ALL THIS. By Ross E F Lombardi. . To Kill a silent mocking word. To allow a scream to die To not allow a whisper to be heard To promote and brag the lie. . To disallow dissent to be stirred. To disallow the journalist to pry. To slaughter the singing pretty bird. To forbid the child to cry . No spirit may look skyward. No one may stand too tall. You MUST conform to the mewing herd. ALL THIS to control us All. .

  Date  05/07/2025   UK Time 13:32  …---…  My mental illness is totally kicking my arse at the moment,  The internal dialogue is extra cruel today.  …---…  The world is full of people in pain,  And I am helpless to help any of them.  …---…

. Them: "So we want you to do 15 minuites of materail" "Poems and stuff" . Me: "EASY!" "I have hundreads, maybe even thousands of options" . Them: "And it has to all be family freindly" . Me: ".....Errrrr??" "By family freindly...?" . Them: "No!" "We do not mean the Charles Manson 'family' cult" . Me: "Ok" . Them: "No!" "Not the House of Borgia of the Italian Renaissance, either" . Me; "... ok I just...." . Them: "The sort of family that might have a big bright balloon with them!" "Who offers to do nice things for strangers" "Who likes clowns and stuff" "Yeh know" "Something that will be attractive to people and draw them in" . Me: "No problem!" "Thats easy" <I smile happily, suddenly confident and cheerful> . Them: <Thinking for a bit, gettng worried - then turning back t...

  "I Need Brains!" - Why Can't I Just Stay Down If I Want? By Ross E F Lombardi ...---… Sometimes, Many times, More frequently lately. I'm thinking. "Why do I have to keep trying?" "Why can't I just be a 'shut in' if I want?" "Why should I try to join the world?" ...---… It's easy for others to criticise me for giving up on myself, ...---… But I’ve been fighting this shit for decades! ...---… Everything is so heavy. All the dam time. And I want to quit so badly. I AM spiritually TIRED!! I don't want to be brave anymore. I want to stop fighting for 'a life'. I don't want to get back up. I want to just 'stay down' on the mat. Let life win. Let life get the 'Knock Out.' ...---… And now Sometimes, Many times, Quite a bit More frequently lately... When I ask myself Why I should 'get up' again. - Go out again, Before that ...

. Them: "So we want you to do 15 minuites of materail" "Poems and stuff" . Me: "EASY!" "I have hundreads, maybe even thousands of options" . Them: "And it has to all be family freindly" . Me: ".....Errrrr??" "By family freindly...?" . Them: "No!" "We do not mean the Charles Manson 'family' cult" . Me: "Ok" . Them: "No!" "Not the House of Borgia of the Italian Renaissance, either" . Me: "... ok I just...." . Them: "The sort of family that might have a big bright balloon with them!" "Who offers to do nice things for strangers" "Who likes clowns and stuff" "Yeh know" "Something that will be attractive to people and draw them in" . Me: "No problem!" "Thats easy" <I smile happily, suddenly confident and cheerful> . Them: <Thinking for a bit, gettng worried - then turning back t...

  . UNDERTSTANDING HOW CRUSHES WORK! By Ross E F Lombardi . FUCKING CRUSHES! They are not magical They are not mystical They are just the brain being lazy. There is a reason most people have ‘a type’ . . TRY THIS! Make a list of all the similarities good and bad between your present crush and the all the last emotionally charged relationships you ever had. It does not matter whether the relationship was good or bad, only that is was emotionally charged, In fact, past toxic relationships get double points when you make you similarity with your present crush list! Dull or less emotionally powerful experience barely count at all! - IF at all! – Even if those experience are good positive ones! The brain is lazy and the whole human body is designed to reduce any resource use. . When you have a series of strong emotional experiences, especially the bad ones, it creates mental pathways, not unlike Pavlov dog conditioning. Carving these hormone trenches is a he...

? "Is it just me?" "Or is the weather a tad on the warm side at the moment?"

  It’s a weird coincidence! No reason to look to hard at it. - Only a coincidence. By Ross E F Lombardi . You know what’s a weird coincidence? One that almost no one seems too ever notice. An amazing one? That coincidence is SO common, that its strangeness is totally imperceptible by your average human. But can easily be perceived by lesser beings, such as myself and most dogs? . The coincidence that it always seems to be the VERY SAME people that say any variant or combination of any of the following… “You have to learn to love yourself first” AND “Being independent is self-empowering” AND “You should never be solely responsible for another individuals happiness” OR “You should never need someone else to make you happy,” AND “You just need to surround yourself with positive people” And of course, the ever immortal, “Your fine,” “Don’t worry about it” . Are the Very SAME PEOPLE, That have a supportive network, of friends and/or ...

...---... Well... I Could, thoretically, "get help"... OR?... ...---... And hear me out first on this one... ...---... ? OR? I can, INSTEAD of getting help - Choose to slide down the mental health plughole, until I eventually hit the right "stresser", snap like a dry twig, then hurt a load of inocent people before the police are forced to kill me - to protect the public... ? ...Just saying It still seems a littile bit premature to start taking any options off the table... ...---... ! Note: I am a Satirist! – NOT a ‘basic bitch’ comedy writer! My jokes are SUPOSSED to make you worry and feel a little uncomfortable After you give a brief guilt-ridden giggle... !

The night out on you own, Ross Lombardi drinking game. . Drinking RULES. . 1 If the music is crap - Take A Drink ...at the start of every verse. . 2 If you feel lonely - Take A Drink . 3 If you wish you had some cool conversation - Take A Drink . 4 If you wish you were home instead. - Take A Drink . 5 If you think a pretty woman is making eyes at you. Down In One - Get Off You Arse - Play It Cool - Cross the Room - ... Then... ... Leave ...Immediately go to a different pub, so you don't act like a yet another typical drunk arshole, spoiling some poor lass's night with your delusional male bullsit. Then at the new location. - Take A Shot.

. While it is true, that when in a relationship, I am untouchable, and totaly loyal. That is not an enough ethical enough justigfication to "date".   . All reashionships are like a ledger. My black ledger loyalty and commitment to a woman is NOT worth all the rest of the red ledger baggage that Comes with it. . The only moraly correct action for me to take is to push anyone that may be interested away. I am too damaged. I am broken goods. . I am just on the edge of being able to finally accept my destiny and fate. . I am not meant to be saved. I am meant to help others. As a kind of none-religious monk. I need to come to terms that the "romantic love" phase of my life is over, And make life about other people and various social justice causes instead.  . The only obstical to that higher purpose is my own sex drive. I hate my own high sex drive. And I want to get rid of it completely. I am thinking. No sex drive = Far less problems. . I’d like to become a being of pu...

Personal plea: Don't judge my writing if you don't read all of it to the end. I like using misleading titles, misdirection, and changing subjects and viewpoints near the end. I like to twist and turn the context to give surprise endings and good ironic or sarcastic end lines. I love Dr Jonathan Swift 'a modest proposal' tone, Satire and writing as someone who is not really me to make a larger point. If you hadn't read all of it to the end = then you have not read the piece at all! . When in doubt, Ask me what I actually think and believe! . Cheers. Signed Ross E F Lombardi RatLombot@Gmail.Com .

 ! Mark the day this was posted!  The date stamp on this post. Trump is currently bragging.... ! 21 days All the bragging and "stuff" now will mean nothing within 21 days. 15th August 2025 This is not 'psychic powers' or "magic" or "prophecy" This is pattern recognition. . Grab your ankles. Grit your teeth! Brace for the vile storm! .

 . SHE SHOULD NEVER BE MINE! By Ross E F Lombardi . This is a preachy poem. To explain hard-to-explain things. . That you cannot own anyone. But you can give yourself to them. Even IF you wear each other’s rings. . There IS a major difference between the two, That no one seems to see. I cannot belong to her! She cannot belong to me! . To own is to possess, to have power. To enslave and take. While to give is to surrender both your egos To love for its own sake. . This is a preachy poem To Feel an easy to feel thing. . If you claim that you own someone. You might be unfaithful. As you seek to expand your holdings over other fleshy lands. . While if you give yourself to each other. You will never consider being unfaithful. You will keep hold of each other’s hands. . Love is something you give. Not Entitlement to beat with, inflict and break. It can only ever be a gift given. Never a prize to take. . This is a ...

! Let's play a game Hey Gronk! "In terms of the chances of there being a Nuclear War, taking into consideration the psychology of all the relevant world leaders concerned, Is the present-day situation, NOW better or worse than the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962?"

. What was my ex-wife's name again? - I suddenly forgot! by Ross E F Lombardi. . Yes, I am a bit haunted by my ex . Yes, My ex plays on my mind far too often, . It was 30 years of my life! In THIS area! Everywhere I look, something nudges a synapse! Everywhere I look! A twinge of pain, As a broken heart marionette string is pulled. Everywhere! . Except one.... Everywhere I look, except one! . When I look in a certain direction, I forget her completely . When I look at a certain location, I barely remember my ex's name. . My eyes see. My mind empties. A bit of childish joy happens! . And this magical site shifts and changes its position. By using feet, and taxis and cars, and just generally moving around as people do. Which is annoying. Because stupid crushes suck! . The way to look, Depends on where that woman stands. This is very irritating. And extremely inconvenient. . Yes, Crushes suck! And very stupid crushes suck extra hard with spikes on! . This crush is Not 'stupid...

IT IS NOW OFFICIAL FOLKS!! According to one loud non-expert... - I AM an AI! COOL! So, I am not really a sad, lonely "mentally ill human" at all! I just have the wrong settings in the options menu! All I have to do now is find the hidden toggle to turn off the "broken-hearted skint loser mode", and then all my problems will be solved! Job done! . .