GRAFFITI DECORATIONS, UNDER A SKY OF DUST

I got the idea from cowcatchers old locomotives used to have.

Anyways, yesterday I uploaded the model to Thingiverse, and just hours after uploading it, the Community Relationship Manager of the whole website left a comment suggesting I enter the model into a competition that's currently being held on the site.

So I did... and now it's in third place not even a day later. First place is $500, but the competition still has a month to go.

Then the Community Manager contacted me again, telling me they want to feature my model in an upcoming design promotion.

Just, what is happening? I mostly made this thing for myself in, like, an hour, and now it's suddenly super popular? This is all a little bit overwhelming 😵‍💫

Other models I worked on for weeks didn't get nearly as popular. I swear, it's impossible to predict what people will like.

Anyways, if you want to print the wheel guards yourself, you can get the model here or here.

I also made a quiet version you can stick furniture felt pads on.

Mayada, her husband Bilal, along with their 2 children are still trapped in Gaza fighting to keep each other alive under a Holocaust; caused by the genocidal occupation as well as foreign powers like the ‘u.s.’

The family used to have a barber shop (long destroyed by the occupation) along with peaceful lives.

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Mayada and Bilal are loving parents and their kids are the sweetest and kindest 🥹🫂 they even took in a stray cat named Nana. Mayada just wants to reclaim life and hope for her loved ones.

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Verification: The family is verified by collective @beesandwatermelons on Instagram (spreadsheet #93 as well as priority #17). The 🔗 are outdated but the vetting stands.

I am also a longtime volunteer of this collective as well as several of my friends who have also known Mayada for a long time and supported her through funds, fundraising, or campaign managing. We can vouch for her and her lovely family 🤍

Tags for support: @s00kyw00ky @witch-of-snow-and-stars @jeepers-scoob @psychedelic-charm @the-future-is-chrome @dragonsiren @posting-for-help @skyesu @sandyissabalat-blog @lyell-crookshanks @nilinstance @thetwistedarchives @crystalwhisp @xshootingstarrikex @fifthnormani @separocean-anxiety @s00kyw00ky

F-ing Instagram has not only banned Mayada’s pages but they also won’t even allow her to pin her campaign 🔗 to her bio!

We still need you 🫂🚨❤️‍🩹

They’re facing eviction. Please help.

We’ve had some traction but almost no $ come in. I urge you to reblog this, tag some mutuals, and/or send any amount that you can (even 1$, really).

Do not just assume the next person will take action.*

Thank you to all who have been present thus far. You’re here —> 💖 /:)

#my old phone looks like this on my shelf lmao #im too scared to touch it to throw it away #idk what trash this even goes into when its at this point

The pillow-shaped object here used to be the phone’s battery. It’s not a battery anymore. Now it’s a balloon full of corrosive, pyrophoric chemicals and hydrogen gas and it’s one puncture away from burning your house down. I am 100% serious. You should be scared to touch it.

But you gotta touch it, because you gotta get it out of your house before the pressure builds up to the point where the balloon pops. This isn’t going to happen soon – there is no need to panic – but it will happen eventually.

And, indeed, it doesn’t go in the ordinary trash. You put this in the ordinary trash and you’re gonna set the garbage truck on fire. Don’t do that to the garbage collectors, their job is hard enough already.

The first thing you need to do is get a fireproof container. The most common household item that qualifies as a fireproof container is a cast-iron cookpot with a cast-iron lid – often sold as a “Dutch oven.” Any other cooking container that’s unreactive, has a very high melting point, and has a lid made of the same materials will also work: enameled or stainless steel, Pyrex with glass lid, etc.

However: Do not use a pot with a PTFE-based non-stick coating. If the battery does explode, the fire will probably be hot enough to degrade a PTFE coating, producing toxic smoke. (Not that you should breathe the smoke from the battery fire either, but PTFE breakdown products are worse.) Do not use a pot made of aluminium or copper. The fire might even get hot enough to melt those.

Whatever container you use, you might have to throw away along with the phone, so don’t use your good Dutch oven for this. Go to a thrift store and buy a cheap one.

Once you have the fireproof container:

Gently pick up the phone and put it in the fireproof container. If possible, gently tape the phone to the bottom of the container to prevent it from bouncing around. Don’t put any padding in there, that’ll just make a fire worse if it does happen. Put the lid on and tape it shut.

Put a label on the container, something like “DEFECTIVE LI-ION BATTERY – FIRE HAZARD”.

It is now reasonably safe to move the container around. However, if the battery does explode, the container is very likely to leak smoke and get hot, so keep it in a well-ventilated area and away from things that will be damaged by heat. Don’t leave it exposed to the weather, either.

You need to find either a hazardous waste disposal site, or an e-waste recycler that will accept defective Li-ion batteries. I can’t help with that because I have no idea where you live.

However, your local fire department, if you have one, will probably be happy to help. Call their non-emergency number. Nothing is on fire yet, so this isn’t an emergency, but things that can easily start a fire are still within the fire department’s responsibilities. Tell them you have a phone with a bulging lithium-ion battery, you put it in a fireproof container, and you want to know how to dispose of it safely.

If the fire department tries to tell you this isn’t dangerous or it’s okay to throw it out in the regular trash (with or without fireproof container), hang up on them and write a cranky letter to your local government representatives, then keep looking for a proper disposal site.

Kris: *looks in jevils cell door and sees this*