(briefly misreading a word) is this three-cueing?

This is a damn shame to see. @brianhofer.bsky.social has been such a driving force not just in keeping this city on track and protecting its citizens' privacy, but in creating a standard for the rest of the country. Thanks for all you've done, Brian. oaklandside.org/2025/11/12/o...

For folks (and journalists) who want to search the Oversight Committee email texts, I made a database for searching the 20k text files: splendorous-chaja-f79791.netlify.app

that is in fact harder than I thought I could blink

There truly is no depth the rich won't sink to www.bbc.com/news/article...

so how does one "careless cherry-pick documents" anyway

Hello, I would like to look like a douchebag but on the other hand behave like a douchebag, one Meta Raybans please

Do not under any circumstance hand your phone to law enforcement.

ah yes, the horseshoe weary

This photo by Joe Zheng at the Daily Cal is Understanding Cops 101 www.dailycal.org/news/campus/...

Shift-Ctrl-T is just Up-arrow for the web. It's back there somewhere, this is faster than re-typing the URL, I swear

Cool to hear about people working on Know Your Rights trainings for preschoolers. That sounds like the mark of a healthy society

David Graeber dragging his rotted, ill rested corpse out from the grave to moan, "So let me ask again, why do cops hate puppets" davidgraeber.org/articles/on-...

oh dang it is well before midnight but I wish to go a-walkin'

😂

As others have said, this is to spy on protestors and organizers. At a minimum.

“Every participant who was detained by authorities & had biometrics enabled, said they were violently forced to unlock their phone. […]” The research is clear: those with biometrics lost the power to resist device searches. Only using passcodes had some ability to refuse, delay, or obscure access.

"And what do you have for the talent portion of the competition, Ms. Fernandez?"

It's a beautiful day in San Francisco and you are a horrible Waymo blocking a crosswalk

I love setting news alerts for shit I care about because half the hits are "here is a thing that happened," 30% are "we are trying to have a conversation here," and 20% are "I don't care what this topic is how racist can I be" THIS ISN"T EVEN ABOUT NEW YORK, CONGRATS TO THE GUY WHO DOESN"T SUCK

I could have sworn he was 582 years older than that

New from 404 Media: CBP has quietly launched a facial recognition app for local cops to do immigration enforcement. Scans their face, tells cops whether to contact ICE about this person or not. A truly rapid expansion of ICE's facial recognition app to local cops www.404media.co/cbp-quietly-...

aesop rock is the thomas pynchon of rap, discuss

Everyone reading this is WAYYYYYY fucking closer to needing SNAP benefits themselves than to becoming a billionaire. Good on these restaurants, but it's such a fucking crime that this is even needed. Take care of people who need a hand. You're next.

Looking through old issues of the Black Panther Party newspaper, found an all-time classic headline.

at the *best* halloween party (in bed with a book by 9;30)

Meatwood Flack

if you are a Londoner who does computery things, what goes through your head when you type "git init"

"No, not petting, petting!!" --my cat

In January, they fuck.

This one made me think, but not about what you'd think it'd make me think about

good afternoon, I am in hell

Since I started working on this article the number of people kidnapped by ICE has *tripled* truthout.org/articles/ice...

(cracks knuckles) (sits down at typewriter) (cranks out the Great American Pickleball Novel)

Duke University Press has a massive sale. Use the code Fall25 for 50% off Police and the Empire City my book about how racism, fear of immigrant crime, deportation, imperial occupations, and new surveillance technologies created the modern police department. www.dukeupress.edu/police-and-t...

Oakland PD wants to join Flock’s sprawling surveillance network, which means connecting public & private systems including Ring doorbells, businesses and drones that will fuel 🧊dirty work. Go to bit.ly/noflock-oakland to support the fight ✊🏽

You ever splash a bit of your cat's wet food in your mouth? So gross Or forget who you're feeding and lick the spoon? ew ew ew ew Or accidentally open up a whole second can and somehow it all goes into your mouth and you chew and swallow and say "yum," come on already

I can't believe anyone could pay attention to a baseball game for this long. Anyway, back to the new Pynchon novel

ask your doctor if naptime is right for you

thank you, radio ad for a fucking hospital, for today's reminder that "back to normal" is not enough to fight for

I don't need SOCIAL MEDIA, I have WAY TOO MANY SIGNAL THREADS JFC

Where did Glenn Danzig hike on his day off? Die die die Diablo

(in the Fugazi van) ok guys, what else rhymes with "society"

Destroy every Ring camera. Straight into the fires of Mount Doom. www.yahoo.com/news/article...

Happy 59th anniversary to the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense. Everybody go start a world-changing liberatory community service organization to celebrate

it's too bad they didn't have Sora when they made The People's Joker. They could have made a steaming pile of garbage instead

(bolts upright in bed) "our house in the middle of our street" was like halfway down the block, not just kinda out there blocking traffic

happy Angry At Computers Day everybody. You can celebrate by being angry at computers

The world must hold Israel accountable for genocide.