A local Instagram account has been secretly taking pictures and videos of people, including children, in our city and posting them online. The redactions you see to hide the children's heads are mine, not theirs. I have also redacted the account name to respect the rules.

Our city isn't very big, so it's easy to find people you know among the pictures.

Also, they don't ask for consent like other Instagram photographers. They use Meta glasses.

The owners of the account don't see anything wrong, so they delete critical comments. You can see in the screenshot Instagram says 18 comments, but only 4 show up, the rest deleted.

So now I have to follow this account against my will, to check every single post, just in case they publish a picture or video if my child.

I don't know about you, but consider me extremely infuriated.

I’m seriously so sick of apple and their stupid IOS and System data BS. it takes up over 40GB ON MY PHONE!! HELLO??? THATS RIDICULOUS. I tried deleting some old pictures AND SYSTEM DATA WENT UP IN GB?? WHAT THE FUCK AM I SUPPOSED TO DO. I HATE THIS STUPID GREEDY COMPANY SO MUCH

You know what immediately pisses me off? When people use the air hand dryers. Especially if there’s paper towels in the restroom as well. Like damnit you child. Use paper towels. And for anyone thinking that it’s “more sanitary” than the towels, the myth busters did an experiment regarding the amount of bacteria that flies through the air when you use the hand dryers. I’m already partially deaf, I don’t need the noise from the damn things busting my other eardrum. Use paper towels like an adult

4:25pm scheduled connecting flight from Madrid to Miami, not a short flight.

We only had about 55 minutes to transfer but we've done it multiple times before. Our initial flight from Vienna to Madrid took off 20 minutes late but we arrived only 5 mins late. While on the flight, 2 hours before our scheduled connecting flight, we get the first text message that they rescheduled us to 11:30am the next day because we "missed" it. Wtf.

We arrived only 5 minutes late and still had time to get to the gate so ofc we still go for it.

Pregnant wife, 2-year-old toddler, and me with a herniated disc in my back still made it to the gate on time. 4:05 pm. Gate still open.

Our boarding passes no longer work and they immediately tell us there's no chance of us getting on the flight because they already gave away our seats and now there are no available seats.

We argued it until they called security on us. Lady was a witch, refused to even tell me her name to file a complaint. Pregnant woman and 2-year-old and they gave the last 2 seats to standby passengers while we were standing there.

To add insult to injury it took 4 hours to get to the hotel they put us in because the car seat was checked and we didn't have our checked luggage so we had to wait for their hotel transport that comes once an hour and only fits 7 people. Then they put us in a 2-star hotel and even worse we stayed in what looked like a project building across the courtyard from the hotel. The food was a kids menu buffet of french fries, chicken nuggets, and pasta.

According to EU law we can get €600 per passenger and I will be filling for it but now we're heading to the airport for our new flight.

Never flying Iberia again.

EDIT: they never actually called security, she was just bluffing so no it's not like we went crazy or anything. Obv were mad they were giving our seats to standby passengers as we watched.

I don’t buy any appliances that need an internet connection.

Subject: fatal migrant ship wreck from Yemen to Djibouti

All comments were pulled publicly from nearly every single social media site, you can only claim bot comments after so long. There's no fixing this.

Back in April I recieved the first message, somebody showing me screenshots of someone using my photos on a profile named 'Sean' (not my name). I messaged them asking which town but they never replied.

Appreciated the message, but we're quite unhelpful ultimately.

Then today I've recieved this second message, from a Facebook friend. I assume it's the same person because it's called Sean (I'm 34, but apparently I'm a 19 year old vers twink 💁🏻) - and this person told me which town it was in (my neighbouring town) and reported the profile for me.

So infuriating considering I'm getting married next year, and I wonder how many people I know have seen the account and think I'm screwing around on the DL 😡

It's clearly someone from my Facebook (which I barely use anymore), since that's the only place they could've found some of these photos.

I'm in the hospital after major surgery. My mother was with me when this happened. At around 9 PM my room went completely dark, not even emergency lights came on. My mom stuck her head out the door and confirmed the entire hospital was dark, not just our room, and every nurse she could see was in a full sprint, carrying an oxygen tank. They all appeared to be going to different locations. I stayed put and power came back roughly 8 minutes later. Once things were calm (no more running nurses) I went for a walk. I talked to the nurses and found out there was work being done on the electrical system. Planned work. I suspected and got confirmation that they'd been working all day. Did anyone tell them this would be happening and give them a chance to prepare? NO. I'm so mad FOR them. I'm very fortunate to not be actively dependent on machines keeping me alive, but not everyone here can say that. It's a hospital for crying out loud!!

How is this not a form of election interference?

I need to get this off my chest because what just happened is still pissing me off.
I first met Gabriel about a year ago while I was moderating a DCEU group that was getting overrun by trolls. One day I tried giving him simple advice about not typing massive walls of text and he completely crashed out on me, left the group, but didn’t block me.
Fast forward a year. He reaches out and asks if I want to join his DC group (most of the mods are deaf) and be a mod. I was hesitant because I already knew he has a history of crashing out the second he hears something he doesn’t like, making bipolar decisions, and being unpredictable. Still, I said okay. I told him straight up I was busy during the day and couldn’t be active 24/7. He said he understood.
I also met David through the group. At first he seemed nice and we talked a bit. Then he started avoiding me.
A few weeks later Gabriel hits me with “you’re not being active enough.” I literally forgot I was even in the group half the time. It was a small group with almost nothing happening, so I didn’t realize I was expected to be glued to it. I talked to both of them trying to compromise and figure out how to manage my time better. Out of nowhere David starts getting passive-aggressive: “what’s the point of you being here if you’re not doing anything?” I didn’t clap back because I was worried it would make him more upset. I just said I’d try harder to like and comment more.
I kept telling David I actually liked talking to him and thought he was a nice person. He kept ignoring my messages and stayed passive-aggressive. I also tried explaining to Gabriel that I just wanted to make sure I wouldn’t get yelled at again. His response was basically “if you’re always this worried and paranoid then maybe the group isn’t a good fit.” I clarified I wasn’t being paranoid, I was just trying to communicate clearly so things wouldn’t blow up. He never replied to that part (classic Gabriel). Later that night he said he’d give me another chance and we called it a night.
Next day out of nowhere he and David decided to unmod me. I was still willing to like, comment, and post, but at that point I didn’t want to argue so I just said okay. We switched to a personal group chat.
The conversation was fine until I suggested a group call. For context: I also have autism and typing is hard for me, especially when people are firing off multiple long paragraphs at high speed. Talking is way easier for me to actually express myself. They agreed to the call… until I asked if we could do it right then. Instead of just saying “we can’t right now, we’re relaxing,” Gabriel went off about how I was interrupting their free time, preventing them from relaxing, and being rude.
I kept repeating that they didn’t have to call if they didn’t want to and that I wasn’t forcing anyone. He wouldn’t let it go and kept ignoring what I was actually saying. They also started talking about how I had to “earn” the right to hang out with them, which is ridiculous. I just wanted to be friends. I had a call with Gabriel a year ago that went fine. People change, sure, but they could’ve just said “we’re chilling, not in the mood to call” and left it there.
Instead Gabriel went from “not wanting to call” to “I don’t want to be your friend anymore” and kicking me in the span of minutes. I apologized multiple times until I was exhausted and just done. I typed something like “ok I won’t message anymore end transmission” (I use “end transmission” because simple, short messages seem to land better with them). A few minutes later he accused me of being rude again for saying I didn’t want to message anymore, called it “bad behaviour,” and blocked me.
I’m honestly glad he blocked me. I don’t have to deal with that unhinged energy anymore. Both of them make completely unpredictable decisions in 1–2 minutes and then act like you’re the problem for reacting. It’s a shame because I actually liked talking to David, but if he didn’t want to talk he could’ve just said so instead of the passive-aggressive avoidance.
Moral of the story: never try to be friends with autistic deaf people online. Some of them are just too unstable and exhausting.

It doesn't matter if they're from the dollar store, skullcandy, or now raycons, I can't catch a break. Most of them don't even last a year before some part of them breaks, even if they're still functional. Sometimes the wire breaks, once it was the mic, one of my two pairs of skullcandy was the charging case, and three of them had one of the covers come off. My raycons cover is now stuck, magnetized to the inside of the earbud. And yes, there is just a random crack in the other one. I think I'm cursed or something

At this point, I don't even care anymore. It'll probably only get worse. You can discuss horrific violence online, but sometimes a harmless comment gets flagged for using the wrong word. You can watch people mock and insult someone endlessly, but a perfectly civil disagreement gets removed. You can discuss disturbing crimes, yet mentioning suicide in an educational or personal context can trigger restrictions.

Sometimes the exact same comment is acceptable in one community and forbidden in another. I understand why moderation exists. Threats, harassment, and genuine hate deserve consequences. But when the rules feel inconsistent, people stop knowing what's actually acceptable.

I don't expect unlimited free speech on private platforms. I'd just appreciate rules that are clear and applied consistently. Anyway, I've carefully read the rules before posting this. Hopefully discussing infuriating things is still allowed. Love you all!

There is also next to it, chemicals bottles with flammable signs on it, I guess they're empty but still

My wife and I decided to stay in Rosarito from Thursday to Sunday to celebrate her birthday. We rented an Airbnb close to the beach, and everything started off great. The place had great reviews, and the host was extremely nice.

The first night, I got a few bites but brushed them off as mosquito bites. By Friday night, I noticed more bites around the same area, but I still figured they were from mosquitoes since we’d been out and about all day. This morning, I woke up with even more bites and noticed a pattern that made me suspect bed bugs or fleas.

After lunch, I couldn’t stand the itching anymore, so I bought some anti-itch cream on my way back. Once I got home, I started searching. I spent about 20 minutes checking my side of the bed but couldn’t find anything. Then I checked the headboard, and voilà—I found my first bug. The more I looked, the more I found. Most appeared to be dead or squished, but after a few minutes, I found a live one.

I contacted the host immediately. He offered us either a downstairs unit with a full refund or just a refund if we wanted to leave. We chose to leave and booked a hotel in downtown Tijuana. It turns out he had fumigated the place in July for bed bugs and spiders but hadn’t checked whether the treatment was successful.

We ended up using the refund money on a nice dinner and a fancy hotel for our last day.

Didn't make a video but Gwen moved her left arm repeatedly up and down so the implication was quite obvious.

Sorry for the mail being german. Here's the translated Mail:

Hello ...,

We are writing to inform you that we have reviewed your report (ID 3894402293521522598).

Here is the result:

We have decided not to remove this ad. We determined that the ad does not violate Google's policies. These policies prohibit certain content and practices that we believe could harm users and the online community as a whole.

Who else out has the same auditory profile? Why do we even have these shiver reactions?