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[Anonymous @YourAnonNews]

FTP: LAPD killed her dog. He was wearing his Knicks jersey.
His name was Jameson. A golden doodle. One of the sweetest, most gentle breeds alive.
A neighbor called a noise complaint. That's it.
20+ officers showed up. Then a helicopter. For a noise complaint in an apartment complex.
And they shot Jameson dead. In front of his owner. In front of her child.
No warning. No de-escalation. Nothing.
The media is barely covering this. No headlines. No outrage.
Like it never happened.
If this was your dog... your child watching... how would you feel?
Jameson deserved better. That little boy deserved better. His mama deserved better.

[Dalton (Analyze & Optimize) @Outdoctrination]

A recent study showed that eye floaters can be reduced by 70% in a few months with a simple supplement.

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[Kenny5Alive @kenny5alive]

This is absolutely hilarious.

[James Li @5149jamesli]

So the official story they are telling us about Jared and Ivanka’s new “luxury resort” in Albania is that they were taking a swim, stumbled upon an island, hiked to the top barefoot, and thought: “we have to have it!” 🤡

Btw, the island just so happens to have 3,600 bunkers. 👀

[͏b͏l͏a͏n͏c @dqveed]

Without exaggerating, it's my favorite video in the world

[Collin Rugg @CollinRugg]

NEW: Border Collie in China with 1.5 million followers stolen, sold for $27 to a restaurant, and then eaten.

The dog's owner, a Chinese travel blogger named 'Guo,' documents his travels with his dog.

While he was away on an overseas trip, the dog disappeared while in the care of Guo's dad. Surveillance footage showed two people stealing the animal.

Guo was able to track down the thief and offered $1500 for the return of his dog, but was told the dog had been sold for $27 and eaten.

The thief says he thought the dog was a stray.

"The dog is dead, so stop making a fuss. I did not break the law," the man allegedly said.

[MAGA Voice @MAGAVoice]

HOLY SH*T: Spencer Pratt just responded to Fake News saying he blew through money in his 20’s:

“Yes I spent all this money. I was also 22, 23 years old… that’s MY money… This lady Karen Bass just spent $400 million last year of OUR money”

ABSOLUTE MIC DROP 🔥

[sai @icemjjfish]

the way it’s not even tiktok that caused this but this fuckass bird animation 😭

[ALUTHEDON @Mbakaza4L]

This is what a holocaust looks like.

[Thoth The Atlantean @ScribeDjehuty]

Absolutely insane

[Paras Chopra @paraschopra]

Ok, so I learned that these are called phonesthemes :)

[Brian Roemmele @BrianRoemmele]

The Polyphon: When Music Was Programmed on Perforated Discs

In the closing years of the 19th century, long before vinyl records, magnetic tape, or digital files, a remarkable machine let ordinary people summon complex, multi-note music from thin air.

It did not play recordings of real instruments or voices. Instead, it executed precise mechanical instructions encoded on interchangeable metal discs.

That machine was the Polyphon, and its story is one of the earliest and most elegant examples of “software” for music.

The Polyphon was invented in 1870 in Leipzig, Germany, by two engineers: Gustav Adolf Brachhausen and Ernst Paul Riessner. They had previously worked with the Symphonion company, which had pioneered commercial disc-playing music boxes in the mid-1880s.

Brachhausen and Riessner broke away to perfect and commercialize their own version. Their firm, originally called Firma Brachhausen & Riesener, was founded in 1887 in the Leipzig suburb of Wahren. It was renamed Polyphon-Musikwerke AG in 1895, and full-scale production of the iconic disc machines began around 1896–1897.

The timing was perfect.

Traditional cylinder music boxes, with their pinned barrels, were beautiful but expensive to make and difficult to duplicate in volume.

Each new tune required an entirely new cylinder. The disc system changed everything. A single machine could play dozens or hundreds of different pieces simply by swapping a disc.

This was revolutionary it turned music into something you could collect, trade, and update, much like software libraries or app catalogs today.

Polyphon machines and their discs were exported worldwide. In 1892 the company sent people and tooling to America to establish the Regina Music Box Company in Rahway, New Jersey.

Regina became one of the most famous names in American disc boxes and helped popularize the format across the Atlantic.

How the Polyphon Actually Worked
At first glance, a Polyphon looks like an ornate wooden cabinet or tabletop box with a large, flat metal disc inside. Wind the powerful clockwork motor (or, on coin-operated models, drop a coin), and the disc begins to spin.

The magic is in the disc itself. These are not simple records. They are precision-stamped or punched sheets of tin-plated steel or similar metal. During manufacturing, holes are punched in carefully arranged patterns.

The displaced metal is curled or pressed downward to form small raised projections — called plectra — on the underside of the disc.

These tiny “fingers” are the actual data.

As the disc rotates:

The projections engage a row of star wheels (small, multi-pointed ratchets mounted in a gantry above the comb).

Each star wheel is nudged forward by a projection and rotates just enough to pluck one tooth on the musical comb — a precisely tuned set of steel teeth of varying lengths.

Longer teeth produce lower (bass) notes; shorter teeth produce higher (treble) notes. The radial position of the hole on the disc determines pitch; its angular position determines timing.

Many models used two combs (sometimes striking simultaneously for richer tone, sometimes alternately).

Larger instruments could have impressive volume and harmonic complexity. Playing time for a typical large disc (around 19–20 inches / 50 cm) was roughly 1 minute 45 seconds to 2 minutes — enough for a complete popular song, march, or waltz of the era.

Drive systems varied by size. Smaller discs often used a center spindle; larger ones used peripheral drive holes around the edge for better stability and torque. A pressure bar kept the disc flat and properly engaged with the star wheels.

Where the Polyphon becomes truly fascinating from a technological history perspective:

The perforated disc is not a recording. It is a program. It contains encoded instructions: “At this moment, pluck these specific notes in this sequence and combination.” Change the disc, and the machine plays an entirely different piece without any modification.

[Zack's Lab @zackslab]

the bird has landed. what an amazing morning!

event sensors are great for bullets AND humming birds (not surprising)

[Luke Slywaker @LukeSlywaker]

On Wednesday afternoon at 2:30 pm a tragedy took place not far from where I live, in Escondido, CA. One of the most patriotic souls in San Diego County, 69 year old Kerry Sheron was knocked out then had his face stomped in repeatedly while replacing one of the many American flags adorning his humble home. He is on life support, and will not survive.
Tonight a prayer vigil was held in his honor.
His wife Maria is facing the most difficult choice of her life right now.
Pray for her 🙏🏼

[Power to the People ☭🕊 @ProudSocialist]

This is outrageous.

A small town in Michigan did everything right to stop OpenAI & Oracle from building a $16 billion data center in their town.

The people of Saline Township flooded their council meeting, put up signs all over town, and convinced their officials to reject it.

The officials voted against the data center 4-1, and that should have been the end. But two days later the developers sued, and the town couldn’t afford to fight back in court.

We are not a free nation when billion-dollar corporations can take over the land of our communities and towns. We are a captive nation ruled by corporations and billionaires.

[Wall Street Memes @wallstmemes]

In America they shut down bee labs after they discover their venom cures cancer because cancer treatment is a $200B industry

[End3of6Days9 (Helen) 🇺🇸 @end3of6days9]

This woman completely lost it when her Ring camera notified her that a "black bear was walking on the gravel area"… only to realize the “bear” was actually her walking to her car.

She went straight into “count your days” mode over the AI description 😭

Ring rolled out these AI-powered video descriptions back in June 2025 for Premium subscribers to give quick text summaries of activity.

It’s equal parts funny and a little alarming how off the description was. While the goal is to make notifications more helpful, moments like this show that AI still has some growing pains — and sometimes you just have to laugh at the chaos it creates.

Have you ever had your security camera or AI feature get something hilariously wrong?

[Desiree @DesireeAmerica4]

Jennifer Combs, a resident of Trinidad, Texas, was actively arrested and jailed simply for making a Facebook post exposing the city's brown, contaminated tap water.

The city officials panicked over the bad publicity, hid behind a garbage law, and used the local police department to lock her up under the guise of "preventing public alarm."

​Let’s be entirely real: this isn’t law enforcement; it’s tyrannical retaliation. Since when does a local bureaucrat get the right to suspend the First Amendment because their infrastructure is failing?

If the citizens can’t openly criticize the basic hiding-in-plain-sight truth of what’s coming out of their own common faucets without getting a mugshot, the system is completely broken.

​She is officially suing the city for violating her civil rights. Is this Texas or North Korea?

​🎥: Fox 4 News

[Sam Tripoli @samtripoli]

This is literally a violation of the First Amendment!

[The General @GeneralMCNews]

BREAKING: A woman in Texas was arrested after making a Facebook post warning others about the poor water quality in her town.