lissette💜

Kind-hearted, care-free individual. Simply dreaming.

[saywhat-politics]

All of the people shown here are US citizens.

That didn’t stop ICE from grabbing them.

[friend-crow]

Apparently ICE now has agents posing as utility workers to get into people's homes. The electric and gas companies have posted information on how to tell if it's one of their workers, and numbers to call to confirm whether they've sent someone to do utility work on your house.

Stay safe, friends.

[alexwrekk]

ICE posing as utility workers to detain immigrants, Gresham lawmaker warns

Oregon state Rep. Ricki Ruiz said three people were detained in his district after ICE agents posed as utility workers.

[parsio]

Some people have shared stories of suspicious “sales representatives” knocking on homes, asking about the home owners and who lives there, fishing for phone numbers, but do not provide business cards, company id, company phone numbers, etc when asked.

They come in pairs, never one person though one may hag back a bit. They have been seen using cars with significantly tinted windows, no business logos anywhere on the vehicle, or parking close to the home they walked up to only to drive away right after without visiting other homes, almost as if they’re not real sales people.

True door to door salespeople need a sort of peddler’s license, subject to city and county law, to solicit at your door. You can ask to see this permit. If they don’t provide one or make an excuse, they are likely bogus.

They wear a jacket with a company logo but likely don’t wear name tags and the Don’t provide id.

Tell them you’ll call the company about a noncompliant representative. Make them leave. Better yet not to open the door to them, and tell them nothing.

Actual sales reps also generally do follow “no soliciting” signs. Be aware, be safe, don’t give out your information or that of others under duplicitous means.

[duckbunny]

don't infantilise yourself. you are not a child who needs an adult to make your decisions for you. you are a splendid and magnificent autocrat and you are consulting your trusted advisors. you are exercising great wisdom by inviting an expert to give their opinion before making your ruling. often the path of wisdom is to say "good morning, I'm trying to [perform task] and I have a question about [aspect], can you tell me who I should speak to for advice?" before you do it. sometimes the path of wisdom is to hire a plumber. there are times when you cannot do things for yourself but that doesn't mean you are not an adult. you don't need a grown-up. you need a specialist.

[duckbunny]

this has come up a couple of times so let me be really really clear:

the path of wisdom is sometimes to hire a plumber.

the path of wisdom is always to hire an electrician.

[criwes]

Close to Nothing series by Sophie Derrick

[hayaomiyazaki]

Meeting the Man: James Baldwin in Paris 1970 – directed by Terence Dixon

[icaseybaybee]

[fandom-trash-goblin]

we've got a life to love living.

[teaboot]

advice that has literally saved and improved my life

[daysleftofsecondterm]

1,105 days left

[pmamtraveller]

Jonathan Day - The Stream at the Edge of the Field

[thorffour-deactivated20190920]

[link]

[storybookprincess]

hi!!!!! i’m an actual librarian who has encountered this very situation before!!!!! and while i commend & admire op’s willingness to help another patron, this is why you really really should have a library worker, not another patron whom you don’t know, assist you with tech & information related issues in the library!!! because we are trained in how to handle this exact sort of thing

tl;dr: use proton mail. i’m not gonna gatekeep this info. it does not require a cell phone number, so it’s my go to for patrons in this situation!!! while i am acutely aware of the harm done by the digital divide & how many people are getting left behind as our world gets increasingly tech dependent, the situation is not hopeless. there ARE provisions in place to help the people most affected, and those provisions are usually wearing glasses & cardigans & sitting behind the circulation desk

librarians are not glorified bookworms!!!! we are information professionals who are highly trained in how to handle these sorts of seemingly impossible binds!!!! ask us for help!!!!!! as i always tell my patrons, that’s what i get paid the big bucks for

[my-love-my-soul-deactivated2026]

This city always turn into magic once it gets dark ❤️

[memeuplift]

[cicada-heart]

mushroom linocut prints on antique book paper 🍄✨

etsy

[lamignonette]

[blondebrainpowered]

A Hare in the Forest, ca. 1585

Artist: Hans Hoffmann

[nixscriptum]

[petaltexturedskies]

Long walks in the woods, going barefoot day and night, a lamp in the evening, a warm room, and the moon, whenever it suits her, and the stars when they are out, and otherwise just sitting and listening to the rain or to the storm as though it were God himself.

Rainer Maria Rilke, in a letter to Lou Salomé written c. December 1912, from Rilke and Andreas-Salomé: A Love Story in Letters

[the-local-bohg-witch]

Do not forget the other victims of ICE

as much as we must mourn and stand in solidarity with Renee Nicole Good, please do not forget the other victims of ice raids, who are not white. Silverio Villegas González, a cook from mexico who was dropping his son off at daycare and was murdered Jaime Alanis, a farmer from mexico who fell off a green house at the farm where he worked to send money to his wife and daughter Roberto Carlos Montoya Valdez, a father and grandfather from Guatemala who was hit by a car Josué Castro Rivera, a garden from Honduras who was struck by a car And so many others who were killed or are dying in detention centres, prisons ect racial bias is always something we must be aware of, Renee will be focused on because she was a white woman and a US citizen, but do not forget all the other victims of ICE, may they all rest in power