Life After I Left
A space where women share their real stories, including the struggles, the triumphs, and the moments that created change...
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The most important, efficacious, & sizeable faction on the left is plain old "normie Dems", or whatever condescending term you prefer.
They're the ones doing the actual work.
But they are largely ignored by media, because they're organized & led by women.
https://skywriter.blue/@vol…
This is the weirdest combination of thumbnails I have ever seen on Netflix 😁
#netflix
So many things left to discover.
So few lives left.
💙💙🤍🤍🤍
Cosplay Runway: Spaceman, Chicken and Videographer with exoframe that supports his camera
#photo #photography #cosplay
If anyone knows of any available positions please let them know.
(They’re not proud of having worked at Google; quite the opposite, they left due to their ethical concerns about one of the worst surveillance capitalists in the world and a company, furthermore, that is complicit in genocide.)
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Sources: Ross Nordeen, the last remaining cofounder at xAI, left the company on Friday; Nordeen reported directly to Elon Musk as his right-hand operator (Grace Kay/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/xai-cofounder-ross-nordeen-lea…
Writing an ERWC-Style Module: Choosing Texts
I have written four ERWC modules and substantially revised several more. Most of my own modules turned out to be about full-length works, including Ursula Le Guin’s The Left Hand of Darkness, George Orwell’s 1984, and Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World. Writing a module around a novel is an interesting, complex, and time-consuming task. I will take that up later.
I sure do love when a package delivery company leaves your package at the wrong (business) address on a Saturday after 5pm.
36.3 kWh solar output yesterday, another new record. Breaking records left and right as the weather gets nicer and the days longer.
Nowhere near enough to offset my 167 kWh daily consumption, of course, but I still managed to export 0.6 kWh of overproduction at peak.
“To waste what little bandwidth we have left – when 750 million people worldwide lack access to electricity – assisting some of the richest men ever to hone their plagiarism bots would be a historic idiocy that future generations are unlikely to forgive today’s leaders for.”
#StochasticParrots
#LLMs
EyeBrain: Left and Right Brain Lateralization Activity Classification Through Pupil Diameter and Fixation Duration
Ko Watanabe, Pooja Pol, Nicolas Gro{\ss}mann, Shoya Ishimaru, Andreas Dengel
https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.23562 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2604.23562 https://arxiv.org/html/2604.23562
arXiv:2604.23562v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: The relationship between brain lateralization and cognitive functions is well-documented. The left hemisphere primarily handles tasks such as language and arithmetic, while the right hemisphere is involved in creative activities like drawing and music perception. Eye-tracking technology has shown the potential to reveal cognitive states by measuring ocular metrics such as pupil diameter and fixation duration. However, the ability to distinguish lateralized brain activity using these ocular metrics remains underexplored. Here, we demonstrate that pupil diameter and fixation duration can effectively classify left and right brain hemisphere activities. We obtained a considerably high classification performance, with an F1 score of 0.894. The results suggest that ocular metrics are robust indicators of lateralized brain activity and can be applied in cognitive monitoring and neurorehabilitation. Our future work expands on this by integrating these methods into real-time applications EyeBrain, potentially broadening their use across various cognitive and neurological domains.
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To be honest, the new icons are kinda better. https://www.fastcompany.com/91545582/google-workspace-icons-redesign
Some are no longer the circular red/green/blue/yellow rotation, though Google Maps icon still look kinda similar to Gmail's 🫠
House and Senate Republicans have identified the enemy
— and it is one another.
A meltdown in relations between the two G.O.P.-led chambers caused the embarrassing collapse on Friday of a Senate-passed proposal to reopen the Department of Homeland Security before lawmakers raced out of town on a two-week recess.
It left no clear path for resolving the crisis that has led to airport chaos and workers without paychecks.
And with President Trump seemingly cheering on the…
nobody:
absolutely no one:
me: "oh yeah, mommy's going to be mad that I left a bike shifter in bed"
14yo: 👀
#FotoVorschlag: Natur in der Stadt
Photo Suggestion: Nature in the city
Cow parsnip, a large native herb in the carrot family, growing along a trail in Mount Sutro Open Space, San Francisco.
It’s coming. One week. 6 May.
I contributed a chapter on accessibility overlays, but the other 33 make it worth it.
“Digital Accessibility Ethics: Disability Inclusion in All Things Tech”
https://AccessibilityEthics.org/
I do not use Ubuntu as a personal distro, however I have a couple of test machines with it on.
Whenever I have to use it I remember why I do not use it. Just tried to do-release-upgrade and it quickly fell apart and left me with a system that prints this when I try and run apt
apt: symbol lookup error: apt: undefined symbol: _ZN3APT6Solver14InternalCliWhyB5cxx11ER11pkgDepCacheN8pkgCache11PkgIteratorEb, version APTPKG_7.0
P.S. To be clear. I am ranting. I am not looking for …
I put a hot Pizza box down on this table last night and it left a mark on it. I'm not too sure what to do about that.
I've long felt that Charles (now King Charles) is basically a decent person who was brought up in uniquely strange, mind-twisting, circumstances that have left more than a few - I will be euphemistic - quirks.
But my respect for Charles has dropped considerably when I see him being friendly with our national monster, trump. It sort of reminds me of Chamberlain smiling next to Hitler.
Left my computer unlocked and walked away for less than 2 minutes and my daughter struck again.
🚀 Die NFDI4Culture‑Tasche ist wieder unterwegs! Wir sind gerade beim DARIAH‑EU Annual Event 2026 „Digital Arts and Humanities With and For Society: Building Infrastructures of Engagement“ in Rom.
🌍 NFDI4Culture steht morgen auf der Bühne mit dem Vortrag „Navigating the Myriad of Fragmented Partners: NFDI4Culture’s Approach to Fostering International Engagement" und zeigen, wie wir Forscher*innen, Institutionen und Kulturerbe vernetzen.
🔗
A UK Degrowth Gathering – call for organisers
Planning has begun for a one-day event bringing together the UK degrowth movement. The aims are to, Build connections among degrowth activists in the UK with a view to strengthening the identity and confidence of UK degrowth networks collectively. Explore the challenges facing degrowth in the UK at this time. Identify and begin to engage with potentially sympathetic constituencies, for example the left and environmental…
“In Budapest were wine and athletic dances, natives who tolerated him as a tourist with money, tourists who thought he was a wealthy native. He danced the dances and he drank the wines, and he left before midnight.”
#Ringworld
Coming to Knowledge:ORIGINALS on Thursday April 16 at 9PM and available for streaming on that date.
E.J.Hughes only wanted to be left alone to paint. He made hundreds of paintings in his 70 year career and lived long enough to hear on the telephone that one of his paintings fetched over $1m in his lifetime. Not many humans have that experience!
I was lucky enough to be invited to a preview at Emily Carr Uni - and I am very glad we went. Hughes was one of a kind!
Would you have have guessed that Diarmaid MacCulloch would be speaking to a capacity audience in #StPaulCathedral yesterday on #WilliamTyndale? Celebrating 500 years since #Tyndale's tra…
Watched a pedestrian who had the right of way to cross at a crosswalk wave on a driver who was turning left across traffic. Driver, who had been waiting, started to go and almost flattened a bicyclist and then almost got flattened by a bus.
Pedestrian took zero notice of the chaos he created. 🤦♂️
I left port 22 open behind my double NAT and nothing happened :thonking:
Yes that’s Odo on the left
RE: https://mastodon.social/@kottke/116489697525420186
I know UBI is the darling child of the left, but ask me if I want the current fucking regime to have its hands in my wallet
new linux rice, nothing fancy but it feels cozy
- arch (btw) on a thinkpad t480s
- niri
- quickshell for the bar (a bit barebones atm)
- matugen to generate color palettes from the background
A #tornado touches down in #Dyersburg, #Tennessee, just after midnight on Tuesday, April 28. No structure damage was reported.
Video: Dyersburg Police Department
Urban Illusions and Fallacies II 🏙️
城市的幻影和谬误 II 🏙️
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🎞️Kentmere Pan 200 (6x7)
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The idea of Vote Left, Transfer Left was pretty strongly adhered to in Dublin Central as the count went on.
What happened was that the voters didn’t consider SF to be left.
The SF candidate’s big transfer moments came from Steenson and Hutch.
European Left Party: A Double Boost. The European Left Party’s practical value is measured by whether the decisions taken in Brussels lead to concrete action. By Uwe Sattler.
https://europa.blog/en/european-left-party-a-double-boost/
One of my favorite @… stickers 💚🩵💙
#SoftwareFreedom #sticker #foss
Wish I could share the full photo with you but I don’t share identifiable faces from protests. When I asked if I could take a photo, she held up her sign with a determined, slightly sad smile. That feeling could sum up the event. Joyful, yes. But also a recognition that there is hard work left to do. #nokings
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
I’m going out into the garden to check what seeds I have left over from last year, get some herb seeds into trays, and place them on the kitchen windowsill. I’m going to put the seed potatoes in over the next few days.
#gardening
Late in 2024, Elon Musk endorsed Germany’s far-right Alternative für Deutschland. We document that after this, Tesla sales rose by up to 30 percent in right-leaning districts relative to left-leaning ones [..] Divestment in second-hand markets shows no partisan differences, consistent with resale requiring a larger identity cost from Tesla’s image shock than non-purchase. Our lower bound-estimate for the overall loss in Tesla sales is [..] worth at least €241 million."
❝Here’s a thought experiment: what happens if you just... put a computer on the internet and wait?❞ https://arman-bd.hashnode.dev/i-left-port-22-open-on-the-internet-for-54-days-here-s-who-showed-up
WATCH: Trump's Own Words Prove HE Is the Source of Most Violent Rhetoric, Not the Left
https://zeteo.com/p/watch-trumps-own-words-prove-he-is
As a Trot, you never know who distrusts you more: anarchists or other Trots who are now in a different splinter from the same tendency you both used to be in.
But I celebrate this. Where would the left be if we weren't so busy fighting each other?
I can hear the billionaires chuckling far away.
Got a diagonal panorama of this redwood tree growing sideways in Reinhardt Redwood Park, Oakland, CA. Turn your phone about 30 degrees left to experience it properly.
I see nothing has changed in Vienna (I left in 2012).
I'm missing Café Central in this Sachertorte review though.
https://www.theguardian.com/travel/2026/mar/29/perfect-sachertorte-cake-vienna-austria
Even #kitsunekamen feels like a cast member at Disney when R2-D2 is in the house (love that Raven!)
#photography #photo
European Left Party: A Double Boost. The European Left Party’s practical value is measured by whether the decisions taken in Brussels lead to concrete action. By Uwe Sattler.
https://europa.blog/en/european-left-party-a-double-boost/
Same Place ☸️
同一個地方 ☸️
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'Dirty Tricks' Operation Behind GOP-Aligned Super PAC With a Progressive-Sounding Name Exposed | Common Dreams
https://www.commondreams.org/news/lead-left-super-pac
#ThickTrunkTuesday: Reinhardt Redwood Park, Oakland, 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
No Kings crowd flows out of the Ithaca Commons towards the public library and ultimately Meadow Street
#photo #photography #ithaca
The elimination of nearly 55 million, Indigenous people in the Americas during European colonization
led to global climate change and the “Little Ice Age” of the 17th century, a recent study finds.

Researchers at University College Londonfound that the Great Dying
— the massive loss of life that followed Christopher Columbus’ 1492 conquest of the Americas through genocide and the spread of disease
— left roughly 56-million hectares of land abandoned.
“Thi…
European Left: “We must Europeanise our successes.” Walter Baier, President of the Party of the European Left, on the opportunities and challenges facing progressive politics in Europe. By Uwe Sattler.
https://europa.blog/en/european-left-we-must-europeanise-our-succe…
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…
Group of three women in No Kings crowd
Find more photos here: #photo
Mundane Things VIII🌀
普通物件 VIII🌀
📷 Nikon FE
🎞️ Ilford FP4 Plus 125, expired 1993
If you like my work, buy me a coffee from PayPal #filmphotography
Hawaii is coming to grips with the extensive damage left by the worst flooding the islands have seen in more than 20 years.
Over the weekend, heavy rains fell on soil already saturated by downpours from a winter storm a week ago,
forcing thousands on the North Shore of Oahu to evacuate before more evacuations for parts of the island of Maui.
The rains lifted houses and cars, inundated farms, swept through grocery stores and left a thick layer of mud in streets, homes and ga…
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…
Mundane Things VII🌀
普通物件 VII 🌀
📷 Nikon FE
🎞️ Ilford FP4 Plus 125, expired 1993
If you like my work, buy me a coffee from PayPal #filmphotography
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…
Tennessee death row prisoner
Tony Carruthers was issued a one-year stay of execution last Thursday
after prison officials were unable to find a backup injection vein
in a botched execution attempt that left Carruthers suffering and in pain for over an hour.
Nashville reporter Steven Hale attended the execution and describes his and fellow witnesses’ confusion as they heard the sounds of what Carruthers’s attorneys are calling “torture.”
Per Tennessee’s lethal i…
Three U.S. senators have called for an overhaul of federal agents’ use of
tear gas and pepper spray,
citing a ProPublica investigation that found at least 79 children were left screaming, coughing or hurt by these chemicals during Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown.
Lawmakers said the findings showed more restrictions are needed to avoid injuring bystanders
— including children
— with chemical munitions.
Such weapons were designed to combat rioters and …