Tootfinder

> "We need an accessible database to act as a repository for all election advertising across all advertising platforms on the internet."

Galway City Tribune article announcing my run for the Galway West bye-election.
As most working people know, the current way society is structured is driving us to working long hours often for little pay. It's time that working hard meant having a good life with a secure home.
The successive governments of Fine Gael & Fianna Fšil have put the interests & profits of landlords and investment funds over the needs and housing security of ordinary people.
I've …

An excellent explanation on why the hype about LNG and the claim from conservatives that 'renewables raise electricity prices"... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pk0Zm_xpk3c Interesting to hear about this from the US side. And yeah, who's to blame? Yup. Private power corporations, powe…

Many ICE detention facilities are run by large private companies,
such as CoreCivic and the GEO Group,
that also operate many prisons.
The companies say that they provide round-the-clock medical care and proper diets
and that they are subject to government oversight.
But a federal lawsuit and more than two dozen interviews with lawyers, detainees and their family members and elected officials
depict acute deficiencies that they believe contributed to the …

Deaths in ICE Custody Are Growing. ‘They Let Him Rot in There.’
As immigrant detainee deaths have increased, conditions in detention facilities nationwide are coming under more scrutiny.

Donald Trump on Saturday appeared to link the massive attack he ordered against Iran to his persistent claims about his 2020 election loss to former president Joe Biden, in a social media post about allegations that Tehran’s government interfered in the US president elections.
“Iran tried to interfere in 2020, 2024 elections to stop Trump,” his Truth Social post said, “and now faces renewed war with United States”.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/mar/01/trump-iran-attack-2020-election-loss?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

I convinced this rock to confess to the stoning of Moctezuma, something that it couldn't have done due to its location on the wrong continent.
https://theintercept.com/2026/04/23/chatgpt-ai-false-confession-interrogation-crime/

ChatGPT Confessed to a Crime It Couldn’t Possibly Have Committed
A renown criminologist’s experiment with ChatGPT demonstrates the destructive power of police to elicit false confessions.

Electronic properties of the Radium-monochalcogenides RaX (X = O,S,Se) and RaO /- ions
Mateo Londo\~no, Jes\'us P\'erez-R\'ios
https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.24590 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2603.24590 https://arxiv.org/html/2603.24590
arXiv:2603.24590v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: We present a theoretical investigation on the electronic structure and properties of radium monochalcogenides, with chalcogens O, S, and Se, as well as the ionic species RaO /-. Our approach combines fully relativistic and partially relativistic quantum-chemistry methods. Electronic properties are obtained using the exact two-component Hamiltonian-based coupled-cluster approach with single, double, and perturbative triple excitations [CCSD(T) X2C], while potential energy curves are computed using an internally contracted multireference configuration interaction method, including relativistic effects through small-core pseudopotentials and Pauli-Breit operator diagonalization (MRCI Q ECP SO). The dimers exhibit very large permanent dipole moments and sizable dipolar polarizabilities, while the Franck-Condon factors among the lowest electronic states are highly non-diagonal. These features are discussed in terms of the divalent character of the chemical bonding in the neutral species.
toXiv_bot_toot

Finally, Volkswagen is launching a V2G tariff in Germany. It is now scheduled for launch in Q4 2026.
Although Volkswagen was the first German car manufacturer to release bidirectional charging functionality in their vehicles, they are now behind BMW, Mercedes and Ford (whose EVs use VW technology) in terms of announcing an actual charger and tariff bundle.

Application of the aperiodic defect model to a negatively charged monovacancy in phosphorene
Charlotte Rickert, Lily Barta, Ernst-Christian Flach, Daniel Kats, Denis Usvyat
https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.23761 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2603.23761 https://arxiv.org/html/2603.23761
arXiv:2603.23761v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: We apply the recently introduced aperiodic defect model (ADM) to a negatively charged monovacancy in a phosphorene monolayer. In contrast to conventional supercell approaches, the ADM treats a single defect embedded in the true non-defective crystalline mean field thereby avoiding spurious defect-defect interactions and the need for charge corrections. At the same time, it effectively reduces the calculation to a fragment, enabling the use of high-level molecular electronic-structure methods. Converging the Hartree-Fock and correlation contributions to the thermodynamic limit yields a benchmark CCSD(T)/POB-TZVP-rev2 formation energy of 0.91 eV for the negatively charged monovacancy in the (5|9) configuration. The excitation energy to the lowest singlet excited state of this defect at the EOM-CCSD/POB-TZVP-rev2 level is found to be 1.95 eV. Overall, the ADM provides a highly promising route towards quantitatively accurate and systematically improvable descriptions of defects in solids and on surfaces, bridging the gap between solid-state physics and molecular quantum chemistry.
toXiv_bot_toot

Electromagnetic Field is a camping festival for those with an inquisitive mind or an interest in making things.
It will be held from July 16th–19th 2026 at Eastnor Castle Deer Park in Herefordshire, UK.
https://www.emfcamp.org/cfp