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Elena Existing

@elenaexisting.bsky.social

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Gen X spinster aunt. Idaho to Louisville. Corporate drone from 8-5; devastatingly quiet from 5-8. Learning Mandarin. Going for a hike. Let's take better care of each other, okay?

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Elena Existing @elenaexisting.bsky.social · 9m

I am safe. Thank you!

Elena Existing @elenaexisting.bsky.social · 1h

I laughed because I usually shop at Goss Kroger on Saturdays but I definitely notice when I end up at Kroger on Sunday instead.

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Elena Existing @elenaexisting.bsky.social · 1h

Actual lol.

Elena Existing @elenaexisting.bsky.social · 1h

Yes, but staying in!

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Elena Existing @elenaexisting.bsky.social · 2h

I am just north of the airport and I'm not going to look until morning.

Elena Existing @elenaexisting.bsky.social · 2h

Thank you!

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 2h

Thoughts with the families of the 3 crew who were on the UPS flight from Louisville to Honolulu. We all depend on folks like them to deliver essential goods to us, and it’s hard when something goes so horribly wrong as it clearly did today. 😢

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Elena Existing @elenaexisting.bsky.social · 2h

It's a good question. I haven't thought about how long UPS will be impacted vs SDF/commercial flights.

Elena Existing @elenaexisting.bsky.social · 2h

Awkward for the event organizers though to keep going while everyone was getting "shelter in place" warnings on their phones. They wrapped up the event early.

Elena Existing @elenaexisting.bsky.social · 2h

Yes, I was downtown, not very near the crash site itself.

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Elena Existing @elenaexisting.bsky.social · 2h

abc @thekitchentapes.bsky.social · 2h

This picture is from about an hour ago. The debris field is huge, and it hit a lot of cars, container trucks, and structures/buildings of some sort on the ground.

Apparently, the plane was carrying 38,000 gallons [280,000 pounds] of fuel, enough to fly straight from Louisville to Honolulu.

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Elena Existing @elenaexisting.bsky.social · 2h

Well, uh, the fundraiser I was at tonight ended early.

MAKS 25 👀🇺🇦 @maks23.bsky.social · 3h

🙏🇺🇸 UPS cargo plane crash near Louisville, Kentucky airport.

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Elena Existing @elenaexisting.bsky.social · 5h

Yes, that's what I thought too.

The assassin is now outside!

Elena Existing @elenaexisting.bsky.social · 6h

Hello strange visitor to my dining room table/home office.

A tiny, narrow green and red insect with long legs and long antennae.

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Erik Loomis @erikloomis.bsky.social · 13h

This Day in Labor History: November 4, 1942. Copper miners in Butte, Montana went on strike to protest the use of Black miners on the job. Worse, these were members of the leftist Mine, Mill. Let's talk about hate strikes and white workers again choosing their racial identity over class identity!

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Elena Existing @elenaexisting.bsky.social · 11h

I think it's also important to acknowledge that there was an even earlier Anti-Asian backlash in mining communities throughout the West, including in Butte. Mining towns in the late 1800s had thriving Asian immigrant communities who were later boycotted, attacked, and driven out by white unions.

A copy of a handbill from 1898.

BOYCOTT

A General Boycott has been declared upon all CHINESE and JAPANESE Restaurants, Tailor Shops, and Wash Houses. Also all persons employing them in any capacity.

All Friends and Sympathizers of Organized Labor will assist us in this fight against the lowering Asiatic standards of living and of morals.

America vs Asia
Progress vs Retrogression
Are the considerations involved.
BY ORDER OF Silve Bow Trades and Labor Assembly and Butte Miners' Union.

Document can be accessed at: https://recordsofrights.org/events/15/anti-asian-boycott

Elena Existing @elenaexisting.bsky.social · 12h

Really, UPS? Really?

I concede that this may be related to my dad's instructions to input the maximum value possible into the claim form "to get their attention."

We cannot submit your claim at this time.
Claim number 1Z <redacted>

Unfortunately, we need a bit more information to process your claim request at this time. Please contact us at 1-800-PICK UPS to receive assistance submitting your claim.

Elena Existing @elenaexisting.bsky.social · 13h

There's not a way to submit a "my package is lost please find it" claim, only a "my package is lost please pay me" claim.

Since what is missing is a notebook and the value is only in the information inside it, not the notebook itself... this is tricky.

Ugh.

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Elena Existing @elenaexisting.bsky.social · 13h

Hello, it is I, on my daily call to UPS/waiting on hold to see if today's agent can provide me with a status update.

I have been transferred to the international team to listen to another round of elevator muzak.

Now, 5 days later, customer service agent Will suggests I submit a claim.