I have an iPhone 12 Mini which someone gave me probably a year ago now. The other day someone asked to borrow it, then started twacking out and ditched me.

The bike lock is because I’m squatting the back patio of this abandoned office building/house; the gate was locked with a combination bike lock, until someone—probably one of a few people I invited back there and told “Don’t worry about the motion detector light, nobody is here”—snipped it.

I want to replace the bike lock both as a personal FUCK OFF to my idiot “friends,” and as a gesture of goodwill to the people who recently bought the house, and so far have tolerated my gradual encroachment onto the property (first time they saw me just hanging out on the stairs, didn’t say anything, then they saw me sleeping just inside the gate, said I was OK), since I intend to share the combo with them.

The cat food is for this neighborhood cat I’ve been trying to befriend.

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I’ve confirmed he doesn’t have a family—neighbor confirmed he was abandoned by previous tenants 4-5 years ago—and that I’m not an idiot for thinking his name was Gregory. The neighbor just randomly gave him that name.

I also would really like to get DoorDash or something, because I’m having an unusually good day. I have food, but it’s like, leftover pizza and stuff for making peanut butter and honey sandwiches.

More importantly I have what I realize are chemical burns from someone trying to pepper spray me last week, and I’d like to treat them somehow. These fuckers hurt like hell.

Thanks.

Venmo/CashApp: @/$allthetimesivedied

PayPal: @lizo9

  • Sphere [he/him, they/them]
    hexbear
    5
    2 months ago

    Bumping this again, but OP, you might want to make a new thread pretty soon if you're still needing assistance; as I'm sure you've noticed, old threads now fall down the rankings pretty quickly unless they're quite active or very highly upvoted.

    Previously a bump made the algorithm treat the post like it was just published and already had whatever score it had achieved, for up to 2 days after posting; now a comment causes the timestamp used for ranking to be adjusted forward based on the difference between the post's publication time and the latest comment's time--but the adjustment maxes out at 24 hours forward from publication time. Early on in the post's lifetime, this can push the timestamp into the future, which is a huge boost to the post's ranking. By 12 hours after publication, though, the adjustment is only 9.8 or so hours, meaning the post is no longer "pushed into the future" by new comments.

    • Sphere [he/him, they/them]
      hexbear
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      2 months ago

      To be clear, though, bumping does still work. (If it didn't, we would never have had all those nasty struggle sessions back in the day.) Just not for as long.

    • allthetimesivedied [they/them, she/her]
      hexagon
      hexbear
      3
      2 months ago

      I mean I always need money—it would be cool if I could have a consistent income of just donations, at least until I get something going, but it feels weird just posting thread after thread without a good excuse.

      • Sphere [he/him, they/them]
        hexbear
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        2 months ago

        Makes sense. For bigger asks like in this thread, if you don't get to where you wanted, I think it's cool to make a repost thread. In general your past MO should work pretty much as before, I suppose.

        It looks like it might be a good idea to give your own thread an early bump though, within the first hour or two, if no one else jumps in to do so for you. Otherwise it looks like your thread runs the risk of not showing up very high in the feed. It turns out this is incorrect; I was basing this on some weird behavior this morning that turns out to be due to a bug which should be fixed soon.

  • Awoo [she/her]
    hexbear
    4
    2 months ago

    Thank you for providing multiple options

    bump

    • VOLCEL_POLICE [it/its]B
      hexbear
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      2 months ago

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      The VOLCEL POLICE are on the scene! PLEASE KEEP YOUR VITAL ESSENCES TO YOURSELVES AT ALL TIMES.

      نحن شرطة VolCel.بناءا على تعليمات الهيئة لترويج لألعاب الفيديو و النهي عن الجنس نرجوا الإبتعاد عن أي أفكار جنسية و الحفاظ على حيواناتكم المنويَّة حتى يوم الحساب. اتقوا الله، إنك لا تراه لكنه يراك.

      volcel-police

    • VOLCEL_POLICE [it/its]B
      hexbear
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      2 months ago

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      The VOLCEL POLICE are on the scene! PLEASE KEEP YOUR VITAL ESSENCES TO YOURSELVES AT ALL TIMES.

      نحن شرطة VolCel.بناءا على تعليمات الهيئة لترويج لألعاب الفيديو و النهي عن الجنس نرجوا الإبتعاد عن أي أفكار جنسية و الحفاظ على حيواناتكم المنويَّة حتى يوم الحساب. اتقوا الله، إنك لا تراه لكنه يراك.

      volcel-police

  • alexandra_kollontai [she/her]
    hexbear
    2
    2 months ago

    The kittycat looks gorgeous. I hope it's safe for them to eat out of the can - no sharp edges after opening the lid?

    • allthetimesivedied [they/them, she/her]
      hexagon
      hexbear
      1
      2 months ago

      He didn’t seem to have a problem, though that’s definitely one of many cases I have of “I never had a cat before idk what I’m fucking doing.”

      FWIW I always use pop tops because I don’t have a can opener and probably wouldn’t know how to use one.

  • wtypstanaccount04 [he/him]
    hexbear
    2
    2 months ago

    Is there a chance you may be able to move in with these people? That would be great for you comrade

    MAX ballad from 1986 (Did you know that part of the Blue Line used to be single tracked?)

    obligatory

    amber whataboutism volcel police

    • allthetimesivedied [they/them, she/her]
      hexagon
      hexbear
      3
      2 months ago

      You mean the house? It was offices until at least January—then the last tenant, some sort of medical office, left.

      I am going to make the long-shot offer of being sort of like a caretaker for the property, while the new owners are in the early stages of doing whatever with it. Since I pass easily for a not-tweaker and I have character references (including the owner of the wine shop who shares the driveway) I can at least get permission to stay on the patio, maybe even set up a tent. It would be fucking cool though if they let me crash in the house, but that’s highly unlikely.

    • VOLCEL_POLICE [it/its]B
      hexbear
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      2 months ago

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      The people's VOLCEL VANGUARD are on the scene! PLEASE RESERVE YOUR PRECIOUS BODILY FLUIDS FOR STRATEGIC ACTS OF MASS REVOLUTIONARY CUMMING!!!

      volcel-vanguard

    • VOLCEL_POLICE [it/its]B
      hexbear
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      2 months ago

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      The VOLCEL POLICE are on the scene! PLEASE KEEP YOUR VITAL ESSENCES TO YOURSELVES AT ALL TIMES.

      نحن شرطة VolCel.بناءا على تعليمات الهيئة لترويج لألعاب الفيديو و النهي عن الجنس نرجوا الإبتعاد عن أي أفكار جنسية و الحفاظ على حيواناتكم المنويَّة حتى يوم الحساب. اتقوا الله، إنك لا تراه لكنه يراك.

      volcel-police