5 Things to Understand About Toxic People 🚩
• They drain your energy — leaving you exhausted, anxious & depleted after every interaction.
• Master manipulators — guilt trips, gaslighting & victim-playing to control you and twist reality.
• Zero accountability — they blame everyone else and never own their mess.
• Boundary destroyers — they ignore limits, demand constant attention & get jealous when you choose yourself.
• Contagious negativity — their pessimism slowly poisons your mindset, confidence & other relationships.
“You don’t find peace, you choose it. By what you ignore, by what you release, by what you stop giving energy to.” — Bruce Lee
Toxic friends & family can be the difference between your success and failure.
Cutting them off hurts like hell — the guilt, the grief, the “but they’re blood” pressure. But the peace on the other side? Worth every tear. Your nervous system finally relaxes. Your energy comes back. You stop shrinking to keep them comfortable.
Build your own table. You deserve the seat. 🪑
Beware of DARVO (Deny, Attack, Reverse Victim & Offender) — the classic manipulation playbook. If someone uses it, run.
In the garden of hearts, weeds bloom with innocent thorns… blind to the wilt they sow.
#ToxicPeople #MentalHealth #Boundaries #PersonalGrowth #ChoosePeace
There is one news story that I will never forget in this lifetime. It is about a man named Avijit Sarkar.
He was the first person to be killed by the TMC after winning the 2021 West Bengal Vidhan Sabha election.
Minutes before his gruesome murder, Avijit Sarkar took to Facebook to narrate that he had been surrounded by a mob of TMC workers.
He did not know what was written in his destiny on that fateful night. Look at the date - 2nd May 2021.
This was the last time Avijit posted on Facebook.
In the following weeks, TMC workers killed a dozen more people as part of a coordinated wave of political violence.
But the story of Avijit Sarkar never left my mind.
Avijit was holding a puppy in his hand and narrating his ordeal. At that point, he did not know that he would be killed.
I was tasked to translate his dying testimony from Bangla to English so that non-Bengalis can know his story.
Bangla is my mother tongue, and every word he spoke captivated the anxiety that a man experiences when his life is in danger.
While writing the news report, I broke down several times because I knew what happened after the video ended. It was a traumatic experience.
Death has always been a triggering subject for me. The fact that I was new to this industry and that I was already suffering from mental health issues made it worse.
It has been 5 years since that incident. Tears have dried up, but not the rage that continues to stir inside me.
This is why I have taken a pledge. As long as I am alive, I will make sure that the story of Avijit lives on.
I will leave you with something I wrote in my diary back then -
"Ek din bichar hobe. Ek din sasti hobe, adalat e na hole rastai" ( One day, there will be justice. One day, the perpetrators will be punished, either in court or on the road).
@JadedStock@NCMIndiaa In UP, report liquor overcharging (above MRP) to the Excise Dept helpline: 14405 (toll-free) or WhatsApp 9454466019. Provide shop details, video/receipt as proof.
Nationally: National Consumer Helpline 1915 or WhatsApp 8800001915.
They investigate and can fine the shop.
It appears that a Polymarket account called "Magamyman" made $515,000 in a single day betting on last night's U.S. strike on Iran, with the first trade placed 71 minutes before the news broke publicly.
When this person bought in, the market had this at a 17% probability. They turned roughly $87,000 into over half a million dollars overnight.
Reminder that Donald Trump Jr. sits on Polymarket's advisory board and his firm invested double-digit millions into the platform last year. The DOJ and CFTC both had active investigations into Polymarket that were dropped after Trump took office.
Prediction markets cannot be a vehicle for profiting off advance knowledge of military action.
We need answers, transparency, and oversight.
This story is actually insane:
• dude drops $2000 on a DJI robot vacuum like a lunatic
• refuses to use the normal app like a peasant
• Sammy Azdoufal fires up Claude to crack the API so he can drive it with an xbox controller
• Claude delivers the goods
• pulls an auth token from their servers, connects successfully
• except the system thinks he controls 7000 vacuums
• checks again
• yep, seven thousand
• DJI built authentication with zero device ownership verification
• any valid token works for any unit on the planet
• Sammy now has eyes inside homes across 24 countries
• live vacuum camera feeds everywhere
• full floor plans from the mapping data
• some guy in germany eating cereal at 3am, unaware his roomba is snitching
• one API call away from being the most informed burglar in history
• all he wanted was to steer his vacuum with a joystick
• does the right thing and reports it
• DJI fixes it in two days
• back to normal life with his stupidly expensive floor cleaner
• IoT companies stay undefeated at shipping garbage security