molly conger

@socialistdogmom.bsky.social

never log off, never surrender host of weird little guys on cool zone media she/her | charlottesville, va

one very weird downside to spending weeks at a time working on a series of episodes on a single topic are the content gobbling crawlers that make shoddy AI transcriptions of podcasts. if I google something too niche the top results are just AI generated summaries of what I wrote last week.

New: We found 50 cops who misused Flock cameras and other license-plate readers for personal purposes, often to spy on their girlfriends or ex-wives. He "watched every single move I made. ... Who do you turn the chief of police in to?" wapo.st/3S6rTuo

She left her ex. He secretly tracked her through a network of policing cameras.

Flock’s array of license-plate cameras was built to fight crime. But at least 50 law enforcement officers were charged with or accused of misusing it and other systems.

wapo.st

wondering why my tummy hurts while actively suppressing the memory of responding “oh yeah, really fuck it up” when the nice young person at the concession counter asked me if i want butter on my popcorn at 9:55am.

As of this week, hundreds of thousands of Haitians lost their legal status. Most have lost work permits as well. That's left many people unable to support themselves. Here is a verified link to a fundraiser supporting Haitians in Springfield. Please drop links to other fundraisers in the replies.

Stand with Haitian Families in Crisis

Build the Emergency Fund that protects families when everything feels uncertain. The end of TPS. Increasing ICE actions. Families losing work authorization overnight. For Haitian parents and children ...

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yesterday i was walking my dogs at 6:30am & i heard the strangest little flock of birds under a bush. it was not birds. it was rectangles. passed them a few more times throughout the day, but they’d gone silent. today at 6:30am, they’re chirping again. i guess they only contemplated predawn theft.

my husband consulted the nail polish subreddits to determine the preferred storage solution for large lacquer collections and now it’s incredibly clear that it would be no problem at all if i got like 80 more colors

i didn’t set out to write a history podcast, but the more time i spend exploring this particular chapter of american history, the conservative backlash to integration, the state violence waged against the civil rights movement… the better i understand the news.

Cool Zone Media@coolzonemedia.bsky.social · 2w ago

New Weird Little Guys: Black Monday: Byron de la Beckwith, Pt. 3 @socialistdogmom.bsky.social @whysophiewhy.bsky.social linktr.ee/weirdlittleg...