u/ketaminekate97
The Fake Sheikh was an English journalist who spent years impersonating a Saudi oil magnate. News of the World gave him sports cars/helicopters to keep up appearances. He'd lure celebrities/royals into his orbit & make them lofty promises while pressuring them to commit crimes (buying coke, etc.)
u/ketaminekate97 — 1 day ago
Friend has ignored my insta messages for a month
He usually takes a while but not this long. I feel silly bc I have sent him a bunch of text-based messages that he ignores and he just keeps sending me reels without replying to my words.
Especially stings since I'm sharing some vulnerable stuff and it just feels like he can't be bothered to communicate with me in any way except forwarding a reel.
I respond to the reels with my thoughts on them too but I don't see the point bc he isn't reading the responses.
He basically lives on insta which makes it harder to process.
I ended up just not replying to his reels anymore and explaining that I don't want to overload him with more messages, and if he doesn't have time to read everything I wrote over the past month it's okay.
Hoping that doesn't come off as passive aggressive. I just want some closure on what the nature of our friendship is and what expectations I should or should not hold him to. And I feel like at this point I have to give that closure to myself rather than expecting emotional vulnerability from him.
And ofc, even the closure messages are ignored despite the fact that I can see he's online.
Sucks when you want to have a closer relationship with someone than they do with you.
u/ketaminekate97 — 3 days ago
▲ 1 r/arabs
Looking for recommendations for modern Arabic poetry
Preferably published in recent years. I am half-Palestinian so I'd be partial to Palestinian writing. Would like to read in the original Arabic
u/ketaminekate97 — 3 days ago
▲ 62 r/rs_x
I want kids but I feel like I'd be terrified all the time
For their safety -- and not to be morbid but honestly if they died, I don't think I would ever recover. You read so many stories about people who simply can't recover and spend the rest of their lives in a sedative-infused daze. How do people make this leap of faith
u/ketaminekate97 — 4 days ago
Weaponizing misogynist cops against women
Woke up to my triplet brother filming me in my sleep, pushed him lightly in self-defense, cops were not interested in context and slammed a battery charge on me. Lots of other instances of cops going to bat for men above all else.
Brother's been violent with me before but never actually pressed charges.
He told me he'd drop the charges and to not get a lawyer or worry about showing up to my court date. He's very persuasive/manipulative and I believed him.
He didn't drop the charges, I missed the court date, and then was informed by a cop during a traffic stop 6 months later that there was an arrest warrant out for me / bench warrant.
The county jail that I could have been sent to if he arrested me was being investigated by DOJ for an "epidemic" of prison guard rape
Beyond that, having a violent crime on my record would negate everything I've worked for to achieve some sort of success in life/career, and in that regard would also impact the kind of life I could give my children.
Just needed to vent about this. Has anyone else been in abusive situations where the police are weaponized against you
u/ketaminekate97 — 4 days ago
Homosocial cops
Woke up to my brother filming me in my sleep, pushed him lightly in self-defense, cops were not interested in context and slammed a battery charge on me. Lots of other instances of cops going to bat for men above all else.
Brother's been violent with me before but never actually pressed charges.
He told me he'd drop the charges and to not get a lawyer or worry about showing up to my court date. He's very persuasive/manipulative and I believed him.
He didn't drop the charges, I missed the court date, and then was informed by a cop during a traffic stop 6 months later that there was an arrest warrant out for me / bench warrant.
The county jail that I could have been sent to if he arrested me was being investigated by DOJ for an "epidemic" of prison guard rape
Beyond that, having a violent crime on my record would negate everything I've worked for to achieve some sort of success in life/career, and in that regard would also impact the kind of life I could give my children.
Just needed to vent about this. Has anyone else been in abusive situations where the police are weaponized against you
u/ketaminekate97 — 4 days ago
▲ 10 r/rs_x
Serbian Mother's Day
In Serbian Orthodox tradition, on Mother's Day you tie her to the bed while she is sleeping and she's allowed to be released once she gives you money/gifts.
They do the same thing for Father's and Children's Day.
On Children's Day they will sometimes tie a baby in a crib.
It all happens around Christmas and is meant to evoke symbolism of untying someone from the "bonds of sin," and the act of unbinding Adam and Eve from eternal death and instead granting life eternal.
I'm a Serb but find the whole thing kind of ominous
u/ketaminekate97 — 5 days ago
What else do you think he got up to watching?
u/PeakyBlinders3 — 5 days ago
▲ 1 r/bullying
Feel like I'm engaging in masochism and self-harm by posting in ones that on the surface seem pretty innocuous, I just want to be adored
u/ketaminekate97 — 8 days ago
▲ 18 r/rs_x
Feel like I'm engaging in masochism and self-harm by posting in ones that on the surface seem pretty innocuous, I just want to be adored
u/ketaminekate97 — 8 days ago
▲ 0 r/lifecoaching
She was largely responsible for the capture of OBL and according to New Yorker: "gleefully participated in enhanced interrogation sessions (torture)," and did so voluntarily instead of as an assignment. I wanted to livestream the session it on Insta but she saw these pics on my story. Was too lazy to switch account to private.
In retrospect should have know that she of all people would forage intelligence on me. I need someone to grab my Olympic flame and schedule a complimentary session with her, promptly report back
u/ketaminekate97 — 9 days ago
▲ 28 r/AskMiddleEast
She was largely responsible for the capture of OBL and according to New Yorker: "gleefully participated in enhanced interrogation sessions (torture)," and did so voluntarily instead of as an assignment. I wanted to livestream the session it on Insta but she saw these pics on my story. Was too lazy to switch account to private.
In retrospect should have know that she of all people would forage intelligence on me. I need someone to grab my Olympic flame and schedule a complimentary session with her, promptly report back
u/ketaminekate97 — 9 days ago
▲ 222 r/rs_x
She was largely responsible for the capture of OBL and according to New Yorker: "gleefully participated in enhanced interrogation sessions (torture)," and did so voluntarily instead of as an assignment. I wanted to livestream the session it on Insta but she saw these pics on my story. Was too lazy to switch account to private.
In retrospect should have know that she of all people would forage intelligence on me. I need someone to grab my Olympic flame and schedule a complimentary session with her, promptly report back
u/ketaminekate97 — 9 days ago