As we finish up the year, 404 Media will have stuff publishing over the holidays. Some horrible (you'll see on Xmas day), some fun. Subscribers will still get a story each day. In the meantime, here's some of our best coverage this year, starting with Flock + ICE: www.404media.co/ice-taps-int...

This company sends my SCAM sensor up to 11

Stack’n into the holidays

It’s insane that in about 3 years we’ve essentially nuked the sum total of human knowledge by making truth indistinguishable from falsehood or unfindable amidst the rubbish Butlerian jihad and all paper everything loading in …

chalk one up for the BUSY BODIES

Congratulations to all the organizers, protesters, public commenters, email senders and general busybodies who turned out to boot Flock Safety out of C’ville I’ll share some thoughts in this thread but first ….

If you see , we IMPLORE YOU to post a picture from whatever device you’re using without explanation

If they’re going to do this, incredibly frustrating they’re not using ParkMobile since they know community members already use that because of UVA. It’s a national company that everywhere I’ve traveled has used. Why are we adding another hassle?

This is the classic tech non-solution to a non-problem. It makes the garage unusable for a solid 10-25% of the population who aren’t tech savvy, or don’t have signal, or just have privacy concerns. All for the imagined benefit of being able to drive out without stopping (who cares??)

Winter wonderland has arrived

The first ever Blue Ridge Community Bail Fund volunteer social is next Wednesday December 10th from 7-9pm at Superfly Brewery! Come warm up in one of Cville’s best breweries and chat about fighting the carceral system. Not a volunteer yet? Come anyway to get involved

I am so proud of our work at the Blue Ridge Community Bail Fund Please share and donate if you can. We provide nothing less than freedom. blueridgebailfund.org/donate

This got me thinking….how do we as a society normalize pumpkin pie as a breakfast option at restaurants year round? Who will be the change we want to see in the world?

Sunday Stackin Solid 10 piece broccoli stack tonight

The name of the downtown mall Christmas tree should be Seb

And yet a trace of the true self Exists in the false self

It really is magical out tonight

We’re one month out from the Blue Ridge Community Bail Fund’s first ever Volunteer Night + Social December 10th 7pm to 9pm at Superfly Come hang with the crew at Superfly, swap stories of the worst magistrate you’ve ever dealt with, and learn about the Bail Fund

The moon was going off this morning

A bureaucratic wall is being built between Americans and the information they have a right to access www.aclu.org/news/privacy...

We could really use your support right now!!!

I wrote about Clarence Thomas's anti-intellectual, anti-trans concurrence in United States v. Skrmetti, and what it says about how far the right has fallen into conspiratorialism

Day after tomorrow, y'all. Don't sleep. A benefit for blueridgebailfund.org. My 54th birthday. The year I mark 2/3s of my life living in Cville, and 1/2 of my adult life sober. Stop by early for grilling, music, friends, new friends, art, hugs. This isn't a metaphor! Goddamn, this is real!

Yes my neighbors always love it when I buy out their kids daycare and then shut it down and leave it vacant lol. They’re always saying stuff like: “Jake you’re such a good neighbor” “Jake you’re both great and good”

Men in plainclothes, one in a balaclava, raided the Charlottesville courthouse today. They abducted a local painter whose case (allegedly fighting with his roommate) was being dismissed, and another who was there paying fines. They took them away in unmarked vans. dailyprogress.com/news/local/c...

The burden of my open browser tabs is weighing on my soul

My wonderful colleague @iwillleavenow.bsky.social always puts out the best quotes. To see her expletive-ridden response to a OpenAI "safety researcher" claiming that Chat GPT feels like therapy, see": www.businessinsider.com/chatgpt-open...

Someone should have told me growing up that approximately 90 percent of being an adult is checking the weather and having opinions about it.

According to the spam email offering me a new career running a math tutoring franchise I am a "qualified business leader". Who knew???

Solitary is torture. Because we place people in concrete cells the size of parking spaces without meaningful programming or human contact, often with only a bed, sink, and toilet for company.