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I’m someone who has had a drastic change in looks that wasn’t really finalized until senior year of high school. I had a severe overbite and wore braces 7th-8th grade and a retainer 24/7 until senior year. My self esteem looks-wise took its biggest hit all of 6th grade when my overbite was more pointed out by other peers for the first time and before I got braces. On top of this, my mother did not let me wear make up at all until senior year as well, which was very unusual for my peer group at least. I got my first boyfriend senior year as a result you could say…sparse attention from boys before then, at least compared to my friends at the time. Since then and until now, I get constant attention from just my looks alone if I go out anywhere. The first couple of years I did not know what to do with it at all, and the new attention was distracting but welcome for that first semester in college. I have definitely understood I am attractive in the typical objective sense now, and I even admire it in myself a bit vainly, but my GOD it took so long to embody that after all of my childhood and teenage years spent in constant turmoil over my appearance. There was no escaping it, especially because it was my face, and I just spent so much of my class time just being hyperaware of it and it would distract me from class or serious things I could focus on instead. It was pure anguish. Lots of times just spent in the mirror looking at myself and declaring myself ugly. It has been more than a decade since then, but I feel that familiar low self esteem sometimes if my mood is very shot down, not often at all thankfully anymore though. Yes, looks are important.

This song was on my Discover Weekly this week on Spotify. Came out last month. Lyrics in the bio, sweet and contemplative

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DTgH43GkjZL/?igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ== Mamdani confronts border czar

https://www.reddit.com/r/EyesOnIce/s/WaMwMF0zcV More direct video of the Santa Ana, CA incident. My back was injured in the 2020 protests by one cop who full force tackled me in Santa Ana, and 5 cops tackled and arrested my darker skinned acquaintance at the same time (his charges were dismissed of course). We were literally just kneeling 80 feet away from the police line. Especially dangerous city to protest in imo.

I was going to post the 21yo from Santa Ana too. I think this video is even more chilling and harrowing than the shooting imo, insanely enough. Couldn’t get the images out of my mind throughout the day with how inhumanly he was dragged away.

I think this means you’re just a bad driver

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/trump-mamdani-become-texting-pals-215605605.html link w/o having to subscribe to read

Since I have been willfully ignored with all other previous points that I have made and instead have been responded with cute phrases and change of subjects…I’ll bite this new one. Bethpage is not NYC. Mamdani did not order ICE to detain him. Mamdani and other NYC council members have already called for his immediate release. An emergency habeas petition had been filed to keep the worker in New York. I imagine there won’t be any feedback with the information I presented, just like with the previous ones, so what’s the new change of subject now?

I’ve been lucky enough to work as a medical assistant/clinical coordinator for a psychiatrist for a little over a year now. It’s private practice, so just me, the psychiatrist, and the physician assistant. Along with seeing patients in the general sense, we also run TMS sessions and Spravato (esketamine) sessions with patients here. My main role is to run those sessions since I obviously have no part in the general patient therapy room. I still talk quite a bit with the TMS and Spravato patients as I run the session, though I know it’s not in my current professional role to actually deep dive hard and give them therapy etc… I keep it light and human. My main goal in getting hired here originally was to help with running the Spravato sessions, since eventually I want to become a psychedelic-assisted therapist one day (not a psychiatrist). As time went on and I got to know my boss more, I’ve really grown to have a brighter light on psychiatry, which I didn’t expect. My boss spends 30-60+ minutes with her general patients each session, focusing on psychodynamic therapy along with the medication management. There is quite a lot of deep diving with the person, and there tends to be a weeding out of new patient calls that want simple quick 5 minutes medication appointments (which plenty of other psychiatrists do anyway). My boss wants patients to really work for their progress, which is a refreshing perspective. Very level-headed, dignified, and confident person overall. It really is more about who the psychiatrist is as a person, not psychiatry itself I feel naive to say. Not sure if that really answers anything, but overall I still feel like there’s some tiny things missing here and there, but it’s much more respectable than I imagined. Work on yourself more than anything tbh and make sure you yourself are in check, that’s what patients really need.

@Elliott 5D chess feels more like not acknowledging he isn’t mayor until January 1st, and that there was no follow up with how the NYPD is above the mayor etc.

https://bsky.app/profile/zohrankmamdani.bsky.social/post/3m7fynvtkgs2t

He isn’t mayor until January 1st… and I would argue doing all of that is green and what he is doing is actually yellow by meeting with Trump.

You do realize he is not actually the mayor until January 1st, right?

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DRV60QRiCio/?igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ== 🫢

Mamdani appointed Lina Khan, like guyysss just hear him out a little🥺🤏

Interesting!! I shall be doing lots of research on this, haven’t heard of him before so idk yet, thank youu

The NYC mayor is literally just 1 dude vs the strong, resilient, highly cohesive and unified large community of the NYPD. 1 person vs 33,000+ NYPD members. That is literally a whole city amount of people within the city. An entire unique culture of its own you have to deeply understand first before arrogantly and hastily poking it with a stick. It’s a frat house man-child city. Research how de Blasio’s attempt went if you haven’t yet. It’s not that the mayor is powerless on paper, it’s that the NYPD can easily act independently, collectively, and visibly in ways a mayor cannot realistically punish. That’s real power. Even when they enact reform statues or disciplinary frameworks, the NYPD is still controlled by the Police Commissioner and union contracts yes… but de Blasio pushing chokehold bans and enhanced transparency were inconsistent and lenient because cultural resistance within the PD diluted and slowed policy implementation. Reforms passed by democratically elected leaders are frequently nullified by internal bureaucracy. It functions more like an autonomous administrative state. In 2014-2015, the PD dropped arrests for low-level offenses by 90% for weeks, ignored summonses, and temporarily stopped enforcing quality-of-life laws just because they disliked something the mayor said. Not even because of a policy change or contract dispute, petty stuff. An entire PD rebelled, and the mayor couldn’t punish them, fire them, or stop them. If ANY other city agency did that…heads would roll but NYPD shrugged. The incident in 2020 when they leaked his daughter’s personal information on the internet after she got arrested in the BLM protests…. They physically turned their back to the mayor at a funeral, etcetcetc. LAPD has a similar chokehold on their city. The NYPD is more powerful that NYC mayors because it openly defies elected leadership, humiliates the mayor publicly, retaliates personal family members of the mayor, and weaponizes unions without consequences. etcetcetc…come on now! This is nearly known worldwide that the NYPD is a different beast.

“and most recently we’re talking about a mother and her two children, how this has very little to do with what that is.” - Mamdani Can you make arguments for the previous points I made too? Just making sure I’m not falling for a fraud

The Bill Clinton emails were literally last week😂

Yeah, if I was going to pander to Trump, I’d also say I don’t like criminals. That’s an easy and obvious way to do it. No one is arguing about whether or not criminals are good or bad and if nothing should be done about it. That’s the only thing anyone can agree on if there was anything to agree on with ICE. He’s exposing to Trump that ICE is not targeting crime at all like supposedly intended. “The concerns that many New Yorkers have are around the enforcement of immigration laws on New Yorkers across the five boroughs, and most recently we’re talking about a mother and her two children, how this has very little to do with what that is.”

???? The two also discussed potential ICE raids and immigration crackdowns in New York City, an issue they sharply disagree on. “I think we're going to work them out,” Trump said of those potential issues over immigration. “What we did is we discussed crime more than ICE, per se, we discussed crime, and he doesn't want to see crime, and I don't want to see crime, and I have very little doubt that we're not going to get along on that issue.” https://queenseagle.com/all/2025/11/21/queens-men-meet

Mamdani was able to say there is a genocide in Gaza in the White House next to Trump…even Bernie greatly avoids using the G word. Get out of here on the ICE comment too lol. Where did you even source that one? From the same article you posted… “I'm going to put an end to that by fully funding the CCRB so that no longer are we having to question whether we can follow through on a case because we don't have the requisite amount of money." How is that not an actionable step forward? The NYPD is miles more powerful than the NYC mayor. It is not your local average PD which already sucks. Look at DeBlasio’s attempt… Mamdani is going head-to-head with extreme and deep-rooted opposing values in that city. He got Trump wrapped around his finger with just the first step in the WH, not the other way around. Doesn’t mean at all that he’s bffs with Trump now.

The media are asking Trump if he is standing next to a “jihadist”, and Mamdani if he thinks Trump is a fascist to incite both to get at each others throats…terrible questions of course. They both seem to have some understanding not to play into that media game at least for that meeting. Do you think Mamdani is being fake overall, or just acting in accordance with “yellow stage” politics? It seemed like Trump genuinely liked Mamdani to me, and Mamdani artfully holding back his tongue for more effective moments.

@Inliytened1 I don’t really know Kirk that much to be honest, so what about Kirk makes those men on the HB pier relate to him so much?

@Inliytened1 No, I just live 15mins from HB😂 they post up a lot like this here when there’s a relatable event to them