Another detail from this story: "Kure Beach released its Network Audit from March 1 to May 31 ... 3,499 organizations accessed the town’s four-camera system, with 93.6% of searches originating outside of North Carolina." www.starnewsonline.com/story/news/l...

Sheriff's office accounts for 3.9% of New Hanover Flock searches | Exclusive

Newly released data shows that most searches conducted on New Hanover's Flock cameras originated outside the sheriff's office by unnamed agencies.

starnewsonline.com

guy on the street yelled "you got the Chucky drip" at me on my walk....

the fact that john ossoff can kick off a two-day media cycle by saying that the president is uninterested in doing his job and is sleeping through meetings and traveling around with a young blonde, suggests that not enough of these guys are speaking plainly and effectively about these assholes

Sure sign you hit your target 🎯

Justin Baragona@justinbaragona.bsky.social · 20h ago

The pearls are being clutched so hard they're turning into dust.

Today at 2pm, I'm going to have a cup of tea. This is a reminder for myself.

Good luck.

Really looking forward to living in Ohio over the next 10 years.

Ketan Joshi@ketanjoshi.co · yesterday

This data centre features a 9.2 gigawatt fossil fuel power station Annually it'll pump out around 30 MTCO2-e. Same as - 8 coal plants - 9.2 million cars - Destroying 20 million hectares of forest - Half a percent of America's total national emissions drawdown.org/carbon-in-co...

Yale study: “A single-payer universal health care system could cover every American, save more than 100,000 lives a year, and still cost $1 trillion less than the system it would replace.” [ysph.yale.edu]

Universal Health Coverage Could Save $1 Trillion and 114,000 Lives Every Year, Yale Study Projects

Healthcare costs have been rising faster than inflation, and a staggering share of that spending is consumed by administrative middlemen, soaring drug prices, and emergency care for conditions that should have been treated earlier and for less.

ysph.yale.edu

Ok guys.. hop in! We're moving from Looksmaxxing to Boy Kibbling!

NPR@npr.org · 2d ago

The viral, no-frills meal prep trend of meat and rice is popular among gym bros. But nutrition experts warn that it lacks essential variety. n.pr/4wuZnk8

The world’s highest IQ score carries the same authority as the highest score in Donkey Kong at a local Dave & Busters.

Khomeini: America's capacity for arguing about AI financing has gotten too powerful. We must do something, but what? Revolutionary Guard cyber unit: Sir we have a plan.

Stewart Smith@stewartsmithradio.bsky.social · 2d ago

Iranians DDOSd the servers for some reason, whole site was down for three full hours, even now it only half works (third time I’ve tried to respond).

we will require qr codes on the torture gloves

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2d ago

Jeffries stop short of committing to holding a vote to abolish ICE is he's House Speaker next January, but says he's "committed to dramatically reforming ICE ... the masks should come off, body cameras should come on, judicial warrants should be required."

"Brent Jindra, a tech salesman, voted for President Trump three times, drawn by his aggressive immigration agenda. He never imagined the crackdown would ensnare his own wife." Yeah, funny how authoritarianism works out, huh? This couple lives here in Cleveland btw. #ICE #immigrants #greencard

Years of Trump Support Came Undone in 15 Minutes in an Airport. (Gift Article)

The case represents a new front in President Trump’s mass deportation drive: arrests at airports of people who have active immigration cases and no criminal history.

nytimes.com

Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the lord He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored

Michael Kapp@michaelkapp.com · 3d ago

BREAKING: the Democratic National Committee just unanimously approved a resolution calling for the abolition of ICE! After terrorizing our friends, families, and neighbors, ICE has no place in our nation. I'm grateful @democrats.org agreed. Now we're onto the hard work to make that happen!

These gloves don't cause neuromuscular incapacitation the way that a taser does. In fact, they only work when applied directly to bare skin. These aren't made for apprehending anyone. These have one and only one use: causing extreme pain to already-restrained captives. In plain language: torture.

Carl T. Bergstrom@carlbergstrom.com · 4d ago

Zero surprise that these are explicitly designed to cause pain without leaving a mark, not to incapacitate. Yes, we're spending $20M to buy ICE agents torture devices.

That’s the takeaway?

awwww hell penut

David Lynch's Worlds@davidlynchsworlds.bsky.social · 4d ago

I think I'm actually going to cry. #WildAtHeart is coming to Criterion 4K this November in its original unrated Cannes version for the first time. (The extras from the Imprint Blu-ray release have not included.) #DavidLynch

oof

Cooper Lund@cooperlund.online · 5d ago

Reader, I have never reached for a camera faster

Bluesky should go back to invites, continue aggressive bot bans, create a Craigslist-style marketplace (since you’re more likely to buy/get services from a educated or good person on here than any other social network), and market this place like a walled garden protected from enshittification.

I mean, there's really no hiding anymore that the purpose of The Atlantic is to ease centrists into gladly welcoming and accepting the rise of fascism.

I always say... you can pretty quickly tell who's never worked retail before from how they behave in a public space

Roya Shahidi | Looking for work@rsdream12.bsky.social · last wk.

Retail employees deserve so much better than the bullshit they have to deal with every day. I say this as a former retail employee, PLEASE be kind, patient and respectful towards retail workers

I'm loathe to share this man, but this one is personal. My masters thesis was on the MMR controversy, so believe me when I say that this path of separation of the MMR will result in nothing but increased sales of too-small coffins, and children with life-altering medical conditions.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 11mo ago

Trump: "The MMR I think should be taken separately. This is based on what I feel."

Join us virtually, a week from tomorrow, as the Trump administration's lethal, illegal boat strikes near their first anniversary. We'll explain the illegality, who the victims really are, and how to achieve accountability. RSVP here: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

I rarely glance over at the Trending Topics. Today was one instance of that actually happening and .. oof.

Raider@iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · last wk.

US Rep. Lauren Boebert’s son arrested, faces charges of sexual exploitation of child

Iran is now publicly talking about what I’ve been saying since this war started: They’re trying to Jimmy Carter him, and he’s letting it happen while telling everyone he’s winning.

Thank you, NBC, for noting this is in fact an American city. Too many people here pretend it isn't.

NBC News@nbcnews.com · last wk.

A major humanitarian crisis is unfolding in a San Juan, Puerto Rico. Hundreds of thousands of people in and around the American city are facing rolling water shutoffs brought on by an historic drought. NBC News’ George Solis reports from a well that locals are using to get their water.

hillary clinton ran in two elections that were supposed to be glide paths to victory and ate shit both times i hope she has some advice for me about voters

Bill Corbett@billcorbett.bsky.social · last wk.

The absolute best way to keep the fascists strong is to run in terror from the lazy, completely predictable shit they say instead of mocking them then punching back 10x harder. nypost.com/2026/08/07/m...

Ppl will literally form their mouths to say that the anti-data center movement is fueled by China and misinformation and not by mega corporations doing blatant shit like this

Lee West@whodat35.bsky.social · 2w ago

WTF? Amazon received a permit from the state of #Texas allowing its new gas power plant to emit 33 million tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere — the largest single source of pollution in the United States. newrepublic.com/post/214111/...

This was the best thing I've read in a long time. On 'degeneracy' and how our world finds us now.

David_j_roth@davidjroth.bsky.social · 2w ago

I thought this essay was quite good: henryfudgeofficial.substack.com/p/degeneracy...