#power bank at Walmart

[orangameelectronics]

Experience The Ultra Slim High-Capacity 10000mAh Power Bank with USB-C Fast Charging

Are you tired of constantly running out of battery on your phone or tablet when you're on the go? If so, then you need to check out the ultra slim high-capacity 10000mAh power bank with USB-C fast charging. This sleek and stylish power bank is the perfect solution to all your battery problems. Let's take a closer look at all the amazing features this power bank has to offer.

## Cell Type: 10000mAh 1260110*2

With a cell type of 10000mAh 1260110*2, this power bank has a high capacity that can charge your devices multiple times before needing to be recharged itself. Say goodbye to constantly searching for an outlet to plug in your devices.

## Input/Output Interface: Micro-USB, Type-C/Double-USB Port

With a micro-USB, Type-C, and double USB port interface, this power bank is compatible with a wide range of devices. Whether you have a mobile phone, tablet, camera, or other electronic devices, this power bank has you covered.

## Charging Power: 22.5W, PD20W

With a charging power of 22.5W and PD20W, this power bank delivers fast and efficient charging for all your devices. Say goodbye to slow charging times and hello to quick and convenient recharging.

## Applicable Models: Mobile Phone, Tablet PC, Camera, etc.

The power bank is compatible with a wide range of models, including mobile phones, tablet PCs, cameras, and more. No matter what device you have, this power bank is sure to keep it charged and ready to go.

## Product Safety Certification

One of the standout features of this power bank is its product safety certification, allowing you to bring it on board a plane without any issues. You can travel with peace of mind knowing that your devices will always have a full battery.

## Dual LED Lights

The power bank comes equipped with dual LED lights, making it perfect for lighting up the night when you're out and about. Whether you're camping, hiking, or simply walking home after dark, these LED lights will keep you safe and visible.

## Color Options: Black, Green, and Red

Available in three stylish colors - black, green, and red - this power bank allows you to choose the one that best suits your personal style. Whether you prefer a classic black, a vibrant green, or a bold red, there's a color option for everyone.

In conclusion, the ultra slim high-capacity 10000mAh power bank with USB-C fast charging is the perfect solution for all your charging needs. With its durable metal construction, high capacity cell type, display and LED light support, fast input/output, and compatibility with a wide range of devices, this power bank has everything you need to keep your devices powered up and ready to go. Say goodbye to low battery anxiety and hello to convenient and reliable charging with this amazing power bank.

[milo-is-rambling]

Spent the whole day doing shit for my trip and stressing while also feeling like I did nothing

[visionsthatdance]

Support for Western North Carolina

This is the text body of an email from Carolina Jews for Justice, a grassroots organizing group based in Durham, NC. I thought I would share it here.

Monetary Donations = Direct Aid

Please consider making donations to the following mutual aid and support efforts or on-ground organizations, and please share widely:

Day One Relief is mobilizing and a trusted source sending direct aid via plane to hard hit spaces. 

*Monetary and Direct Item Give*

 Donate to Day One Relief

Operation Airdrop

Mutual Aid Disaster Relief

Triangle Mutual Aid (coordinating with Asheville Mutual Aid)

BeLoved Asheville - needs funds and is coordinating volunteers with trucks who can drive supplies to people, out of 32 Old Charlotte Hwy Asheville, NC

Organizing Resilience (benefits Down Home NC, and other rural organizers doing the deep, year-round work, and partaking in community assessment surveys right now)

Items Needed

Water

Life Straws

Chainsaws

Heavy-duty storage totes

Heavy-duty tarps (the blue ones are less good)

Generators

Roofing nails

Baby formula

Non-perishable food

Manual can openers

Coolers

Gatorade

Wire brushes

Trash bags (the heavy ones are sometimes called "contractor bags")

Brooms

Mops

Laundry detergent

Washboards

Batteries, power banks

Mosquito spray

Toilet paper

Dehumidifiers

Box fans

Solar charging items

Diapers, baby wipes

5 gal buckets

Respirators and N-95 cartridges

2x4s

Bleach

Drop-Off Locations

Triangle Area

+ Carrboro, NC: 

Back Alley Bikes

100 Boyd St, Carrboro, NC 27510

Open Tues - Sat. 11am to 6pm

+ Durham, NC:

The Scrap Exchange

2050 Chapel Hill Rd, Durham, NC 27707

10:30am - 6pm Tue-Sun.

Art Post 

718 Iredell, Durham NC 27705

Starting Monday, Sept. 30th

Open Monday-Saturday 12-6pm

Maverick’s Smokehouse and Taproom

900 W Main Street, Durham NC 27701

*on street parking and free parking available in Brightleaf Square Lot*

Sunday 11am-9pm

Monday-Tuesday 11am-2pm

Wednesday-Thursday 11am-9pm

Friday-Saturday 11am-11pm

+ Raleigh, NC: 

RUMAH 

415 Hillsborough St., Raleigh

Drop off during events. See calendar on website raleighmutualaid.info

Triad Area

Taking donations over the next few weeks. Accepted Items include: sports drinks, hydration packs, baby wipes, diapers, baby formula, bug spray, sunscreen, plastic utensils, manual can openers, large trash bags, non-perishable foods, cleaning supplies, plastic sheeting/tarps, toothbrushes and toothpaste, toiletries/sanitation items, pet food, hand sanitizer, sanitizer wipes, feminine hygiene products, heavy-duty work gloves and unworn socks. 

+ Greensboro, NC: 

GetOutdoors Pedal & Paddle

1515 W Gate City Blvd., Greensboro NC

AND: 

241 Summit Avenue

11am - 1pm Tuesday-Friday

+ Lewisville, NC: 

The Coffee Mill 

6275 Shallowford Road, Lewisville, NC

Charlotte Area:

+ Concord, NC:

Drop offs for Operation Airdrop at Walmart Parking Lot

5825 Thunder Rd NW, Concord, NC 28027

[etraytin]

News from the Hurricane

Still in Charlotte but the deliveries from Amazon are starting to roll in, giving us supplies we will need to go back in the next couple days. We now have a portable toilet, a solar panel for our large power bank, and a safety gas can that will let me carry and store five gallons of gas without freaking out about it constantly. I also got bath wipes and those shower caps they use in hospital for waterless hair washing, plus more paper plates and plastic cutlery. Most importantly, I sank just an obscene amount of money into a legit battery pack for my CPAP, one that is supposed to last for 4-6 nights per charge rather than one night per charge like the power bank.

Being in Charlotte is comparatively great, we are staying with family and they have a guest room so we have privacy, lights, air conditioning, toilets and showers. I don't forget for a minute how lucky we are. It has still been kind of rough at times, sometime in weird ways. I came right to the edge of a mini-breakdown in Walmart yesterday, trying to stock up on things that were not available, trying to decide what was important enough to add to our very limited car space, wondering what things are going to be like when we get back and what I'm going to be kicking myself for forgetting. And around me everyone else was just shopping like normal, of course, because life is normal here. It was a little like being in a dream where I knew I had to get ready for something important and scary but nobody else around me understood anything was happening and whenever I tried to find something it wasn't there. I ended up cutting my trip short and sitting in the car to decompress with emergency candy and some texts with my best friend, talking me down from hundreds of miles away.

It finally occurred to me last night that now that we have a gas can, whole new horizons of supply-getting have opened up for us. If we take that gas can back and I put it in the minivan, I can easily make it back to Charlotte, or to Greenville, or several other places depending on which roads are open. We can get more stuff, it's just a little more complicated right now. It was enough to calm my rabid squirrel brain down and let me relax, at least. Things are going to be okay. The power will not be off forever. Heck, once we get the power back on we will be able to help the folks on city water who need to wait for the treatment plants to be repaired before they get water.

Oh, and my dad talked me out of buying the last gas-powered chainsaw at Lowes just because I thought I ought to have a chainsaw and this was the LAST ONE. I think I probably owe him one for that. Sure I had some vague idea of helping with a chainsaw crew, but I don't even know how to use a chainsaw. I know how to run a shelter and do mass-care feeding and drive an emergency response vehicle, why on earth would I try and help out with a chainsaw instead?

On the actual news front, our family in Spruce Pine is safe and sitting pretty on generator power, just completely cut off. My 101 year old client is safe too, taken out of town by his adult kids as soon as the roads opened up. And I heard from our neighbor this morning, there is cell service in our neighborhood, patchy and poor but real! Things really are looking up.

[loquaxleemons]

Played Frantic Fanfic

Machine Family Reunion (Gabriel & V1), Opposites Align (Onceler & Five Pebbles), The Nightmarish tales of a dream parasite and enot (Folly & Enot) Stories under cut done with @abs0luteanarchy and another discord friend.

TITLE: Machine Family Reunion FEATURING THE CHARACTERS: gabriel, v1 WRITERS: thejampire, pancake, chaos RATED ALL AGES V1 introduces Gabriel to the sentient house appliances.

As it turns out, all machines are capable of understanding each other. V1 has a collection of houshold appliances that they talk to like friends.

V1's favorite of these characters is the Dishwasher, Frigidaire Front Control 24-in Built-In Dishwasher (Stainless Steel) ENERGY STAR, 55-dBA.

The three of them decide to engage in a thrilling round of Mario Kart on the Nintendo Wii. V1 is basic as hell and picks Mario, but Gabriel is a little spicier and picks Cat Peach. Frigidaire Front Control 24-in Built-In Dishwasher (Stainless Steel) ENERGY STAR, 55-dBA, of course, is cool and picks King Boo. The first course is selected, and Gabriel takes the lead in the first race! But oh, what's this, it's NPC Toad with the red shell! Obviously you can't just let a bot win, and Frigidaire Front Control 24-in Built-In Dishwasher (Stainless Steel) ENERGY STAR, 55-dBA streaks ahead with a well timed mushroom, before dropping a banana to stop Toad in his tracks, but accidentally getting Gabriel with it instead. V1 is somewhere far in the back, unseen by the other two. Unnoticed. Until, of course, Frigidaire Front Control 24-in Built-In Dishwasher (Stainless Steel) ENERGY STAR, 55-dBA gets hit by a rogue blue shell, launched by V1 themselves! Gabriel is still in 4th place struggle bus hell, unfortunately, but V1 is streaking towards the front of the pack like a shooting star. Frigidaire Front Control 24-in Built-In Dishwasher (Stainless Steel) ENERGY STAR, 55-dBA is knocked into by the mass of furious Mariokarters, and is frustrated. They do not throw the controller however, and steel themselves. The three are locked in, ready to give it their all to fight to the finish, when suddenly the power goes out.

The generic Walmart toaster feels neglected and has struck back against V1 and their precious Frigidaire Front Control 24-in Built-In Dishwasher (Stainless Steel) ENERGY STAR, 55-dBA.

“FUCK YOU MACHINE—S!” Gabriel roars, slamming the controller down and whipping his head around to look for the culprit of the power outage. V1 shrugs, confused and also looking around. At this point, it’s pretty clear who did it whether or not you could talk to appliances. V1 points to the toaster. “YOU WEREN’T EVEN IN ON THE GAME NIGHT???” The angel yells, his armor tinged red from fury. V1 looks also pretty annoyed, optic half shuttered and foot tapping impatiently on the ground for an answer. Violent beeps and angry chimes rang from the toaster. “It says it feels left out.” V1 signs to Gabriel, who looks back at it with slight confusion. “…A toaster. Can feel left out.” He clarifies, V1 nodding in response. The dishwasher chimes in, offering to give its remote to the toaster. After a bit of heated discussion, belated beeps rang out as the toaster could finally join in. (V1 notes later the toaster acted like an upset child being left out of the “Big Kids” group. Gabriel laughs hysterically at that comment.)

Fanfic created with #FranticFanfic.

TITLE: opposites align FEATURING THE CHARACTERS: the onceler, five pebbles WRITERS: pancake, chaos, thejampire RATED ALL AGES Five Pebbles sat on the bank of the river, wistfully staring off into the dusky sky. The sun, slowly falling past the horizon, glinted off the river, whose waters flowed peacefully and slowly. Naught for the gentle sounds of the water, it was fully silent and tranquil. Which made it incredibly easy for him to hear the light, cautious footsteps behind him. He turned his head only to behold the Onceler himself approaching him. His gaze narrowed, and he scrutinized the tall, slender man in the striped green suit. Despite having the potential to cut a harrowing figure, it was all but ruined by the soft, rounded facial features he possessed.

"What are you doing here?" Pebbles asked, huffily.

“I could ask the same of you? I haven’t seen anyone like you around here you… pink. guy.” “Don’t be rude.” “Sorry! How bad could that have been?” Pebbles huffily turned back to the river. Man, he just wanted to get back to his can… not whatever this is. At least the view was pretty. “What’s your name pink guy?” “…Five Pebbles.” The other guy paused. “Weird name! I’m the Onceler.”

Pebbles honestly thinks at this point he might be in a weird fever dream.

"The Onceler? Your name has… No meaning- What are you supposed to represent?" Five Pebbles Crossed his arms, trying to gain a superior edge to the taller individual. "My name? Well- Do names really have to have meaning?" At that, Five Pebbles contemplates. His citizens were very protective over their titles and names and ideals. This was like a breath of fresh air. "You don't need to be, anything important?" Five Pebbles responds questioningly. "I don't think there's really any wrong way to do things in life- Its about the experiences you lead in the end-" "I mean I destroyed a whole ecosystem because of my recklessness-" The Onceler jokes. "It seems we have a lot in common then.."

Fanfic created with #FranticFanfic.

TITLE: The Nightmarish tales of a dream parasite and enot FEATURING THE CHARACTERS: enot, folly WRITERS: chaos, thejampire, pancake RATED ALL AGES Oh! A new visitor to Eternal Limbo! Maybe it’s another guy Folly could just leech off of and dispose of like Melanie But what stands before her is a… weird cat thing. Inverted colors, weird eyes and a horrible feeling just radiating off of it. It’s Enot. (She doesn’t know that.)

“…what the FUCK are you.” “I COULD ASK THE SAME THING YOU BERET FREAK???”

Enot just got to the void, but instead of the usual, it landed here.

Instead of Folly’s occasional encounter with the elevator, it’s this… weird cat that fell out of the sky.

Enot cradles it's egg in it's arms holding it away from Folly, in suspicion. Something about this other creature makes Enot's spine crawl-

"DO YUO… LIKE EGGS?"

Enot asks. Clearly any egg loving creature would be good company in it's eyes. It holds its egg up to the tall shadowy figure as a symbol of peace, awaiting her response.

A moment of awkward silence settles as Enot holds it's egoo

Folly huffed. "Why WOULD I? Eggs are constructs made by filthy mortals to perpetuate themselves." She stood tall, towering over this bizarre creature that had found itself in the middle of the platform she would normally slaughter innocents from that elevator on.

Enot lowers the egg, dismayed, before pulling something else out from behind it, and hurling it at the massive being before it. It tears reality asunder, warping and bending the rules of time and space, destroying everything in its radius, before disappearing.. And there she still stood, unfazed by Enot's Singularity Bomb. "Hmmhmmmmhmmm.. Is that your idea of a threat?" The gigantuous shadow figure made a noise that sounded somewhere between an ominous chuckle and a choked-back sob. "It looks like you're just another sad victim.." She disappeared in a cloud of smoke.

Folly attempted to enter Enot's mind, ready to feast on and destroy this lesser being, but she did not find a proper mind. She found a horror beyond the likes of which she'd seen, even having fed off the dreams of mortals for her entire wayward existence. Nothing could have described what was in that slugcat's brain.

In a hurry, she rematerialized. "I don't know what you are.. but get out." She waved Enot away.

Fanfic created with #FranticFanfic.

[houseofbrat]

Democratic party civil war, you say?

Matt Stoller on Kamala Harris:

There's a fair critique here of Kamala Harris skeptics. What basis do we have for skepticism? I'll lay out my views, which are largely policy-centered. I realize no one cares about what kind of leader Harris will be as President, but if there's one lesson we should take away from this moment, it's that we as a party should try to think more than five minutes ahead instead of panicking ourselves into a rushed decision. I started paying attention to Harris when she became California AG in 2010, because some friends worked to get her elected. It was in the middle of the financial crisis, Bush's and Obama's handling of which eventually led to the emergence of Trump. While AG, she had her most important test as an executive presiding over a big political economy decision - what to do about foreclosure crisis in California. Her position was unusual, because California is a big state, so the AG office is, staffed with many lawyers who can do complex finance analysis. Most states don't. There are only a few places - Texas, NY, Illinois, California - who have the capacity to truly wage independent litigation against powerful institutions like big banks. Harris pledged to do so. [Harris] pledged take on the banks and get something genuinely meaningful for homeowners for a mass legal violation called foreclosure fraud that put them on the hook for trillions. The details aren't important but if you want to know them read Dave Dayen's Chain of Title. It's something I was involved in. After two years where it became obvious Obama was on the wrong side, it was exciting to see a Democrat finally stand up.

Only, she didn't. Harris signed a sham settlement with a big fake fine number, that mostly let the banks do whatever they want, and I believe even get a tax deduction for the fines they did pay. As a result, a lot of people lost their homes who shouldn't have. That was a tragedy. But then when she was running for President in 2020, she *bragged* about what she did. It was rancid, similar to the worst of Obama. https://theintercept.com/2019/03/13/kamala-harris-mortage-crisis… Later it came out that her staff had given her memos on how she should have prosecuted (later) Trump Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin's bank OneWest, but just chose not to. It's not hard to see that, had Obama (and Harris) actually put the bad guys away, a whole slew of Trump officials would have been in jail rather than in the cabinet. https://politico.com/news/2019/10/22/kamala-harris-attorney-general-california-housing-053716…

I didn't pay as much attention to her big tech work or her time in the Senate, but she's quite close to a whole slew of people in the industry, top execs at Google and Facebook like Sheryl Sandberg. While AG, which was when these companies cemented their dominance in America, Harris's office saw Facebook as "a good actor." She took no actions against big firms as AG, opposed important legislation, and even started a privacy-related "monthly working group that included representatives from Facebook, Google, Instagram, and Kleiner Perkins. In internal documents, Harris' office referred to the companies as "partners."' Again, standard operating Obamacrat stuff. https://businessinsider.com/kamala-harris-silicon-valley-big-tech-facebook-attorney-general-2021-11…… Harris's circle of friends and family are biglaw Obamacrats. Her brother-in-law Tony West was a high-level Obama official, and now GC of Uber. Her niece worked at Uber, Slack, and FB, and her husband was a biglaw partner at Venable and DLA Piper. His clients included Walmart, Merck, and an arms dealer, and there were ethics questions since DLA Piper had a long list of foreign clients. https://nytimes.com/2020/08/17/us/elections/doug-emhoff-kamala-harriss-husband-takes-a-leave-of-absence-from-his-law-firm.html…

How does this differ from Biden's track record? As a Senator, you could read him like Harris. Biden did whatever the credit card companies wanted, was in on bad trade deals, and was VP when Obama mishandled the financial crisis. But Biden always had a tinge of populism. In the 1990s, he went after Stephen Breyer in his hearing for the Supreme Court, calling him an elitist for instance. He was a foreign policy guy, and never liked the Silicon Valley and Wall Street execs, he always thought they looked down on him. As President, he delegated and ignored most domestic policy, and so some of it went to populists and union people while most of it went to neoliberals like Janet Yellen and Neera Tanden. The net result of Biden's choices is a mix - good policy in a few areas, and rank incompetence across a host of them, as well as fantastically incompetent messaging. What was Harris's role? As VP, she's largely been absent from most policy areas I follow, so I don't know how to think about her views on Biden's economic agenda. She's certainly never talked about or been involved in anything competition or regulatory minded that I can see. She does not seem to be a player in any of the big money areas. That said, Harris has proven incapable of managing important tasks like addressing or even explaining the obviously dysfunctional asylum process at the border, so it's hard to know how much she *can* actually do in terms of competence. There's also a lot of inertia here, it's not like she can change everything on a dime. She will inherit Biden's legacy and officeholders, and she hasn't done much as VP to thwart economic policy, for good or ill.

So how will she be as President? I don't want to overstate my read, it's just a guess. But since we're all just guessing, what I suspect is she'll lead to a total wipeout of Dems in 2026 and 2028 as the party turns wholly against working people, and a more complete Trump-y style realignment. And that's if she wins. So that's the optimistic scenario.

Dem Civil War commencing...

[thorkidumpster]

do you ever feel like the universe just wants to shit all over you? i got a refund from my state in the form of a check that i cannot cash. my bank won’t accept it because of “risk factors”. walmart check cashing won’t accept it. i tried contacting both places and was basically told that there was nothing to be done.

so i have an empty bank account and a government-issued check i cannot cash for ~reasons~. i’m moving states in two weeks. i have nothing. no options, no hope, nothing.

what’s the point? i think that i’ve finally gotten a chance to turn things around and it’s just… a cruel joke from the powers that be.

the worst part is i keep thinking, maybe i should just go back to the hospital. get another psych hold for the 4849933th time this year. at least then i’ll have some fucking food. but that means my cat will be alone again. and she’s running low on food, too. i can’t pay my phone bill. i can’t do anything but be a useless waste of a human being.

[shego1142]

So in an interest to defeat the potential influx of celebrities and or brands, along with blocking them as they crop up, I suggest we return to our tumblr roots in another way:

URL Hoarding.

For anyone who wasn’t here at the time or doesn’t remember, urls used to be as valuable as gold here on tunglr dot net

Getting the url you wanted, pristine and unhyphenated with no numbers added to it (like tumblr user pizza for example) was a battle only the stubborn dared to take on.

Because it was notoriously difficult.

Why was it difficult?

Because you can’t just message staff and say “Hey! I’m important and powerful and I want that username now!!!”

No you have to message the blog that owns the url.

And haggle.

And it wasn’t even some money making scheme half the time! A lot of the time the person wanted like art commissions!

So what url hoarding was, was making a bunch of sideblogs with every version of the url you could imagine someone wanting and then sitting on them and waiting. You can make 10 sideblogs a day and some people did this like it was their job.

Do you see where I’m going here now? Do you see how funny of an idea this is???

Imagine. Imagine a “powerful” “influential” corporation wanting to barter and trade with us tumblrinas. Only to realise we want sonic the hedgehog porn or a $100k donation to ao3 in our name.

Or to realise that we absolutely can not be haggled with whatsoever.

I don’t know about you but I think the absolute funniest option is to just refuse to haggle with them.

Use their coveted url to reblog complete nonsense.

Watch them cry and squirm when they realise their powers don’t work here.

I mean as long as you rinse them for all their worth (IE don’t settle for $10k from a multi billion dollar company) if you do go making bank off of some determined corporate jerk then like, more power to you.

I just love the idea of a celebrity or a company coming to tumblr and having to have a ridiculously unofficial looking url.

“Wal-mart-1982-official-real” because tumblr user Walmart already exists or something

[crypticsesh]

hi there, I’m also in FL (east coast tho). I’m presuming you’re on the west coast so I’m too far to still drive/ship, but do you know if there are still any solar-powered small power banks available anywhere near your target/walmart/etc? i’d be happy to reimburse you up to $50. No one should have to worry about their mom like that. x

I wish. I went to 11 different store yesterday. Call more stores today and all they have are those massive $800-$1000 ones. I just need a small one ac outlet power bank with solar. But no one, literally no one has them. And the trucks obviously aren't coming through.

I appreciate you. Thank you

[orangameelectronics]

The Benefits of Using a Dual-USB Charging Power Bank with AC Outlet Charger

Are you tired of constantly running out of battery on your mobile phone when you're on the go? If so, a dual-USB charging power bank with an AC outlet charger could be the solution you've been looking for. This handy device is made of durable ABS and PC materials, ensuring it can withstand everyday wear and tear. With a cell type ranging from 100000mAh to 200000mAh, you can rest assured that you'll have more than enough power to keep your devices charged throughout the day.

## High-Speed Charging for Multiple Devices Simultaneously

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## 18W PD Quick Charge for Efficient Power Delivery

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## Portable and Convenient Design

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## Conclusion

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[adult-human-gc-female]

I love your blog mate. Have you ever noticed how a lot of trans acceptance, despite labeled as "counter culture", is rooted in pro government/authoritarian beliefs? All a corrupt corporation has to do nowadays is "controversially" appeal to gender ideology and the LGBT will come to their to their defense because of those "darn conservatives " who speak out against it. That's all it takes to manipulate them. They will actively see them as an "ally" even though they are a multi million dollar company. It gets on my nerves. Angry Birds, Ben and Jerry's, Targef, Walmart, etc. How can you say you are counter culture if million dollar corporations are echoing your BS beliefs? Doesn't that ever raise red flags in their head? "Hey wait a minute.. why is the government and almost all major corporations pushing this ideology, what do they have to gain?" Questions they never consider even though the answer is obvious. Trans people keep women oppressed and submissive, they make massive BANK for big pharma + they now have a way to sterilize lgb people as well as normalizing the idea kids can consent by proclaiming they know what sex is as young as 3, highlighting child rapists like Kinsley as source. It's the ultimate win-win scenario for them. They manipulated two to three extremely oppressed classes of people into supporting their genocide and advocating for pedophilia- which also does the homophobes a favor because now they just associate the lgb with gender ideology and their insanity, creating more honophobes and extremists. It's not about rights to them, its power. They killed average people in the past (a proven fact) and they were especially content with stripping the rights of minorities, now they got those same minorities on their side. True "queer rebellion" is rejecting the nonsense that is "queer theory" and being your own person without labels without the influence of consumerism. The fact these people see that controversial speaks volumes.

Thank you!

Yeah, it's really SOMETHING that people keep "we are a oppressed minority that being genocided" rhetorics while being supported by multi billion corporations and usa president's administration, and don't see (or refuse to see) that these are two mutually exclusive things.

Also what you described is exactly how capitalism works. Once the rebellious group is spotted, it's being sold consumer products to: "here is you label, pin and pride flag". Business receives money and at the same time makes this rebellion controlled, which means there is no rebellion anymore. If counter culture is sponsored by big money and is widely popular, it's not a counter culture, surprise!

Considering that trans ideology opresses women, children, and homosexuals, we can safely conclude that it is a neo-patriarchy.

[mostlysignssomeportents]

This day in history

I'm on tour with my new, nationally bestselling novel The Bezzle! Catch me in TORONTO on Mar 22, then with LAURA POITRAS in NYC on Mar 24, then Anaheim, and more!

#20yrsago Secret knocking codes for firewalls https://web.archive.org/web/20050212160334/http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/6811

#20yrsago The Talking Heads decision: the judicial system’s David Byrne infatuation https://web.archive.org/web/20040630151030/http://www.legalunderground.com/2004/02/i_was_ready_to_.html

#20yrsago Bush and Kerry’s RSS, side by side https://web.archive.org/web/20040401181052/http://coollame.org/bushkerry.php

#15yrsago Derivatives exposures is worth $190K/human being on Earth https://www.siliconvalleywatcher.com/the-size-of-derivatives-bubble--190k-per-person-on-planet/

#10yrsago British spies lied about getting super-censorship powers over Youtube https://www.techdirt.com/2014/03/14/turns-out-uk-government-only-wishes-it-had-special-powers-to-censor-youtube/

#10yrsago Florida set to delete Hampton, a town with a questing, rent-seeking, corrupt wang https://www.loweringthebar.net/2014/03/hampton-fl.html

#10yrsago Peak Facebook https://medium.com/a-programmers-tale/the-facebook-experiment-has-failed-lets-go-back-f7b8c66109ea

#5yrsago Beto O’Rourke was in the Cult of the Dead Cow and his t-files are still online https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-politics-beto-orourke/

#5yrsago Security researchers reveal defects that allow wireless hijacking of giant construction cranes, scrapers and excavators https://www.trendmicro.com/vinfo/us/security/news/vulnerabilities-and-exploits/attacks-against-industrial-machines-via-vulnerable-radio-remote-controllers-security-analysis-and-recommendations

#5yrsago Letterlocking: the long-lost art of using paper-folding to foil snoops https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/what-did-people-do-before-envelopes-letterlocking

#5yrsago Self-insurer Walmart flies its sick employees to out-of-state specialists to avoid local price-gougers https://www.cnbc.com/2019/03/14/walmart-sends-employees-to-top-hospitals-out-of-state-for-treatment.html

#5yrsago Big Chemical says higher pollution levels are safe in West Virginia because residents don’t drink water, and are so fat that poisons are diluted in their bodies https://washingtonmonthly.com/2019/03/14/the-real-elitists-looking-down-on-trump-voters/

#1yrago Learning from Silicon Valley Bank's apologists https://pluralistic.net/2023/03/15/mon-dieu-les-guillotines/#ceci-nes-pas-une-bailout

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[hella1975]

I think you’re gonna understand this just based on how you’ve written tams so far so I’m saying this to you because I’ve known so many people who are just awful about this but one group of people I’m more fiercely protective over than any other are homeless people. I’ve known so many people who are so hateful towards them and blame them for being homeless or think they’re all drug addicts or crazy which is still like. At that point there should be systems to prevent people that are addicts or mentally ill from ever facing homelessness but either way no one should be homeless, it’s not their fault and it’s a huge punishment for things like “not budgeting”. On top of that I worked at a store where our most stolen product was baby formula at the height of Covid when the prices for them skyrocketed. All of my coworkers were always so infuriating saying that they’re stealing it away from moms to cut their drugs with, none ever considered that maybe they were moms doing anything they could to feed their babies. Anyone who steals food, I never reported or look down on them, they are doing anything they can to feed themselves and I’m not going to stop that. I know how bad homeless shelters are and food banks, I know how common it is for things to be stolen and to get beat up just for being there or raided by police. Sometimes they’d sit outside our store or even shop and my manager wanted me to kick them out. They were never doing anything, most never even asked for money! They needed shade, a roof and ac for a few minutes from the heat or rain! There was a tropical storm once and we were forced to keep the storm open but when homeless people came in they wanted me to kick them out then too, to go where?? They wanted me to throw them back onto the streets in dangerous weather and for what. We got stolen from all the time, genuinely it would’ve made no difference. Most people who stole looked like rich tourists stealing our alcohol or teens stealing makeup but they never said we could kick them out. Likely because they could defend themselves, if nothing less than in court. Maybe it’s because I almost ran away as a kid and I researched into being a homeless child at like 10ish and saw how horrific it was from people who’ve been there before so I stayed home out of fear but I can’t imagine having no sympathy for other people. Even if they steal, how could you blame them? They are just trying to survive. Especially if they steal from Walmarts or targets or whatever, they is about as “ethical stealing” as you can get. I can’t imagine looking at someone who has nothing and does what they can to not starve and just making it to the next day and deciding you hate them and being filled with rage over them being in public. No one would choose that life, I promise they’d love to work and make money if only anyone would hire them. Nothing makes me more filled with rage and sadness than seeing someone hate or be mean and aggressive towards homeless people. The same people have more sympathy over a stray cat than a homeless person and I genuinely don’t understand that

no i completely agree with you on ALL of this it's the basic 'you're closer to becoming homeless than you are to ever becoming a millionaire' like it literally just takes one bad financial turn and that could be you. it really baffles me that if people can't at the very least empathise with homeless people from a humane perspective of the fact they're, oh i dont know, real life actual people with feelings, then you could at least empathise from a self-preservation standpoint because that could be you. that could be you so fucking easily. homeless people have not failed morally to get there. they didn't get judged by some higher power and were found lacking. they are just people. and the same way money breeds money, poverty breeds poverty. if you're homeless, you dont have a home address, which means you can't apply to jobs, which means you can't get an income to GET a home, on and on in a hundred different cycles. it's called the poverty TRAP for a reason.

[and-claudias-world]

Severe Weather Go Bag Packing List

Hi friends!! I wanted to make this post to hopefully help others prepare for severe weather events.

If you live in the United States you may know that Tornado Season is coming up soon (it technically begins in April) but as seen in recent weeks, severe storms and tornadoes can happen outside of Tornado Season. This post is going to be about packing a go bag for severe weather.

A go bag is a bag (usually a backpack) that you pack BEFORE (read that again) a storm is predicted to hit your area. It has a few necessities you made need in the event that you are displaced for a couple of days. If your shelter is in side of your home you can go ahead and put it in your shelter once it’s packed so you don’t have to worry about grabbing it. If your shelter is outside of your home (like an underground storm cellar or you have to drive to your local storm shelter) you can either put the bag out in your shelter, by your front/back door or in the car to make it easier. I will also make a separate post about what to wear during a severe weather event and will like it HERE.

So first what bag should you get?

I personally just have a waterproof backpack I got from Amazon for like $15. I do not recommend using your school bag, but if that is the only option then as soon as you can empty it to prepare for the Storm. As I said you want this to be packed before the storm hits.

What to pack:

Small flashlight (if power goes out you’ll need light, or if power lines are down and it’s night time this will help as well, you don’t want to be waiting phone battery) Walmart has a good one that’s less than $2 near the camping equipment

Any important physical documents you have that are NOT saved digitally. You don’t want a ton of paper in your go bag but if you have certain documents that you NEED and do not have saved, try having a folder for them and put that in the bag. (I personally have a small one for my dog’s papers work as he is in the process of becoming an ESA and I can’t lose these papers)

Battery pack and wall charger. Chances are power will go out but if it doesn’t and you need to charge you phone it’s nice to have the option to plug into the wall. So try to have a battery back, cord and block for charging your phone. CHARGE THE BANK BEFORE THE STORM ARRIVES!!!

I personally drop my laptop into my bag as well just so I don’t loose it. It has all my info on it so I’d like to keep it safe.

A change of clothes. You may be displaced so having a change of clothes is always nice to have, at the very least drop a pair or two of underwear in your bag so you can at least change those if you are unable to get home. And when it comes to the type of clothes you bring, BRING PANTS!! It may be middle of summer but if you’re having to walk/dig through debris you do NOT want to be in shorts.

Water bottle. Either a plastic or refillable one. Make sure it has water in it before the storm.

Food, I personally just drop a few snacks that are filling (like granola bars) in my bag.

Comfort item. I personally have Storm anxiety. It’s normal. Hell I’m going into Meteorology and have storm anxiety. It’s okay to put a comfort item in your go bag. I have my teddy bear from when I was little in mine.

A beach towel. Don’t grab the thickest one you have. Just a thin one that doesn’t take up too much room will do just fine. In the event that you have to run out in the rain to get to your shelter, it’s nice to have one to dry you (or your dog off)

Medications. Any medication that you need (or anyone in your care) may need. You don’t want to be without it if something happens to your home.

I may add to this as I will be packing my bag tomorrow for some up coming storms. I hope this helps anyone who may see it 🖤

[bewhoeveriwannabe]

Messy Bestie

Addison and Ashley have been best friends since pre-k. They were inseparable. There was never a time Addison was seen without Ashley. They were more than best friends; in fact, they were like sisters. When you saw them together, it was as if they were only one person.  They’ve lived next door to one another since birth. Their parents went on summer vacations together. One time, Addison’s dad wrote a recommendation letter for Ashely’s dad to work in the city at the mayor’s office. He saved their family from losing their home to the bank.

Addison’s dad, Austin was the sheriff of the town. He was very well respected. No one committed any crimes in the rural area thanks to her dad. He’s solved every crime that has ever been committed. The community admired him. Her mom, Lisa was more admirable than Austin. She owned the only women’s boutique. The nearest clothing store was Walmart unless you drove about 200 miles to the mall down the highway. Every woman within the 100-mile distance visited Lisa’s store. She knows every woman from each town from the west to the east and south to the north. One year she threw a birthday party and every convenience store, gas station, restaurant, and grocery store closed in town. It was as if her birthday was a holiday.

Addison’s parents were the power couple with their beautiful daughter who was sweet as could be. Everyone in the middle school Addison attended looked up to her. All the girls and guys would stop and stare whenever she walked past. One time, Kristy was being bullied for wearing a pair of Chuck Taylor sneakers. Everyone laughed at her and called her poor. Addison went home and told her parents what Kristy was going through before asking them to buy her a pair of Chuck Taylor sneakers also. When Addison walked into the school the next day, everyone’s jaws dropped. Addison has changed the perspective of Chuck Taylor for all eighth graders. After Christmas break, every kid in the eighth grade had a pair of Chuck Taylor sneakers thanks to Addison.

Everyone loved her, she was perfect. Even more perfect than Ashley, who would be in Addison’s shoes if Austin and Lisa never meet. Ashley admired Addison more than the other eighth graders as if they weren’t best friends. When Addison was away, Ashley would melt. One year, Addison went to visit her grandma out of town and rumors say Ashley didn’t shower the entire time she was away. She just sat in her room, hiding under the covers while she cried and shook from anxiety. One year, Addison dressed as Thing 1 while Ashley dressed as Thing 2. Everyone thought it was super weird. It was funny how they thought it wasn’t weird Addison dyed her hair pink and cut bangs in it then the next day at school, Ashley had done the same thing.

I’ve been in school with Addison and Ashley since pre-k also. I stay on the same block in our neighborhood. Everyone admired their friendship, but I thought it was toxic. It was scary how they were the same. They even began to look alike after we left elementary school. In the back of my head, I always thought the day their friendship ends Ashley would end the world along with it. Although they were best friends, it was obvious Ashley admired the friendship more. Sometimes Addison would say nasty things to Ashley, but Ashley would ignore it. “Ew, your breath smells like crap!” She’d scream over the lunch table so the entire cafeteria could hear, and everyone would laugh. One day, I asked Ashley why she allows Addison to be snobby towards her and she replied, “Because I love her silly!”

The prediction I had of their toxic friendship was true. I knew that the end would be near once the inseparable duo broke ties the summer before we began high school. I never knew what the reason was, but my mind allowed me to think it was Ashley’s obsession with her bestie. Rumors are Ashley’s mom doesn’t know she and Addison aren’t friends anymore. She lies to her mom and tells made-up stories about ‘a joke Addison told today’ or Addison’s awesome cheerleading performance at the football game, although she watched from the top of the bleachers all alone. Some say she lied to her mom because she betrayed a great friendship. Others think she lies because she’s delusional and doesn’t notice her bestie isn’t exactly her bestie anymore. But I think it’s because Ashley wanted to live in Addison’s skin.

Ashley no longer stood in Addison’s shadow; she did everything alone now. Her hair was never styled, she wore a ponytail the entire school year which wasn’t her usual. As Dressing fashionably for class was no longer a priority, she wore baggy jeans and big sweatshirts. All the friends she had when we were in eighth grade, no longer spoke to her since Addison didn’t speak to her. She walked around school like a zombie. With big and slow steps, I could feel the pain of emotion in each one she took. Although Ashley and I didn’t speak much, I felt for her. I’ve seen how bright she could be since we were five years old. She has let herself go and if “give up” was a person, it would, unfortunately, be Ashley.

I sat with Ashley every day during our lunch period. I couldn’t stand to watch the stares and glances she received. I thought if maybe just one person joined her, she wouldn’t look like an outcast. Although we sat together, we never spoke. She just keeps her head down while she eats snacks from the vending machine. I only see the top of her head. She never looks me in the face. Every day I give myself a pep talk before lunch to speak to her. “Hey Ashley, how are you?” I would practice under my breath. I’d be crazy to ask her that, I can see how she’s doing. I want to ask her why Addison cut ties of their friendship, but I know that’s not my place. I know why I haven’t said anything to her, but I’m not sure why she doesn’t speak to me. Maybe she thinks I’m the weird one for not speaking. She may not say anything to me, but I know she appreciates me sitting with her.

I looked around the lunchroom and saw Addison sitting with her usual group of friends most would call ‘popular’. Addison didn’t have one bestie anymore; she had an entire clique. They followed everything she did. They were sort of her pets. They stood outside the bathroom door until she finished her business. I even heard they do all her homework and assignments in class. I watched her as she laughed and joked at the lunch table. Her dark hair fell to her waist with highlights of pink and blue extensions. Her crop top shirt showed off her awesome cheerleader abs and body. Her smile was gorgeous, especially when she showed her bright pearly white teeth. Everyone loved Addison at our old middle school the year before, but now we’re in high school she has even more power than before. There’s triple the number of guys and girls to drool over her.

After lunch is 4th period, US History class. I sat in the back of the room as I waited for class to begin. I’m usually always the first one here while others take their time getting back from lunch. I was shocked to see Ashley early also. Every class she’s late, sometimes she doesn’t come at all. If my perfect ex-best friend was in the same class as me, I probably would skip too. I watched her as she grabbed a bottle of liquid out of her bag and napkins. She took her normal big and slow steps as she walked toward Addison’s assigned seat. I felt a panic fall upon me as she held the bottle upside down it dripped onto the desk. What is she doing? I was afraid. I knew Ashley wasn’t her old self and I was scared. The old Ashley wouldn’t hurt a fly. But the new Ashley, I wouldn’t underestimate her. She then took the napkins and wiped the substance off before sitting down.

As usual, she never looked at me. But she knew I saw. What has she done? Should I let an adult know? I was terrified. Ashley has turned into an entirely different person, and it seemed I didn’t know her anymore. What if it’s poison and she wants to murder Addison? My entire body was tense. My hands began to sweat, and my legs couldn’t stop shaking. I never felt fear before as I did now.

I jumped as the school bell rang and many students joined us in the class. The room felt dizzy, and everything was in slow motion as I watched Addison walk to her seat. My heart dropped as Ashley looked back at me and we locked eyes. She turned her head back to the front as our teacher began the lesson. I clenched my fist hard; I could feel my nails breaking the skin on my hand. Ashley hasn’t looked me in my face the entire school year, what did this mean suddenly? Was it a threat? I’m not sure, but the fear in my chest wouldn’t allow me to tell anyone anyway. In a matter of minutes, I convinced myself that I wouldn’t.

About fifteen minutes into class, I was ready to explode. My insides were hot, and I could feel my skin melting. I was too anxious to know what Ashley has done. Then, it finally happened. Addison began to cough randomly cough rapidly. They sounded painful as she wheezed for breath in between coughs. It started an irruption in the class. “Addison are you okay?” her friend asked. But Addison didn’t answer. Instead, she began to hold her throat tight with both hands. ‘Ashley is evil’ I thought to myself. She is going to kill Addison! Addison’s friend rushed by her side, “Oh my gosh! Your face!” she exclaimed. Addison’s face generalized hives all over. Although her skin was brown, she was red as a cherry.  Addison was having an allergic reaction!

I’ve only seen this once when we were in elementary school. Addison had an encounter with peanuts while on a field trip to the zoo. Her entire face resembled a red balloon and she coughed uncontrollably, just as she did now. Oh now, Ashley has done something evil. That liquid substance must have contained peanuts. My stomach felt quesey and I began to gag. Some students turned quickly and glanced at me before turning their attention back to Addison. The thought of Ashley causing harm to Addison made me sick!

I watched Ashley jump from her seat and towards Addison. “What are you doing weirdo?” Addison’s friend called out. Ashley ignored her as she went into Addison’s backpack and retrieved her EpiPen. Ashley knew that Addison kept an EpiPen in her backpack, and I did too. But for some reason, I remained stuck in my seat watching the horrific scene play out like a movie. Ashley stabbed the Epipen into Addison’s thigh through her blue jeans. I felt my stomach knotting again while I gagged heavily and loudly. I quickly grabbed my backpack before vomiting into it. I’ve never felt this worse in my life.

I’ve begged my mind to erase the images of that day. Every time I think about it, I think about how I could’ve prevented it. I sat at the lunch table alone as I watched Ashley and Addison across the cafeteria. They were talking and laughing with those who used to be only Addison’s friends. Ashley’s long black hair hung to her waist as Addison’s was also. They both had matching cheer uniforms for the rival basketball game tonight. Months have passed and I never told Ashley’s secret. I convinced myself that Ashley deserved the life she was living. I’ve seen how she is when she’s not friends with Addison. Being lonely, going through high school alone. She deserves the same opportunities as us all; to have a social life, to feel pretty, and be happy. Whom would I be to take that all from her?

I haven’t spoken a word to Ashley, but whenever she sees me, I’m greeted with “Hey friend!”. Followed by a fast wave and bright smile before she goes along with her day. My heart skips a few beats, and my stomach knots every time she says it. I fear Ashley. She’s capable of the worst, hurting someone you once cared for. I knew I would never tell anyone about what Ashley had done, because if she’d hurt someone she was obsessed over, imagine what she’d do to me.

[sinnohborn-trainer-evan]

Suffered a power outage during a snowstorm

We're having a snowstorm, and I didn't think it would get bad enough to knock our power out but it did, but I'm doing my best to stay warm, I have a USB powered lamp on using my phone's power bank, family is out at Walmart getting supplies to last us through the cold night. At least I have my big floof Brooklyn to keep me comfortable here.