HaveIBeenFlocked.com compiles Flock audit logs, allowing users to type in their license plate number, and the website returns information on search results, including whether or not a Flock system operator has searched the database for their license plate.

Seen next to a bakery. Neat.

more on https://www.reddit.com/r/classicfallout/s/HU33zupBaw

cross-posted from: https://sopuli.xyz/post/50341338

Today’s game is Old School RuneScape. I was left with an urge to play today, so I booted it up and decided to focus on a task instead of my usual wandering.

Posting another “fried rice” as is again!

An English farmer who stopped intensive wheat farming in 1988 has unintentionally helped create one of central England’s largest young woodland nature reserves, reports the Guardian. Strawberry Hill, a 377-acre site near Knotting in Bedfordshire, has now been permanently protected after the Wildlife Trust for Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Northamptonshire (BCN) officially purchased the land. The purchase followed a public fundraising campaign that reached its £1.5 million target. For 35 years, the land was left largely untouched after landowner Hugh White stopped farming there in protest against government agricultural policies. Over time, the former fields naturally changed into a mix of hawthorn bushes, scrubland, grassland and young woodland. According to ecological surveys by the BCN Wildlife Trust, the site now provides important habitat for threatened birds. It is home to around half of all breeding nightingales recorded across Bedfordshire.

https://www.thefarside.com/2026/08/17/1

Did you know the latest version of #Gadgetbridge now supports CoMaps as an external integration?

The attacks began on a July weekend and have continued for a month, stretching from Moscow and St. Petersburg, to cities in the south, and eastward to the Ural Mountains. The targets weren’t oil refineries, maritime hubs or arms plants hit by other Ukrainian strikes, but warehouses that bring the convenience of online shopping across the breadth of Russia.

Raised garden:

Mimi baits the yuri enjoyers again

Andrei Klepach of VEB said Russia’s economy was falling behind China, US and ‘in some respects Ukraine’

Original thread: https://explains.social/users/veronica/statuses/01M06BRS6CDCH6N52YNJQSAJDQ

At least one Kansas district is projecting $150,000 to $180,000 just to equip secondary students with individual phone lockers, according to the Wichita Eagle. The state provided zero dedicated funding. Every dollar comes from local budgets.

A reminder of the sheer wealth these corporations and individuals hold, and how they use the power we give them to influence politics & people.

The bottom of this aging broom fell off. We use it to sweep stuff out of our garden.

Today is my actual birthday, but I’m working today. So we celebrated on Friday.

New research on public perception of crime found the public guessed foreign nationals make up twice the number of sexual offenders than official statistics show (30 per cent compared to 15 per cent). They also estimated foreign nationals make up 25 per cent of the prison population, when in reality they make up just 15 per cent.

https://www.oglaf.com/bouldersofnote/

From Jen Marie

Women know they have to work 2x as hard to get the same respect as men. But they can get backlash even then. One employee solved 2-3x more tickets than her coworkers during a busy season. Instead of praise, she got a warning that it cast a bad light on the rest of the team.

Dass die schnelle Zunahme der Wetterextreme ihnen recht gibt, ist genau das, was sie nicht wollten. Es wäre höchste Zeit, sie zu rehabilitieren. Gerichtsurteile gegen sie gehören aufgehoben – und eine Entschuldigung von Medien, die sie zu Hassobjekten gemacht haben, wäre das Mindeste.

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Pipistrelle

He is one of the scummiest tech influencers around. He was great at the start, but as time went on, he became increasingly worse. As his channel grew, he started focusing far more on ‘entertainment’ while neglecting actual, useful information.

He detailed some of his planning leading up to the murder. He said that he was motivated by years of back pain and what he believed was a health insurance system working against him. He said that, once he learned that the UnitedHealthcare Company was holding an investor summit in Manhattan, he e-mailed company leadership posing as an investor to get information about where and when this meeting was taking place.

From Nanci Lewis

On August 8, police arrived on the scene of Long Branch Lagoon Water Park in Dodge City, Kansas, to the sight of three self-described “bearded, burly men” who had been in the women’s bathroom and changing area. The manager of the municipally run property allegedly screamed and rushed children out the door.

Aviation is often assumed to be one of oil’s most secure markets — in 2026, airlines will burn roughly 104 billion gallons of fuel, sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) remains under 1% of use, and nearly all commercial aircraft still run on liquid hydrocarbons. But the article argues this view mirrors the mistake oil made with cars: focusing on the existing fleet rather than the technology now competing for new routes.

A 'Human Trap' I found on one of my hikes it even has a beer can in there, but did I fall for it? Yes, yes I did 😂 @outdoor@fedigroups.social @nature@fedigroups.social @photography@fedigroups.social @hiking@fedigroups.social @photography@lemmy.world @Nature@lemmy.world @hiking@lemmy.world #PhotoMonday #OC #NaturePhotography #Nature #LandscapePhotography #Photography #Photo #August #Finland #Archipelago #AlandIslands #HikingAland #Hiking #InMy #Summer #Wonderland P.S if your country doesn’t have the freedom to roam https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_to_roam there’s something inherently wrong.

https://www.thefarside.com/2026/08/17/2

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A viral phenomenon is sweeping Facebook, with AI-generated content boosting calls for Islamophobic violence in Dearborn, Michigan.

Via https://chaos.social/@llit/117106963778795090

Of the thousands of lawsuits Meta faces over child safety on its platforms, none may be more consequential than one going to trial this week in California.