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.
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…
Snow surveys taking place across the American west this week are offering a grim prognosis,
after a historically warm winter and searing March temperatures left the critical snowpack at record-low levels across the region.
Experts warned that even as the heat begins to subside, the stunning pace of melt-off over the past month has left key basins in uncharted territory for the dry seasons ahead.
Though there’s still potential for more snow in the forecast, experts said it wi…
At #ARVO2026, Wednesday May 6: The vOICe visual-to-auditory sensory substitution device (SSD) for the blind evokes stronger visual cortex activity than a tongue display unit (TDU), for both early blind and late blind people https://mas.…
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
Only like 6-7 minutes left! 🚀
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
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.
And don't forget to weaponize your pond. Mosquitoes in my yard have left approximately 1000 egg rafts in mine this spring. And because each raft has 100s of eggs the number of larvae that end up dying is considerable. #mosquitoes #pond #ponds
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
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…
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.
no, I don't have any spoons left
I melted them into a baseball bat
Not a whole lot left. #Wordle
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One of my favorite T-shirts is starting to wear, so now I have to try and remember where I got it AND hope the person is still selling them
trois mixtapes en route pour la france — une pour paris, une pour aix en provence, et une pour plomeur (wherever that is!)
#mixtape #cassette
Shots from No Kings caught with the 70-200mm are here https://www.behance.net/gallery/246803553/No-Kings-Part-II and you can find more I caught with the 9mm at
Morning all! Happy May Morning. #MorrisDance #MayMorning #Folk
#LeftWordle
Would you like to track streaks and stats in Left Wordle across multiple devices?
Would you use a Passkey for this purpose? Passkeys would allow users to stay anonymous (or provide an email for recovery if desired), and they wouldn’t require sensitive info (passwords) to be stored on the server.
The option to play and store data in your browser, the way it works toda…
Today was open gallery day and we visited the wonderful Silke Schmidt at her studio. She had a special appearance by the local band "Glitza". It was marvelous! https://www.silkeschmidt.eu/home-en.html
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
Some beautiful art and illustrations that I've recently found. 🌿
Zara Picken
#art #illustrations
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/
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 continue to marvel and be enraged by the audacity of this administration. Trump created the legislative standoff that left TSA agents without pay. And now he wants credit for solving it?
https://abc7.com/post/what-know-trumps-…
Violent fascists at Delaney Hall concentration camp use chemical munitions after protesters left the "free speech zone" [Newark, NJ]
Video Source:
#ice
> “I tried every way I could think of to call for help using the options the app showed, but the phone line wouldn’t go through, and when I pressed the SOS button it told me it was unavailable. So then what exactly is the SOS for?”
[Developer voice] Actually user telemetry shows that people almost never use emergency features in the app, so we removed the functionality and left the UI as a placebo button.
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
@… if you give them all away, then you don't have any left to give. I assume this is the goal?
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 @… )
This is the weirdest combination of thumbnails I have ever seen on Netflix 😁
#netflix
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
If someone comes to me today preaching about “post-quantum” security issues, I’ll remind them of the current state of security: the npm ecosystem gets abused daily, CI pipelines run left and right with full access to cloud services, so-called security devices like F5 and Ivanti are exposed (and compromised) to the internet, mailboxes get compromised just to change an IBAN in a PDF, and a simple phone call is still enough to get someone to hand over an MFA code.
But yes, by all means, l…
As we’re landing, crew asks everyone to stay seated so paramedics can get into the back of the plane. Seatbelt sign goes off, 5 people in my section promptly stand up and start yanking luggage from the overhead bins. Some bins left open when crew scolds people back to their seats.
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.
I receive tons of applications that use the same CV template: Brief header with contact info and circular photo on the left hand side, brief paragraph "About me", then structured info. PDF metadata say it’s LaTeX generated, but I assume its created by a popular platform. Any idea what this is? LinkedIn?
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/
"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
For complex reasons I had to replace the window ledge in our garage; so I used some of the tiles I had left over from when I did our front step a few years ago; conveniently they just fit nicely. Worked great.
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.
Speedability of computably approximable reals and their approximations
George Barmpalias, Nan Fang, Wolfgang Merkle, Ivan Titov
https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.26484 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2603.26484 https://arxiv.org/html/2603.26484
arXiv:2603.26484v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: An approximation of a real is a sequence of rational numbers that converges to the real. An approximation is left-c.e. if it is computable and nondecreasing and is d.c.e. if it is computable and has bounded variation. A real is computably approximable if it has some computable approximation, and left-c.e. and d.c.e. reals are defined accordingly.
An approximation $\{a_s\}_{s \in \omega}$ is speedable if there exists a nondecreasing computable function $f$ such that the approximation $\{a_{f(s)}\}_{s \in \omega}$ converges in a certain formal sense faster than $\{a_s\}_{s \in \omega}$. This leads to various notions of speedability for reals, e.g., one may require for a computably approximable real that either all or some of its approximations of a specific type are speedable.
Merkle and Titov established the equivalence of several speedability notions for left-c.e. reals that are defined in terms of left-c.e. approximations. We extend these results to d.c.e. reals and d.c.e. approximations, and we prove that in this setting, being speedable is equivalent to not being Martin-L\"{o}f random. Finally, we demonstrate that every computably approximable real has a computable approximation that is speedable.
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"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
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)
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
Sacred US 😇
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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/
No Kings! this Saturday left me with the question: would the real Donald Trump have called me a "furry"?
#photo #photography #nokings
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…
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.
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…
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…
So many things left to discover.
So few lives left.
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Just ordered stickers to bring to AccessU.
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…
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…