tools for commensality 🧿tell me you live in Long Beach without telling me you live in Long Beach
(i would also accept entries centering explosions or sulfurous odors)
other people are posting pretty snow pictures, i'm out here scouring the xenophobia app for info about explosions. Long Beach is just built different i guess
Christina D-H1909 Los Angeles Herald headlines were wild:
SUES COMPANY BECAUSE MULE KICKED HIM AND FAILED TO OPEN DOOR
NIGHTGOWN IGNITED AND WOMAN IS BADLY BURNED
FORMER MINNESOTAN IS KILLED BY CAR
(it me, btw)
FONDNESS FOR MACHINERY LEADS TO A FIST FIGHT
END OF OCEAN HATE WAR ASSURED BY WEDNESDAY**
CHURCHMAN'S SON FORCED TO CRIME
GIRL MURDERED FOR HER GEMS
MEETS DEATH AS BURNING TORCH
BIG GOLF BATTLE IS FORESHADOWED
LONG BEACH WINS
EXHIBITION OF CAT CLUB ENDS
GARBAGE CONTRACT SUGGESTIONS MADE
(the actual reason I am reading this, natch)
HORSE DEALER CHARGES RANCHMAN WITH SLANDER
**turns out it's actually Ocean Rate War, a pity
The tiny blooms were strikingly fragrant. I'm going to try to remember to go back and see if I can forage grapes later this summer. (Tho I suppose given their location they will be coated in a light dusting of diesel exhaust, quite the terroir)
LA fires aftermath: where will all the toxic fire debris go
"The #EPA continues evading questions about where the most dangerous material will ultimately end up"
https://lapublicpress.org/2025/02/fire-debris-landfill-local-los-angeles/
The top article quotes an enthusiastic real estate broker: "this will allow a ton of new inventory and capacity that should help the market by providing more warehouse and distribution space”
First of all, not sure why more warehouse/distro space is a good thing to begin with; but there are other reasons to be skeptical, in that the land the refinery was on is EXTREMELY toxic:
https://www.reuters.com/business/150-years-spills-philadelphia-refinery-cleanup-highlights-toxic-legacy-fossil-2021-02-16/
The complex has been implicated in lots of #ToxicLA , recently leaking benzene, toxic fires, etc.
