And by teens, I of course mean the numbers 10-19. I mean, wtf is an eleven?! And why are 13-19 pronounced in the opposite manner we’d say the rest of the double digits?

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Watching the video again, one thing that stands out is that the crowd is hanging out. The only phone in site is mine The show was also put on without the city’s permission and without billionaire backed funding from sleazy groups like the Civic Joy Fund. The bands just showed up and made it happen.

The kids are alright!

Here’s a flier and some links to the bands:

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I’m serious, though… they said my yo-yo video contained “sexual activity”, so they hid it from public view and said it was up to me to remove the sexual parts, whatever they are. This was a video for my Patreon subscribers that took 7 days too make.

I made the video above because A) I’m hella petty and B) apparently the only thing you can do when a giant platform makes a mistake is politely ask them to fix it and wait. As a creator, I’m reliant on platforms like Patreon and I hate feeling powerless whenever these platforms make stupid mistakes.

If you want to see the video that Patreon censored, you can still see the full thing on youtube:

10/9/2026 Update-

Patreon has restored my video! I’m not sure what exactly triggered my post being censored, and I doubt I’ll ever find out, but it appears the video was flagged/moderated by an algorithm. Here’s the message I received about 30 hours after disputing the decision.

A couple of suggestions for Patreon on how to improve this experience:

• Have a human review flagged content before taking it down. If AI is being used to identify potential issues like “sexual activity,” a human should review the claim before the content is removed. If disputes ultimately require human review anyway, why not start there?
• Give creators a way to track their appeals. When my video was removed, my only option was to change the content and request another review. I understand Patreon might not want to specify exactly what triggered the flag, but creators should at least have a clear way to dispute a decision and see whether their case is being reviewed.

It took me five hours to write, shoot, edit, and post a video about my video being taken down. I put that time and energy into it because I felt like I wasn’t being heard.

When a platform uses AI to flag content without an apparent human review, and gives creators no indication that anyone is looking into their appeals, it leaves them with two options: feel helpless or find some other creative way to express their frustration.

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A couple fresh album suggestions for #BandcampFriday:

Skeletor Bag is a new album by Del The Funky Homosapien and Mars Kumari, with appearances by Jel and Dose One. Shoegazy beats with Del’s oddball flow.

Doom Scroll takes that crusty folk-punk style of bands like Blackbird Raum, and adds a poppy almost ska sound to it. Honestly, this works much better than I thought it would. They have a new album coming out in 4 days, but this EP is a great intro

⣎⡇ꉺლ༽இ•̛)ྀ◞ ༎ຶ ༽ৣৢ؞ৢ؞ؖ ꉺლ (aka Wingdings) is a side project from Four Tet. His debut album, (̸̢̛̼̞̭͋ͅ)̸͚̰͛̔̾̀̿͒͂v̴̢͚͚͎ȯ̶̞̮͖̑̈́OOOOOOooo☼⃝☼⃝◉࿃ूੂ࿃ूੂੂ ʅ͡͡͡͡͡͡͡͡͡͡͡()ʃ͡͡͡͡͡͡͡͡͡͡ ꐑ(ఠీੂȯ̶̞̮͖̑̈́̿)̸̳̥̰̜̥̺̐ͅ࿃ूੂ✧⃛✧⃛)̴͎̜͍̱̋̌͋̓̾̚͜ ̷̨̢̥̅͝ͅ(̸̢̛̼̞̭͋ͅ)̸͚̰͛̔̾̀̿͒͂:̴͓̞̑̌̂̆̊͋̀:̸͎̟̯̂̓̌:̶̢͙͙͕̠̩͆(̷̮͍͚̫͚͂, is a lush landscape filled with glitched out samples of acoustic instruments.

Shudder To Think released a short EP that sounds like it could have come straight out of their Pony Express sessions in 1995. It sounds great and the band says a new album is in the works.

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I’ve been playing around with a few WigglyPaint clones lately and decided to try drawing this Batman piece using one of them. Here’s the result.

WigglyPaint is a digital drawing app that embraces an old-school MS Paint aesthetic, but adds lines that wobble around in interesting ways. The original version of WigglyPaint is here, but there are a few cheap knockoffs that I actually kind of prefer.

I call them “cheap” because they’re total ripoffs of both the visual style and the literal name of the original WigglyPaint app. They’re good, but I’m not going to link to them until they do a little rebranding and, you know, come up with their own name.

Inspired by HBO’s Lanterns show, I also drew Green Lantern in this wiggly style.

Again, many of the knock offs are great, but fuck ’em if they are just stealing someone else’s name to promote their apps.

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A titan devouring a Titan, if you will.

It was a terrible idea, obviously, so the comic shop asked me to go in a completely different direction. I can’t blame them.

But I still really liked this weird little piece of Batman Devouring Robin art, so I figured I’d share it here for y’all to enjoy.

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TL;DR: While the Doppler effect is less noticeable with low-end frequencies like bass and drums, you can still hear a slight increase and decrease in the speed of the music as the vehicles move toward and away from the microphone. This creates a subtle groove in parts of the song that I call the Doppler Swing.

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San Francisco activists have been adding “Flock Camera” signs around the city to point out nearby surveillance cameras. I noticed a couple of these signs near our house recently, and honestly, I hadn’t noticed these particular cameras before.

That sent me to DeFlock, a crowdsourced map of Flock cameras and other automated license plate readers, where I was surprised to find there are at least 15 Flock cameras within a few blocks of our house.

Too Many Flocks

San Francisco first added 400 Flock cameras in 2024, and that number continues to grow. The controversy around these cameras continues to grow too:

“Automated License Plate Readers [ALPRs] are a serious risk to your privacy and civil liberties. These systems continuously record your movements without a warrant, probable cause, or even reasonable suspicion. Your driving history is rarely confined to the town or city where the cameras are installed. It’s typically shared with thousands of other agencies nationwide (secretly). Once the data is out of your community, you have no control over how it’s used or what rules apply, leading to instances of misuse.”

— statement from DeFlock.org

As Flock style ALPRs have fallen under heavy public scrutiny, Flock has attempted to change the narrative by pushing false claims that these cameras drastically reduce crime and help solve crimes. Flock representatives have also been accused of misleading public officials about what other data these systems collect about citizens.

Despite these claims being disproved, local politicians like Manny Yekutiel have argued that surveillance cameras can help solve crimes:

“Technology like cameras are proven to help solve crimes and slow down reckless drivers on our streets, but I won’t support any of it if that data ends up with ICE or the federal government, full stop.”

— Manny Yekutiel, as reported by Mission Local

While Flock cameras have not been proven to solve crimes, Manny does bring up an interesting point about the safety effects of speed cameras… so lets take a quick detour:

Flock VS Speed Cameras

San Francisco has 33 speed cameras installed, and the data does show that these have had a dramatic effect, reducing speeding by 79% in some of the city’s most dangerous intersections.

But Flock-style ALPRs are very different from speed cameras.

Speed cameras measure vehicle speed and record license plates on vehicles that are speeding. They are designed for a specific traffic-safety purpose and only photograph vehicles after they’ve broken the law thus cannot be used for warrantless surveillance. Flock cameras, on the other hand, capture everything in their view and can be used to track any vehicle or even people. Flock cameras also capture nearby mobile phones, wearables, and other Bluetooth-enabled devices. All of this data can later be accessed by police departments, the federal government, or even Flock to spy on citizens, without needing a warrant.

That distinction matters because a speed camera can tell you that a particular vehicle was speeding at a particular location. An ALPR network can potentially build a record of where that vehicle or person has been.

There’s also a big difference in how many of these types of cameras are around.

According to OPGov.news, there are now more than 500 Flock cameras in San Francisco, and there is no hard cap on how many could eventually be added. In contrast, there are only 33 speed cameras in San Francisco, and that number is strictly limited under local law.

The only way to prevent San Franciscans’ data from being abused by “ICE or the federal government” is never to capture that data in the first place. Privately run ALPRs like Flock, Axon, and Motorola are fundamentally incompatible with a free and democratic society.

Predictive Policing and Failed Results

Recently, 404 Media broke news of a secretive DHS program called PITT, Predictive Intelligence Targeting Teams, which analyzes Americans’ financial data to possibly mark them as people of interest. DHS then encourages local police to create a pretext to pull these targets over and search them.

They aren’t suspects in the legal sense. An algorithm has simply decided that if police pull them over, they’ll probably find something illegal.

Imagine the damage this predictive policing unit could do with Flock’s massive database of license plates, Bluetooth signals, and facial recognition. Someone who visits a particular address, attends a protest, is near someone who’s under investigation, or is simply in the wrong place at the wrong time could be targetted for further scrutiny.

And this isn’t just theoretical. Lindsey Brooke Isaacs was wrongfully arrested and jailed for 13 days after Flock misidentified her as a suspect in a fatal hit-and-run. Despite witnesses describing a different color car and license plate number, Florida police found Lindsey’s car in Flock’s database on a nearby road a few minutes from the accident. They used Flock’s footage to arrest her and charge her with eight felonies.

That night, Flock helped police put the wrong person in jail and possibly derailed the investigation all together.

A sign Of The Times

I’m glad folks had taken the time to make these “Flock Camera” signs because I hadn’t noticed these cameras before.

Now I notice them everywhere.

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This Super Tardigrade was inspired by some oil stains or dirt on the concrete.

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