Interesting Links for 03-07-2026
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andrewducker- 1. Psilocyin and MDMA help with PTSD recovery by repairning myelin
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- 2. "This blog is written in en-GB"
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- 3. I recognise several of these parenting tactics
- (tags:parenting funny psychology children )
- 4. What Leads To Suicidal Thoughts and Attempts Among Transgender People?
- (tags:suicide transgender LGBT bigotry )
- 5. Edinburgh tourist tax to fund new police unit in city centre
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- 6. Eight men in the UK have been arrested for allegedly sedating and raping their partners
- (tags:uk sleep rape )
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Date: 2026-07-03 11:46 am (UTC)Try asking our present government...........
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Date: 2026-07-03 10:36 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2026-07-03 12:26 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2026-07-05 07:13 am (UTC)Do you think you'd have been happier if you had parents/surroundings where you felt understood?
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Date: 2026-07-05 07:25 am (UTC)Obviously, I'm also rigged/learned to experience satisfaction at achievement, and curiosity plus satisfaction with knowledge/understanding but I don't think I actually have any clue what "happiness" is or feels like. There seems to be a different thing that others experience and call "happiness" and I absolutely don't get it.
I recall my mother asking me when I was about 11 or so and having another miserable meltdown,"Can't you just enjoy doing something for the fun of it?". My INSTANT reply was "Where's the fun if you're not good at it?". If anything sums up my personality, that's it.
On consideration - I think I DO do happiness (peaceful satisfaction) but not joy. That's the thing I don't feel. There was a kind that came from transcendent emotionally-connected sex - but THAT eventually led to me wrecking my life (multiple times). So, no, not chased that for a long time now.
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Date: 2026-07-03 04:40 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2026-07-03 11:55 pm (UTC)2: Good for him! People need to be open to "not exactly how I would say it"; that's how you learn and grow.
3 - parenting
Date: 2026-07-04 07:02 pm (UTC)I bet that house sounds a lot like my cousin's house - where there is lots of sound and commotion, but nobody is unhappy. It is a very wonderful (full of wonder) place to visit. I hope your house is like that, too.
Re: 3 - parenting
Date: 2026-07-05 07:14 am (UTC)There's certainly a lot of sound and commotion!
8 - Sedation
Date: 2026-07-04 07:52 pm (UTC)But first I want to say: I don't know a single man that I think would do this. Not cousins (no brothers), not uncles, not friends, not friends of my father. *Maybe* some acquaintances, but probably not.
So who are these guys - and how can there be so many?
https://medium.com/fourth-wave/men-are-spiking-womens-drinks-with-workout-mix-so-they-re-not-too-tired-0a09e24e0a61
https://medium.com/fourth-wave/cnns-rape-academy-story-was-one-site-snopes-spilled-more-c308025f51b0
https://medium.com/fourth-wave/do-good-men-know-they-feel-like-the-minority-not-the-majority-86326e5966a6
Re: 8 - Sedation
Date: 2026-07-05 07:25 am (UTC)The second one has misunderstood the Snopes story.
Motherless, the site, had 62 million views. But the rape/sleep videos are not most of what Motherless has. I've encountered Motherless many times over the last couple of decades, and never seen anything like that on it.
As the CNN article makes clear the views on the sleep/rape content is "Hundreds of thousands of views", which is still awful, but not as awful as 62 million views per month.
And yes, there aren't enough good men.
Re: 8 - Sedation
Date: 2026-07-05 08:02 am (UTC)