Tootfinder

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…

Iberia
1) Convincing victory of united left in second round as António José Seguro elected president of Portugal with 67% of second round vote, a rout for far right Chega.
2) In the Bourbon monarchy next door, right PP wins regional election in Aragon but will depend on far right Vox doubled representation. Centre left PSOE diminishes, left Sumar hangs on to 1 seat while Podemos vanishes.
Broad left unity defeats the right in these PR systems.

Apparently ICE abducted parents and just left their young kids just sitting there alone, unassisted and unattended — in not one but •two• separate incidents in the Twin Cities in the last few days.
In one case, they left school-age kids alone in the house after a pre-dawn raid. In another, they snatched a father driving his kids home and just left the kids there in the car.
In both cases, the kids are OK — but only because strangers came along to help.

Las Vegas Raiders star undergoes surgery on left knee https://www.reviewjournal.com/sports/raiders/las-vegas-raiders-star-undergoes-surgery-on-left-knee-3605451/

Turning Point: "The Left Is Activating Their Terror Cells" - Joe.My.God.
https://www.joemygod.com/2026/02/turning-point-the-left-is-activating-their-terror-cells/

Source: LT Jones back to Bears on 1-year deal https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/48157407/left-tackle-braxton-jones-chicago-bears-agree-1-year-deal

My neighbor came over and I made us pizzas for lunch, along with some garlic bread. I forgot to take any photos but after he left I had one dough ball left so I made a tiny little loaf. (I am not a bread baker!)
#food #bread

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
The Avalanches:
🎵 Since I Left You
#NowPlaying #TheAvalanches
https://telephonemaison.bandcamp.com/track/the-avalanches-since-i-left-you
https://open.spotify.com/track/2DgFCys3XMrWZDngu1CrRy

#Shitpost #Shitposting #ShamelesslyStolenFromSomewhereElseOnTheInternetHonestlyICantKeepTrackOfThisStuffAnymore

At this rate there won’t be any weapons left for invading Greenland

Out with the old catsalad (me who had a tasty 🥯 earlier), and in with the new one (current me with no tasty 🥯 left to nibble)

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Roadhouse
The Wild Magnolias:
🎵 Handa Wanda
#TheWildMagnolias
https://dynamitecuts.bandcamp.com/album/sale-sale-sale-handa-wanda-no-digital-only-36-copies-left
https://open.spotify.com/track/2dq0Tb2mJLTxJKg0Q49CBu

Stablecoin payments company KAST raised $80M led by QED and Left Lane; sources say the fundraise is at a $600M valuation, and KAST expects $100M ARR in 2026 (Bloomberg)

🪧 How the left can win back the internet – and rise again
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/ng-interactive/2026/feb/01/digital-politics-progressives-internet-the-left-online-world

Only one day left in the first work week of 2026, so don't miss today's Metacurity for a concise run-down of the top infosec developments you should know, including
--Salt Typhoon infiltrated US House China Committee, other committees, sources,
--TX court enjoins Samsung from using or selling consumer data,
--FCC exempts some Chinese tech at Pentagon's request,
--Man accused of stealing Snapchat access codes for 600 women for university coach,
--Ni8ma…

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

Last week, while debugging a SwiftUI performance issue, I was running instruments and found that my profiles were plagued with noise.
Godot while idling was using so much CPU time that it was skipping entire frames while rendering.
I set out to fix those, 0.5% here, 0.5 there, and the Godot Editor (and Xogot) no longer skip frames.
People had been complaining that Godot would burn your battery in an hour if you left it idling, it no longer does.
Details:

'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

'Real' Cowboys' D needs to stand up, declare itself with 4 games left https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2025/12/09/temporary-regression-dallas-cowboys-defense-stand-up/8769023…

Soo I went for my morning run on the treadmill and forgot I had left ngscopeclient running on my Ethernet benchmark test. I didn't realize until I walked back into the office and wondered why my GPU fan was a little louder than I expected.
It was still happily crunching away eating 8 Gbps of data nonstop.
In that time, it ingested over half a trillion ADC samples, almost 150 billion UIs. The bathtub curves go down to e-10 range without any dual dirac extrapolation or anything…

Small business owners
-- and consumers
-- doubt they’ll see refunds
after the supreme court invalidates Trump’s tariffs
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/09/small-businesses-trump-tariffs?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

Piers Morgan's Uncensored names Rashida Jones, who left MSNBC in 2025, as CEO, and raises capital; the YouTube-based media company was reportedly seeking ~$30M (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business…

My #AltProcess #Kallitype development/printmaking journey is already showing strong parallels to my software dev experience, i.e. a preference for avoiding monolithic frameworks and building more granular, reliable, understandable & controllable tooling myself, and get much better & mor…

"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

Here's a good chunk of the assigned books for my grad seminar on Canadian history - a few golden oldies, but mostly newer stuff. I've got a good group and am looking forward to a fine term.
#histodons

I'm glad I've got another year left on my fixed energy tariff; assuming that is I don't run another provider into bankruptcy. Still this gulf war has got to be good for solar/wind installers somewhere!

Yesterday, I had the honor to deliver an invited talk with the title "Convenience vs Competence: the Evolving Role of Foundational Knowledge in AI-Driven Research" at the new year's receiption of the computer science faculty at Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena. Very happy to be at the place again, where I did my first PostDoc more than 20 years ago and meeting many old friends. :)
@…

I had a tablespoon of 35% whipping cream left from newyears baking. I put it in my coffee. It was revolting. My throat feels like it was coated in butter.
#cream #coffee

I have so many questions. Like what was the $1.6T budgeted for & who was it to be "spent" on?
✅ The Treasury may need to borrow an extra $1.6 trillion to cover the hole left by tariff ruling and pay a further $400 billion in debt interest - Fortune
https://fortune.com…

JD Vance Breaks Down The Latest On The Trump Administration's Crackdown On Left-Wing Violence (Harold Hutchison/The Daily Caller)
https://dailycaller.com/2026/01/06/jd-vance-breaks-down-the-latest-on-the-trump-administrations-crackdown-on-left-wing-violence/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260106/p122#a260106p122

So, it would seem the Gorton and Denton by-election will be crucial. Starmer will cling on until the result and then a leadership election will happen.
But the by-election will determine everything. If the Greens are elected, Labour will move left with Angela Raynor and, god forbid, if Reform win, then it will lurch right with Wes Streeting.
Seriously, if Wes Streeting got into power, I’d be fucked.

Why Israelis are leaving in record numbers
Over 150,000 citizens have left the country in the past two years alone — many of them with a one-way ticket and no plans of returning.
https://www.972mag.com/israeli-emigration-record-numbers/

I would, once again, like to suggest to Apple, that the “Device left behind” notice would be way more valuable, and amount to more than white noise, if I could “Disable warning until…”. It would be very helpful to know that my iPad remains at my hotel _after checkout_, not so much every time I leave for a meal or to explore the city. Presently it’s an all or none situation.

Well worth watching the video. Not what I expected, but I suspect well worth paying attention to what they say.
https://powerlabs.io/what-the-left-is-getting-wrong-about-the-right-daniel-martinez-hosang-micah-white

Well worth watching the video. Not what I expected, but I suspect well worth paying attention to what they say.
https://powerlabs.io/what-the-left-is-getting-wrong-about-the-right-daniel-martinez-hosang-micah-white

Digging in the dirt https://song.link/i/987396903

So all the Marxist stuff, the conscience of the American left stuff, was a lie. He just hates the US and needed a good grift since the linguistics mumbo-jumbo was a dead end.

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…

Papers, please. #discord

35,000 homes without power in Berlin for days after 'left-wing activists' attack power lines | World News | Sky News
https://news.sky.com/story/35-000-homes-without-power-in-berlin-for-days-after-left-wing-activists-attack-power-lines-13490546
' "It is unacceptable that once again clearly left-wing extremists have attacked our power grid and thereby endangered human lives," Mr Wegner said.'
Het is bijna nog meer onbestaanbaar dat een stroomuitval van zoveel mensen zo lang kan duren. ... 😇

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

#Blakes7 Series C, Episode 11 - Moloch
CHESIL: I don't know what you mean.
DORAN: Oh, yes; yes, you do, lady; you know what I'm on about. [gesturing at the monitoring screens] These eyes are everywhere, right?
CHESIL: What do you want?
…

Drake Maye's Super Bowl disaster left him in tears. And now comes the hard part https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7032636/2026/02/09/drake-maye-super-bowl-struggles-patriots-seahawks/

Me: “It’s outrageous that companies make it impossible to get the last of the goop out of tubes! What waste!”
Me, when traveling: “It’s only a quarter of the tube left, I should toss it to save some weight in the suitcase…”

Any vexillologists around? What’s the flag on the left? (We’re in Pima county, Arizona)

A contender for the most hidden control ever enters the competition!
I just found out by accident that there's a control *hidden* at the Apple logo at the bottom of Apple Music to switch to full screen or the mini player!

Sources and US tax lawyers: the IRS's planned audit of private equity and VC firms is faltering under President Trump, as many senior leaders leave the agency (Jesse Drucker/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/08/business/irs-private…

Urbanity - Cloud Four ☁️
城市化 - 四云 ☁️
📷 Pentax MX
🎞️ Ilford Pan 100
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite

Trump’s CISA nominee said he left Coast Guard to address GOP hold
https://www.nextgov.com/people/2026/03/trumps-cisa-nominee-said-he-left-coast-guard-address-gop-hold/411894/

North Carolina led for just .4 seconds in Saturday's rivalry game against Duke.
But that's all they needed to secure the win.
Seth Trimble's three-pointer with 0.4 seconds left delivered the Tar Heels a 71-68 win and closed out a 9-0 run in the game.
After Trimble's three-pointer, the fans rushed the court before having to clear it,
leaving a delay and one last heave for the Blue Devils.
But a turnover sealed it and the party can begin on Franklin…

Made it to #MAGFest2026

What's in Jake's pockets? Well, this is in the right front pocket. Left front pocket is for phone.

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

If you follow me and identify as a Marxist-Leninist, it’s worth understanding that we stand on very different sides of the socialist tradition. It’s time to read and learn, my friend. Marxist-Leninists have a long history of opposing anarchists, especially anarcho-syndicalists.
Docs: https://

Back from a very wet (local weather history says 1.76 inches or 45 mm of rain yesterday) SAR training weekend.
Lots of good land navigation drills both on trail and bushwhacking through heavy brush. Everyone's rain gear got a good workout and there were definitely a few hard lessons learned about underperforming gear.
Wrapped the weekend up with a mock search, finding our "missing person" with a "head injury", plus her friend who had gone for help but &quo…

@… 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

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #6MusicsJukebox
Dove Ellis:
🎵 Little Left Hope
#DoveEllis
https://doveellis.bandcamp.com/track/little-left-hope
https://open.spotify.com/track/2sPxoBsNCYaS82IZFfqz98

“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 …

Auch "Left to my own devices" von den Pet Shop Boys war den anderen Singenden nicht bekannt. (Ich bin dafür bei Lady Gaga ignorant.)

Putin left alone! Death of Iran's leader destroys Kremlin's last hope: https://benborges.xyz/2026/03/04/putin-left-alone-death-of.html

Weird; I just got a cancellation of direct debit for a £0/month for an energy company I left ~18 months ago.

✊🏿 Jesse Jackson Paved the Way for a New US Left
#politics

Cowboys OL Tyler Smith to press coaches for clarity on position https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2026/01/05/cowboys-tyler-smith-left-guard-left-tackle-clarity/88034864007/

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…

(from friends in the EU)

(from friends in the EU)

#Shitpost #Shitposting #ShamelesslyStolenFromSomewhereElseOnTheInternetHonestlyICantKeepTrackOfThisStuffAnymore

Series C, Episode 10 - Ultraworld
DAYNA: Well, she looks all right. She's breathing normally. Perhaps the Ultras were telling us the truth.
TARRANT: I don't know. Avon?
AVON: They've presented no threat so far.
TARRANT: Maybe they're biding their time.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/310/245

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

Chad Mizelle, a former chief of staff to Attorney General Pam Bondi,
hung an online help wanted sign for federal prosecutors last weekend
that perhaps explained 🔸why so many valuable Justice Department staff members have left, and 🔸why so few candidates want in.
Assistant U.S. attorneys are not typically recruited, as Mr. Mizelle sought to do, by a former federal employee who 👉asks potential candidates to send a private message to his X account.
Nor have they been ask…

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

Keith Kellogg says he left Trump's White House to be 'free to talk' about Ukraine: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/04/keith-kellogg-says-he-left.html

City Vibes 🎀
城市律动 🎀
📷 Zeiss IKON Super Ikonta 533/16
🎞️ Ilford HP5 Plus 400, expired 1993
If you like my work, buy me a coffee from PayPal #filmphotography

Trump left America vulnerable to retribution — and that's no accident - Alternet.org
https://archive.ph/i7Hzv

🫀 Myocardial Fibrosis in Athletes: Risk Marker or Physiological Adaptation?
#heart

Has time run out on once-prized Raiders’ first round pick? https://raiderramble.com/2026/01/08/has-time-run-out-on-once-prized-raiders-first-round-pick/

#Shitpost #Shitposting #ShamelesslyStolenFromSomewhereElseOnTheInternetHonestlyICantKeepTrackOfThisStuffAnymore

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #6MusicArtistCollection
Blur:
🎵 No Distance Left To Run
#Blur
https://nightnoises.bandcamp.com/track/no-distance-left-to-run-blur-cover
https://open.spotify.com/track/3VqOi6yIx3eB8BkQaVWBeA

49ers' Williams, Pearsall among six questionable https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47563711/ot-williams-wr-pearsall-6-listed-questionable-49ers

Series C, Episode 11 - Moloch
AVON: Right. Now, ask yourself why they should be shipping in men from a penal colony. [A beep sounds]
DAYNA: [Starting forward] The communicator! They're trying to get through!
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/311/281 B7B2

“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…

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.

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…

Two students in falling snow at night in the courtyard between Gates Hall and the new CIS building
#photo #photography #portrait

A Taylor Decker Signing Can Fix the Cowboys 2026 Offensive Line https://insidethestar.com/a-taylor-decker-signing-can-fix-the-cowboys-2026-offensive-line

Urban Texture IV 🧩
城市质地 IV 🧩
📷 Zeiss IKON Super Ikonta 533/16
🎞️ Lucky SHD 400
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite

The war on Iran was never a choice -- Trump was left with no option but to defend America and all Western civilization (Michael Goodwin/New York Post)
https://nypost.com/2026/03/03/opinion/trump-was-left-with-no-choice-but-to-launch-an-attack-on-the-iranian-regime/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260304/p16#a260304p16

Commanders signing LT Laremy Tunsil to two-year, $60.2 million extension https://www.nfl.com/news/commanders-signing-lt-laremy-tunsil-extension

NBC News: Thousands of Lebanese residents left homeless on streets of Beirut
https://news.am/eng/news/934760.html

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…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #SteveLamacq
Murkage Dave:
🎵 Generation Left on Read (feat. KONOPINKSY)
#MurkageDave
https://murkagedave.bandcamp.com/album/generation-left-on-read
https://open.spotify.com/track/1FEKoDnMyleXwNmHL7dTNQ

😠 Defunct Pennsylvania oil and gas wells may leak methane and metals into water
#pollution

Patriots rookie first-round LT Will Campbell allows NFL season-worst 14 pressures in Super Bowl loss https://www.nfl.com/news/patriots-rookie-will-campbell-allows-nfl-worst-14-pressures-in-super-bowl-loss

🏗️ To Emulate Zohran, Rebuild Left Institutions
#politics

Source: Pack to cut OL Jenkins, open up $19.5M https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/48156082/source-packers-cut-ol-elgton-jenkins-open-195m

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…