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I like podcasts more on the vegetable side of the spectrum than the candy side. This is what I've exhausted so far: The Dollop, Citations Needed, 5 - 4, Revolutions, Blowback, The History of Rome, The Audit, Hardcore History

Should I go back to Robert Fedvans and the Belling Cat Bad Guys Show with 3 ad breaks an hour?

I don't want to listen to audiobooks outside of my commute because I'm way too distracted. All day I'm remembering 3-5 digit numbers while scanning through other numbers to find the matching ones. I need something interesting that I can zone in and out of

He leaves the chainsaw engine on while he climbs around the highest branches

Today I moved into my first stable housing since October 4th.

On that date I returned from a trip to visit a friend whom I had just learned had advanced cancer. My then roommate and close friend for two decades took the opportunity to declare that I had moved out. When I tried to come back I was shouted out with threats of calling the police and having the locks changed on me. The day before I left, I had explained why I was in such emotional distress by explaining the situation with my friend and my relationship with him. In the process I came out as bisexual. In hindsight this seems like the reason he acted so viciously towards me. I left my cats in his care while I was on my trip; he repeatedly threatened me with sending them to a pound (and then when I told him I had flagged them and he would be arrested if he tried it) or just releasing them outside. He dumped my possessions next to a dumpster and told me I had two hours to collect them. When I came for my cats he stuffed them into cardboard boxes and taped them shut with no air holes.

Since then I've been living in hotel rooms. I picked up a job as an amazon delivery driver. And even working full time only slowed down the rate at which my savings was getting eaten up. Finally I found this place, 30-60 minutes away from my work and willing to let me keep my cats. Because of the generosity of one of our comrades here "C" coming through with a couple very timely loans, I managed to keep my cats and keep from sleeping in my car all the way to now. I'm broke, in debt to multiple sources, but I managed to keep from being outside. And I managed to keep my family together, even if it's only cats at this point.

The story doesn't end here. I have a civil rights complaint that was accepted by the state's civil rights department. I'm going to bring a civil action against my old friend as soon as I have the money saved up for a lawyer. I'm going to finish studying for my certification and find a job in IT before/after I'm done with that. But the part of the story where my existential security is at question is now mainly over.

A group of 84 workers at Amazon's warehouse in Palmdale, California, won voluntary recognition by Battle-Tested Strategies, a third-party delivery contractor, to be represented by the Teamsters.

Battle-Tested Strategies is one of the legions of third-party delivery firms contracted by Amazon to shuttle packages to shoppers' doorsteps.

"We want fair pay and safe jobs, to be able to provide food for our families," said Rajpal Singh, an Amazon delivery driver at the Palmdale facility, in a statement. "We want to know we will make it home to our families at night after delivering Amazon packages in the extreme heat. We organized with the Teamsters to change our working conditions for the better."

Amazon said in a statement that it had terminated Battle-Tested before Monday's union announcement, though it didn't say when the contract ended.

Let's say you have two cats and you'd rather go homeless than them.

I'm not even sure it would open up my search to include anywhere I'd be able to afford.

I'd love to see those Hexbears have an answer for this!

They are two cats: a boy and a girl. They are in good health and have basic feeding requirements. No medications. No history of aggression towards people (boy cat has been territorial around other cats besides his sister).

I'm reposting this hoping it gets different eyes this time, and also because a week has passed and I'm starting to panic. I'm basically planning on being homeless on the 31st.

Coming on 3 weeks ago now, I was illegally evicted from my apartment by my roommate changing the locks while I was away. I've been living in motels and trying to talk to lawyers since. My savings are burning fast and I just can't afford to stay in temporary housing like this. In a week I'm not going to have this hotel room anymore. And I don't know what comes after that. I don't know what I'm doing. I just want to know that my cats are going to be safe and we aren't saying goodbye right now because of this. I want the chance to fix my life and still have my family at the end.

I got kicked out of a situation where I was explicitly told it was okay for me to be there while working on a tech support certification. Now I need to find a home and a job at the same time (how do you even do that?? Where do you look??) and at the same time try to sue the shit out of the guy who did this to me. I just can't afford pet friendly hotels anymore even with the promise of being paid back eventually by the lawsuit. My savings are shredded. I can cope with living in my car for a while but my cats can't. I can't deal with all of this at once on my own. I honestly need help.

They are two cats: a boy and a girl. They are in good health and have basic feeding requirements. No medications. No history of aggression towards people (boy cat has been territorial around other cats besides his sister).

I just had a lawyer tell me that I should abandon hope of being put back into my apartment after my roommate illegally evicted me. That means I have to reckon with finding a job and a place at the same time. And I just don't believe it's going to work out right away such that my cats and I can stay together in motel rooms until it's all straight. I promised them that everything would be okay and we'd all be together in the end.

There are long term boarding places around that will take them for as much as rent is for a 2 bedroom apartment around here. If I have to be homeless for a while to make sure they're safe that's what I'll do.

This isn't happening immediately, I don't think. Although probably sooner rather than later as I wrap my brain around the new situation. I just want to know that they have somewhere to go that isn't a pound or a new 'forever home' where I'll never see them again. They're all I have anymore.

I'm willing to give more details in the comments or DMs.