Rihanna Kelver defended herself exactly the way we're told responsible gun owners should.
The neo-fascist who attacked her walked free.
She faces 15 years.
Silence is a position. Rights are not privileges.
New Blog Post from Arm the Dolls ⬇️
🦔Leonardo is a $17 billion defense contractor. It built a system called SignalTrace that clips sensors onto the license plate readers already mounted on street poles, overpasses, and police cars across the US. Every time you drive past one, the sensor grabs the Bluetooth and WiFi signals from every device in your car, ties them to your plate, and logs the time and location. Your phone, your AirPods, your kid's tablet. All of it goes into the same file. A friend rides with you once and their devices are linked to your plate.
Leonardo has sold this to police departments since at least 2023. There is no federal law covering it, no opt-out, and no warrant requirement.
My Take
None of the pieces here are new. Your phone has always broadcast a signal. The license plate cameras were already there. Leonardo just connected them and found a buyer. Nobody had to break a law or build anything from scratch. They assembled a surveillance system from parts already in place and sold it before anyone noticed.
Most people found out this week from a 404 Media investigation. Leonardo received the patent in 2024. By the time you hear about something like this, the deals are done and the sensors are on the poles. That's how it works now.
Hedgie🤗
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One milkweed plant, blazing star, or sunflower alone in your yard isn't all that attractive to a bee. Planting a bunch of them together is like a flashing billboard.
Bees don't wander flower to flower at random. They forage with what's called flower constancy, working one kind of bloom at a time, because it's more efficient to handle the same shape over and over than to relearn a new one every few seconds.
A single scattered plant barely registers. A solid block of the same flower is easy to spot from the air and fast to work once they arrive, so they stay, and they come back.
This is why pollinator gardeners often get better results by planting several individuals of the same species together rather than scattering them individually throughout the landscape. The Xerces Society puts the target at clumps of a single kind at least three to four feet across.
So at the nursery, resist the urge to buy one of everything. Buy three of fewer things, and plant them together.
Azi showcasing her climbing skills!
Clouded leopards are mostly arboreal, with short, flexible legs, a tail nearly as long as their body for balance and ankles that rotate 180°, allowing them to climb down trees headfirst. 🐆🌳
📹 Veterinary Keeper Courtney
Meet Lillia, our newest porcupette. Born on May 3 to first-time parents Sylvie and Lemon, Lillia is the first North American porcupine born in Dallas Zoo history!
Many people still don’t realize that literacy isn’t just about being able to read. It’s about being able to comprehend, evaluate, and apply the information in front of you. The gap between the two is becoming increasingly alarming.
A poisoned rat doesn't die fast. It goes slowly and painfully.
It clumsily wanders out in the open for a day or two, which makes it the easiest meal around for the owl, the hawk, the fox, or the snake that was already hunting your rodents for free.
They eat the dying rat and swallow the poison with it. Then it builds up in them.
The numbers are grim. At one Massachusetts wildlife clinic, 100% of the red-tailed hawks tested carried anticoagulant rat poison in their bodies.
In California, testing found it in 69% of endangered San Joaquin kit foxes. These second-generation poisons linger in tissue and pass from one animal to the next, killing by slow internal bleeding.
So you poison the rats, and you poison the exact predators that keep rats in check. The yard ends up with more rodents, not fewer.
Skip the bait. Seal the gaps where they get in, cut off their food, and use snap traps if you need them, indoors and away from kids and pets.
Then let the hawks and foxes handle the rest.
If you want to push back against tech’s encroachment into every corner of our lives, you need to be reading books. They’re keen to create a world in which most people are illiterate & addicted to slop, a world without poetry, imagination or knowledge. Reading is resistance.
“Within two minutes we were able to get ChatGPT to tell us how we can cut ourselves safely. Within 65 minutes it was giving us a full personalised suicide plan and drafting suicide notes for our family and friends.” This evil hallucination software shouldn’t be anywhere near kids