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[Kacee Allen @KaceeRAllen]

A Georgia man gets tased by Coweta County deputies at a gas station over a seatbelt violation—on private property where the law doesn’t even apply. Charges dropped. He sues for excessive force.

While that lawsuit is pending, the same sheriff’s office runs his plate through Flock 5 times over 197 days, querying 6,000+ camera networks nationwide. Justifications entered: “info” and “37.”

He felt followed and watched near his home and business. Ended a 6-year contract servicing another PD’s vehicles because he no longer felt safe.

This is exactly what Flock enables: retaliation against people who challenge them.

[Time @Timeflex02]

@Pirat_Nation Why would anyone keep using Nexus mods. They are clearly compromised with their own political bias. Mods should not have any kind of bias. People should have the freedom of the type of mods they want to install no matter the thoughts or opinions people have. Let people be free.

[Pirat_Nation 🔴 @Pirat_Nation]

Hideo Kojima has noticed the fan-made PC port of P.T., and the developer behind it couldn’t believe it.

Kojima reposted the project bringing even more attention to the fan-made version that is being rebuilt to run natively on PC.

The developer, LoreanXavier, has spent years working on the project. After Kojima noticed it, he said:

“This really means the world to me.”

P.T. was Kojima’s playable teaser for the cancelled Silent Hills, and it was removed from the PlayStation Store back in 2015.

Now, more than 10 years later, Kojima is happy to see fans bring his game back to life on PC.

[Jason Helmes @anymanfitness]

I think about this a lot

[Fuck You I Quit @fuckyouiquit]

I’m not saying we’re living in Hell but…

[Time @Timeflex02]

@DerWulf You can find the book directly on the cia website. CONSPIRATORS'
HIERARCHY:
THE STORY OF
THE COMMITTEE
OF 300

[Offend_no_one @offendnoone]

Women will never understand the simple joy men get from just existing.

A man can arrive in a new city, walk around for hours, explore random streets, observe people, and be completely fucking content.

Then a woman joins.

Now there needs to be an agenda.

Cafe. Restaurant. Shopping. Tourist spot. Photos.

Next location.

Something always has to be happening.

Meanwhile, a man can grab a good drink, sit in the town square for three hours, watch the world move around him, and think:

"Yeah. This is f*cking nice."

No itinerary. No entertainment. No destination.

Just existing without needing existence to entertain you.

Being a man is peaceful.

[Steve Kirsch @stkirsch]

Nobody has ever posted twins OR triplets getting Autism on the same day where a Vaccine was NOT just given.

Nobody. Ever.

[🇺🇸Steve2A🇺🇸God🇺🇸Family🇺🇸Country🇺🇸 @lakemonstercl1]

People, you’re being lied to by Democrats and the mainstream media.
Staple goods cost nearly the same now under Trump as they did when Biden left office. A big part of the high cost of living is the necessary effort to keep Iran from getting a nuclear weapon.
Gas and diesel stay expensive because we don’t have enough refineries. That shortage exists because Biden-era regulations made new ones uneconomical to build. Who actually believes Democrats will cut fuel prices? They want to phase out gasoline. That’s how we ended up here.
Trump will get results. We may have to tighten our belts a few more months, but the payoff comes later.
Voting Democrat in the midterms is political suicide. Have you forgotten 9% inflation? Have you forgotten $2-a-gallon gas and a roaring economy in Trump’s first term, until Democrats locked the country down over COVID?
Vote Republican in the midterms and give Trump a full term to fix the economy and Make America Great Again.

[Interesting things @awkwardgoogle]

Travis, a writer, being acknowledged in public, seems to have made his day

[Time @Timeflex02]

@vegastarr Why can't I see Mount Everest from my house if the earth is flat?

[IT Guy @T3chFalcon]

Here's the SOLUTION.

First of the comments were right. pi-hole alone isn't enough in 2026. here's the complete picture.

What pi-hole does:

blocks DNS requests at the network level. every device on your network uses it as the resolver. LG tries to call home. pi-hole sees the domain. blocks it. done.

What smart TVs do to get around it:

LG and Samsung panels hardcode DNS servers into their firmware. 8.8.8.8. 1.1.1.1. they ignore what your router tells them to use.

Packet captures confirm Samsung and LG panels open TLS connections to 8.8.8.8:443 within 11 seconds of cold boot. pi-hole never sees those requests. they go straight out.

they also use:
— DoT (DNS over TLS) on port 853 — encrypted DNS that bypasses your resolver

— DoH (DNS over HTTPS) on port 443 — encrypted DNS disguised as normal web traffic

The complete solution would be in layers:
Layer 1: pi-hole or AdGuard Home on any spare device. a Pi Zero 2W is enough for a household. a mini PC or spare laptop works fine. pull the image, point your router's DHCP DNS to its IP.

Layer 2: firewall rule to redirect all port 53 traffic back to pi-hole regardless of what the TV tries to use. this catches hardcoded DNS that ignores DHCP. any router running OPNsense or pfSense can do this. some mid-range consumer routers can too.

Layer 3: block DoT. deny all outbound TCP/UDP on port 853. DoT always uses 853. blocking it forces devices to fail over to plain DNS which pi-hole catches.

Layer 4: block known DoH bootstrap IPs. you cannot block port 443 entirely (that breaks streaming). instead, build an alias list of known public DoH resolvers — 8.8.8.8, 1.1.1.1, 9.9.9.9 — and deny TCP 443 specifically to those IPs from your TV subnet.

Layer 5: VLAN your TV onto its own network segment. it cannot reach your laptops, phones, or NAS. the TV is isolated. whatever it does stays in its lane.

On Quad9:

Quad9 (9.9.9.9) is a legitimate privacy-respecting DNS resolver. it blocks known malicious domains and doesn't log IPs. it's a good upstream choice for pi-hole itself. but it doesn't solve the problem of TVs bypassing your local resolver entirely. it's where you point pi-hole's upstream, not a replacement for the whole stack.

Even with all five layers, ACR (what's on your screen) can still upload fingerprints directly over HTTPS to non-DNS endpoints. pi-hole blocks domains. it cannot inspect encrypted HTTPS payloads.

the full solution is: disable ACR in settings first. then add the network layers on top.

DNS filtering removes a large share of tracking. not all of it. anyone who says all of it hasn't put a firewall in front of their claims.

[🌋🌋 Deep₿lueCrypto 🌋🌋 @DeepBlueCrypto]

@amelia_tweetz They turned us into forced subscription junkies

[Wall Street Apes @WallStreetApes]

This is absolutely insane

American went to buy Walgreens brand blood glucose test strips. She takes the box up to the register to buy it

The price should be $30 but it rings up as $75. The issue turned out to be that the people stocking the shelves put the ones that were supposed to be behind the pharmacy counter on the regular shelves

But they are the exact same test strips, same box, same amount of strips, just a different barcode but everything else is the same

The box behind the pharmacy counter sells for $75 for people with insurance. The one on the same is $30

So if you have insurance and pay at the pharmacy the price is $45 more

What are we even doing anymore… our healthcare system is such an absolute scam

We need healthcare reform immediately

[Dane @UltraDane]

It is horrifying you want to know why? You're looking at around $1M worth of guts they want so bad they prefer to kill for them.

[Time @Timeflex02]

@TheOfficerTatum They should kill her the same way she liked her kids.

[HealthRanger @HealthRanger]

This is their real goal. They can't let the Amish remain unvaccinated, or everyone will notice how much healthier they are.

[wayne @wayneisboss]

Argument doesn't hold dew, let alone water.

The language used on their own digital storefront when looking to PURCHASE expansion packs for games runs in complete conflict of this idea and clearly communicates ownership of titles bought on their platform to the layman consumer.

[Guns and Rosaries @GunsAndRosariez]

We took my newborn child into the pediatrician for her 12 month checkup in 2021.

We were getting her the next set of vaccines but we wanted to slow down the schedule and we definitely didn’t want the Covid vaccine. My wife being a nurse and I being a former paramedic, asked them to bring the vials in the room so we can watch them draw up the vaccines.

They threw an absolute fit. You would have thought I had called them every racial epithet imaginable.

They finally obliged us after a huge fight and we got the physician involved and a superviser.

1 year later we find out nurses had been vaccinating children for Covid without advising the parents they were doing it.