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My feed just now:
A screenshot of two consecutive posts. This post, which I am currently replying to right now, and a minute after, a post by the "nesrom-ebooks" bot, which at regular time intervals posts the filenames of random NES cartridge ROM dumps.
November 4, 2025 at 7:43 AM
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October 18, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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Oops, it occurred 5.8 miles away from Brighton Park.

Anyway, here's an update* from her brother, who created a brand new GoFundMe & brand new YouTube account approximately three to four hours after the incident recorded in the video. I estimate it was around 10:15 AM CDT Oct. 10, 2025

* unverified
Screenshot of Google Maps. Brighton Park is 5.8 miles away from the location where this video was recorded at, if you drive this route. Screenshot of GoFundMe operated by Fernando Figueroa, the brother of the woman in the video. (Or at least that's what this claims, I haven't dug any deeper.) Text of Screenshot: She was recently recovering from kidney surgery and, because of the excessive force used during her detention, had to make another hospital visit. She’s now facing additional physical and emotional trauma, has been left without a car, is unable to work for the time being, and is burdened with growing medical expenses. The good news is that she is home now and able to begin recovering with the support of family. This GoFundMe was created to help ease her financial strain and support her recovery so she can continue to focus on work school and her family. It will also help secure legal representation if it is needed. Any amount you can give will make a meaningful difference as she works to heal and rebuild after this traumatic experience. Thank you! Screenshot of GoFundMe operated by Fernando Figueroa, the brother of the woman in the video. (Or at least that's what this claims, I haven't dug any deeper.) Text of Screenshot: 10 de octubre de 2025 Mi hermana — ciudadana estadounidense y madre soltera — fue arrebatada de su auto y detenida por ICE hoy en Chicago. Apenas se estaba recuperando de una cirugía de riñón y, debido a la fuerza usada en su detención, tuvo que acudir nuevamente al hospital. Ahora enfrenta trauma físico y emocional, está sin auto, no puede trabajar y tiene gastos médicos crecientes. La buena noticia es que ya está en casa, pero necesita nuestra ayuda para recuperarse.
October 12, 2025 at 6:03 AM
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I found a first-generation copy of this video. In it you can see her shoes are pulled off as she is violently dragged out of the vehicle. The shoes are lying on the ground & near the end of the video, after the woman is inside the Jeep Grand Wagoner, one of the ICE Agents goes back to get the shoes.
Screenshot of the (I presume) first-generation copy of this 360p video, which is four and a half minutes long. This is near the end of the video when one of the ICE people walks from the Jeep to pickup one of the woman's shoes from the ground. Screenshot of the (I presume) first-generation copy of this 360p video, which is four and a half minutes long. This is near the end of the video when one of the ICE people walks from the Jeep to pickup one of the woman's shoes from the ground. Screenshot of the (I presume) first-generation copy of this 360p video, which is four and a half minutes long. This is near the end of the video when one of the ICE people walks from the Jeep to pickup one of the woman's shoes from the ground.
October 12, 2025 at 2:10 AM
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The reason why there was a crowd of bystanders is because ICE was arresting this guy before the vehicle collision:
A screenshot from the beginning of the video, before the car collision. ICE puts this man into the red Chrysler Pacifica Minivan (foreground). This is the view across the street from the Pallet Service building, looking West. A screenshot from the beginning of the video, before the car collision. ICE puts this man into the red Chrysler Pacifica Minivan (foreground). This is the view across the street from the Pallet Service building, looking West. This is the ICE Jeep Grand Wagoner before the vehicle collision. It is perpendicular across the street for an unknown reason. It appears to be attempting to turn around in the video. This is the vehicle that takes Fernando's sister. This is the ICE Jeep Grand Wagoner before the vehicle collision. It is perpendicular across the street for an unknown reason. It appears to be attempting to turn around in the video. This is the vehicle that takes Fernando's sister.
October 12, 2025 at 2:01 AM
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I estimate that this video was recorded between 10:00 and 10:30 CDT on October 10, 2025. I could measure the pixels to get the exact angle of the sun, but anyway.

The GoFundMe and YouTube channel were created around 14:00 CDT on October 10, 2025.

The original video is 320×568 (360p) revolution.
The GoFundMe links to a brand new YouTube account created October 10, 2025, with a single video... this four and a half minute long video of ICE kidnapping *two* people. I assume that this YouTube video is a first-generation copy. Comments have been disabled on the video. Near the end of the video, the camera person, Fernando I presume, walks around ahead of the *two* ICE vehicles. This red Chrysler Pacifica Minivan (holding a man ICE arrested first), and the Jeep Grand Wagoner that Fernando's sister was violently dragged into. The sun is visible in the sky. I could measure the number of pixels that things like the telephone poles in the background are, because knowing the size and location of the telephone poles, and the position of the camera, I can calculate the angular view of this camera lens, and then measure the height of the sun above the horizon and the exact angle Southeast it is currently located (this street runs from East to West). ... but I'm going to guess the azimuth is about 40° Fernando was standing in exactly this location in front of the red Chrysler Pacifica Minivan. The sun appears just to the right side of that big tree, which would line up at this location between about 10:00 to 10:30 AM CDT (Central Daylight Time) The tire shop building visible in this satellite view was torn down in July 2025, and Fernando's video shows an empty lot in this location.
October 12, 2025 at 1:48 AM
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When was that video recorded? Why does the video say that this occurred at "W. Schubert Ave. & N. Paulina St." more than three miles away. Who was kidnapped? Who are the other people in the video?
October 11, 2025 at 10:06 PM
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This building is "Mex Pallet Srv." located at:
1652 W Hubbard St.
Chicago, IL 60622
and "Architectural Window Treatments" at 1640 W Hubbard St.

The windows are actually, in fact, really high off the ground.

The Chevy Equinox is 66 inches tall, and Toyota Sienna is 69 inches tall.
Screenshot of Google Street View of Mex Pallet Service taken October 2016. The Google Street View camera is mounted on a pole attached to the roof of a vehicle. It is something like ten feet off the ground, maybe more? I would need to research the exact height, but anyway... the bottom sill of the windows on this building start at a height of about eight or nine feet off the ground. The Google Street View images recorded in July 2025 have the same two SUVs parked in the exact same locations. The brownish vehicle is a Chevrolet Equinox about 66 inches high. The white vehicle is a 2006 to 2009 Toyota Sienna LE, which is 69 inches in height. Google Street View image of 1633 W Hubbard St. in Kennicott Chicago taken in July 2025. It is an exact match with that video, down to the same parked cars and manhole cover.
October 11, 2025 at 9:56 PM
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I think the thing about this video that's hard to describe to anyone who hasn't done much photography/videography is that all of the lighting is wrong. It's the globally difuse light source that all AI generated videos currently have.

What time of day is this? The sky is not overcast.
A crop of a frame of that video showing the sky above the nondescript single-story brick building. It is partially cloudy with patches of blue sky visible. The sunlight is coming from... um... the right side of the frame, maybe? But all of the objects in the video have the same low-contrast flat lighting that you always see in AI generated images. None of the windows anywhere in this video seem to reflect an image of what is across the street (behind the camera).
October 11, 2025 at 12:06 PM
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How tall would you say this kid is? And how tall is that brownish van? Because the windows on these buildings begin at a height above these objects. These are really high windows! And what's up with the irregular grid pattern on them, too?

But, that van should be at least six or seven feet tall?
This kid on a bicycle has got to be at least four feet tall, right? The windows of this unlabeled, featureless brick building are the same height as this kid. So the windows are like four or five feet tall, starting at least five feet above the ground with the tops about eight or ten feet above the sidewalk level. You know... the car in the foreground is also shorter than the windows and the ICE Agent. The brownish van is shorter than the ICE Van and the weird windows of the building behind it... and the doorway of the unlabeled building... which is twice the height of the brownish van. Why do the windows go so high about the door? This isn't an apartment building window, or a shop or restaurant, or an office building... what is it? Also, the window panes are really asymmetric. It's two large wide panes on the left half and three narrow panes on the right half.
October 11, 2025 at 11:43 AM
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Who are these people? Who was kidnapped? Are they ok?
Who is this? What are they doing? Why are they here? And who is shooting *this* video? Did the person shooting this video know the cars were going to collide? What's up with this other photographer? Is this person with ICE? For an industrial area with no shops and no houses, there are a lot of random people wandering through this scene. Like this kid on a bicycle. For an industrial area with no shops and no houses, there are a lot of random people wandering through this scene. Like this person wearing a black jacket with a white star on the back of it. Speaking of random people... who is this person kidnapped by ICE? Has anyone reported them missing? Is anyone looking for them? Are they ok?
October 11, 2025 at 11:04 AM
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Maybe the van is blocking the view of the other vehicles behind it, but... these are screenshots from the beginning and end of that video:
Beginning of video: The silvery grayish van on the left of the screen is the "ICE Van", there is a white stripe painted on the right side of the road, and to the right of the line are two parked vans, a brownish-gray van to the right of the ICE Van, and a while van parked behind the brownish van. To the right of the parked vans is a sidewalk with the occasional tree and a brick building. There's a manhole in the street at the lower left part of the screen. (Presumably in the center of the road.) Beginning of video: Masked ICE Agent walks past the parked white van apparently with a gun drawn. Beginning of video: Masked ICE Agents walks past the parked white van and continue walking past a tree and I guess a vacant parking spot. The sidewalk is at least six feet wide and completely paved between the brick building and the road curb. Google Street View shows that the sidewalks around the intersection of N Paulina St and W Schubert Ave all have a two feet wide strip of grass growing between the sidewalk and the road curb. The ICE Agent is no longer drawing a gun. End of video: The ICE Van is located in front of the tree (and vacant parking spot) that the ICE Agents walked past at the beginning of the video. The parked white van and brownish van are not visible. Those vehicles disappeared halfway through the video when the ICE Van appeared in this location. You know, I think the manhole in the street disappeared too. What is the dark color vehicle stopped in the road facing the wrong way? (It's in the right lane, but must have driven to that location in the left lane assuming that this is not a one-way street (Which neither Paulina nor Schubert are.))
October 11, 2025 at 10:46 AM
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A lot of things in this video are just really weird, like the way certain people move... and why are there so many bystanders... and what is up with that second photographer towards the end of the video.

Most damning, that's neither W. Schubert Ave. nor N. Paulina St.
No matching buildings, etc.
Screenshot of Google Street View from September 2024 of W Schubert Ave where it ends intersecting with Paulina St. in Chicago, IL. I took a bunch of screenshots of the 360° panoramas and virtually walked up and down the streets here, and didn't see anything resembling what appears in that video. I'm only going to post four of the screenshots, you can go to Google Maps and view the full panoramas. Screenshot of Google Street View from May 2019 of Paulina St. where it intersects with W Schubert Ave in Chicago, IL. I took a bunch of screenshots of the 360° panoramas and virtually walked up and down the streets here, and didn't see anything resembling what appears in that video. I'm only going to post four of the screenshots, you can go to Google Maps and view the full panoramas. Screenshot of Google Street View from September 2024 looking down W Schubert Ave away from Paulina St. (behind the camera view here) in Chicago, IL. I took a bunch of screenshots of the 360° panoramas and virtually walked up and down the streets here, and didn't see anything resembling what appears in that video. I'm only going to post four of the screenshots, you can go to Google Maps and view the full panoramas. Screenshot of Google Street View from May 2019 looking down Paulina St. away from Schubert Ave in the direction with buildings rather than an empty parking lot and empty field that are in the other direction. I took a bunch of screenshots of the 360° panoramas and virtually walked up and down the streets here, and didn't see anything resembling what appears in that video. I'm only going to post four of the screenshots, you can go to Google Maps and view the full panoramas.
October 11, 2025 at 9:59 AM
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Or maybe not... the margin of error is still pretty big, and the motion of local galaxies is like this:
Screenshot of a diagram from an astrophysicist paper with a bunch of vector arrows plotted to represent a 2D crossection of the motion of galaxies in the local cluster. Screenshot of a diagram from an astrophysicist paper with a bunch of vector arrows plotted to represent a 2D crossection of the motion of galaxies in the local cluster. Screenshot of a diagram from an astrophysicist paper with a bunch of color blobs plotted to represent a 2D crossection of the motion of galaxies in the local cluster. Screenshot of a diagram from an astrophysicist paper with a bunch of vector arrows and a bunch of colorful blobs plotted to represent a 2D crossection of the motion of galaxies in the local cluster.
October 7, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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My current hypothesis is that someone who runs the "@bsky.app" account hit this button [see attached image] on a bunch of replies.

I haven't been keeping up to date on BlueSky code changes for the past year or two.
A screenshot of the BlueSky Android app showing the pop-up menu you see on replies to a post that you yourself have made. One of the options is: "Hide reply for everyone" which I put a big cyan colored arrow pointing to. The other stuff is "Mute thread", "Mute words & tags", "Mute account", and I'm speculating that "Hide reply for me" is probably a Mute function too. "Block account" will also make the reply disappear from the thread... so I speculate that "Hide reply from everyone" is doing the same "nuclear block" only to just that specific post and nothing else (like the user).
September 21, 2025 at 6:26 AM
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Google's "People also ask" about "isopropanol 67-63-0" results, continued...

Just a note, never, not once, has this search feature EVER given me anything but unrelated & mutually contrary results to my search query.

I'll frequently see two consecutive "answers" that directly contradict each other.
Screenshot of random unrelated "People also ask" results when you search for "isopropanol 67-63-0" with Google. Screenshot of random unrelated "People also ask" results when you search for "isopropanol 67-63-0" with Google. Screenshot of random unrelated "People also ask" results when you search for "isopropanol 67-63-0" with Google. It's stuff about Mountain Dew, vinegar, hydrogen peroxide, baking soda, etc. Screenshot of random unrelated "People also ask" results when you search for "isopropanol 67-63-0" with Google. It's stuff about ammonia and highly toxic chemicals like arsenic trioxide, hydrogen cyanide, etc.
September 8, 2025 at 9:42 AM
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Google, do "People also ask" these questions about "isopropanol 67-63-0"? Do they? Do they really?
Screenshot of random unrelated "People also ask" results when you search for "isopropanol 67-63-0" with Google. Screenshot of random unrelated "People also ask" results when you search for "isopropanol 67-63-0" with Google. It's stuff about (ethyl) alcoholic beverages. Screenshot of random unrelated "People also ask" results when you search for "isopropanol 67-63-0" with Google. It's... pretty random stuff about vinegar, teeth, strychnine, etc. Screenshot of random unrelated "People also ask" results when you search for "isopropanol 67-63-0" with Google. It's... nothing related to the actual search query.
September 8, 2025 at 9:32 AM
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What Starlink container?
(Not my photo of) The "FUCK ELON MUSK" sculpture at Burning Man 2025 surrounded by... nothing... nothing for a kilometer (half mile) in any direction. This is visible in the background on many wide angle, and extreme telephoto shots taken from over a mile away (such as the live webcam) and all of them show nothing but wide open empty playa surrounding this sculpture.
September 7, 2025 at 10:21 AM
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Yes! This is what I want!

So... this says that #30 AWG is 0.2546 mm or 0.0100 (10 mils)

I guess this was before the inch was defined to be exactly 2.5400000000 mm
A screenshot of a table in that 1918 NIST standard, linked to in the parent post to this one. It says 30 AWG is 0.2546 mm
September 6, 2025 at 4:31 AM
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Wow, I didn't know that "26 NaN" wire could safely carry "6E+2 Volts". Is this 30 AWG or 26 AWG?
Wow, I didn't know that "26 NaN" wire could safely carry "6E+2 Volts". Is this 30 AWG or 26 AWG? Is... is this table correct? It says 30 AWG is 0.254 mm or 0.01 inch. These numbers are also different from the other two results in the screenshots in the parent post to this one. That table is on this website... which is a blog by a company that sells wire. This Google Search result... which is a blog by a company that sells wire... doesn't actually mention "30 AWG" anywhere on this web page.
September 6, 2025 at 3:07 AM
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AAAAAA! OMG GOOGLE WHAT THE FUCK IS THE DIAMETER OF 30 AWG WIRE! Why the fuck can't I get a fucking definitive answer from Google! This is a fucking STANDARD with a fucking DEFINITION! It's a fucking number and there is only one correct number!
I now have three different numbers from three sources!
Ok, according to this blog, from a company selling wire, 30 AWG is 0.251 mm or 0.0099 inch... ok... How do I see the rest of this chart? There's no full-size version anywhere, only this cropped version, which is what Google Search displays as the first image result when you attempt to search for "30 AWG" Ok, so this website, which is the blog of a company that sells wire, says that 30 AWG is 0.255 mm or 0.0100 inches... these are different fucking numbers from that first screenshot! Ok, this search result... selling wire... is for stranded 30 AWG wire, which is not what I want to know. I want to know the "diameter of solid 30 AWG copper wire" ... and I don't want to buy any fucking wire. Just tell me what is the fucking diameter! Why can't I find an authoritative source with Google. It's nothing but online stores selling wire and AI generated blogs. I can't get Google to give me anything else! Aaaaa!
September 6, 2025 at 2:57 AM
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There are numerous things wrong with this image. For example, this person has four arms.

I can also state with confidence that you can't photograph both the sky & fire like this with a single exposure. I have decades of experience taking photos of stars & fire at night.

Also, everything looks fake
A cropped portion of the "AI" generated image where I added a giant arrow pointing to what appears to be a person with four arms who is standing way way way too close to a huge bonfire. A real bonfire that large does not look like that, by the way. There's some more WTF things in that (original uncropped) image, like, um, whatever that is in the bottom left quadrant.
September 2, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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Does this look like it's underwater?
Screenshot from the video twenty-four hour continuous live video webstream camera mounted on the BMIR radio tower. This is August 31, 2025 at 09:23 PDT. It is dry and dusty. Screenshot from the video twenty-four hour continuous live video webstream camera mounted on the BMIR radio tower. This is August 31, 2025 at 06:00 PDT. Screenshot from the video twenty-four hour continuous live video webstream camera mounted on the BMIR radio tower. This is August 31, 2025 at 05:49 PDT.
September 2, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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There is a camera on the BMIR radio tower that has been streaming live video continuously 24 hours a day every day for the past week.

Anyone can just look and see that there is no flooding. These captures are from a few hours ago:
A single frame captured from the Burning Man live video web stream around 7AM this morning. The ground is very dry and dusty -- the exact opposite of being underwater. A single frame captured from the Burning Man live video web stream around 7AM this morning. The ground is very dry and dusty -- the exact opposite of being underwater. A single frame captured from the Burning Man live video web stream around 7AM this morning. The ground is very dry and dusty -- the exact opposite of being underwater. A single frame captured from the Burning Man live video web stream around 7AM this morning. The ground is very dry and dusty -- the exact opposite of being underwater.
September 1, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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The easiest way to scam someone is to tell lies to them of what they already wanted to believe. Especially if it makes them feel superior to other people.
Seriously, you're a gullible sucker if you fall for this bullshit. Do not trust liars no matter how good they make you feel. This is how people end up in cults.
August 28, 2025 at 3:28 AM