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/
This is the weirdest combination of thumbnails I have ever seen on Netflix 😁
#netflix
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.
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
So many things left to discover.
So few lives left.
💙💙🤍🤍🤍
Cosplay Runway: Spaceman, Chicken and Videographer with exoframe that supports his camera
#photo #photography #cosplay
#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’…
I left port 22 open behind my double NAT and nothing happened :thonking:
Sports clips' rise on platforms like YouTube has left broadcasters debating whether to use them to attract younger viewers or protect their subscription revenue (Lillian Rizzo/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/06/25/tiktok-youtube-sports-viewership.html
JP keyboard adventures under Linux:
The keyboard is somewhere between ANSI and ISO, with a long left Shift key, and the addition of 3 extra meta keys and 2 additional character keys. The meta keys are inserted to left (1) and right (2) of a truncated space bar which is ~half the width of an ANSI-104 space bar. The right of the keyboard more closely resembles ISO, with a large, vertical inverted-L Enter key, plus a `ro` key after ?/ and a `yen` key after =.
The keyboard emits a n…
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.
The heat was supposed to have left Brussels yesterday, but didn't, so today has been terrible too. Fortunately I'm staying in a nice, modern, "design" hotel w/ A/C. Turns out it's "A/C". It's *sweltering*. Thought it's just my room…no, the whole hotel is muggy…AND no windows.
36.3 kWh solar output yesterday, another new record. Breaking records left and right as the weather gets nicer and the days longer.
Nowhere near enough to offset my 167 kWh daily consumption, of course, but I still managed to export 0.6 kWh of overproduction at peak.
“To waste what little bandwidth we have left – when 750 million people worldwide lack access to electricity – assisting some of the richest men ever to hone their plagiarism bots would be a historic idiocy that future generations are unlikely to forgive today’s leaders for.”
#StochasticParrots
#LLMs
EyeBrain: Left and Right Brain Lateralization Activity Classification Through Pupil Diameter and Fixation Duration
Ko Watanabe, Pooja Pol, Nicolas Gro{\ss}mann, Shoya Ishimaru, Andreas Dengel
https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.23562 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2604.23562 https://arxiv.org/html/2604.23562
arXiv:2604.23562v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: The relationship between brain lateralization and cognitive functions is well-documented. The left hemisphere primarily handles tasks such as language and arithmetic, while the right hemisphere is involved in creative activities like drawing and music perception. Eye-tracking technology has shown the potential to reveal cognitive states by measuring ocular metrics such as pupil diameter and fixation duration. However, the ability to distinguish lateralized brain activity using these ocular metrics remains underexplored. Here, we demonstrate that pupil diameter and fixation duration can effectively classify left and right brain hemisphere activities. We obtained a considerably high classification performance, with an F1 score of 0.894. The results suggest that ocular metrics are robust indicators of lateralized brain activity and can be applied in cognitive monitoring and neurorehabilitation. Our future work expands on this by integrating these methods into real-time applications EyeBrain, potentially broadening their use across various cognitive and neurological domains.
toXiv_bot_toot
Three U.S. senators have called for an overhaul of federal agents’ use of
tear gas and pepper spray,
citing a ProPublica investigation that found at least 79 children were left screaming, coughing or hurt by these chemicals during Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown.
Lawmakers said the findings showed more restrictions are needed to avoid injuring bystanders
— including children
— with chemical munitions.
Such weapons were designed to combat rioters and …
I’ve ordered a refurbed pixel 8a as a stopgap, and will just miss things when I’ve left it somewhere around the house I guess! Hopefully some better options will show up at some point.
Mind you I had the iPhone mini for years and useful notifications on that are not allowed, presumably because they ruin the aesthetic. That never stopped being annoying.
I've long felt that Charles (now King Charles) is basically a decent person who was brought up in uniquely strange, mind-twisting, circumstances that have left more than a few - I will be euphemistic - quirks.
But my respect for Charles has dropped considerably when I see him being friendly with our national monster, trump. It sort of reminds me of Chamberlain smiling next to Hitler.
Two teeny-tiny Seagull hatchlings were walking around on the road in front of where I live. Far too young to have left the nest, so perhaps the nest has been disrupted and they have fallen out? I was shooing them away from the traffic and you should have seen the malicious looks the ugly middle-aged men in their "hickmobiles" (extra giant SUVs) were giving me, for being IN THEIR WAY.
Do not romanticise "rural". The people are monstrous outside of cities, they are sti…
Firstly, damn it is nice outside! ☀️
Secondly, there used to be a bin here. And last time I met @… he half threaten to do 'something' with this bin.
@… have you stolen the fucking bin!? 🤔
“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.
https://
The idea of Vote Left, Transfer Left was pretty strongly adhered to in Dublin Central as the count went on.
What happened was that the voters didn’t consider SF to be left.
The SF candidate’s big transfer moments came from Steenson and Hutch.
🚀 Die NFDI4Culture‑Tasche ist wieder unterwegs! Wir sind gerade beim DARIAH‑EU Annual Event 2026 „Digital Arts and Humanities With and For Society: Building Infrastructures of Engagement“ in Rom.
🌍 NFDI4Culture steht morgen auf der Bühne mit dem Vortrag „Navigating the Myriad of Fragmented Partners: NFDI4Culture’s Approach to Fostering International Engagement" und zeigen, wie wir Forscher*innen, Institutionen und Kulturerbe vernetzen.
🔗
❝Here’s a thought experiment: what happens if you just... put a computer on the internet and wait?❞ https://arman-bd.hashnode.dev/i-left-port-22-open-on-the-internet-for-54-days-here-s-who-showed-up
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/
My big head is starting to go up around town.
Time to make the government pay for their multiple failures. Demand a Galway we can live in.
Vote People Before Profit no. 1 and then transfer Left.
Possum girl sticker at the Willamette River in Portland Oregon
Nananananananana Batman...ähm #BSidesVienna
If you still need stickers, come to me, there's dozens of them left :)
EDIT: most found a new home during the afterparty 😌
Yes that’s Odo on the left
The font and colors are subject to change, (though I'm kind of digging the dark blue), but the next portion of the Warlock project is coming together! This will serve as the public documentation and information site for the project, for folks not wanting to solely use Github. Still a lot of work to do, but making good progress on it.
OH, and the screenshot is being generated by the following "code"
::: section .showcase
::: .blocks-2
::: .block
# Warlock Ne…
Urban Illusions and Fallacies II 🏙️
城市的幻影和谬误 II 🏙️
📷 Pentax 6x7
🎞️Kentmere Pan 200 (6x7)
If you like my work, Support by buying me a coffee or a roll of film from PayPal https://paypal.com/paypalme/ydcdingsite
Looks like I got a little ahead of myself. My last post about my new #neovim config left out quite a bit of what I wanted to share. Better late than never, time for an update! ^^
https://www-gem.codeberg.page/vim_2026…
Sources: Ross Nordeen, the last remaining cofounder at xAI, left the company on Friday; Nordeen reported directly to Elon Musk as his right-hand operator (Grace Kay/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/xai-cofounder-ross-nordeen-lea…
Less than a week left to submit a talk to #id24: https://inclusivedesign24.org/2026/
The call for presentations closes on 31 May 2026.
The event is 24 September 2026, which is far enough away to block out y…
There are 'heightened fears that the new regime may follow the same policy lines as the old one — “Starmerism with added affability” as one MP put it to the Star.'
Left challenges #Burnham for real change | Morning Star
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
Tennessee death row prisoner
Tony Carruthers was issued a one-year stay of execution last Thursday
after prison officials were unable to find a backup injection vein
in a botched execution attempt that left Carruthers suffering and in pain for over an hour.
Nashville reporter Steven Hale attended the execution and describes his and fellow witnesses’ confusion as they heard the sounds of what Carruthers’s attorneys are calling “torture.”
Per Tennessee’s lethal i…
The planets #Jupiter (left) and #Venus and the #Gemini stars Pollux and Castor above them this evening - with the Sun 10° below and 10° above the horizon - from Bochum, Germany: exactly two weeks before the planets are closest to each other. (In https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_w5MOP0yxo a one-hour documentary about this conjunction, from Austria.)
Our first Echium has finally flowered this year. They are supposed to flower in their second year but this one took three.
It's very popular with the bees.
nobody:
absolutely no one:
me: "oh yeah, mommy's going to be mad that I left a bike shifter in bed"
14yo: 👀
#FotoVorschlag: Natur in der Stadt
Photo Suggestion: Nature in the city
Cow parsnip, a large native herb in the carrot family, growing along a trail in Mount Sutro Open Space, San Francisco.
'Dirty Tricks' Operation Behind GOP-Aligned Super PAC With a Progressive-Sounding Name Exposed | Common Dreams
https://www.commondreams.org/news/lead-left-super-pac
Relaxed morning ride around 22° instead of a morning walk. Good to wake up.
#lenggries
#LeftWordle 1,834 3/6 for 27 June, 2026
⬜🟨🟨🟨⬜ 27
⬜🟩🟨🟨⬜ 2
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 0
1. 2nd, 3rd & 4th wrong. (27 answers remain after guess.)
2. 2nd perfect. 3rd & 4th wrong. (2 answers remain after guess.)
3. Won! (0 answers remain after guess.)
#Wordle
Even #kitsunekamen feels like a cast member at Disney when R2-D2 is in the house (love that Raven!)
#photography #photo
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 hear a longstandingly mentally ill man,
a narcissistic sociopath who is cognitively declining in his elder years,
becoming increasingly disinhibited.
We don't know exactly what his health is ...
He's obviously physically unwell.
— he's drooping on one side.
Did he have a left hemisphere CVA?
We don't know any of that, because they obviously would lie to us about any of it
#ThickTrunkTuesday: Reinhardt Redwood Park, Oakland, CA
The Look from the Bystander 👁️
旁观者的凝视 👁️
📷 Pentax MX
🎞️ Ilford FP4 Plus 125 (FF), expired 1994
If you like my work, Support by buying me a coffee or a roll of film from
PayPal https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/ydcdingsite
Wise
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…
I’m mean come on now, everyone knows ballrooms prevent assassinations. It’s not law enforcement, it’s not a protective details, it’s certainly not policies and laws that rule a country effectively and remove all motive for assassination: it’s ballrooms.
If you just ignore the huge number of assassinated political figures through history that _had_ ballrooms, then like no one left who got assassinated ever had a ballroom.
🔫❌🪩🕺🏻
That’s just common sense. 😳 /s
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)
Mundane Things VII🌀
普通物件 VII 🌀
📷 Nikon FE
🎞️ Ilford FP4 Plus 125, expired 1993
If you like my work, buy me a coffee from PayPal #filmphotography
I have a beta build of #LeftWordle deployed at https://staging.left-wordle.com/ .
This is beta so it may be unstable and stats won’t ever transfer to the production game.
Please take a look at a bunch …
Three doctors gathered and told the couple that the longer Waldorf’s cervix remained open and her uterus exposed to bacteria,
the higher her risk of developing a life-threatening infection.
The standard of care, they explained, would be to quickly empty her womb.
But they couldn’t do that, one doctor said apologetically, sighing deeply.
The baby still had a detectable heartbeat, and stopping it would run afoul of a state abortion ban that snapped into place after the…