🆘‼️ URGENT! ‼️ 🆘 MOMMA COCONUT is not doing well, open mouth breathing and needs out… pledges needed … At Devore animal Shelter
MOMMA COCONUT #A799882 1-year-old female w/ 4 kittens approx. 7 weeks old Intake date 5/31/24 Available for adoption starting 6/5/24 Found in the 3400 block of Gray St in Muscoy
https://24Petconnect.com/DetailsMain/SBCO1/A799882
Video of momma coconut
https://www.instagram.com/reel/C72XX3GSzQ5/?igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==
DEVORE ANIMAL SHELTER 19777 SHELTER WAY SAN BERNARDINO, CA 92407 (909)386-9820 - press 2 for Devore Shelter, then press 3 to speak with a shelter agent (rescues press 1 to speak with a rescue coordinator)
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‼️PLEDGES APPROVED ON THIS POST‼️
We need funds for transportation… Devore Animal shelter is further out. The bulk of rescues are spread out across So Cal all the way from San Diego to Los Angeles to Riverside to Ventura County. Gas is not cheap and collecting funds to pay for short notice transport is the only way to save them.
If anyone wants to set aside a few dollars towards transport that would be helpful.
https://www.PayPal.me/CassiusOO
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Statistics are so grim at Apple Valley Animal Shelter which is not far from Devore. About 7% of the cats make it out of there alive. We studied the adopted budgets from 2009-2023 and it’s just a trajectory that goes up and the city council who seem to just swap seats and jump around so they can stay in office has a mindset of “welp… we can’t adopt our way out of this..”
Rather than thinking… “what can we do to improve this”. —>> solutions are really basic… TNR and free spay and neuter programs.
Would you be opposed to writing two entities. Just sign your name, do not say where you live.

1. ⁠⁠San Bernardino County Board of Supervisors (BOS)
2. ⁠⁠Apple Valley City Council Members & Mayor (Apple Valley has a contract with the county to take in cats from all over)

Here is one post where it shows the email addresses of the Apple Valley City Council and suggestions on what to say.
https://www.facebook.com/61556415188242/posts/pfbid02YYJedPEKu7q2KdsQaZ7tEsyeWB15ZHewGPXPf4Qcrd44b51mUZEsUd3aXf5zHjxCl/?mibextid=cr9u03
And here is the post where you can click to see a sample letter to the BOS
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=pfbid02wATu2SNUFzaG7S9fKgHo8GU1JWao3yUaRt93tZJAmiEB1U9QBpLpUcjkeLN2nyacl&id=61556415188242&mibextid=cr9u03
Me and some other people run this Facebook page where we focus on Apple valley cats.
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61556415188242&mibextid=LQQJ4d
Very few rescues have pull rights from Apple Valley Animal Shelter and we are trying to raise awareness. If the town of Apple valley excluded cats from the leash law that would also help lessen the amount of animals brought into the shelter.

🆘‼️ URGENT! ‼️ 🆘 MOMMA COCONUT is not doing well, open mouth breathing and needs out… pledges needed … At Devore animal Shelter
MOMMA COCONUT #A799882 1-year-old female w/ 4 kittens approx. 7 weeks old Intake date 5/31/24 Available for adoption starting 6/5/24 Found in the 3400 block of Gray St in Muscoy
https://24Petconnect.com/DetailsMain/SBCO1/A799882
Video of momma coconut
https://www.instagram.com/reel/C72XX3GSzQ5/?igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==
DEVORE ANIMAL SHELTER 19777 SHELTER WAY SAN BERNARDINO, CA 92407 (909)386-9820 - press 2 for Devore Shelter, then press 3 to speak with a shelter agent (rescues press 1 to speak with a rescue coordinator)
——————//—————-
‼️PLEDGES APPROVED ON THIS POST‼️
We need funds for transportation… Devore Animal shelter is further out. The bulk of rescues are spread out across So Cal all the way from San Diego to Los Angeles to Riverside to Ventura County. Gas is not cheap and collecting funds to pay for short notice transport is the only way to save them.
If anyone wants to set aside a few dollars towards transport that would be helpful.
https://www.PayPal.me/CassiusOO
————————//———————
Statistics are so grim at Apple Valley Animal Shelter which is not far from Devore. About 7% of the cats make it out of there alive. We studied the adopted budgets from 2009-2023 and it’s just a trajectory that goes up and the city council who seem to just swap seats and jump around so they can stay in office has a mindset of “welp… we can’t adopt our way out of this..”
Rather than thinking… “what can we do to improve this”. —>> solutions are really basic… TNR and free spay and neuter programs.
Would you be opposed to writing two entities. Just sign your name, do not say where you live.

1. ⁠⁠San Bernardino County Board of Supervisors (BOS)
2. ⁠⁠Apple Valley City Council Members & Mayor (Apple Valley has a contract with the county to take in cats from all over)

Here is one post where it shows the email addresses of the Apple Valley City Council and suggestions on what to say.
https://www.facebook.com/61556415188242/posts/pfbid02YYJedPEKu7q2KdsQaZ7tEsyeWB15ZHewGPXPf4Qcrd44b51mUZEsUd3aXf5zHjxCl/?mibextid=cr9u03
And here is the post where you can click to see a sample letter to the BOS
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=pfbid02wATu2SNUFzaG7S9fKgHo8GU1JWao3yUaRt93tZJAmiEB1U9QBpLpUcjkeLN2nyacl&id=61556415188242&mibextid=cr9u03
Me and some other people run this Facebook page where we focus on Apple valley cats.
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61556415188242&mibextid=LQQJ4d
Very few rescues have pull rights from Apple Valley Animal Shelter and we are trying to raise awareness. If the town of Apple valley excluded cats from the leash law that would also help lessen the amount of animals brought into the shelter.

TLDR: The ordeal of doing a custom powdercoat finish on a Freewrite Smart Typewriter. And I ask what color I should attempt next.
The Pastel Turquoise Freewrite Story
A few years ago I got the (not-so) bright idea to create a one-of-a-kind custom-color Freewrite and it blew up in my face. Let me go back to the beginning...
In 2014 when Astrohaus introduced what was then called the Hemingwrite on Kickstarter I got wind of it and followed its journey. In 2015 I trekked to the Astrohaus Manhattan office with a friend to see an early production version. I was at the radio station WFMU at the time and had this vague idea of talking the Astrohaus marketing department into giving the station a Freewrite to use as a prize during an upcoming fundraising Marathon. We could put the device in front of a ton of professional writers while getting ourselves a kick-ass prize. We were led to a conference room where the first iteration of the Freewrite awaited us. I tried it out, then my friend. We kept our thoughts to ourselves as the marketing rep talked up the machine.
"It's distraction-free writing. Built for one purpose."
Yes, but will people pay for what appears to be a glorified word processor?
We left the Astrohaus offices and my friend and I expressed our reservations.
"Still, if we could get them to donate one..."
We couldn't. They didn't see the value in accessing WFMU's artistic community.
"Oh well. Good lucking selling your machine!"
All the while I stayed on the Astrohaus mailing list, searched for used Freewrites on EBay, read every online review and watched all the YouTube videos. I wondered if a device guaranteeing distraction-free writing could help with my concentration. When I'm writing on my MacBook or iMac there's always something that gets through: email notifications, texts, breaking news. I never remember to mute notifications or use Airplane Mode. Again and again I go down various rabbit holes, spending ten or fifteen minutes replying to emails (mostly trashing junk emails), responding to texts, checking the news, or wasting time on social media. But I kept putting off the actual purchase of a Freewrite, despite my love of typewriters and memories of my mother's hulking black Royal upon which I learned to type. Then the Hemingwrite came along. Astrohaus revived the original name of the Freewrite but this time it was authorized by the Ernest Hemingway estate. When I saw the first photos of the polished aluminum exterior and green keys I thought "That thing is sweet." But even with the extras–the carrying case, etc.–I couldn't see ponying up the asking price, even for a "limited-edition" of "only" 200 pieces.
"That's what I paid for my Macbook a few years ago."
But the emails from Astrohaus kept coming and I kept opening them. On the cusp of a milestone birthday I decided to indulge and buy a Hemingwrite as a gift to myself... and a future investment.
"I can finally write that book about the Nihilistics..."
The Nihilistics is the New York Hardcore band I founded and named at the end of the '70s. I'd written a few short pieces about the band, centered around my relationship with the bass playelyrics writer Mike (RIP). I referred to him as "...the booster rocket that helped me achieve escape velocity, falling back to earth in the process." One of my short stories about the band got published and I had a boutique publisher interested in the full story.
"I'll write the book on the Hemingwrite!"
When the box with my new distraction-free writing tool arrived (within a day or two of ordering) I moved it around from our porch to the office to our dining room but couldn't bring myself to open it.
"I don't deserve this thing. I can't justify the cost. Is it too late to return it?"
This went on for six weeks.
"If it IS too late to return it maybe I can put it on EBay. I should be able to get my money back. But I sure would like to see it first."
Then I finally freed the Hemingwrite from its box (I thought of doing an unboxing video but didn't). I gingerly cut open the tape on the box and extracted the leather carrying case from its bag. I opened the case and thought "This thing is sexy." It hadn't occurred to me there wouldn't be enough of a charge to use the Hemingwrite out of the box. But I started typing on it anyway, figuring I could charge it overnight and get the full experience in the morning.
"It's like mom's IBM Selectric..."
My mother owned one of the early Selectrics with the swappable type element (I still have on of the elements: the typewriter is long gone, as is the Royal). Typing on the Selectric was a fully tactile experience, just like the Hemingwrite. There's even the same delay between key-strike and "imprint," as I discovered the next morning after a full charge.
"I guess I'm not sending this back. Or selling it on EBay."
Since it arrived and I finally decided to use it, I've been on my Hemingwrite every day, cranking out a weekly newsletter and my book distraction-free. Every once in awhile I admire the bare aluminum case and remind myself I earned this damn thing and plan to keep it and pass it on to some deserving soul many years from now. There are things I'd change–could there be a spellcheck function, for instance? – but those who scoff at this tool haven't spent enough time with one. They don't "get" it. I got it. And I'm glad I did.
Fast forward a bit and Astrohaus decides to sell more "limited-edition" Hemingwrites. I wrote to the company, reminding them what their own Marketing department said about only producing 200 pieces. They responded with a bullshit excuse: this is not the same machine as yours, we've updated the internals. Well, no one bought it for the internals. It felt like a betrayal and I questioned how I could go about creating a custom-color Freewrite of my own and perhaps sell my Hemingwrite to recoup my costs. I managed to buy a stock black Gen. 2 Freewrite for $350 and $25 shipping. Before I could think about disassembling the Freewrite a friend expressed interest in it and I brought the machine to him, where it sat boxed under his couch for almost half a year. He was going through issues with the health of his parents and finally decided not to buy my Freewrite, so I went and retrieved it. Then I revived the idea of putting a custom color on it and selling my Hemingwrite.
There are no online instructions for taking a Freewrite apart, so with great trepidation I brought the Freewrite out to my garage workbench and proceeded as carefully as possible. It's a bit harrowing, thinking you might destroy a machine for which you've paid $$$. But after an hour of stomach-churning, detail-oriented work I got the aluminum shell separated from the innards of the machine and put all the electronic parts safely away in the Freewrite box. Because I didn't fully power down the Freewrite first, a black bar appeared across the E-Ink display and I was convinced I destroyed it. I kept calm and carried on. Next, I did some research online on removing a powder coat finish from aluminum. Initially, I thought the shell could be media-blasted (they don't call it sand-blasting any longer) but you can't media-blast aluminum without potentially dimpling the surface. It's suggested you use a powerful paint stripper and I opted for Jasco (approx. $28) based on discussions in a powder-coat forum. The Jasco stripper is nasty stuff and the only way to use it safely is outdoors while wearing heavy disposable gloves, eye protection and a respirator. I took the Freewrite to my backyard, put it on a folding aluminum table and began brushing it with the Jasco stripper. When done I let it sit the suggested twenty minutes for the Jasco stripper to do its work. Then, using a plastic scraper (you can't use a metal scraper on aluminum) I began trying to remove the powder-coat finish. It didn't go well. I removed some of the finish but most of it remained and I was confronted with three choices: sand the rest of the finish off, try another application of the Jasco stripper or bite the bullet and get it media-blasted anyway. I decided to try another application of the Jasco stripper the following day, this time leaving it on for thirty minutes. Then I went at the powder-coat with the plastic scraper again. I had to use a combo of large and small scrapers to get into all the recesses of the Freewrite's shell. But the Jasco stripper is not a miracle worker and much of the powder-coat stubbornly remained. I pivoted to multiple grades of steel wool, from 0 to 0000. This took several hours of meticulous work but when I was done I was presented with something that looked very much like my Hemingwrite. Believe me, it stung to know Astrohaus is selling a raw-finish Freewrite (sure, it's "hand-buffed") with green keycaps and accents at a substantial premium and I thought of stopping there and using a spare set of green keycaps I own to create an ersatz Hemingwrite. But that was never my intent, so I pushed on with the custom color idea, posting a poll to the Freewrite community on Facebook, asking which color they'd like to see on a Freewrite. Astrohaus, in addition to the Hemingwrite, produced and sold a blue Freewrite and a cream Freewrite (this is before the Mint and Lemon editions) that garner a premium on EBay. The poll revealed "Green" to be the favored choice for a custom color so I did a Photoshop mock-up of red and green Freewrites and put them on the Facebook group. The response was positive. I called around to a bunch of local powder-coating places only to find they concentrate on automobile rims and little else. I even drove the Freewrite shell to one place only to be quoted a price of $150, which seemed a bit much. Then I remembered a place I used previously, up in Kingston, NY, a two hour drive north for me. We have friends in the Catskills and decided to cart the Freewrite to Kingston and stay overnight. A week later we returned to Kingston and retrieved the Freewrite, paying $50 for the Pastel Turquoise powder-coat it received. Now I had to put it all back together. THAT was a nightmare. Believe it or not, the spring on the power button gave me the greatest difficulty. I labored over THAT thing a solid hour to get it functioning properly. The rest of the reassembly was fraught as well, and there was still the issue of the black box on the E-Ink display. Luckily, this went away after I let the Freewrite charge overnight and I breathed a huge sigh of relief.
After posting pictures of the newly-finished Freewrite to the Astrohaus Facebook group and garnering an enthusiastic response, I decided to sell it and earn back what I spent in time, materials and labor. To me, a fair price would fall somewhere between $600–$700, based on recent EBay sales of stock Gen. 2 Freewrites ($325–$425), the cost of materials (Jasco Stripper, $28, powder-coating, $50), hours of disassembly, stripping of the finish, driving four hours round-trip to/from Kingston, reassembly, taking of pictures and posting an EBay listing. All that work is apart from the fact I produced a one-of-a-kind (AKA TRULY limited-edition) custom-color Freewrite. When I created the EBay listing I chose to start at $400 and not set a reserve price (EBay wanted $52 for the reserve price in addition to a final value and listing fee), hoping the enthusiasm in the Facebook group would reflect in healthy bidding activity. It did not. One person bid on my Pastel Turquoise Freewrite and I was faced with the prospect of selling it for $425, a price I might've seen if I'd left it black and not gone through all the effort to transform it. So I cancelled the sale and refunded the buyer's money immediately. I've been buying and selling on EBay almost 25 years and did not take this step lightly. The buyer, understandably upset, took to the Facebook Freewrite group and expressed his profound disappointment. Someone else decided to wade in and run down my character, describing what I did (cancelling the sale) as "borderline scammy behavior." Wow. I'm not sure who he thinks is being scammed but I'd like to see a show of hands for anyone who's wiling to work for free, what I'd be doing if I accepted $425 for my custom-color Freewrite. Yes, I could've and should've handled things differently. I might've offered the Freewrite on the Facebook group, setting a price I felt comfortable with. Or used a higher starting price or set a reserve on EBay. Mea culpa. Mea maxima culpa. But in no way, shape or form was I trying to "scam" anyone. Eventually, the buyer and I came to an agreement and he paid what I consider a fair price for the custom-color Freewrite. I also fell out of love with my Hemingwrite, due to the horrid software and ergonomics (I was getting bad neck strain from looking down at the screen for hours) and kept pestering Astrohaus, going further up the foodchain until they took back my Hemingwrite and issued a full refund. Now another Freewrite has fallen into my lap (it’s a friend’s who can no longer stand the machine’s peccadilloes) and I'm on the cusp of possibly creating another custom-color Freewrite to increase its value for a sale. I’d love to be talked out of it, BTW.
Thanks, Chris T.

Hey all, first time poster here. Looking for some help finding 3 or 4 player online co-op PS5 games.
My friends have always been FIFA (pro clubs) & single player story players, but with thanks to the Helldivers 2 hype I've managed to get them at least thinking about branching out to new co-op games.
It's early days on our new found love for co-op games, and I'd say we're casual gamers but we are more than capable of holding our own difficulty-wise and are generally quite good at FIFA / HD2.
I've taken it upon myself to build us a backlog. There are somewhat strict parameters I'm working within, hence why I'm posting. These are: - PS5 only. - PvE preferred (any genre ok). - PvP ok if sports/party game orientated. - Ability to play privately with no drop in. - Nothing top-down.
In the images attached is the current state of the backlog, hopefully you all agree I'm meeting criteria so far. I'm now looking to finalise so all your new suggestions would be greatly welcomed.
Bonus points for games that go on sale often so I can make it an easier sell!