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I have a rough three-day work-stretch ahead of me, but the weekday Pook-Emu Bee links streak must continue (I will however compromise on feature images today).

1. Brainless TikTok trend causes $2,000 in damage to SoCal home (Daniel Farr for the New York Post. August 26, 2026.)
States and localities should consider sentence enhancement provisions for crimes committed for social media consumption.

2. EXCLUSIVE: US Investigators Have Proof That UNRWA ‘Social Worker’ Caught on Tape Dragging an Israeli Body Into an SUV on Oct 7 Was an Active Hamas Operative (Adam Kredo for The Washington Free Beacon. August 25, 2026.)
It’s always who you least expect… except for those times when it’s the most obvious suspect.

3. $3 Specialty Coffee Is Back In Brooklyn (Ainsley Martinez for Patch Carroll Gardens-Cobble Hill, NY. August 25, 2026.)
I seldom buy coffee when I’m out (firmly in the DIY coffee camp) but $3 for a cup of any size is cheap around these parts. Maybe I’ll find a reason when out with a friend to give it a try.

4. I switched from Android’s default keyboard to an open source alternative to eliminate my constant typos (Oluwaniyi Raji for Android Police. August 25, 2026.)
I also use Heliboard. It’s good. I turn autocorrect off because autocorrect is a war crime. The predictive suggestions are solid but I tend to forget about them. I need to make myself remember because typing on touchscreens is not a strong area for me.

5. Roblox applies restrictions to games featuring “reward-driven media feeds” available in Roblox Kids and Select (Sophie McEvoy for Games Industry.biz. August 26, 2026.)
The fundamental problem with Roblox is that its ostensible target demographic should not be playing social online games, period.

6. NYC’s borough-based jail boondoggle is nearly $8B over budget and years behind schedule (Matthew Fischetti for the New York Post. August 24, 2026.)
It’s already casting a long shadow.

7. NYers say Citi Bike has gotten too expensive, can a new advocate-led campaign make it cheaper? (Ethan Stark-Miller for amNY. August 18, 2026.)
Hear me out. Instead of stealing my tax money to subsidize City Bike rides for my betters who will then violate traffic laws and threaten to run me over, what if we at least banned the electric City Bikes and made everything more expensive?

8. Smithsonian affiliate AANM gets federal funds, criticized 9/11 response (Robert Schmad for Fox News. August 25, 2026.)
Score another one for team taxation is theft.

9. Taliban facing constant challenge to authority in provinces bordering Central Asian states (Eurasianet. August 25, 2026.)
Economic ties aside, I’ll note that Uzbek and Tajik police don’t take kindly to men having beards, so the Taliban would probably be well-advised (granting I don’t think they’re much into taking advice) to keep their various militants from causing cross-border problems.

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Saturday was Newsletter day and I was busy on Sunday, so our daily Pook-Emu Bee links had the weekend off. But there are no such impediments this Monday, so I am back with my regularly scheduled links.

1. Indie developer lands in Steam approval limbo after being flagged for IP infringement over in-game references to their own past work (Amber V for Automation West. May 4, 2026.)

A cautionary and potentially instructive story for people who want to promote their own projects in games they publish to Steam (albeit very frustrating for the developer, assuming the facts are true as presented).

2. Ask.com, aka Ask Jeeves, has officially shut down after nearly 30 years online (Paul for AlternativeTo. May 4, 2026.)

You may read this story and think “what?” or “that didn’t die 15 years ago?” But I read it and sighed. I may need to write a Norton Safe Search follow-up article (see my original research article).

3. GameStop Proposes to Acquire eBay at $125.00 Per Share (GameStop Corp. May 3, 2026.)

Out: To the Moon. In: To the eBay.

4. Lipton releases… Pudding Milk Tea in Japan?!? (Oona McGee for SoraNews24. May 1, 2026.)

I’d try it. But it would probably take too much effort.

5. Reporting, the Easy Way (John Hinderaker for PowerLine. May 3, 2026.)

I publish long articles without compensation. Never once have I published a purported quote gleaned from a search engine’s AI summary of a query. But some N.Y. Times journalists who are being paid take a different, looser approach to gathering quotes. (Albeit credit to the Times for correctly identifying the error and not deflecting blame.)

6. Growing Sinkhole Causes Safety Concerns In Red Hook (Aurora Fowlkes for News12 Brooklyn. May 3, 2026.)

I walked by that intersection yesterday but did not notice the sinkhole. How close did I come to falling inside Red Hook?

7. Lime Wants Mamdani To Bring More Scooter Share To NYC (Sophia Lebowitz for StreetsBlog NYC. April 30, 2026.)

Absolutely not. This suggestion is a lemon.

8. Tucker Carlson nicotine pouches part of $4M in cargo recovered as theft ring exposed (Daniel Farr for the New York Post. May 2, 2026.)

Prediction: I wonder how he is going to attribute this to Israel and Mike Huckabee. Or has he already done so? I may not be upp to date.

9. The Wrong Kind of Black Poet (Ernest Jesuyemi for Compact. May 4, 2026.)

Interesting and thoughtful essay.