New update: Phone that I bought on 6 January now also having problems

14 January: The phone that I bought on 6 January got a system update yesterday, oddly enough, and then it stopped doing data, similarly as what happened with my other two recently bought phones. Yes, I’ve just verified it. It’s not the SIM card, it’s the phone. Yes, I’ve reset it.

That is, the temporary SIM card (for a different network) that I used after my other SIM cards suddenly stopped working, that got activated remotely by a woman whose voice sounded like that of the woman in the flat below me (coincidence or voice cloning?) and who asked me a lot of questions such as where I had bought the SIM card and who had to call me back in order to activate the card and who told me at least twice that if I didn’t want to auto-top-up, even though I had no payment method registered, I had to log in on the day before the credit ran out, ran out of credit yesterday. After that, the phone stopped going online, but the system software update came first.

(During the call, she also kept asking me to go online, which I obviously couldn’t.)

I now have 5 phones, none of which are fully functional. These 5 phones can hold 8 SIM cards. When you set up these phones, the three later ones, it says that the phone network operator, phone manufacturer and Google can force updates onto the phones, whether you like it or not. You can’t stop these “updates”. This offers ill-willing folks a perfect avenue to mess with your phone.

Or is this all related to the phone make, somehow? I’ll explore that next. (Nope, can’t find anything on that.) (Will try something else next.)

A thought… Could it be some anti-crime or counter-terrorism thing that I am running into? Because I (am forced to) have so many different phones and SIM cards? And/or so many different gmail addresses? Or do they think I am a conspiracy nut because the utterly bat-shit-crazy stuff that goes on in Portsmouth indeed is beyond belief?

Remember, however, that several of my earlier phones actually got “fried” because of all the hacking and that it’s also happened that my phone – one of the ones I no longer have – no longer connected to the nearest cellphone tower for a while. I had to leave the flat and walk into Lake Road or into Fratton Road beyond Lake Road. That was at the end of 2016.

(See below; I’ve unsuccessfully tried to get wired broadband now to get around this nonsense.)

Health-wise, I am definitely starting to do a lot better. (Jeez, I’m in bad shape though. I really need to catch up on exercise. That’s what I am doing and I am also trying to eat as healthy as possible.)

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Narrated by Eddie Marsan

I first saw Eddie Marsan on “Ray Donovan”. He’s quickly becoming one of my favorite actors.

In a 2018 interview with The Scotsman, he said: “I thought, the Americans think I can do anything, and the British see me as a thief with two lines. So that’s why I don’t work much in the UK.”

He’s now narrated this two-part documentary about Broadmoor for ITV, though.

It, too, is about diversity and inclusivity, about the need to create a more compassionate world, in which children don’t suffer. That’s not the whole story. I know. But do watch it, please.

Part 1: https://www.itv.com/watch/broadmoor/2a2965/2a2965a0001

Part 2: https://www.itv.com/watch/broadmoor/2a2965/2a2965a0002


ITV also got Eddie Marsan to play John Darwin in its four-part series “The Thief, His Wife and The Canoe” (2022). The story is a little depressing, but this series is brimming with brilliant acting, from everyone involved.

Health disparities: Black and Hispanic Americans are less likely to receive CPR in public spaces



https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2200798

Racial and Ethnic Differences in Bystander CPR for Witnessed Cardiac Arrest

List of authors.

  • R. Angel Garcia, M.D.,
  • John A. Spertus, M.D., M.P.H.,
  • Saket Girotra, M.D.,
  • Brahmajee K. Nallamothu, M.D., M.P.H.,
  • Kevin F. Kennedy, B.S.,
  • Bryan F. McNally, M.D., M.P.H.,
  • Khadijah Breathett, M.D.,
  • Marina Del Rios, M.D.,
  • Comilla Sasson, M.D., Ph.D.,
  • and Paul S. Chan, M.D.

Harry, the interview

https://www.itv.com/watch/harry-the-interview/10a3975


12 January update
Read this too: https://edition.cnn.com/2023/01/12/opinions/spare-prince-harry-review-masculinity-culture-wars-staples/index.html


I think Harry is doing the right thing and I think that what he is doing will have a much broader impact than he imagines (because he moves in a small segment of society, I figured, but later in the interview, I realized that he does see that broader context very well).

He is right. Some things really need to change, how paparazzi behave being one of them. I sometimes see left-wing media do the same things that the tabloids do, twist things totally out of proportion and turn them into horror stories that get picked up abroad but that never really happened (not the way they were presented in those media). There’s too much mud-slinging and ethics are often absent.

He’s also on a healing journey. He is going through what some people go through after a horrendously bad relationship after they finally break away. He is owning his truth, his life. He’s choosing a life of his own.

I am one of the many many people who still remember what they were doing when his mother died. I was meeting a half-French friend of mine, in Amstelveen. I took the bus. I may have been late because of the news. I think so. (I think I called her before I left. Those were the days before mobile phones.) Together, we watched French TV. I don’t think we did much else than that that day, besides eat.

I too, until now, had always thought that the tunnel was a long one, like under the Meuse River or under the IJ.

I also still remember when my mother died. I was 14. Harry was 12 when his died. Mine had been ill for years. Harry’s perished because of a car crash.

Dads never know what to say, Harry. Mine woke me up, asked how I had slept and then said that my mother was asleep too (had fallen asleep?), something along those lines. I remember thinking “okay, that’s alright, then”, something like that. Next, my dad said that she was not merely asleep. “Oh.” I thought. “Oh.”

I went to school, stopped by at the office of the head of the school or whatever the guy’s role was, because I had been told to do so, and told him very calmly in a matter-of-fact tone: “ik kom u even vertellen dat mijn moeder vannacht is overleden”, sort of similar to how you and your brother felt when you had to shake all those people’s hands, I suppose.

(I think the guy was a little shocked because of my calm tone.)

(As if throwing a teary-eyed tantrum would have brought her back. Besides, she had been in a lot of pain and now all that pain was gone.)

One girl in my class asked me “maar vind je het dan niet erg dat je moeder is overleden?” and I thought to myself “how can you ask such a stupid question?”. (Did she ask that because I wasn’t crying non-stop?) My mother had been ill for years, seriously ill, but even then, it takes you a while to absorb it. That she’s really gone. It’s still sudden. The idea that someone close to you suddenly no longer exists is really odd when you’re still young. People have no idea. One of my mother’s sisters, my aunt, had passed away pretty suddenly shortly earlier. But she wasn’t part of our household. That’s different.

I didn’t go see her after she had died. At the funeral home. My sisters did. They were younger. I wanted to remember my mother the way she had been when she was still alive (and not ill). My sisters didn’t have the luxury of my memories.

But Harry needs to move on now, for his own sake. I think he knows that.

There are lots of people with the same (similar) story and there are lots of people who, like the paparazzi, just don’t get it. That’s life.

Maybe he can help change some things in society. Because of the impact he has, as a British prince.

I hope so.


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Does it matter how tall Rishi Sunak is?

Does it matter that Rishi Sunak is the shortest male UK Prime Minister since Winston Churchill? Of course not. I made a two-part video in response to this item in The Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2023/jan/06/is-it-really-better-to-be-tall-we-ask-an-expert

See various links below.

Products and solutions for tall people
https://peoplelivingtall.com/

Besides what I say in the video about fashion effects, could it even be that the more westernized a society is, the more emphasis it places on height? White people tend to be taller. Chinese people and other Asians have not only been undergoing surgery to become taller but also to make their eyes look more western (Caucasian).

There is also a north-south height difference within continental Europe. The southern countries tended to be poorer. People in prosperous egalitarian countries tend to be taller. But what about the Masai? As Majid Ezzati states, genetic factors also play a role. I’ll come back to that.

If you put too much emphasis on the belief that tall people are more capable, then you start disadvantaging shorter people. That way, the belief turns into reality. This is how discrimination works. It’s why black people suffered more during the pandemic than whites, for example.

Besides, having a lot of tall people carries a high environmental burden as tall people take up more space in transport and require more resources (bigger furniture, more fabric for clothes, more food).

For the record, I’m Dutch and my dad was a milkman until I was 12 or 13 or so, so I grew up on lots and lots of dairy. So did my two younger sisters, though it likely applied more strongly to me. I am as tall as Rishi Sunak. For a long time, I was the youngest and the tallest in my classes because I had relatively long legs (fast runner). As of my teens, that changed and I was no longer the tallest at all. Both my sisters are taller than I am. They are Nordic/Germanic types, whereas I have more southern European looks. We have French and Nordic as well as Germanic heritage in the family.

I remember the Dutch school milk program that Majid Ezzati mentions in item in The Guardian from when I was a child. I don’t think it’s still running. The UK should introduce it. Make it creamy Chocomel or the like. Then kids will see it as a treat, while they get important nutrients at the same time. They can have it during their 10:30 break or at the start of their classes in the morning. You can fortify milk too, can’t you? This way you get big benefits at a doable cost and it’s simple to implement. Lactose-intolerant kids can have oat milk instead.

Links

“Why no adult stunting penalty or height premium? Estimates from native Amazonians in Bolivia” by
Ricardo Godoy, Oyunbileg Magvanjav, Colleen Nyberg, Dan T A Eisenberg, Thomas W McDade, William R Leonard, Victoria Reyes-García, Tomás Huanca, Susan Tanner, Clarence Gravlee (TAPS Bolivia Study Team)
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19766067/

“Why are the Dutch so tall?” by BBC
https://youtu.be/q_lDTOIJ4xA

About height reduction surgery in the Netherlands:
“7 centimeter korter: lange kinderen laten groeischijf kapotmaken” by NOS Nieuws
https://nos.nl/artikel/2298678-7-centimeter-korter-lange-kinderen-laten-groeischijf-kapotmaken

“Reduction of excessive height in boys by bilateral percutaneous epiphysiodesis around the knee” by
Roelof J Odink,Willem Jan Gerver, Minne Heeg, Catrienus W Rouwé,Willie M Bakker van Waarde and Pieter J Sauer
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16249931/


“Would you have your legs broken to make yourself taller? The men who go through hell for a little extra height” by Simon Usborne
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2022/nov/09/would-you-have-your-legs-broken-to-make-yourself-taller-the-men-who-go-through-hell-for-a-little-extra-height

“New insight on height, arthritis” by Peter Reuell
https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2017/07/new-insight-on-height-arthritis/

“Science says being tall could make you richer and more successful — here’s why” by Shana Lebowitz
https://www.businessinsider.com/tall-people-are-richer-and-successful-2015-9

“The Stature of the Self-Employed and its Premium” by Cornelius A. Rietveld, Jolanda Hessels and Peter van der Zwan
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2483038

“The Effect of Adolescent Experience on Labor Market Outcomes: The Case of Height” by Nicola Persico, Andrew Postlewaite and Dan Silverman
https://www.sas.upenn.edu/~apostlew/paper/pdf/short.pdf

“Stature and status: height, ability, and labor market outcomes” by Anne Case and Christina Paxson
https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w12466/w12466.pdf

“The height premium in Indonesia” by Kitae Sohn
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24480546/

“Two by two, inch by inch: Height as an indicator of environmental conditions during childhood and its influence on earnings over the life cycle among twins” by Elisabeth Lång and Paul Nystedt
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1570677X17301715

“Long-term changes of socioeconomic differences in height among young adult men in Southern Sweden, 1818-1968” by Stefan Öberg
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25212182/
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/265128963_Long-term_changes_of_socioeconomic_differences_in_height_among_young_adult_men_in_Southern_Sweden_1818-1968

“Big and tall: Does a height premium dwarf an obesity penalty in the labor market?” by Wang-Sheng Lee
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29055650/



Could it be that tall people live shorter lives? Take a look at these five articles and decide for yourself.

“I Wish I Was a Little Bit Shorter. The research is clear: Being tall is hazardous to your health” by Brian Palmer
https://slate.com/technology/2013/07/height-and-longevity-the-research-is-clear-being-tall-is-hazardous-to-your-health.html

“Impact of height and weight on life span” by T T Samaras and L H Storms
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/1600586/ (1992)

“Evidence That Short People Live Longer: What We Know” by Cory Whelan
https://www.healthline.com/health/do-short-people-live-longer#the-science

“Is height related to longevity?” by Thomas T Samaras, Harold Elrick and Lowell H Storms
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/12586217/ (2003)

“Human growth, height, size: Reasons to be small” by Thomas Samaras
https://www.news-medical.net/news/20110315/Human-growth-height-size-Reasons-to-be-small.aspx


The Oprah Winfrey social experiment:

“The Daring Racism Experiment That People Still Talk About 20 Years Later” by Lisa Capretto
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/jane-elliott-race-experiment-oprah-show_n_6396980

“Jane Elliott’s “Blue Eyes/Brown Eyes” Anti-Racism Experiment”
https://www.oprah.com/own-oprahshow/jane-elliotts-blue-eyesbrown-eyes-anti-racism-experiment

“Why Oprah’s secret racism experiment is more relevant than ever” by Maddison Leach
https://honey.nine.com.au/latest/oprah-winfrey-racism-experiment-1992/a199b24b-892e-4bd1-b1c4-dde619eebbcd


For comparison, to show that views can change:

“Tattoos No Longer A Kiss Of Death In The Workplace” by Rachel Hennessey
https://www.forbes.com/sites/rachelhennessey/2013/02/27/having-a-tattoo-and-a-job/#6e1f131616dc

“Remarks on human biological enhancement” by Henry T. Greely
https://kuscholarworks.ku.edu/bitstream/handle/1808/20018/05-Greely_Remarks_Final.pdf


Extra:
“The Drive for Perfect Children Gets a Little Scary” Tyler Cowen, Bloomberg, 2017
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2017-08-24/the-drive-for-perfect-children-gets-a-little-scary

Geert Hofstede’s cultural dimensions
http://clearlycultural.com/geert-hofstede-cultural-dimensions/masculinity/

Geert and Gert-Jan Hofstede’s website
https://geerthofstede.com/
https://geerthofstede.com/landing-page/

Remember the damage we did to the ozone layer?

We still have a few dozen years to go, but we’ve already made a lot of headway.

Every four years, the American Meteorological Society assesses the situation, with support from the United Nations.

If the recovery continues at the same rate, then the thickness of most of this protective layer will be back at its 1980 values in 2040.

The Arctic and Antarctic will take longer, however. Over the Arctic, the ozone layer will take only five years longer to regain its former thickness, but the hole above Antarctica will take until 2066 to recover from our actions.

Source: https://nos.nl/artikel/2459273-ozonlaag-naar-verwachting-binnen-enkele-decennia-hersteld-vn-roemt-aanpak

How did we damage the ozone layer? We used substances such as chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) in air-conditioning units and refrigerators and also as propellant in aerosol containers, such as for hair spray and deodorant. After their use, they didn’t magically disappear and cease to exist. They rose up into the higher layers of the atmosphere.

More on this: https://www.epa.gov/ozone-layer-protection/basic-ozone-layer-science

This shows that where there is a will, there is a way.

This too is an aspect of anthropogenic (human-made) planetary change. It’s not just climate change that we’re causing.

Related is the news of the return of the ERBS:
https://edition.cnn.com/2023/01/09/world/nasa-erbs-satellite-return-scn/index.html

It was launched in the year that I started my earth science studies.

Around noon

Lots of interference on my computer again.

(I usually remove these posts after a while because I refuse to let someone else control every fucking minute of my life. Yes, sometimes, I am mistaken, which is always a relief, but I am only sometimes mistaken.)

When I get addresses via Freecycle, they’re always at a great distance from here these days, such as Old Rectory Road where I have been a few times to pick something up that had been left outside for me. (On the bins.) This means that I am away for a while. When I’m away then, the locks often get picked. The first time I went to Old Rectory Road, they certainly were.

(Things get destroyed, or taken.)

It’s also happened that I was at St Jude’s on Friday evening while the locks were getting picked and yellow stickers were left behind by whoever did that to make sure I knew about it, too.

The Person’s or persons’ lock-picking ability also means that there are 5 or 6 different routes to my front door, depending on who else is out and who isn’t.

I stopped keeping a record of incidents a long time ago. There’s nothing you can do with it, it gobbles up an immense amount of time and it hammers home how powerless you are.

You can’t take any evidence to the police either. “It will only get lost.” In Southsea, I kept one item in the freezer for some time and I’ve later tried to preserve a few others for DNA traces, but why bother? I threw them out in the end.

In a country where just about everyone over roughly 45 is automatically “demonized” (according to several reports), all crimes against you are effectively legal if you’re over 45 (and are not Rees-Mogg or similar). You have almost no recourse.

Duty of care

I just realized that I have a legal duty of care to warn my not-too-clever lock-picker NOT TO TRY a mock-assembled piece of equipment, with for example the main weight-bearing bolt still missing.

(It is merely loosely held together, with even some parts still completely loose, not fastened at all because of missing bolts, nuts and screws.)

So I just printed a note that I stuck to the thing.

Does that feel nuts? Guess what.

There is case law on this.

I gave all my law books to to Advice Portsmouth a few years ago, but there is nothing wrong with my memory about some things that were in them.

Lock-picker be like… (hence partial duty of care)

He is either at it again or the internet is broken.

13:21: The browser now tells me that THIS site is off line too, just like my zoho mail. (See below.)

(I made a screenshot, but he stops me from uploading it.)

Hacker interference screenshot

The image has uploaded, but he won’t let me add it to this post. (I keep getting some line about a missing alt attribute.)

Oh! Alt attribute = right. Alt-right.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alt-right

He won’t let me paste the image URL either.

13:30: This site is still offline, according to my browser.

According to a text message received at 11:59, I have now – without having used it – zero data on the NEW SIM card yet 24 GB according to its website. (He did something similar with one of my GiffGaff cards last week.)

I can access gmail.

Thunderbird can’t access my business email either.

13:43: I can access the site of The Guardian.

But for the ad at the top I get:

“Hmm. We’re having trouble finding that site.

We can’t connect to the server at db1c7d3011fce211d1c9ff94e5854308.safeframe.googlesyndication.com.”

Also, I can update posts on this website, which supposedly is offline.

Okay, the internet is simply broken today.

14:58: I can see this website again and I can access zoho again.


Earlier:

12:48: Unable to reach one of my mail accounts (Zoho). It’s interface is also totally different. Is it down? (No.) For the record, I have not had its app on any of my phones for a while.

12:57: The Zoho website suddenly changed its interface back to the old version, but I am still not able to access my messages. Mail.admin says “server not found”.

In the past few days, I also discovered once again that at least one small tool has gone missing.

Happy New Year

I’ve just finally been able to activate that spare SIM card that I bought months ago.

The person I spoke – Iman – with sounded like the woman in the flat below me.

I am always buying new phones and other stuff and getting new SIM cards in an attempt to stay ahead of the relentless hacking.

Cash Converters used to think that I was constantly impulse-buying new stuff, such as that UPS before I discovered that my locks had already been getting picked for years. They had a bigger model, by the way, but it weighed too much for me.

Bits of beauty

As I couldn’t do much in the past few days, I did a lot of sitting in my lazy chair.

(I dug up some music CDs that I wanted to play but my 64-bit computer won’t play them and the speakers won’t work on the 32-bit computer that does play the CDs. The external harddisk that all this stuff was on is no more.)

I noticed some nice things that I took photos of. Colors, textures, that kind of stuff.

I just tried to upload the photos, but I can’t, for some reason.

(I later borrowed a few books from the library.)

This morning, at the North End public library

Someone kept opening the page on this website in which I talk about some of the stuff that I’ve experienced here, hinting that I should edit it or remove it. (So instead, I edited the page so that it now starts with me calling Portsmouth vile and immensely sadistic. I have had it with this mafia intimidation and retaliation bullshit.)

I usually get punished for talking about what’s going on here. That’s been happening for over a decade, so I know that pattern well.

So maybe that is why they shut down my phones.

The stupid mafia-style shit in this place.

Vile news in the Guardian. Other vile news on the NOS site. (Anderhalf jaar? DAT is crimineel!)

Als je je stiefdochter jarenlang misbruikt, vanaf haar negende, en je ook nog kinderporno materiaal met haar erin maakt, en bovendien ARTS bent, moet je toch zeker voor 20 jaar de bak in!

https://nos.nl/artikel/2458093-ziekenhuisarts-helmond-cel-in-voor-seksueel-misbruik-stiefdochter

(Ik zit in de bieb even het nieuws in te halen.)

More vile filth:

“Complained about neglect in a care home and faced a visiting ban? This is the new normal”

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/dec/29/neglect-loved-one-care-home-visiting-ban-dementia

Update on the PUK code thing (disabling of Dutch and UK SIM cards)

According to a GiffGaff guy the phone was blocked by O2. He wrote that it was not them, but the network on which that phone runs, and the network is O2. (This matches with an experience I had in a local O2 shop at the end of 2016; one employee seemed to recognize my name when I asked for help with a SIM card for an iPad slot. I bought the iPad because I couldn’t get online in any other way at the time and I urgently wanted to carry out some payments.)

Can’t upload the photos (of SIM card and payment) anywhere to GiffGaff (yet), so I can’t get any help from them. My request was “closed”. I included some aggressive nonsense in my reply to make sure that my reply would get some attention.

PS
I wouldn’t be surprised if the GiffGaff response came from “Callous” aka the Portsmouth incels. (He wrote to me that I had to go to Asda or Argos to sort out the PUK code problem for the Dutch SIMcard and the GiffGaff card. Yeah, right.) This shit’s been going on for years and years, regardless of what it involves, whether my e-mail stops working or whatever it is. Whoever is behind this vile local sadism literally wants me dead. Because the longer I stay alive now, the greater the risk that they will be exposed. (They expected to be able to drive me crazy, literally.)

(I’ve also wondered if they were targeting an autistic woman in the Netherlands as well. I am pretty sure they did because the stories I heard from her resembled some of mine. I have posted about this before. This hacker bunch – whoever exactly it is – is vile, really really vile and I can’t rule it out.)

There’s also apparently, besides the locally circulating deepfake porn with me in it, been some vile shit on YouTube. Will check into that next. (Found nothing, but I only checked my notifications.)

Btw, I cannot rule out that his Charles/whatever/Lee character is actually trying to stop them.

There is a theme in town with two boys on scooters (I think these things are called scooters, yes; “step” or “autoped” in Dutch, I think). Step scooter? One time when they passed me, one of them lifted up his leg as if he were a dog and he was pissing on me. This theme of little boys pestering me in all sorts of ways has been going on for many many years. I ignore them but the scientist in me notices them.

There also once were some boys on bicycles who, as it turned out, apparently had been sent to pester me. (I thought they were just being brats. I was not feeling well at the time and stepped off the pavement to avoid them, but they later raced by me and one bumped into my arm when he passed me.)

30 December: I did later get another response from “GiffGaff”, but I am so sick to my stomach of all this vile bullshit that I didn’t even bother to check it. If he transferred the credit to my other GiffGaff card, I would have noticed, after all, so there is nothing to check. There’s been more of this type of nonsense in the meantime, after all. (Overnight, yes.)

The batshit-crazy Portsmouth-based (?) incels have struck again! (UPDATED)

The batshit-crazy Portsmouth-based (?) incels have struck again!

29 and 30 December 2022 (updated and edited)

I spent 2 hours logged in at the North End public library yesterday. I couldn’t extend the session from the workstation; it said that I would be exceeding the maximum time that I could be logged in there. After I logged out, there was hacking activity, perhaps for about 5 minutes. Someone was gearing up and down of the fan, in the black box with the USB ports. The hacker’s often done this to indicate that he’s angry or anxious (but I think that he also sometimes does it to taunt me).

9:12: brief hacking activity on my computer at home, while typing this, and saving it on USB stick. Also, when someone is still in the computer at home when I want to shut it down, it usually won’t shut down (because there are processes running that me wanting to shut down the computer won’t terminate).

27 December 07:57

(updated at 18:54)

(posted the following day on 28 December 2022 from a public facility library as I once again have no internet access)

This morning, my newer phone, with the smaller memory, said something about some frequency band when I wanted to switch its wifi hotspot on to be able to go online and then I got locked out of that phone too. No more internet access.

What’s been done is that both SIM cards, the Dutch card and the UK card have been knocked out and are asking for a PUK code, and (I think that) “data” has been disabled, just as in my other phone, with the larger memory.

How was this done? I think that illegal system updates were forced onto the phones.

I have an unregistered, still perfectly valid SIM card for a different UK network, with 12 GB data on it, bought a few months ago, also to try to get around the crazy hacking, but I am unable to activate it.

I had noticed before that I sometimes even had internet access without a SIM card in the older phone, with the larger memory. I had bought that one “secretly” at Asda in Southampton to try to stay ahead of the hacking when I was still using other phones, but it too got detected and accessed pretty early on.

Something somewhat similar was done just before Christmas 2016, I seem to recall. I urgently wanted to pay two people before Christmas, but couldn’t because I couldn’t access the internet anywhere and was forced to run all over town desperately looking for a place where I could access payment facilities. I ended up purchasing an iPad with a SIM card slot. (I wish I still had it, because it was great, but I was later forced to pawn it and I pawned it for fairly little, but I lost it because I was not able to buy it back.)

What else do we have?

Yesterday, on 26 December, I got an e-mail from someone in the US who wrote that the text messages I sent on Christmas never got through. The person did not talk about anything specific that would have allowed me to identify the message as genuine (not spoofed) and the person mentioned “neighbor”, which is someone that the person in question normally always refers to by that neighbor’s first name. Within this context, namely a Christmas dinner, the person surely would have mentioned the neighbor’s husband too. The person lives in a remote area; there are no other neighbors. (Unless that has changed very recently.)

Conclusion: There is a large likelihood that the e-mail from that person in the US was spoofed or had been altered. Again.

A few weeks ago, as I mentioned, batshit-crazy Portsmouth (whoever this is in practice) knocked out my internet access on my other phone, on which I lost my available credit; I probably still had at least 40 GB sitting on it. It is one of the four phones that I currently have.

This was when I protested because he – whoever it is – was constantly picking the locks again and going into my flat to carry out crap. I then got a stupid message from “the home-visiting team” to which I responded the way I refer to above in another blog post; it’s pinned. I think I told him to kill himself, but I ordered him to kill me first, hoping to trigger this deranged bozo or those deranged bozos into actually attacking me.

So I got “killed”. My internet access was shut off.

Back then, I still happened to have one unregistered SIM card, which I then put that into the newer phone with the smaller memory. I went to Sainsbury’s to buy credit to go online. 80 GB’s worth of credit. (That’s the credit that has now been disabled and that is still valid until the 18th or so 3rd; I checked, time flies.)

Just before Christmas, batshit-crazy Portsmouth apparently did something to my 64-bit computer which means that I often couldn’t get it to start up. (A sexual act theme is connected to it again. This kind of stuff has happened before on the older computer when that was still the only one I had.)

When I turned on my 32-bit computer, I found that I couldn’t go online with that one (its Linux part; it’s dual boot) UNTIL I clicked the puzzling option “hidden network”.

A little while later, I found a window opened up that said that there was no bluetooth adapter available. (see other post, with screenshot). Usually, this sort of stuff tends to refer to sexual urban slang, so I googled urban slang and yes, bluetooth refers to giving head without using one’s hands.

(I’ve also gotten loads of bizarre “HDD full” errors since I moved into this flat, another one of his the hacker’s games, and you know what, that too turns out to refer to sexual urban slang! It refers to “holding dick disorder”, whatever that is supposed to mean.)

Am I, in other words, still being punished for not meekly servicing random men in this hostile batshit-crazy town?

There is a home for severely disabled people a few doors down from me (one of the last Fratton Road numbers, 382 or whatever) out of which a man once left and then started yelling at me – not even on his side of the street, but crossing or waiting for the stop light) that my problem was that “you don’t know how to socialize” and he grabbed his penis when he said the word “socialize”. I have no idea who the man was. He works with people who are barely conscious. He works with people who are barely conscious and he yells bizarre shit at random women while grabbing his penis!

There are several themes that started when I was still living in Southsea (2009 and 2010) and that are still going on today:

1. Cutting off my internet access. This already began in Southsea, in all sorts of ways, including the fact that my address at some point turned out to have ceased to exist so that I was without internet access and phone for a long time. There was no mobile phone reception there.

2. Birds that got cut into their necks and in some cases decapitated. This has even happened inside my current flat. The “birds”, is that supposed to represent me, a woman?

3. Something utterly bonkers to do with slamming doors. I haven’t googled yet what urban slang that is. Almost all the bizarre shit that I’ve been subjected to when I moved into this flat turned out to refer to urban slang for genitals or sex acts, after all. Just like the bird decapitation theme, this too started in Southsea, however.

I am definitely dealing with incels, then. Deranged unhinged 4chan and 8chan incel crazies. As in “we shoot people up” crazies.

I’m currently often barricading my door again (on the inside, when I am in). Better safe than sorry. Whoever is behind this (sometimes) really scares me. (I try not to let this stuff get to me. It’s gotten easier over the years.)

I’ve been trapped in a batshit-crazy increasingly sadistic slavery situation for over a decade in a batshit-crazy town where everyone seems to think it is perfectly fine to keep another person prisoner.

The best that people in the local so-called establishment have been able to do in response was do things like say that if I didn’t like it, I’d better go back to where I came from, that I was probably learning-disabled and yell contemptuous gerontophobic stuff at me.

I’ve tried to escape four times. Twice I walked out on foot with zero money and twice I left by bus with almost no money. I never got far enough.

Portsmouth is batshit-crazy. I no longer want to know what on earth it is that is going on in this batshit-crazy town. I want nothing to do with any of it. I want nothing to do with anyone here. Portsmouth is batshit-crazy and up to its neck into really sinister, seriously creepy, utterly vile stuff.

I want out. I want out. I want out. I want my life back.

PS

For the record, I had a heart attack on the 13th of December. I think it was a coronary spasm. I am not concerned about my heart, which I know very well because of ventricular extrasystoles in my twenties because my heart was used to getting lots and lots of exercise, as it did before I moved into this torture chamber of a flat too. I am taking it slow. Have to. I currently often can’t go faster than a snail, but it varies a lot. On some days, I feel much better and on some, I feel really crappy. I am often very tired. No energy.

I get very little exercise these days but I also have something going on in my right lung; running used to help me keep my airways clean. The incessant coughing has been a bit tough on my heart; it can be extremely exhausting. My coughing turns out to be caused mainly by thick sticky mucus from deeper inside my right lung (though I have allergy and stomach issues going on as well). I use something resembling the veterinary technique called “coupage” to get the mucus to move and I use N-acetyl cysteine to thin the mucus. Things just (28 December) really improved after I started patting my rib cage again; that also makes clear that the main mucus issue seems to come from the lungs, not the esophagus. This has been going on for over 5 years; I had a viral pneumonia in that right lung in 2017, which alerted me to the fact that there is some issue with that lung. (Likely just scarring.)

I am a little more worried about the possibility of a stroke, so I am cutting back on my use of salt. I sustained a chronic subdural hematoma a little under over a year ago (yes, really). The heart attack – I assume it was the wave of high BP that I can picture associated with it? – reactivated the symptoms somewhat but not as bad as last time. It will pass but it is a warning sign. When the ringing in my ears has gone away, I know that this head injury has calmed down again. That will take a while, but it is only in one ear this time and it’s already fading. It is not related to my pulse.

I noticed that after the heart attack, the nature of my coughing seemed to change. I don’t know how to interpret that. It could be coincidental.

Portsmouth is a veritable death trap. All of it.  Never mind. But I WANT OUT. I want my life back.

In view of the vile abuse that I’ve gotten in England, I promised myself years ago that I would never go into a hospital here (to stay overnight, I mean). Besides, the healthcare system has completely broken down here and on top of that, I can’t reach just about anyone anyway because of the incels’ hacking activity so it does not even make a difference whether I want medical assistance or not. Haven’t been able to access medical care for quite a while. (I get a response from Daffy Duck from the Donald Duck gmail account so to speak, if at all.)

If anyone wonders why I looked so frumpy and unkempt for a few years, besides the effect of my deep poverty, it was deliberate. My reasoning was that if the monster(s) targeting me went looking for me once I escaped, they’d be looking for a frumpy old woman, and would not easily recognize me on CCTV images and so on. I am dealing with one or more immensely persistent sadistic monsters.

30 December 2022: For the record, the hacking entity knows about my heart attack. I am not having a good day, energy-wise, so I am pacing myself. This morning, my pulse was 100 in rest, but I started the day with quite a bit of coughing so that may be why. Normal for me is 60 (or even less). 70 is fast for me and makes me feel jittery. (I used to be in super shape, for many years.)

Avalanche, Lech, Austria

Everyone’s been found. Four injured, one severely. The latter one is in hospital. Six escaped successfully.

Also, the total number of people affected was lower than initially assumed on the basis of videos. Some people reported in to the police that they were safe and sound.

About 200 rescuers had been digging for any missing people.

I am posting this because it is news that I haven’t seen on the home pages of the BBC, CNN, and The Guardian. It’s not local news. Lots of foreigners go to Lech to ski.

There’ve also been three or more incidents involving guns in the Netherlands in recent days, but that is local news. One was a home robbery, involving three kids; money and goods were taken. At least one was a police shooting. In a shooting in Amsterdam, a 17-year-old got killed and a 16-year-old arrested. Sadly, there is a lot more major crime activity there these days than there used to be. One of the latest new trends there is the use of explosions rather than shootings in cases of retaliation and intimidation.

13:02: I just spotted the avalanche news on The Guardian’s home page.

Dozens of people hospitalized by ammonia leak in Serbia (affecting Bulgaria) – state of emergency declared

Christmas 2022:

https://apnews.com/article/bulgaria-serbia-712a088db3b00886e556f53f687fe40d

March 2022:

Ammonia leak contaminates area in east Ukraine

https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-putin-zelenskyy-business-europe-73bb768354bf37b3768b29b946fe4314

The second link serves to put that incident in perspective. Concentrated ammonia is far from harmless.

The first link is to highlight news that I haven’t seen on the home pages of the sites of CNN, the BBC and The Guardian.

“Willem, policing, tentacles”? Weird, very weird

Just now, as I was in bed and quickly wanted to check the overnight weather to decide if I wanted to open the window a bit, and went to BBC.co.uk/weather, the following suggestions popped up when I wanted to enter “Portsmouth” in the search window on the page:

  • Willem
  • policing
  • tentacles

WTF?

That’s mighty weird.

This is the phone that I have just started using because my regular one – which has more memory and was able to run lots of apps – got “killed”. (It does still seem to do texts and calls but nothing else.)

(This newer one that is only able to run two or three apps is also compromised. I don’t actually know what number its English SIM has; I’d have to look it up.)

I am constantly buying new phones and SIM cards desperately trying to stay ahead of the stupid hacking.

Please, allow Ukrainian professionals in the UK to do the type of work that they are qualified for and don’t force them into poverty and powerlessness

https://edition.cnn.com/2022/12/24/uk/uk-ukraine-refugee-scheme-gbr-cmd-intl/index.html

Those who have no good command of English should still be able to work with their fellow Ukrainians in the UK in their professional capacities of psychologists etc.

Many do speak English and some speak several other languages. While their expertise may not translate directly into the British practice, someone who for example was a lawyer or business person in Ukraine, can still serve well in Britain too by making use of their professional background, their insights, their brains.

They don’t necessarily all need to work as retail and restaurant staff or meat factory workers.

There is no more place for neo-colonial thinking. Colonial thinking belongs in the 19th century.

Remember… in terms of prosperity, Poland and Slovenia are about to overtake Britain. Many other EU countries have a great deal more prosperity already. Hence, Ukraine may not at all be as “backward” as some of you may be telling yourselves either, right?

Can somebody PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE switch off my damn hacker(s)?

Thank you!! I want my goddamn life back!!!

I’m not allowed to interact with anyone (but him/them) and I am not allowed to do anything that I enjoy. It can only be stupid dull crap that he approves off (such as translating books about dull topics or topics that he thinks will upset me and typing my ass off, so to speak, barely moving a muscle for weeks except the ones in my fingers, because hey, I speak Dutch), that gives him the opportunity to make me look like an idiot (by changing stuff when I am away from my computer for a minute) and that at the same time allows him to keep tabs on me.

My life’s been in the claws of whoever this is for nearly 15 years!!! I want my life back!!!

Years and years of asking people for work unpacking boxes in the back and stuff, so that I won’t be spotted and interfered with by this anonymous prick. (There’s little else, in Portsmouth, but that’s beside the point.) In places where you don’t have to worry about people adding urine to your coffee or whatever. Leaving stupid hand-written notes all over the place so that he won’t know about it and can’t interfere again. Years and years of begging, begging, begging. Because I needed FOOD!

I’m so tired of it.

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