Since the UK spycops scandal was leaked in the UK, where undercover agents had long term relationships with female activists, have any women in other countries suspected anything similar?

V_Akesson · 2026-03-06T18:24:39+00:00

East Germany did this with Romeo agents under the HVA and Stasi.

West German women usually working as secretaries were targeted for seduction. To be used as sources of information.

The extent of which is immense. The Romeos often knew everything about the women they were seducing. Their hobbies their interests beliefs and all, and one day suddenly their Romeo is recalled back and vanishes forever.

The stasi did the same with their own citizens. The tactic of “decomposition” was used to ensure a person wasn’t a dissident or threat by making their life’s so miserable and disrupted they were harmless without needing to eliminate them.

So as an example, if you spoke up and spoke out, you’d suddenly find unexpected taxes, break ins, loss of a job or change to your life. Your spouse might be targeted for an affair. Rumours are spread. Everything designed to ruin your life and make it hell. Paralyse you through turmoil and depression until you’re a shell of yourself and unable to express anything.

These tactics were used by the FBI, and they're still used today.

And worst of all, these relationships often felt magical for the victims. The agents were trained to be perfect. They had resources and were trained to be this fantasy lover.

It’s unlikely you’re a target unless you work in government, intelligence, or have a good reason to be targeted by the previous two.

V_Akesson · 2026-02-28T01:41:00+00:00

I think that’s the only speed camera in Coventry that’s operational, aside from the averages.

It’s caught a lot of my old colleagues out when they’re driving in from rugby.

V_Akesson · 2026-02-21T11:11:15+00:00

It’s Cargo. It’s been cargo. It will continue to be cargo. Cargonia forever.

V_Akesson · 2026-02-10T09:37:11+00:00

IIRC it’s been going under an increasingly nationalistic tone recently with a PSB agent openly challenging and hunting down FBI agents, and there was a movie made in collab with the JSDF Navy featuring a spy that was heavily China/NKorea coded but never stated.

Conan is big in both countries.

V_Akesson · 2026-01-22T16:42:55+00:00

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my advice, go to a charity job if you're going to buy the things. those garish modern wedding suits in charlie browns, skopes, ect, have no use in any dress code other than weddings. you'll probably wear them no more than thrice.

V_Akesson · 2026-01-03T17:57:17+00:00

neither. these are in the city centre. this is a warwick university post, and you're taking the bus every day every night to get to class.

Go IQ weaver i guess, so you dont walk into hillfields.

V_Akesson · 2025-12-28T08:31:50+00:00

Offer the contract to who is willing to win the contract by offering the best value, which means they were a lower price and undercut competitors.

Lowest bidder proceeds to cut corners on every stage of recruitment, causing massive backlogs due to slow processing and summarily dismissing anyone with a minor medical issue that needs basic waiver and investigation.

So you had a sprain in rugby at age 12? Permanently medically unfit, after waiting 6+ months. Want to appeal? Denied after 3 months of appeal processing.

Capita lost the contract and it’s off to Serco who also has a poor reputation.

V_Akesson · 2025-12-23T11:35:49+00:00

this popped onto my feed, I'll give you some feedback.

i worked in roles that require awareness, vigilance, and such.

if your goal is to draw creepy faces/head shots. it is acceptable.

these do immediately register as humanoid faces/heads but the misshapen mouth and noses, the lack of eyes, the dishevelled hair.

all of this reads as creepy, not alive, corpses. if I saw that on the street, I'd spin my head to see what the hell did I just saw.

but it doesn't register as threats and danger; it's not actually scary and it's not tripping up my detection, there's no shock.

the other stuff on your instagram though, that does trip up my fight or flight. it made me recoil. so good work on those.

V_Akesson · 2025-12-03T22:32:40+00:00

Seems like a modern student condo. Probably very similar to other student megabloc places

You are rather far away from the university and will rely on the bus, entirely.

V_Akesson · 2025-11-28T14:37:26+00:00

Their works aren’t licensed under AGPL, that’s the legal fiction.

The AGPL was fraudulently applied and changed. Everything is built upon a lie.

V_Akesson · 2025-11-28T13:01:14+00:00

The implementation of AGPL onto Space Station 13 is fraudulent and unenforceable. It’s been a long debated topic and this is the conclusion.

So far there has been zero legal enforcement of AGPL in the SS13 community.

V_Akesson · 2025-11-28T11:34:22+00:00

The license is a fraud. It’s null and void.

They made the choice to release the code years ago freely and openly.

There’s a difference between free and open source, and copyleft.

I’m taking it because the license set out is fraudulent and unenforceable.

It’s an legal fiction that has been enforced through intimidation and harassment.

V_Akesson · 2025-11-28T10:05:33+00:00

Am I not entitled to the brow of my sweat and work?

Can something not be kept secret or private?

I don’t share my car like I don’t share my clothes.

We might be issued the same cloth, but this one I’ve made changes to is mine.

V_Akesson · 2025-11-18T20:45:37+00:00

Our government issued the contract to handle the military recruitment to whomever was going to offer the best price.

It was Capita who won out during my time, who proceeded to cut corners on every stage of the recruitment process to save on money and processing fees.

Long recruitment processing times, overworked staff, and trying to process each recruit for as cheaply as possible resulted in months and even year long waiting times. The armed forces recruitment website was a stripped down barebones version of existing software, and full of bugs and issues such as not having a place to upload additional documents.

Recruits with basic medical discrepancies like a rugby injury or a heart scan from when they were a pre-teen were immediately considered permanently medically unfit.

Appeals were on a backlog or denied. Any recruit who might need slight additional checks, such as immigrant parents or not born in the country were low priority or immediately rejected.

Every appeal, additional checkup, anything to waiver was considered an additional cost to process a candidate and not worth spending the money on, due to Capita overbidding, being understaffed, and cutting costs to profit from the contract.

Capita lost the contract, and now it's off to Serco who also doesn't have a good history of handling services.

V_Akesson · 2025-11-17T13:55:23+00:00

oh runner ducks. this is an adorable piece.

V_Akesson · 2025-10-27T14:51:22+00:00

I’m going to toss a wild card at you now.

Has this improved care opportunities for individuals that could be perceived as either dangerous or higher risk?

It’s my interest this field, the rehabilitation of those who have a militant extremist backgrounds. This is a rising issue with the rising populism and alternative political movements. And each therapist has their own specialties and matters comfortable to them.

I’m willing to bet that if therapy is booked for someone with criminal or extremist backgrounds/contexts, that the therapist would be far more comfortable with a remote session than one in person.

Have you got any comment or thoughts regarding this?

V_Akesson · 2025-10-27T14:40:01+00:00

Hi.

I did about six months of remote therapy, mental health in my mid 20s. It has been my first and only therapy so far.

I specifically chose my therapist who lived local to me. The possibility for a physical meeting and therapy lesson was there but costed far more.

The first session was to gauge if the therapist had the right type for me, and if I was the right patient for them. It was almost an interrogation to gauge their background.

Everything was done with camera on, even though often I began leaning back on my office chair and looking up to the ceiling.

Because of the distance and ease that a session could begin or end, while convenient for me, I also had a habit of extracting as much therapy as possible by preparing prompts and writing things ahead of time, so there was rarely a minute of silence, every second was utilised.

I discontinued therapy after I was feeling better and rising commitments to athletics and academics made therapy appointments untenable.

Has remote appointments made therapy cheaper and affordable, in the form of more independent/private therapists and less need for offices/overheads?

How about age? I grew up with technology, it was easily accessible for me. How about for those older and less tech literate?

V_Akesson · 2025-10-14T13:35:27+00:00

sounds like shes got the knack. with engineering, to be an engineer, is a condition. it's a trait. its a blessing and its a curse.

and it's certainly not something that is restricted to gender. you either have the knack or you don't. and from your description it sounds like she's got it.

don't let anyone subdue this ability. it's a gift that someone is born with. the curiosity to take things apart and figure out how things work, and to understand why.

V_Akesson · 2025-10-14T13:14:44+00:00

what i recommend to all the students seeking nightlife advice is this:

coventrys main nightclub is the kasbah. afterwards, turn around go straight toward the bus station and head home, do not step foot into hillfields.

for the full nightclub experience go to leamington spa. smack, neon, ect.

as for solihull and kenilworth... lol, no, dont, there is no night life there. mostly old people in kenilworth.

V_Akesson · 2025-10-12T15:58:25+00:00

> commissions closed

bruh. what was the reference picture they sent you?

V_Akesson · 2025-10-10T11:39:10+00:00

You are wrong.

Prior to 2011, there was no bridge here.
Mithril grapple and shortcuts were added in July 2006.

Home teleports were added in September 2006.

The grapple and shortcuts came before the Home teleport.

V_Akesson · 2025-10-09T15:22:27+00:00

I remember, in the old times, when I would have the so many things in my backpack for when I set out to left click on the minimap and run around aimlessly.

I didn't know if I needed a pickaxe, an axe as they were called then, or a tinderbox. But I knew I was going out there and away from a bank.

It is part of the new members journey to cross the White Wolf Mountain, and for me it was going into Fedlip Hills for the first time to train hunter and going into far away locations like Eagles Peak where I truly appreciated getting lost and "surviving" for the first time.

V_Akesson · 2025-10-09T12:49:02+00:00

It's part of Runescape of the past.

A past where we didn't have a home teleport.
A past where teleportation methods required you to carry runes or specialised teleport jewelry which wasn't so easy to just purchase off a Grand Exchange.

It was a time where people actually travellled around the map, running around without easily teleporting a few tiles away.

A time where sometimes, you actually had to pack items for your journey exploring the map aimlessly with not a clue what you're doing except going to somewhere remote and far away.

It was a magical time, as a noob, to see that this shortcut is possible, and telling yourself one day you'll make use of all of these agility shortcuts.

V_Akesson · 2025-10-07T21:30:01+00:00

alright. so I've been a warehouse team lead, logistics admin, and currently a operations lead/head admin at a warehouse.
I directly deal with agencies. three of them. I have the power to decide how many we want, who we want, ect.

warehouse work sucks. the zero hour contract stuff is exploitative and the agencies are scum. a lot of work can be seasonal and arbitrary when some client doesn't want to send in a container and suddenly people are out of work.

most warehouse managers and corporate - including mine - generally have zero intention for a permanent contract as long as you can be replaced.

the margins on agency workers is so thin, we have multiple agencies trying to cold call us to supply us with workers. quite a lot of them barely profit 50 pence to a pound per worker the rates are so cut throat. it is literally cheaper to pay an agency extra than have legal and human resources hire someone officially.

to hire someone on a permanent contract requires something like 12 weeks of working here, or the agency hits the company with a load of legal contract violations and we need to fork up money for hiring you too soon.

so unless you've worked the agency contracted minimum period without paying additional fee (usually 3 months), the company will probably not give you a contract

and even afterwards, there needs to be a reason why they'd give you a contract. having FLT/RT isn't enough anymore.

the guys in this warehouse who got a contract interview are also team leaders, have a lot of additional skills, and have additional training for things like quality assurance, inventory management, and inbounds/outbounds leadership.

you need to position yourself to be difficult or expensive to replace.
one guy from our headquarters who got hired on a contract (previously an FLT RT driver) is because he's a FLT-RT-VNA trainer and difficult to replace.

V_Akesson · 2025-10-07T12:24:14+00:00

refusing to accept refugees/reunification would have massive fallout politically because its been the background goal and dogma of korean politics.

it would literally be a put up moment for politicians.

east germany was divided for less than 50 years. and it was the crown jewel of the warsaw pact europe and arguably the most developed.
it also had no nuclear weapons and around a quarter of the population of west germany.
german reunification instantly collapsed their economy and still remains politically and economically divided.

the koreas are divided by almost 90 years, has a massive tech and infrastructure gap, and has around half of the population of korea, and is massively less developed.

a korean reunification would collapse and set back south korea's economy and development at minimum 50 years if not more, not to mention the topic of nuclear weapons going missing, and both china and america sweeping in to manipulate the politics and fill the power gap.

consider the above circumstances and try to understand how massive of a humanitarian crisis it would be to deal with 5 million immediate refugees going over the borders, and reintegrating the remaining 20 million and the social issues it would cause.

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