2026-04-01 06:56:05
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 https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/roofers-repair-78-year-old-widowers-roof-for-free-after-scammers-left-him-with-a-big-hole/
Left-wing Democratic primary wins pose a test for a Jeffries speakership
There are warning signs for Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries,
-- who already faces frustration from the Democratic base that he is not fighting back hard enough against Trump.
If Democrats win only a narrow majority in the heavily gerrymandered chamber in November,
it will give each vote outsize importance
and Jeffries critics more opportunities to influence policy.
Two of the thr…
Starmer does the dirty on Burnham.
Commits an extra £4.7bn on weapons.
£47bn on new nuclear submarines
£13bn on a new nuclear warhead
£1.7bn on nuclear fuels.
£1bn for 12 Lockheed Martin F-35A jets capable of carrying nuclear bombs
£8.6bn on new fighter aircraft and £1.1bn to keep existing Typhoons in service until the 2040s.
£5bn more on drones.
Do you feel safer now?
Burnham left with £4.7bn bill for Starmer’s new defence investment plan
#LeftWordle - one thing to check out on the staging version, you can do ?date=2026-07-01, for example, at the end of the url and solve tomorrow's puzzle a little earlier. https://staging.left-wordle.com?date=2
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
Cowboys Named Landing Spot for Ex-Pro Bowl Left Tackle Amid Uninspiring Competition https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/cowboys-landing-spot-ex-pro-bowl-left-tackle-uninspiring-competition
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
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/
Some #LeftWordle enhancements:
these are currently in https://staging.left-wordle.com. They will make it to production hopefully by week’s end. I’ll announce here the intended cutover date / time for prod.
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 @… )
They Left for the School Bus. ICE Picked Them Up Instead. - The New York Times
https://archive.ph/NIiYL
This is the weirdest combination of thumbnails I have ever seen on Netflix 😁
#netflix
The US sentences Guo Wengui, a self-exiled billionaire Chinese tycoon who defrauded his online followers out of hundreds of millions, to 30 years in prison (Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/guo-wengui-chinese-businessman-fraud-3deb…
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…
The apples of the Hesperides have nothing on Herakles' tush.
#BumDayMonday
#GreekRomanArt #ReverseNotObverse
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
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.
An interview with Kara Swisher about her podcast, interviewing Democratic presidential candidates, why she is not a left-leaning counter to Joe Rogan, and more (Steven Sloan/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/kara-swishe…
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 Kings! this Saturday left me with the question: would the real Donald Trump have called me a "furry"?
#photo #photography #nokings
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.
Dems' Tea Party-like rebellion built by a decade of frustration (Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/06/29/democrats-rebellion-left-progressives
http://www.memeorandum.com/260629/p4#a260629p4
aldi likes to stack shelves with boxes of 2 or 3 varieties of a thing
which i think is a tactic for offering more products with fewer SKUs?
with the amusing downside when they predict roughly equal popularity across the varieties but get it wildly wrong
eg earlier i was replenishing the cornichons which are stocked in boxes containing jars of herby conichons, spicy cornichons, and crinkle-cut pickle slices
however what was left was about 100 jars of crinkle cut pickle…
Morning all! Happy May Morning. #MorrisDance #MayMorning #Folk
Jürgen Klopp advertising one of the worst beers in the world is even more disappointing than when he left Liverpool. 😭
Why Bryce Huff left the NFL at age 27, and why he has no regrets https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7387355/2026/06/30/bryce-huff-retirement-nfl-naberstone/
I'd rather have it and not need it than need it and not have it.
#Shitpost #Shitposting #OpenCarry
RE: https://mastodon.social/@kottke/116489697525420186
I know UBI is the darling child of the left, but ask me if I want the current fucking regime to have its hands in my wallet
Unf*ck your feet! 👣
#photography #sandals #running
🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Alt-J:
🎵 Left Hand Free
#NowPlaying #AltJ
https://open.spotify.com/track/5qJqzpNdEbt92roedFwoDR
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.)
https://
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.
One of my favorite @… stickers 💚🩵💙
#SoftwareFreedom #sticker #foss
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
I just backed this. I really enjoyed the demo on Steam and want to see what the full thing could look like. The mod support and lua coding is a distant stretch goal, but just seeing this reach the base level funding would be great.
Past halfway funded, and only 7 days left.
https://www.kickstarter.com…
crime: Rosenfeld crime network (1991)
A network of associations among suspects, victims, and/or witnesses involved in crimes in St. Louis in the 1990s. Data are derived from police records, via snowball sampling from five initial homicides. Left nodes are people, right nodes are crime events, and edges connect people to particular crimes events they were associated with. Metadata includes names, genders, and roles (suspects, victims, and/or witnesses).
This network has 1380 nodes…
> “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.
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…
“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://
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/
Yes that’s Odo on the left
It’s coming. One week. 6 May.
I contributed a chapter on accessibility overlays, but the other 33 make it worth it.
“Digital Accessibility Ethics: Disability Inclusion in All Things Tech”
https://AccessibilityEthics.org/
I do not use Ubuntu as a personal distro, however I have a couple of test machines with it on.
Whenever I have to use it I remember why I do not use it. Just tried to do-release-upgrade and it quickly fell apart and left me with a system that prints this when I try and run apt
apt: symbol lookup error: apt: undefined symbol: _ZN3APT6Solver14InternalCliWhyB5cxx11ER11pkgDepCacheN8pkgCache11PkgIteratorEb, version APTPKG_7.0
P.S. To be clear. I am ranting. I am not looking for …
This wasn’t a headline I expected to read, but it kinda makes sense. Connie Chan has been milquetoast in her criticism of Israel compared to Saikat. She supports the Block the Bombs Act, but conspicuously left open the option of supporting so-called “defensive” aid like Iron Dome. Makes sense AIPAC would want the general election to be her and Wiener, not Saikat and Wiener.
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…
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.
"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
"The Catalog of Distinctive Type (CDT) uses machine learning to analyze the minute details of 17th-century printing, offering scholars a powerful new way to identify who printed what."
https://www.library.cmu.edu/about/news/2026-05/catalog-distinctive-type
Cowboys Named Landing Spot for Ex-Pro Bowl Left Tackle Amid Uninspiring Competition https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/cowboys-landing-spot-ex-pro-bowl-left-tackle-uninspiring-competition
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
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…
I went to the Sacred Wild Gathering at Smith Woods in Trumansburg, NY which has lots of Red Elderberry which was used by Native Americans and you have to cook before you can eat
#photo
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.
❝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
To start off our ten day heatwave, I’m having a very Iceland day:
• Siggi Gunnars was in my neighborhood last night
• Listening to GusGus (so good)
• Neighbor left me a note addressed to Reykjavík-guru. Putting that on my business cards.
Not very Icelandic: sweating through my clothes.
Inglewood is remaking itself in real time.
Over the past years, billions of dollars have flowed into the stadiums, infrastructure, and entertainment development
as the city of nearly 103,000 markets itself as Los Angeles’s sports hub.
Major streets are freshly paved and lined with new digital billboards that remind Arnold of the contours of the World Cup trophy.
“This is the city of the future,” says Arnold, pointing to a bulldozer leveling dirt on a lot across from …
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
So many things left to discover.
So few lives left.
💙💙🤍🤍🤍
These two people gave me free vegetables and chicken soup on Friday 6/19 (the real Juneteenth) at Southside Community Center but told me they usually do it on Thorsday
#photo #photography #food
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/
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.
#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…
Cowboys' Left Tackle Competition Isn't Much of a Battle Going Into Training Camp https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/dallas-cowboys-left-tackle-competition-isnt-much-of-battle-training-camp
Dave Jorgenson's LNI is profitable with 49% of 2025 revenue coming from ads, 21% from consulting, 14% from the newsletter, and plans for a long-form show in Q3 (Christiana Sciaudone/A Media Operator)
https://www.amediaoperator.com/news/former
Democrats Are in a Civil War--and the Far Left Is Gaining Ground (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/politics/elections/democrats-are-in-a-civil-warand-the-far-left-is-gaining-ground-bdd9567b
http://www.memeorandum.com/260626/p129#a260626p129
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
If you lifted #Gaza up, turned it through 90°, and dropped it down in Galloway, it would fit between the Nith and the Water of Fleet, between the main A75 road and the sea. I've cycled more than half that distance this afternoon.
I've cycled through green woods and fields under a grey sky, to the sound of birds when there were no passing cars; the same journey in Gaza would be through r…
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
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…
WATCH: Trump's Own Words Prove HE Is the Source of Most Violent Rhetoric, Not the Left
https://zeteo.com/p/watch-trumps-own-words-prove-he-is
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)
#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’…
One Dallas Cowboys Player Who Just Dodged a Major Draft-Day Bullet https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/one-dallas-cowboys-player-who-just-dodged-major-draft-day-bullet
"In 1948, after an immensely costly war but also trade union and socialist mobilisation, the share of national income going to capital was 35 per cent, much lower than it had been the 1930s. Today it is back at 45 per cent. 35 per cent today would mean another £1.4 trillion for those who work, our services and communities."
Burnham’s got a long road ahead, and the left must keep up the pressure along the way | Morning Star
As America celebrates 250 years, the Left sends its regrets (Hugo Gurdon/Washington Examiner)
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/premium/4624208/america-250-left-sends-regrets/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260626/p30#a260626p30
Cosplay Runway: Spaceman, Chicken and Videographer with exoframe that supports his camera
#photo #photography #cosplay
Again, Trump said nobody left his speech. Again, that wasn't true (Daniel Dale/CNN)
https://www.cnn.com/2026/06/28/politics/trump-no-one-leaves-his-speeches
http://www.memeorandum.com/260628/p26#a260628p26
Dallas Cowboys' Slick NFL Draft Trade Left Steelers Embarrassed https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/dallas-cowboys-slick-nfl-draft-trade-left-pittsburgh-steelers-embarrassed
#ThickTrunkTuesday: Reinhardt Redwood Park, Oakland, CA
The Blood on Their Hands: How the Left's Rhetoric Murdered Charlie Kirk and Keeps Targeting Trump (Greg Young/American Greatness)
https://amgreatness.com/2026/04/29/the-blood-on-their-hands-how-the-lefts-rhetoric-murdered-charlie-kirk-and-keeps-targeting-trump/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260429/p46#a260429p46
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…
10 draftable prospects left on Day 3 from Cowboys 30, local visits https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2026/04/25/10-draftable-prospects-left-on-day-3-from-cowboys-30-local-vis…
Even #kitsunekamen feels like a cast member at Disney when R2-D2 is in the house (love that Raven!)
#photography #photo
Barney Frank, entering hospice care, embarks on a final act: Taking on the left (Jasper Goodman/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/04/28/barney-frank-hospice-democrats-00897112
http://www.memeorandum.com/260428/p123#a260428p123
Dak Prescott Left Out of Top 10 in Latest Fantasy Rankings Snub https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/dak-prescott-left-out-of-top-10-latest-fantasy-rankings-snub
An emboldened hard left eyes Schumer challenge (Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/06/24/an-emboldened-hard-left-eyes-schumer-challenge-00974420
http://www.memeorandum.com/260624/p119#a260624p119
House Democrats brace for a "Freedom Caucus of the left" (Andrew Solender/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/06/25/mamdani-democrats-new-york-left-socialists-house
http://www.memeorandum.com/260625/p1#a260625p1