Tootfinder

But if it's a jobs shortage, how will cutting benefits help?
It won't of course
Labour poised for fresh welfare changes after scale of youth jobs crisis revealed | UK unemployment and employment statistics | The Guardian
https://www.

From the basement of the Sandusky library, page 29 of the book Sandusky of To-Day proclaims the town to be the
“largest fresh water fish market in the world”.
Two pages later, an image of the lake whitefish, referred to as “Sandusky’s pride”, takes up the entire page.
But the book was published in 1888.
Lake whitefish was a delicacy in this part of North America for centuries.
Indigenous communities centered their lives and traditions on the fish.
By the …

The Great Lakes’ most emblematic fish could be consigned to history books
A delicacy for centuries and a key part of Native tradition, the lake whitefish has seen its population crash. Researchers know why … but stopping it is another matter

U.S. launches fresh Iran strikes as Trump threatens to "complete the job" (Barak Ravid/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/06/27/us-iran-strikes-strait-hormuz
http://www.memeorandum.com/260628/p1#a260628p1

I miss vultures, donkeys, and proper mountains as part of my daily life. Also figs, vines, and fresh citrus.

China ordered the expulsion of NYT reporter Vivian Wang in February; a source says the US revoked the visa of a Chinese national working for Xinhua in response (Michael Crowley/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/29/us/politics/china-expels-times-r…

After China Orders a Times Reporter to Leave the Country, the U.S. Reciprocates
The Trump administration ejected a Chinese journalist amid fresh concerns about Beijing’s growing pressure on foreign correspondents.

Blueberry Crumble Pie #plantbased

Blueberry Crumble Pie
This blueberry crumble pie is a an easy plant-based bake made with fresh blueberries and best served with a scoop of vegan vanilla ice cream

Dude should just call himself Babs… @… https://awful.systems/comment/12487932

Sonnet 003 - III
Look in thy glass and tell the face thou viewest
Now is the time that face should form another;
Whose fresh repair if now thou not renewest,
Thou dost beguile the world, unbless some mother.
For where is she so fair whose unear'd womb
Disdains the tillage of thy husbandry?
Or who is he so fond will be the tomb
Of his self-love, to stop posterity?
Thou art thy mother's glass and she in thee
Calls back the lov…

Yep, there we have it! The repo has been updated and all is well. Included are nice new tools like fresh-editor, rio-terminal, the yazi filemanager and nushell, just to spice up that learning curve 😜 Also included some themes, fonts and walls to start off nicely themed. Go get your mango on FreeBSD!
#freebsd

ahh a fresh breeze of air while it is raining. room temp went down from 31 degree to 26. but as soon as i am closing the windows it will raise again :( #heat #germany

I KNEW this would happen. Hot sunny weather all week while I’m at the salt mine. Get a day off, get in the garden, for a few jobs and some fresh air and it starts poxy raining! Grrrrr.

Report links Raiders to disgruntled two-time Pro Bowler, SB Champ https://raiderramble.com/2026/07/27/report-links-raiders-to-disgruntled-two-time-pro-bowler-sb-champ/

fresh_webs: Freshwater stream webs
A set of 26 networks of trophic-level species interactions in streams in New Zealand, Maine and North Carolina. Networks include the identities of aquatic insect, algae and fish species and their trophic interactions. Excel and plain text adjacency matrices available; webs can be downloaded individually or as a group.
This network has 79 nodes and 391 edges.
Tags: Biological, Food web, Unweighted, Metadata

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #HuwStephens
DJ Fresh:
🎵 Gold Dust (feat. Ms. Dynamite)
#DJFresh
https://robotechdnb.bandcamp.com/track/dj-fresh-gold-dust-rmx
https://open.spotify.com/track/3uIGef7OSXkFdqxjFWn2o6

Not a view, exactly, but still a view. Fresh install today, hot off the press. Got myself a HP EliteOne 800 G5 for... basically nothing, so I couldn't really turn it down.

Estos bichos son increíbles
https://loops.video/v/gwTniaC7-z

Stay ahead of the curve and check out today's Metacurity for the most critical infosec developments you should know, including
--Frontier AI beat: NSA locked out, Meta pressured, lawsuits begin,
--Dialog's "hack" looks more like a misconfiguration,
--Klue breach spills more LastPass customer data,
--Iranian banking services hit by fresh cyber disruption,
--India's Bajaj Auto hit by ransomware attack,
--KDDI warns 14m accounts may be ex…

Frontier AI beat: NSA locked out, Meta pressured, lawsuits begin
Dialog's "hack" looks more like a misconfiguration, Klue breach spills more LastPass customer data, Iranian banking services hit by fresh cyber disruption, India's Bajaj Auto hit by ransomware attack, KDDI warns 14m accounts may be exposed, much more

So as I've been droning on about, I'm doing lots of painting in the house. Next is the dining room. I have to live with the wood chip wallpaper but it's currently clinical white. I was all set to go with a sage tone to complement the fabulous orange dining chairs but I'm now leaning towards a fresh lemony colour as it's such a light sunny room. Current light is very Mum, a crystal drop arrangement which will be going. Instead I am totally in love with these.

last night's frow show archive just below via @…, featuring fresh #jazz, noise, noise jazz, pedal steel, live byrds '67, newly surfaced '69 kinks, & obviously some dolly (including her reading "the little engine that could" played over some jazz noise).

Binance says it will make a fresh push for permission to operate in the EU after its MiCA license application in Greece failed ahead of the June 30 deadline (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/binance-vows-stay-europe-despi…

I let my bike video backlog get a little large, just got around to uploading some nice ones from the previous winter.
vimeo.com/1221325337
vimeo.com/1221325448
I need to alt-something these, they are minutes long. One is riding on the protected bike lane between cut snow banks along Beacon Street in Cambridge (I think it is Cambridge, could be Somerville, geography is not my strength). Lots of snow, it is white.
The other is riding clock wise around Fresh Pond on th…

“The government’s indictment, which contains a typo (“Untied States Code”), accuses Tunick of allegedly providing a passcode to border agents that caused the phone to “delete the digital contents,” prior to the device being seized.”
Untied indeed.
https://…

US accuses American of allegedly wiping his phone using a 'duress' password during border search | TechCrunch
A U.S. citizen has asked a court to throw out the government's claim that he gave over a passcode to border authorities that wiped his phone's data, opening up fresh questions about a person's constitutional rights at the U.S. border.

Yesterday we did our weekly errands again with our bicycle trolley. Works like a charm.
We select routes off major roads, have some chat along the way, see what's going on in town, physical exercise, fresh air, no fuel cost, no traffic jam.
And even car drivers are very friendly to us as well.

Donald Trump's Freedom 250 faces fresh humiliation as Vanilla Ice concert canceled (Julianna Salinas/Mirror US)
https://www.themirror.com/entertainment/breaking-vanilla-ice-trump-canceled-1908287
http://www.memeorandum.com/260626/p125#a260626p125

Vorzüglich, allerdings ohne Zitronensaft besser als mit. #nommention
https://cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/77

Gnocchi and Peas With Whipped Feta Recipe • 5★ • 35 min (Gift Recipe)
Bright with citrus and mint and sweetened with peas, the colorful dip ties all the ingredients together. Crisp sugar snap peas get a quick toss in the skillet to unlock their sweetness, while peas deliver tiny pops of juiciness. (Frozen peas work just fine, but use fresh if you have them.) Shelf-stable gnocchi are best here, developing a crunchy golden exterior in the skillet, with a center that stays pillowy and chewy. As the seasons change, the sugar snaps can be substituted with fresh tomato…

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#RoundMidnight
- Fresh from Shy One
Moses Boyd, in for Soweto Kinch, presents another hour of the best in jazz, and Amy Gadiaga returns with her fourth 4/4 selection of the week.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002xn4t

🧩 For tree 4 builds a plan file fixes interfaces, file ownership and naming before fan-out, every leaf and branch gets its own gates file, and each leaf runs as a fresh subagent
📊 A controlled test measured 1.6-3.9x more effort and 4-10 self-found defects fixed before delivery; depth 6 cost only 1.0-1.5x depth 3, so the old 2^(N-1) math was dropped

The US military has resumed its campaign of bombing
alleged drug-trafficking vessels
after a two-month pause in a campaign that many legal experts and human rights groups believe 
constitutes a murder spree.
In a Monday social media post,
US Southern Command (SOUTHCOM) said it carried out a
“lethal kinetic strike on a low-profile vessel operating along established narco-trafficking routes”
in the Pacific Ocean on Sunday.
Two people were killed a…

‘Lawless killing spree at sea resumes’ as US announces fresh boat bombings
With the latest two casualties, the Trump administration’s boat bombing spree has now claimed the lives of at least 223 people.

#Carney calls #Trump's fresh tariffs a 'miscalculation' after trade talks collapse.
Canada's Prime Minister Mark Carney has said a fresh wave of US tariffs on Canada is a "miscalculation" designed to "hurt and divide us", after trade talks broke down late on Fr…

London-based European Technology Network, a TBPN-like show livestreaming 5x a week on YouTube and X, raised a $1.6M seed round from Axel Springer and others (Dominic-Madori Davis/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/27/euro

Europe got its own TBPN-style live show, and everyone’s angling for a guest spot | TechCrunch
On Monday, the network announced a $1.6 million seed round from top players in the media ecosystem, including Powerhouse Capital, Axel Springer SE (which owns Business Insider and Politico), the popular media publication LadBible, and angel investors from OpenAI and DeepMind. With this fresh capital, the network is announcing its largest expansion yet.

Anthropic has suspended access to its latest models, Mythos 5 and Fable 5, for all users after the US government demanded that non-US citizens, both in the US and abroad, should not be able to use the LLMs, citing national security concerns.

US shutdown of Anthropic models sparks fresh concerns over AI sovereignty
Anthropic has suspended access to its latest models, Mythos 5 and Fable 5, for all users after the US government demanded that non-US citizens, both ...

Titans to curtail Jeffery Simmons' snaps to keep star DT fresh for key moments https://www.nfl.com/news/titans-to-curtail-jeffery-simmons-snaps-to-keep-star-dt-fresh-for-key-moments

Fresh new test prints of a scene from our morning walk, just before the incoming thunderstorm cut it short...
(The difference here is 10 vs 12 seconds of exposure. Gonna do a proper 10x8" silver gelatin print tonight)
#Darkroom #DarkroomPrint

Featherlight planets!
https://apnews.com/article/super-puffs-cotton-candy-giant-light-planets-db1ebf1cb946e1c0bba67a5040bfc8a9
These two planets have densities comparable to a nice blob of shaving foam, fresh …

Astronomers find giant planets that are lighter than cotton candy
Astronomers have uncovered a pair of giant planets that are lighter than cotton candy. The two so-called super-puffs are the size of Jupiter — the biggest worlds found so far to have less density than cotton candy. Don't expect pink or yellow clouds, though. Scientists say these fluffy, wispy worlds are probably white or blue, depending on whether the skies there are cloudy. The featherweight pair orbit a star 1,110 light-years away. The findings were published Wednesday in Monthly Notices of…

Cowboys to Open Preseason in Seattle With Fresh Energy https://insidethestar.com/cowboys-to-open-preseason-in-seattle-with-fresh-energy

noisy construction in front of my apartment for the past week and a half, digging up the street and building a rubber tube that’s a block long that i guess they intend to bury and fill with a natural gas pipeline

Why on earth do people buy old bottles of wine when they can get a
fresh one for a quarter of the price?

Europeans trying to cope by getting fresh air in at just the right times.
They are now…
*drumroll*
Window Managers

Evaluation-Recording Contamination in Learned Nano-Quadrotor Dynamics: A Fresh-Seed Audit
David Shulman
https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.18482 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2607.18482 https://arxiv.org/html/2607.18482
arXiv:2607.18482v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Learned flight-dynamics models are often trained on short windows extracted from longer recordings. Randomly splitting these windows can place dependent samples from the same physical flight in both training and evaluation sets. We audit this issue using a fixed snapshot of the NanoBench Crazyflie 2.1 dataset. The experiment holds evaluation flights, rollout starts, training-window count, validation data, and optimization budget fixed. In the contaminated protocol, [LeakagePercent] percent of a recording-disjoint training set is replaced with windows from evaluation recordings, while both arms use the same clean validation set. We compare a world-coordinate delta multilayer perceptron with a relative-coordinate control across [NumSeeds] fresh training seeds and [NumEvalFlights] complete evaluation recordings. The primary endpoint is failure-aware position RMSE over 1-second rollouts, analyzed with paired crossed recording-by-seed inference. Contamination lowers apparent world-model error by 12.1 percent, from 0.299 m to 0.262 m, but the predeclared 95 percent confidence interval for contaminated minus disjoint error is -0.0735 to 0.0011 m. Because the interval crosses zero, the confirmatory result is negative. Secondary horizons and the relative-coordinate model show similar trends, but no coordinate-representation interaction is supported. Reliable leakage assessment therefore requires recording-level splits, failure-aware rollouts, replication across fresh seeds, and inference over both recordings and optimization seeds.
toXiv_bot_toot

it was a good idea to get a ready-to-eat roasted chicken from the supermarket
chopped up the meat from the limbs to make some chicken & sweetcorn sandwiches with some fresh-ish bread (baked yesterday evening)
and there’s still lots of breast meat, i should think up something creative to do with it

I know how fortunate I am to live in a spot where there are three different farmers markets within a ~10 minute drive, each on a different day of the week. It is definitely the time to take advantage of that.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #DriveTime
EELS:
🎵 Fresh Blood
#EELS
https://thebellegards.bandcamp.com/track/fresh-blood-eels-cover-2
https://open.spotify.com/track/5Q3ZzcBqQuS8s522kWyCcU

Made marinara sauce yesterday with tomatoes picked over the weekend. Dolloped onto fresh chicken parmesan sandwiches made with pounded thighs. Heaven. I'd never made the sauce and never made chicken parm before. #food #cooking #tomatoes #marinara #garlic #basil #sauce

fresh_webs: Freshwater stream webs
A set of 26 networks of trophic-level species interactions in streams in New Zealand, Maine and North Carolina. Networks include the identities of aquatic insect, algae and fish species and their trophic interactions. Excel and plain text adjacency matrices available; webs can be downloaded individually or as a group.
This network has 71 nodes and 155 edges.
Tags: Biological, Food web, Unweighted, Metadata

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #TheBethDittoShow
EELS:
🎵 Fresh Feeling
#EELS
https://ryanpaulandtheardent.bandcamp.com/track/fresh-feeling-eels-cover
https://open.spotify.com/track/7iNjxpUUFTG3TvssgrgKwZ

Wieder einmal der supergeile Kichererbsensalat mit dem supergeilen Dressing (Dijonsenf! Dill! Kewpie-Mayonnaise!) und der knackigen Stangensellerie. #nommention

Chickpea Salad With Fresh Herbs and Scallions Recipe • 5★ (Gift Recipe)
A lighter, easier take on classic American potato salad, this version uses canned chickpeas in place of potatoes and favors Greek yogurt over mayonnaise. The trick to achieving the creamy texture of traditional potato salad is to mash some of the chickpeas lightly with a fork. It travels well, so it deserves a spot at your next picnic or desk lunch.

OMFG.
"… fresh warnings that a fiscal crisis is ​brewing …"
I don't even live there, but OMFG. Also, shame on me for being sixty-one years old and never previously looking up the true meaning of the word:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiscal
@…

The New Canadian Tariffs
take aim at big industries,
like aluminum and steel,
in addition to smaller ones located in states with closely watched midterm elections
The Canadian tariffs were designed to protect domestic companies hit by a fresh set of hefty U.S. tariffs
and to sting Donald Trump and his Republican Party
as they head into a difficult midterm election in November

Sonnet 107 - CVII
Not mine own fears, nor the prophetic soul
Of the wide world dreaming on things to come,
Can yet the lease of my true love control,
Supposed as forfeit to a confined doom.
The mortal moon hath her eclipse endured,
And the sad augurs mock their own presage;
Incertainties now crown themselves assured,
And peace proclaims olives of endless age.
Now with the drops of this most balmy time,
My love looks fresh, and Death…

Vent-Axia Lo-Carbon Tempra single-room MHRV: Review - Learn how our retrofit Tempra MHRV helps keep humidity down in the kitchen and the air fresh, even when drying laundry in winter. #frugal #cutCarbon -

Vent-Axia Lo-Carbon Tempra single-room MHRV: Review
Learn how our retrofit Tempra MHRV helps keep humidity down in the kitchen and the air fresh, even when drying laundry in winter. #frugal #cutCarbon

@… I'm hearing amazing things over on Bsky about Kaladar Market, 2455 Kaladar
Avenue, (local fresh fruits and vegetables all grown in Canada, except the citrus). Do you know it?

Gosh, I just can't imagine why no one wants to be at Trump's classless party:
▫️ Embarrassingly weak D-list entertainment
▫️ Shoddy exhibits with low participation
▫️ Record temps & pea-soup humidity
▫️ Green reflecting pool, pretentious ballroom, laughably fake arch & constant reminders of how badly the worst president in US history has screwed up America...
▶️ Trump’s Melting State Fair Hit With Fresh Humiliation

Trump’s Melting State Fair Hit With Fresh Humiliation
With only three days until the holiday, the administration is struggling to generate good buzz for the occasion.

Cyclospora outbreak expands to nine US states, health officials say....
Taylor farms will kill you eventually ....
Taylor Farms is an American-founded fresh produce producer headquartered in Salinas, California, that operates globally with major processing facilities across the United States, Mexico, Canada, and Western Europe.

'Farbe: Blau (kein Himmel)' #FotoVorschlag
Color blue (no sky)
Wow thanks to #immich search, I found a photo that I didn't know I took.. A lot of years ago.
#FlowersOfMastodon

I saw toy story 5 because reasons and realized the "age verification" laws aren't just a surveillance device to help authoritarian governments find troublemakers.
They're also a convenient way for predators to find fresh, age-certified victims where their parents will trust no predator can be.
Win-win for evil!

So as I've been droning on about, I'm doing lots of painting in the house. Next is the dining room. I have to live with the wood chip wallpaper but it's currently clinical white. I was all set to go with a sage tone to complement the fabulous orange dining chairs but I'm now leaning towards a fresh lemony colour as it's such a light sunny room. Current light is very Mum, a crystal drop arrangement which will be going. Instead I am totally in love with these.

How the fuck does a fresh install of Windows 11 use 67GB!?

In the weekly kerfuffle we have 5 updates, this time bottom, brave-origin, fresh-editor, librewolf and vivaldi go one up.
#slackware #librewolf #brave-origin

Fresh Cherry Tomato And Chickpea Salad #plantbased

Fresh Cherry Tomato And Chickpea Salad
Vegan News: Plant Based News is the world's leading vegan news media, and plant-based health education platform. Vegan Celebrity stories, interviews with the leading vegan and plant-based doctors.

China adds ten US companies, including MP Materials and Teal Drones, to export controls and bars government purchases from 46 US companies, including Anduril (Wataru Suzuki/Nikkei Asia)
https://asia.nikkei.com/economy/trade-wa…

China hits dozens of US companies with export controls, procurement bans
Measures against drone, rare-earth and other entities signal fresh trade tensions

Draft snub fresh on Jermod McCoy’s mind ahead of Raiders debut https://www.reviewjournal.com/sports/raiders/draft-snub-fresh-on-jermod-mccoys-mind-ahead-of-raiders-debut-3861994/

Jerry Jones’ Dak Prescott gamble gets fresh validation from major PFF ranking https://www.sportingnews.com/ca/nfl/dallas-cowboys/news/dak-prescott-cowboys-pff-non-first-round-draft-pick/13edf6414ff1bcf706c4fbc4

Trump prepares fresh tariffs on dozens of countries, FT reports
Donald ⁠Trump is poised to unleash fresh ⁠tariffs on ⁠dozens of countries
as soon as ⁠this week, the Financial Times reported on ⁠Tuesday,
with his temporary 10% global ‌tariff ‌scheduled to expire on ‌Friday.
The FT said the most immediate new duties are expected to be on a ‌par with the 10% tariffs currently in place,
but the administration was also working on other ⁠investigations that could gran…

Trump announces new tariffs on generic drugs to take effect in 2028 – as it happened
This live blog is now closed.

Source: iHeartMedia has begun a new round of layoffs affecting dozens of workers in its local radio broadcasting units as part of a broader restructuring (Matthew Keys/TheDesk.net)
https://thedesk.net/2026/06/iheartmedia-layoffs-new-round/

iHeartMedia begins fresh round of layoffs in radio business
iHeartMedia has begun a company-wide programming realignment tied to technology investments and a new cost-reduction initiative.

fresh_webs: Freshwater stream webs
A set of 26 networks of trophic-level species interactions in streams in New Zealand, Maine and North Carolina. Networks include the identities of aquatic insect, algae and fish species and their trophic interactions. Excel and plain text adjacency matrices available; webs can be downloaded individually or as a group.
This network has 49 nodes and 110 edges.
Tags: Biological, Food web, Unweighted, Metadata

from my link log —
The smell of rain: how Aussie scientists invented a new word in 1964.
https://www.csiro.au/en/news/All/Articles/2015/March/the-smell-of-rain-how-our-scientists-invented-a-new-word
saved 20…

"Everyone forgets comedians are actors. There's no question about it. A Robin Williams cannot say the same line every night for 40 weeks and make it sound fresh unless he's doing an acting job."
—Joan Rivers
#acting #coaching

Ivanka and Jared Project Ensnared by Fresh Scandal Over Accused Mobster (Wiktoria Gucia/The Daily Beast)
https://www.thedailybeast.com/ivanka-and-jared-ensnared-in-fresh-scandal-over-luxury-project/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260613/p43#a260613p43

Fasten your seat belts because the cyber developments are off the charts this week. Stay ahead of the curve and check out today's Metacurity for the most crucial developments, including
--Anthropic releases Mythos-derived model with cyber guardrails,
--Admin halts AI safety reports amid fight over oversight,
--Microsoft patches record 200 flaws as AI fuels bug discovery,
--Nightmare Eclipse drops fresh Windows zero-day,
--China's hackers target tech firms…

Anthropic releases Mythos-derived model with cyber guardrails
Admin halts AI safety reports amid fight over oversight, Microsoft patches record 200 flaws as AI fuels bug discovery, Nightmare Eclipse drops fresh Windows zero-day, China's hackers target tech firms as AI race intensifies, Social media overtakes email as top attack channel, much more

A.J. Brown's fresh start, Tua Tagovailoa vs. Michael Penix lead NFL minicamp storylines https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7351587/2026/06/15/nfl-minicamp-storylines-aj-brown-tua-tagovailoa-michael-penix/

Gosh, I just can't imagine why no one wants to be at Trump's classless party:
▫️ Embarrassingly weak D-list entertainment
▫️ Shoddy exhibits with low participation
▫️ Record temps & pea-soup humidity
▫️ Green reflecting pool, pretentious ballroom, laughably fake arch & constant reminders of how badly the worst president in US history has screwed up America...
▶️ Trump’s Melting State Fair Hit With Fresh Humiliation

Trump’s Melting State Fair Hit With Fresh Humiliation
With only three days until the holiday, the administration is struggling to generate good buzz for the occasion.

The U.S. Justice Department is prosecuting an American
for allegedly providing U.S. border authorities with a passcode that wiped the contents of his phone,
according to an indictment and media reports. 
This is thought to be the first known case in the United States where federal prosecutors have charged someone for the alleged destruction of data using a “duress” password built into a phone’s software.
According to The Guardian, which covered the story earlier this …

US accuses American of allegedly wiping his phone using a 'duress' password during border search | TechCrunch
A U.S. citizen has asked a court to throw out the government's claim that he gave over a passcode to border authorities that wiped his phone's data, opening up fresh questions about a person's constitutional rights at the U.S. border.

This is just ridiculously SMART!
https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/heat-pumps/worlds-oldest-cheddar-maker-heat-pumps

World’s oldest cheddar-maker slashes energy bills with novel heat pumps
Innovative tech from U.K.-based Arkaya Energy cools fresh milk and redirects the resulting heat, saving Barber’s Farmhouse Cheesemakers more than $90,000…

Sources: Temporal is in talks for a fresh funding round that would give the open-source orchestration platform developer a ~$500M raise at a $12B valuation (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-08-19/a…

Italy's Far-Right Group Becomes Party in Fresh Threat to Meloni (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-06-14/italy-s-far-right-group-futuro-nazionale-becomes-party-in-fresh-threat-to-meloni
http://www.memeorandum.com/260614/p23#a260614p23

Prime Minister Mark #Carney has said a fresh wave of US tariffs on Canada is a "miscalculation" designed to "hurt and divide us", after trade talks collapsed late on Friday.
"They asked too much and they offered too little," Carney told Canadians on Saturday morning, adding the country was now in a trade "war" after being hit with punishing new US dut…

I'm relieved that a majority in Makerfield saw sense.
However,
I suppose today's a good one to post a link to my Andy Burnham briefing thread.
https://mstdn.social/@markhburton/115951620471069261
And for the rather spin and little substance way he tal…

Andy Burnham’s Green Summit (2026)
Mark Burton Some 2,500 people attended Mayor Andy Burnham’s Greater Manchester Green Summit on Tuesday 3 March. The Mayor’s address Burnham, fresh from the controversy over the Gorton and Denton by…

‘The biggest threat is the president’
Election fears in Arizona as Trump sows fresh doubts
Experts warn election denialism could bubble up again in November,
despite truce in bitter power struggle
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/j

‘The biggest threat is the president’: election fears in Arizona as Trump sows fresh doubts
Experts warn election denialism could bubble up again in November, despite truce in bitter power struggle

Sonnet 001 - I
From fairest creatures we desire increase,
That thereby beauty's rose might never die,
But as the riper should by time decease,
His tender heir might bear his memory:
But thou contracted to thine own bright eyes,
Feed'st thy light's flame with self-substantial fuel,
Making a famine where abundance lies,
Thy self thy foe, to thy sweet self too cruel:
Thou that art now the world's fresh ornament,
And onl…

"Everyone forgets comedians are actors. There's no question about it. A Robin Williams cannot say the same line every night for 40 weeks and make it sound fresh unless he's doing an acting job."
—Joan Rivers
#acting #coaching

Cowboys Headlines: Dak embraces pressure, Guyton's fresh start begins https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2026/07/18/cowboys-headlines-dak-unfazed-by-pressure-guyton-faces-rea…

the thought of coating fresh lettuce with bottled ingredients of indeterminate age and provenance makes my heart hurt

Donald Trump’s move to impose a fresh round of #tariffs on more than 80 countries has drawn criticism from both Democratic politicians and his own allies.
Jamieson Greer, the US trade representative, announced that the Trump administration “is imposing tariffs on more than 80 countries for their failure to impose and effectively enforce a prohibition on the importation of goods produced with forced l…

Trump’s new tariffs ‘a sales tax that will make life harder for Americans’, say Democrats – US politics live
Even some Republicans apparently expressing concern over measures against 85 countries

TSMC CFO Wendell Huang says TSMC will use its new $100B US commitment, announced last week, to expand its Arizona capacity amid a "multi-year demand mega trend" (Jenny Lee/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/07/20/tsmc-arizona-fab-capacity-ai-chip-demand.h…

TSMC is accelerating Arizona factory buildout to capitalize on AI 'megatrend,' CFO says
Speaking in an exclusive interview with CNBC, TSMC's Wendell Huang said the fresh investment comes on the back of robust customer demand.

I've painted the utility room! And myself a bit. Gone is sickly peach and in is a startlingly bright and fresh green. It wasn't my first choice but it's turned out to be exactly right. It feels like it brings the outdoors green inside, which is exactly what I'd hoped to achieve. Tails is exhausted from making so much fecking fuss at being kept out of the way. Sparks had the right idea and slept through it all under our bed. Pics show the lobby between the kitchen and the util…

Ugh, the poor quality of air in my seaside Highland town. Sitting reading in a room with the window open just a crack "for fresh air" - when I noticed an unpleasant metal twinge in the air, so had to close the window and blast the air purifier until the smell was gone.
Happens far too often, and the locals have zero awareness about the effects of air pollution on health.

fresh_webs: Freshwater stream webs
A set of 26 networks of trophic-level species interactions in streams in New Zealand, Maine and North Carolina. Networks include the identities of aquatic insect, algae and fish species and their trophic interactions. Excel and plain text adjacency matrices available; webs can be downloaded individually or as a group.
This network has 71 nodes and 148 edges.
Tags: Biological, Food web, Unweighted, Metadata

“If u iz at dis borin wimbledore final lookin 2 get grand slammed, I iz here wif de hookup.”
The offer was from Ali G, real name Alistair Leslie Graham, AKA the malapropism-dropping home counties wide boy played by Sacha Baron Cohen,
kitted out for the occasion in trademark skullcap and gold chain, plus custom Wimbledon jacket, traditional crossed rackets replaced with cannabis leaves.
Security released him without penalty, but the reprimand was captured on scores of smartph…

Prince William? David Cameron? JD Vance? Celebrities brace – and Staines celebrates – ahead of new Ali G film
Sacha Baron Cohen’s doofus voice of yoof has been making fresh mischief with new film Who Iz I? But who will he catch out this time? And what does his fictional hometown make of his return?

Jonas #Vingegaard has revealed he came close to walking away from cycling last winter.
Now, Team Visma | Lease a Bike are preparing for fresh talks over his future after the Tour de France.
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I predict he retires
#TDF2026

fresh_webs: Freshwater stream webs
A set of 26 networks of trophic-level species interactions in streams in New Zealand, Maine and North Carolina. Networks include the identities of aquatic insect, algae and fish species and their trophic interactions. Excel and plain text adjacency matrices available; webs can be downloaded individually or as a group.
This network has 58 nodes and 126 edges.
Tags: Biological, Food web, Unweighted, Metadata

SpaceX is officially buying Cursor for $60 billion
Fresh off its blockbuster IPO,
Musk’s company wants to catch up to OpenAI and Anthropic in enterprise AI.
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/950571/spa…

SpaceX is officially buying Cursor for $60 billion
Fresh off its blockbuster IPO, Musk’s company wants to catch up to OpenAI and Anthropic in enterprise AI.

Sources: Alibaba is in talks to buy Chinese fresh grocery delivery platform Pupu for $1.5B, in a bid to better compete with food delivery rivals like Meituan (Cathy Chan/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026…

Oil and gas prices jumped,
stock markets slid
and government bond yields rose after the US and Iran traded fresh strikes
and Donald Trump said the shaky ceasefire was “over”.
Brent crude, the global benchmark, climbed 5% to $77.86 a barrel.
In stock markets, the UK’s FTSE 100 fell 1%, or 110 points, to 10,556 while Germany’s Dax tumbled 1.6% and Spain’s Ibex lost 2%.
Speaking at a NATO summit in Ankara, Trump also said he was cutting off trade with Spain ov…

Oil prices jump over 5% after Trump suggests ceasefire with Iran has ended following fresh US strikes – as it happened
Brent crude spikes to a daily high of $79.26, gas prices rise, stock markets slide and government bond yields surge on inflation and rate hike fears

fresh_webs: Freshwater stream webs
A set of 26 networks of trophic-level species interactions in streams in New Zealand, Maine and North Carolina. Networks include the identities of aquatic insect, algae and fish species and their trophic interactions. Excel and plain text adjacency matrices available; webs can be downloaded individually or as a group.
This network has 49 nodes and 110 edges.
Tags: Biological, Food web, Unweighted, Metadata

Jensen Huang says Microsoft and Nvidia will "reinvent the PC", starting with 30 laptops and 10 desktops coming in the fall from Dell, HP, Lenovo, and others (Katie Tarasov/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/31/nvidias-new-chi…

Nvidia jumps into PCs with new Arm-based chip debuting in laptops from Microsoft, Dell, HP
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang unveiled a long-awaited Arm-based PC chip, breaking into PCs for the first time on new laptops by Dell, Microsoft, HP, ASUS and others.

The luxury resort planned by Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner faces a new challenge from villagers who say their land was wrongfully sold by an accused gangster.
The president’s daughter and her husband plan to develop a $1.4 billion resort on the uninhabited island of Sazan in Albania, as well as a wider hotel development along the Zvërnec coastline worth around $4.7 billion.
Weeks of protests have raised concerns that the wildlife-rich area, with its flamingos and sea turtles, co…

Ivanka and Jared Project Ensnared by Fresh Scandal Involving Accused Mobster
A dozen villagers say their land was wrongfully sold for the development by a Miami man with alleged mobster ties.

fresh_webs: Freshwater stream webs
A set of 26 networks of trophic-level species interactions in streams in New Zealand, Maine and North Carolina. Networks include the identities of aquatic insect, algae and fish species and their trophic interactions. Excel and plain text adjacency matrices available; webs can be downloaded individually or as a group.
This network has 78 nodes and 181 edges.
Tags: Biological, Food web, Unweighted, Metadata

Infrastructure that civilians rely on for survival is not generally considered a legitimate military target,
and striking it could be considered a war crime.
But the attacks on water resources are especially concerning in the Gulf region:
Most nations there lack widespread access to fresh water and rely heavily on hundreds of desalination plants -- complex operations where repairs can be difficult and time-consuming.
Desalination plants produce 90 percent of Kuwait’s…

Water Plants Under Fire in the Gulf Are Crucial to Civilians
Several days of airstrikes have hit water and energy plants in Kuwait, a nation that relies on desalination for 90 percent of its drinking water.

Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump’s controversial luxury resort project in Albania
has hit a new setback after prosecutors alleged that land tied to the development may have been acquired through forged ownership documents.
Albanian anti-corruption prosecutors are investigating Miami-based businessman Artur Shehu,
who sold a stretch of coastline slated for Kushner’s planned multi-billion-dollar resort earlier this year.
Prosecutors allege Shehu and his associates launde…

Ivanka and Jared’s Luxury Resort Hit by Fresh Scandal
The Miami-based businessman who sold some of the land for the project is suspected of forging property records.

US gas prices this month are so far the highest ever recorded for August
as peace talks between the US and Iran have stalled and Donald Trump launched fresh threats against Oman.
The national average price of gas was $4.06 per gallon on Monday,
according to data from AAA,
$0.05 higher than last week
and $1 more expensive than a year ago.
In California and Hawaii, averages hit about $5.50 a gallon.

US gas prices reach highest ever recorded for August amid stalled talks with Iran
Energy prices have been high since the US-Israel war with Iran began and the strait of Hormuz was blocked