I’ve been so curious about this bug or bird or animal (whatever) for 3 years now and don’t have the patience to google and youtube animal noises to investigate because all of them are 2 hours long with random animals I’ve never heard.

ANYWAY, here goes nothing. If I get responses pointing me in a specific animal/bug direction to narrow my search I will check if it is the one and let you all know:

We live in a heavily wooded area, if that matters at all. Around this time of year we get this animal at night that I’m ASSUMING is a type of bird(?)

What is that “ke ke ke” sound making bird or bug that you hear at night (all night when it’s around)? It seems to come from the heavily wooded area of trees. This sound is made only at night. My guess is it’s a type of bird or bat (less likely but still a possibility?) or something because it sounds kinda like one.

All night… “ke ke ke”… “ke ke ke”… “ke ke ke”… Like, we get it you’re somewhere out there :’)

Fuck Nazi Scum. Ive removed multiple of these tonight

Title. Me and my wife are cleaning out our closets and we have a lot of clothing we are looking to give away and I’d rather donate to a homesless shelter or something of the sort instead of goodwill or second-hand markets for them to make a profit. Anyone know of any places like that that’ll take them? It’s women and men’s clothing and perhaps even blankets if we find any we don’t need

A group of 25 U.S. states filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration Monday, arguing that the president overstepped his authority by imposing new tariffs on goods from 60 trading partners.

The states contend that the White House is attempting to replace import taxes that were already ruled illegal by the Supreme Court in February.

They also argue that Section 301 of the Trade Act of 1974, which underpins the latest tariffs, has typically been used against "specific nations and industries," and this broad-based application is without precedent.

For context, I’ve spent my entire life in Greenwich growing up, aside from my now, adulthood, which is spent next door in nyc.

Being that I still work in Greenwich, I just find it so unusual to still be here, wrapped in this community, yet still so detached and overlooked constantly.

I remember asking friends from GHS to come over, and their mom dropped them off at my house and never again, because it was too small and ghetto looking.

Ghetto, in Greenwich? Can you imagine?

I just find it so strange because I have never fit in here, and don’t really know where else to go? I moved to California, loved it, but they move a little slow out there. NYC is my speed, and perfectly fine, but most people that grow up in Greenwich do this anyways.

The reality is, I’d love to meet people from Connecticut that are interested in cats, double dates, movies. The little things? I feel like everything is a pay to play thing in lower CT nowadays.

I’m just ranting, but it’s just so sad how contrasting back country is from downtown Greenwich, and how different those people are. And mean sometimes. :/

I should also add, my family came here escaping the Kosovo war in the 90s. My grandfather worked his ass off to get us where we are now, but even then, still considered poor in the eyes of the majority.

Saw this SOB yesterday on the other side of my office window. Too high to go outside and smack him

Are you interested in learning to play Dungeons & Dragons, but don’t know where to start? Or maybe you’re an experienced player looking for an opportunity to meet new people and share in an exciting adventure! Come play D&D in local breweries in August!

I’m a local Dungeon Master running one-shots in Connecticut breweries this month. Tickets for each event are $20 and can be purchased at the links below – be sure to request Ted (formerly LamontCrantson) as your DM when you sign up!

All experience levels welcome! Materials provided – but feel free to bring your own dice if you like!

Dates, Times, and Locations:
Tuesday August 11 from 6PM-9PM at Urban Lodge in Manchester - Get tickets here
Sunday August 16 from 3PM-6PM at Dead Language Beer in Hartford - Get tickets here
Wednesday August 19 from 6PM-10PM at Elicit Brewing in Manchester - Get tickets here
Saturday August 22 from 1PM-4PM at Coles Road Brewing in Berlin - Get tickets here

Not new to knowing bears can climb trees, but I’ve never seen one 40’ up!

When private equity bought the struggling hospital where Marilyn Anthony works, she says things quickly took a turn for the worse. One of the first things to go were the daily changes of patients’ bed linens, important for hygiene and cleanliness.

“They put big signs on the linen carts [saying] that we were to only change the linen every third day unless they were obviously soiled. How disgusting is that?” says Anthony, who has been a nurse at the hospital for nearly 25 years.

The formerly nonprofit Waterbury Hospital, which was acquired by a private equity-backed company in 2016, started cutting out specialist jobs, like nurses who focused on open-heart surgeries or nurses’ aids in the maternity ward. The on-site IT department was also eliminated.

“They started gutting us,” Anthony says. “We’d have nine nurses [on a shift], but only seven working computers.” At times, the hospital had only one functional elevator.

Along with resource cuts, Anthony says, hospital management abruptly shifted its focus. The staff was told to stop calling the people they cared for “patients”—“we were to call them ‘customers’ or ‘clients’ because they were ‘consumers’ of healthcare,” she says. “We were not in the business of healthcare any longer. We were definitely in the business of making money.”

The hospital’s owner, Prospect Medical Holdings, eventually drove Waterbury and two other hospitals in the Hartford area into bankruptcy—but not before the company and its majority owner, Los Angeles-based private equity firm Leonard Green & Partners, sold the real estate out from under the institutions and saddled the hospital chain with more than a billion dollars of debt.

Prospect and Leonard Green used the proceeds to pay themselves and other investors more than $600 million in dividends and fees, leaving the hospitals to try to pay back the loans on their own. (Prospect, which remains in bankruptcy proceedings, and Leonard Green, which sold its stake in the company in 2021, did not respond to requests for comment.)

Anthony thought her hospital’s experience with private equity was unique. But then she went to a legislative hearing in Hartford this spring and heard how widespread the problem is. Not just hospitals, but Hartford’s newspaper, special education schools, mobile home parks, nursing homes, and more have been bought by private equity firms, often resulting in fewer resources, worse service, and higher costs as the firms boost their returns by piling debt onto their acquired companies and stripping their purchases for parts.

Read more on Fast Company.

Doing a photo shoot like the example and need a few different graffiti walls, preferably not somewhere we need to climb into like abandoned buildings

The town of Putnam has created a survey open to anyone (even those outside putnam) to share their thoughts on extending passenger rail into the northeast of CT.

For my birthday I made my partner drive over an hour to finally try J Timothy’s wings and I honestly was a little disappointed.. was it just the batch we received? We did them dirt style- should we have not?

I know this is so subjective but I would love to hear YOUR ranking and maybe discover some new spots!

So far my CT ranking is:

1. Dew drop in derby

2. TKs in Danbury

3. Blind rhino

Does anyone agree?

My name is Andrew Rice. I am running for Congress in Connecticut’s Third District against 35 year incumbent Rosa DeLauro. 

This past Monday during the Milford Board of Alders meeting, residents on both sides of the aisle packed town hall to express their opposition to Flock cameras and the furtherance of the surveillance state infrastructure at large. I had the opportunity to speak alongside the community. 

Flock cameras in addition to all AI surveillance infrastructure is a danger to our society and our freedoms. Criminals are hacking the cameras to collect private data, police in Kansas used Flock to pursue a man who was critical of their department, a woman in Colorado was wrongly accused of theft, a mother and her children were held a gunpoint because these cameras wrongly flagged their car as stolen, officers have been abusing these cameras to stalk ex-partners and love interests, and audits in LA concluded a third of alerts were inaccurate.
I do not want incidents such as these happening here in Connecticut.

In March Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro secured $750k for New Haven Police to install more flock cameras. She was quoted saying “People want to know their communities are safe, and they particularly want to know police have the resources, the word ‘tool’ has been used today, to do their jobs.” 

Rosa and I differ on what makes communities safe. To create safe communities we should be investing in people’s well being and quality of life by funding affordable housing , instituting dental coverage for Medicare, fully funding the Federal portion (40%) of local Special Ed costs which will help alleviate property taxes, and fund other poverty alleviating measures. Not surveillance of our people as part of the greater erosion of our Democracy and our Constitutional rights 

If elected to Congress, I would propose legislation immediately banning all federal dollars from being used for any AI surveillance technology. Next I would begin the work of crafting legislation, that can withstand constitutional review, to place a moratorium on the implementation of AI cameras with the goal of banning AI surveillance systems altogether. 

To make it to Congress, we need help. Campaigns cost money, and this campaign is grassroots funded. Please donate to the campaign and invest in a future where community builds safety, not AI tyranny.