Hawaii is coming to grips with the extensive damage left by the worst flooding the islands have seen in more than 20 years.
Over the weekend, heavy rains fell on soil already saturated by downpours from a winter storm a week ago,
forcing thousands on the North Shore of Oahu to evacuate before more evacuations for parts of the island of Maui.
The rains lifted houses and cars, inundated farms, swept through grocery stores and left a thick layer of mud in streets, homes and ga…
It seems like an odd choice for this piece to not note that James Cameron is not a US citizen (he's Canadian and withdrew his application for US citizenship decades ago).
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/jan/23/james-cameron-left-…
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/
Now, what? Can’t I sleep in the sunbeam in peace?
#Mastodog #DogsOfMastodon
UPS driver left my new phone…
…on top of my trash can.
wtf
I think the biggest disconnect between the left and the masses right now is that the left is saying "ah man if only the people were class concious then we could actually accomplish something" and I'm like my sibling in Christ they are already class concious, they fight for every movement that's in their interests, did you not see BLM in 2020 or the anti-ICE protests today
Sources: DeepSeek is fundraising to keep its researchers, some of whom have left for rivals whose valuations have soared; it is targeting a $20B valuation (Zijing Wu/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/f7c65d8e-aed1-4767-9ea3-9715cb8a24e0
Paris has just elected another bike-friendly mayor!
After Anne Hidalgo transformed the city, her PS-colleague Emmanuel Grégoire takes over, beating former right-wing minister Rachida Dati by a large margin.
https://f24.my/BojB
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/
City Silhouettes V 🏙️
城市轮廓线 V 🏙️
📷 Pentax 6x7
🎞️ Lucky SHD 400 (6x7)
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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 want to establish a wide range and play all kinds of parts. It's that sort of acting career I really respect. I like to turn a sharp left from whatever I've done before because that keeps me awake. That's why I want to be an actor - I don't want to play endless variations on one character."
—Tim Curry
#acting
Students at universities in Iran have held a third consecutive day of protest
just over a month after the violent suppression by security services of mass street demonstrations left thousands dead.
The protests came amid tensions between Iran and the US.
Washington has built up military forces and pressure in the Middle East as it negotiates with Tehran
– with the next round in Geneva on Thursday.
Donald Trump has warned “really bad things will happen” if there …
woah. he's back.
I left YouTube two years ago. Time to come back. by Tom Scott
#youtube
I just got so mad at something Past Me left for Future Me to deal with that I had to sit there for a few minutes and *stew*. Like, wtf dude - you (I) know better!
Three gates on hinges and stock proof. One wooden gate loaded up to be relocated. This feels like a useful afternoon's work.
#Crofting
#TheJoyOfCrofting
I think I've found a bug in Mastodon. There are three of the same aligned on the bottom left but they didn't merged into a more powerful one.
Spring is near! Today, when I left the house before being awake the sun was already up
!B
Tomorrow we're discussing policing in my "History of Here" course. We'll start in the 19th and continue through the turn of the 21st century. A key event: the killing of Michael Wade Lawson, a Black 17 year-old from #Mississauga, #Ontario, shot in the back by Peel Regional Police. Four years lat…
UCLA just landed another 3 linemen over 300lbs, including the starting left tackle from Alabama. No one else is working the transfer portal like this.
▶️ YIKES: UCLA’s Portal Class Just Got BIGGER
https://youtube.com/watch?v=4vP214-6lAc&si=EQpeKGMjlKD9Emiu…
"Grégoire, who ran in Paris for a united grouping of Socialists, Greens and other parties on the centre left"
Interesting, and probably accurate characterisation of the PCF!
‘Absolute moral rigour’: new Paris mayor Emmanuel Grégoire’s ideals face stern test | Paris | The Guardian
https://www.
Launched 48 years ago, NASA’s space probes #Voyager 1 and 2 are still exploring – and have long left the #SolarSystem. Learn more on Astronomy Day, March 28th, 7 PM, in public talk by #mpsgoettingen
Why so serious?
These classical guys are so, so serious. The dude at the far left almost (ALMOST!) cracks a smile here and there, but the rest of them? Nah.
This is to be played with a smile or four. Sigh.
#music #PinkPanther
❤🖤 Never Voted, Never Will! 🖤❤
Every election is just a vote for who gets to manage the economy next, and pretend they know what’s best for the working class.
Instead of voting, get organized: join collectives, take part in strikes, and find your local org here: https://iwa-ait.org/content/addresses
Is it possible to achieve environmental justice without justice for laborers in the Global South? Can we apply Western notions of environmentalism to Latin America? Why are workers’ lived experiences so often left out of conversations about resource extraction and allocation? Dr. Pablo Lapegna’s University of Georgia class is examining these questions in a display at the museum titled “Fiber, Food and Fuel: Mexican Environments, Labor and the Taller de Gršfica Popular.”
How to make me hate your website?
Move the page scroll bar slightly to the left, as that breaks "move mouse cursor to the right of the screen blindly, hit button, move mouse downwards".
Looking at you, #gitlab[1] (where I need the scroll bar often, as the pages for issues are really long, so using the scroll wheel is not really a option.
[1] see for example
A photo from the Saturday NEMS meetup (Nashville Electronic Music and Synthesizers). Great turnout, and some neat stuff people are working on. I brought my most recent revision of a portable eurorack kit, in it's 3D printed case, seen in the bottom left. Somehow I walked out with only one photo, so the others are from an electronic performance at the same venue on Thursday.
#nashville
Record all mastered! On to licensing covers, getting ISRCs, finishing artwork and liner notes, credits, making sure nobody's left off the acknowledgements. Did all the recording and mixing in-house, but still lots of other expenses, so doing a kickstarter to recover what we can. Final decision is to call it "Dulcetta." Sweet little coda. Been a long journey w the #leukemia inter…
TIL that #btrfs will happily run into a "no space left on device" wall with no possibility to write metadata anymore (which is needed for balancing and thus getting out of this situation) 🤦
(btrfs haters and #zfs enthusiasts incoming in 3... 2... 1...)
UPDATE: Solution is to `btrfs devic…
Pair dressed for much worse weather than we got last Saturday at the Fairy Fest
#photo #photography #fairyfestival
From The Conversation
Three ways Canada can navigate an increasingly erratic and belligerent United States
Charles Conteh
Professor of Public Policy and Administration, Department of Political Science, Brock University
"...the Canada-U.S. relationship is a complex picture of deep interdependence, marked by significant power imbalances, and the creative ways Canada has learned to adapt and prosper. ..."
Just pulled the @… card on #WikiGacha 🤣 #noxp
RE: #degrowth makes it into a leading UK left-wing magazine. Expect more.
Also a nice feature on pion…
So updates from the MSTDN.ca owner this morning.
There are no change coming. The servers will stay where they are. No changes to governance or ownership. Calls from the community to transition to new people are being left unanswered.
State of the instance that has been delayed for years is delayed again with no new dates.
Financials are not being shared but he is claiming that things are still fine, safe and there's nothing to worry about.
I have a major new feature for Left Wordle. I am testing the ability to sync settings and game history between devices. This feature is very much beta at this time and everything is subject to change.
My goal is to get as many people testing this as possible to identify any bugs that might cause problems once released. If you have time, please give it a try. Instructions here:
“When Karen Newton left home in late July 2025, she knew that international travellers were being locked up in immigration detention centres in the US. ‘I was aware,’ she nods. ‘But I never thought it would have any impact on my holiday.’”
***
Huge “I planned a holiday in Nazi Germany because they were only persecuting Jews and I’m not Jewish” vibes.
It’s amazing to see privileged white people learn the leopards eating people’s faces lesson over and over again.
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…
It's that time of year again as I start getting everything ready for the Palmetto Cyber Defense Competition. Upgraded the switch in the VoIP (Cisco SG300 24-port PoE -> Cisco C1000-48P-4G-L 48-port PoE), got everything configured which took far, far too long, then started verifying that all of the phones would boot and call each other. I still have a ton of phones to go and label, but the hard part is done. The annoying part is the only part left...lol
Heard about the #kagi #linkedin translator and gave it a try (I've left LI years ago). Here's my text and the #kagi output - bang on and a great laugh
My text: due to cut downs I had t…
Maintenant, je les vois partout. 😶🌫️
#AngineDePoitrine #Photography
Deeply ambivalent on this piece in the FT. On the one hand as @… lays out so well, we're polluting the atmosphere and destroyo astronomy with these satellite launches, and there's a real risk for Kessler syndrome.
On the other hand, I've used Starlink myself (in Antarctica) - it's extremely useful and Europe is indeed being left far behind.
Europe is ceding sovereignty to SpaceX - https://giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/actions/redeem/057e02cc-18ef-4f38-be51-50793083ceb5 via @FT
Mike Reid, who served as chief science officer for the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, known as PEPFAR, has quit the position because the State Department is considering withholding assistance from people with HIV in Zambia to push the country into signing a favorable critical-minerals deal with the U.S. (hand to ear as if getting an update) I’m now hearing: the United States is the bad guys.
#silentSunday
Coopers Hawk February 2026
I made 6 more shirts.
They’re based on the disability pride flag: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disability_flag
I added a WCAG principle to each stripe, plus a bonus principle.
Also sans stripes, with the words still angled and in the stripe colors.
Sale still runn…
Remember that weird failed rusty red print I posted on Sunday? Seeing very early on that something went astray with the emulsion coating, I didn't fully develop the print (only dev and clearing, no fixer or toner) and just left it to dry, wanting to see what would happen to it...
Three days later, and it has turned into the strangest (but somehow exciting) result I've ever seen, burgundy with slightly blue highlights. It still seems to continue bleeding further into the paper, …
Alright, attempt #3 at watching Sinners.
The first time I got about a minute in before my kid fell asleep. I figured it would take her much longer, so I shut the movie & left.
The second time, kids were asleep and I was waiting for my wife to get home. I figured she'd be at least 45 mins, but I got 5 mins into it & she opened up the door.
This time, I'm sick, kids are asleep, & I have literally no other responsibilities other than staying awake until pro…
Face painting at the 2026 Fairy Fest -- more photos from this event can be found on my Behance album #photo
Just two months ago, a massive power outage left parts of San Francisco in the dark for days
Some lawmakers are trying to make sure it never happens again.
"San Francisco has been trying to break up with PG&E for a long time,"
said Democratic Senator Scott Wiener.
"The rates are extremely high and we know that public power can bring lower rates."
Wiener says he will announce legislation on Monday that would allow San Francisco
-- and…
Efforts to revive chip manufacturing in Pennsylvania have been left in limbo by President Trump's sudden upending of US semiconductor policy over the past year (Michael Acton/Financial Times)
https://giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/actions/redeem…
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 67963 nodes and 3710420 edges.
Tags: Informational, Text, Bipartite, Weighted, Metadata
https://…
@… I miss your Wordles. If it's a NYT thing, there are alternatives. May I suggest https://left-wordle.com.
In any case, could point me again (I’ve lost the link) to the site that creates a…
Mundane Things III 🌀
普通物件 III 🌀
📷 Nikon FE
🎞️ Ilford FP4 Plus 125, expired 1993
If you like my work, buy me a coffee from PayPal #filmphotography
Dead Cadillac Lyriq EV Leaves Baby Locked In Car
Luckily the baby was retrieved from the SUV unharmed,
but the owners were left with a $1,000 bill for a key fob replacement after using the emergency access.
https://www.jalopnik.com/2126583/dead-cadilla…
In Mississippi, We’re Feeding Kids the State Has Left Behind—and Building the Future Our Leaders Refuse to Imagine - Ms. Magazine
https://msmagazine.com/2026/02/22/mississippi-springboard-to-opportunies-sun-bucks-free-meals-summer-lunch/
Trump Has Detained the Parents of More Than 11,000 U.S. Citizen Kids
More Moms Deported:
An exclusive data analysis found Trump has deported moms of U.S. citizens at four times the rate of his predecessor.
Left Stranded:
Because American-born kids can’t legally join their parents in immigration detention, some end up with friends or strangers when their parents are detained or deported.
New Directive:
Trump administration officials revised a document advi…
Fight and win. By Uwe Sattler.
#Left #EU
The S.P.L.C. defines a hate group as an organization that
“has beliefs or practices that attack or malign an entire class of people, typically for their immutable characteristics,” according to its website.
The indictment appears to fit within the Trump administration’s pattern of using the Justice Department to punish its political adversaries.
The S.P.L.C. has certainly been adversarial toward the president:
In an article last year, Margaret Huang, who was then the…
Donald Trump signaled he is open to a $5 billion funding cut for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement
-- if the Senate passes the SAVE America Act, along with other amendments.
“I don’t think we should make any deal with the Crazy, Country Destroying, Radical Left Democrats unless, and until, they Vote with Republicans to pass ‘THE SAVE AMERICA ACT,'”
Trump posted on Truth Social on Sunday night.
“It is far more important than anything else we are doing in the …
Western Digital said on its Q2 earnings call it had "pretty much sold out" its 2026 HDD capacity, and that the consumer sector accounted for 5% of total revenue (Muhammad Zuhair/Wccftech)
https://wccftech.com/western-digital-has-no-more-hdd-capacity-left-out…
Strijden en winnen. Door Uwe Sattler.
#Links #Left
A break from portraits for the kind of #bloomscrolling Y'all seem to like. A #9mm view of a daffodil bed by Barnes Hall
#photo
Regulators in Europe were largely left out of the loop as Anthropic limited the release of its latest model Mythos to select companies and organizations (Politico)
https://www.politico.eu/article/anthropic-apple-microsoft-europe-left-in-the-…
The Trump business behind
"Truth Social" is replacing a former congressman and big supporter of the U.S. president as the leader of the social media platform after a stock collapse that wiped out billions in investor wealth.
Devin Nunes,
a former California congressmen in Donald Trump’s first term,
is being replaced "temporarily" by digital media executive
Kevin McGurn as chief executive officer.
The company, Trump Media & Technology…
The Economist:
It is just possible that the president has given up hope that Republicans will retain their paper-thin majority in the House.
Recognising he has little time left,
he may well be playing for glory,
and his own pleasure
https://bsky.app/profile/economist.com
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