2026-02-11 14:00:31
Volunteers fill gaps in Kyiv’s response as Russian strikes deepen blackouts: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/11/volunteers-fill-gaps-in-kyivs.html
Volunteers fill gaps in Kyiv’s response as Russian strikes deepen blackouts: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/11/volunteers-fill-gaps-in-kyivs.html
Delaware's acting U.S. Attorney Julianne Murray
resigned her post on Dec. 12,
and the courts appointed her successor immediately,
an unusual turn of events after months of questions about the legality of Donald Trump's attempts to fill federal prosecutor roles around the country with loyalists.
Murray, who has served as both "interim" and "acting" U.S. attorney for the District of Delaware since the summer,
posted her resignation on …
While preparing #ArtemisII for flight, NASA engineers are reviewing data after a confidence test Feb. 12, in which operators partially filled the SLS (Space Launch System) core stage liquid hydrogen tank to assess newly replaced seals in an area used to fill the rocket with propellant: https://www.nasa.gov/blogs/missions/2026/02/13/following-confidence-test-nasa-continues-artemis-ii-data-review/ - during the test, "teams encountered an issue with ground support equipment that reduced the flow of liquid hydrogen into the rocket. [...] Engineers will examine findings before setting a timeline for the next test, a second wet dress rehearsal this month. March remains the earliest potential launch window for Artemis II."
@… Yes, I heard that helicopter and pulled an app to see what it was. Very odd. (As an aside, helicopters now fill me with dread.)
Let's predict who will land all eight open NFL coaching jobs: Which team will hire Kevin Stefanski? https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47591091/2026-nfl-coach-hire-predictions-candidates-gia…
Ukraine says Russian casualties in the battle for Pokrovsk could fill Moscow's Red Square: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/13/ukraine-says-russian-casualties-in.html
Raiders Receive Big Head Coach Prediction Amid Search https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/big-head-coach-prediction-search/
The final indignity: I clicked the button to tell Mozilla why I was uninstalling and it launched Edge to fill out the form instead of my default browser (Chrome).
Memo: The Banner in Maryland plans to expand sports staff to cover Washington, DC, teams, hiring beat reporters to cover the Nationals and Commanders, and more (Brendon Kleen/Awful Announcing)
https://awfulannouncing.com/newspapers/balt…
Fill what's empty, empty what's full, scratch where it itches.
-- Alice Roosevelt Longworth
I have written why local police, possibly SWAT, must engage, detain and arrest ice. The alternatives are all worse.
https://stuff.davidaugust.com/local-law-enforcements-challenge-uphold-the-law-even-against-the-feds/
Hahaha, the US can fuck right off. You couldn’t pay me enough to visit that shithole country.
#USA
Bored? Search is:poll to find random polls* to fill out
*Not to be confused with Poles
I had not noticed that Affinity shut down their forums but of course they did.
"THESE FORUMS ARE NOW READ-ONLY"
Okay, not "shut down" but they now prevent their users from talking to each other and tell you to fill out a form to get support.
https://forum.affinity.serif.com/
Raiders' Coaching Staff Search Reportedly Moving at a Rapid Pace https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-coaching-staff-search-reportedly-moving-rapid-pace
Some answers from @… in a quote thread.
https://indieweb.social/@willowbl00/115696205185905943
For anyone else also looking, another useful key phrase is "Master Scenario Events List" or MESL. This is for operations based games. For small group disaster prep, official MESL could be useful (if you can get them) to give you an idea of where you could (or may need to) fill gaps.
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #RoundMidnight
Zola Marcelle:
🎵 Fill the Room
#ZolaMarcelle
https://open.spotify.com/track/4eInMOyZYo3RdWeMzPdIBt
When Trump criticized a ruling from a so-called “Obama judge” in 2018,
Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. responded that “we do not have Obama judges or Trump judges, Bush judges or Clinton judges.”
But the data suggests that in the 13 appellate courts, there is increasingly such a thing as a Trump judge.
The president’s appointees voted to allow his policies to take effect 133 times and voted against them only 12 times.
Ninety-two percent of their total votes were i…
I wrote a story. It starts:
He woke up, looking forward to finally fishing. He’s retired, even though he feels like he could keep doing the work, and now, finally, he has the chance to go out on his boat, with a beer and his rod to catch something. Maybe if he catches enough he can fill the whole freezer set up in the basement. Fresh frozen fish for months.
The rest of it:
Even if I wanted to go the earthly version of hell I would say fuck no to providing my social media posts.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1dz0g2ykpeo
I need to take the trash bag out of my trash can so I can put in a new trash bag and fill it with all the trash that's currently on my bed
but also? I need to simply evaporate and float away
Raiders' Coaching Staff Search Reportedly Moving at a Rapid Pace https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-coaching-staff-search-reportedly-moving-rapid-pace
✍️ New article: Webspace Invaders
👾👾👾👾👾👾👾👾👾👾👾👾
https://matthiasott.com/articles/webspace-invaders
They’re trying to make her fill the same role Data and Spock and and Dax and the Doctor do in various ways, but so not as well as most of them.
NFL head coach and GM openings: Who are candidates to fill the positions? https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6947104/2026/01/07/nfl-general-manager-coach-openings-candidates/
Please someone open a bike shop in the Excelsior. The whole neighborhood lacks one.
https://missionlocal.org/2026/02/sf-excelsior-empty-storefront-grant/
Valentine's Day is coming up and reservations will fill up quickly, so this is your reminder to go look up stuff and book it if necessary ^_^
I went to book something back in November and it was already booked, so pivoted to something else which ended up being cancelled, and booked another thing which is similar. And just managed to snag restaurant reservations.
So yeah, folks. Esp if you're a cishet guy (like me), make sure you don't disappoint for Valentine's Da…
My loose process for evaluating an ACR (VPAT®):
https://adrianroselli.com/2026/01/how-i-evaluate-an-acr-vpat.html
You may have your own thoughts / ideas. Add them to the comments.
I was also torn between the meat grinder and a Plinko metaphor.
The Mastodon instance fairmove.net has got a major update today (Postgres database v13 -> v15, Redis 8.2, Mastodon 4.5.6). Your timeline should fill up again soon. Or watch the live feed to be inspired. Happy fediversing!
A look at Alan's Universe, a YouTube channel for Gen Alpha with 98.3M subscribers that releases long-form, episodic videos as viewers shift to watching on TV (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/arts/television/youtube-alans-universe.html
It's so lovely to see the mastowall fill up with posts about #FF2025
https://rstockm.github.io/mastowall/?hashtags=ff2025&server=…
This year my plan is not just to write more but also to write a bit out of my usual wheelhouse. Do something that's not just sociotechnological critique.
Not sure how to get the ball rolling there but I really love what Mike Monteiro is doing with his Newsletter ( https://buttondown.com/monteiro ). Bu…
Part of my order is missing so I fill out a form only to be told I need to talk to an AI agent for a refund request who then proceeded to submit the refund request that I had already asked for.
Trump endorses identical twin of retiring Rep. Troy Nehls to fill his seat (Faith Wardwell/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/12/04/congress/trump-endorses-trever-nehls-00677128
http://www.memeorandum.com/251204/p95#a251204p95
3 positions the Cowboys are hoping to fill with in-house free agency https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2026/01/15/3-positions-the-cowboys-are-hoping-to-fill-with-in-house-…
Sonnet 017 - XVII
Who will believe my verse in time to come,
If it were fill'd with your most high deserts?
Though yet heaven knows it is but as a tomb
Which hides your life, and shows not half your parts.
If I could write the beauty of your eyes,
And in fresh numbers number all your graces,
The age to come would say 'This poet lies;
Such heavenly touches ne'er touch'd earthly faces.'
So should my papers, yellow'd …
that's just "that's just [fill-in-blank]slop, you only like it because it's [fill-in-blank]"slop, you only like it because it's another terminally online cliche to automatically reach for when u have nothing, only relatively recent and therefore hasn't been 100% run into the ground (until now)
Old guy moment of the day: My NAS is starting to die after 13 years of service and my replacement is arriving today along with two 12 TB drives. Made me reminisce about my first hard-drive purchased around 1985 for about $3000 in 2026 dollars, held 20MB and I thought I would never fill it. #tech
The mechanics sorted out filling the adblue tank.
The warnings have stopped beeping and the 10 l bottle that was in the back is gone, so presumably I can trust it's in the tank now.
Sounds like much of what I have paid for was for them doing what I did: Looking all around the car for an ad-blue tank hole and taking things apart trying to find it.
But none of that is the correct solution, which is to put it up on the ramp and clamber underneath to find the tank which has some sort of lowering mechanism, to then lower it and fill it and raise it again.
Not a job for me then. Next time it'll maybe be cheaper coz of them knowing what to do now and not spending half a day trying to figure it out.
Apparently there is a second emissions reduction mechanism which doesn't take a wattery bottle of urea, but instead needs a pouch of oily tar stuff.
This is more likely to empty and need replacing next, rather than the piss bottle.
And even for normal cars that haven't been screwed up for wheelchair access this is a mechanics job anyway. And the garage will have to order in the tar pouch especially.
Back in the 90s, my first car cost about 200 quid. Today I paid 200 quid to get someone to fill it up with purified piss for emissions reduction. Oh how things change. 😆
I believe 20/ 30 min at #Fosdem is the perfect duration for talks. 50 min gives you a lot of time to fill it with boring stuff.
The year 2025 was the year I finally fulfilled my destiny and became a bureacrat — I couldn't be happier! White shirt, red tie, brown belt, mechanical in my approach to things. I love spreadsheets, files, book-keeping, accounting, finances.
Most of what I do in a day is read E-Mails, fill out forms, write documents, read documents, call and text people. I have a desk, a printer, get a tea in the morning.
All this with the added spice that I often write press releases, get cuttin…
First Interview for Klint Kubiak’s Raiders Coaching Staff Revealed: Report https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/klint-kubiak-oc-interview-frisman-jackson/
The last few Christmases, I've idly daydreamed about setting up a siphon to make it easier to water the tree. This year I finally did it, and I love it.
I have a small bucket tucked under a branch between the tree and the wall with a flexible piece of clear tubing running into the tree stand. Now instead of awkwardly laying down and filling the stand, I can just pour water into the bucket, up to the fill line I drew with a sharpie.
Matt Gutman is leaving ABC News to join CBS News as chief correspondent on January 5, reporting across the network as well as lead correspondent for 48 Hours (Ted Johnson/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2025/12/matt-gutman-joins-cbs-news-chief-correspon…
lol. My wife just got a work HR system email telling her she’s a good fit for the opening REPORTING TO HER that she’s trying to fill.
After I got this photo with my Laowa 9mm I went looking for flower beds this deep around town to fill its frame 𝑏𝑢𝑡 𝐼 𝑐𝑜𝑢𝑙𝑑𝑛'𝑡 𝑓𝑖𝑛𝑑 𝑎𝑛𝑦 since they're always narrow enough to easily maintain
#photo #photography
On the occasion of ice’s latest killing: Local police MUST engage, detain and arrest ice. There is no better option.
Here’s why in detail: https://stuff.davidaugust.com/local-law-enforcements-challenge-uphold-the-law-even-against-the-feds…
i just booked flights: to stockholm in mid-april, return from rome eight weeks later
lots of details to fill in
Changes to CISA have left some states without support during elections; California said CISA provided little support during the Nov. 4 election on redistricting (Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/election-security-…
i was so bloody excited to surf the winter airwaves & have my first full @wfmu.bsky.social fill-in slot since september that i didn't play (much) holiday music last night, but still tried to stay seasonally, uh, vibrational. archive/playlist: https://wfmu.org/playlists/JJ/251223
Finally getting around to trying to do something with the shattered solar panel I ended up with when the couriers failed twice to not smash part of my order. The PV layer under the tempered glass is still intact and functional, so my plan is to fill the impact point with CA glue, then coat the entire top with urethane to improve its weather resistance, and ultimately use it to directly power a PTC heating element in a shed. *Any* additional free heat in that building is a plus, and *any* ben…
I don't need to buy gasoline very often thanks the the PHEV, but I did ned to fill up last night. It was an Esso station where in addition to showing me ads on the pump screen, the tiny speaker started squawking audio for the ads. This happened to me previously on a road trip. The other brand stations—around here at least—don't play obnoxious audio ads.
No one is measuring my displeasure here. There's no cancel/mute button.
I'm done with Esso. I'll go out of m…
Since I got suspended (zero-tolerance) from Warframe for inappropriate (TransRights) language in region chat, I went ahead and grabbed Stardew Valley on Steam while it was on sale instead. I’ll pick it up on GOG later, don’t worry.
I mainly got it so I have something to play when I’m bored. Warframe used to fill that spot for me and now it can’t, so I’ll just get myself to play Stardew on my desktop and laptop running Secureblue, and in the future on a Steam Deck instead.
The rea…
“They won’t imprison us all, they know if they fill the prisons with activists, we will overpower them from within. So flood the damn streets in your millions. Shut down these factories in your thousands! They can never arrest the resistance in our smiles. We will use the shards of our broken hearts to spear the system of injustice.” -- Qesser Zuhrah
#SayHerNamee
European intelligence agencies are stepping into the void left by America's strategic retreat.
The shift is reshaping how Ukraine fights
—and what Kyiv can see on the battlefield.
France now provides Ukraine with two-thirds of all intelligence it receives,
President Emmanuel Macron claimed on January 15.
The assertion is disputed.
Kyrylo Budanov, now Zelenskyy's chief of staff, said in December that Kyiv "remained critically dependent" o…
Tuning an e-mail server and adjusting some spam settings. I wonder, do people know they can unsubscribe from those stupid web shop newsletters that fill their inboxes and go unread into trash. I mean who want to see every week some new junk from a shop you visit once in a lifetime?
It's February, Chicago, 1916, second-string kids from New Orleans, like The Stones at the Marquee, get there to fill a spot, it's fricken freezing, promoter gets overcoats from Sally Ann, all oversized. March lands a gig at Schiller's Cafe. Nick says to ramp it up, invents a new dance fitting the bustle. Gig is white band, lower East Side, what's chances that drunk in the back is Irish? Jazz it up boys, he shouts! Wtf? sez Nick, but he liked the sound of it…
By spring, every teen in Chicago was wearing an oversized overcoat. Louis told Papa Joe in '22 he couldn't play that stuff. Papa Joe said get your ass on that stage and blow.
#GodspeedBrewery may have a Schiller's Moment Wed Jan 28th 6-9 😊
In Ukraine, the void left by the USA is bigger than Europe can fill. Russia continues to rape and destroy while the rest of the world looks away.
As an American, each day is a new descent into shame and disgust as I witness the cruelty and greed of my fellow citizens and Trump's band of billionaire bastards.
All I can do is try to share information that might raise awareness sufficient to instill some true empathy and concern amongst the comfortably uninformed.
Giorgio …
NFL head coach and GM openings: Who are candidates to fill the positions? https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6947104/2026/01/07/nfl-general-manager-coach-openings-candidates/
It's new Brita Filter Jug day.
I bought it to replace the previous one I had for a few years. It was a ridiculous design, that needed the whole lid to be removed to fill it 🤦♂️
The new one has a small flap that opens for filling. Much better.
Past and Sapiens 🉐
过去和智人 🉐
📷 Nikon F4E
🎞️ ERA 100, expired 1993
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite
Source: Bears promote Taylor to fill OC vacancy https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47868016/source-bears-promoting-press-taylor-offensive-coordinator
This 2026 Cowboys Mock Draft Fills Holes Without Reaching https://insidethestar.com/this-2026-cowboys-mock-draft-fills-holes-without-reaching
"Tire rubber decays into a potentially dangerous chemical cocktail, research shows"
#Cars #Vehicles #Pollution
So my car has been complaining I should put some exhaust emissions neutralizing fluid in it. A thing they call AdBlue I believe.
Bought a big 10l drum of the stuff ready to fill up.
But when I look at where I expect to find the hole for filling it, I just find a capped off tube and a warning sticker "See the GM Citreon Berlingo Blaze manual" for the adblue refilling hole.
Only user manual I have is the one telling me to expect it there.
The car was converted for wheelchair access at some point in its life. I think they are referring to the wheelchair-adaption manual, which the seller did not give me.
🤔
Have been looking around the car as much as I can for a couple of hours this morning to no avail. Where have they hidden this hole to fill up adblue?
Maybe it's under the engine or something now and you have to put the thing on stilts to find it?
🤷
Asked my mechanic about it and he says to bring it in on Monday. Gonna be a pain if I have to rip up the floorboards or something every year to refill that.
#mechanic #car #diesel
Gimme the hot tea
The gossip, the news, the view
Fill my empty cup.
#dailyhaikuprompt - hot tea
#haiku
#poem
Sonnet 063 - LXIII
Against my love shall be as I am now,
With Time's injurious hand crush'd and o'erworn;
When hours have drain'd his blood and fill'd his brow
With lines and wrinkles; when his youthful morn
Hath travell'd on to age's steepy night;
And all those beauties whereof now he's king
Are vanishing, or vanished out of sight,
Stealing away the treasure of his spring;
For such a time do I now fortify …
With our children now nearly 17 and 20, my wife's just told me of a #ChristmasHack she's often thought of - but never told me, or acted on it (because she always thinks of it at the time, and never before).
If your child puts an empty stocking out awaiting Santa to fill it with (little) gifts, we've sat outside their bedrooms stuffing them when wanting to go to bed eve…
Insider Drops Huge Prediction About Raiders Head Coach Search https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/insider-drops-prediction-head-coach-search/
RE: https://mastodon.social/@lobsters/115957432877042610
ATProto is decentralized in theory but with basically no working documentation that technical property is meaningless.
(Blacksky has put a lot of work in to fill the holes which is why we are s…
Trump-related nonfiction book sales have sharply declined, with weak sales over the past year compared to his first term, when 20 titles became NYT bestsellers (Paul Farhi/The Atlantic)
https://www.
Eagles Starter Leaves Door Open on Joining Familiar Face With Dallas Cowboys https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/news/eagles-starter-leaves-door-open-on-joining-familiar-face-with-dallas-cowboys
Lions fire offensive coordinator John Morton after just one season as Detroit misses postseason
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/lions-fire-offensive-coordinator-john-morton/
🔥Dems win special election in Texas, narrowing Republicans majority.
⭐️Friends, there are now just 37 days until the special election in Georgia to fill the seat vacated by Marjorie Taylor Greene.
20 Republicans are running.
One Democrat is running.
I’m that Democrat.
This is how we win.
This is how we take back the House -- and put a check on Trump's rampage against our Democracy.
I’m Shawn Harris.
I’m a Democrat. Husband. Father. Reti…
Moody Urbanity - Old & New III 🔆
情绪化城市 - 新与旧 III 🔆
📷 Nikon FE
🎞️ Ilford HP5 Plus 400, expired 1993
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite
Raiders Get Compelling Words Over Defensive Coordinator Search https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/compelling-words-defensive-coordinator-search/
In what may be close to an impossible job,
the “head of preparedness” at OpenAI
will be directly responsible for defending against risks from ever more powerful AIs to human mental health, cybersecurity and biological weapons.
That is before the successful candidate has to start worrying about the possibility that AIs may soon begin training themselves amid fears from some experts they could “turn against us”.
“This will be a stressful job,
and you’ll jump into …
“‘We had to destroy the village to save it’ is not a new American rationalization, and the imperial boomerang can and will, if we don’t stop it, bring it to bear on the American populace.”
https://stuff.davidaugust.com/local-law-enforceme…
Cowboys Interview OLB Coach From NCAA Defensive Powerhouse https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/news/cowboys-interview-olb-coach-from-ncaa-defensive-powerhouse
Ranking the NFL openings, and predicting who will fill them https://www.reviewjournal.com/sports/raiders/ranking-the-nfl-openings-and-predicting-who-will-fill-them-3608921/
Sonnet 063 - LXIII
Against my love shall be as I am now,
With Time's injurious hand crush'd and o'erworn;
When hours have drain'd his blood and fill'd his brow
With lines and wrinkles; when his youthful morn
Hath travell'd on to age's steepy night;
And all those beauties whereof now he's king
Are vanishing, or vanished out of sight,
Stealing away the treasure of his spring;
For such a time do I now fortify …
President Trump and House Speaker Mike Johnson
plan to hold a Monday evening tele-rally
to boost a Republican candidate
in the high-stakes Tennessee special congressional election.
The Trump-Johnson dual rally underscores the emphasis Republicans are placing on the Dec. 2 election.
Progressive Democrat
Aftyn Behn, a state legislator,
is standing against Republican Matt Van Epps to fill a seat left vacant by former Representative Mark Green, who resig…
"If any other group arrived into a neighborhood carrying long guns, deploying chemical weapons, violently engaging and then taking people away with no warrants nor apparent legal reason, we would dispatch SWAT, as SWAT has the training to defuse and deescalate such situations."
https://
Casualty figures for Drone Operators are not disclosed
but widely understood to be high
And Ukraine is becoming reliant on civilians to fill roles that once belonged to trained military personnel.
A short but intensive 15-day course is given to a trainee operator for frontline deployment,
a turnaround that reflects the urgent need.
fill in the blank: these are a top __ uniform in the league 🧐 | @bswhealth #DallasCowboys #shorts https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Dj9BicdrqSs
He has labored in the fields every summer and on weekends during the school year since he was 11 years old to help his mother, who also picks berries.
His siblings, uncles and cousins — four of them minors — work in local strawberry fields.
Jose said that some days he didn’t fill many boxes and earned less than minimum wage for the hours he worked,
Awhich would be a violation of state child labor laws.
He described toiling under the hot sun in fields where employers f…
TV Republika, the largest right-wing broadcaster in Poland, plans an English-language channel, seeking to fill a market gap in Europe for MAGA-aligned outlets (Raphael Minder/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/fec67146-0654-4104-a2cc-d354feb0e6c1
I think the police have to do a very hard and necessary thing: defend Americans against their federal government.
I make the case for why local law enforcement officers may need to arrest feds:
https://stuff.davidaugust.com/local-la
Dallas Cowboys Interviewing Two Prominent Defensive Assistants on Friday https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/news/dallas-cowboys-interviewing-two-prominent-defensive-assistants-on-friday
Steelers fill head coaching position and it's good news for Raiders https://raiderswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/raiders/2026/01/24/steelers-hire-mike-mccarthy-head-coach-good-news-for-raiders/8…
Dallas Cowboys Interviewing Two Prominent Defensive Assistants on Friday https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/news/dallas-cowboys-interviewing-two-prominent-defensive-assistants-on-friday
The most prominent American voice at the COP Climate Summit in Belém was that of the California governor, Gavin Newsom.
During the five days he spent in Brazil, Newsom described Donald Trump as an “invasive species”
and condemned his rollback of policies aimed at reducing emissions and expanding renewable energy.
Newsom, long considered a presidential hopeful, argued that,
as the US retreated, California would step up in its place as a
“stable, reliable” climat…
Cowboys Add Former Cardinals Cornerback Coach After Hiring Christian Parker as New DC https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/ryan-smith-cornerbacks-coach-hired/