"We shouldn't be confused by the rhetoric of the so called 'Wide-Awakes', who claim to bridge opposition interests against the administration of La Follette. The Mass Man is thirsty for errors, and he rejects the pursuit of truth, for it is fatal in days of tyranny and decadence. He believes, not out of an inner sense of necessity, but as a form of self flagellation for the sake of conformity, the ascetic ideal of modern America. What unity do they proclaim when during the 1948 convention, the establishment of the Party rallied against the General? For they knew the immense potential of Fulgencio Batista to win over the Lewis bloc of Farmer-Laborites, and should the establishment have fallen in line, the valiant Cuban would have been a force of conservation. He would have most certainly jailed Charles Lindbergh and Robert LaFollette, and the Party would have certainly been able to overturn the majorities that were established under the time of the negligent Lindbergh. But the effectual truth of the matter is that their plot was ardent against the General. They all framed their campaigns in their own terms, pictures of a lifeless establishment. They dismissed Fulgencio Batista as "the candidate of Latinos and far right nuts", but upsets have overturned their hopes. I remember vividly coordinating the campaign of Fulgencio Batista in California, the State that secured him a plurality of the popular vote, but whenever Herbert Hoover or Benjamin Gitlow would campaign in a State they would be surprised by what name they shouted and pronounced. I asked the Batista delegates to bolt, and none except for two attended the Convention.
Benjamin Gitlow and his sedition:
What crime of Batista was so great compared to the crime of Benjamin Gitlow, who led the red army to massacre American civilians, in what everyone would admit was a violation of the ethics of just war? Henry Luce rallied around him as the best hope for the Nation, proving that in truth, the fundamentals of the establishment of those Parties is Liberal. That same Benjamin Gitlow who spoke with great zeal about the values of conservatism was one who would have not survived had William Jennings Bryan, the perennial candidate of old, not have won his last election against the incumbent John A. Lejeune in the twilight of the Federal Republican Party. The Revolution that Gitlow shed American blood for destroyed any hopes of victory in the midst of the carnage with the Japanese, and it was men like Herbert Hoover who enabled it during his treasonous and reckless opposition to President Houston during our own war against Japan.
On Herbert Hoover, The Revolution and the Election of 1948: Herbert Hoover himself was captured by Japanese troops; he was well aware of the cruelty inflicted upon the Chinese population by the Japanese hand... It is not an exageration to state such lighthearted negligence costed the occupation of our lands by hostile armies, that treated our people as subjects to colonization and mistreatments? But it was only the Revolution wrought by the likes of Gitlow and was facilitated by Hoover's sabotage that made us invite enemy powers in the fight against the Revolutionaries, allowing foreigners to profit off a war between Americans against Americans. And such men are pretentious enough to state that it was Fulgencio Batista, who won the most popular votes during the the primaries and the second most electoral votes during the election, to commit the unforgivable crime against the country by not allowing such a dishonourable robbery to be done against him in the name of stopping LaFollette, which only Batista could have.
On the Establishment:
It was the Progressive establishment that bolted, not Batista. House Leader Chibas purged the supporters of Batista for pretentious reasons. The same House Leader Chibas tragically suicided after the Senate rejected to eject LaFollette for his crimes. "People of America, wake up!" We woke up, indeed, Compañero! For the tyranny of LaFollette is indeed enormous, and what to say after the tragedies of yesterday, and the failed impeachment of our President over the vote of the Minnesotan senator... the only question that remains to be asked is: What great sin has this great Nation committed to merit a tyrant of such epic proportions? For all punishments belong to Providence.
On the Persecutions of the Tyrant:
Diocletian martyred both Christians and Manicheans, Robespierre martyred both Reactionaries and Liberals, and LaFollette both wicked men and heroes. Men as varied as Schall, Batista, Gitlow, Lewis, Hearst, Rogers, George, Landon, McCarthy, Winant, Breckinridge and Chibas. Chibas is now dead by his own hand, and our Party and Nation rejoice as another element of its destructive establishment is no longer an element.. And now, just now, a valiant General may rise from the ashes, no longer a political martyr in a jail cell, he will be dignified with the office of the Presidency, which we will draft his way towards. For in temporal punishment, redemption is always found, and such redemption is always found if we as a Nation accept the leaders who God sends for our national salvation. Even the Hebrews turned on Moses during their Exodus from Egypt and we shall not commit their same mistake! Reject the illusion of 'Wide-Awake' Unity! It is far from Wide! For the Progressive establishment would much rather see Batista continue to rot in a jail cell, and even permanently exile him from the Party, rather than have true Party unity, for they are pharisaical hypocrites They rejected Batista, the candidate who could have won, the first time, so if you desire any answer for who should be blamed for LaFollette's reign of terror, it is not the 'spoiler' Batista, but the now deceased former Speaker, whose death signifies our Party's revival, and the rise of the hero Fulgencio Batista himself. From the Jail to the White House! Indeed! HORRAY!"

My boyfriend met this woman at his job last year and they worked together for a few months before she quit. They quickly bonded because her and I are from the same country. She felt very comfortable to tell him about her dating life and her personal life. The friendship was very platonic and they would text here and there but it never went further than that. After she quit, they never really spoke again.
A couple months later she reaches out to my boyfriend and sets up a double date with us + her new boyfriend. We had a pretty great time with them and I felt like they were a really cool couple. We’ve hung out with them a few times after and have even been in larger group settings with them where they got to hang out with our other friends.
I never really felt like I could get close to her past a certain level just yet and just kind of categorized her as someone that I could hang with only on a group setting. Maybe also because I hadn’t gotten to know her well just yet and I only got to hang out with her twice outside of a group. But my boyfriend now frequently talks to her boyfriend and they have gotten really close outside of our group chat.
But there were a few red flags that occurred along the way: I notice she never compliments me or other women, one time she INSISTED on crashing on a date after my boyfriend had explained to her that this was quality time for us because our new work schedules doesn’t allow us to go on dates as much, she talks about herself…A LOT. Like the times I’ve hung out with her it was all about her. Although I did feel like I got to share my side a bit the second time, I still felt so drained after the interaction. One of those times we were out to lunch with another girl and after that girl was talking about how she was so worried that she wasn’t getting hired after her layoff and her numerous interviews, new friend proceeded to talk about herself and how perfect her new job that she just got hired will be. I thought that was so inconsiderate and tone deaf. She’s also extremely insecure and always needs opinions about her relationship issues. I feel like she doesn’t really take the effort to get to know me. I just ruled those out at first as her maybe just truly being lonely because she has no other friends and was really grateful that I was hearing her out. I also try to understand that she has EXTREME anxiety and overthinking.
But then, her boyfriend goes out of the country for work. She gets extremely depressed and lonely so she messages my boyfriend asking if we can see her. That weekend we already had plans so we set something up for another date. He then reposts that night a picture of him and his buddy as a GUYS night. She sent a passive aggressive joke about the picture and my boyfriend told her to not be that way. She then expressed that she’s annoyed that he didn’t invite her knowing how she’s so lonely and depressed that her man isn’t here and feels like the only way she’d be invited is because of her boyfriend. My boyfriend responded by telling her that he was with the guys and it would be strange for him to invite her especially because I am not there. She then proceeded to send him a bunch of texts questioning who it would be strange for. He ignores all of the following texts and calls me to tell me what happened. What I don’t like is that she then texts me and involves me by asking me if I would have an issue with him hanging out with her in the same group setting without me 🤦🏻‍♀️ it was a series of anxious texting and me trying to reassure her that there isn’t a preference between her and her boyfriend. She also told me that she really liked having my boyfriend as a friend when they were working together because he helped her through an issue she was with her heartbreak with her last guy (an emotional affair with a committed man btw—-I gave her the benefit of the doubt at first and ran with my own narrative that he was manipulative because it was semi true but she also admits that part of it was her fault). I just really did not like the dramatics and have really bad experiences of old controlling friends being this way with me. I felt like she feels entitled to my boyfriend’s time and him because she was “friends with him first”.
This situation gave me so much anxiety because for me it was like “here we go again, another damsel in distress that needs my boyfriend”. While I do appreciate my boyfriend for setting boundaries and being understanding what is respectful and what is not, we have grown A LOT from our past. In the past, like three years ago, I always felt like I had to compete for my boyfriend’s attention with his other females friends because he used to prioritize his friends’ feelings over mine and was always running to the rescue of other people. He completely changed when he realized he was losing me and now fully understands where I’m coming from and was more than willingly to set boundaries.
He thinks we should still hang out with her because he doesn’t want to lose the friendship with the boyfriend and he wants to establish boundaries in person.
I just see why she doesn’t have any girlfriends and I really don’t like that she just assumes that my boyfriend should be there for her. Self absorbed on top of that. Am I looking too far into this all and is it really my own insecurities from the past coming back?
TLDR: boyfriend’s ex coworker and her boyfriend have been hanging out with my boyfriend and I. My boyfriend has gotten much closer to her boyfriend. I’m very hestitant of her because she has some self absorbed characteristics and over talks for hours. I feel like she hasn’t tried to get to know me at all. But she has extreme anxiety and insecurities. She got annoyed with my boyfriend because he didn’t invite her while he was out with other friends and she was home alone because her boyfriend is away. She kind of got me involved in that situation. We have set plans with her but the dramatics really turned me off. My boyfriend thinks we should go because he wants to continue being on great terms with her boyfriend and he feels the need to establish boundaries with her once and for all in person. Am I just being really hard on her because of my past insecurities and she just has bad anxiety?

alrighty for context my world is a relatively dark, high fantasy world with tons of different languages, species, races, countries, etc. etc.
Okay so essentially I’ve got this world I’m making right, and I’ve got this idea for a parasitical disease thats fungal based. Essentially this parasite will latch onto the host, taking root in the host’s brain. The mycelium strands travel slowly through the host’s body, sprouting hedge fungi on the surface skin. The parasite makes its room by feeding on the memories of its host and impedes brain function. It’s vaguely sentient and it can communicate with the host. Out of an instinct of survival, it tries to keep its host away from the majority of living things, specifically intelligent species.
physical symptoms:
[hedge fungi growing on skin] [sunken in/red eyes] [impeded motor control] [shortness of breath] [muscular atrophy] [haphephobia]
mental symptoms:
[total permanent memory loss] [foggy-ness and general confusion] [loss of attention span and cognitive endurance] [paranoia and derealization]
behavioral symptoms:
[extreme anti-social or anthropophobic tendencies] [increased impulsivity] [unpredictable and erratic behavior] [host may have some more simplistic animal like tendencies, though still maintains relative intelligence]
the problem is, I feel like it’s missing something. Idk it needs more like… pizzazz or whatever. So tips, suggestions, or critics are all welcome! (But like obviously be relatively nice lol)
(also i can’t add a picture of what the parasite look likes, so if someone could uh tell me how to add images that would be swell.)

I know this is unnecessarily long, so if you are not in the mood for reading, I understand. But I would greatly appreciate anyone who would take the time to read my story that is probably TMI and badly in need of some editing. I just really need some advice from people whose heads are less cloudy than mine.
My fiancé M/42 and I F41 have been together for about 4 years and have known each other since high school. I knew he was a recovering addict when I got together with him but I fell head over heels in love and didn’t see the relapse on the horizon that would occur shortly after the honeymoon phase and would eventually almost kill me - I took a swipe of some mystery powder and touched it to my tongue (fentanyl) thinking it would help me get through the most stressful day of my life as i was ceaning out his place while I was packing him up for detox. It was a total freak accident, I’m not an addict, never done anything like that in my life, I’m a single mom and a kindergarten teacher, but I loved him so much I just followed him down the rabbit hole and honestly just became so disoriented in this world I (naively) didn’t understand or even realize I had signed up for.
Anyway, He literally saved my life, and said I also saved his, because that day is what motivated him to get and stay clean for good despite being an active heroin addict for the majority of his life.
He worked an incredibly thorough program, and he gained more friends, money, and more overall success in 2 years than I’ve been able to scrounge up in an entire lifetime. And it’s no surprise honestly. He’s a special person. Absolutely brilliant, charismatic, driven, and has a heart of gold.
Within a year of getting sober, he moved me and my daughters into a gorgeous home adjacent to a golf course, bought luxury vehicles for both me and him, convinced me to quit my teaching job which was making me miserable, so I could finally be fully present for my girls, and then put a giant diamond ring on my left hand. He completely spoils us. We went from having nothing to having every tangible thing, we could possibly need.
The stability that he provided for us meant the world to a single mom who was barely making ends meet, but it was always just the icing on the cake for me. He’s my best friend in the world, he makes me laugh so hard my mouth hurts from smiling, he show me that he loves even the parts of myself that I don’t find lovable. I found my soulmate.
His program started slipping after 2 1/2 years (last November). He was already struggling in his role of being a stepfather, and we were fighting a lot about parenting stuff. He has a lot to learn, has little patience, and seems to have very unrealistic expectations of my kids. He wanted Parenting to be this effortless thing, and he just doesn’t get that it’s not. And that kids are not always going to behave themselves and that doesn’t mean there’s something wrong with them. so we were fighting a lot.
In December, he started complaining about his chronic back pain again (a real issue for him as he’s had five back surgeries due to a snowboarding accident in his early 20s-this was during that height of Purdue Pharma and what got him hooked on pain meds)
While I know he was legitimately in pain, it was also a red flag because pain was the culprit for his last relapse. He decided to go in for a sixth surgery and was told he would have to wait three months. He found a surgeon who has made a lot of profit off of him over the years (as he’s a PI attorney) and was willing to prescribe him generous amounts of pain pills to get him through the three months of increasing pain that he was experiencing. He spent the next three months in bed, depressed, checking out, taking pills depressed, checking out- as I became increasingly suspicious that his behavior was much too loopy for the amount of medication he was being prescribed. I fell into the role of his nurse, and his babysitter. Making sure he didn’t text to nonsense to clients, making sure he didn’t fall and make his back worse, making sure he wasn’t interacting with the kids, etc
I knew he wasn’t being honest with me, but he just kept gaslighting me. It honestly felt like he was psychologically tormenting me, treating me as though I was totally paranoid, heartless and out of line. I thought after the surgery, it would finally get better. I made a promise that I would be there for him because he had never had anyone there for him for the previous surgeries and it had been a really traumatic experience for him in the past. I really stepped up and tried so hard to his rock. The hospital experience was horrific, mainly because no amount of diloted was relieving him of the pain. None of the nurses understood why he needed so much more than everyone else, but I think his tolerance had just become so high.
After that nightmare was finally over I was really counting on things getting better, as the plan was for him to taper off the meds, live pain-free, and get back to normal. It didn’t go that way. It just kept getting worse and no matter how many times I told him that I didn’t trust him he just had an excuse for an explanation for everything. He is a master manipulator and I listened to him do it to everyone, doctors, the pharmacist he formed a “friendship” with, literally everyone.
On Mother’s Day, it got to a point where he couldn’t hide it anymore. He disappeared for the day, Ended up, passing out at a gas station and was unreachable for hours, when he finally came home, the car was all fucked up and he claims it was someone else’s fault. He went straight to his home office and I didn’t see the rest of the night until I walked in on him smoking crushed up pills. After that, he confessed everything to me, including the time that he told me not to check the mail because he had a special surprise for me to thank me for all the love and support I gave him To help him through his surgery. it turned out he had drug dealers sending him drugs in the mail. Needless to say there was no surprise for me me. Just heartbreak and betrayal. I felt like a fool.
I was still processing this the next day when , after insisting on taking a photo of me in these designer sunglasses he purchased for me out of guilt. I asked him not to take my photo, because I had tears in my eyes, but he insisted. He was napping next to me and I opened his phone to erase the photo. we’ve always had each other’s passwords, and have looked through each others photos before for various reasons, sharing photos, etc. I cannot emphasize enough how much I trust his loyalty to me when it comes to anything other than drugs.
But for some reason, all of my photos, the ones I was taking on my phone were showing up in his feed. I was so confused, so I started scrolling through deleting unflattering double chin pictures of myself when I came across that menu photos organized based on face recognition. One of them was his ex. I remember him telling me he deleted all of his photos of her the first time he told me he loved me.
I opened it and scrolled through hundreds of pictures of their happy life together. The pictures got more and more sexual, one of her with her legs spread, another another of them in the bathtub together, her kissing him while he had his hands around her neck, another screenshot of her naked in the shower with a thumbnail shot of him in the corner obviously jerking off to her on FaceTime. Because I’m a masochist I decided to take it one step further and look in his video folder. I found a There I found a thumbnail shot if a close-up of him penetrating her. I watched it and it just completely crushed whatever was left of me.
I’m normally a really passive person, and I just completely lost my mind. I reacted as though I had caught him cheating on me. I just couldn’t handle the physical evidence of such a close up shot of him being inside another woman. It’s stupid because I know, like me, he has a past. Obviously he’s been with other women. Obviously he’s been attracted to them. But it just scarred my brain, I literally haven’t even been able to eat since because I’ve been so nauseous. I know it’s ridiculous, because this is a reality I was well aware existed, but seeing it with my own eyes… I don’t know what to say. Other than that I need a lobotomy.
He says he erased all of those videos and photos from his phone, and something weird happened where all of his photos from the cloud just re-uploaded when he got a new phone. He’s not a technical person and I actually believe him because, aside from being a complete liar when it comes to drugs, he has always show me the upmost, integrity, love and loyalty. So it’s not that I don’t believe him. I just can’t get that image out of my head.
I can’t tell if this intense emotional reaction I’m having would be the same reaction anyone would have if they saw what I saw, or if I’m combining the feelings of betrayal over the gaslighting and the relapse…, the last four months of feeling completely invisible, hopeless, and like he was choosing drugs over me. My mind is like mush and I seriously can’t differentiate between these two very separate issues. I’m so confused, but that’s what gaslighting does to you. It makes you question your reality.
He said that he’s finally willing to go into detox, so at this point, I have waited this long, it would be silly not to stick around and see if he’s finally going to put an end to this. What’s getting me is that he’s still making excuses, still not seeming very remorseful, and is still so deep in self-pity that he doesn’t seem to have any awareness of how badly I’m hurting because of him. It feels like he just doesn’t care. anyone who’s ever loved an addict knows that feeling well.
I’m in Al-anon, and I’m well aware of all of the things I should be doing, focusing on myself, etc. but I’m just not doing well, and I can’t seem to find my way out of this dark hole. Anyone who has made it this far deserves some sort of a Reddit badge of honor. This was more of an autobiography than a simple question. I just wanna hear some outside input because I don’t trust my own mind right now. I’m willing to take your criticism, just please be kind. I know I’ve made mistakes, I’m just hurting so badly. I can’t seem to sort through this. Thank you so much if you took the time to read all of this and still want to respond. You have no idea how much it means to me.

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My name is Jack, I'm 21 and I'm a recent cyber security and forensics and internetworking and network security graduate, but I hope to go on for a few more years and do post grad studies! (this year my goal is to move to Edinburgh for my masters!)
Hobbies!: For the past few years I've been heavily into formula 1, never missing a race (even the 3 am ones and even worse, the 7 am ones!)
I also enjoy doing photography, I mainly do cars but I have recently started thinking about more landscape/urban photography.
Now for games! My main ones are Destiny 2, and rainbow six siege, (for those wondering my highest rank is diamond 3 (when rank actually meant something lol)), but I haven't been playing them much these days. I play heaps more than that but I can't think of them off the top of my head lol. To try and list some id say project zomboid is one I'm very into as of right now, that and hell divers 2. I really enjoyed elden ring so I want to try more souls like games. Red dead redemption 2 is amazing and my favourite game of all time is probably watch dogs 2.
I love JDM cars and unfortunately haven't been to a car meet in over a year now. My introduction to photography was through cars so if you'd like to see some of my photos do let me know! Most of my part time work went towards getting my dream car so I definitely plan on going to more meets!
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Thanks for reading! Stay safe people!!

Here we are again in the shit stew that is the Fallowveil trailer park. We’ve got soul eating strippers, jobs that kill us, and plenty of weirdos, both the trailer trash and the potentially paranormal variety. It’s the place where even your own computer sometimes threatens to kill you. I can’t tell if I should be worried, or annoyed that all my neighbors have such irresponsible web habits. I know it’s not me that brings in all these machine wiping viruses.
So even though I got a system error that literally said “you’re useless and you should die” I’m less interested in that. Stupid thing. Like I don’t already know I’m useless. That’s not what I’m depressed about.
Well… I suppose it's tangentially related.
I hope anyone reading will forgive me. I’m feeling the sting of rejection right now. It was really stupid of me to ask. Especially now. Nobody here really likes me. They’ve only been nice to me as a courtesy because I was almost involved in a god damn shootout. And my idiot self decided that was the perfect time to push one of my few friends all the way away. Never ask your friends out on dates. It ruins everything.
So there’s this woman. I’ve talked about her in the past. Trista Ramone. She lives in the far back corner of the trailer park. You can instantly tell which unit is hers because she’s covered every square inch of the property with gardens and a rabbit hutch. The place usually has beads and colorful flags hanging on its walls as well. She’s kind of a right winger’s nightmare. I know some of those flags represent various lgbtq plus communities.
She and I have been friendly in the past. We’re both night shift workers. We crossed paths quite a bit going to and from work so we struck up a friendship over the years.
Let’s just ripped the band aid off. Recently I’ve started thinking I had… stronger feelings for Trista. I got stupid and decided to tell her about them. She wasn’t interested. I get why. We have very different lifestyles. I like meat, and she thinks the meat industry is murder. I’m not willing to give up meat, and she’s not willing to give up her beliefs. It's as simple as that. Now things are incredibly awkward with one of my closer friends and I’m still spiraling into self loathing, where I belong.
She swore up and down that she absolutely still wants to be friends with me, but I’m not sure I believe her. The look she gave me when I told her I’d like to ask her out. It looked like sadness, but a small part of me is convinced it was pity, or worse, disgust and loathing, and that small part gave me ever shuts the fuck up. But anyway, she gave me permission to write about her.
She is one of the creepy fixtures of our little neighborhood after all. She told me to make her seem as insane and scary as I possibly could and that she should get to kill me at the end. She also handed me a few of her high school yearbooks, advised me to chat with another neighbor of ours who she went to school with, and to only use creepy rumors for the rest.
Part of me is really willing to describe her as awful, but that’s just my anger. I don’t like that part of me. Trista’s not a bad person at all. She’s just weird and she doesn’t want to date me. God damn it, Petunia’s right. I need therapy.
So, I’ve told the story of the sexy, scary lady living in a polycule here in the trailer park. I think she’s got a bigger heart than she lets on. I’ve talked about the stories surrounding the Schroeder Slaughterhouse. Now let’s talk about the hippy everyone thinks is a vampire.
She’s a taller woman, maybe five-seven or eight, and she’s skinny. Her typical wardrobe is… interesting. Try to imagine your typical new-age hippy/stoner girl, wearing colorful sarongs, crop-tops, beanies, baggy sweaters, T-shirts with colorful sayings on them, sandals, boots woven from some sort of exotic plant, beaded necklaces, bracelets, a few too many piercings and some intricate tattoos. Can you picture that kind of person? Well, take that and dip them in “goth” dye. Everything is black, and contrasts to her pale white complexion, her eyes are this unusual violet color, and then make the woman wearing all that seem kind of depressed about something. That’s the look Trista has going on. Like if Wednesday Addams was forced to dress up for Hippy Day.
I’ve heard people call her an emo vampire, but as a former emo myself, she doesn’t fill out all the criteria. She doesn’t typically wear any super tight pants or cake on the eyeshadow. I guess she’s just Trista. It might sound weird (and it is) but the whole thing suits her. Her style, tattoos, and complexion all create this image of skinny vampiric waif with a mysterious past and a freaky sarcastic attitude and I found the whole thing… kinda hot.
Trista keeps to herself. She’s made the most out of her little corner of the trailer park. Like I said, she decked out her unit with garden squares, and a Rabbit pen. No idea why she’s allowed to do that. A lot of these places don’t allow pets. I heard she was also trying to put in a beehive too, but her neighbors are fighting her on that one. Our park is a bit too condensed for bees. She has a permit to grow hemp, but of course it’s not for recreational use. She treats it and uses it to weave things like handbags, clothes, and other stuff. There’s a consignment store in town that sells all kinds of things Trista has crafted herself. So she’s handy and self sufficient too. She paints, she carves wood, she weaves, she crochets, she sews, and who knows what else. She’s so good at her little crafts that apparently she’s able to support herself just selling them and working part time at the Moonlight Inn outside of town.
She’s also relatively friendly. I almost feel bad calling her weird, but here’s the thing, I’ve seen some REALLY weird shit. People jokingly call her a vampire, and she seems to embrace that, but part of me seriously wonders. The big clue is, like I mentioned, she’s completely nocturnal. She’s always asleep during the day, and every blind and curtain is drawn tight. The one time she came out during the day, she had on this full body suit with a helmet with UV glass and everything. Even then, she only showed up to give Petunia a hug, before leaving again.
That was the first time I saw Trista, come to think of it. I was kind of intrigued. It was kind of hard not to be when someone shows up to a community cookout in a freaking astronaut suit. I approached Petunia after she left.
“Who the heck was that?” I wondered.
“MASON! I’m so glad you could make it! You’ve been here about three months now! How’d that job interview go?”
“Oh. It went well. I might be doing janitorial work soon.”
“Night shift?”
“Maybe. I’m not sure.”
“If it’s the night shift, you’ll definitely meet the person who just left. That’s Trista. She’s the girl with the rabbits in the far corner. Poor girl. She’s got a really bad skin condition. Can’t let sunlight touch her.”
“Oh. Is she like… albino or something?”
“No, she’s got pigment. I don’t remember what the condition is called. I guess it started in high school or something. You’d have to ask her. And hey! If you work the night shift, you’ll probably get to chat with her!”
Petunia wasn’t wrong. I started working as a nighttime janitor for a number of local businesses. That was when I first started noticing the pale goth hippy. She rides around on a moped, with her dark hair and her sarong barely billowing behind her. I couldn’t see her face through the helmet, but she waved to me as she passed by.
The next time I saw her, she was jogging, but here’s where it gets weird. When I first stepped outside, all I saw was a blur. It actually startled me as I whipped toward it, but then there was this skinny tattooed pixie, somehow still looking like a stonehippy/vampire in jogging gear. I swear she was moving inhumanly fast when I first noticed her. That was when we introduced ourselves. She actually jogged over to say hello.
“Hey! You’re the new guy right?”
“Oh, uh, yeah. My name’s Mason!” I reached out to shake the pretty girl’s hand, like an awkward loser. She smirked and shook my hand. Her grip was weirdly strong, and a bit cold.
“I’m Trista. I’m the weirdo in the back with the rabbits.”
“Trista… oh, are you the one who has a thing with sunlight? I think Petunia mentioned you.”
“Yup! That’s me. Xerodoma pigmentosum. Sunlight hurts. I hate that it hurts.” She lamented.
“That’s gotta be rough,” I said sympathetically.
“You get used to it. You work at night?”
“Yeah. Works better for me.”
“I get that.”
And so on and so on. She’s pretty cool, with a bit of hilarious snark in there. And she secretly procured recreational weed she was willing to share. I kept working the night shift just hoping for another chance to talk to her and possibly buy a joint. Eventually she invited me over to share a joint. The inside of her place was actually pretty sparse and spartan compared to the outside. Though she was a fan of hanging beads. Most of the main room was taken up by her various crafting projects and supplies. Hemp weaves, some paintings, and even a wood carving of what I think was a rabbit, but it wasn’t anywhere near complete.
I followed her to her kitchen where she reached into the very back of her pantry and pulled out a shoebox. Inside was her stash, but there was something else which I found very strange. It was a pack of syringes and a thing I assume is to sterilize syringes. I know what you’re thinking, and that was my first thought too. It’s a poor neighborhood, the woman already smokes weed illegally, it’s not that big a shock that maybe she was involved in other drugs too. I decided not to ask at the time. We shared our joint, and we laughed, a lot. She made fun of me for being a lightweight, while I got completely hypnotized staring at the patterns of a shawl she had woven.
Months went by and we got closer, but I couldn’t forget those syringes. After a while I got worried. I’ve seen what heroine does to people. So the next time I went over to smoke and eat (vegan) pizza with her, I asked.
“Trista? Are you using anything other than weed?”
“Drugs?”
“Yeah.”
“No. Why?”
“You can tell me if you are.”
“Mason, sweetheart, I’m a stoner. I don’t fuck around with anything else and I never have.”
“Really?”
“Really.”
“Okay. Can I ask what that set of syringes are for?”
“Oh. In my stash box? Those are… part of my condition. I don’t want to talk about it.”
“Oh. Is it like… embarrassing?”
“Yeah. So don’t ask. Can we just watch a movie?”
So I don't ask anymore. But I still have no idea what she does with those syringes. Based on what I read about that Xerodoma Pigmentosum thing she says she has, I have no clue what she would need to inject herself with.
Another time she asked me to check on her rabbits for her during the day, as her usual “sitter” had something come up. All I had to do was chop up the lettuce and carrots she left out. As I was enjoying the adorable fluffy faces, one of Trista’s neighbors, a woman named Bridget, poked her head outside her door.
“Hey. Do you know what Trista injects those rabbits with?”
“I… what?”
“I’ve seen her use syringes on those rabbits. She said she was just giving them medicine, but I swear I see her inject them every week.”
“I… I wouldn't know. She just asked me to feed them.”
“I love Trista, but that always seemed so weird. She has to know vaccines are a hoax!” I tuned the woman out after that one. My mind was on that set of syringes. Why would she be using them on rabbits? These things were her pets.
I was starting to crush on her by then. But I couldn’t help feeling weirded out by that. I was actually going to confront her, but the next time I came to visit, she was literally inside the Rabbit hutch, on her back, squealing with delight as her rabbit friends nuzzled and played with her.
“Bonnibelle! That tickles! Marcy! No chewing. Finn? Watch where you’re sticking that foot! Jake? Where are you? EEEEE Lumpy! Not the neck!”
It was as silly and adorable as it sounds. She was forced to whip herself upright when two of her little friends tried to burrow under her dress. She finally stood up with a laugh, cradling a rabbit in her arms and cooing at it.
There was just no way in hell this woman was doing anything that would hurt these animals. Bridget is a paranoid antivax weirdo anyway. If Trista was using syringes on the rabbits, I was convinced it was only for their benefit.
So life went on. I got more and more reclusive over the years. Petunia, Trista, and my next door neighbor Fred were the only things keeping me remotely connected to the outside. And so we get to now. So let’s see. What are the stories about the weird vampire woman?
Well, there’s the fact that she jogs at night, solo, in a poor neighborhood. Petunia keeps the shitty people contained and behaving for the most part, but I still wouldn’t exactly call it safe, especially for a young skinny woman. But she does it without a care in the world.
There’s one strange event that some people like to connect to this. I never knew this guy, but from what I hear he was a total weirdo who leered at anyone even remotely female. And this is despite the fact he was married. His name was Josh.
I remember him a bit. He’s the guy that Petunia chased away from one of her barbecues. Supposedly he was heard saying inappropriate things to the groups of ten year old girls that were playing in the bounce house Petunia rented. Telling them how pretty they were. Trying to coax them to take off their jackets. Police reports were filed but ultimately nothing could be proven. The guy's wife, Carole, always defends him for some reason.
But anyway, I remember hanging out with Trista one night a little over a year ago. She hadn’t gone jogging like she normally did. I asked her what was up with that.
“That weirdo, Josh has started catcalling when I pass his place. It weirds me out.”
“There aren’t other people who do that at night? I’m still shocked you jog alone.”
“Not like this. I can flip off a wolf whistler. But this guy… he keeps trying to get me to stop and talk to him, and when I don’t? He shouts about my ass. I’m gonna have to talk to Petunia about that shithead, if anybody can reign him in, it’s her.”
I’m gonna guess she never got a chance. Two days later, the whole town was awoken by sirens. I was getting ready for my shift when I heard them. I walked down the road a bit to see if I could figure out what was going on. The cops were heading toward the other side of the park, so I couldn’t see much. But I did notice Trista, in her jogging gear, skulking in the shadows. I wondered if she was in trouble. But before I could call out to her, she sprinted straight to Petunia's house and banged on the door. Petunia welcomed her inside, and that was all I saw. I still wasn’t sure what was going on, so I just shrugged and headed to work, figuring I’d text Trista later.
I didn’t learn till later that Josh was found dead. He was lying prone, face down, partly hidden by bushes at the edge of the park. His neck was cut open. He’d bled out rapidly. He had a knife in his hand, and officially it’s believed he fell on it and accidentally killed himself. There was a cocktail of drugs in his system so most people accept that explanation. But others swear they saw Trista out for her jog around the same time Josh would have been bleeding to death. She got questioned, and she swore she didn’t see anything. Without evidence, there was nothing else that could be proven.
Trista’s a friend. I know that guy was being creepy to her. So I’m happy to take her word for what happened, even if my seeing her going to Petunia’s pokes a bit of a hole in that. I can’t be sure it was Trista though. So I’m not saying a word. But if a certain creep attacked a certain lady who is rumored to be a vampire, it’s not that surprising to me that he ended up dead after bleeding to death. I’m not all that broken up about it.
I’m not the one spreading that story. Josh’s wife was the one who started the rumor. So now some people are even more convinced that the weird nocturnal hippy chick is secretly a vampire.
She’s no killer. No matter what they say. She would only have defended herself.
So that’s all the stories I’ve heard that have any credibility to them. There’s more people who swear she and Petunia perform weird rituals, and people who saw her moving “inhumanly fast” and such.
But now I have to share what I found in the yearbooks Trista gave me. I wasn’t really expecting much. I checked her senior yearbook out first. She looks about the same. Pale, goth, hippy, and sort of sad. She kind of looks even sadder in these photos if I’m being honest, but that’s high school for you. She graduated in the top half of her class, no sports or extracurriculars. I’m left wondering how she managed to go to school at the time of sun was so bad for her. I’ll have to ask her about that. So nothing really new there.
It was the yearbook from her junior year where things got really interesting. I was in shock when I found her. Trista is somehow impossible to miss, but unrecognizable all at once. She’s full of color! She wore more typical tie dye hippy attire. Bright vibrant pinks, reds, blues, greens, and yellows, in every photo, and holy shit was she busy. Captain of the soccer team, first chair flutist, president of the “green living” club and the “vegan alliance,” top ten in her class, it was all incredible. I think the main reason I didn’t recognize her was her skin. It was tan, as though she were out in the sun a lot. Furthermore there were photos of her playing sports and standing outside in bright sunlight.
It was like her disease wasn’t there, which confused me. She told me it was something called Xeroderma Pigmentosa. But that’s a genetic condition. She would have had that from birth.
I sent her a text, wondering about this.
- Hey! Just went through your yearbooks. What happened? You had color? Did you discover Linkin Park?
- My disease happened. Right at the end of Jr. year. That’s why I wasn’t there for the final class photo.
- But your disease is genetic… isn’t it?
- I guess it was dormant in me.
- So it just… happened?
- Pretty much.
- I’m sorry.
- I got over it. Mostly. It was hard. My parents were both hardcore vegan naturalists and we lived in a place that was all natural light and such, so I had to live in a shed for a bit while they built a space for me. But in my family? We kinda lean into whatever life throws at us. It took months of depression to come to terms with it. All of a sudden I couldn’t be out in the sun, and I had new dietary needs that absolutely required non-vegan sources. So I leaned into it. I was a vampire now. I can dig dark colors and “vampire style.” I could make it my own by avoiding leather. And I’d be as vegan as I possibly could.
- You’re kind of awesome.
- Damn straight. So I learned to love the night too and now, here I am.
I gained new respect for her after that. Frankly I feel kinda shitty about making fun of her for being a vampire. There might not be anything paranormally weird about her after all.
She sent me one more text telling me I should talk to a guy named Frankie. She’d gone to school with him. He’s a decent enough guy. Works in the Bicounty mall in town.
I had to wait a day or two for another of Petunia’s get togethers to talk to him.
“Hey!” I said awkwardly as I tried to figure out how to strike up conversation with someone I haven’t really spoken to in a long time. “Frankie, right?”
“Oh. Yeah. Been a while. How are you Mason? You okay after that whole thing at Red Nights?”
“I’m trying to be. Look, I’ll cut to the chase. You went to school with Trista Ramone, right?”
“Ol’ Boho Ramone? Yeah. We were sort of friendly. But I was a jerk to vegans back then. Why do you ask?”
“I’ve been hanging out with her. She’s being all mysterious.” He chuckled at that. “She said I should talk to you to learn more about her… weirdness? Everyone thinks she’s a vampire now.”
“She’s totally a vampire. I have no idea what else to call her?”
“Why do you say that?”
“What did she tell you about school?”
“Nothing. She just showed me two yearbooks. Between Junior and Senior year she went from colorful club president, to lonely vampire, because of her disease.”
“Nah man. I don’t want to talk bad about her. But she was kind of a bitch, junior year. She wasn’t just a colorful vegan. She was one of those “holier than thou” types who scoffed and talked down to anyone who dared to eat meat. Her “hippy” thing meant she never hung out with the popular girls but still, she acted like she owned the place at times. I was friends with this weird guy named Steven Jones. He was just kind of a weirdo. Skulking around in the background, you know? He HATED Trista. For a while I totally understood. I thought she was kinda stuck up. But this guy was like… irrationally enraged by that girl’s existence. I guess he tried to ask her out when he was a freshman and she politely declined. But he took that shit personally.”
“Huh. So like… why’s that matter?”
“Because Steven kept saying to anyone who gave him a second look, that he was gonna ‘ruin’ her. Never elaborated. But then the last month of school rolls around, Trista gets assaulted by an unknown assailant and a week later she’s got this new disease. Meanwhile, Steven spent a week strutting around the school looking smug, and saying ‘she got what she deserved.’ Then he disappears too. Teachers said he moved away.”
“She was assaulted?”
“Yeah. Someone in a face wrap tackled her while she was at one of her protests at the meat factory. The dude freaking BIT her.”
“Jesus.”
“Yeah. I was there. I came to the protest. I’ll admit I was trying to hit on Trista or one of the other girls there. But yeah. Dude dressed in all gray with a face wrap just charged in and went right for Trista. Knocked her down, bit her like a freaking zombie, then ran away before anyone could stop him. Didn’t even take his face wrap off. It was freaky, man.”
“What the actual fuck.”
“That’s what we all said. Trista needed a stitch. But while she was at the hospital, I guess she started getting more symptoms. She was out for the rest of the year. From then on, she was like she is now. Total vampire.”
“Was Steven a vampire?”
“I dunno. Probably. Little dickhead is what he is. Must have been him that attacked Trista, but nobody could prove it. Bite mark didn’t match or something. So why are you asking? You hang out with her at night right? You asking her out or something?”
“Oh. No. Just a friend.”
That was all I really learned from Frankie. It’s quite a story, and it’s full of unknowns that Trista refuses to explain. So I guess I’ll let readers be the judge. Is she a “real” vampire? Or just a weirdo? All I know is, she’s totally standing behind me right now and now I’m dead. Bleh.
I did come back to life to talk to Trista once I finished writing this. She enjoyed it. I may as well include that interaction.
I went to her place on my night off. She read my take on her and what the neighbors thought and she grinned. “Ha! I’m a total monster!” She chuckled. “So. What do YOU think, Mason? Am I a vampire?” She cocked an eye and playfully gnashes her teeth at me, making a pleasant little click.
I sighed. “No idea. You’re Trista. And… you’re my friend. I’m sorry if I made things awkward.”
She looked surprised by that. “Aw. Thanks Mason. You’re my friend too. It’s okay. I’m flattered.”
“You don’t have to explain.”
“So we’re cool?”
“Absolutely not. We’re both weird shut ins.” She laughed. It was good to hear her laugh. It made me happy.
“Yeah but I got the ‘mysterious vampire’ thing going.”
“You have dirt in your hair from rolling around with bunnies. And you’re a vegan.”
“Bite me.”
“Says the vampire.”
“You know, if I were a vampire, I could have bitten you when we both went to the slaughterhouses a few weeks ago.”
“That just makes me stupid.”
“You’re not stupid, Mason. You’re not a loser either.”
“So. You know of any other good spooky town stories that I can do next?
“Oh, sure. You ever heard the tale of Salome? She was a witch who would mash up the seeds of a Sinapis Alba plant to make a diabolical potion she’d dump on herself. They called her the ‘Witch of the Sands.’”
I’m embarrassed to admit it took me four days to realize Trista was just fucking with me. I only figured it out when I looked up Sinapis Alba and learned that mashing the seeds just makes mustard. “Salomi the sand-witch.” Well played, vampire hippy…
Sexy Neighbor
Haunted Slaughterhouse

22 years old, severe chronic right side neck pain for the past 2 1/2 years with no injury .. mri diagnosis is degenerative disc disease, but the pain is only getting worse. Around the time when the pain began, I noticed I started to lose a lot of access to the brain, trouble forming thoughts, loss of my inner voice, and stuttered speech. Other symptoms include: unexplained weight loss, cold chills during the day always needing a heated blanket, bruising very easily, insomnia, my vision progressively gets worse, no energy/appetite. I live in a place with very little access to health care & specialists and seem to never be taken seriously due to my age and the pain I explain, also feeling like they are trying to treat symptoms individually, instead of looking at the whole picture. I do feel very sick in my body for most of my life but is only getting worse.

For a long time I've been on tinder or meeting girls just kinda hoping I'll match or meet up with a girl and she will surprise me with huge pancake areolas...well for half a year that hasn't happened maybe a couple times girls had some big ones. Well somehow just in the last 3 days this girl sexy as hell is sending me pictures and she sends me one of this Lacey shirt and u can kinda see through it and her areolas are hufe, just what I was hoping for. Large paleish brownish with nice circles that can't even fully be covered by hands. I thought I was lucky enough when earlier today I matched with a chubbier paler girl with boobs a little bit smaller. She also whipped out a pair of big areolas . Not as big as the first girl but when comparing the ratio p of the boob size they are very similar in size. This girl has more puffy and bumpy pinkish ones .. uggg and I gonna get even more lucky?

My mom has a flash drive with a bunch of pictures on it. It's 10GB and has 361mb of space.
Here's what happens: - I plug it in - Wait 1 min - Drive shows up in explorer - Clicks on drive and explorer stops responding - Try accessing drive via disk digger, application stops responding - Red light on drive does blink
We need these photos for my grandmother's funeral next week. Any help would be appreciated

I lived with my ndad for years. I finally moved out, and he started acting weird. He started stalking a woman he worked with, and I followed the courts advice and sought guardianship over him to try to get him help and to better take care of him. He'd love bombed me when I moved out, so I thought he'd be willing to treat me decently.
I was wrong. He's been diagnosed with frontotemporal dementia, and it's been hell.
The second I got a job, everything was a fight with him. I was the breadwinner, and working on a podcast that was extremely traumatic due to the subject material, and he would come back to my house and berate me for not doing enough for him. He refused to contribute. He refused to be kind, or respectful, or even try. He would straight up tell me that my partner needed to get a new job that paid more so I could focus on taking care of him.
He recently violated the PPO again, and got 45 days in jail. For 37 days, I had peace. I started a new job.Then they let him out early. The stress led to my performance at work dropping and me being dismissed at my 90 day mark. This was the second dream job in a row I had been let go from due to his impact on me. He throws a fit anytime I start moving forward, because he thinks that I should be waiting on him hand and foot, and making sure he's stocked up with cigarettes and red meat.
I was forced to pick him up from jail and it was nothing but insults, venom and vitriol. He immediately told me that I won and he was done stalking. (This was a lie, he lasted another 3 weeks before he violated again)
I called Adult protective services and reported myself as neglectful. The court had forced me to find my own replacement, and everyone I called either said no or never returned my calls.
Well, he violated the PPO again, and I wrote a couple of letters to the court. One to the probate court begging to put him in the care of professionals, and another to the judge where I told the court my ndad is a danger to himself and others. I found out the charges are being upgraded to criminal stalking because there's more protections for victims, but more importantly I found out that APS filed to replace me as guardian.
He'll be in jail on 6/3, and I will be free from being responsible for him on 6/11. I have no intention of talking to him ever again. I read "Why does he do that" by Lundy Bancroft and it changed my life. I highlighted 200+ passages in the book that I felt were applicable to him. It gave me closure.
He's never going to view me as an adult, and he's never going to change except for getting worse. I managed to save his house from foreclosure, and got him insured and on social security. He keeps fucking that up, and refused to let me handle his bills because he was afraid of me using his money to control him. He's going broke buying cigarettes and sugar, and that's on him, not me.
A word to the wise for everyone: don't even think about getting guardianship over a narcissistic parent. They will only use their disease as an excuse to further abuse you. Dementia makes people more themselves, for better or worse. For my ndad, it's been much worse.
You aren't abandoning your abuser, no matter what they claim. You're walking away because you deserve better, and they refuse to do the bare basics to keep you around.
Be safe. I'll be celebrating for all of us who are still trapped once I'm not his guardian anymore.

I'm not a photographer, so I don't really understand how you get those circles in your pictures.
This is my code, still improving: You will need from scipy.ndimage import gaussian_filter
# Trying To Create A More Realistic Lens Flare
def create_lens_flare(image_width, image_height):
center_x, center_y = image_width // 2, image_height // 2
Y, X = np.ogrid[:image_height, :image_width]
dist_from_center = np.sqrt((X - center_x)**2 + (Y - center_y)**2)
max_dist = np.sqrt(center_x**2 + center_y**2)
# Main flare
intensity = np.clip(1 - (dist_from_center / max_dist), 0, 1)
flare = intensity * 255
blurred_flare = gaussian_filter(flare, sigma=20) # Adjust for size
​
# Secondary flares
secondary_flare = np.zeros((image_height, image_width))
num_secondary_flares = 5
flare_positions = [(np.random.randint(0, image_width), np.random.randint(0, image_height)) for _ in range(num_secondary_flares)]
for (fx, fy) in flare_positions:
dist_from_secondary = np.sqrt((X - fx)**2 + (Y - fy)**2)
intensity_secondary = np.clip(1 - (dist_from_secondary / max_dist), 0, 1)
secondary_flare += intensity_secondary * 255
secondary_flare = gaussian_filter(secondary_flare, sigma=10) # Adjust for size
​
# Combine flares
combined_flare = np.clip(blurred_flare + secondary_flare, 0, 255)
​
# Add color to the flare
color_flare = np.zeros((image_height, image_width, 3), dtype=np.uint8)
color_flare[..., 0] = combined_flare * np.random.uniform(0.8, 1.0) # Red
color_flare[..., 1] = combined_flare * np.random.uniform(0.4, 0.8) # Green
color_flare[..., 2] = combined_flare * np.random.uniform(0.0, 0.4) # Blue
​
return color_flare
​
Then create a new:
elif bg_source == BGSource.LENS_FLARE:
input_bg = create_lens_flare(image_width, image_height)
Then:
class BGSource(Enum):
NONE = "None"
LEFT = "Left Light"
RIGHT = "Right Light"
TOP = "Top Light"
BOTTOM = "Bottom Light"
# Extra Lighting Options
TOP_LEFT = "Top Left Light"
BOTTOM_LEFT = "Bottom Left Light"
TOP_RIGHT = "Top Right Light"
BOTTOM_RIGHT = "Bottom Right Light"
CENTER = "Center Light"
DIAGONAL_TOP_LEFT_TO_BOTTOM_RIGHT = "Diagonal Light Top Left to Bottom Right"
DIAGONAL_TOP_RIGHT_TO_BOTTOM_LEFT = "Diagonal Light Top Right to Bottom Left"
SPOTLIGHT = "Spotlight"
PARALLEL_RIGHT = "Parallel Right Light"
​
# Wroking on it
LENS_FLARE = "Lens Flare"
Can anyone guide me on how you would implement these 1-2 circles at this specific distance in an image based on the size of the image? I have tried to create them, though it works but it doesn't look like the flair to me. Once everything is fixed, everything will be available for free on GitHub.

My mom has a flash drive with a bunch of pictures on it. It's 10GB and has 361mb of space.
Here's what happens: - I plug it in - Wait 1 min - Drive shows up in explorer - Clicks on drive and explorer stops responding - Try accessing drive via disk digger, application stops responding - Red light on drive does blink
We need these photos for my grandmother's funeral next week. Any help would be appreciated

What do I do? It's really bugging me. I've been finding naked women pictures in my dad's gallery and I've been catching him watching videos of women dancing wearing revealing clothes. I find it really weird and creepy most especially cause he's married. I also saw him following pages that posts girls wearing bikinis and revealing clothing.
I don't want my view of him to change, he's a really good dad and we're really close, it's just weird finding him watching and looking at these content. I already talked to him about it and he just avoided it and I don't want to tell my mom cause they might fight over it (they've fought about my dad's exes in the past and almost seperated so I'm afraid to tell my mom)
It feels really wrong for me, is this normal? What do I do? Should I just let him be? and now that I thought of it, I've heard weird comments he makes about women sometimes, like how he often make comments about women's clothing and the way he jokes around younger female co-workers... I've seen it and it feels weird.
I don't want my view of him to change but I just can't keep ignoring the red flags, right?

Hi everyone,
I was replacing a few outlets and light fixtures at a friends 190x something house he recently bought. Breaker box is from around 2001 but the house wiring itself is like a "history of house wiring" museum. There are old porcelain tubes (without any wires around them) still present next to the breaker box in the basement, old BX cable, and several generations of NM visible throughout the house.
https://imgur.com/a/XiZb2Hp
But I didn't find any actual K&T wiring until I pulled off a ceiling light fixture that had a (relatively) recent NM cable jammed into the same knockout as a much older cloth-covered cable. The "cloth" cable has a black rubber-insulated wire inside as well as an "orangeish" wire that I am guessing is a discolored old neutral? The black wire from this cable is hot when I tested it. The newer NM in the box runs to the switch that controlled this light.
That didn't sit right with me so I pulled out the pancake box (which was roughly screwed into the lathe behind the plaster ceiling with four square head drywall screws. The attached pictures are what I saw in the ceiling cavity.
Obviously there is K&T running above the ceiling (and below the floor above) but I can't be sure if the cloth wires I'm seeing here are being fed from K&T. It's hard to make out but it looks like some kind of splice that is suspiciously close to that old K&T.
What do you think is happening here and what would you do to address? I was considering pulling up a few boards from the floor above assuming they're face nailed (obviously with the power off) and investigating further before jumping to any conclusions.