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Large messenger bag with dual external cargo pockets, external rear pocket, and flap pocket, as well as dual internal tech pockets and maker

Do you love your library? Do you remember the old-school due date cards and the satisfying KA-CHUNKA of stamping a due date? Do you enjoy carrying your belongings in a stylish, sturdy, and practical messenger bag?

GREAT NEWS. I have precisely one (1) library-themed messenger bag available for a fortunate being. I ship anywhere within the US or arrange local pickup if you’re in the Cambridge/Somerville (MA) region.

If this isn’t quite up your alley, I have other great gifts for the nerds in your life! Poke around my website and see if something is more to your liking! https://rhymes-with-doctor.myshopify.com/

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Hey if you're coming to Washington DC for the Fourth of July: don't

We're having our turn in the heat wave and reports from the National Mall are brutal already this week. That screenshot is today's forecast (courtesy of the Capital Weather Gang) and tomorrow and Saturday are confidently going to be worse than this is.

The national Mall has no shade on the grass and you will be exposed to the sun constantly while also experiencing extremely high humidity. You will not be allowed a bag over a certain size to enter the mall and it has to be clear. You cannot have an insulated water bottle, it has to be clear. Reports are that there are two entrances to the area so you'll have to wait in line to even get in. I cannot find a number on how many cooling stations there are, except that it's "few" to "none" depending on what accounts I read online. Vendors are allegedly charging more than the posted prices and seem to be unprepared for actual crowds - these are the official vendors not the scam food trucks that park all around the edges of the mall. And that's the extent of the planning done because it was not a priority to make sure attendees don't pass out.

My local friends and I have reached a consensus that tourists are going to get extremely sick and none of us know what the EMT response or planning is on the mall this year. People are going to die.

Please stay out of this. It's not worth your health. Get your relatives and family to stop. I can give you recs for so many DC museums and things to do if you want to make the most of your trip. Any other local can too.

sztupy

A good day for Trump supporters to get a heat stroke

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I cannot convey to you how much I do not want literal goddamn children to die. Also frankly, how I do not our local emts to have to watch any tourists die on their watch.

There is historically an assumption that attendees will have access to planned amenities. It's not in place this year of all years. There is a very real risk here and I'm trying to warn people, because people simply don't know how awful this is about to be.

Get fucked. This is very clearly a post trying to help people instead of rubbing my hands in glee.

brawlite

i have lived in the dc area for over 30 years, and the july 4 fireworks are simply just a huge event for tourists and locals, regardless of who is in office—it's a yearly tradition for so, so many families. the city gets absolutely jam packed with people, especially with children and older adults.

and dc is a swamp, literally. when we hit a heat wave like this, the heat just settles; it doesn't break at night and there's just zero relief, especially without shade in places like the mall. and without cooling stations or literally any other planning or precautions, people will get sick. they will get hurt. they will die.

if you know anyone planning on going, please tell them to stay home or find something else to do. watch the fireworks from somewhere else.

hoping everyone stays cool and safe.

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Another user here pointed out that most of the roads are closed around the mall. This will impact medical care and response.

My dash is full of Alien: Earth content so here’s my Halloween costume from last year. I needed a bike-helmet compatible outfit; the eyeball panty is reversible with lots of pupils on one side and only one on the other, the tentacle collar is breakaway (for safety!), and the label is hi-viz (also for safety!). Oh and I had little elastic straps on two of the tentacles so that they would follow my arms and signal turns. T. Ocellus cares about following bike rules!

#handmade #sewing #sewblr #alien earth #t ocellus #costume #halloween #god I’m so proud of this