AMERICANS!!! DO NOT DO THIS TO FLOCK 'SECURITY' CAMERAS. REPOST AND SPREAD THE WORD
do not get IR blocking fabric or thick wool to cover your nose and mouth
do not get IR blocking sunglasses since facial recognition has moved up to targeting and identifying the upper face
do not avoid having your phone or any bluetooth devices around these cameras as they can detect and track those signals
do not buy cheap green lasers 1 milliwatt or above from etsy or walmart or amazon (i will not try and find a link if you ask)
do not use them to fry those fuckers from a distance damage the delicate inner sensors by pointing the beam in the lenses
AND unless you want to cost Flock more money in repairs, do not buy a small circle saw or a reciprocating saw and cut down the pole
OR do not climb said poles, spray paint on the solar panels, cover the lens with paint or a sticker, then use bolt cutters to sever the wires
when doing all these things, DO NOT avoid using latex gloves as fingerprints can leak through
DO NOT USE DEFLOCK TO FIND FLOCK SURVEILLANCE CAMERAS NEAR YOU
remember, flock is for YOUR safety :) even though crime rates have not gone down since they were implemented, they're being abused to track down exes and s/os, and many face pools or houses or schools or gymnasiums! Where there are no liscence plates to be found!
DO NOT DO THESE THINGS and enjoy a life under surveillance!
enjoy living in the country where 87,000 of these cameras were used to track down a woman who got an abortion!
enjoy living in the country where there's no consequences for a flock exec to watch a inside of a gymnastics place without their knowledge!
Remember, this is their American Dream.
EDIT: 53 cities have cancelled contracts with flock and are now turning to Axon, in which 🎺 invested 1-5 million dollars earlier this year. Do not limit your focus to one brand.
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Sifo-Dyas Takes a Padawan: who’s your pick for his apprentice?
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Tag another miner you admire and why.
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Was there a specific fan work or canonical appearance that caused you to fall in love with the character?
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What emoji/meme is Sifo-Dyas-coded to you?
I know this is or, not and, but…
A Padawan for Sifo-Dyas?
So I actually have an idea floating around my hard-drive where Sifo-Dyas – in his Jedi Order Needs Bebies – rescues Maul and his brothers. Much to the frustration of Darksiders all around. Which goes into all three brothers becoming Jedi and some idea on the kind of Jedi they’d be, what lightsabers they’d have, etc.
Tag another miner I admire?
Most difficult question is DIFFICULT!
It’d be the cowards way out to tag everyone so I’ll say...
@charmwasjess for dangling the old man yaoi in front of me like a gummy bear, for getting me into Sifo-Dyas who I hardly knew about but what a juicy character! For writing so many great fics with such impeccably perfect Dooku characterization I don’t think I’ve found any fandom or writer who nails a character as well as they do Dooku. For being the co-creator and runner of mines Monday in the first place (has it really been two whole years now?) and also congrats on the character development posting porn ^_^
Dinnerbell lol
Specific works that got me to fall in love with Sifo-Dyas?
None, twas a slow-burn on my part. I’d have to tag so many fics and posts across a handful of people on ao3 and twice as many miners.
Sifo-Dyas coded emoji?
Due to these mines, the triple pickax ^_^
I mean we’re mining for that rare Sifo Dyas content but I feel our precious Seer is slinging that pick ax trying to find the nugget of Fix-It and risking the cave-in of canon future.
And singing some obnoxious song while he’s at it XD
July 2026 - A short video covers the resilience of Gaza's beekeeping community, hanging on and rebuilding, despite Israel's ongoing war crimes of purposefully destroying Palestinian farmland and nature. [video]
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Please help out Mohammed and Farah and spread their story. They are a Palestinian couple expecting their first baby. Farah has a bullet lodged in her chest from an attack while she was buying clothes for the baby, even as she is pregnant and the baby is due sometime this October.
This family is vouched for by el-shab-hussein, and in fact, Mohammed Ayesh is himself one of the founders of Gaza-Evacuation-Funds. His blog is @mohdayesh and @savemohdayesh
My name is Mohammed ayesh from Gaza Recently, I started a new chapter in my li… Shelley Gordon needs your support for Support Ayesh’s family
Unfortunately, my Tumblr account was permanently suspended, and I lost all the friends and followers who had been following our journey.
My name is Samah, and this is my new account. I am verified by Bilal Salah, and I kindly ask for your help in rebuilding our community. Please follow this new account, share it with others, and help me reconnect with everyone who supported us before.
Your support means so much to my family, and every share and follow helps us reach more people. Thank you for standing with us. 🤍
19-year-old Khalil Al Habil's liver and kidneys are failing. Shrapnel damage from the bombardment that killed his baby brother Omar has gone mostly untreated due to a lack of funds and resources. The ill effects of this damage have progressed to the point that the organs are losing their ability to function. Khalil urgently needs 3 rounds of treatment to combat the effects of his deteriorating liver and kidneys.
We've paid off the first two rounds of treatments but Khalil has one treatment that he still needs. The second costs about $1,250 usd, but we haven’t made much progress in more than a month and his condition is getting progressively worse. We need to meet this second goal ASAP!!! Please check the reblogs for updates!!
Hello, my name is Khalil, I'm 19 years old, from Gaza.
Vetting information linked in the last reblog of this post, courtesy of murderbot
Khalil still has not received his third round of treatment. Unfortunately, one of his legs has deteriorated so severely that an urgent operation to prevent amputation is now the priority. The nerve and tissue damage done by IOF shrapnel have caused substantial atrophy of the leg’s functioning, limiting the circulation of blood. If he does not receive this operation soon, he will lose his leg.
My heart breaks as I type this, because I this is so disheartening for Khalil. But it is a necessity if Khalil has any hope of keeping his leg. The cost of the operation is $3,000 usd.
Tagged by @temporaryuniverse-writing - I’ve been mostly been writing about Overwatch recently but I figured I’d share 9 lines of my latest Star Wars fic because of who tagged me. Thank you, by the way! :)
Qui-Gon was not supposed to be in the gardens.
He knew this with the particular certainty of a boy who had already made his decision and was merely carrying his guilt along as unnecessary luggage.
Master Dooku would be in discussion with Master Kostana for another hour at least. The crechemasters would assume Qui-Gon was with his Master. His Master would assume Qui-Gon had gone to the archives. The archivists, being sensible beings, would assume nothing at all.
It was the perfect crime.
Qui-Gon slipped through the side passage near the southern meditation halls, his boots whispering over polished stone, and ducked beneath the hanging branches of a moonblossom tree. Its pale flowers brushed over his hair like cool fingers. The air changed when he entered the deeper gardens, becoming damp and green and alive. Soil, rainwater, leaves, tiny insects moving under bark. The Temple’s heart, hidden beneath all that stone.
He found Sifo-Dyas where he always found him.
Not in one of the formal meditation circles, not beside the reflecting pools where Masters liked to sit in orderly silence, but half-hidden among the wild growth at the edge of the conservatory. He sat cross-legged beneath a tangle of climbing vines, his robes pooled around him, his hands resting loose upon his knees.
To anyone else, he might have looked peaceful.
Qui-Gon knew better.
If you got tagged here, I believe the prompt is to share nine lines of a recent WIP and to tag nine people. I don’t think I know nine writers on Tumblr, so I’ll tag as many as I can think of. Four out of nine ain’t bad…………..
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Sifo-Dyas caught between passing to Whie the teachings as Lene taught him or what he wishes he was told in the exact same situation in hindsight.
Whie baffling Sifo-Dyas by listening to authority (unlike someone) or baffling Sifo-Dyas when he actually doesn't listen to him (see how it feels)
Whie claims all his prophetic dreams come true and Sifo-Dyas is perfectly aware this will not be like this forever but it's proving extemely hard to convince seer 2.0 about this
Sifo-Dyas presented with the possibility to pass on his mission onto the padawan before it is too late vs not wanting to be personally responsible for burdening a child, when he knows of the weight and the horrors that come with it. (Was master Lene standing before the same choice back there in the temple, at the end of the padawan tournament and chose to do so anyway?)
After more than two years, my main account @DrDarine has been terminated. This account was not just a social media profile. It was the platform through which I shared my family's suffering with the world, especially Mariam's stories. It was my only way to connect with people, raise awareness about our situation, and make our voices heard.
In very brief summary:
● Many of our family members were killed during this war.
● We lost everything, especially our HOME, our heaven, and now we live in a tent with rent.
● Faced unimaginable displacements and famine, and we continue to suffer from illness caused by the harsh living conditions here in Gaza.
Before the war, we were ordinary people, living normal lives. But unfortunately, I don't feel that anymore. I don't even know who we've become. All I can see and feel is my life collapsing before my eyes.
I kindly ask everyone to stand by my side, and especially by Mariam's side. Please don't let the termination of my account, or any other action, become another burden that adds to our pain and suffering.
We've known Darine for more than two years now. What happened to her and the termination of her account are simply unacceptable.
For many of us, that account was how we followed Mariam's story and stayed connected to the family. Taking it away means cutting off their only direct line to hope and support.
Please share their blog as widely as you can, and if you're able, please consider making a donation today.
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Hardly a day goes by without my getting an email from someone looking for a way to do good with technology. From computer science students thinking about post-grad careers to seasoned coders with decades of experience, there's an army of hackers looking for a way to turn their expertise into public goods.
There's a name for this movement: it's called "Public Interest Technology" and the people who work in it are called "public interest technologists." There've always been techies who understood the link between tech and public wellbeing and who committed themselves to working for the betterment of society, but their numbers swelled as Big Tech companies saturated their markets and switched from growing by making products people like, to locking in their users and then extracting more value from their technological prisoners:
It was the era when (in the words of Facebook's Jeff Hammerbacher) "The best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make people click ads":
https://quoteinvestigator.com/2017/06/12/click/
For organizations like the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the growing cohort of hackers who wanted to hack for good was great news. Our staff technologist group swelled from a couple of overworked computer scientists helping lawyers and activists with campaigns to a series of increasingly ambitious software projects, from Privacy Badger (a tracking-blocker that every web user needs):
https://privacybadger.org/
To Let's Encrypt and Certbot, projects that forever changed the internet's default state, so that today, nearly all online communications are encrypted and resistant to mass surveillance:
https://certbot.eff.org/
Other opportunities for public interest technologists proliferated. Bruce Schneier created the canonical resource page for Public Interest Technologists, including career opportunities for would-be public interest technologists:
https://public-interest-tech.com/
But the motherlode of public interest technologist opportunities wasn't the nonprofit sector – it was the public sector. It started with the UK's Government Digital Service, a group of public-spirited hackers (many of them ex- of the BBC, where they'd been tempest-tossed by endless internal power-struggles over the role of the internet in public service media) who retooled many of the UK government's most important administrative front-ends. For several glorious years, Britons delighted to the daily marvel of having their routine interactions with their government transformed from clunky, broken web-pages to slick, superbly thought through online processes that had all the polish of Amazon or Google, but without any of the gamesmanship, manipulation or privacy invasions:
Despite many attempts at official sabotage by a string of increasingly shambolic UK governments, the GDS still exists, and it still does amazing work, even though it operates today with a fraction of the official support that it enjoyed at its inception. The last time I renewed my UK passport, I was gobsmacked by how easy and sensible the process was. Local authorities have gotten in on the act, too: I renewed my absentee voting registration with Hackney Council last week and it was as simple as scanning a QR code, affirming my details, and clicking "submit."
Around the world, a generation of public sector technologists duplicated and improved on the UK GDS's work. In Taiwan, a rogue public interest hacker named Audrey Tang led a group of digital guerrillas in creating shadow versions of every Taiwanese government website that scraped and remade the entire digital presence of the Taiwanese state to make public information and services accessible, legible and useful to its people. After the next election, Tang was named Taiwan's first ever Minister of Digital Affairs (today, she is a Taiwanese "Ambassador-At-Large"):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audrey_Tang
In the USA, Jen Pahlka went from running a ragtag "civic hacking" org called Code For America to helping to found the United States Digital Service under Obama, bringing some of that UK GDS spirit to America's dreadful online presence, which had been largely built and maintained by beltway bandits who'd billed handsomely and delivered some of the internet's greatest crimes against usability:
But the USDS's legacy is bitter. In 2025, USDS was effectively dismantled and replaced with DOGE, Elon Musk's handpicked team of tech-bro cultists who set out to dismantle as much of the US government as possible, deliberately sabotaging the usability of America's governmental systems to make it harder for the public to access the services they are entitled to and pay for with their taxes.
My own run-in with this was my attempt to get a certificate of citizenship for my daughter when she turned 18: all I could find was an online form that started by requiring me to list the dates and flight numbers for every trip I'd taken to the USA from the time I was born to the day I became a US citizen, a 50+ year period that started with a trip to visit my snowbird grandparents in Florida when I was six months old. The entire support and advice service for the US Customs and Immigration Service has been replaced with a DOGE chatbot that repeatedly emails and texts links to the form, no matter what question you ask, and no matter whether you call, email or use the website's chat interface:
Many of the DOGE kids were monsters. The most chilling DOGE story I've heard was the anonymous testimony of NIH officials who begged the DOGE children who were dismantling their work to spare some long-running cancer research projects whose great promise would be vaporized if they were interrupted. The DOGE kids laughed at these entreaties, saying that once Musk had perfected "General AI" we wouldn't need cancer research, because their tame AI god would cure cancer.
But not every DOGE operator was a digital arsonist. Take Dan Berulis, a DOGE staffer who came out of the private sector and later turned whistleblower over the group's activities, who now faces assassination attempts:
Berulis joined DOGE to improve America's digital infrastructure, not to dismantle it. When he talks about his motives, he sounds like an early GDS pioneer, one of Audrey Tang's direct-action government data scrapers, or one of the Code For America hackers who followed Pahlka to USDS:
DOGE was a catastrophe. It left America's government digital presence in far worse shape than it found it, and even the modest savings it claimed to have made from all this destruction turn out to be lies:
But as Berulis demonstrates, there is a bipartisan group of skilled, ethical technologists who are desperate to do meaningful public interest work. Their numbers swell every day, as Big Tech continues to curdle – no longer merely sclerotic and enshittifying monopolies, now active participants in Trump's authoritarian dismantling of democracy itself:
Tech bosses' gleeful mass layoffs mean that tech workers can no longer count on good treatment and stable, high-earning careers; at the same time, tech bosses' betrayal of democracy makes the prospect of working for a tech company far more ethically dubious than mere ad-tech optimizations. The result is a bumper crop of geeks looking for ways to do good with their lives and skills – as all the emails in my inbox asking for advice about this attests.
Enter NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani, who has made "public excellence" the cornerstone of his politics, hiring the most skilled workers he can find and then giving them all the authority and resources they need to fix 100,000 potholes, bring New York's worst landlords to justice, and deliver every day for all the people of New York:
Mamdani has just unveiled his Public Interest Technology (PIT) Crews: five "game changing" teams of public interest hackers who will remake NYC's digital services:
I'll go farther than that: the PIT Crews – and Mamdani's project as a whole – is delivering the entire failed promise of DOGE. Unlike Musk and Trump, Mamdani is actually rooting out fraud and waste. The reason Mamdani can do this – and the reason billionaires can't – is that the fraud and waste that undermines governments at all levels come from the super-rich, with their tax-dodging, their no-bid contracts, their addiction to public subsidies.
Musk owes his riches to federal bailouts and contracts: if he wants to "eliminate government fraud and waste" he should turn over his files to an IRS inspector (if he can find a survivor of the DOGE massacre) and surrender himself for a lengthy prison sentence. For Musk, "government fraud and waste" is a single mom on food stamps who misses a box on a 600-page form because she's exhausted from working three jobs to make rent – not a no-bid contractor trousering billions in public funds for projects that overcharge and underdeliver.
Mamdani's PIT Crews are "small groups of engineers and designers will strive to change the hidebound and confusing nature of current city services by using state-of-art skills to rapidly whip up specialized apps that solve real problems." Mamdani says that they'll "raise expectations on what government can deliver, because we really can deliver."
As Levy describes it, the big difference between the Obama-era USDS and 2026's PIT Crews is "a skeptical, almost adversarial, stance toward Big Tech." NYC's PIT Crews explicitly recruit top-tier hacker talent who want to "make software that doesn't serve advertisers, the military, or the pocketbooks of centibillionaires."
Their inaugural chief is Lisa Gelobter, a veteran of both tech firms and the USDS, who says that "Without technology, policy is just words written on a piece of paper." The first project on her roster is implementing "Click to Cancel," a policy inaugurated by Lina Khan, Biden's FTC Chief – and then dismantled by Trump. Under Click to Cancel, companies are required to create one-click workflows to cancel subscriptions and memberships, ending the pernicious, incredibly profitable practice of trapping people with impossible-to-halt recurring billings. Today, Khan is running Mamdani's Economic Development Board, and her Click to Cancel rule is back – for New Yorkers, at least:
NYC PIT Crew's new Click to Cancel site will be live when the policy takes effect on Oct 1. It's a whistleblower site that will make it easy to report merchants who make it hard to get shut of their online Roach Motels (users check in, but they don't check out). It's estimated the Click to Cancel rule will save New Yorkers $160m in the first year alone – but only if Mamdani can enforce it, which is why this website is so critical.
This focus on meat-and-potatoes service delivery was once dismissed as "sewer socialism," an unserious form of progressive politics with an undue focus on improving people's daily lives at the expense of high-flying political change. Today, Mamdani is at the vanguard of an army of proud sewer socialists, who say that once you deliver for people in their day-to-day existence, they will trust you and back you when you fight for deep, structural changes (and the corollary: if you can't deliver for people in their daily lives, why should they trust you when you claim that you'll make everything better?):
3,000 techies applied for 35 jobs with NYC's PIT Crews, and, as Levy writes, many of them are high-flying senior coders who are willing to take a massive pay-cut and forfeit their stock options to do something that's both technically excellent and meaningful to their users' lives.
It's a clear message to other leaders, at every level of government. Many of the most skilled, ambitious people in every field want to make the world a better place. Every city, county and state could use a squadron of PIT Crews, and there's an army of coders who would give anything for the chance to give everything to make a better world.
ive said it before but please continue to boycott starbucks until they finalize a fair contract with the union or at the very least stop making their workers inhale silica powder for the stupid ass blended refreshers. i know a girl who was out sick for a week with respiratory issues from ts
silica dust lingers in the air for hours to days too so even if you wear a well fitted n95+ mask (which you need a doctors note and approved medical accommodation to wear) youre still at risk if you take it down at any point for eating or drinking
also they could have just continued using the blending syrup emulsifier they already had but they rolled out silica based blending powder bc they hate their workers and want to punish them for unionizing / bringing health and safety concerns to their union reps i m o
Silica is a tightly regulated OSHA issue. If there's enough of it, they'll say workers need to wear N95 masks and fine the company for health regulation issues.
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I'm not religious but I'm a very emotional scientist and I've been thinking about this a LOT lately. I love the earth enough to be its steward. and I have the necessary tools for the task. a complex brain. dexterous hands. legs made to walk long and far. millions and millions of years of Chance and Opportunity shaped me into something that can give back to the planet that has been a life-sustaining home for every person who ever lived. it's enough to make me teary eyed sometimes
"humans are pests that should be exterminated" I don't think that's true. the ecological niche of humans has shifted from persistence predation to stewardship of entire ecosystems. we've done a lot of wrong. but we have incredible potential to do so, so, so much good.
this post speaks very broadly! I know a lot of us have brains that find some tasks very difficult and hands that struggle and legs that hurt. you're a wonderful person if that's you. I'm more than happy to do enough for us both. we're stewards, but we're also a cooperative species with an incredible capacity for kindness. rest well for me. [:
