aah! a tree!

First, we need to establish where not to go: big box stores like w.alma.rt, and ta.rget are typically not fruitful diving wise, as these chain stores use trash compactors... which are inaccessible. I’d say 95% of the time, trash compactors are impossible to rummage through, and even then, everything is squished and the trash is difficult to look through. So in general, avoid trash compactors.

Retailers, however, usually do daily culls, their workers go through and throw out “damaged”, “expired”, or “ugly” items. Culls can also include throwing out excess stock to make room for incoming shipments, among other reasons. So in general, stores throw out what they sell. And it’s a good idea to check dumpsters daily, so you don’t miss out on anything (there’s a chance rain can damage loot, or a dump truck could take your potential haul)

For non-food items:

Makeup stores

Home improvement stores

Thrift stores

Furniture stores

Pet stores

Stores that carry loot and food:

Discount stores (o.llies, big l.ots)

Dollar stores

Pharmacies

Gas stations

Food items:

Bakeries

Donut shops

Sandwich places

Cafes (if they get their food pre-made like st.ar b.u.cks)

Pizza places (takeout places are usually the least messiest)

Small grocery stores (trader j.oe.s & al.di)

Food factories

While restaurants, delis, and cafes do waste large amounts of food, I don’t recommend eating warm/pre-made food from dumpsters. The food is easily already in the Time-Temperature Danger Zone.... So unless you can start a food rescue directly with a food place to avoid the dumpster? (which is great if you can do it) I don’t recommend eating half eaten/warm food.

For reference, the hauls I usually come across are

Shelf stable

Still in its package, and/or

Clean!

some examples below

now I’m sucked into your lies through Russel, not his muscles but percussion he provides

The police ruled it a suicide. The family and local community demanded an investigation. The police refused to change their ruling.

Juliana Nzita, A 16 year old Black girl, was just found hanging from a tree on church grounds in Charlotte, NC. Police have ruled it a suicide, despite hanging ourselves from trees being like the one communally agreed way Black folks ain’t killing ourselves.

Every time I go on Twitter or Facebook I learn about another recent lynching or missing Black person going mostly unreported. Half the reason I keep an active account on either of those sites is because they’re the only place I can find out about the violence happening to Black and Trans people reasonably quickly.

Non-Black and/or non-US based people often wonder why so many left-leaning Black folks in the US try to operate alternate justice systems within smaller community such as restorative justice, transformative justice, etc. when “all over the world, activists and their ancestors have fought for access to legal systems like this” and this is why.

Our legal system is explicitly designed to kill and enslave Black people. Our legal system from the cops to the lawyers and courts (one of the few times we got justice) to the prisons is legalized slavery where prisons are privatized and corporations are encouraged to maximize their profit by incentivizing every part of this system to hold as many people as possible.

Black folks can be proven innocent after years of time in prison or on death row and still killed by the state or dying in prison because the goal was never justice, it was to keep culling and controlling the Black population.

And outside of the system, we are lynched, raped, abused, trafficked, and robbed by those involved in our legal system, lives often irreparably destroyed, entire lives disappeared with no justice because that is the point, not a flaw. It’s almost always those in the legal system or their families and friends doing this, so that it can be ruled a suicide or a runaway or intracommunity issues and swept away.

i have a file or folder on my pc that i want to share with other people. let's call it gayshit.mp3

unfortunately gayshit.mp3 is 750mb and im not paying for discord nitro so i need another way to send it

i put it into qbittorrent and it makes a torrent file. this is essentially a very small file that points to gayshit.mp3 so other computers can find it. kinda like a treasure map

i send this tiny file to my friend, who loads it into qbittorrent. their computer takes a moment to find mine over the vast expanse of cyberspace and then (as long as my pc is running and the file is still where it should be), it gets copied from my hard drive to theirs

this is the cool part: if somebody else loads that tiny file, they can download it from both of us. if i'm offline but my friend is on, the third person can still get it. this also means that if two people have separate halves of the file, they can download the other half from each other. as long as some combination of people have the pieces between them, they can all have the whole thing.

crucially this does not require a server!!! you can just upload the file to a few people and as long as they keep it, it's still accessible. as long as somebody, somewhere is still connected, it's available forever. the only way it goes away is if everybody disconnects from it.

“Did you see the way that little girl looked at me? Kids. Little kids. They grow up believing that they can be a hero if they drive a sword into the heart of anything different. And I’m the monster? I don’t know what’s scarier. The fact that everyone in this kingdom wants to run a sword through my heart or that sometimes I just wanna let ‘em.” “We have to get you out of here. Over the wall. We won’t stop until we find some place safe, okay? We’ll go. Together. No matter what we do, we can’t change the way people see us.” “You changed the way you see me... Didn’t you?

This is Rita Hester. Rita was born in 1963, in Hartford, Connecticut. She loved rock music, food, and dancing. She often holidayed in Greece. She had a pet cat, and a boa constrictor.

In 1998, Rita was murdered. In 1999, Transgender Day of Remembrance was founded in her honour.