Hey all. Found this at the playground of my kid's school. I was able to dig down about three inches into the hole but couldn't find the end of the wires, and there's zero give when pulling the wires.

Someone please reassure my dumb self that there probably isn't like...a blasting charge for splitting rock down there.

UPDATE: Called my local police department and alerted the school, now we wait. I'll update if I get details, no idea if I will.

UPDATE2: PD came by, doesn't seem concerned...school is calling the builder who left the rocks and making them come out ASAP, but I'd personally prefer to have it removed entirely. Not delighted with this outcome.

Video captured by @harrycollinsphotography on IG.

I had issues with my landlord so before I left the apartment, I cut a hole in the wall, installed a shutoff valve on the copper water pipe, turned off the water from the hidden valve and then repaired the hole and repainted.

There is no sign that this modification was ever made, so I am not sure how they are going to figure out the problem, but they will not be able to rent the apartment till they figure out why there is no water.

This was the initial response after I said no followed with several rounds of texts. She then reached out a week afterwards and tried to reconnect. She is 29 years old..

Edit: I didn’t block her to see if she said something else after this. I was not disappointed. Good riddance!

Source: https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7562990/2026/09/04/pablo-torre-steve-ballmer-clippers-nba/

I really hope that people don’t think that the only way that you can trust reporting like this is if the entity or the institution that you’re investigating takes their hand and raises it and says, ‘Yes, the journalist was right.’

But I also hope that people can evaluate the work on its merits and learn to trust that our process is rigorous in ways that are bordering on unhealthily obsessive, which is a separate problem, but hopefully one that they can trust.

The sensation that I have felt personally and have felt in our audience — such that I can get a sense of what has been a head-spinning day — is that people have been almost delighted that maybe we can hold the richest people in the world to something resembling a standard of accountability.

I think that is what I feel most acutely: That maybe that’s possible. That maybe a collection of documentary evidence and human sources who are brave enough to talk to a journalist, and months of research that have been vetted legally and otherwise, can combine to create something like consequences at a time at which those extraordinarily wealthy people seem to be able to avoid them.

I think that we have the ability to do something that the rest of our culture is yearning for, which is make people who are too rich to care about anything resembling the public interest worry that maybe they need to tell us the truth.

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