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[theorcasfriend]

Flock boss admits surveillance firm took too long to act over police abuse

US police officers have quit after using licence plate-reading cameras to track romantic partners.

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[theorcasfriend]

Well yeah all that Dems have proven over the past 3 years is they hate losing. The opponent is irrelevant, but if said opponent is encroaching on what Dems thinks is their territory and doing it fucking WAY better, they get so mad.

Look at that Ezra Klein and Ta- Nehisi Coates interview.

They lack empathy, attachment to reality, and any sense of what the working class wants. They're not effectively fighting anything and then elected officials let 20 year olds walk in with an Elon Musk license to steal our information and do God knows what with it.

Fuck all the established congressional stand ins, on every side. Everything needs reorganized and most importantly, those responsible need to be held to the fullest extent of the law.

[theorcasfriend]

If you actively are avoiding companies that give to this xenophobic grifter add GoPuff to the growing list

Gopuff and SpaceXAI Launch Go, an AI-Powered Personal Shopping Genius That Predicts and Delivers Orders in Minutes

New AI experience in the Gopuff app combines SpaceXAI’s frontier models, 13 years of instant delivery data, real-time X insights, and 400+ m

Fuck em all

[theorcasfriend]

If it's beyond the point of ko return then y'all gotta pay damages and reparations on the building to restore it to its prior status.

Trump admin says White House ballroom 'beyond the point of no return' in Supreme Court appeal

The Trump administration is asking the Supreme Court to allow construction of the president's White House ballroom to continue.

You don't get to do it just because you're too far along. That's bullying

[catsdelightful-deactivated20240]

Hey artists, C. Spike Trotman, founder of Iron Circus Comics, just posted an invaluable thread on depicting different types of black hair. I’d do the thing where you screencap the whole thread and post it but it’s just too long (which is great because it’s a whole lot of useful information!) Give her a follow while you’re there.

Anyway, go check it out. I just wanted to save it and share it because I didn’t know how much I didn’t know!

[misslunarose]

This is an amazing resource, not only for artists, but for writers too! I love this!

{ID - tweet from @/Iron_Spike that reads, “Black Hair for Non-Black Artists: a Cheat Sheet Thread. Hi, folks! Just spur-of-the-moment decided to put together some reference for folks who want to draw/model black characters in their work, but arent confident they won’t make simple, obvious mistakes w/r/t black hair. END ID}

[obi-mom-kenobi]

I noticed in the comments that some people can’t see the thread, so I took screenshots for y'all!

More will come in reblogs, since tumblr has an image limit

[obi-mom-kenobi]

[jamiegeode]

@creatingblackcharacters !!!

[theorcasfriend]

I feel like we are watching a brain reactivate and every time a synapse fires we are like "well yeah man, what did you think 'deport them all' meant?" Then you see the synapse kinda fizzle out and with one last cough it's back online.

That's what reading The Atlantic's headlines feels like

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[gardeningwithpina]

Why waste the rain?

I'm obsessed with gardening systems that utilize rainwater without the use of barrels or cisterns. My ultimate fav is using bioswales to catch and filter stormwater on the street.

Fun addition: Dams that utilize trees to catch dirt/ stop erosion, and prevent disaster that can come from broken dams.

[aleeowl]

Also:

SUSTAINABLE URBAN DRAINAGE! SUDS!

We need more of them, in the right places!

Also, using these to reduce stormwater loads in storm events, particularly in places with combined stormwater and sewage systems, could/would be helpful at reducing river discharges of raw sewage. (If climate change is factored in at system level cos more rain in less time needs to be accouted for at rhe large scale designs...)

Plus using constructed wetlands to retain these discharges and treat them before rivers too!

[drwiltz-official]

Reading this, then looking out my window to the concrete "drainage" ditch that pools water and breeds mosquitoes every day of the damn year

[leebrontide]

We have lots of these bioswale's near me. Not only do they work, but they're usually planted up with lots of native plants, so pollinators love them. They also make great supports for fireflies!

And having groundwater is really important for trees to have during droughts. We want to put the water deep underground so when we have a hot dry summer the deep rooted plants still have something to drink.

[theorcasfriend]

50 years of damages?!?!

Biiiiiiiiitchhhhhh

I absolutely need this guy to go the fuck away permanently.

You thought it was a dick measuring contest before. Now we've measured so long they gotta have a pissing contest too

[theorcasfriend]

"Dozens" doesn't sound like America knows what they're doing

US pledges more economic measures to isolate Iran amid Hormuz deadlock

US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth says the US can sustain its blockade against Iran 'indefinitely'.

[captain-price-returns]

Re: sailors on USS Abraham Lincoln on half rations.

[theorcasfriend]

You're right, Weedle. He fed them steak and lobster before they shipped off and then that was it.

These people care about human life the same way carnies care about goldfish. It's a real bummer when they die in the bag but we got one to replace it.

[partywithponies]

My woke take, as someone who has worked in both a public library and a school library, is that we desperately need both more books that are at a higher reading level but a less mature subject matter, and more books that are at a lower reading level but a more mature subject matter, because 8 year olds who are advanced readers are still 8 year olds and don't want to read about graphic violence and torture, and teens and adults who have learning difficulties or who are just later readers for whatever reason are still teens and adults and don't want to read about Billy the Bunny going to school or whatever the hell.

[partywithponies]

Shoutout to people in the notes also mentioning people learning the language, I should've mentioned that really, given that I've been stuck reading German picture books myself while learning German.

[theorcasfriend]

Fuck the cops

Fuck arkansas

Fuck racist pigs who shouldn't have any authority let alone unchecked authority

Arkansas trooper threw teen down and punched her in the face during traffic stop, lawsuit says

A lawsuit filed by Alisa Hackett, 18, says the trooper hit her in “a closed-fist blow to the side of the face” because she “talked back to h

18 years old and going 11 miles over the speed limit gets a punch to the face.

Fuck these cousinfuckers

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[theorcasfriend]

Flock camera controversy: what does the Constitution say?

Do Flock cameras violate the Constitution? The growing debate centers on privacy and the Fourth Amendment.

If it's an invasion of privacy to read your cellphone logs, it's an invasion of privacy to track your Bluetooth signature.

Ofc Newsweek doesn't mention the Bluetooth part probably bc it's not as widely known for Flock to track.

[wheelie-sick]

for the lovely lovely deafies out there who want to get involved in direct action you absolutely 100% cannot ever bring a hearing aid or cochlear implant with bluetooth to any direct action. bluetooth devices all carry a unique signal that can be used to identify you if it's picked up at a direct action. go with a [more] hearing buddy and communicate in sign language. if you don't mutually know a sign language then come up with gestures. do not risk your freedom because you want to have your hearing aid/cochlear implant at the action. it's not worth it.

[wheelie-sick]

flock cameras are also now tracking bluetooth device signatures when you pass them. if you drive past a flock camera with your bluetooth-enabled hearing aid or cochlear implant, the flock camera knows you passed through

[thewolfwaitsbelow]

Wait I just realized this is gonna apply to all cgms and most if not all insulin pumps. They’re all Bluetooth devices, it’s essential to how they work

[ailithnight]

I did not think it possible, but I have just developed even more hatred, derision, and contempt for the perpetual surveillance state.

[leebrontide]

This kind of shit is why my writing is about disability AND surveillance. This is the newest way disability is being used to surveil and target people, but the trend has been around for a lot longer than any of us.

[leebrontide]

Wait actually can someone source this for me? I’ve got a presentation coming up that I would really like to include this in.

[theorcasfriend]

What a headline in 2026