🅰🅻🅸🅲🅴 (🌈🦄)4d ago

First Home Depot supports Trump, and now Lowe's is giving data to Flock/ICE.

https://www.fightforthefuture.org/actions/deflock-lowes/

Post with evidence of Flock ALPRs on Lowe's and Home Depot properties all around Seattle (and anywhere else you want to look up).

https://lgbtqia.space/@alice/116343024579680117

Flock map: https://deflock.org/map

#FuckICE #FuckTrump

Show threadRachel Rawlings4d ago

@alice They also backed away from their DEI programs after Trump took office. I haven't shopped there in 14 months now, and go to a local Ace franchise instead.

(I also won't park anywhere near one. They started putting up portable parking lot cameras about three years ago (iirc), but I only recently learned they were flock devices.)

Show threadAnarchist Trans Ace Pirate

@linuxandyarn @alice

keep a critical eye on your local Ace hardware. mine stocked black rifle coffee in 2022. I found out there were 1 lb coffee bags everywhere

Apr 2 at 4:52pmWeb
Show thread🅰🅻🅸🅲🅴 (🌈🦄)4d ago

@coolcalmcollected that's fucking gross.

@linuxandyarn

Show threadAnarchist Trans Ace Pirate4d ago

@alice @linuxandyarn

they were already sus with the "no masking" sign on the door

Show threadRachel Rawlings4d ago

@coolcalmcollected @alice I haven't noticed any coffee at the one I go to (but lots of travel mugs and thermoses), and shop masked all the time.

Searching the Ace website I see "my" store has Green Mountain K-Cups, but other stores in the area have Black Rifle. So franchises can make their own choices, but I guess Ace does distribute it nationally to those chodes who choose to stock it. 😞

Show threadAnarchist Trans Ace Pirate4d ago

@linuxandyarn
that's interesting information. i'm in VT so that tells me the owner specifically ordered black rifle when green mountain is right here in Burlington. amazing

@alice

Show threadWesDym3d ago
@linuxandyarn More likely, it's like Subway, where local franchisees may shop from a number of approved vendors.
Show threadRachel Rawlings3d ago

@wesdym I didn't know Subway did that; I thought it was more like KFC or McDonald's where everything still comes from a single supply chain.

But if that were the case with Ace, they probably wouldn't be shown on the Ace website as well. Subway doesn't give you a chance to see which stores have Boar's Head or Dietz & Watson.

Show threadWesDym3d ago
@linuxandyarn When I ran a Subway, we had two vendors to choose from for branded products we HAD to carry, but we could pick other stuff as we pleased. I had a local produce vendor, for example. I expect Ace is similar. Branded products would come from only a few vendors, and you have to carry at least some. The national site probably is not fully binding on locals. (Check the fine print.)
Show thread🅰🅻🅸🅲🅴 (🌈🦄)4d ago

@coolcalmcollected fuck that; I mask everywhere.

@linuxandyarn

Show threadAnarchist Trans Ace Pirate4d ago

@alice @linuxandyarn

It didn't stop me from wearing a mask. as an undercover shit stirrer, I was desperately waiting for one of the employees to give me a problem.

Show thread🅰🅻🅸🅲🅴 (🌈🦄)4d ago

@coolcalmcollected same.

@linuxandyarn

Show threadRachel Rawlings4d ago
@coolcalmcollected @alice When I have to shop, I know I'll never find "perfect" except in the rarest of cases. But I try to take a "harm reduction" attitude.
Show threadcontranym4d ago
@coolcalmcollected @linuxandyarn @alice yeah, our local ace is also reactionary in multiple ways.
Show threadWesDym3d ago
@coolcalmcollected BRC has, hilariously, pissed off many conservatives because they have a DEI initiative. (Or had, I don't know. I always hated them anyway, so I don't care. But it's hilarious to me when conservatives attack each other.)