A completely fictional dispatch from a completely fictional town.
The Flock Desk · 2026-07-02 · 2 min
Satire — this story is fiction and describes no real people, agencies or deployments.
SATIRE. Entirely invented. Any resemblance to a real town, person, or agency is coincidental and unintentional.
The back way, sources close to the man confirm, is a road. Roads, it has been noted, occasionally have poles on them.
'I know a shortcut' has quietly become one of the great optimistic phrases of our era, ranking somewhere between 'it's probably fine' and 'I'll remember that without writing it down.'
We reached out to the pole for comment. It declined, in the sense that it is a pole.
A plain-English tour of automated license plate readers, what they record, and why reasonable people argue about them.
The Flock Desk · 2026-07-28
It goes out. It gets seen. It is photographed at events you were not invited to. Technically you were driving, but still.
The Flock Desk · 2026-07-22
Six clauses that tell you almost everything, and the one number that people usually skip.
The Flock Desk · 2026-07-14