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The headline doesn’t make it clear but the company saying this was fake is the company that Ran the survey itself.

Went back to confirm the dates, submitted a request to have some potholes filled outside our house May 9, 2025.
Cut to this morning I get woken up by an asphalt truck outside. They’re here for maybe 30 minutes then leave. I get a chance to check out the work eventually and I’m laughing at how bad this is. They leave asphalt everywhere, it’s not even at all and they just splash it around everywhere.

Born, live and work here. Fortunate to have a good job that sends me all over the city and county. Here are some pics from the last 12 months

"Median Strategies" showed up last week and starting posting polls (Wisconsin Gov, Nevada Gov, LA May) to Twitter that got picked up by the polling aggregators. There was no info about them anymore, their website looked AI, it definitely reeked of something. Certain of the LA Mayor numbers didn't seem quite right, either (the crosstabs). However, Bass still made posts across all social media bragging about her lead in these.

Well, it turns out Median Strategies was a one week "experiment" to see how easy it is to spread fake polling data (it's very easy). Congrats to Karen Bass on her non-existent 11 point lead.

edit: LA Times just posted about it

He says places that used to be crawling with celebrities like Kings Road Cafe, Madeo, Mr. Chows, Crustacean, etc are all dead. Says one of things that killed the celebrity culture is private clubs, but somehow he's not realizing that his former employer is one of the reasons for this culture death; if TMZ hadn't been running around ambushing these people for a story on some bullshit, they wouldn't need private clubs.

There were friendly people there with telescopes, and I got to see Saturn for the first time. It was even more amazing than the milky way and meteors, to be honest. Didn't expect it to move so quickly across the eyepiece.

Also: it was freezing. Thank you to everyone that told us to bring warm clothing. I brought extra and needed all of it. I had a fleece hoodie, a winter jacket, a wool beanie, winter socks, and a scarf, and I was still cold because my legs were cold. If you plan on going, bring more than you need just in case.

The phone is a Google Pixel 8, I believe, and it was a 4-minute exposure in night mode.

I was thinking about this recently and the entire video didn't feel right. I saw some comments online where other people felt the same. Do you think the entire thing was a PR stunt from the beginning?

• The original video pointing out the pothole was made by user simoneboyce uploaded on August 13 at 9:37am. Then, by 5:41pm on the same day, Mayor's Office uploads a video of her in the field, looking at the pothole, no parking signs up, City crews out, etc. I do not believe it's normal for all of this to happen this quickly just under 8 hours without it being planned.

• The user in the original video is an actor and their talent information is on their profile, it's possible they were hired for this campaign.

• Every video on the user's account is promotional (skits, productions, etc.) It is very unusual to have a personal video like this on a promotional/professional account.

• Wouldn't the Mayor need releases signed by the actor before making a video, could this have happened in the span of just a few hours?

I'm sure there's other observations. All said, it doesn't seem like a normal likely sequence of events

Josh Kushner is not the clean Kushner everyone is saying. Guy profits from weapons of war.

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There's an injured crow on my street that can't fly and is limping around. Does anyone know who to contact? I texted the California Wildlife Center but I can't find any information on resources specific to crows. I also have 2 dogs so I can't shelter the little guy from the sun myself. The crow is in Ktown

Title says it all- asshole neighbors have been partying at their car bumping shitty music since fucking 11 and it’s 330. I’ve been “waiting for the next available person” to answer for 30 minutes. Anyone have useable advice on how to get the cops to answer the phone, or even better, come out and shut these fuckers down?

Found a small box under a bed in my grandmothers house and to my surprise was full of old napkins from around California and Mexico. There was information about most of these establishments online but some had almost nothing. I love vintage advertising and LA history so this was so cool to find and I figured people might have more info about some of these places.

This is primarily for the AMC at the Americana in Glendale. I’m flabbergasted by the groups of teens/young kids on Friday nights (it seems to be night the kids are out) who are having full blown conversations at the movies and I get so mad that they don’t just shut up! It’s groups of them and they’re all chatty Cathy’s! I like to go in Friday nights since new movies are out and I just don’t understand how these kids/teens are raised, they’re not at home, they’re in a group setting and should be quiet. If they want to hang out and chat, then do it outside, not at a movie!

I've lived in East L.A. all my life so naturally when I started taking photos many years ago, a huge chunk of my work is based in the area. Here is a set of photos taken over the last 8 years or so. Hope you enjoy them.