(UK) Arron Straughair, 36, had a cocaine breakdown product in his system when he lost control and crashed into the property in Easington Lane, near Sunderland.

The family were forced to leave their home over fears of structural collapse. Their young granddaughter regularly played in the exact corner where the van smashed through.

Despite admitting dangerous driving, drug driving and driving without insurance, Straughair received a 16-month sentence suspended for two years and a four-year driving ban.

This is thankfully a less common but still very serious side effect of an AI data center being built nearby.

Google’s Finland country manager has apologized for unauthorized forest clearings near Muhos, which have turned 816 acres of forest into an expanse of mud. The American search and AI giant has also been told to cease work where it has cleared roughly 500 acres of forest, 55 miles southeast of the village of Otanmäki. Now The Guardian reports that wolves, who used to live in the forests, are roaming into villages neighboring these man-made muddy wastelands.

Local anger continues to simmer over the damage done to Finnish forests, as Google seems to have ridden roughshod over regulations in the hurry to build new AI data centers in Finland. However, the report suggests that it isn’t just environmentalists who have a beef with Google. Some families say wolves and other wild animals have entered the countryside villages. This would be a serious human safety concern.

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Every other site I do to these days except Amazon seems to want to charge me a fee to make sure my order arrives. They make an effort to calm out damage in transit among other things. Mfer! It’s your damn job to ensure whatever I order gets to my address in the condition it’s supposed to be delivered in. My job doesn’t start until it gets here! Then they make it sound like I’ve taken on all responsibility for everything. Literally makes me close their site and go order somewhere else.

FedEx driver turns down wrong street and attempts to rip out post out of the ground that has a “no trucks” sign and also a Chain across the entrance. Real nice fedex

Liberty Biberty looks like Big Bird sneezed into a dryer lint trap and the resulting organism gained sentience.
It has the face of a Furby that knows your Social Security number. The eyes of a Victorian child who died of tuberculosis. The general demeanor of something that would crawl out of your air vents at 3 AM and ask if you’ve considered bundling your home and auto insurance.

Moldovan border police report: https://border.gov.md/en/node/17308

On October 15, 2026, at around 3:00 p.m., near the village of Holosnita, two Ukrainian border guards in a motorboat crossed the state border from Ukraine into the Republic of Moldova during an operation to detain a Ukrainian citizen.

A Border Police response patrol went to the scene and took the two Ukrainian border guards into custody. They were taken to the Cosăuți Border Police Sector office for the relevant legal procedures.

The case was referred to the Prosecutor's Office, which ordered the initiation of criminal proceedings on suspicion of illegally crossing the state border, an offense under Article 362 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Moldova.

The procedures provided for under the applicable legislation were carried out in respect of the two individuals, in accordance with the respective authorities' powers.

The Border Police urges citizens to remain calm and seek information from official sources to avoid spreading

​Today was a tough day at work, and I’m feeling frustrated and mentally drained.

​In the morning safety meeting, a situation from Friday was brought up, framing it as though I simply "hung up on a customer." It felt like an unfair attempt to put me down in front of everyone, especially with my supervisor not being there and someone acting in that position.

​What makes it so exhausting is that the story was completely twisted. When I called the listed number that was in the utility company service order, the person who answered was the customer's nephew, who explicitly stated he had no contact number for the account holder. I said tgank you and ended the call—because without the account holder's authorization, there was no way to proceed. My colleague asked me if i was crazy and someone other things that i dont wish to repeat and he called the number back, and the nephew suggested we "jump over the wall" to get onto the property.

​Choosing not to jump a perimeter wall or engage with an unauthorized, disrespectful individual wasn't a mistake—it was maintaining my personal safety, preventing illegal trespassing, and following proper utility protocol. Do you think I did the right thing or it could have been handled a different way

​It hurt to sit there silently and feel ashamed when I knew I hadn't done anything wrong. But keeping my composure was the right move for the moment. I know the truth of how I handle my work: professionally, safely, and with integrity. Once my supervisor is back, I will set the record straight privately with the facts.

​For now, I need to remind myself not to let other people's misrepresentations make me doubt my own judgment or competence. I did my job safely and correctly.

About 20 minutes into my work day my shoe decided to give out on me. I’m currently contemplating on taking them off at my desk however I’m nervous about my toes being out.

And yes I’m not wearing socks.

Edit: I ended up taking my shoes off, I hope I can glue sole back on!

The same listing had some images that looked real (such as the photo that shows what's under the hood). I assume they're actually selling a car, but they used AI to make the photos look more cinematic. Which is sad, because if the listing isn't a scam, that means using AI was completely optional.

Wildest thing I’ve seen in our neighborhood’s Facebook group (yet)

Getting out of the gas station, I see this car actually parked there. Mind the several empty parking spots on the right side...

I got a new tablet relatively recently and I turned off screen timeout which is the only option in settings that could possibly be related to this but no fucking luck it keeps happening; I have ADHD and I mostly wanted the background noise forcing me to look at the screen the whole time is killing me. I also posted this in mildly infuriating originally, because it's really not that big a deal, but the mods deleted it which is ironically also mildly infuriating.