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/
Repeatedly sprayed the dog.
San Diego parents seek $800K from USPS over pepper spray exposure they say left children with asthma | Courthouse News Service
https://www.courthousenews.com/san-diego-parents-seek-800k-from-usps-over-pepper-spray-exposure-they-say-left-children-with-asthma/
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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/
A year ago this week,
Zohran Mamdani’s surprise victory in the Democratic primary for mayor upended New York politics.
Now, in the closing days of another primary season,
he has thrown himself back onto the campaign trail,
this time risking his political capital in a high-stakes bid to catapult fellow leftists to primary victories against the old Democratic guard.
Mr. Mamdani and allies are attempting to unseat two Democratic incumbents,
Representatives Da…
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
Left my machine unlocked for 60 seconds while I stepped away and my daughter swooped in and left her usual calling card.
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
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…
Voting is tomorrow. Friday the 22nd of May. I'm asking for your no. 1 vote and to transfer Left.
While this is a By-election so it won't affect the current govt immediately it will be an opportunity to build for the next election, which will hopefully be sooner than later.
We feel a vote for People Before Profit is the strongest message for a Left government as we're the only party who has committed to never going into coalition with Fine Gael or Fianna Fšil.
1…
UPS driver left my new phone…
…on top of my trash can.
wtf
End of a Trip ✈️
旅行结束 ✈️
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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…
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 …
The reasons we consider plagiarism to be cheating in school and malpractice in professional contexts are many of the same reasons that LLMs are not going to replace all knowledge-based human labor. (Details left as an exercise for the reader.)
And yes, a whole lot of what LLMs do •would• count as plagiarism if one of my students did it manually, and •should• count as plagiarism just the same if they use a machine to do it — not just in a “that’s cheating!!” sense, but more importantly in a “that’s not really doing the work” sense.
5/
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
It’s Primary Eve in New York.
On the ballot on Tuesday?
A series of raucous Democratic contests with the potential to radically reshape New York City’s congressional delegation and push it further to the left.
Plus, a Democratic race to challenge Representative Mike Lawler,
a vulnerable Republican incumbent who holds a Hudson Valley-area seat that Democrats are desperate to flip.
But here we will focus largely on the New York City primaries,
several of wh…
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, …
No One Left…
First they came for the drugs, and I didn’t care because I don’t use drugs. Then they came for the raw milk and I did not...
https://blaisehartley.com/2026/04/21/no-one-left/
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
RE: https://cosocial.ca/@mhoye/116449104599174564
Solar power is no longer an environmental story. It's a cold-hard economic story.
Go solar or get left behind.
(Meanwhile, Trump is still chanting "drill baby drill" and starting wars to…
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.”
Okay, resume rewritten and we're now on hour 3 of the red beans and sausage part of red beans and rice that I'm having for supper. Feeling pretty productive, gonna send out the first batch o' resumes once I read over the new resume. However, one slight problem: the entire house smells delicious...I am so very, very hungry.
This photo contains lots of things I love. My cat Sparky, a planter of celery leaf, sunshine, my fabulous orange dining chairs and the newish dining room cabinet. Alt text for why the wall's a mess.
We lost a few sunflowers in last night’s storm, but the Zinnias seem to have loved the rain. Don’t worry, we have plenty of sunflowers left. 🤣
#bloomscrolling #gardening #oklahoma
I've been thinking a lot about design lately -- next spring I'm teaching a course in the ethics of software design -- and I realized that even something like an iPad cover / stand can be right-handed, in a way.
When the iPad is propped up using the cover in the photo, the home button has to be on the right. But I'm left-handed, so whenever I want to use the home button for the Touch ID, I have to reach across the tablet. It's not hard, but it's slightly awkward.
If you haven't voted yet and you live in Galway City or Connemara (Galway West constituency), you still have a little over an hour to get your vote in!
Talk to your friends and family and make sure you all get your vote in. Every vote matters.
Vote Left Transfer Left.
How I sleep knowing I'm "being left behind" because I don't use AI
The Senate will go on recess without voting on a reconciliation bill tied to the Department of Justice's $1.8 billion weaponization fund, according to reports on Thursday.
PunchBowl News reported that Sen. John Thune (R-ND) told senators the bill would be left unfinished while the lawmakers returned home for the Memorial Day holiday.
"House is expected to follow suit soon," Sherman wrote in a post on X.
Why (and how) UPS trucks (almost) never turn left.
The policy started in the 1970s and is implemented by a dedicated software since 2004.
Its impact on workers’ political opinions remains unknown. ☺️
https://www.cnn.com/2017/02/16/world/ups-trucks-no-left-turns
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
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
City Silhouettes V 🏙️
城市轮廓线 V 🏙️
📷 Pentax 6x7
🎞️ Lucky SHD 400 (6x7)
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"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
🚀 One week left to apply for my postdoc position in emoji semantics! Join us for:
🔬 linguistic experiments
🔍 semantic theory
🤝 interdisciplinary collaboration
🧑💼 developing your own research agenda
💻 digital communication
🤩 a wonderful team
💪 a supportive supervisor
#bochum #emoji #linguistics @… @…
https://jobs.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/jobposting/f5001c40d914e7ce325557bfe526aa88415f75bb0
The Avant-Garde Never Left: Robert Hughes Described the Revolution and Then Declared It Over
Robert Hughes wanted it both ways. In the final moments of "The Shock of the New," his landmark 1980 BBC series on modern art, he declared the avant-garde dead and then, in the same breath, described its beating heart. He told us that the radical project of art was finished, that the market had swallowed it whole, that the institutions had filed its teeth down to nothing.
I sooo often don't have photos of the summit cross when I go to the #mountains . Don't ask me why. Maybe because I usually have people in the photo?
It was the same that day: I almost left without that photo when I stepped over the flowers and thought that they might be a cool foreground for the summit. And by focusing on the flowers and blurring the people, I also don't hav…
50 years ago tonight, the #JerryGarcia band in #berkeley, a nice stereo audience tape, with keith godchaux’s piano on the left & garcia’s guitar on the right:
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Today’s topic is “what is Dulcetta and how did you come up with that name and the honey jar logo?”
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I've had a Notion task for months simply titled "Tulsi Gabbard" and it's just photos of her and an MCU villain
anyway recent events have reminded me to share
At a store, I saw these #icons on a #microwave . Staff could not explain them. What are they trying to tell us?
left a workout video running on loop and went to eat pizza #AgenticExercise
Will you be left behind if you don't use LLMs to code? - YouTube - #dev #ai
Chronologically the last Sakura portrait of the year: I hopped off the bus at the Vet school and hiked towards Rhodes and caught these two
#photo #photography #ithaca
in the dream, I typed "what is pv nt". I was trying to find definitions for some unfamiliar abbreviations in a finance table.
Suddenly, a man ran up to me, pointed at something in the shelves behind my left ear, and said "THIS!" He ran off before I could see exactly where he pointed.
Worst search engine ever. Zero stars
This week, @… nominated #FourLeggedLandCritters for #ThursdayFiveList’s theme. I was tempted to go with all comedy songs, but I love Big Mama Thornton’s…
Wife left the car unlocked, #meshstatic unit stolen (Heltec v4, they left the mount though).
Battery died, but I'll see if they're smart and dumb enough to plug it in within range of my network - probably not though 😄
The office on Thursday, with special guest Matt Jardine, former Beach Boy and member of Brian Wilson's band. I fucking love playing the Beach Boys! It's actually pretty goddamn punk rock, on guitar at least.
I've noticed how people who are 'left' in their politics are happy to identify themselves that way. People on the 'right', however, seldom identify themselves that way, as it tends to reflect poorly on them - 'right' connotes selfish, bigoted, greedy, mean, cold, ignorant, religious, pragmatic rather than principled... I propose we adopt new terms for the political spectrum rather than 'left'<->'right', namely 'noble'<->'ign…
Tonight's #baseball is the Atlanta Black Crackers (Stripers) vs Louisville Bats.
Hot dog acquired (and eaten)
#milb
#GWNvsLOU
Fight and win. By Uwe Sattler.
#Left #EU
I’ve no tolerance anymore for anyone working at Google or Facebook in any mid-level or senior engineering position.
They could have left years ago or never started working there in the first place.
None of this shit is new or a surprise. They’re actively helping making the world a worse place and destroy things I love.
Kat Abughazaleh (from left),
Michael Rabbitt, Andre Martin and Brian Straw
at the Dirksen Federal Courthouse Thursday
after their case stemming from Operation Midway Blitz was dropped.
They were the last four members of the so-called “Broadview Six” to face criminal charges
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 was feeling caffeine deprived but not foxy when this snow squall hit but I figured "other people will believe in me if even if I don't" (like my hero Peter Parker!) and sure enough I ran into these two between the Rhodes Hall loading dock and the 7-11; maybe the last time this year I went out in my winter phase
#photo
Strijden en winnen. Door Uwe Sattler.
#Links #Left
Vote for a fighter for working people in Galway West today.
Vote Denman Rooke no. 1 and then transfer Left.
#PeopleBeforeProfit #VoteLeftTrasnsferLeft
The result that should really cause you to update your beliefs about this year’s midterms is not in the topline or the Times’ official reporting, but hidden deep in the poll’s crosstabs.
A big story of the 2024 election was that Donald Trump made inroads with non-voters who traditionally leaned Democratic, and even got some of them to turn out for him.
But now it’s looking like he has squandered those gains and put his party on the path to midterm defeat in the House
— an…
No One Left…
First they came for the drugs, and I didn't care because I don't use drugs. Then they came for the raw milk and I did not speak out because I am squeamish about very low levels of risk. Then they came for the sporting guns that are no more powerful or dangerous than any modern hunting rifle and I did not speak out because guns are scary and complicated, and I don't like to think.
Men working the Sierra Club and Cooperative Extension Booths this Saturday for #earthday
#photo #photography
City Silhouettes IV 🏙️
城市轮廓线 IV 🏙️
📷 Pentax 6x7
🎞️ Lucky SHD 400 (6x7)
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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…
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-…
I sat down with Mairéad from the Politics & More Podcast and had a lovely chat about what got me into politics, People Before Profit, and the platform I'm running on for the Galway West by-election.
Vote is tomorrow. Give me, Denman Rooke, no.1 and then transfer Left.
https://shows.acast.com/politics-more
I'm sitting outside with a coffee, amid the garden Mum planted so skilfully, and which I maybe didn't appreciate while she was alive, and the various things we've stuck in pots - walnut, fig, olive etc - and have just ordered a hazel tree and a cherry tree from The Woodland Trust. Mum had several big ceramic planters that are now empty or full of scrub and they're just right for young trees that are just a twig and a leaf 🌿
"U.S. District Judge April Perry ruled that the case is “moot,” meaning there’s no meaningful action left for her to take. But she warned that there are still “fail safes” built into the legal system, especially if it turns out there were “misrepresentations” from the Trump administration."
Judge tosses lawsuit over Trump's push to deploy National Guard to Chicago
https://www.dailyherald.com/20260420/nation-and-world-politics/judge-tosses-lawsuit-over-trumps-push-to-deploy-national-guard-to-chicago/
In a significant victory for the party’s left wing, Chris Rabb took roughly 45% of the vote in Tuesday’s contest, comfortably ahead of early frontrunner state senator, Sharif Street, who fell to under 30%, and surgeon Ala Stanford.
Rabb addressed supporters, in an emotional victory speech, who had powered a grassroots campaign backed by the Philadelphia Democratic Socialists of America and the Working Families party.
“I have been critiqued along this campaign for being too radica…
Usually I say things like "I play a character to do street photography" but my foxes were whispering to me this week and I found myself saying things like "I learned to disguise myself as a human 2.5 years ago" and "I'm here to save y'all from yourselves" -- this lady holds one of my tokens!
#photo
Mundane Things III 🌀
普通物件 III 🌀
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🎞️ Ilford FP4 Plus 125, expired 1993
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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 …
Donald Trump and Republican senators are dividing over politics, personal dynamics, and policy
— drama that’s built up for weeks before culminating in a public flop on Thursday.
A party-line vote on $72 billion in immigration enforcement money that should have been easy for the GOP Congress got pulled from consideration as lawmakers left Washington until June.
Trump and Republican lawmakers agreed on a June 1 deadline for passing the immigration bill that they will now mis…
Trump cuts left region 'dangerously exposed' to fatal virus now infecting hundreds: report - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-2676916591/
U.S. political thought has long assumed that extremism carries the seeds of its own correction
— that the system, left to its own natural cycles, will eventually drift back toward balance.
Under that logic, the Republican Party’s future goes something like this:
After two presidential terms and the MAGA coalition that Donald Trump built, the party will eventually self-correct, nudged back toward stability by growing dissatisfaction with Trump’s low approval ratings, unstable …
Water in the Colorado River is dwindling to levels that haven’t been seen in decades,
and the seven states whose residents and farmers depend on the river can’t agree on a fair way to divide up what’s left.
Negotiations are going nowhere despite more than six months of ongoing talks, plus cajoling by the Trump administration, which twice gathered governors in hopes of a breakthrough that never came.
States are already sniping at aspects of a water-use plan the federal Bure…
They say they tracked ICE in Minneapolis.
Now they’re accused of an antifa plot.
Cameron Kennedy is one of 15 people charged this week with conspiracy to impede or injure a federal officer
as part of what Justice Department officials called a "left-wing antifa plot" to harm federal agents during the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement operation that began last winter.
Several face additional charges, including felony assault, solicitation to com…
The president of Glendale Community College was pelted with a chorus of furious boos
after an AI tool tasked with reading graduating students’ names completely flunked the assignment.
As local outlet AZFamily reported, students and families at the Phoenix-area school were left disoriented when the names being read over the ceremony’s loudspeakers failed to match those of the students actually walking across the stage.
The names displayed on the ceremony’s jumbotron were also…
2,656 people have died in mass shootings since 2006
At least 58% of victims were family members or acquaintances of the shooter.
Only 27% were confirmed to be strangers, although these killings tend to receive the most attention