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Please don’t be surprised when a homeless person doesn’t want to leave their encampment or spot for a cooling center; this is the type of opportunity cops will take to clear out encampments while the owners of the stuff they’re throwing away are in centers trying to survive.

If you really want to give them some peace of mind, offer to rent them a storage locker for a few days so they can rest easy in cooler, less oppressive temps without losing everything they have left.

Source: I was homeless many times.

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Hello! I would like to warn everyone of an experience my roommate and I have just had, in case I can prevent it happening to anyone else. Or, you know, if anyone knows a lawyer who could advise us.

My roommate has a queen size Nectar mattress. Friday night, she spilled some water on the bed and took the cover off to air dry. She unzipped the cover, and a flame retardant sleeve (that we hadn’t known was there to begin with) made of woven fiberglass began shedding small fiberglass particles. They were airborne. The whole room and everything in it is contaminated, and there are few surfaces elsewhere in the apartment that don’t have at least a little. Nowhere on the mattress' tags or on the Nectar website does it say there is a fiberglass sleeve. In fact, it makes a big deal of how there are five components: top of cover, three layers of foam, bottom of cover. Nothing about the flame retardant sleeve there. The label on the cover doesn't say you can't take it off, just that they suggest you don't. It does not mention fiberglass as a material found in the mattress at all. The website even has a page explaining that you CAN take off the cover and wash it, if you must, just that they suggest you don't. No real reasons given. No mention of fiberglass.

Our apartment is sparkly with fiberglass. We have had to drop money on a HEPA filter vacuum that could safely remove some of it, and on new non-permeable mattress covers to contain the worst of the source. We have had to garbage-bag up almost everything in her room. No amount of runs through the laundry seems to get it all out of clothes, and we have to thoroughly wipe out the washer and dryer drums every load. All her pillows were ruined, the chair in her room, her clothing, some expensive bras, a nice area rug, and I'm sure there will be trouble on the horizon with our landlord regarding the carpet, even if we do vacuum it as well as we can.

Lilly has been having nosebleeds, before the mattress was unzipped, but the worst one I've seen yet was the one that evening. She's been sleeping on it almost a year, and it could have begun coming through the fabric cover. Nosebleeds are a sign of fiberglass inhalation.

We have contacted the company, and their response was honestly insulting. We were told that we shouldn't have taken the mattress cover off to begin with, and that it can no longer be covered by the 365 night guarantee, despite us having had it for under the full year. I have just now, after three days trying, finally spoken to someone willing to look into our case, so here's hoping we'll get even a fraction of what we are, frankly, owed.

It really feels like there could be some sort of lawsuit here.

In fact, there is one, with a situation nearly identical to ours but with a different company. This was the first hit when I searched our problem online.

https://topclassactions.com/.../zinus-class-action-says.../

Anyway, if you have a Nectar mattress, don't ever open the easily accessible warning-label-free zipper! If you have had it under a year, and it's in its original condition, it can still be returned. If you were planning to get one, maybe don't! A lot of the foam-mattress-in-a box types have the fiberglass, though most of them disclose the presence of the fiberglass rather than hiding it like a dirty secret. Make sure you do a search for mattresses WITHOUT fiberglass as a flame retardant.

Severe Complication Requiring Additional Surgery

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gofundme.com

Spinal Growth Removal in Vermont, organized by Alistair Corvelle

I have both a severely deformed neck and a massive growth inside my spinal cord. W… Alistair Corvelle needs your support for Spinal Growth

Paypal.me/alistaircorvelle

Venmo: acorvelle

Cash App: $acorvelle

I truly do regret to inform you all that I had a really bad accident and further injured my neck. I now require a vertebroplasty to stabilize my already compromised cervical spine. This is in addition to the planned arthroplasty, ventriculoperitoneal shunt, and surgical excision of my spinal growths. My medical bills are beginning to overwhelm me, and I am not going to receive any professional aid until December. At this point, I will have to increase the amount of my fundraising goal. I am under so much stress, and this doesn't even include the stress of moving 2,200 across the country to be closer to my surgeon.

I desperately need help.

I beg of you all to please share this. Here on tumblr, on twitter, or even reddit. Wherever you think it'll get traction, please. I have just begun to make payments for the operations I've already had, and the crushing weight of my medical debt is giving me panic attacks. All donations are incredibly appreciated, and every penny is literally saving my life.

POST PLUS IS COMING, WHETHER YOU WANT IT OR NOT!

Despite the fancy survey, changes to the UI and TOS reveal we’re getting the service in the future whether we want it or not. Obviously, Post+ is a terrible idea that is trying to bank revenue on user content. Unlike patreon or onlyfans, tumblr’s primary focus is on FAN content. The legality of this is NOT in the users favor and as the new tumblr TOS states, said users will be entirely liable for whatever legal matters arise.

SO WHAT ARE WE DOING?

Besides filling out the survey, it’s time to show tumblr we mean business and show our displeasure by hitting them where it hurts.

Ad revenue.

We’re proposing a 24 hour log off as phase one of this protest.

WHEN IS THE PROTEST?

AUGUST 6th, 2021        12 am Eastern Time (US)          5 am Greenwich Mean Time          6 am Central European Time          8 am Moscow Standard Time          1 pm Australian Western Time          2 pm Japan Standard Time          3:30 pm Australian Central Time          4 pm Australian Eastern Time

AUGUST 5th, 2021

11 pm Central Time (US)          10 pm Mountain Time (US)            9 pm Pacific Time (US)

THE END TIME IS 24 HOURS FROM START TIME!!!

So no posting, no queues, no likes, and no reblogs!

WHAT IF I CAN’T/WHAT ELSE CAN I DO?

Like this post and share it AS MANY TIMES AS POSSIBLE. Use the hashtags #tumblrlogoff2021 or #postplusprotest on ANY and ALL social media.

WILL THIS WORK?

Maybe, maybe not. It’s an attempt at doing SOMETHING.

BECAUSE I’M A TIRED IDIOT, USE THIS TO DOUBLE CHECK YOUR TIME ZONE!!!!

timeanddate.com

Event Time Announcer - Log off protest 2021

Event Time Announcer shows time for Log off protest 2021 in locations all over the world. In New York it happens on Friday, August 6, 2021 a

Emergency: Food funds/Bills

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Post detailing my abuse/living situation/and plans to move,

Laying things straight here, This is gonna be my new pinned post but also just explaining that I am constantly in an unstable situation UNTIL I move. I am a black trans individual who is autistic, and I am waiting on 3 people to leave my home.

It’s quite literally an uphill battle and just all my current money has to go to several different things and quite frankly the month of march left me flat broke. I am low on food money, currently 35 dollars right at this moment. :’) I am not sure how much I’ll have WHEN someone donates, so the amount is obviously changing

It takes about 100 to feed me at least for a couple of weeks. (Considering that I cut my meals down to 1 time a day or 1 time every 2-3 days so I have enough.) I am doing my best to keep a few dollars in my pocket so I have enough to eat, or if an emergency comes up.

I’ll be deleting most of my others posts (on this blog and my other blog) when I can. This is unfortunately an ongoing problem, that won’t stop anytime soon.

Thank you for all the help you’ve given me so far. So if you can and want too please continue supporting me. :’0

Ko-fi

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I have $24 to last me til Friday, what should I buy with it?