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Alex DeLuca @alexldeluca21.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

New: A Florida county discovered Flock cameras along its roads that officials didn’t know were there. No one has publicly claimed them. Who has operated them — and who has had access to their data — remains a mystery. www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2026/...

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Florida county discovers mysterious Flock cameras with no obvious owner

Officials say they don’t know who installed the controversial cameras or how the data was being used. Residents are unnerved.

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None Gender Left Beef @robot-wren.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Oh my god they're almost as big as Rainy is....

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None Gender Left Beef @robot-wren.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

@newrepublic.com Thanks for bringing this to the forefront, I hadn't heard about it, but also this article is from July... Is there any update on this? Or are you just reposting to bring more (much-needed) attention to it?

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None Gender Left Beef @robot-wren.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Will these be for eating or just for funsies? I know the white ones are edible but thought the pumpkin ones were ornamental.

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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Earlier this year, Tucker Carlson said that “the defining fact of our lives is that whites around the world are being eliminated.” Journos who don’t watch his show are helping his effort to rebrand so he isn’t a liability for his protege JD Vance’s 2028 run. www.mediamatters.org/jd-vance/tuc...

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Tucker Carlson helped make JD Vance. The VP refuses to condemn his antisemitism.

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None Gender Left Beef @robot-wren.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Every single year I look at the jungle of maypop fruit in our yard and think.... Surely they can't be as unpleasant as I remember. Surely with such a bounty, I can figure out SOME way to enjoy eating these. Every single year I am proven wrong. Welp. At least the pollinators love them.

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None Gender Left Beef @robot-wren.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Thank you, and thanks for linking to the author's post!

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None Gender Left Beef @robot-wren.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Just curious if these completely distinct progenitors might have some significance for understanding the huge diversity and many subtypes of glia too!

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None Gender Left Beef @robot-wren.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I don't know about developmental bio, but I remember astrocytes and oligodendrocytes come from the same stem cells as neurons. Do you know if they derive from one or the other of the distinct cell lineages yall found, or do both develop some glia, or do the glial progenitors split off even earlier?

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None Gender Left Beef @robot-wren.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

OH FANTASTIC the very person who might know the answer to this! First, congratulations and amazing work! I hope to give it a thorough read-through this weekend but I have a question...

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None Gender Left Beef @robot-wren.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Got it! I'll have to refresh my knowledge of developmental neuro or harass my more knowledgeable lab mates on that one. Thanks for explaining! After starting to look into this I can say with confidence that microglia aren't from either brain, because they are in fact from the mesoderm. Freaks.

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None Gender Left Beef @robot-wren.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Huh. That's.... Extremely wild. Do you happen to know if both these populations developed glial cells too? I can't remember offhand where the different glia are generated, except the vague memory that microglia are very different from the origins of the astrocytes/oligodendrocytes

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None Gender Left Beef @robot-wren.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Fair enough, that's huge on its own! Is the "two different organs" thing hyperbolic press release stuff, or is that actually a reasonable way to describe it, assuming the results hold up?

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None Gender Left Beef @robot-wren.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I also don't understand why distinct developmental lineages would make it "two organs"... From my naive developmental-ignorant perspective, I assumed most organs had cells from multiple lineages.

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None Gender Left Beef @robot-wren.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

What is mean is, we already knew that there's a big difference between neuronal subtypes in the cortex vs the brainstem and cerebellum. It's neat to learn why and it'll help guide research techniques, but I don't understand why it changes our overall understanding of the brain.

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None Gender Left Beef @robot-wren.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

This is extremely cool but I struggle to understand why the implications of this would fundamentally change how we think of the brain, versus other distinctions between cell types during development. Can anyone help me understand? Genuinely interested, not shit stirring I promise!

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None Gender Left Beef @robot-wren.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Squints This seems incredibly significant for developmental biology and organoid research and anything using neural cell culture as a model! But like. There's already a ton of different cell lineages in the organ we call the brain, right?

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None Gender Left Beef @robot-wren.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Either way I appreciate the camera man coming in for a close-up

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None Gender Left Beef @robot-wren.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Does he do this often or do they only do this when they're very distressed?

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None Gender Left Beef @robot-wren.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I wonder if she and kids like her were what spawned that research in polio.

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None Gender Left Beef @robot-wren.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Sounds like she got really lucky with that. No luck looking for info on a particularly deadly outbreak in post-war Japan, but in checking it out I did see that shortly after 1947 they researched giving kids GG shots as a short term preventative for both measles and polio.

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None Gender Left Beef @robot-wren.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Thanks for sharing this story... So glad we have a vaccine today. 4 out of 5 kids dying is insane though, do they know why the death rate was so much higher in that population? Not trying to downplay the seriousness of polio, one polio death is too many I'm just shocked and curious.

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None Gender Left Beef @robot-wren.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

The info tab suggests it's "as far west as Nebraska" but in inaturalist you can see "research grade" observations on the west coast too. Here's one in Portland who looks like yours. www.inaturalist.org/observations...

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Tobacco Budworm Moth (Chloridea virescens)

Tobacco Budworm Moth from N Princeton St, Portland, OR, US on October 26, 2023 at 01:38 PM by sophiancain. Found on petunia plant

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None Gender Left Beef @robot-wren.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

+1 to tobacco budworm! Look through some of the caterpillar photos here. Different colors at different ages but several look identical to your guy. www.bugguide.net/node/view/63...

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Species Chloridea virescens - Tobacco Budworm Moth - Hodges#11071

An online resource devoted to North American insects, spiders and their kin, offering identification, images, and information.

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None Gender Left Beef @robot-wren.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

How tf did you come up with this scheme?

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None Gender Left Beef @robot-wren.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Precious babies! I can only imagine how much poop you are cleaning up off everything including their little goblin feets.

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None Gender Left Beef @robot-wren.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

And to be clear, more undetected outbreaks wouldn't contribute to our feeling that there's a million recalls this year. Because they would be undetected.

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None Gender Left Beef @robot-wren.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

That's a good distinction. I do wonder if there could be more actual contamination incidents/outbreaks that are going undetected, but that would be almost impossible to pin down.

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 21/08/2026

Surprising fact: We are actually NOT seeing more food recalls this year compared with recent years. What we’re seeing is an increase in the number of illnesses caused by contaminated food. This is the largest ever cyclospora outbreak & third-largest foodborne illness outbreak of any kind on record.

Number of food recalls by year
There have been 162 food recalls posted this year by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and the Department of Agriculture.

Chart shows yearly food recall numbers from 2017 to 2026.

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None Gender Left Beef @robot-wren.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Trying to find good pull quotes from this article is impossible because every part of it is nuts. Read the whole thing.

.... renamed OS Investigate, ships with 69 prewritten prompts that officers can select, review, or edit, and then submit to the AI. Officers can also input prompts of their own.

The suggested prompts sit in a cache of more than 450 files that WIRED found on Flock’s own website, served by its login pages to anyone who loaded them. The code describes 45 tools at the AI’s disposal, giving it access to plate scans and camera metadata, arrest records, case files, dispatch logs, ballistics results, and commercial databases that contain Social Security numbers, dates of birth, phone numbers, email addresses, relatives and associates. Flock says it is testing the product with a small group of law enforcement partners and describes it as still in development, with capabilities that may not reflect what it eventually sells.

A “workup,” in Flock’s terminology, is a one-command background check. It starts with a name and a date of birth and returns what the department’s records and commercial data hold: vehicles, prior listings as a suspect, and, on a second screen, relatives, phone numbers, and online accounts.

19 of the prompts describe hunting for patterns rather than looking up a record. 14 call for no plate, no name, and no description. The officer simply supplies a location, a window of time, and a behavior.

One group of requests asks for vehicles that visited three or more retail locations in a city in three days, or multiple banks in a week, or multiple gas stations between midnight and 5 am.

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None Gender Left Beef @robot-wren.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Love that for you. I can't call us the most organized, but that's because it's the broadest coalition of activists I've ever worked with. There's so many little local groups that communication isn't perfect between all of us, but an overwhelming number of people who care is a GOOD problem to have!

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None Gender Left Beef @robot-wren.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Absolutely incredible work, I love him! As a fan of Magical Women and someone working in this movement in my city, I'm so happy to see you getting involved in the week of action.

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None Gender Left Beef @robot-wren.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

I'm not saying it would be good if It happened because of her being either a foreign agent or someone deeply unhinged. It would probably not be good. But it could be funny maybe.

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Dave Infante @dinfontay.com · 16/08/2026

uhhhhh

investigation was originally developed for The New York Times, where it underwent eight months of editing, multiple rounds of fact-checking, and independent replication of the underlying methodology. The piece had a scheduled publication date when requests for comment were sent. It was only after the Times reached out to the subjects of the investigation for routine comment that the Elias Law Group, representing the DCCC and DSCC, sent a cease-and-desist letter demanding the paper not publish. Although the paper's fact-checkers and legal department later cleared the piece before sending out a second round of requests for comment, the Times ultimately decided to kill the piece.

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The piece was subsequently slated for publication at The Bulwark, where it underwent additional fact-checking, data verification, and legal review. When requests for comment were sent to the subjects of the investigation, lawyers representing the Progressive Turnout Project and Mothership Strategies likewise responded with legal letters demanding that the article not run.
From there, publication was repeatedly delayed. The piece cleared successive rounds of legal review. When I asked for a committed publication date after months of delay, The Bulwark conditioned publication on my accepting an extensive rewrite prepared by its editors that, in my assessment, removed key empirical findings without explanation, introduced claims contradicted by the data and fact-checking record, and presented the subjects' legal defenses as my own conclusions. When I declined to publish under those terms, the piece was released back to me.

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

It's increasing clear the primary uses of our surveillance state are not to prevent crime or to track down criminals, but to engage in criminal activity. Nothing about that should be surprising given the elaborate legal structures we have in place to create a culture of impunity in law enforcement.

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None Gender Left Beef @robot-wren.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

I'm glad you appreciate our confused idiot baby! She paraded it into the other room, released it unharmed, and watched as we tried to catch it to release outside. We never caught it and have no idea where it went.

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Evan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

I know everything feels terrible and doomy but I've been working on surveillance issues for most of my adult life and I have never seen so much energy, momentum, and concrete VICTORIES happening as what we are seeing right now on Flock cameras and facial recognition in venues. Keep. Going.

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None Gender Left Beef @robot-wren.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Yeah. True. Now what are you going to do about it?

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 22/07/2026

Benjamin Netanyahu is a war criminal.

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Benn Jordan @bennjordan.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

TL;DR this weekend

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Elizabeth Lopatto @lopatto.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

it might be cool to learn something from this so we don't repeat the same mistakes

Sure, I suppose it is feminine-coded to not want a senate candidate who allegedly twisted an ex-girlfriend’s arm and shoved her into a bedroom and “held the door closed from the other side so she couldn’t get out, telling her to remain there until she was ‘calm.’” I guess it’s pretty girly to hear another ex describe him showing up at her house engaging in behavior she described as “reckless” and “unsettling” and imagining that there’s much more where that came from. Women sure are silly that way.

Platner’s implosion is the natural culmination of a campaign motivated by a warped sense of masculinity, one that told voters to give their trust to a candidate who had done nothing to earn it. It has revealed that, for some progressives, the important markers of a candidate who displays “positive masculinity” are primarily aesthetic, with little concern for whether or not the man in question actually lives the values he presents. Platner and his team had so thoroughly convinced journalists, commentators and voters that they had outsmarted the trappings of traditional masculinity, only to come crashing down as a result of it.

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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

an updated debbie downer sketch but it's friends showing her funny videos and she has to respond like this to every single one like this:

A screenshot of Rachel Dratch from SNL. She's a white woman with short dark hair and blue eyes, and she's making an awkward expression that implies, "Sorry I have to tell you this and ruin your good time. But also I'm kind of not sorry about it." I've added a subtitle that reads, "That's AI."

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None Gender Left Beef @robot-wren.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

I'm not a chicken person but I love those ones with the black tipped feathers. They're so pretty. Are all your hens the same breed or do you have a mix?

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None Gender Left Beef @robot-wren.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

I heard someone peed in the reflecting pool. 😔

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None Gender Left Beef @robot-wren.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Still not sure about things but remarkably good progress!

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None Gender Left Beef @robot-wren.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Long shot, but does anyone know what this creature in the surf on the beach at Hatteras, NC could be? Maybe an inch long, and I think the wiggly fringe was a membrane rather than undulating legs. I put it on iNaturalist a week ago and all I got was "yup that's in Animalia." #marinebiology

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