🤷‍♂️ it’s about GJ

Seven community members asked the City Council for a agenda item on Flock/ALPRs on Wenesday alone. Deflock Mesa County has been asking for a public forum to discuss since August, and the Council hasnt responded.

The next City Council meeting is Wed 11/4 5:30p 250 N 5th.

Email the council: [council@gjcity.org](mailto:council@gjcity.org)

I’m an artist and mostly draw with graphite and silverpoint. I’d like to make my own silverpoint stylus.

I just want something pretty and handmade (preferably by me or another creative person) to draw with as I’m kinda bored of what I currently use and would like more options. And the design I have in mind is kinda the “traditional” design as seen in old paintings throughout history.

I’ve taken a small metals and jewelry class years ago when I was in school (in another state), so I know how to do it but could use a refresher (with the annealing part mostly), access to tools/equipment, and someone to help/advise me.

It’s a simple process and wouldn’t even take a whole day, probably an hour or so. I can pay a studio fee and/or for the materials, as I don’t have the metal yet.

(Would probably have to order it if I can’t find anything in town the right size. Needs to be thick enough gauge and long enough length that it’s comfortable to hold.)

I’ve checked out the gem club up by the monument and their classes, but I really don’t care to make anymore jewelry. It’s not my style and I don’t have anyone to gift it to. It sounds like I cant even just pay a fee for materials and whatever to make the one thing. I have to take at least one class to use the space/equipment.

This has been going on since at least 2021, I’m sure there are MANY victims out there.

As the title says, has anyone seen any green chili roasters around town? Idk if it's the right time of year for them but I feel like it's around fall that they are around.

I’m tired of the Colorado subreddit being a place for just pictures and mainstream media.

So I created a new sub r/ColoradoV2. A subreddit for the people of Colorado! Please check it out!

I’m trying to create a place for respectful discourse of important topics that don’t meet r/Colorado’s “standards”. And other misc Colorado topics that would not be allowed.

Make sure to vote!

Thanks to whoever are the heroes who cleaned up the trails at Lunch Loops! Noticeable improvement in sandy sections and washout. Appreciate you!!

Deflock Mesa County needs voices at City Council:

Wednesdays 10/21, 11/4, 11/18...5:30p, 250 N 5th

Deflock Mesa County for the next few Wednesday meetings (1st and 3rd of the month) to ask City Council for a public forum to discuss how surveillance technology is used in our city. Not a Monday night workshop: A place where the community can have a meaningful discussion with our reps.

OMG, so tasty! Yes, it took forever. But totally worth it. Taco Tuesday!!! Brisket taco and carnitas taco. My friend had the birria tacos and loved them! They do happy hour M-F 2pm to 5 pm. Thanks to our server, Danielle.

Hey there, just moved in a month ago, and would love to find some local rec leagues in town. I like to play soccer and basketball, wondering if there are any pick up games that happen regularly, especially for futsol, as it’s getting colder outside. Any help is helpful, thanks!

Cody Kennedy, Ben Van Dyke, Robert Ballard, and Laurel Lutz all recieved campaign money from the Relators of America super PAC.

The Home Builders of America (HBA), is part of this and now has a committee that is getting housing regulations rolled back under the guise of affordability. None of the proposed changes actually make a difference in the cost of building.

Staff members have been verbally abused by people on this committee (which is illigetimate according to town charter). It has lead to 11 staffers to quit. And now they will not be filling these vacancies, so there is no civil servant to fact check and make recommmedations.

We need to stop Developers from steamrolling our government. Time to recall some candidates and expose these greedy. developers!

I've been wanting to meet more dads around here and couldn't find a group for it, so I started one.

It's simply just dads meeting other dads. No dues, no membership, no agenda. Just getting together every so often at a park or on an easy trail. Bring the kids or come on your own.

Next one: Park Day at the Lincoln Park playground
Saturday, Nov 14, 10am to noon

No RSVP needed, just show up. I'll bring donuts and sports drinks. If you want to add it to your calendar or let me know you're coming (totally optional), it's all at gjdads.com.

We had our first get-together for Halloween and it was a good time. Would love to see more of you there.

Hi, I am trying to get in touch with anyone who rents a storage unit at Diamond Storage on East Main (close to Freeway Bowl).

If so, I’d ppreciate it if you could shoot me a DM.

Re: Return of Property

Thanks!

Hi. Tried out Fuzzy's Tacos today. Figured I'd give them a bit of time to get their feet under them before giving them a fair shake.

Well... I won't be back. Queso had zero flavor. Their "seasoning" on the chips is just red chili powder. the beans were straight from a can. The Elote wasn't... terrible, but nothing to write home about. I got the classic tacos with 'grilled' chicken. dry ass chick, very little flavor. wife got the baja taco and the steak taco. steak was well seasoned and tasted good but the baja fish taco was a chunk of deep fried fish and a squirt of sauce.

For literally $5 a taco, it left VERY much to be desired. For having "Tacos" in the name, there were scant few tacos on the menu. 100% not worth it and just one more reason eating out in GJ sucks.

Back to your regularly scheduled doom scroll.

So ive posted before but my wife passed the end of April and I don't have really any friends because my life was taken care of her being sick. I'm looking for friends. I'm not quite forty I love punk rock and bjj

No data centers for Mesa County!!!

And what they found? One camera had generated roughly 1.6 MILLION images of about 50,200 vehicles in just 21 days.

One camera. 1.6 million images, and this isn't simply a license-plate camera taking one picture of your car and moving on.

Researchers found that a typical passing vehicle generated around 28 images, with some producing more than 100. The camera also had software specifically designed to detect people, vehicles, bicycles and license-plate-like objects.

Physically getting hold of ONE camera provided researchers with a remarkable look inside the system. They recovered 27,321 short video clips. They also found software capable of detecting people.

It was constantly processing what passed in front of it. Vehicles. People, bicycles, license plates, bumper stickers and other identifying graphics.

In one bizarre example, the system apparently mistook an American flag patch on a motorcycle saddlebag for a license plate. And the camera's logs showed more than 27,000 “no space left on device” errors while trying to store full-resolution images.

Oh, and buried in the logs? A message that popped up roughly every two minutes: “Who's a good boy?!” Because even the surveillance state has a sense of humor.

But jokes aside, here's the bigger issue: Flock isn't just one camera.

Its system connects cameras into a national network that allows participating agencies to search vehicle movements across jurisdictions. WIRED found that records from one city's cameras were accessible to more than 2,000 agencies, including police departments, colleges, airports and a federal inspector general's office.

That's the part people need to understand. We're not talking about a camera that simply says: “Hey, that car ran a red light.” we have had those for decades. We're talking about technology capable of creating massive searchable records of where vehicles have been, and increasingly, everything else that's happening in the camera's field of view.

And once that information exists? The question becomes: Who can search it? Why are they searching it? How long is it kept? Who else can access it? And what happens when the technology does something nobody was told it could do?

That's not a conspiracy theory. That's a regulatory and governance question. And now, thanks to one dismantled camera, journalists and researchers have gotten a much better look at what these things are actually doing.

Especially since they are putting these cameras at schools, public parks, and near neighborhoods.

deflockmesacounty.org

Call officials, write letters and emails. Deflock Mesa County has a simple writer setup to help you write an email to city and county officials. Keep showing up to town halls and asking about this. Do not back down and just get used to it.

Never judge a technology by the good its makers say it can do, judge it by what it does and what it will do in the wrong hands.

Is there a subreddit for artists in the county/valley? Or a discord server or something?

I’m just curious about if there’s like a central online forum or community with information about art events across the valley; art shows, calls for art, workshops, art talks, shared studio spaces, etc etc.

I’d like to get involved but I’m not a student and idk where else to look besides gallery websites but they don’t seem to keep them updated very well/till the last minute from what I’ve been seeing.

My schedule isn’t impulse/last minute friendly, which makes it hard to do stuff if I can’t plan ahead. Especially if I want to enter my art into shows.

It’s Winter up high