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❗️Russia has left Kyiv without heating: how Ukrainians are surviving in the cold #shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/18/russia-has-left-kyiv-without.html

I have a major new feature for Left Wordle. I am testing the ability to sync settings and game history between devices. This feature is very much beta at this time and everything is subject to change.
My goal is to get as many people testing this as possible to identify any bugs that might cause problems once released. If you have time, please give it a try. Instructions here:

I made 6 more shirts.
They’re based on the disability pride flag: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disability_flag
I added a WCAG principle to each stripe, plus a bonus principle.
Also sans stripes, with the words still angled and in the stripe colors.
Sale still runn…

The "Squad" left suffers complete wipeout in Illinois (Andrew Solender/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/03/18/the-squad-left-suffers-complete-wipeout-in-illinois
http://www.memeorandum.com/260318/p12#a260318p12

Not that you needed another reason but …
https://krcgtv.com/news/nation-world/california-protester-left-blind-in-one-eye-is-among-string-of-violent-run-ins-with-ice

I of course goofed and left out the explanation of Lorentz Contraction from the obvious place in Part 3 where I should have talked about it.
So I've slotted it in here:
https://wrog.dreamwidth.org/71271.html#hrel3_lorentz
along with a new diagram to make super…

You.com appoints Saahil Jain as new CTO after co-founder Bryan McCann left to Anthropic; You.com, which began in consumer search, is targeting enterprise more (Kevin McLaughlin/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/ai-st…

In #Knysna, Südafrika, drohen in wenigen Tagen die #Wasserhähne trocken zu bleiben.
Der #Akkerkloof-Damm ist nur noch zu 15 Prozent gefüllt. Jahrzehntelange Versäumnisse bei

„One tactic of fascism is to shift the scales of political alignment: centrists become stalwarts of the radical left; moms become ‚domestic terrorists.‘ Everyone with a whistle becomes antifa. And actually, that last part is correct—or at least it should be. A general strike has been called for Friday, January 23. With luck, thousands of Minnesotans will join in on what many further left are already doing: stopping business as usual and withdrawing their consent from fascism. Among many thin…

Encouraging move for (pluralistic) left unity in Spain. Just what's left of Podemos (as usual, but maybe just for now) staying out.
Los partidos de Sumar hacen guiños al plan de Gabriel Rufišn: IU también acudirš al acto con Emilio Delgado
https://www.

The vOICe web app now supports optional right-left-scanning: https://www.seeingwithsound.com/webvoice/webvoice.htm?r2l Right-to-left scanning can be useful when visually reading Hebrew or Arabic print. You may have to run the web app twice because of browser caching while upda…

#Shitpost #Shitposting #ShamelesslyStolenFromSomewhereElseOnTheInternetHonestlyICantKeepTrackOfThisStuffAnymore

“Is there a technology that the left is excited about?!?”
- Solar energy
- Libraries
- Trains
- Vibrators
- Guillotines

:neodog_stretch_down:
:neodog_stretch_dr:⁠:neodog_stretch_h:⁠:neodog_stretch_h:⁠:neodog_stretch_left:
🦵🦵🦵🦵

Former US general got drunk in Kyiv, suffered concussion, left classified maps on train, watchdog finds (Dmytro Basmat/The Kyiv Independent)
https://kyivindependent.com/former-us-commander-in-charge-of-security-assistance-to-ukraine-left-classified-maps-on-train-overindulged-in-alcohol-watchdog-finds/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260317/p66#a260317p66

There are still reasonable people out there, like Pope #Leo XIV.
"Pope #Leo XIV will not be joining US President Donald Trump’s “Board of Peace,” the Vatican’s top diplomat said Tuesday, adding that the United Nations should be left to handle crisis situations. "

@… can I offer you a rotated left arrow key in these trying times

Alberto Castañeda Mondragón
was hospitalized with
eight skull fractures
after being arrested by ICE agents
in January
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/18/fbi-minnesota-police-investigate-ic…

“Little did I dream you could be so reckless and so cruel. He will always bear a scar, needlessly inflicted by you.
You’ve done enough. Have you no sense of decency, sir? At long last, have you left no sense of decency?”

*Now* it is my #GLT Cyber-Terminator notebook (again). 😉
#Graz #Steirertux

“AI can make mistakes” might as well be the slogan of our era. Even boosters admit that you need to spin the vibe code slot machine a few times to get a jackpot.
An employee with that degree of consistency would be fired.
So how do we redirect some of that unlimited grace from machines to humans?

This graph show why I don't like to use the "right" and "left" words to describes politic opinion anymore...

So the collective trauma reaction against the Church, so deep for those of us coming from the tradition of the European Left, alienates us from those indigenous comrades of ours who refused to let their identities be erased. It alienates us from Black and Latin American comrades who, in some cases, have subverted that same religion from a tool of oppression to a tool of resistance.
It also alienates us from our pagan, Jewish, and even Christian ancestors. Rather than a rejection of the genocides, crusades, and pogroms carried out to solidify the hegemony of the Church, a chauvinistic atheism affirms it under another name. Likewise it affirms the patriarchs who burned witches and destroyed midwifery to shift power over to male doctors.
The "Enlightenment" paradigm of "Reason," that led through secularism to the anti-religious antagonism of Bill Maher and the New Atheists, is laced with an Islamophobia and anti-Semitism rooted in the same church they claim to reject. And anyone who has been paying attention can see that it opens the door to the far right anti-Semitism and Islamophobia that also grows from that same root...

If you want me to write a document, please let me know what KIND of output you expect? What voice, what length, what level of detail, what audience. Ideally, give me something similar so I can infer these things.
(Goes off stage left, grumbling, to continue writing his grant application)

Double trouble today: bulletproof coffee on the left, orangespresso on the right.
#tasskaff #coffee

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Natalie Jane Hill:
🎵 Never Left Me
#NowPlaying #NatalieJaneHill
https://nataliejanehill.bandcamp.com/track/never-left-me
https://open.spotify.com/track/5mYV6uf5S0ChjFoLJWUJHI
Schon gewusst❓
Wenn Du einen Beitrag des Bots ⭐ FAVORISIERST, erfährt das nur der Bot - nicht Deine FollowerInnen.
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Let's get a new hashtag going - #ArchivalCoffeeRings.
These are from a letter written in January 1831, though I suspect a clerk in the receiving office - the Canadian Indian Department - left the stains. Also, I am probably undercutting the hashtag as I create it - these are more likely tea than coffee rings.

Have some money left for a good cause this month?
The team behind the landmine clearing hero rats are currently running a fundraiser with a 50% donation match possibility:
https://www.globalgiving.org/projects/support-apopos-herorats-life-saving-miss…

Right now is the ideal time for people with positions on the left end of the Overton Window to find offices to run for wearing a big blue D.
Anything. School board. State leg. County clerk. Sheriff.
If you want a real Left party in the US, the only serious strategy is to do to the Dems what the Fash have done to the GOP. Be the party. In the US, it really can be that simple.

Vintage Mo! Curler to the top left corner. I LOVE to see it.
I will invade the pitch if they rule this off.
🇪🇬 👑

Weekend #Plankton Factoid 🦠🦐
Hypoxia (low oxygen) is a serious environmental impact in some coastal marine and freshwater environments, often referred to as "dead zones". In spite of the name, while fish are absent, they can be teeming with crustacean and gelateous zooplankton, which have remarkable tolerance to hypoxia. Some cladoceran zooplankton even produce hemoglobin to store …

Present thought
Mastodon's the right model. But to be truly *useful* politcally - the Bluesky/Mastodonian idea of "we will make our safe space over here" might be pleasant for many and that's fine
But they're not healthy for useful political discourse, which is often ugly, but generates the necessary talk.
The discussions I'm seeing on Twitter/threads e.g. left v. liberal are finally getting "good." (among others)

So, one of our bonus daughters came over for the first time this year and we did our Christmas gift exchange and she made EACH of us a little stuffed cat, our two eldest cats (RIP) and our youngin’ cat (the one on the right)
❤️❤️❤️❤️🤩
She has a site, apparently!
https://linktr.ee/fuzzyfamiliars

trynamic trio meetup

Western Gull standing on a rock while contemplating the ocean. Moonstone Beach, Cambria, California, USA. OM System OM-1 M.Zuiko 300mm F4 PRO MC14. #moonstonebeach #cambriacalifornia #seagull

Sick to my stomach.
“A 21-year-old anti-ICE protester has been left permanently blind in his left eye after a federal agent fired a less-lethal projectile into his face from close range during a demonstration in Santa Ana, California. Kaden Rummler, a college student, underwent six hours of surgery to remove shards of plastic, glass and metal embedded in his eyes and face, with one piece lodged just 7 millimetres from his carotid artery.”

#Blakes7 Series B, Episode 11 - Gambit
KRANTOR: Watch him. Watch him, carefully. Every time, just before he makes a bet, he moves his left hand up to his ear.
TOISE: Or his head.
KRANTOR: We must find out how he's doing it.
[Casino.]
h…

https://www.bbc.com/news/live/c1j8kw866p3t

I hope this bullshit finally disinhibits people in Europe - particularly those not on the left - from condemning the MAGA regime, and retaliating economically instead of pathetically trying to appease it.

Go to hell Trump, nobody wants the 💩 you have to offer.

NFL free agency 2026 winners and losers: Ravens' value play; Raiders left hanging https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7116434/2026/03/17/nfl-free-agency-2026-winners-loses-ravens-raiders/

summer will come again
#photography #noFilter

Zero Chucks Left to Give (Lauren Egan/The Bulwark)
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/zero-chucks-left-to-give-schumer-midterms-2026-interview
http://www.memeorandum.com/260118/p79#a260118p79

What to know about the decentralized antifa movement | AP News https://apnews.com/article/trump-antifa-executive-order-domestic-terrorist-organization-6ea07143e10bb811aa88b9da5aa26765

Investigation: Jeffrey Epstein spent hundreds of thousands on a campaign to manipulate Google search results and sanitize his Wikipedia, after his 2009 release (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/18/business/media/jeffrey-epstein-online.html

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@briankrebs/116093031199752230
Don’t get left behind in having your confidential emails sloppified

It appears that you can resolve most of GrapheneOS's severe performance limitations and tendency to aggressively kill background apps (after like 15 seconds!) by globally disabling "secure app spawning" and per-app disabling the "hardened memory allocator." At that point, however, you're pretty much left with a gimped AOSP that's missing a bunch of core usability functionality yeeted in the name of security, and you might as well install LineageOS. Or maybe Ca…

lkml_thread: Linux kernel mailing list
A bipartite network of contributions by users to threads on the Linux kernel mailing list. A left node is a person, and a right node is a thread, and each timestamped edge (i,j,t) denotes that user i contributed to thread j at time t. The date of the snapshot is not given.
This network has 379554 nodes and 1565683 edges.
Tags: Social, Communication, Unweighted, Timestamps

Source: New York Daily News is cutting six of 10 national desk staffers, one metro reporter, seven print production people, and two photo department staffers (Alexandra Steigrad/New York Post)
https://nypost.com/2026/02/1…

"Looking at the connection between #capitalism and oxygen"
He's right. So long as there's any fuel left and any oxygen left, capitalism will continue to burn everything in its path — until there's nothing left
Drilled: Drilling Deep: John Vaillant on the Climate-Fire Nexus
Episode webpage:

Rechtsaf naar Gaza, linksaf naar de Dode Zee // A la derecha hacia Gaza, a la izquierda hacia el Mar Muerto // Right to Gaza, left to the Dead Sea
(2014)
* https://kamafotos.nl/2014/02/26/israel-levahim-road-40-road-310/
*

Portugal has made a clear choice for a center-left president instead of a far-right one, probably by around 70-30.
https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2026/02/08/centre-left-antonio-jose-seguro-beats-far-ri…

Up to 540,000 conscription-age men have left Ukraine since the full-scale invasion: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/17/up-to-conscriptionage-men-have.html

How Cowboys ended up hiring Christian Parker as their new defensive coordinator https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7056013/2026/02/18/cowboys-christian-parker-dc-scheme/

Different Corners XI ▶️
不同的角落 XI ▶️
📷 Nikon F4E
🎞️ Rollei RPX 400
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite

Army general left classified maps on train; concussed after 'overindulgence' in alcohol: IG report
https://thehill.com/homenews/5786917-us-army-general-alcohol-incident/

NFL free agency 2026 winners and losers: Ravens' value play; Raiders left hanging https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7116434/2026/03/17/nfl-free-agency-2026-winners-loses-ravens-raiders/

So I finally (what, a decade behind popular trends??) am having reason to experiment with actual use of Docker in production, and…I’m surprised at how disappointing it is.
The configuration is clumsy, a dangerous mix of boilerplate and footgun customization points. The dockerfile / compose division of labor is nonsensical; it apparently grew by accretion instead of design. There are lots of loose ends left for hosting services to tie up, and the product thus fails in what would seem to be a primary goal of avoiding hosting vendor lock-in.
Am I simply Not Getting It Yet™, or is the state of the art actually like this?

Entering the canyon
(Half an hour earlier we were sitting and basking in the sun at the top of those cliffs on the left...)
#SilentSunday #LandscapePhotography #NaturePhotography

It’s not hard to see why ICE has expanded its reach beyond the Twin Cities.
The qualities that have hindered ICE’s operation in Minneapolis and St. Paul
— density and walkability; a large, almost exclusively left-of-center population
— are absent here.
In Minneapolis, I saw patrollers on nearly every street corner.
It’s easy to gather for protests or come together to organize a mutual aid network.
The sidewalks in Lakeville were deserted, as were the broa…

Has anyone written a mastodon on boarding FAQ for people who left X but still wants an AI bot to undress random strangers on the internet?

This sounds like a useful and perhaps fun gathering.
One of London's best-loved gatherings for journalists and technologists is returning after a pandemic hiatus
Source Code: the spirit of Hacks/Hackers LDN is back with a new name
https://www.journalism.co.u…

#Anarchism

Someone please explain this to me

Climbing onto a bar stool, a piece of string asked for a beer.
"Wait a minute. Aren't you a string?"
"Well, yes, I am."
"Sorry. We don't serve strings here."
The determined string left the bar and stopped a passer-by. "Excuse,
me," it said, "would you shred my ends and tie me up like a pretzel?" The
passer-by obliged, and the string re-entered the bar. "May I have a beer,
please?" …

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #ChrisHawkins
Suzanne Vega:
🎵 Left Of Center
#SuzanneVega
https://djbiggh.bandcamp.com/track/suzanne-vega-left-of-center-dj-bigg-h-update
https://open.spotify.com/track/24vxZMHrjy9hGxzdTGCJBU

Uh, looks like one of my DualShock analogs is starting to fail (it keeps "jumping" left). My eco-awareness teels I should get a replacement part (for ¼ of the price of a new controller) and replace it. The problem is, I don't really have energy to disassemble it and hope I won't break anything, and manage to assemble it again. The instructions suggest you have to remove pretty much everything to get there, and I have no clue how small the solders are… And I have no clue what quality is the replacement part either.

“The landlord put it up, yet the tenants have Green posters in the window. It’s a sign of the state of politics now – Labour prioritises landlords and Greens prioritise tenants.
“Labour know this election is now Reform versus Green but of course they don’t want to lose too badly and they’re fighting for every vote, even if that means Reform win.”
Excl: Labour And Greens Clash Over Posters Amid By Election Tensions | HuffPost UK Politics

I’ve seen a few breathless “BlueSky gave ICE.gov a _verified_ account!!” Posts on here, so lemme try and clear things up a little:
Personally, I think Bluesky should’ve left things with self verification, like the way the Fediverse handles things, but this is not them publicly approving of ICE (and fuck ICE, obviously) https://

Western Digital said on its Q2 earnings call it had "pretty much sold out" its 2026 HDD capacity, and that the consumer sector accounted for 5% of total revenue (Muhammad Zuhair/Wccftech)
https://wccftech.com/western-digital-has-no-more-hdd-capacity-left-out…

Me, trying to fit in with the Gen Ys by cursing out a thoughtless driver
#Shitpost #Shitposting #ShamelesslyStolenFromSomewhereElseOnTheInternetHonestlyICantKeepTrackOfThisStuffAnymore

Great Egret. Bolsa Chica Ecological Reserve, Huntington Beach, California, USA. February 2026. OM System OM-1 M.Zuiko 300mm F4. #bolsachicaecologicalreserve #egret #bird

Series C, Episode 11 - Moloch
GROSE: A great many ways, Madam President. More ways than you've begun to realize. But that isn't why I summoned you to Sardos. [Grose nods at Lector and hands him a card. Lector moves to the machine, and inserts the card.]
SERVALAN: Would you say that again?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/…

How Cowboys ended up hiring Christian Parker as their new defensive coordinator https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7056013/2026/02/18/cowboys-christian-parker-dc-scheme/

Donna Miller comes out on top of crowded Illinois 2nd Congressional District race
-- defeating Jessie Jackson Jr.
Miller will likely replace U.S. Rep. Robin Kelly in the heavily Democratic district.
The only Republican candidate on the primary ballot was Mike Noack.
http…

bag_of_words: Bag of words (2008)
Five text collections in the form of bags-of-words, i.e. a bipartite document–word network. Left nodes are documents and right nodes are words. Edge weights are multiplicities. .
This network has 13919 nodes and 746316 edges.
Tags: Informational, Text, Bipartite, Weighted, Metadata
https://

My advice to the Tories is listen hard to distant but approaching thunder. #Climate negligence and fossil politics will not be a winning formula in the hotter world of the next election. That niche is best left to Reform.
There is a wide-open window for the Conservatives to be the responsible party of nature and free market, winning back the hard-working silent middle as urban Labour lurches f…

#Shitpost #Shitposting #ShamelesslyStolenFromSomewhereElseOnTheInternetHonestlyICantKeepTrackOfThisStuffAnymore

Center left wins Portugal presidential election first round, exit poll says (Aitor Hernšndez-Morales/Politico)
https://www.politico.eu/article/far-right-wins-portugal-presidential-election-first-round-exit-poll-says/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260118/p67#a260118p67

Fernando Mendoza Gets Big Justin Herbert Take Amid Raiders Link https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/fernando-mendoza-big-justin-herbert-take/

The Trump administration purged the State Department of its oil and gas experts last year,
-- prior to launching its war on Iran,
--including people who would be responsible for examining scenarios related to the closure of the Strait of Hormuz.
By the time the layoffs were over,
the only people left in the energy bureau were people specializing in critical minerals and clean energy,
the administration said in a notification to Congress at the time.
The pe…

If you don't create a presence on Google today, you'll be left behind.

It's disasters and infrastructure week in my "History of Here," a course focused on #Mississauga and #Toronto. So we'll discuss the largest pre-Katrina peacetime evacuation in North America - the Mississauga train derailment.
As usual, I'll begin class with some music from the period a…

Series B, Episode 13 - Star One
[Scene - Liberator flight deck]
VILA: I don't like explosives, very crude. Difficult to reason with a bomb.
CALLY: Blake?
AVON: They won't explode until they are primed.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/213/241 B7B3

Five members of xAI's 12-person founding team have now left the company, with four of the departures coming in just the last year (Russell Brandom/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/10/nearly-half-of-xais-founding-team-has-now-left-th…

2026 NFL Draft order: Bills, Bears, 49ers and Texans turn their attention to the offseason after playoff exits

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/2026-nfl-draft-order-updated-top-p…

According to Chile’s CONAF forestry agency, firefighters were battling 24 active fires across the country as of Sunday morning,
with the largest being in the regions of Ñuble and Bío Bío,
where the government declared the emergency.
The regions are about 500 km south of the capital, Santiago.
“In light of the serious ongoing wildfires, I have decided to declare a state of catastrophe in the regions of Ñuble and Bio Bío. All resources are available,” Boric said on a p…

crime: Rosenfeld crime network (1991)
A network of associations among suspects, victims, and/or witnesses involved in crimes in St. Louis in the 1990s. Data are derived from police records, via snowball sampling from five initial homicides. Left nodes are people, right nodes are crime events, and edges connect people to particular crimes events they were associated with. Metadata includes names, genders, and roles (suspects, victims, and/or witnesses).
This network has 1380 nodes…

FBI and Minnesota police investigate ICE arrest that left man with broken skull (Associated Press)
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/18/fbi-minnesota-police-investigate-ice-arrest
http://www.memeorandum.com/260218/p49#a260218p49

#Shitpost #Shitposting #ShamelesslyStolenFromSomewhereElseOnTheInternetHonestlyICantKeepTrackOfThisStuffAnymore

Series D, Episode 05 - Animals
JUSTIN: Well, there's no need. I've developed painless brain grafts for the others. All Og needs is psycho instruction.
DAYNA: You're so rational about it all.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/405/243 B7B4

Source: Ducks' World (torn ACL) to miss combine https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/47966036/source-ducks-isaiah-world-miss-nfl-combine-torn-acl

Oh dear, the new Observer can't manage responsiveness, i.e. the ability of a web page to adjust to the user's screen. Not possible to fix it at the reader end.
A pity, I wanted to skim it.
https://observer.co.uk/news/national/a

Series A, Episode 13 - Orac
CALLY: [Returning.] Blake, I think I've found enough for everybody.
BLAKE: Oh good, at least the others will be all right.
ENSOR: Well, I'm ready, shall we get started?
BLAKE: Well, wait a minute. There is something else.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/113/290

Bears' Williams: Future bright despite painful exit https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47657631/bears-proud-season-bullish-future-playoff-exit

With a historic supermajority now secured, the Japanese
Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) under Sanae Takaichi stands at its strongest position in decades.
The collapse of the Centrist Reform Alliance (CRA) in the same election has left Japan’s political landscape without its most prominent counterweight.
The question now is simple: what is left of Japan’s opposition?
Running under the slogan “Citizens First,” the CRA tried to appeal to voters with middle-ground messagi…

A review of a book from the Venezuelan left.
The debacle due to,
1) US imperial sanctions and blockade,
2) Vz leadership failure, despite rhetoric, to challenge & replace capitalist relations,
3) Continued dominance of oil and dependency on primary exports.
Venezuela: the end game – Michael Roberts Blog

Geno: Jets getting 'better player' than when I left https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/48188054/geno-smith-jets-better-player-one-left

Summary:
A colossal ancient impact may have reshaped the Moon far more deeply than scientists once realized.
By analyzing rare lunar rocks brought back by China’s Chang’e-6 mission from the Moon’s largest crater,
researchers found unusual chemical fingerprints pointing to extreme heat and material loss caused by a giant impact.
The collision likely stripped away volatile elements,
reshaped volcanic activity,
and left a lasting chemical signature deep belo…

Biggest question for every team left in the NFL playoffs: Can the Broncos overcome Bo Nix's inconsistency?

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/nfl-divisional-round-bigg…