their mission statements. If just a fraction of planned grants flows to such groups, the effect will be a gusher of new funding for radical causes.
As the Gaza protests spread across U.S. college campuses, many observers noted an eerie uniformity among them. From one campus to the next, protesters operated in disciplined cadres, keeping their faces covered and using identical rote phrases as they refused to talk with reporters. The Atlantic noted the strangeness of seeing elite college students “chanting like automatons.” Students held up keffiyeh scarves or umbrellas to block the view of prying cameras and linked arms to halt the movements of outsiders. At Columbia University and elsewhere, protesters formed “liberated zones,” from which “Zionists” were excluded. Around the edges of the encampments, the more militaristic activists donned helmets and goggles and carried crude weapons, apparently eager to mix it up with police or counter-protesters. We’ve seen these tactics before—notably during the “mostly peaceful” Black Lives Matter protests of 2020, when full-time agitators helped ignite riots, set up a police-free (and violence-plagued) zone in Seattle, and laid nightly siege to Portland, Oregon’s federal courthouse.
In a remarkable work of reporting, Park MacDougald recently traced the tangled roots of organizations backing pro-jihad protests, both on and off campuses. These include Antifa and other networks of anonymous anarchists, along with “various communist and Marxist-Leninist groups, including the Maoist Revolutionary Communist Party, the Party for Socialism and Liberation (PSL), and the International ANSWER coalition,” MacDougald writes. Higher up the food chain, we find groups openly supported by America’s growing class of super-rich tech execs or the anti-capitalist heirs of great fortunes. For example, retired tech mogul Neville Roy Singham, who is married to Code Pink founder Jodie Evans, funds The People’s Forum, a lavish Manhattan resource center for far-left groups. As the Columbia protests intensified, the center urged members to head uptown to “support our students.” Following the money trail of other protest groups, MacDougald finds connections to the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, the Ford Foundation, and—surprising no one—the George Soros-backed Tides Foundation.
Of course, the current wave of anti-Israel protests also involves alliances with pro-Hamas organizations such as Students for Justice in Palestine. Last November, Jonathan Schanzer of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies testified to the House Ways and Means Committee that SJP and similar groups have deep ties to global terrorist organizations, including Hamas.
For many keffiyeh-wearing protestors, however, a recently professed concern for Palestinians is just the latest in a long list of causes they believe justify taking over streets and college quads. In Unherd, Mary Harrington dubs this medley of political beliefs the “omnicause,” writing that “all contemporary radical causes seem somehow to have been absorbed into one.” Today’s leftist activists share an interlocking worldview that sees racism, income inequality, trans intolerance, climate change, alleged police violence, and Israeli-Palestinian conflicts all as products of capitalism and “colonialism.” Therefore, the stated rationale for any individual protest is a stand-in for the real battle: attacking Western society and its institutions.
In the U.S., this type of general-purpose uprising goes back at least to the riots at the 1999 meeting of the World Trade Organization in Seattle. In those protests, mainstream liberal factions—including labor unions and environmentalists—were joined by “black bloc” anarchists and other radicals eager to engage in “direct action” against police. That pattern—relatively moderate demonstrators providing a friendly envelope for hard-core disruptors—formed the template for many later protests: the Occupy Wall Street encampments in 2011, demonstrations following the police shooting of Michael Brown in 2014, 2016’s Standing Rock anti-pipeline movement, and of course, the calamitous summer of 2020.
These uprisings were not entirely spontaneous. In some cases, activists spend months planning mass actions—for example, against economic summits or political conventions—and can recruit street fighters from across the country. In others, an event, such as George Floyd’s death, sparks popular protests involving neophyte demonstrators. Those attract far-left activists, who swoop in to organize and expand the struggle, often tilting it toward more radical action.
That has certainly been the case at the college Gaza-paloozas. At Columbia, the New York Times spotted a woman old enough to be a student’s grandmother in the thick of the action as protesters barricaded that school’s Hamilton Hall. The woman was 63-year-old Lisa Fithian, a lifetime activist, who Portland’s alternative weekly Street Roots approvingly calls “a trainer of mass rebellion.” A counter-protester trying to block the pro-Hamas demonstrators told NBC News, “She was right in the middle of it, instructing them how to better set up the barriers.” Fithian told the Times she’d been invited to train students in protest safety and “general logistics.” She claims to have taken part in almost every major U.S. protest movement going back to the 1999 “Battle in Seattle.”
America’s radical network has plenty of Lisa Fithians, with the time and resources to travel the country educating newcomers about the “logistics” of disruptive protests. And these activists appear to have played key roles in the college occupations. The New York City Police Department says nearly half the demonstrators arrested on the Columbia and City University of New York (CUNY) campuses on April 30 were not affiliated with the schools. One hooded Hamilton Hall occupier—photographed scuffling with a Columbia custodian before getting arrested—turned out to be 40-year-old James Carlson, heir to a large advertising fortune. According to the New York Post, Carlson lives in a $2.3 million Park Slope townhouse and has a long rap sheet. For example, in 2005, he was arrested in San Francisco during the violent “West Coast Anti-Capitalist Mobilization and March Against the G8.” (Those charges were dropped.)
For a quarter-century now, Antifa and other anarchist networks have worked to refine tactics and share lessons following each major action. At Columbia, UCLA, and other schools, authorities found printouts of a “Do-It Yourself Occupation Guide” and similar documents. The young campus radicals are eager to learn from their more experienced elders. And, like the high-achieving students they are, they follow directions carefully. MacDougald asked Kyle Shideler, the director for homeland security and counterterrorism at the Center for Security Policy, about the mystery of the identical tents. There was no need for a central group to distribute hundreds of tents, Shideler said. Instead, “the organizers told [students] to buy a tent, and sent around a Google Doc with a link to that specific tent on Amazon. So they all went out and bought the same tent.”
In other words, America’s radical class has gotten very skilled at recruiting and instructing new activists—even from among the ranks of elite college students with a good deal to lose. How much more could this movement accomplish with hundreds of millions in federal dollars flooding activist groups around the country?
From its first week in office, the Biden administration has trumpeted its goal to funnel more environmental spending toward “disadvantaged communities that have been historically marginalized,” partly by issuing grants to grassroots organizations. Previous environmental justice (EJ) grant programs were small in scope. But, with the passage of the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) in August 2022, a huge pool of grant money became available. EPA administrator Michael Regan told reporters, “We’re going from tens of thousands of dollars to developing and designing a program that will distribute billions.”
More than a year and a half later, it remains hard to nail down just where the Biden administration’s billions in EJ grants will wind up. Money is being distributed through a confusing variety of programs, and the process of identifying recipients is ongoing. To help outsource the job of sifting through proposals, the EPA last year designated 11 institutions as “Environmental Justice Thriving Communities Grantmakers.” These groups are empowered to make subgrants directly to community organizations, under streamlined EPA oversight. In all, the Biden administration has entrusted these outfits with distributing a staggering $600 million in funding. The money is expected to start flowing this summer.
The EPA’s grantmakers include a number of educational institutions and left-leaning nonprofits. For example, the EPA chose Fordham University as its lead grantmaker in the New York region. Fordham, in turn, lists as partners two nonprofits that oppose immigration enforcement. (One, the New Jersey Alliance for Immigrant Justice, states on its website: “NJAIJ believes in the human right to migrate, regardless of citizenship or political status.”) Neither group claims expertise in environmental issues. Given that the IRA’s eligibility requirements for EJ grants are extremely vague, however, perhaps that’s not a problem. Almost any activity that could help “spur economic opportunity for disadvantaged communities” (in the words of Biden’s EJ executive order) might qualify.
Perhaps the most prominent—and problematic—EPA grantmaker is the Berkeley, California-based Climate Justice Alliance. The CJA is a consortium of mostly far-left activist groups. It describes its mission as working for “regenerative economic solutions and ecological justice—under a framework that challenges capitalism and both white supremacy and hetero-patriarchy.” The group is a vigorous proponent of the omnicause, embracing almost every left-wing concern as a manifestation of climate change. For example, the CJA website proclaims: “The path to climate justice travels through a free Palestine.” MacDougald notes that the Grassroots Global Justice Alliance, one of CJA’s affiliated groups, “organized an illegal anti-Israel protest in the Capitol Rotunda in December at which more than 50 activists were arrested.”
The CJA website also includes a section dedicated to the cause known as Stop Cop City. It refers to an effort to halt the construction of an 85-acre police and firefighter training center outside Atlanta. Rag-tag activists from around the country have gathered around the facility since 2021. They have repeatedly battled with police—sometimes with fireworks and Molotov cocktails—and used bolt cutters to enter the site and torch construction equipment. (CJA’s Stop Cop City page features a cartoon illustration of three childlike activists; one brandishes bolt cutters.) The group also backs a legal defense fund for activists arrested in attacks on the training center or in other protests. For those looking for more inspiration, CJA links to an interview with former Black Panther and self-described revolutionary Angela Davis.
The Alliance is not an ideological outlier in Biden’s EJ coalition. On the contrary, when the White House assembled its White House Environmental Justice Advisory Council (WHEJAC), a panel of outside experts meant to provide “horizon-expanding EJ advice and recommendations,” it chose CJA co-chair Elizabeth Yeampierre to help lead the committee. Like other members of the panel, she sees environmental issues through an ideological, not a scientific, lens. “Climate change is the result of a legacy of extraction, of colonialism, of slavery,” Yeampierre told Yale Environment 360. As a group, radical EJ activists tend not to focus on pragmatic ways to reduce pollution and carbon emissions; for them, the real goal is overturning what they see as an exploitative economic and political system. Since these are the voices the White House chose to help shape its EJ policies, we can assume this worldview will dominate grantmaking decisions.
In February 2023, House Oversight Committee chairman James Comer, along with fellow committee member Pat Fallon, wrote to EPA administrator Regan asking for more information on the EPA’s grant programs. They noted that the EPA’s own studies of EJ grants issued in previous years showed sloppy supervision. According to an EPA report, an earlier version of the program funded projects that did “not logically lead to the desired environmental and/or public health [result].” Without better oversight and more clearly defined goals, the congressmen wrote, the EPA’s EJ grant machine risks becoming simply a “slush fund for far-left organizations.”
Since then, the administration has done little to reassure skeptics. To the contrary, the EPA has put at least one far-left organization—CJA—in charge of distributing $50 million in grant money. No doubt, many of the EPA grants will go to worthwhile projects. But money is fungible. A group that gets a large grant to, say, clean up dirty parks or teach children about recycling will also be able to hire more staff and divert more resources to political action.
With graduation behind them, most of the anti-Israel college protesters have stowed away their keffiyehs and moved on to summer vacations or internships. But the peripatetic activists who helped guide and intensify those uprisings are doubtless already planning their next actions. After all, two political conventions are looming. This fall, the college protests will likely flare up again, though by then perhaps focused on a different facet of the omnicause. And, with hundreds of millions in fresh funding flowing through the activist ecosystem, the groups that quietly nurture extremists—like those who firebombed “Cop City,” or who chant “Intifada Revolution!,” or who block bridges in the name of “climate”—will be more emboldened than ever.
A Slush Fund for Radical Protesters? City Journal (city-journal.org)
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Hello everyone, I'm not exactly sure if this post should be here but im really struggling with my weight. I went from 122 lbs and now I'm down to 116lbs 117lbs. I walk all day long for work. Usually about a 10 hr day of on my feet and walking. I'm lifting weights and taking pro bulk 1340 to help me catch up on my calories. I'd like to know what are some high calories foods that are high in protein. Or if any of you have a routine or a special snack or anything at all that could possibly help me bulk up with muscle.

Just wanted to post an update, I’m a bit embarrassed because I really thought I was locked in with the “all-in” method but the ed got me when I was in a vulnerable spot. It’s “comforting” to track my intake even though I hate doing it so much.
On the second day of my relapse, which was the day that I graduated, sucked ass. My sister got me Canes as a part of a surprise gift. It used to be my favorite food but it became a fear food due to the high calories. I forced myself to eat a little because I didn’t want her gift to go to waste, and my mom was pressuring me to eat it. Felt disgustingly full the whole ceremony, and it was COLD. I was having painful shivers the whole ceremony as it was outside and I was wearing a dress.
The cold made my limbs go numb. As I was leaving I was running in heeled shoes back to the car (my family was rushing me) and I fell quite hard on asphalt road. I am pretty underweight so all my limbs got bruised up, and I have deep open wounds on my knee and dominant hand. I also got burnt on most of my limbs from my clothes rubbing against my skin when I fell.
Since ana slows down healing I’ve had these open wounds for three days and it hurts whenever I move because I just reopen the slowly forming scabs. I’m having my graduation party soon so I’ve been cleaning the house for it to avoid my mom being pissed at me. The pain is unbearable at some points as I have to lean on the bruises and wounds to clean properly but I keep pushing myself. I feel so weak and I’ve been eating less as I can’t workout in this condition.
And to add on to the pain, a day before the graduation I had gotten a vaccine that made me sick and gave me a sore arm (that has just now gotten tolerable on the pain scale). I also got 5 vials of blood drawn for tests which made me faint for a few days.
I also had a celebration dinner yesterday at a Chinese restaurant. I had gotten the calorie counts mixed up and I thought the calories listed were for a full serving but it was for a half serving, so I accidentally ate probably 4 full servings of dishes. I made the mistake of weighing myself, thinking I properly maintained but I gained a pound. Of course this made me restrict even more as I am already having a bad relapse.
I also saw a post on TikTok where literal children were asking for tips on how to purge and lose weight to EXTREMELY dangerous weights. Like- they were idolizing this stuff, it made me extremely upset and disgusted. I wish I hadn’t seen it but it’s so hard to avoid that stuff now even when casually scrolling for some reason. It made me feel unmotivated with getting back into recovery.
I’m struggling so bad, so any words of encouragement to get me back on track would be appreciated. Sorry for the yap session I just feel stuck.
I hope everything heals up quicker so I can stop limping and wobbling everywhere. It would be embarrassing to look like a corpse in front of my family when my party comes up in two days.

I just got off the waitlist for UCSD and am struggling to choose between UCD and UCSD, both are really good for bio, and I think are pretty equal in that sense. I attached my pro/con list but it's not very good. Please help me decide or add to my pro/con list! Thanks.
Uc davis pros -close to home -awesome science program -cheaper housing for apartments -I have connections kinda! -norm and wonderful -slightly less competitive I think
Uc Davis cons -close to home (but this is honestly a pro) -campus is not as gorgeous as UCSD -no beach -weather is not as good -slightly less opportunity bc less research facilities and hospitals
UCSD pros -sibling goes here -fire food -Beach -campus is wonderful and cutie -Beach -really good bio program rlly good for medicine! -good weather i think -better dorms -I have connections!
UCSD Cons -far -slightly more competitive for bio

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I’ve posted here before, but delete.
(35, non-binary). I had severe anorexia as teen. Recovered. Dealt with BED all through 20s. BED morphed into bulimia into my 30s. My teeth have seen better days b/c of bulimia. Got scared straight after reading bulimia posts on Reddit. 3 months ago roughly, I downloaded MFP, bought a food scale, and decided to aim for balance. So exhausted from disordered eating. All I wanted was balance and to be leaner.
I could tell AN brain was getting triggered. It’s been so long since I’ve been underweight, though. I rationalized I was probably okay and simply being in a deficit recalled some hard memories. Deep down, I knew I was doing a little too well with loosing weight.
I’ve stayed within recommended daily caloric intake. Hit all my macros and micros. Objectively feel better without the constant BED noise. Weight melted off.
Now, I’m at the lowest recommended weight for my height. Something has happened. My GW went down again. I should be thrilled I can wear some of my older clothes again, because I’m within a lower-healthy weight and feel good physically. Reality is I have no plans to go out of deficit. I am so dissatisfied with the mirror. Thinking about eating maintenance makes me anxious and angry. I’m getting secretive with my eating patterns and lie to family about what I eat. My brain chemistry (?) feels more like teenage me than ever. I feel I lost good things about my personality when I recovered and that I’m finally back. (I know this ED talking.)
Is anyone else experiencing this slow-moving train wreck?? Knowing where relapse is going. Not wanting/able to stop and also, fuck. I’m scared. I’ve had a ton of back surgery. I’m horrified or weakening my bones further. I’m proud of my weight loss and new goals? I like the attention because more people notice me. I feel attractive when I get noticed and also hate my body as is? I haven’t had the confidence to date in half a decade and now, I think about it again as a possibility. This is all ED brain? I know. It’s an abusive relationship with food. I know it’s not me or real, but Ana. I’m scared of the damage and obsessed with the new me. I’m scared. Who else has felt this before relapse?

Fiquei pensando em postar isso há alguns dias mas acho que agora é o momento ideal, pois imagino que aqui possa ter ex usuários do Orkut, usuários do twitter e até mesmo pessoas que possam ter doado pra idosa. Também servindo como alerta pra algumas pessoas. Esse vai ser um post longo, vou colocar o máximo de informações que encontrei. Vi um post sobre isso aqui no reddit há muitos anos e há 6 meses fizeram um aqui que teve pouco alcance. Queria postar no brasil para alcançar mais pessoas visto que ela segue pedindo dinheiro pras pessoas e essas mandam mas é necessário alguns karmas lá para postar então decidi postar somente aqui. Tentei linkar todos os prints que encontrei sobre o que estou contando nesse post.
Vamos lá, talvez em algum momento nos últimos 4-5 anos vocês tenham se deparado com o perfil @ ajudemserena no twitter. Se trata de, supostamente, uma idosa que vive em condições insalubres e, supostamente, não tem condições físicas para trabalhar por ter diabetes (sim, você não leu errado, ela diz ser incapaz pq tem diabetes tipo 2) e que surgiu há muitos anos pois sua cadela (serena) estava doente e precisava de ajuda com os custos dos tratamentos. A cadela, que já era idosa com cerca de 15 anos, não sobreviveu mesmo com todo o dinheiro arrecadado pela senhora (quase 10 mil reais, se contar apenas as vakinhas, podendo ser mais) e então a mesma começou a pedir dinheiro para se manter pois havia vendido muito do que tinha, e tinha pouco, para custear a ajuda veterinária. Ela também pede dinheiro para comprar remédios, que são gratuitos pelo SUS. E lá se foram quase 5 anos de pedido por DINHEIRO. sim, dinheiro. ela não aceita outro tipo de ajuda.
Nos últimos dias, após um rapaz fazer uma thread contando a condição da idosa e pedir que as pessoas a divulgassem, muitas pessoas começaram a questionar a veracidade da história dela. Ainda que ela poste videos, fotos e até mesmo faça algumas lives, a conta não bate e os relatos indicam um possível golpe que já dura anos. Algumas pessoas deram relatos sobre como tentaram encaminhar ela pra ajudas governamentais ou de ONGs e que ela negou, inclusive uma moça que trabalhava com o CRAS perguntou a cidade que ela reside pra pedir que alguém de lá fizesse uma visita e levasse mantimentos e produtos de higiene, o que ela negou. Outros relatos contam como sempre ela tinha um novo ''propósito", assim que dá 00h00 ela começa a postar sobre não ter conseguido nenhum dinheiro, não ter dinheiro pra comprar frutas, não ter dinheiro pra comprar água e então faz centenas de tweets com um comportamento muito suspeito, como se fosse um bot programado. Tweets como "preciso de 20 reais, alguém pode me dar 20 reais? qualquer centavo ajuda" ou "preciso de 46 reais hoje, por favor alguém pode mandar?" todos de forma repetida diversas vezes, o que acabava convencendo pessoas a mandarem valores pra ela (inclusive maiores do que o que ela pedia) e ela então deletava o post pra algumas horas (às vezes minutos) depois postar NOVAMENTE que não tinha recebido nenhum valor, nenhuma ajuda. nenhum centavo se quer. E isso se repete todos os dias. As pessoas mandam dinheiro quando ela posta relatos desesperada, ela apaga os relatos (onde inclusive as pessoas costumavam colocar comprovantes antes dela bloquear os comentários) e posta novamente pedindo a mesma quantia ou até maior.
Em algum momento do ano passado, essa suposta idosa abriu uma vakinha pedindo 200 MIL REAIS pra comprar uma casa própria. Ela diz que a casa em que mora agora não é dela e está em inventário, pois é da mãe falecida. Ela também afirma que os irmãos que tem nunca a ajudaram, não querem realizar o inventário e que tem medo de ser despejada da casa algum dia. A vakinha já arrecadou quase 50 mil, e isso é só na vakinha (site) pois ninguém sabe ao certo quanto dinheiro essa mulher conseguiu durante esses anos. E agora a gente entra numa parte desse tópico que torna a história muito interessante:
A Alcina (idosa da conta) sempre disse que tinha filhos. Dois filhos. Ela afirmou diversas vezes que esses filhos tem 'sérios problemas de saúde' e que isso os impede de trabalhar, eu não encontrei ela dizendo se mora com ambos mas eu imagino que sim. Em outros posts, foi relatado por ela que o filho tinha formação e já trabalhou com T.I, sobre a filha ela não chegou a dizer nada sobre a formação mas recentemente afirmou que ambos filhos tem depressão e problemas com ansiedade. Um usuário do twitter encontrou a informação de que a filha é formada em administração. Nessa semana ela afirmou que a filha é obesa e que pesa 140kg o que a impede de exercer algum trabalho pois não consegue se movimentar, disse que ela tem diversas feridas no corpo por conta do peso e por aí vai. Nós vamos focar primeiro na filha. A Alcina publica sempre o próprio CPF, o que facilitou muito para que pessoas na rede social em que ela pede dinheiro procurassem informações sobre ela. Não vou usar mais que um nome e sobrenome aqui para evitar grandes problemas.
Utilizando do CPF, foi encontrado que a filha dela se chama Amanda. Dona Alcina tem um sobrenome muito específico, não muito comum; Ulm. Em algumas pesquisas acharam um video de 2012 da Amanda Ulm no programa do Luciano Hulk, o qual ela gravou um vídeo mostrando sua coleção de revistas e itens do ator Taylor Lautner (de Crepúsculo) e pedia para conhece-lo (na época, o programa Caldeirão tinha um seguimento onde levavam fãs para conhecerem seus ídolos quando esses estavam no Brasil). Esse vídeo é público e de domínio da Rede Globo, é possível encontrar no Globoplay em um dos trechos de programas de outubro de 2012 do Caldeirão do Hulk mas caso não queiram procurar cliquem aqui. O resgate desse vídeo nos arquivos do programa de 12 anos atrás foi o primeiro passo para entender qual o envolvimento da Amanda em tudo isso. Procurando por perfis antigos pertencentes a Amanda, foi encontrado no twitter uma conta chamada amandaulmfan, posteriormente alguns outros perfis relacionados incluindo o de uma suposta amiga da Amanda, e do Felipe, que seria o irmão dela e filho da Alcina. SERIA pois não há nenhum indicio de que ele de fato exista. Entre tweets antigos, eu encontrei um post chamando a Amanda de irmã do Felipe, a mesma coisa para outras contas que se referiam a ela como a irmã e se diziam ser amigas do cara. A conta do suposto Felipe não foi difícil de encontrar, inclusive tinha um tweet de 2023 lá quando eu abri, o que me indicou que ainda tivesse acesso e isso foi confirmado hoje quando a conta se tornou privada. Algumas coisas curiosas sobre a conta: existem tweets de uma das fiéis defensoras da dona Alcina chamada Ana, que diz não ter nenhum parentesco e ser apenas uma pessoa muito empática com a idosa, interagindo com a conta KingLautner em 2015, anos antes da Alcina surgir no twitter. Esse perfil do irmão também tem algumas outras interações que me chamaram atenção há dois dias quando as vi, como tweets relacionados a "fake" e conversas que citavam a Alcina. Até que ontem a belle hendges @ bucherwurm postou que a Amanda Ulm é conhecida entre a galera que usava fakes no orkut pois ela enganou (literalmente) milhares de pessoas se passando por um menino. Sim. Ela tinha um fake do Taylor Lautner (e quem viveu sabe, os adolescentes usavam os fakes e sabiam que eram fakes, mas geralmente mentir o próprio gênero era um problemão que acontecia bastante pq fanboy recebia muito mais atenção nas comunidades na época) e se passava por um rapaz. O perfil era tão conhecido que existiam comunidades, milhares de pessoas se dedicando ao fake da Amanda, ela era extremamente conhecida e vivia nas listas na época, e você pode pensar que tudo isso é uma grande coincidência mas, de novo, o perfil da Ana que vive para defender a Dona Alcina das acusações de golpe é encontrado se atrelando a todo esse emaranhado ao responder um tweet ofendendo o Taylor Cent de 2012 em 2020, OITO ANOS DEPOIS. Logo descobriram que o aniversário da AMANDA e do FELIPE é no mesmo dia, poderiam ser gêmeos? Talvez. Em uma ask de anos atrás, o tal Felipe diz ser gêmeo. Talvez ele exista e não tenha relação com nada disso, mas por hora vamos colocar como uma pessoa inexistente pois hoje a dona Alcina apagou TODOS os tweets relacionado ao seu filho. E falando dos filhos, a cadela Serena que faleceu há bastante tempo é também citada no ask.fm do Felipe/Amanda e nesse mesmo ask você encontra ela respondendo que é fã de iCarly e outras coisas, o que também leva a relação de compras feitas no CPF da Alcina recentemente (dvds originais de iCarly), informação encontrada por alguém no twitter.
Quando os perfis no twitter começaram a questionar a história dessa idosa, ela passou a ameaçar as pessoas de que iria denunciá-los a policia, mas ela também tentou justificar muitas coisas. Com o sobrenome dela, foi fácil encontrar parentes. O sobrenome ULM é de pessoas muito poderosas de Salvador na Bahia, onde ela reside. O pai dessa senhora foi Armando Ulm, ex delegado e que foi vereador nos anos 70. A irmã de dona Alcina foi encontrada no facebook e instagram, e ao conversar com o perfil Brinozo, ela afirmou que se ela está utilizando o nome para dar golpes ela (irmã) não sabe de nada. Essa mesma irmã foi detida em 2014 por tráfico de drogas então por isso foi fácil encontra-la, mas outras pessoas da familia também não foram difíceis. Duas pessoas de Salvador com o sobrenome Ulm são donos/sócios de uma empresa que promove eventos como shows e afins na capital, incluindo o famoso Camarote Brahma Salvador. Ontem a Alcina afirmou no twitter que nunca negou que tivesse familia e que o perfil kawoshinudes estava arquitetando todos esses ataques há muito tempo. Passou quase 1h em live falando com uma parede e afirmando que iria abrir um B.O contra o Brinozo e kawoshinudes e supostamente fez isso hoje. Outra coisa interessante é que desde que chamaram a atenção pro fato dos tweets parecerem todos feitos por bot, com curtos períodos (as vezes postados no mesmo minuto) mesmo sendo meio longos pra uma idosa digitar tão rápido, ela parou de postar como fazia e apagou todos os tweets de spam pedindo dinheiro. Além disso, o perfil dela é verificado o que dificulta qualquer denuncia por spam, quem paga o twitter premium pra uma senhora que (segundo ela) quase passa fome? ela diz que uma "boa pessoa" paga pra ajuda-la, pois aparentemente ter selo de verificação é uma das prioridades. O perfil que ela indicou dizendo ser quem pagou o verificado foi desativado. Ela também tem uma legião de perfis de engajamento, além da Ana que já citei, alguns outros com comportamento idêntico vivem para engajar os tweets da idosa e para atacar quem quer que questione a veracidade das histórias dela. Quando no ano passado uma vizinha apareceu no twitter afirmando que a idosa não tem porque pedir dinheiro pois vive bem e tem três imóveis, duas das principais contas atacaram a mulher e aparentemente alguém foi até a casa de uma outra vizinha para pedir esclarecimentos de porque ela estava tentando atacar a Alcina (vocês podem ver neste perfil, clicando pra visualizar as respostas)
Por fim, quero citar novamente que a idosa/amanda se nega a aceitar ajuda que não seja em dinheiro. No ano passado uma pessoa tentou ajudar ela indicando que ela procurasse uma ONG que ajuda mulheres, tanto na DM como em post público, a Alcina não respondeu a DM e apagou o post onde a moça falou sobre a ONG nas respostas. Esse comportamento se repete diversas vezes, uma advogada tentou ajudar ela com a questão da água cortada (ela diz que está há anos sem água encanada) e disse pra ela que não iria cobrar por nada, só queria ajudar. A Alcina BLOQUEOU a mulher. Ela também frequentemente ataca famosos que não a ajudam, mais recentemente foi Felipe Neto e Whindersson Nunes, que ela pediu dinheiro enquanto ambos estavam realizando doações para o RS, ela fez diversos posts criticando e atacando ambos por não doarem dinheiro a ela. Ela também fez durante mais de um ano uma campanha de ataques ao Alok, pois em algum momento de 2020 o DJ disse que sua equipe entraria em contato com ela para ajuda-la e foram-lhe enviados 500 reais em nome do mesmo. Ela achou pouco, acusou ele de engana-la prometendo uma casa, acusou ele de ser o responsável pela campanha dela ficar parada e sem doações. Ela acredita que pessoas famosas DEVEM a ela, e reclama de todo valor que receba de qualquer famoso, seja mil reais ou 500. Nesse momento, depois de tudo começar a tomar um pouco mais de repercussão, ela trancou o perfil então não tive mais acesso aos posts, os últimos que fez foi informando que havia aberto um BO contra usuários do twitter por "atacarem ela" (tava literalmente isso no BO) e também dizendo que a conta do Nubank dela foi bloqueada porque tentaram hackear (o que é muito conveniente uma vez que pessoas que estão nos grupos que ela cria de 'apoiadores' começaram a pedir o extrato da conta).
Enfim, eu não sei se toda essa história se trata de uma mãe e uma filha com sérios problemas psicológicos, ou se uma filha está usando da mãe idosa para aplicar um golpe pela internet, ou talvez ela simplesmente tenha decidido que é confortável viver assim durante tantos anos pois as pessoas vão dar dinheiro pra ela sempre que pedir, só sei que essa história inteira é MUITO estranha. Conheço pessoas que ajudaram há anos e que ainda hoje recebem mensagens dela pedindo por dinheiro, e nesse momento dadas todas as informações e históricos da filha, eu acredito que tudo isso tenha sido um golpe prolongado pq estava dando certo. Tomem cuidado com o que e quem vocês decidem gastar dinheiro e fazer doações na internet, ainda que exista muita gente que precise, existe na mesma medida muita gente aproveitadora. Acho que essa história tá longe de um fim, mas talvez se desenrole em breve caso continue tomando força, lembro que foi numa dessas que desmascararam aquele esquema de golpe utilizando marmitas para moradores de rua.

I already talk to the bank stating na I can't pay my CC due to not working and still looking pa din now they emailed me na for possible filling for small claim na daw ang account ko. I don't know how to response kc Wala pa talaga ako pambayad me extra work nga ako pro sapat lng for foods namin. Hindi nmn sa ayaw ko magbayad Wala pa lng talaga ako pambayad what to do. And what happened po b if ma small claim ako.

Hi everyone,
let me start with statement that I fully realize that cichlids and plants do not really go together, but I strongly believe that such combination can work under right circumstances as I had good results for some time.
Some 3 years ago I switched to 450L (120g) tank from a smaller one. I used Tetra CompleteSubstrate as base for nutrients (2cm) and natural gravel (4cm) on top. I have pretty hard hard water on tap with PH about 7.7 that I take down to about 7.0 with CO2 injection with automatic PH controller, which should be about the right middle ground for both fish and plants. I do 40% water change once a week and I know my CO2 levels are not very stable as KH/DH starts to drop pretty quickly, meaning CO2 level probably drops as I near next water change. I run Chihiros WRGB light with 140W, which should be enough even for most demanding plants. I only have plants that are known to survive cichlids, such as Vallisnerias, Cryptocorines etc. I run light at full power for about 9h per day. CO2 injection starts 1h before lights starts, cuts off 1h before light shuts down. Filtration is double with Fluval FX-4 and Eheim Pro 4, cleaned quarterly. I never used any kind of fertilizer. Water temperature is at about 25C. I feed my fish quite a lot. I hope that's it for details.
Now for the problem. My tank looked exactly like I wanted it to look for about 2 years (first photo, please ignore some fish from older tank). Valisnerias were going crazy and I had to trim there every week. Plant growth was quicker than cichlid's destruction and I was very happy with how the tank looked. I could even get some red-ish plants to grow succesfully. Some cichlids were even reproducing and I had to sell/give away fish every 2 months or so.
Come 3rd year, plant growth slowed down and second picture shows how tank looks like now. Anubias is going strong (as always), but everything but Valisnerias has died off. As plants started to die off, I started to have issues with black algae (which I always had, but under control) and Valisnerias are barely keeping alive. I had to lower light power and duration, limit CO2, just to limit algae growth. No matter what I tried with CO2/light had any positive effect on plants/algae.
I am now pretty sure that plants used up all nutrients from bottom substrate after 2 years as I was not using any kind of liquid fertilizer. I am now using Seachem Flourish (for 2 months) to add all nutrients except Nitrogen and Phosphorus, which as I understand are not needed as they should be provided by Fish or remnants of fish food. But to be honest I was being quite conservative with dosage and I just found out that dosage should be 5x normal with water changes that I do. On top of that neither gravel or Tetra CompleteSubstrate claim to be able to "catch" nutrients.
I am now moving to new location and have the ability to redo the tank. I am planning to use Seachem Flourite as base, which claims to be able to "catch" nutrients from water. I am also planning to use Seachem Flourish fertilizer since the beggining to avoid substrate getting used up after some time.
I have two questions:

1. Is it possible that I have Nitrogen/Phosphate deficiencies in my setup (with all the fish) and that I need to add these in some other way (Nitrogen test comes up basically negative)?
   
2. Do you see anything else that could be causing my plant growth issue?
   

Any suggestions are welcome, but please, I am very well aware that easiest solution would be to dump the plants and go without them, but I had a blast for 2 years and would like to experience that again.

I had a relatively good life up until... 10 months ago give or take. I met a girl in 2019 and got engaged to her pretty quickly. We were together 4 years before we got married. Then the year we got married, we took a road trip to my hometown in another state for my class reunion. I met up with old friends, saw my old family home, and... it made me realize how much of a failure I was... my friends had their own homes, kids, good jobs. I was making just above minimum wage. My family home was more or less condemned because my uncle, who stole the land from me through court bullshit, let it go to ruin. And I got depressed. My wife would beg me to talk to her about my problems but when I did, she would get scared and I would say to her "this is why I don't tell you what's going on. I scare you when I let you know my problems." Then she asks me to get therapy and i start but right afterwards, she says that she's resenting me, she's falling out of love with me, and doesn't want to be married anymore. This is less than 3 months after marriage... she sent me a video called something like"how to prevent your spouse from cheating." I thought she was accusing me... now I know the reality is it was a fucking admission. She grew colder and colder as I grew more and more depressed. I would ask for a kiss and get told no. I would ask for a hug and get told no. Kinks and habits we used to always do became "weird." Then I found out on Easter Sunday this year... she had been flirting with another guy online. It never grew physical but it was still cheating nonetheless. I immediately ask her parents if they knew and they were just as surprised. Her mom confronted her and she denied it all despite the fact I had screenshots of the conversations between him and her, along with her friends supporting this. She went to try and commit that night butt didn't. I just wanted to know why she would do that. Hurt me like that. Then I cried in bed that night, holding her and begging for us to work on things... then the next day passed and everything was fine... but day 3 is when shit hit the fan. She told me that I would need to handle food for the entire house for the week. I said okay and she asked why I was being shifty and I said "maybe it has something to do with finding out your wife is messaging other men." And not only did she admit it, she blamed me, saying I never supported her, never listened to her problems. I went to work so she could sit her ass in front of a screen and stream. Make videos. Chase being a pro gamer. And yet I never supported her. So I left the house, called a friend, packed up all my shit I could and immediately went back to my hometown. The divorce papers soon followed. Ironically not too long after our first marriage anniversary... now I have a shit backbreaking job that only pays 12 an hour, I'm homeless basically, having to stay with a friend, I'm alone, and everyone tells me they believe I can better my life but it's all bullshit. I have nothing to my name. I fully pray to whatever deity listens that I gain the courage to fully commit to ending my own life. Im tired.

Hi! I am currently using an iphone 11 (64gb) that I bought last 2020. It is still fine aside from it’s battery health which is currently at 71% but I don’t really notice it affecting my phone’s performance naman, and the storage is not enough na for me even if I avail the icloud monthly subscription kasi mahilig ako magvideo na naka 4k haha.
Anyway, I recently got promoted for the 2nd time since I got this phone and I was thinking of finally rewarding myself a new one and just give this phone to my mom. But the problem is, I am not techy at all. I watch reviews on youtube but I still don’t get the technical specifications they’re talking about. I usually just use my phone for taking videos of my food and cats, notes, nood ng kdrama, and instagram/messaging lang naman.
If you can give me advice which one is the most practical between an iphone 13, 14, and 15 (including the plus, pro, pro max versions) I would highly appreciate it 🫶🏼 Or should I just keep this phone and buy an ipad air instead? Parang ang saya kasi manood on a bigger screen din haha
will buy it in cash din pala like before so let me know if may tips kayo kung pano makadiscount hehe thank you!!

He was twitching like a damn drug user, constantly laughing at memes and also apologizing for being "distracted", despite him being the one to invite me out for food.
At one point I got up to go to the bathroom and coming back to our booth with his back to me I can see he's watching some pornographic "cumpilation" of lesbian women scissoring. I stood there for about a minute, and I made a sound hoping to startle him but instead he turned around and told me to check out "the babes" with a thumbs up.
I'm not gonna claim to be a sexual puritan here, but we were in a public place (a restaurant) and of course this guy's life is a complete mess. He's got three kids that he cannot take care of (he literally wants his ex-wifes boyfriend to take over) and he's living in a roach infested shithole.
He will call me periodically to talk about a pro wrestling documentary he just watched or something politically outrageous he read about on a forum.