recently my elderly shattered-up phone started letting me charge it to 107% which I've been using to get let's just say a little bit extra out of it on long days
added benefit that this makes it crazy warm and soft so I use it to warm up my coat when it's cold outside
to be honest with you it's swollen as fuck and that's why I'm rocking with it
Swollen batteries are incendiary explosives.
this one's just a phone
if it was a bomb and not a phone I couldn't make a call on it, but I can because it's a phone, although it will be to the fun department instead of the fire department
respectfully, ma'am, phone and bomb are not mutually exclusive descriptors
I'm not gatekeeping I'm just speaking from my presently lived experience
When you start speaking from your formally lived experience, be sure to let us know!
I already live every day with undue formality and noble grace
I'm not a technician so I don't really see how this applies to me
I genuinely can't tell if you're being stupid on purpose
when you feel that way it's a sign that I'm being smart
OP your phone is literally about to explode.
we've been over this, it's just puffy and I poke it with twigs when it gets too hot
my mental health is splendid and my phone is fantastic why in the world would I kill myself
ha ha, this one sucks.
Like, everyone understands why this one sucks right?
Like smooth sharks is funny because it doesn't matter. Swanboy can think sharks are smooth as much as he wants and it wouldn't affect anything. "I'm incapable of dying" is funny because obviously it's a lie. But this one is like... both important And plausible? Like... the only evidence we have that OP isn't literally in danger; Something that I'm sure a lot of us thought early on; is the level of insistence they have that everything is fine. So like... the people continuing to go "actually that's a bomb" aren't silly dupes arguing about nothing with an internet jokester they're concerned citizens double and triple and quadruple checking that some stupid teenager isn't going to blow their hands off. See? Like, if OP was like "I'm drinking radioactive goop and it is delicious" and someone was like "hey you should go to the doctor" and OP was like "why? my mother has fed me radioactive goop since I was a child and it makes me bigger and glow green" then anyone who didn't get the joke would be a fool because that's insane. But "my phone is acting weird and getting warmer than normal and is a bit puffy are all believable stupid things? Right? Like... it took 5 posts by OP before I was like "oh they're probably fucking with people" and 7 to be confident enough that I wasn't worried. And I am a full time internet jokeman who is allergic to taking things seriously.
This is the OSHA version of people saying something genuinely racist/sexist/homophobic and then claiming they're "just trolling". It's only trolling is being upset about the thing they said is stupid and so you're the idiot for getting worked up. If taking the thing you said seriously would make sense if you WEREN'T joking... it's not trolling. It's just telling a bunch of strangers you're walking around with a bomb and don't understand that. The people responding aren't ANGRY. They're concerned for someone's safety.
this one's just a phone
this is what conversations with my partner sound like and it drives me insane
RadenWA is honestly a hero for these
400+ people were killed in gaza last night.
my friend tarek has been doing some amazing community organizing in palestine — he’s been teaching classes for children with my other friend farah AND distributing water and providing iftar meals during ramadan throughout rafah! his brother just had a major orthopedic surgery he had to wait about a year for and since food and water is incredibly scarce he can’t properly recover. please donate to their efforts!!!
he’s 21, the same age as me. before the war he was studying to be a translator and he dreamt of voice acting, just like so many of you reading this. (he’s pretty good too actually.) he would probably not call himself a poet but every few days he posts something so beautifully worded that he might as well be a poet laureate. he recently wrote: “gaza is sick of being praised by anyone. gaza is tired that its image is on satellite tv. gaza is sick of its name in the sad poems. gaza is tired of the repeated endings.” the message is clear — sentiments are not enough, his people need HELP.
every day i tell him im doing everything i can. and it’s true, i am, but its barely anything, as i’m disabled and bedridden. i’ve kept that fact from him out of shame because i see what he has to endure each day, but i feel SO POWERLESS. every time an announcement breaks that more bombs have dropped in the night or more innocent people were gunned down in broad daylight, my heart sinks with terror and i wonder if i’ve lost my friend. it really would mean so much — not just to him, to me — if you could donate anything you can spare to tarek and his family. he deserves the whole world and more.
Everytime I refresh my feed, the number of Palestinians massacred by Israel today rises.
419 is the most recent number of Palestinians killed in an Israeli large-scale sneak attack that started at 2 in the morning today (March 18). That's over 400 people massacred while they slept. That's more than 400 people killed in less than 24 hours.
ON THIS DAY: The rings of glorious Saturn, observed by the Voyager 2 space probe, August 17, 1981.
