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Notes

2024/01/21 #

Cement brick thrown directly in face - I was physically assaulted again by the motorbike gang stalkers. This time they drove past and lobbed a cement brick at me, which hit me square in the face. Back home I'm pretty sure such a thing would be considered attempted murder. I didn't see them coming, by the time I got up to look around, they were long gone. I was left with a very fat and bloody mouth, and the brick. I took some pictures, which I posted to Twitter along with a small writeup.

Right before the attack someone drove past shouting 'you learn', something that happens so frequencly, it's become almost meaningless. Weirdly I had just written a note about the young's use of the term 'you learn' earlier that day, and it got published on the daily schedule.

There's not a lot I can do about it.

This isn't the first time I've had bricks or rocks thrown at me. That's happenned many times before. I've documented each occurrence previously. I estimate it's happened 10 times at this point. I've also been assaulted with a bat several times.

I've decided to carry the brick around with me for the next few days everywhere I go, along with the bloody facemask I was wearing, so regular people can hopefully figure out what happened.

The only person that reacted particularly badly to it was the baker, who went and chucked a mental at me, telling me loudly to leave, after purposely getting my order wrong, while also chuckling to himself in between outbursts.

There are so many more details and bizare synchronicities to what happened, but listing them all here would just get things more convoluted.

At a high level, that's what happened. #

Return of the softly softly murmurers - I've written about them before. They usually make an appearence at some point during an anger goading escallation. Perhaps they do the start? Anyway, they are back, impossible to do anything that requires concentration or focus. #

Just a test - Feels like every single note I've written today, as soon as I've started writing it, someone has turned up, started incessantly chatting either on a phone or with a partner, then the exact moment I finish writing the note, literally the exact moment, they leave.

Well no one turned up, but 5 seconds after starting writing the note, some sort of commotion started downstairs. Now there's some kid saying 'yah' every few seconds. I wouldn't say this was a conclusive test, but it is at least a bit illustrative.

Some days the world interrupts and barges in on every darn thing I do with stupid precision. Those days suck.

Also days where you get hit in the face by a brick suck. #

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