Vote Left Transfer Left.
Having a cup of tea and a chat together to see how we can continue collaboration for the Galway West By-election like we did on Catherine Connolly's presidential election.
The momentum built during Catherine's campaign will live on. We must keep this as a left seat. And with a Vote Left Transfer Left campaign, we think that can be a reality.
Starmer does the dirty on Burnham.
Commits an extra £4.7bn on weapons.
£47bn on new nuclear submarines
£13bn on a new nuclear warhead
£1.7bn on nuclear fuels.
£1bn for 12 Lockheed Martin F-35A jets capable of carrying nuclear bombs
£8.6bn on new fighter aircraft and £1.1bn to keep existing Typhoons in service until the 2040s.
£5bn more on drones.
Do you feel safer now?
Burnham left with £4.7bn bill for Starmer’s new defence investment plan
Left-wing Democratic primary wins pose a test for a Jeffries speakership
There are warning signs for Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries,
-- who already faces frustration from the Democratic base that he is not fighting back hard enough against Trump.
If Democrats win only a narrow majority in the heavily gerrymandered chamber in November,
it will give each vote outsize importance
and Jeffries critics more opportunities to influence policy.
Two of the thr…
Long ago, before air conditioning, I left a half-full cup of coffee in my office over the weekend, and when I came in on Sunday it did this for real as I went to empty it out. Polymerization!
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/rjxIqbLqLdY
Startups from the pre-ChatGPT era face a reckoning in private markets; PitchBook: half of US unicorns haven't raised in three years, 220 are "fallen unicorns" (Hugh Son/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/06/01/ai-startup-valuations-pre-chatgpt.html…
Today, the Integrity spacecraft launched four brave people toward the moon.
Integrity left earth, and then potus addressed the nation.
This makes a lot of sense.
#USpol #potus #Artemis2
#LeftWordle - one thing to check out on the staging version, you can do ?date=2026-07-01, for example, at the end of the url and solve tomorrow's puzzle a little earlier. https://staging.left-wordle.com?date=2
BBC fixed its (utter failure of) reporting on the not-dead tortoise last night:
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c393xmpzjwko
Just a tiny reminder of how even your trusted sources aren’t always trusted. Especially on 1 April.
When Reuters, who usually doesn't lean left or right and just reports the news, reports "that presidential war address was a disaster", you know things are bad.
Both the SF Congress race and the California gubernatorial have this weird dynamic where the viable candidate with the most-left platform is an ultra-rich person self-funding their campaign. I don't like it, but nor do I like that the alternatives — the candidates of relatively humble origins — are selling out *to* ultra-rich people. It seems like a symptom of our new gilded age.
#goodmorning today my morning walk is to the train for commute. It has cooled down and we got some long awaited rain.
Yesterday afternoon I even started cutting videos from our vacation. More to come soon.
Enjoy your day!
Bro could u cover my shift at work tomorrow i just saw a sunset so monumental it sucked the wind from my body and left me a ravenous ennui zombie
Starting a day with severe depression is a matter of looking at a pile of problems all of which seem insuperable, picking one, breaking it into smaller problems which still seem insuperable, tackling them one by one slowly. In the sure and certain knowledge that the problem probably really was insuperable and sooner or later you will be stopped by a subtask you cannot complete... And that will have to be left as an insuperable problem for the next day. Rinse and repeat.
"All right, the president and yourself have been, had such courage in terms of doing things that past presidents, past treasury secretaries would not do. I mean, it's countless and because, I mean, if we're continuing to spend all this money on Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, we won't have any money left to spend on anything else, right?"
Bartiromo Wants To Destroy Social Security To Pay For Forever Wars | Crooks and Liars
https://crooksandliars.com/2026/05/bartiromo-wants-destroy-social-security
Life After I Left
A space where women share their real stories, including the struggles, the triumphs, and the moments that created change...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/life-after-i-left/
Alexander Simpson came in first at the Twilight 5K -- he comes in first quite often in road races! Between going to New England, prioritizing people I gave a token to, and not overloading my followers I am not so fast posting photos...
#photo #photography
Morning all! Happy May Morning. #MorrisDance #MayMorning #Folk
Finally, I'm finishing a release of unreleased works from 2006 to present.
All in all, I had about 20 hours of music to sort through.
For many of us, material we really like gets left off of albums because it doesn't fit their flow or feel. Given life's unpredictability, it seemed better to share this work than not to. And there's other reasons, which I'll post once it's done. But writing this now so I'll commit and not back out. :)
(Don't …
I'd rather have it and not need it than need it and not have it.
#Shitpost #Shitposting #OpenCarry
Pontus and some other members tidied up in our electronics corner yesterday. Just look how much usable space there is now! We never had so few boxes standing around in our L-room! <3
#hackerspace #electronics
This is the weirdest combination of thumbnails I have ever seen on Netflix 😁
#netflix
Some beautiful art and illustrations that I've recently found. 🌿
Zara Picken
#art #illustrations
Urban Illusions and Fallacies - IV 🏙️
城市的幻影和谬误 IV 🏙️
📷 Pentax 6x7
🎞️ Kentmere Pan 200 (6x7)
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I'm a hospice chaplain.
I just got a call from the daughter of a a patient.
I had called her to schedule a visit but hadn't left a message.
She told Siri in her car to "call the Chaplain".
A woman answered. She asked for Mark Smith. The woman said they didn't have a Mark Smith. She said she was looking for the Chaplain. The woman said this was the Chaplin restaurant. She asked where. She said Shelton, CT.
She called me to tell me about …
I spent an enjoyable day moseying around the Sperrins today.
On everything from empty swooping A-roads, to single-track, lunar-landscape, high-numbered B-roads which left reminders on the undertray, it was a smashing chance to be out alone* in the countryside with the roof down and a chance to clear the head.
Must do again sometime (though would really like to take Bob next time)
* occasional flocks of sheep and many tractors, not withstanding
I just backed this. I really enjoyed the demo on Steam and want to see what the full thing could look like. The mod support and lua coding is a distant stretch goal, but just seeing this reach the base level funding would be great.
Past halfway funded, and only 7 days left.
https://www.kickstarter.com…
Violent fascists at Delaney Hall concentration camp use chemical munitions after protesters left the "free speech zone" [Newark, NJ]
Video Source:
#ice
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…
In a pair of rulings yesterday, a federal judge dealt two blows to Trump’s stewardship of the Kennedy Center, which he took over last year:
U.S. District Judge Christopher Cooper ordered the removal within two weeks of Trump’s name from the institution,
which Congress established as a living memorial to President John F. Kennedy in 1964,
and he partially granted a preliminary injunction, saying that the center had to halt plans to close.
“There is no evidence that th…
Some #LeftWordle enhancements:
these are currently in https://staging.left-wordle.com. They will make it to production hopefully by week’s end. I’ll announce here the intended cutover date / time for prod.
People left with cancer linked to Johnson & Johnson talcum powder 'dying every three days', High Court hears | #DailyMail
https://www.dailymail.com/health/article-15778489/cancer-Johnson-Johnson-baby-talcum-powder.html
📸 2 screenshots from the longer arricle
(Via @… )
New solar generation record again for today... 67.5 kWh produced, 158.8 consumed, 16.4 exported, for net import of 91.3 kWh.
There's one day left in the month still, but it's looking pretty good compared to March:
* 0.73 -> 1.2 MWh production
* 5.0 -> 4.5 MWh demand (maybe this is from less heating? I don't have any instrumentation on my heat pump right now so no easy way to break down heating demand, but it pulls ~5 kW when it's running)
* 10.3 -&g…
River bend (2026)
This stretch of the river Lech with its many swampy banks and bends always reminds me of North American wilderness...
#SilentSunday #LandscapePhotography #NaturePhotography
Colombia leftist faces pro-Trump rival in presidential election runoff
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c1w2xvwq8g9o
Could go either way.
"Paloma Valencia, the moderate conservative who finished in third place on less than 7%, has since endorsed [far right] De L…
Some random guy was repairing his stupid car in front of my house today. Hours later, after he'd left, there was a pile of random garbage (food wrappers, empty drink bottles, etc), along with car repair stuff (gallon bottles of distilled water, empty bottle of antifreeze, a dirty rag, etc) just left behind on the street.
Drivers really truly are the fucking worst. #BanCars
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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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/
I'd forgotten Slow Streets used to have not just the "local traffic only" sign, but "road closed to through traffic" as well. Both gone now. Slow Streets got so watered down. (2022 photo)
asdfg, what an amazing company name... Surely not just according to the QWERTY/Z left-hand home row 😅
Join us TODAY for a fly book launch. “Staying with the Planet” is a sci-fi story about ecological troubles of our modern universities.
⏰ 2pm CET
📍 RUSTlab RUB, or Zoom: https://tinyurl.com/RUSTlab
👇Find more info about the event and book (open access, y’all!) on the RUSTlab website.
aldi likes to stack shelves with boxes of 2 or 3 varieties of a thing
which i think is a tactic for offering more products with fewer SKUs?
with the amusing downside when they predict roughly equal popularity across the varieties but get it wildly wrong
eg earlier i was replenishing the cornichons which are stocked in boxes containing jars of herby conichons, spicy cornichons, and crinkle-cut pickle slices
however what was left was about 100 jars of crinkle cut pickle…
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 can't protect you, Lio."
Wouldn't it be interesting to know how Krennic & Partagaz knew each other?
#StarWars #Andor had so many wonderful hidden backstories left to be told. 😁
▶️ Partagaz and Krennic | Andor Season 2
Jürgen Klopp advertising one of the worst beers in the world is even more disappointing than when he left Liverpool. 😭
#LeftWordle 1,839 3/6 for 2 July, 2026 #LeftWordle
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1. 5th perfect. 2nd wrong. (20 answers remain after guess.)
2. 4th perfect. (2 answers remain after guess.)
3. Won! (0 answers remain after guess.)
foursquare: Foursquare NYC restaurants (2012)
Two bipartite networks of users and restaurant locations in New York City on Foursquare, from 24 October 2011 to 20 February 2012. In one network, an edge denotes a check-in event of a user at a restaurant. In the other, an edge exists if a user left a tip/comment on a restaurant. Metadata include comments.
This network has 6410 nodes and 10377 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted, Metadata
Art Rave 🕺
艺术锐舞 🕺
📷 Pentax 6x7
🎞️ Harman Phoenix 200 II (6x7)
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They Left for the School Bus. ICE Picked Them Up Instead. - The New York Times
https://archive.ph/NIiYL
Nice day in the #OakWoodlands of Golden Gate Park where along with oaks I saw bush monkeyflower, California sagebrush, hummingbird sage, coast buckwheat, beach strawberry, common yarrow, Hooker's evening primrose, and even a little rooreh by the path.
thinking abt this carel willink. its just liminal space pics from a century ago. the emptiness of this public space left this one german guy uneasy 100 years ago. what's your favorite historical archive of this feeling
“Who are you when you stop outsourcing your self-definition?”
A provocative question, to answer as a person, and also as an actor. (Who we are and who we are as an actor may have little overlap.)
I did not encounter this question today the way Kelly Rook Daly did, but I’m glad I did.
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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/
If you lifted #Gaza up, turned it through 90°, and dropped it down in Galloway, it would fit between the Nith and the Water of Fleet, between the main A75 road and the sea. I've cycled more than half that distance this afternoon.
I've cycled through green woods and fields under a grey sky, to the sound of birds when there were no passing cars; the same journey in Gaza would be through r…
I went to the Sacred Wild Gathering at Smith Woods in Trumansburg, NY which has lots of Red Elderberry which was used by Native Americans and you have to cook before you can eat
#photo
foursquare: Foursquare NYC restaurants (2012)
Two bipartite networks of users and restaurant locations in New York City on Foursquare, from 24 October 2011 to 20 February 2012. In one network, an edge denotes a check-in event of a user at a restaurant. In the other, an edge exists if a user left a tip/comment on a restaurant. Metadata include comments.
This network has 6410 nodes and 10377 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted, Metadata
Eight people were sentenced to prison June 23, 2026, in connection with the nonfatal shooting of an Alvarado police officer outside the Prairieland Detention Center July 4, 2025.
Authorities have called it the first-ever federal terrorism case associated with “antifa.”
From top left: Savanna Batten, Meagan Morris, Daniel Sanchez Estrada, Elizabeth (left) and Ines Soto, Zachary Evetts, Autumn Hill (left), Maricela Rueda, Benjamin Song (left)
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…
So many things left to discover.
So few lives left.
💙💙🤍🤍🤍
These two people gave me free vegetables and chicken soup on Friday 6/19 (the real Juneteenth) at Southside Community Center but told me they usually do it on Thorsday
#photo #photography #food
Inglewood is remaking itself in real time.
Over the past years, billions of dollars have flowed into the stadiums, infrastructure, and entertainment development
as the city of nearly 103,000 markets itself as Los Angeles’s sports hub.
Major streets are freshly paved and lined with new digital billboards that remind Arnold of the contours of the World Cup trophy.
“This is the city of the future,” says Arnold, pointing to a bulldozer leveling dirt on a lot across from …
#LeftWordle Development notes:
I am getting ready to push the latest changes (currently at https://staging.left-wordle.com) to production. Can everyone who currently plays Left Wordle, and even those that don’…
This wasn’t a headline I expected to read, but it kinda makes sense. Connie Chan has been milquetoast in her criticism of Israel compared to Saikat. She supports the Block the Bombs Act, but conspicuously left open the option of supporting so-called “defensive” aid like Iron Dome. Makes sense AIPAC would want the general election to be her and Wiener, not Saikat and Wiener.
Cosplay Runway: Spaceman, Chicken and Videographer with exoframe that supports his camera
#photo #photography #cosplay
Pink Flowering tree at Corner of Crescent: part of a series in my old 'Soviet Camera' style; I still can't get over how this April most of my photos have people in them and last April it was the other way around
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.