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🇺🇸recall of over one million anker power bank portable chargers due to fire hazard; injuries and explosions reported🇺🇸

these power banks were on the market for over 6 years, 2016-2022, for around $27 USD. if you recognize this picture, stop using it immediately and get it replaced!

do NOT throw these in the trash! these are dangerous and need to be disposed of properly and safely!

https://www.cpsc.gov/Recalls/2025/More-than-One-Million-Anker-Power-Banks-Recalled-Due-to-Fire-and-Burn-Hazards-Manufactured-by-Anker-Innovations

Name of Product: Anker PowerCore 10000 power banks (model A1263 only) Hazard: The lithium-ion battery in the power bank can overheat, posing fire and burn hazards to consumers. Remedy: Replace Recall Date: June 12, 2025 Units: About 1,158,000

there have been a LOT of power bank recalls and safety warnings lately. this specific recall is for the anker powercore 10000 model A1263. check out CPSC recalls for more US recalls and product safety warnings. they have some really helpful search options.

This recall involves Anker PowerCore 10000 power banks with model number A1263. The brand name “Anker” is engraved on the front of the product. The model number “A1263” and serial number “SN” are printed on the bottom. Only model number A1263 power banks sold in the U.S. with qualifying serial numbers are included in the recall. Consumers should check their serial number at https://www.anker.com/product-recalls to determine whether their power bank is included in the recall. Note: Do not throw this recalled lithium-ion battery or device in the trash, in the general recycling stream (e.g., street-level or curbside recycling bins), or in used battery recycling boxes found at various retail and home improvement stores. Recalled lithium-ion batteries must be disposed of differently than other batteries, because they present a greater risk of fire. Your municipal household hazardous waste (HHW) collection center may accept this recalled lithium-ion battery or device for disposal. Before taking your battery or device to a HHW collection center, contact it ahead of time and ask whether it accepts recalled lithium-ion batteries. If it does not, contact your municipality for further guidance.

some emphasis mine. only certain serial numbers qualify for a free replacement.

really important information here. throwing lithium ion batteries in the trash or recycling can be extremely dangerous.

it is implied these were also sold outside of the US, but this specific recall only affects power banks sold in the US. if you bought one of these outside of the US, keep an eye on relevant recalls and product safety warnings.

Consumers should immediately stop using the recalled power banks and contact Anker Innovations for instructions on receiving a free replacement power bank. Visit https://www.anker.com/product-recalls to register for the recall. To receive a replacement, consumers will be required to submit a photo of their recalled power bank showing the model number, serial number, their name, the date of the photograph, and the word “recalled” written on the power bank in permanent marker. A purchase receipt will be requested but will not be required to participate in the recall. Consumers will also be required to confirm disposal of the power bank in accordance with applicable laws and regulations before receiving a replacement.

to get a free replacement, you have to jump through a few hoops and take some very specific pictures, and then confirm that it was deposed of properly. NOT IN THE TRASH! these fuckers explode! receipts are not required.

if you have one, a metallic colored sharpie is a good option to write on the power bank. paint markers like posca should also work well here.

Incidents/Injuries: Anker has received 19 reports of fires and explosions. This includes two reports of minor burn injuries not requiring medical attention and 11 reports of property damage totaling over $60,700. Sold At: Online at Anker, Amazon, Newegg and Ebay from June 2016 through December 2022 for about $27.

these were sold nationwide (and potentially in other parts of the world) online for over 6 years for ~$27 USD.

if you experience a safety issue with a power bank or any other product, remember that you can and SHOULD report it. reporting safety issues helps protect those around you. the number of people who report safety issues with any given product is typically a fraction of how many people actually experienced those safety issues. you can also report companies for not being cooperative in a recall.

to see more recalls and product safety warnings, or to report a safety problem with a product in the US, check out the CPSC recalls and safety warnings feed.

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On top of everything else going wrong this week, Alex and I have decided that we need new nightstands.

Wish us luck, because the shit out there is cheap AND hideous.

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Some Jewish kids go to Narnia and the White Witch is endlessly frustrated because she wants to make it always winter but never Hanukkah, but she doesn’t follow the Hebrew calendar so she can’t accurately predict when it’s supposed to be.

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One of the most important things to unpack and unlearn when you’re part of a white supremacy saturated society (i.e. the global north) and especially if you were raised in an intensified form of it (evangelicism, right wing politics, explicit racism) is the urge to punish and take revenge.

It manifests in our lives all the time and it is inherently destructive. It makes relationships and interactions adversarial for no good reason. It undermines cooperation and good civic order. It worsens some types of crime. It creates trauma, especially in children.

Imagine approaching unexpected or unacceptable behavior from a perspective of "how can this be stopped, and prevented" instead of "you’re going to regret this!”

Imagine dealing with a problem or conflict from the perspective of “how can this be solved in a way that is just and restorative” instead of “the people who caused this are going to pay.”

How much would that change you? How much would that have changed for you?

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Every family has a different way of calibrating their parenting and decisions around media. Our neighbors who are horror fans (and named their kids after protagonists) have a whole programme of horror media they’re working through academically with their 5 and 8 year old, while we wouldn’t do that. But our 5 and 8 year old have watched LotR with us. But some neighbours still have their 8-year-old on “children’s media only and no video games”. And plenty of people at school let their kids watch superhero franchise media (I find this shocking and vulgar, far more damaging than historical 90s sword-based television.) everyone probably judges each other slightly, and all of the kids seem to be growing up pretty much the same and basically fine - as loved kids pretty much always do.

However, Dr Glass asked if I had an opinion on Buffy. Growing up fairly TV-free myself, I never really watched it and don’t care especially about it. I know the characters and found some bits satisfactory (and was personally quite into Anthony Stewart Head, as part of my lifelong good taste) but wouldn’t change the channel to watch it. But Dr Glass, having chatted to the horror fan neighbours, asked if I thought we ought to be doing similarly with Buffy?

I said absolutely not. I said Jurassic Park would be fine, though.

He said but Jurassic Park is visceral and realistic, while Buffy was practically CBeebies.

I said Jurassic Park is necessary education and good for the soul, and I saw it when I was 8 and found it exciting, and it lit my imagination on fire. Whereas Buffy, while not being particularly high-quality, did give me actual nightmare fuel, in terms of being “disturbing” rather than just blood-splashy.

Dr Glass said what did I mean - it was on at 6 pm - it was a kids’ show.

I said it might’ve been, but that our kids seem to be mapping along the same lines as myself or worse - Bug, 5, upon watching the mumakil smash through the Rohirrim, squealed with delight and said they’d never loved anything more - and were fine with splashy historic violence, but “teachers are secretly monsters” content would mean children climbing into bed with parents at 3 am.

Long story shortened, it TURNS OUT Buffy the Vampire Slayer had a censored British version that played in the evening on UK television, for children and teens, and the American/uncut version aired as late-night adult material.

Which we discovered, when Dr Glass shrieked “what do you mean they ate the principal”

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From a project I was working on before going in another direction, but still wanted to post this. Inspired by this photo of mourning doves nesting in the fossil of a triceratops, and how it tells us that the world can end, just not forever.

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I know that Peter’s Jackson Lord of the Rings trilogy technically has flaws but also….it doesn’t. It’s perfect.

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Happy Pride, my darlings.

I know it's so hard right now to have pride when so much of the world is telling us no: we don't get to exist, be seen, be heard, be who we want to be. I know it's so hard when for some of us, having pride is risking our jobs and livelihood. For some of us families. For some lives.

But have pride. Have pride in your heart if you can't on your chest. Have pride for the simple fact that you are you and your are wonderful for it. Have pride because because hope needs pride. It needs our lion bite and our beaten spite and our vicious might.

It needs you.

We're here and we're queer.

We always have been.

We always will be.

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'These apps are the enemy. They're thoughtless, joyless, and our friends are powerless aginst them."

Leverage Redemption S03E06 The Swipe Right Job.

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In light of some of the many things happening across the world this year, I thought this Pride Month needed a special illustration.

Happy Pride Month, may we all stay safe, look after each other, and keep painting our rainbows, no matter what. 🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

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This is so wholesome

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How would Visser One's interactions with Marco and the animorphs change if she considered him one of her "kids" like Madra and Darwin? Hell, how would that affect her interactions with Eva?

Why would you say such a thing, you evil evil Anon?

Edriss would definitely make Marco a controller.  She wants her kids to “love” and respect her no matter what it takes, and Marco is not the type of person who would go along with her just for the sake of keeping the peace.

In response, Eva would probably not freak out in the moment, the way the Chapmans do in #2.  She’d probably bide her time.  Wait for her moment.  Pretend to be cowed and silent.  And then she’d strike.  During meetings with Visser Three.  During presentations before the Council of Thirteen.  During attempts to impress Visser One’s underlings.  Whenever it’d be most destructive, and least convenient.

Honestly, Edriss probably wouldn’t kill Eva.  After all, doing so would destroy her image of herself as one of those “good” “kind” “benevolent” enslavers, and she can’t have that.  Instead, Edriss would probably just get revenge by hurting Eva.  And Marco.  A lot.

Whatever poor yeerk got stuck inside Marco would be having a hell of a time.  Not only would he have to follow Il Duce around all day to kiss up and “I love you, Miss Hannigan” on command, but he’d also take the brunt of her perpetual wrath with Marco and Eva, and he’d also also have to put up with Marco as a host which seems like it’d be a nightmare in its own right.

Okay now I’m starting to love the idea that the yeerk in question gets so fed up with Edriss’s BS that he Pulls An Aftran and decides to quit the war and start working against Visser One instead.  Between Edriss’s saccharine insistence on absolute loyalty and Marco’s ability to talk the stripes off a zebra, I could see him getting pushed and pulled into sabotaging the war effort.

You know how Edriss becomes 85% more competent the millisecond she and Eva actually start working together in Visser?  Same thing would totally happen with Marco and that yeerk.  They would be a terrifyingly effective sabotage and espionage team.  Lots of fake intel fed to both Visser One and Visser Three, allegedly from each other.  Lots of orders from Not My Real Mom that get just a little bit garbled on delivery, leading to millions of dollars in wasted time/money/effort.  Lots of kandrona generator parts or Bug fighter engine repairs that fail inexplicably at extremely crucial stages of construction.  Lots of plausible deniability.

And the best part is, Edriss would have no idea.  Because she has a loving family.  She has a happy family.  She’s good to her pet humans, she’s kind to them, and she only needs ask them with a metaphorical gun to their heads for confirmation that they love her back.  No one in her family would ever dare go against her wishes.  Don’t be ridiculous.

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HAPPY PRIDE!!!

So excited to share my collection of Animorphs Pride flags! All created in MS Paint using the titles of different Animorphs books. 

Originally I'd just made the transgender flag and asexual flag a few years ago with inspiration from the Animorphing Time podcast - but then @portlandalites said they'd "kill for a lesbian one." So, I made as many flags as possible with the available colors! I hope people enjoy :)

And in case your flag isn't here, a happy Pride Month to you as well!

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The production value here is off the charts but this is also literally just what it feels like to play Uno.

legendaryjay_ on TikTok

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