I only recently (say, 3 months ago?) discovered Cory’s blog and I just have to say that it is absolutely amazing. The books he wrote & co-wrote are fantastic reads and help explain how we ended up in this mess in the first place.
As someone who’s had bedbugs multiple times… Yes it’s very much with throwing away your entire wardrobe if you have to. Do everything you can to prevent getting them.
Yup. Had em 3-4x in this very apartment. First day we discovered them I was hauling my box spring the fuck outside and dumping it by the trash downstairs at 3am while my wife was panicking.
Thankfully been several years since I’ve seen em and I aim to keep it that way.
The first time it happened, I remember killing everything with fire. I even slept on a plastic covered mattress and did daily vacuuming for like two months. Even worse, the bug bites caused my cat to be extra irritated, forcing him to clean himself nonstop from all the bites and having us lock him out of the bedroom else he go through another “obsessive bite cycle”.
It was near impossible since the neighbors didn’t care and solved it by moving.
They can’t even get out for people to take them in. The exits are blocked and the ‘safe evacuation route’ seems to be a major target for Israeli bombs and missiles. This is so fucked.
Prepare your flats and take that shit seriously when traveling. Just look under ever mattress you sleep on. And tell your friends and family to do that. For real, we need to get a hold on that.
At the very least, treat your bed frame and headboard. Remove any skirts around your bed so the only place the bedbugs can access your bed is the treated surfaces. When you do get them it will slow them down significantly. My best advice to prevent them is to avoid using public coat racks at places like work.
“They told us to escape and then they bomb people on the road. My father drove back to Gaza City. He said if we are dying anyway, let’s be at home in Gaza,” she said.
Heartbreaking indeed, but just for the record- The road bomb which killed 70+ was from Hamas. They are literally bombing their own people, putting up roadblocks inside their cities, and confiscating people’s car keys to keep them in the area as human shields.
They are literally bombing their own people, putting up roadblocks inside their cities, and confiscating people’s car keys to keep them in the area as human shields.
How are they using them as human shields? These people just live there.
My man, you’re sourcing rabidly pro-Israel sites, and Twitter.
I’ve seen the same footage, but I don’t recall seeing Hamas confetti come out of the explosion.
Yes, it’s entirely possible Hamas planted that bomb, but ascribing attribution with certainty is an impossible task at this point.
Feel free to point out the valid question, but for your own sake, don’t automatically assume that “facts” from a warzone that are made readily available are somehow automatically credible.
I was driving through Maryland, it was getting late, and I saw a hotel that was $45 per night. I literally thought to myself, “WTF, I just need a bed, how much could really go wrong if I stay here.”
The room opened straight to the parking lot, and there were cats everywhere outside crying. I said hello to one of them, he was clearly in bad shape and so I went and got some cat food and invited him in and gave him some food. He bit me so I put him back outside and went to sleep.
I was most of the way on the drive home when I noticed I had red welts in a little line down my arm. You fucker, you have to be kidding me.
I basically stripped in the parking lot of my place, went in and took a long shower first thing, and put into the garbage all the clothes I’d had with me, suitcase, shoes, my backpack after taking the computer and notebook out. I put them all in a trash bag in the parking lot and then threw it in a dumpster that wasn’t near any residence. Then I vacuumed my car and took a long shower again.
Fuckin bedbugs. I had no bedbugs carried back to my place after that and that’s how I like it. $45 for the hotel cost me maybe $300 worth of stuff that I decided to get rid of.
Little buddy was suffering. Nobody wants to see that and I had nothing else going on that night anyway. On the other hand, if it turns out he’s an asshole, then I feel comfortable saying he’s not my problem.
Just as a quick note. Cats can have rabies. You might want to go and tell your doctor that you've received a cat bite from an unknown cat and get a rabies shot because once you start showing symptoms you're already dead.
Oh no I totally get it, I would love to save a random street cat, but like, in some random hotel room? You’re the reason hotels have fleas and bed bugs lol. You’re very well meaning, but clearly lacking in common sense.
There are a lot of people who’ve interacted with cats they don’t know. Between the cat, animal control, the hotel, and the local health department, I like how you’ve chosen me as the one in this situation that clearly did something wrong lol.
Fucking bed bugs, indeed. I wouldn’t wish them on my worst enemy except maybe Putin.
They literally cost our entire Spring in tearing our house apart to address them. So much shit moved, tossed out, cleaned, then cleaned again… No idea where they even came from.
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