A new investigation reveals that at least 50 police officers from all over the U.S. have been caught abusing their access to Flock's automatic license plate reader database, including to stalk women. This is just one of the many reasons to get these creepy cameras off our streets.

ACLU of Wisconsin@acluofwi.bsky.social · yesterday

Wisconsin is making national news because so many police officers have been charged or convicted with using the Flock surveillance network to stalk people. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/08/02/how-police-officers-used-vast-network-cameras-spy-their-exes/

BREAKING: The New Mexico Department of Justice has sued Acting AG Todd Blanche and the DOJ, requesting the court for access to unredacted Epstein-related investigative files that the DOJ has been withholding.

There are so many restaurants with good food/no heart and just want to wave a banner for longtime star Pearl Brasserie in Dublin which is extraordinary with the most amazing French/fusion food, service and personal touch & SO much more enjoyable than nearby Guilbaud’s. Do try their daily cocktail!

Two Women at a Window, c. 1655/1660 Murillo (National Gallery of Art, Washington)

El-Sayed: We live in an era where we continue to see a few very small people try to define America as being as small as they are. We can't control the past 250 years. What we can do is build the next 250

Holy shit. www.wired.com/story/a-civi...

If you were confused about what happened in Ceuta last week read this piece by @lizcarolan.com who's looking at how it blew up online and who's behind it... www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...

Liz Carolan: Migrants pay a deadly price in Ceuta disinformation disaster

All the layers of neglected dysfunction in our information environment have come together into one deadly, toxic mess for Moroccans in Ceuta, writes Liz Carolan

irishexaminer.com

On Saturday, MSF doctor Abu Abed Mughaiseeb delivered an address to a packed crowd during the Message of Peace at All Together Now 2026. On stage, he made an urgent appeal for the release of all medical staff detained by Israel, including Dr Abu Safiya and our MSF colleague Dr Obeid.

DOJ is now 0-20 in cases to obtain state voter files. Here is the list: Arizona California Colorado Connecticut Illinois Kentucky Maine Maryland Massachusetts Michigan New Hampshire New Jersey New Mexico New York Oregon Pennsylvania Rhode Island Virginia West Virginia Wisconsin

For many years, this hawthorn grew alone in an open landscape. Now a young species-rich rainforest ecosystem is building all around. Nature loss isn't inevitable: it *can* be reversed, through rewilding.

Some good news for a change

David Roberts@volts.wtf · yesterday

Don't look now, but the world has now installed 3TW of solar. Took 10 years to get from 100GW to 1TW. Less than 3 years to get to 2TW. Less than 2 years to get to 3TW. Analysts expect *9TW* by 2036.

Weather services really need to think about wording -- still using terms like a 'risk' of rain/showers and 'best of the sunshine...' and 'good sunshine' even in this terrible drought where it should be 'best of the showers' and 'good rainfall' and 'risk of continuing sunshine'.

Why women live longer than men is a complete mystery. Complete. Mystery.

Nicole Saltesi ☧@nacl.sh · yesterday

Corporations, Not Immigrants, Responsible for Most Healthcare Fraud theintercept.com/2026/07/31/i...

Corporations, Not Immigrants, Are Responsible for Vast Majority of Healthcare Fraud, OIG Report Shows

Trump officials are focused on immigrants, but the Department of Health and Human Services report on healthcare fraud doesn’t even mention them.

theintercept.com

"These aren't the druids you're looking for"

When I've walked several uni campuses in the Netherlands, the racks are more expensive--but they often include solar arrays on top.

Trying a blackberry slump. Never made one before though have made plenty of cobblers, crisps, crumbles (all the c-word desserts!). We’ve plenty of blackberries on the self-seeded amazing plants down the back field, they must be a hybrid as berries are huge and early and so tasty

Exclusive: We obtained a leaked playbook that Flock gives to cops to coach them on "how to speak to city council" to avoid getting their contracts canceled. Includes strategies like "own the narrative" by talking to mayor "before public comment periods" www.404media.co/own-the-narr...

‘Own the Narrative’: Leaked Flock Guide Shows How It Teaches Cops to Promote Its Tech

"This document shows a coordinated effort from Flock Safety to compel law enforcement agencies to convince our elected leaders to represent their interests as a company rather than the interests of co...

404media.co

The gaslighting is off the charts with this one. Every word is a lie. His actual approval rating is the second worst in modern presidential history, behind only Nixon’s 24% just before he resigned.

This... yeah I know, costs, cost overruns: but a proper decent building w/ secure racks & so on... costs money! And supports cycling which takes cars off the road which benefits everyone (less traffic, lower emissions etc). Contrast the costs to support CARS... roads, car parks, accidents etc

IrishCycle.com@irishcycle.com · 2d ago

Bike parking enabling 60 hospital staff to cycle to work is a win for the taxpayer Comment & Analysis: A cost of €85,000, or €1,416 per space, for a secure bicycle shed for the National Maternity Hospital is cheap compared to building car parking, which is estimated to cost €5,000 to €85,000 per…

Reuters finds that judges have ruled Trump abridged speech in 75 cases. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

Trump vowed to 'bring free speech back.' Judges in 75 cases ruled that he has stifled it

President Donald Trump repeatedly campaigned for his second term as a champion of free expression, vowing in his January 2025 inaugural address to stop what he described as years of "government censor...

reuters.com

Today I found out that thanks to the success of the HPV vaccine, from now on if you get a clear smear test you are called back after 5 years rather than 3. Vaccines are brilliant.

We officially live in the Quiet Part Out Loud Era

Acyn@acyn.bsky.social · 2d ago

The President promotes Scotts Miracle-Gro in the middle of an Oval Office event: The best grass you can get. Scotts, you know Scotts? Scott's Miracle-Gro, they're doing it. They do great grass. I got to give him a plug because they did the White House for free.

😂 #SpeirGorm

Orkney Library & Archive@orkneylibrary.bsky.social · yesterday

Good to be back from our important research trip exploring the balls of other libraries.

Here's a weird, horrory short story I wrote for issue 8 of the excellent @bansheepress.bsky.social, which they've just put online: bansheepress.org/read/the-red... (It's quite different from Experts in a Dying Field)

‘The Red Child’ by Patrick Freyne — Banshee Press

My child was born in the time when newborn babies would leap from the womb and run for higher ground. This was new then and it was shocking to us, though it seems like nothing compared to all of the t...

bansheepress.org

This is what an actual *hero* of Irish music looks like:

Was advising on this about 3 years ago. I received the same BS re ‘disclosure fatigue’ This weekend among friends, many discussed their concern over a lack of transparency whether they were dealing with AI chat bots & more broadly the integrity of AI chat & AI powered search responses. People care

WIRED@wired.com · 4d ago

New EU rules stipulate that people must be told when they’re interacting with AI or looking at AI-generated or -edited content, leading to fear of “disclosure fatigue.” www.wired.com/story/europe...

Though I object strenuously to the implication that bats aren't cute 🦇

Brant Reeves@bireeves95.bsky.social · 2d ago

Nature almost always has an Answer to a Problem….

That harm to women and girls in general is not taken seriously, combined with multiple high-profile men continuing to get passes based on power, talent, or activism with other causes, creates a very worrying landscape for women. Tolerance is still way too high. It needs to start actually mattering.