Government argues ICE facility protest was actually left-wing terrorist plot
The prosecutor displayed photos on a courtroom television of evidence seized from the garage of defendants on trial for alleged involvement in a radical left-wing conspiracy:
Photocopiers, a bookbinding machine and leaflets called “zines.”
Assistant U.S. Attorney Shawn Smith asked the FBI agent on the witness stand to identify the evidence.
Special Agent Morris Boatner said he had found the…
'Ukraine cannot be left alone' — Polish prime minister arrives in Kyiv as Russian strikes deepen energy crisis: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/05/ukraine-cannot-be-left-alone.html
This is a really good analysis of how #Labour became a right wing party.
I was aware of their courting of rich donors, but I'd missed the revolving door between Labour governments and the defence and private healthcare industries, and the point about Labour directing anger towards immigrants in order to divert it from the
Made a change, the clone I’ve been working on is now at https://left-wordle.com. The old url should redirect.
There are some changes - please report any bugs.
check out the prefs - you can add custom text to the share text header line, defaults to (Left Wordle), and add a line below the grid, default is bl…
The rewrite of the Sisyphus server continues, I've got all of the GET endpoints and about 60% of all the endpoints finished overall. Some initial testing on the `/workers` and `/queue` endpoints show some worrying results from the old version and some great results from the new version. The `/workers` endpoint started throwing errors at about 800 RPS on the Python/Flask version (the old one), the rewrite is showing around 4800 RPS (Golang/Gin). The `/queue` endpoint doesn't show a…
Sarah Höfflin losing a ski on the takeoff. She was fine, but the look on her face in mid air ... plus she still got the grab! #olympics #ski #skiing
The little crescent on the right is Earth. Moon in the middle. Artemis/Integrity on the left. Every human being is in this picture.
#humanity #artemis #moon
For example, with “AI” hypers will tell you that you’ll be “unemployable” and “get left behind” while doomers say “it will kill us all”.
Imagine them saying this about hammers.
It’s self-evident why they do this: you can’t sustain hype based on objectively looking at a thing that’s just not all that useful—and anything that’s overwhelmingly actually useful doesn’t need hype to be sustained.
Tens of thousands of New Yorkers left without heat as temperatures drop to 4° -- and tenants blast Mamdani for failing to act (New York Post)
https://nypost.com/2026/02/05/real-estate/thousands-of-new-yorkers-left-without-heat/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260205/p134#a260205p134
Abby Martin: “The world sees Israel for what it is and it can’t last for long in its current state. You cannot expect change in a society this far gone. It is full-throated fascist. And that’s why they act the way they do, with full… total impunity. Because they have no humanity left.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLQbPCvV8W8
Source: Binance Chief Compliance Officer Noah Perlman is looking to leave sometime in 2026 or 2027; other senior compliance staff left over the past few months (Olga Kharif/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
"I want to establish a wide range and play all kinds of parts. It's that sort of acting career I really respect. I like to turn a sharp left from whatever I've done before because that keeps me awake. That's why I want to be an actor - I don't want to play endless variations on one character."
—Tim Curry
#acting
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
Hundreds of Immigration Agents Left Minnesota, but Residents Report Little Change - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/05/us/minnesota-ice-agents-deployment.html
Since coming back from Germany for HARRIS I've been chasing a weird issue on my ThunderScope 100baseT1 test setup.
Before leaving for HARRIS I unplugged the TS, left the rest of the setup untouched, and brought the TS with me to demo to people while traveling.
After coming back the TS appears fine (passed calibration, and gives good-looking eyes on 100baseTX).
But when hooked back to the same, theoretically unmodified baseT1 test setup, I get weird diagonal distortion, …
“Everybody is so fed up with #Labour’s only strategy being ‘vote Labour to keep the Tories out’, and now it’s ‘vote Labour to keep Reform out’,” Spencer tells me. “It’s like: how about you actually just do something to make people vote for you?” -- #Green party candidate Hannah Spencer in the Gorton and De…
from my link log —
RTL.WTF: read the web like Right-to-Left readers do.
https://rtl.wtf/
saved 2026-03-04 https://dotat.at/:/HVT4P.html
@… I also addressed a small issue in the douninst.sh so that it more completely cleans up files left behind by running /opt/vivaldi/update-ffmpeg on uninstall
“Our dependence on U.S. tech has long been a problem, just one that many people in power did not want to touch because of how it would anger the United States. Even proposing basic tech regulations prompted rebukes from the U.S. government and threatened the prospect of investment from those digital colonizers. But that dependence left us without the tools to get a handle on key avenues for communication and commerce.”
"As our European allies have found first hand, our dependence …
The #ArtemisII picture I had been waiting for - the dark Moon with a bit of #earthshine on the left in front of the #zodiacalLight going all around: https://images.nasa.gov/details/art002e009301 (this is essentially the Apollo 11 image from 1969 - https://www.facebook.com/dan.fischer.393/posts/pfbid02mf6UK3L2j5SgPiQsJk9JVYmo6XvZwDDZ23BYpXwJPDszaSpUYzuinkMyHzh9RF8Rl - again but with the Sun more centered ... and with half a century of photo tech inbetween).
As more and more people abandon X for Masto and BSky, this is the shitshow that remains:
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.
Typed on his iPhone with one finger of his non-dominant hand, a new book by Charles Garrettson '78 M.A.R. explores the meaning, truth, and joy he found after a stroke left him unable to continue his vocation as an educator. Read the full story by Kim Lawton! https://
Old Railroad bed converted to trail by Massabesic Lake east of Manchester, NH where I wandered as a cub
#photo #photography #landscape
The #Württemberg Mausoleum in #Stuttgart on a spring day. TV tower is in the background (the left one).
Ron Brooks Quintet at the Blue Llama
another innocent victim caught by radical left purity testing (charlie kirk)
I can't imagine much that beats Cape Town in Autumn. The heat of summer has left, but winter is running late (probably the traffic).
The coastal walk along the coast from Muizenberg to Kalk Bay is one of the nicest things you can do.
#CapeTown #SouthAfrica
A North Carolina man who says federal immigration agents shattered his truck window,
forcibly removed him from his vehicle,
and left him “bleeding and in pain”
has filed a $1.25 million damages claim against the federal government.
Willy Wender Aceituno, a U.S. citizen,
says he was stopped twice on November 15, 2025, while walking into a restaurant parking lot to pick up breakfast before work,
according to a court filing reviewed by Newsweek.
Aceitun…
The biggest problem with Bitcoin is that its proponents didn't understand that it is itself a fiat currency. Strip away the consensus that it's valuable, and you're left with valueless cryptographic proofs of work that nobody wants.
#Blakes7 Series A, Episode 05 - The Web
SAYMON: That is why we had to control her. She would not have accepted us freely.
BLAKE: You are the only one of the six that is left?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/105/436
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #SoundOfCinema
Michael Nyman & Michael Nyman:
🎵 The Draughtsman's Contract "Chasing Sheep Is Best Left To Shepherds"
#MichaelNyman
https://open.spotify.com/track/1mk67umwhu8ZhJnYN0Qk4J
Another year, another @… Year in Music! 🥳
#ListenBrainz #YearInMusic #MusicBrainz
"I've added a chatbot to my website that runs on Nazicloud and uses ExploitGPT! It's so fun and you're missing out, don't get left behind!"
"Keir Starmer and senior ministers have been urged by Scottish Labour to “stay behind their doors” in Whitehall to avoid turning the next Holyrood election into a referendum on UK government failures.
Anas Sarwar, the leader of Scottish Labour, said the prime minister’s policy failures and missteps had left voters 'angry, frustrated and impatient'"
Well, he should know.
#ScotPol
Filing: Larry Page moved assets out of California ahead of the proposed CA wealth tax, meeting an end-of-2025 deadline; a source said he has left the state (Hugh Langley/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/larry-page-leave-c…
Hey left middle cookie… what the fuck!?
New office curtains. The old ones were OK, but light filtering only and let the heat through. These really darken the room and hopefully slow down the heat as my office faces south. Right side is darker as I have blinds. On a nice day I pull back the curtain, open the window and adjust the blinds for some air. I had it on the left, but they broke and cannot find replacement.
Manifesting spring with my non-rain, non-boot shoes today, yo.
View from my living room window at two different times this late afternoon respectively evening.
#Sunset #Sonnenuntergang #Zürich
I scrolled up too far in the meme channel
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 4936 nodes and 27149 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted, Metadata
Different Corners VII ▶️
不同的角落 VII ▶️
📷 Nikon F4E
🎞️ Fujifilm NEOPAN SS, expired 1993
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite
Two students in falling snow at night in the courtyard between Gates Hall and the new CIS building
#photo #photography #portrait
NBC News: Thousands of Lebanese residents left homeless on streets of Beirut
https://news.am/eng/news/934760.html
TIL about "AI abstinence", I think it's like "spork avoidance" or "car crash shunning".
Embrace sporks, they're inevitable! Don't get left behind and crash your car today!
An Indianapolis city councilor says his home was targeted in what appeared to be a politically motivated shooting over a proposed data center in the city (Kiki Intarasuwan/CBS News)
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/indianapolis-councilor-ron-gibson…
“The circus has left the town square, that’s for sure,” said Brian Reisinger, a former Republican strategist in Wisconsin.
On Tuesday, voters in Wisconsin will choose another justice to join the State Supreme Court.
Except this election has arrived with little of the fanfare that Wisconsin voters have come to expect from these court races:
the national frenzy, a cameo from a tech billionaire, incessant television ads, partisan debates and a deluge of campaign cash.
M…
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 4936 nodes and 27149 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted, Metadata
Series C, Episode 03 - Volcano
DAYNA: Why are you doing this?
BERSHAR: As I told you, I have no choice.
TARRANT: I suppose you're going to kill us?
MORI: Yes.
DAYNA: So much for your principles. All that was just talk, was it?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/303/336…
snow outside my window while I am looking at more of last year's flower pictures
#bloomScrolling #begonia #orange
RE: https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/116182391153638929
I wonder how being slowly boiled by AI propaganda feels like
(This post brought to you by yet another tech person I looked up to for years and who fell completely for AI--only posts about how amazing it is now, no other interests or any discernible personality left.)
Different Corners VI ▶️
不同的角落 VI ▶️
📷 Nikon F4E
🎞️ Fujifilm NEOPAN SS, expired 1993
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite
The U.S. government assesses that about 75 people were killed during Saturday’s military raid to capture Venezuelan President Nicolšs Maduro,
including dozens of fatalities that resulted from a gun battle at his compound in Caracas,
according to officials familiar with the matter.
One person said that at least 67 people were killed in the predawn strike,
while another said that about 75 to 80 people were left dead.
The officials, who like others spoke on the con…
Series D, Episode 11 - Orbit
EGRORIAN: Pinder, you're to be seen and not heard, remember?
AVON: If Orac has a fault, it is a tendency to give more information than is requested.
VILA: Or less information than requested.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/411/319 B7B4
Salesforce's Tableau chief, Ryan Aytay, leaves after 19 years at the company, just two months after Slack CEO Denise Dresser left for OpenAI (Brody Ford/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-02-03/sales…
Bird View 🐦
鸟瞰 🐦
📷 Nikon FE
🎞️ Ilford HP5 Plus 400, expired 1993
If you like my work, buy me a coffee from PayPal #filmphotography
#Blakes7 Series C, Episode 12 - Death-Watch
SERVALAN: What form will this major violation take?
AVON: Do they know that your battle fleet is massed on their borders?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/312/339
Series C, Episode 04 - Dawn of the Gods
VILA: I wasn't planning to. I'll call in two minutes. Out.
TARRANT: Does anyone have even a faint idea of where we are and what sort of mess we're in?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/304/189 B7B4
The death of a nearly blind refugee from Myanmar who was found on a Buffalo street in February
— five days after Border Patrol agents left him at a doughnut shop
— has been ruled a #homicide, authorities said Wednesday.
The Erie County Medical Examiner's Office didn't reach any conclusions about responsibility for
Nurul Amin Shah Alam's death,
which the agency said…
Series A, Episode 08 - Duel
BLAKE: What do you think?
JENNA: The surface seems to be melted. It's almost like the effects of a fusion bomb.
GAN: Blake! Jenna! [They walk over to The Monument]
BLAKE: Well, at least we know the planet's inhabited.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/108/64
Series B, Episode 01 - Redemption
VILA: Been looking all over for you two.
JENNA: How did you get here?
VILA: I was just passing - thought I'd drop in and see you.
AVON: Where are Gan and Cally?
VILA: They're in a cell along the corridor.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/201/469
The Department of Homeland Security was caught lying Thursday about ⚠️ abandoning a blind refugee who was later found dead on the street.
The Department of Homeland Security claimed that the Tim Hortons in Buffalo
where federal agents left Nurul Amin Shah Alam,
a 56-year-old Burmese refugee who was blind and spoke no English,
was “determined to be a warm, safe location near his last known address.”
Video footage reviewed by The Washington Post, however, showed t…
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