2026-03-03 16:25:34
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.
Mailbag: Time to evaluate left tackle? https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/mailbag-time-to-evaluate-left-tackle
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…
Kos: Purity politics gets the left nowhere
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2026/3/2/2370643/-Purity-politics-gets-the-left-nowhere?pm_campaign=blog&pm_medium=rss&pm_source=main
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
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…
Mailbag: Time to evaluate left tackle? https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/mailbag-time-to-evaluate-left-tackle
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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
#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…
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…
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.…
You're gonna punch me?"
"Yeah"
"Then you're gonna in trouble for that”
"Okay"
#OkayPunch #Shitpost #Shitposting
Doggo understands what I should be doing right now. #dogs #dogsofmastodon
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).
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/
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
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
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.
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.
Spanje heeft wel ballen...
'Mark Chadbourn
@chadbourn.bsky.social€
15 US military aircraft have left the Rota and Morón air bases after Spain refused to allow them to be used for operations related to Iran, Reuters reports.'
Via:
https://bsky.app/profile/chadbourn.bsky.social/post/3mg3eqnm56c2p
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
Wired ends its UK print edition, after reducing from six to four issues per year at the end of 2024; seven London-based journalists left at the end of 2025 (Charlotte Tobitt/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/
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:
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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
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…
RE: https://mastodon.scot/@bodhipaksa/116008860890592546
memories of the unheated bogs at school in the mid 1980s which iirc they demolished a year ish before i left, to make way for shiny new classrooms
they also got rid of the wwii anderson bomb s…
no, I don't have any spoons left
I melted them into a baseball bat
Wallace Shawn’s Road to Socialism https://jacobin.com/2026/04/wallace-shawn-socialism-theater-class/
Not a whole lot left. #Wordle
Wordle 1 778 4/6
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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
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…
RE: https://mastodon.me.uk/@PoliceStateUK/116159665967332199
When a professional managerialist centrist like Khan (highly competent, successful, good track record, prominent) is way to the left of the party mainstream like this, it shows clearly how f…
My #3dprintingwaste box arrived so I was finally able to sort out my overflowing wastebasket. I left a bunch of the #filamentpoop just because its harder to make sure the PLA and PETG ones are separated. While paying £54 for the privilege of
Great Egret looking across the estuary. Bolsa Chica Ecological Reserve, Huntington Beach, California, USA. February, 2026. OM System OM-1 M.Zuiko 300mm F4 MC14 #bolsachicaecologicalreserve #egret
THE BOARD OF PEACE WAS SO BUSY ESTABLISHING PEACE IN THE MIDDLE EAST THAT SOON NO PERSON WILL BE LEFT THERE TO ENJOY IT
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
Some beautiful art and illustrations that I've recently found. 🌿
Zara Picken
#art #illustrations
Ron DeSantis spent $1.2m per day to open and operate ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ | Ron DeSantis | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/02/ron-desantis-12-million-on-alligator-alcatraz
Trans musicians recommended by @annehealthcare.bsky.social€ via BlueSky:
🎵 Left at London
🎵 SOPHIE
🎵 Shea Diamond
🎵 Boy Bowser
🎵 Pussyboys (Ezra Michel)
The original post has more info on each band:
https://bsky.app/profile/annehealthcar…
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
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
A slew of top Boston Dynamics execs have left the Hyundai-owned company in recent months, as sources say it faces pressure to speed the delivery of humanoids (Rachyl Jones/Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/article/05/01/2026/c-suite-exodus-at-boston-dynamics
bag_of_words: Bag of words (2008)
Five text collections in the form of bags-of-words, i.e. a bipartite document–word network. Left nodes are documents and right nodes are words. Edge weights are multiplicities. .
This network has 13919 nodes and 746316 edges.
Tags: Informational, Text, Bipartite, Weighted, Metadata
https://
Only like 6-7 minutes left! 🚀
The Raiders' Offseason Plan Has Left No Stone Unturned https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-offseason-plan-has-left-no-stone-unturned
Sickly Red II ⭕️
病态的红 II ⭕️
📷 Pentax MX
🎞️ CineStill 800T
If you like my work, buy me a coffee from PayPal #filmphotography …
@… if you give them all away, then you don't have any left to give. I assume this is the goal?
> 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
It’d be better to double check your output before making claims like this...
github.com/cosmiciron/vmprint
"Trump, I think, is sort of nearing, you know, Bush 43 numbers on approval; he left office at 32%. Two serious polls have [Trump] at 33%. This is the third. The country has sort of logged back in, taken the measure of the second term, and said, thank you, no."
On Deadline: White House, Angelo Carusone discusses Trump's growing unpopularity among right-wing radio callers | Media Matters for America
https://www.mediamatters.org/ms-now-msnbc/deadline-white-house-angelo-carusone-discusses-trumps-growing-unpopularity-among-right
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.
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
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.
Ask Sweden to Ban Fur Farms #AnimalRights
Canadians, do you think, like Canadaland's Stephen Marche, that Canadian nationalism is a 1960s - Waffle, I guess - phenomenon?
"I just don't think of that period [post-WWI] as being hyper-nationalistic. I think of nationalism as born in 1965 from Margaret Atwood's brain."
As a historian, I know that left nationalism in the 60s was an important phenomenon, but the notion that some might think that Canadian nationalism was born then hurts my brain.
I suppose giant, espresso-scented fatbergs are a thing now? 😬 https://beige.party/@TheBreadmonkey/116342953100686517
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 …
RE: https://tldr.nettime.org/@tante/116336865821779810
On the one hand, it’s truly regrettable, yet at the same time unifying, that the people who have just left Earth to head to the moon are also taking the most ridiculous technical shortcomings of our tim…
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/…
This made it through multiple levels and multiple rounds of design and marketing approval.
At no point did anyone stop and think?
Really? This is the design we're going with?
Not one person who had any rudimentary internet skills.
Not one hero in one meeting had even the one ounce of temerity or one gram of courage to stand up and say
HEY - THE HAND ON THE LEFT IS SUPPOSED TO BE WEARING A RING.
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
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 …
At CPAC, FCC Chair Brendan Carr boasted "Trump is winning", citing PBS and NPR defunding and the departures of Joy Reid, Chuck Todd, Stephen Colbert, and others (Kathryn Wilkens/Mediaite)
https://www.mediaite.com/media/news/trump-
Burgers, branding and generosity: How Fernando Mendoza left an Indiana legacy https://www.reviewjournal.com/sports/raiders/burgers-branding-and-generosity-how-fernando-mendoza-left-an-indiana-legacy-3731078/…
A debatable handball, a six-minute VAR review and a decision that left J.J. Watt enraged https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7077566/2026/02/28/burnley-goal-handball-var-disallowed/
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.
With the US on the brink of war with Iran, Fox's biggest stars are more focused on the left being mean to the US men's hockey team (Matt Gertz/Media Matters for America)
https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/us-brink-war-iran-foxs-biggest-stars-are-more-focused-left-being-mean-us-mens-hockey-team
http://www.memeorandum.com/260227/p66#a260227p66
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Natalie Jane Hill:
🎵 Never Left Me
#NowPlaying #NatalieJaneHill
https://nataliejanehill.bandcamp.com/track/never-left-me
https://open.spotify.com/track/5mYV6uf5S0ChjFoLJWUJHI
Sacred US 😇
神聖的我們 😇
📷 Pentax MX
🎞️ Lucky SHD 400
If you like my work, buy me a coffee or a roll of film 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…
Fernando Mendoza’s Indiana Pro Day helped to silence any remaining critics https://raiderramble.com/2026/04/02/fernando-mendozas-indiana-pro-day-helped-to-silence-any-remaining-critics/
My annual update to my 2012 post, “W3C CSS Odor Module Released”:
https://adrianroselli.com/2012/04/w3c-css-odor-module-released.html#Update09
That’s it. That’s all I got new for today.
I hope he left his iPhone at home. Because, you know, Nazis.
#IronSky https://tomkahe.com/@GiftArticles/116331494329173157
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…
Left pushes wealth tax as litmus test for 2028 Dems (Holly Otterbein/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/03/29/left-wing-democrats-wealth-tax-2028
http://www.memeorandum.com/260329/p56#a260329p56
The Resistant Wall 🧱
萬仞宮牆 🧱
📷 Zeiss IKON Super Ikonta 533/16
🎞️ Ilford HP5 Plus 400 (6x6), expired 1993
If you like my work, buy me a coffee or a roll of film from PayPal https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/ydcdingsite
Renée Good’s brothers, others describe assaults, shootings at hearing
American citizens told congressional leaders Tuesday that they had been shot, manhandled and dragged from their cars
by aggressive federal immigration enforcement agents in recent months,
experiences that left them fearing for their lives.
The witnesses wept and spoke with emotion as they described violent encounters with federal agents at a forum on Capitol Hill sponsored by two Democrats.
The Raiders built Maxx Crosby a real defense: Now it has to show https://raiderramble.com/2026/05/02/the-raiders-built-maxx-crosby-a-real-defense-now-it-has-to-show/
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…
War and Peace Cannot Be Left to One Man -- Especially Not This Man (David French/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/01/opinion/trump-iran-congress-approval.html?unlocked_article_code=1.P1A.rExN.YWa2nGwLaWGd&smid=bs-share
http://www.memeorandum.com/260301/p12#a260301p12
With Kirk Cousins signing, Raiders stare into their organizational abyss https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/raiders/2026/04/03/kirk-cousins-raiders-fernando-mendoza-quarterback/89435385007/
It's AOC or bust for far-left Democrats in 2028 (Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/03/01/aoc-liberal-democrats-2028
http://www.memeorandum.com/260301/p85#a260301p85
Homicide ruling made in death of nearly blind refugee whom Border Patrol left at a doughnut shop (Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/buffalo-new-york-refugee-death-482894a96ba31b8945f4186f823c38d2
http://www.memeorandum.com/260401/p84#a260401p84
A vow to end wars is left in the dust
For a decade, Trump promised to end what he calls forever wars,
casting himself as a leader opposed to prolonged conflicts in the Middle East and who would rather pursue peace in the world.
Now, early in his second term, Trump is taking military action against Iran that could expand well beyond a limited effort to halt the country’s nuclear program.
In a video posted on Truth Social, the commander-in-chief said American forces also…
FBI investigating 'potential nexus to terrorism' in 6th Street shooting that left two dead, 14 injured | Shooter also killed (Laura Sather/KVUE-TV)
https://www.kvue.com/article/news/local/active-attack-reported-in-downtown-austin/269-1a19c462-1416-4316-8dba-732c395fbfcf
http://www.memeorandum.com/260301/p57#a260301p57
Billionaires Tax Closer To California Ballot--Here's Who Has Already Left (Mary Whitfill Roeloffs/Forbes)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/maryroeloffs/2026/04/27/billionaires-tax-closer-to-california-ballot-heres-who-has-already-left/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260427/p117#a260427p117
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…