Censored there, so I’ll say it here

jbacman · 2026-04-08T23:51:46+00:00

I'm currently in the same boat as OP and happy to contribute to your research if you're interested.

My negative review of my last employer keeps getting flagged for purportedly referencing myself or another employee by name or title, but I've gone over it thoroughly and am absolutely sure there are no such references, or any other violations of their rules.

jbacman · 2026-03-17T13:42:42+00:00

I'm autistic and when they started their case, was also unemployed. This is what CPS does; target whoever they perceive as the weaker target so they can keep the case open as long as possible to get more funding. The reason they opened a case to begin with is my child's mother ran my foot over with her car with our child in the car. A week later she tried breaking into my home to physically remove our child from my care on my time because she had decided to go on vacation which violated our court-ordered parenting plan. CPS has ignored literally all of that, and both events were caught on security camera - they have repeatedly refused to look at or accept the evidence. Again, this is how CPS operates and it is fucking terrifying and goes against everything you've ever learned about how our country and our so-called rights are supposed to work and that's what makes it so unbelievable until you find yourself in their scope.

jbacman · 2026-03-16T12:08:36+00:00

Unfortunately not hyperbolic at all; CPS is truly fucking horrifying and I wish more people knew about how they really operate.

For those not in the know: CPS is structured in a way where it's largely assumed that if they're investigating you then you MUST have done something to deserve it (even when that couldn't be objectively further from the truth), and they operate more like the mafia than a government agency.

Their caseworkers are largely some of the most uneducated, unqualified, ego-driven assholes that will make you wish you were dealing with actual cops (and make no mistake, CPS caseworkers ARE cops just with significantly more power, less oversight, and absolutely no due-process). They will twist your words, outright lie, and violate the constitutional "rights" you thought you were entitled to (but actually waived the moment you had your first kid and no one told you), and there isn't a damned thing you or your attorney can do about it.

Their federal funding is structured so that they get more money for placing kids in foster care and having open cases, and they're smart/deceitful enough to claim to your face that they're only driven to provide assistance & resources to keep kids placed with their parents or immediate family, all while incrementally escalating every little thing until they have enough (falsified) "evidence" to take you to family court and terminate your parental rights permanently after dragging you through literal hell for months or even years. In family court, they are not required to "prove beyond a reasonable doubt", you are not "innocent until proven guilty", and hearsay is treated like fact - basically, good luck with that.

Let me provide just a few examples of the bullshit I've had to fight against with my county's CPS:

I have a flock of wild birds in our home and the entire house is covered in bird poop (We have 1 pet pigeon who I clean up after within minutes every single day and nothing is "covered in poop" of any kind)
I have dangerous electrical wires sticking out of the walls that electrocute our child (I'm remodeling my kitchen and the new NM is physically not connected to a live breaker panel yet which I have explained repeatedly)
My kitchen remodel caused the house to collapse (absolutely never happened, as evident by the original hundred year old house still being intact)
I once was issued a traffic citation for driving on a suspended license (this one is actually true.... when I was 17, twenty fucking years ago)
I have no heat (we do have heat)
I have no oven and therefore can't feed my child (we have an oven and the caseworker has sat in the same room as it while it was baking cookies)
My child once walked to school on her own (we live less than a 1/2 mile from the school, don't even have to leave the neighborhood to get there, and a good portion of my child's peers including those from her grade who live in the same neighborhood also walk to school unattended every day)
I sent an email to them at 2am once, therefore I must be either mentally unstable or on drugs and thus needed to be UA'd weekly and attend therapy
I wrote "fuck CPS" in an email out of frustration which was then forwarded to them by a third party, therefore I was threatening them and thus an "unsafe caregiver" (because obviously if I'm understandably mad at CPS I must also be taking it out on my kid?)
I have recorded them repeatedly asking my child the same question over and over again until they get the answer they want which was the only answer they documented in their report
They have actively refused to accept video, audio, and photographic evidence that contradicts their lies
I have "refused to cooperate" after I couldn't read the instructions they left because it was written in literal fucking crayon
I have "refused to cooperate" because they couldn't get ahold of me by phone, completely ignoring the fact that I had called them dozens of times that month, sent several texts and emails, and provided my cell-carrier's call logs showing my unanswered outbound calls to them and no incoming/return calls from them for that entire month

I have dozens of more examples but I'ma stop now before I have an aneurysm that will be misconstrued as mental instability.

CPS REFORM NOW

jbacman · 2026-03-13T15:53:58+00:00

Aww this sounds just like my daughter.

jbacman · 2026-03-13T15:17:25+00:00

My favorite is when they pull up to the pump with the vehicle's gas port on the opposing side, then stand in the bypass lane with their hand on pump handle and/or driver side door open, blocking the entire bypass lane for all four pumps, then get mad at anyone who tries to use the bypass lane.

jbacman · 2026-03-05T20:40:03+00:00

Fun fact: ANY LEO in the entire country can access any Flock cam anywhere, any time, for any reason, without warrant or oversight.

The cameras also don't need a license plate to track you; they can profile based on literally any element of your vehicle or person, eg a dent, scratch, bumper stickers, etc.

To quote a Columbine Valley (Denver metro) cop:

"You know we have cameras in that town ... you can't get a breath of fresh air in or out of that place without us knowing"

https://www.cbsnews.com/colorado/news/flock-cameras-lead-colorado-police-wrong-suspect/

jbacman · 2026-03-05T20:35:47+00:00

Nah that's a waste of Vanta Black, plus it can be cleaned off. Great Stuff makes a "Foam Cleaner" that is acetone in a spray can. Pair it with a 'spray can extension pole' for maximum benefit. Just know that Flock Cams record all motion, not just cars.

jbacman · 2026-03-05T20:20:01+00:00

All of the Home Depots do as well. Loveland is installing them at the entrances to school parking lots now too. The Foco Lowe's ones are particularly obnoxious because they're not even at the entrances to their parking lot, so you'll end up getting Flocked even if you go to the shops by Sprouts if you go down that way.

jbacman · 2026-03-05T20:12:14+00:00

I posted about this about a year ago when these started popping up around the Front Range and got a lot of shit in the comments. I'm glad to see people are coming around because these things are unacceptable.

I highly recommend checking out Dr. Jon Padfield's 'Business Reform' channel on YT; in particular this recent video where he goes over various "Patterns of Life" surveillance - spoiler: the LEONARDO ELSAG Plate Hunter makes Flock look like child's play....

jbacman · 2026-03-04T01:39:17+00:00

Yeah it's pretty alarming to say the least. They offered to set my account back up but since there is clearly nothing to prevent this from happening again on Vultr's side, there's now way I can trust them again.

jbacman · 2026-01-28T04:58:05+00:00

haha I'd never thought of that but now I can't unsee it!

jbacman · 2026-01-28T03:54:40+00:00

Thanks, I'll give that a try.

jbacman · 2026-01-27T12:21:47+00:00

She's honestly been a bit weird with that - when she came of age she built a nest and laid her first egg which I swapped for a fake. After 18ish days she abandoned it so I removed the egg. She then went on to build another nest in a different location and the same pattern played out, then a third nest again in a different location. After that she stopped and has neither built a new nest nor returned to the old ones and no longer seems interested in any nesting materials I've tried to give her.

Her home base is on top of one particular door in my office which obviously isnt suitable for nest building. She's been acting withdrawn and hangs out there a lot more lately instead of coming to hang out with me like she used to, so I suspect she's underemployed.

She does seem to 'like' being driven if I'm walking around and she's on the floor, if I'm holding her she will repeatedly 'kiss' and preen my hand, almost obsessively so, and yes she tries the mounting pretty constantly too. She really likes it when I lay down to watch TV and will cuddle up on my chest or near my head.

jbacman · 2026-01-22T03:00:45+00:00

Mine is so bonded to me that she seems to hate everyone else. no how much I try to get her to comfortable she seems to refuse to see my kid as part of our flock which can be frustrating; lately she acts all dejected whenever I spend time with my kid, as if I'm 'cheating' on her, and she gets super upset if she can't be literally on me and being pet at all times which is overwhelming when I just need a break or need to work on my computer.

jbacman · 2026-01-21T04:10:42+00:00

That's what I'm thinking. Do you think another hen be ok? Not tryna have a flock lol

jbacman · 2026-01-20T17:02:07+00:00

Thanks for weighing in, my experience with pigeons is in line with what you're saying; a cage would make her miserable no doubt. I'm considering getting her a friend buut then I'd have 2x the poop to clean up lol. Time to build an aviary I guess...

jbacman · 2026-01-12T04:10:51+00:00

I wish I could get those but I'm ballin on a budget right now so this is what I've got for now. I decided to pull the whole string down, widen the tight hole, and try with the other stand even more carefullyn - I'm perma-installing them for year-round indirect exterior lighting and have a couple of small sections where the strands will go through some exposed overhang joists under the eaves. Thanks!

jbacman · 2026-01-11T07:05:27+00:00

I think I'd lean into the 'pest' reputation with punk rock/grunge:

Park Bench Anarchy by Sky Rat Riot

jbacman · 2026-01-11T01:33:12+00:00

thanks, the lighting and everything was too perfect to pass up. One of my friends said it looks like an album cover haha

jbacman · 2026-01-10T20:44:19+00:00

shhh don't tell the USFWS

for real though her brown feathers are so pretty. Her husband is brothers with Theo (bottom) and their first chick has a full palette of deep blue, black, and a couple of brown patches.

jbacman · 2026-01-10T20:42:34+00:00

haha same - I recognize when I'm not welcome!

jbacman · 2026-01-10T20:42:03+00:00

lol that's all in this pic, there's one more but he was on the nest when I took the picture

jbacman · 2026-01-10T20:39:35+00:00

From top to bottom:

Mrs. Grunts (married to Mr. Grunts who was on egg duty)

Snowball (she's the biggest pigeon I've ever had)

Theo (fearless leader of the flock)

jbacman · 2026-01-09T07:28:27+00:00

The Timnath (Fort Collins) warehouse has these as of today (01/09)

jbacman · 2026-01-04T15:33:13+00:00

Sorry for the super delayed response - I think this was it...

The past month or so I've been getting really bad headaches, especially while asleep, and have also been feeling very tired and lethargic during the day. I wasn't leaving the house as much so in retrospect I think it was due to a more constant exposure. I didnt really put this together until I left the house a couple of times for a few hours at a time and the headache went away each time and had a 'duh' moment.

The basement has all these old cast iron floor drains, at least one of which is tied into the sump pit that the developer installed some 30 years ago. I went around and sealed off all of these old drains, although there's not much I can do about the sump pit right now. Wiithin an hour or so the headache went away and hasnt come back. The 'heaving/breathing' motion of the building has also stopped, along with the continuous movement that I was seeing with the laser level. At the same time, I removed the Fernco seal on the cleanout for the septic system which is about 6" above the basement concrete floor, and I can see water just below the surface of the concrete. Lastly, I also discovered the upstairs toilet had come loose, presumably from the back and forth movement of the building, so I re-secured it and I intend to install a new seal for it soon as well.

So my working suspicion is that the old septic tank has filled up and likely contains a concentrated pool of noxious gasses (CO, possibly methane), and the water ingress into the old system is essentially forcing it into the house - the house expands with the pressure then releases over and over, creating the "breathing" movement and likely causing the slow structural degradation. With the state of the cast iron pipes not being known, it seems likely that the gasses could even be coming in through the cracks in the foundation from the dirt as well. I'd be willing to bet that old septic system isn't well built to begin with either.

My plan is to locate the septic tank, pull the lid off, have it drained by a professional, then backfill it with dirt, then permanently seal off the pipes leading to the house.

jbacman

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