Tootfinder

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/

Trump’s CISA nominee said he left Coast Guard to address GOP hold
Sean Plankey confirmed the intent to Nextgov/FCW and said he’s “prepared to lead the nation’s cyber defense agency to protect the federal civilian networks and our nation’s critical infrastructure from physical and cyber attacks.”

Bad news from Kerala.
But it's happened before and the left will be back.
India loses its last left-wing government after five decades | Politics News | Al Jazeera
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/5/4/in…

India loses its last left-wing government after five decades
Kerala in India, which gave the world its first democratically elected communist government, has voted the left out.

from my link log —
Async Rust never left the MVP state.
https://tweedegolf.nl/en/blog/237/async-rust-never-left-the-mvp-state
saved 2026-05-04

Async Rust never left the MVP state - Blog - Tweede golf
I've previously explained async bloat and some work-arounds for it, but would much prefer to solve the issue at the root, in the compiler. I've submitted a Project Goal, and am looking for help to ...

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

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…

US Citizen Sues ICE After Agents Allegedly Left Him Bleeding From Head
A man who says federal immigration agents left him “bleeding and in pain” has filed a $1.25 million damages claim.

Mailbag: Has left tackle been a concern? https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/mailbag-has-left-tackle-been-a-concern

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

What the Left Is Getting Wrong About the Right — PowerLabs
Daniel Martinez HoSang and Micah English examine how right-wing actors are making inroads into new constituencies and issues—and what this means for organizers today.

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

What the Left Is Getting Wrong About the Right — PowerLabs
Daniel Martinez HoSang and Micah English examine how right-wing actors are making inroads into new constituencies and issues—and what this means for organizers today.

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

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

Jesse Jackson Paved the Way for a New US Left
With his two unabashedly left-populist campaigns for president in 1984 and 1988, Jesse Jackson opened the door to Bernie Sanders’s presidential runs — and a reborn American socialist movement.

Mailbag: Has left tackle been a concern? https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/mailbag-has-left-tackle-been-a-concern

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…

Government argues ICE facility protest was actually left-wing terrorist plot
A first-ever trial against an alleged ‘antifa cell’ in Texas could be a playbook for cracking down on administration critics.

another innocent victim caught by radical left purity testing (charlie kirk)

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.

@… little comparison of GIF compression between Bluesky (left) and Mastodon (right), definitely Bluesky wins this round

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

The Hurvin Anderson exhibition at Tate Britain is eye-opening for me. I didn't really know anything about him, and I'm loving the vibes, the subjects, the treatment and the materials (mostly acrylic on linen).
#art #painting

I wonder if Wallace Shawn’s political views were shaped by his role as The Nagus on DS9.
https://jacobin.com/2026/04/wallace-shawn-socialism-theater-class

Wallace Shawn’s Road to Socialism
The left-wing actor and playwright Wallace Shawn, currently in two plays in New York, describes a harsh midlife conversion to class politics — transforming from a disengaged liberal to someone who sees himself as “a participant in the world struggle.”

👀👀🤔🤔

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, …

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

Home
A one-stop-shop for explanation about Right to Left languages online.

#silentSunday #RockyMountainNationalPark
Rainbow in Horseshoe Park. September 2004.

There are 26 days left until I need to get the bike out of winter storage. I hope spring comes soon. 🏍

Also — two days.
https://bsky.app/profile/lflegal.bsky.social/post/3ml2enyfjp22t
That post points to endorsements at

Lainey Feingold (@lflegal.bsky.social)
Today we’re thanking the early endorsers of #DigitalAccessibilityEthics: Disability Inclusion in all Things Tech. Here is a sample: “An extensive, expansive and important book." Full list of quotes + endorsers: https://www.lflegal.com/book/praise-for-digital-accessibility-ethics/ Pub date this Wednesday - one day left to pre-order

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Alt-J:
🎵 Left Hand Free
#NowPlaying #AltJ
https://varsityvocals.bandcamp.com/track/left-hand-free-murder-opb-alt-j-justin-timberlake-feat-jay-z-ithacappella
https://open.spotify.com/track/5qJqzpNdEbt92roedFwoDR

You never know who you might bump into in the giant metropolis of Wick!
This is my MSP Maree Todd and Scotland's First Minister John Swinney, speaking to the CEO and a staff member of the local community centre.

A look at nonprofit VTDigger, which has been operating at a loss since 2022 and is seeking its third EIC in just over a year after tough union negotiations (Aidan Ryan/The Boston Globe)
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2026/04/02/business/vtdigger-departu…

VTDigger grapples with executive departures, financial challenges
Executive departures, financial challenges, and a tense contract negotiation with its editorial union has left VTDigger on unstable footing.

She likes to note that learning Korean from K-pop and her mother left her with an odd, anachronistic idiom — a hodgepodge that includes both early 2000s colloquialisms and expressions that fell out of fashion in the 1970s.

„It’s difficult to work out who the anti-Israel leftists or right-wing groypers are because their language is now indistinguishable“
https://spectator.com/article/rise-of-the-leftist-groypers/

Rice’s whales existed before humans. Now Trump could make them extinct https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/apr/05/rice-whales-extinction-trump-gulf-mexico

#np nowhere left to run
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qH_Fusf01Tg
> Provided to YouTube by IIP-DDSnowhere left to run · Remy van KesterenAn alternative soundtrack to the motion picture...℗ 2…

Today we welcomed Dr. Ramanuj Banerjee, Counselor for Science and Technology at the Indian Embassy in Germany, and representatives from Göttingen International at the University of Göttingen to MPS. It was a wonderful opportunity to present our research and discuss collaborations between scientists from India, Göttingen, and within the Max Planck Society. Thank you very much for visiting!!!
In the photo, from left to right: Netra Bhandari (Director of the India Office, University of Gö…

oh look, a version of this meme that isn't compressed to all fuck

oh look, a version of this meme that isn't compressed to all fuck

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).

Cowboys Still Have Big Offensive Question Mark After NFL Draft https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/left-tackle-tyler-guyton-drew-shelton/

Almost exact repeat of April 4, 1976 winter storm in the #Fargo #Moorhead area: April 4, 2026 (left); news report in Forum newspaper from 50 years ago (right). #Minnesota

Roofers Repair 78-year-old Widower’s Roof for Free After Scammers Left Him with a Big Hole https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/roofers-repair-78-year-old-widowers-roof-for-free-after-scammers-left-him-with-a-big-hole/

Roofers Repair 78-year-old Widower's Roof for Free After Scammers Left Him with a Big Hole
The man said he felt "pressured" into accepting, and before he knew it, the bill rose to 8-times that amount.

She cooks!

Lots of progress and a lots of pain. However, all of the Sisyphus modules have been implemented and I'm currently running a test across the `2.0.0b2` version. The most painful thing I fought was literally tailing a log file. Got lazy and brought in `hpcloud/tail` because it did what I needed it to, but what it _didn't_ do was work well for my application. After a day or two of battling it, I removed it and went with `bufio.NewReader`and a nice `context.CloseWith` setup and now it…

We had family visiting for a few days last week, including a one year old boy who is very fond of dogs. Izzy is a cautious rescue dog, but she warmed up to the toddler. After about two days, the toddler would walk up to Izzy and bend over so his face was close to Izzy and she would give him a kiss. When they left after four days, I think Izzy was sad to see him go. #DogsofMastodon

Ron Brooks Quintet at the Blue Llama

Stolen to add #AltText. https://piefed.social/c/politicalcompassmemes/p/1835849/yet-another-cat-pcm

https://www.theguardian.com/world/ng-interactive/2026/mar/24/self-deportation-los-angeles-mexico-trump-immigration

You're gonna punch me?"
"Yeah"
"Then you're gonna in trouble for that”
"Okay"
#OkayPunch #Shitpost #Shitposting

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.

I think if Adobe were to port Photoshop to Linux (annoying subscriptions and everything - I‘m not asking them to change their business model for this) the only ones left who need to use Linux are conpanies who have a super elaborate setup for color-coding e-mails in Outlook and text templates in Word… https://mastodon.onlin…

Primaries are tomorrow, #Tennessee!
(Please don’t DM me if your voter registration is messed up, images are from a third-party social post)
#TN #Vote

Hi. You've reached the level cap of cuteness for today. You can turn off the internet now. 😌
#photography #dogs #sea

RE: https://mastodon.social/@kottke/116171743035324360
Yep. My grandmother and my mother both did this. I do it now and my wife is always like "hey you left the window open"
And I'm like 😏🇦🇹

Sickly Red III ⭕️
病态的红 III ⭕️
📷 Pentax MX
🎞️ CineStill 800T
If you like my work, buy me a coffee from PayPal #filmphotography

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

There's a phenomenon I've experienced multiple times where I've been asked to look at a failed system, and the cause turned out to be a service component billing annually to a credit card that was cancelled when an employee left.
Anyway, I'm sure that won't happen to all the vibe-coded tools that will eventually become load bearing.

RUSSIANS IN PANIC! Ukrainian forces left them without air defense and drones in one stroke: https://benborges.xyz/2026/03/04/russians-in-panic-ukrainian-forces.html

European electricity prices are not immune to the gas price shock, since in many hours of the year, gas-fired power plants set the price, as the marginal producers.
The maps show the differences for baseload power to be delivered next quarter, between last Friday (left) and today (right). In the Netherlands, a jump from €70 to €100 per MWh!
Data/maps from EEX Group

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.…

Seahawks Receive Clear Warning Ahead of 2026 NFL Draft https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/clear-warning-ahead-2026-nfl-draft/

Doggo understands what I should be doing right now. #dogs #dogsofmastodon

Offseason checklist for all 32 NFL teams: What did the draft cross off and what's left to do? https://www.nfl.com/news/offseason-checklist-for-all-32-nfl-teams-what-did-the-draft-cross-off-and-what-s-left-to-do

Thinking more about energy upgrades in the lab: i have a 2U that just acts as a host for a bunch of FPGA devkits to run jtag/uart hosts etc.
I can shut it down if I can manage to connect the relevant USB devices to the VM server (and if they work in passthrough).
The problem is that the cable is going to have to go from the bottom of the rack at right up and over into the tray and down to the rack at left before reaching the hub.
What are the odds of this working well with …

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #6Musics00sForever
The Avalanches:
🎵 Since I Left You
#TheAvalanches
https://telephonemaison.bandcamp.com/track/the-avalanches-since-i-left-you
https://open.spotify.com/track/2DgFCys3XMrWZDngu1CrRy

Being sick for 3 weeks, I feel like I lost a month of my life. Like, March just kind of disappeared and I'm not at all ready for summer.
Also, my kids are now sick again and my wife just left for a 2 week work trip, if I get sick again I'm going to absolutely lose my shit.

Got something to share at #TNC26?
There’s just 1 week left to submit your proposals for Lightning Talks, BoFs, and Community Hub.
This year, under the theme Digital Sisu, the TNC Programme Committee are especially looking for contributions that show courage and inner strength in our changing world.
🎤 Submit your idea before 10 March:

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Thundercat:
🎵 What Is Left To Say
#NowPlaying #Thundercat
#newRelease 🆕 album
https://thundercat.bandcamp.com/track/what-is-left-to-say
https://open.spotify.com/track/3enDijqNJTZuAQpj1Jm6q6

> Part of the crypto grift was telling people to "Have Fun Staying Poor". That weaponisation of FOMO was an insidious way to get people to drop their scepticism.
>
> I feel the same way about the current crop of AI tools.
https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/03/im-ok

Small Businesses Are Being Left Out of Tariff Refund Process, CBP Data Suggests (Layla A. Jones/Talking Points Memo)
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/small-businesses-are-being-left-out-of-tariff-refund-process-cbp-data-suggests
http://www.memeorandum.com/260403/p118#a260403p118

RE: https://ohai.social/@asokel/116175043075280844
he totally left the bay open

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…

Death of a refugee left at a Buffalo doughnut shop by Border Patrol is ruled a homicide
The Erie County Medical Examiner's Office didn't reach any conclusions about responsibility for Nurul Amin Shah Alam's death.

As an added bonus, Apple calls the two ports on the left “USB-C” (which is a type of connector) and the two other ports “Thunderbolt 5” (which is a type of interface).
It’s not specified what protocols the USB-C ports support (presumably USB up to USB4 and maybe some alternate modes).

Mailbag: Time to evaluate left tackle? https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/mailbag-time-to-evaluate-left-tackle

Urban Demons X👻
城市鬼魂 X 👻
📷 Nikon F4E
🎞️ ERA 100, expired 1993
If you like my work, buy me a coffee from PayPal #filmphotography

Mailbag: Time to evaluate left tackle? https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/mailbag-time-to-evaluate-left-tackle

Gorton and Denton - a rough vote analysis.
Green vote gain (10,200) was 2,000 short of Lib/Left reductions
Reform vote gain (5400) 3250 more than Tory reduction.
Suggests broadly that Greens got the Lib/Left votes and Reform the Tory ones, but some Labour went to Reform.
However the stay at homes likely to have been different population each time, with Greens mobilising former abstentions and Labour having more abstensions this time.
Very similar turnout 2024 and 2…

I left the house nine and a half hours ago. I am extremely tired and glad that I didn't find poop on the floor.

Shipping Firms Left Guessing by Confusion in Strait of Hormuz (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/04/business/trump-hormuz-shipping-companies.html?unlocked_article_code=1.f1A.Hksl.j1mz9l07k22f&smid=url-share
http://www.memeorandum.com/260504/p84#a260504p84

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…

Pagoda 7️⃣
浮屠 7️⃣
📷 Pentax MX
🎞️ Harman Red 125 (FF)
If you like my work, buy me a coffee or a roll of film from PayPal #filmphotography

Why Democrats are suddenly winning back the left -- and the "double-haters" (G. Elliott Morris/Strength In Numbers)
https://www.gelliottmorris.com/p/2026-04-05-sunday-roundup
http://www.memeorandum.com/260405/p5#a260405p5

from my link log —
Final analysis of 2025 Iberian blackout: electrical grid operating policies left Spain at risk.
https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/03/final-analysis-of-2025-iberian-blackout-policies-left-spain-at-risk/…

Final analysis of 2025 Iberian blackout: Policies left Spain at risk
Too much hardware was allowed to disconnect right at the edge of normal conditions.

Sickly Red II ⭕️
病态的红 II ⭕️
📷 Pentax MX
🎞️ CineStill 800T
If you like my work, buy me a coffee from PayPal #filmphotography …

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…

DHS Caught Lying About Blind Refugee Agents Left to Die in Buffalo
Shah Alam was blind and spoke no English. He was found dead five days after Border Patrol agents left him outside a closed coffee shop at night.

James Talarico preaches faith, love, and healing. Do voters actually want that? (Christian Paz/Vox)
https://www.vox.com/politics/480894/james-talarico-jasmine-crockett-faith-love-healing-texas-voters-senate-primary-democratic-religion-left
http://www.memeorandum.com/260303/p40#a260303p40

Tyler Guyton Has One Job For the Cowboys in 2026 https://insidethestar.com/tyler-guyton-has-one-job-in-2026

Blake could barely make a living illustrating other people’s work, and it left no time for his own art.
He yearned for a different technique that could achieve the same result in less time and with less toil.
No such technique existed.
So he invented it.
Rather than cut the shapes onto the plates with his sharp steel burin, he painted directly onto the copper with a quill or brush dipped in acid-resistant varnish, then bathed the plates in acid, which stripped a layer …

The Most Valiant Way to Complain Is to Create: William Blake and the Stubborn Courage of the Unexampled
“The Eye altering alters all.”

Let’s say you’re diagnosed with a terminal illness, and your doctor gives you a time frame:
five years, two years, six months to live.
What would you do next?
Perhaps you get your affairs in order,
spend as much time as you can with loved ones,
or tackle a bucket list (as your health permits).
What happens, then, when the estimated end date comes and goes?
Bruce Deachman speaks with people who have experienced exactly this:
people who are …

Woodson, Witten come up short for Hall of Fame https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/woodson-witten-come-up-short-for-hall-of-fame

I can’t stop thinking about
Nurul Shah Alam,
the disabled refugee who died after Border Patrol left him outside in the cold with no way to contact friends or family.
It took five days for him to die.
He was blind and didn’t speak English.
They took the pole he was using as a cane.
This man survived an actual genocide only to be killed by the incompetence and cruelty of the Trump regime.
Five days of wandering around lost, sick and disoriented.

Nurul Amin Shah Alam, Blind Rohingya refugee dumped by CBP, dies in cold
"They just left him."

Woodson, Witten come up short for Hall of Fame https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/woodson-witten-come-up-short-for-hall-of-fame

SB LX: DeMarcus Lawrence among 4 with Cowboys ties who escaped Dallas https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2026/02/05/sb-lx-demarcus-lawrence-among-4-with-cowboys-ties-who-es…

The neoconservatives,
who dominated the Pentagon and the White House after 9/11
believed the US could use force to remake the Middle East,
and their project left us with two enduring concepts that still shape American military power and politics today:
creative chaos and strategic deception.
These are the intellectual doctrines of neoconservatism,
an ideology that bears constant re-examination.
Legacy One: Creative chaos
The intellectual arch…

The carrier of creative chaos
On March 31, the aircraft carrier USS George H.W. Bush departed naval station Norfolk in Virginia, bound for the Middle East to join the other three carriers (USS Lincoln, Tripoli and New Orleans) …

In today's Texas Senate primary election, Republicans are measuring the potency of Trump’s Make America Great Again movement against old-guard conservatism. Democrats, meanwhile, face a choice between two progressive “powerhouses” with different theories of how to fight – and how to win – in the Trump era.
The fiercely competitive races have left Democrats unusually hopeful about their chances in a state that hasn’t elected a Democrat statewide since 1994, while Republicans fret th…