We were polyamorous, had spent 8 years together, and then her other (new) partner decided she didn’t like me. So she put a wedge into our relationship by breaking the trust down between me and my partner, framing me as abusive, and eventually my partner abandoned me after the trust was gone.

The other gal turned everything I did into some manipulative scheme or way to control my partners. For example, the fact that I couldn’t suddenly drop $2k on a wisdom tooth removal for her became “financial abuse and control”.

I’m going to be angry about it for the rest of my life, I think.

Upper leadership is rife with predatory behavior, Lucien Greaves has said a lot of really problematic racist and white supremacist stuff, and there’s a difference between schools of Satanism within the temple. Basically, there’s an amoral, “might makes right” interpretation of Satanism that can act as an ideological framework to enable all sorts of abuse, and then there’s the “one’s own body is inviolable, support queer liberation” style of Satanism. The upper leadership (in my experience) is mostly the former type of Satanist, whereas the general membership are the latter. So the org has a lot of problems.

256GB of DDR5 and a 80TB NAS back in 2025 - although recently my NAS dropped a drive and I had to replace it, which was expensive.

From dragging on the skin as a result of impact - so I guess if you hit someone exactly square on with it then it probably wouldn’t scratch

It wasn’t anything particularly intense as far as skin breakage went, it was more like scratches. Although, I did get clipped with the corner of one Lego on a hit and that caused the little puncture - I wish I still had pics, but it wasn’t bad.

Oh definitely - and also sometimes scratches / little punctures, depending on where you get hit

I’ve seen (and been hit with) acrylic paddles with embedded legos, so yeah, it’s a thing.

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