Tootfinder

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Wilco:
🎵 Box Full of Letters
#Wilco
https://thebrotherszero.bandcamp.com/track/box-full-of-letters-wilco
https://open.spotify.com/track/1s7EkHScCg3jvGxxnI7jg0

Soooooo many letters of recommendation this year. I'm still only halfway there.

'Why is Sherrill DOGE-ing New Jersey?': Resignation letters to longtime government workers cause confusion (Daniel Han/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/01/15/sherrill-doge-new-jersey-union-00729507
http://www.memeorandum.com/260115/p29#a260115p29

Rare chance to see Jane Austen’s will in Love Letters exhibition https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/about/news/rare-chance-to-see-jane-austens-will-in-the-national-archives-love-letters-exhibition/

"AI adoption in US adds ~900,000 tons of CO₂ annually, study finds"
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology

I've been slow to post photos lately, but I made it the 2026 January Jicker this weekend at Barton Hall which was a fun indoor track event
#photo #photography #flrc

#TIL there are capital variants of small capital letters.

U A7AE Ɪ LATIN CAPITAL LETTER SMALL CAPITAL I

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ɪ

Repetition suppression for mirror images of objects and not Braille letters in the ventral visual stream of congenitally blind individuals https://www.eneuro.org/content/early/2025/12/07/ENEURO.0002-25.2025

The Washington Post's former letters editor, Alyssa Rosenberg, reflects on her role as a professional listener, offering readers a rare chance to feel heard (Alyssa Rosenberg/NOTUS)
https://www.notus.org/per…

Robo-Buddhism
https://uwm.edu/letters-science/event/robo-buddhism-kokoro-technology-and-spirituality-in-japan-today/

#buttplugs #sextoys #theyreNoFun

#Wordle 1,606 6/6*
⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨 <1% of 215,096 (118)
🟨🟨⬜⬜⬜ 7% of 113 (6)
⬜🟨🟨⬜⬜ 44% of 9 (2)
🟨⬜⬜🟨🟨 2% of 568 (2)
⬜🟩🟨⬜🟩 14% of 230 (1)
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 95% of 7,947
WordleBot
Skill 64/99
Luck 40/99
Damn that was close, and user error on guess 4 and not a wordle word for guess 5. Those guesses still helped me eliminate a couple of letters and know where the 3 letters I had belong.

Yet one more case of separating a child from his parent - because they crossed the border as refugees in 2023, where they followed the rules. (More details at the link below) You can send a letter protesting this horrific action, using the action network letter at https://act…

Yet one more case of separating a child from his parent - because they crossed the border as refugees in 2023, where they followed the rules. (More details at the link below) You can send a letter protesting this horrific action, using the action network letter at https://act…

This is a tragic but also very touching story about life and how people deal with conventions and tradition in a way you would probably not expect:
after my dad died, we found the #love letters
https://www.je…

Paul’s Address Book app updated! https://edintone.com/pauls-address-book-app-updated/ My 'address book' inspired by the Apostle Paul's letters and the book of Acts has a refresh, new content and platfom.

#Shitpost #Shitposting #ShamelesslyStolenFromSomewhereElseOnTheInternetHonestlyICantKeepTrackOfThisStuffAnymore

Fedorov and Shmyhal submit resignations, letters delivered to the Verkhovna Rada: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/09/fedorov-and-shmyhal-submit-resignations.html

December 12, 2025 -- Today former Alabama senator Doug Jones launched his campaign to become the state's next governor. (Heather Cox Richardson/Letters from an American)
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/december-12-2025
http://www.memeorandum.com/251213/p26#a251213p26

Letters to the editor from writers using AI chatbots are flooding scientific journals, likely written by writers seeking to boost their number of citations (Gina Kolata/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/science/letters-to-the-editor-ai-chatb…

Putting the finishing touches on my presentation at @… next weekend. "The #Fediverse: Embracing the Hacker Ethos for a Decentralized Social Media Experience". We may even have a special guest join us, @…

#OTD 2013: A time when Tesla still meant progress. One of the first Tesla Superchargers in Europe, in Zevenaar 🇳🇱. Until then, #EV fast chargers were often single devices, but this was one of the first hubs.

Good ol' Roger Williams makes it into the London Review of Books! https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/n03/letters

I am these cost 25¢ per song years old.
I wonder how much the artists got paid being played on these compared to Spotify or any of the other streaming services? Assuming they did in fact get paid.
Think how annoying it is when some AH plays their phone on speaker. Now imagine a diner full of tables all playing their own tunes on speaker (the only way you could).

new boots, new sign
#FuckIce #AbolishIce

I hope there's a special place in hell for all the MSc program directors that decided it was a good use of everybody's time to require recommendation letters.

Tell Portland City Government: Revoke the ICE Permit!
This campaign was created to protect immigrants in Portland, OR by Revoking the ICE Permit for the building located at 4310 S Macadam Ave, Portland, OR 97239. Join us in sending emails to Portland City Council, the Mayor and the Permitting and Development Department demanding they revoke the permit. Please feel free to use the template provided and/or add a personal message as well.

Metropolitana 🔶
城 🔶
📷 Pentax MX
🎞️ Ilford Pan 100
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite

Ah yes, behold this relic I crafted ages ago. Is it good? Absolutely not. Do I cherish its beautifully terrible quality? Absolutely yes.
#Anarchism

Bosie’s passionate plea for lover Oscar Wilde in Love Letters exhibition https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/about/news/bosies-passionate-plea-for-lover-oscar-wilde-in-new-exhibition/

No wine, chocolate, or coffee but we’ll still have billionaires (or maybe even trillionaires).
Worth it, no? https://mastodon.social/@Snoro/115490957176403898

Businesses should be required by law to send acceptance AND rejection letters for interviews, once a position is filled. Not even feedback, just yay or nay at a minimum. If a company can't fucking figure out how to auto-send an email with a binary decision, you shouldn't be allowed to hire employees to your business

The last post
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/dec/21/denmark-postnord-postal-delivery-letters-society?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

#Wordle 1,635 3/6*
⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ <1% of 232,260 (1,134)
🟨⬜🟩🟨🟩 0 of 56 (1)
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
WordleBot
Skill 98/99
Luck 57/99
Even though today might have been better starting with my 2nd word, it was chosen because my starting word eliminated those 5 letters, I'm still always happy to have a starting word which eliminates all 5 letters.

Physicist Steve Hsu says he has published a peer-reviewed theoretical physics paper whose main idea came from GPT-5 (Steve Hsu/@hsu_steve)
https://x.com/hsu_steve/status/1996034522308026435

Vanishing act: How UVA's presidential search missed what took us an hour to find (Letters/Augusta Free Press)
https://augustafreepress.com/news/vanishing-act-how-uvas-presidential-search-missed-what-took-us-an-hour-to-find/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260111/p47#a260111p47

Thousands of mail-in ballots could be discounted under new post office policy
A recent change to how the U.S. Postal Service says it postmarks letters could discount the ballots of thousands of last-minute voters.

Many Americans have long assumed that tax returns, ballots and other mailed documents sent on deadline would be marked as sent the day they are dropped in a mailbox.

But the Postal Service announced Dec. 24 that it was making no such guarantees about postmarks. <…

: "Fiona Bruce trying her level best to interrupt and shut down Zack Polanski left right and centre. She’ll let everyone else drone on endlessly, but the second he goes to give a detailed answer its 'please answer in 2 letters or less.'"
Audience man allowed to shout down Zack Polanski on Question Time | The National

I've got a bold plan to emphasize some text by making the letters thicker and darker

The abominations by #ICE continue to increase. #CHN_Action has simple letter to Congress asking them not provide more funding to ICE and DHS until they take responsibility for their abusive behavior - and change their approach. It's easy to send to your Congresspeople; it's easy to customize. You …

The abominations by #ICE continue to increase. #CHN_Action has simple letter to Congress asking them not provide more funding to ICE and DHS until they take responsibility for their abusive behavior - and change their approach. It's easy to send to your Congresspeople; it's easy to customize. You …

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Dutch answer to the removal of the boards at #Margraten US military cemetery, honoring black US soldiers who died while liberating the Netherlands in WWII. This grave injustice went counterproductive for the US government, as shown.
Courtesy to Dutch TV show ‘Even tot hier’ BNNVARA
#willyfjamesjr

FYI: If your #Mastodon #domainverification doesn't work, check if you do have upper case letters in your URL as this won't work as of this #bug report from 2022:

Tried #TiledWords for the first time. It's a mix of crossword and boggle/Scrabble? I initially wanted to avoid the hints, but the final solution must all fit together so they're necessary. I think they're more fun since you solve a little clue and then fit that into your grid.
🥛 “Milk”
🕒 7 minutes, 34 seconds
💡 0/3 reveals used
∗️ 141 moves used
<…

Rouging!
https://www.nytimes.com/badges/games/v1/bee.html?d=2026-01-10&l=rgimnou&p=320&r=Queen Bee&c=600ef7d6ad434a093fa0ccf874b9d3b6&smid=url-share<…

Never forgot how completely fucking cartoonish the entire Adams administration was.
And that our current NY City Council just stood by and watched the whole thing without doing much more than sternly-worded letters.
And Governor Hochul, when given the opportunity, decided *not* to remove Adams from office.

Can a visual neuroprosthesis communicate with the brain? https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/can-visual-neuroprosthesis-communicate-brain-2025a1000yhe Archived at

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #RadcliffeAndMaconie
Metronomy:
🎵 Love Letters
#Metronomy
https://metronomy.bandcamp.com/album/love-letters
https://open.spotify.com/track/6bW7mUdEV4jWxmdxcj8X3k

Sometimes, when I get a native crash and I have no idea what happened, I paste the disassembly into aistudio and have it explain to me what is going on.
It might not be able to count how many letters are in strawberry, but it can pinpoint the root cause for a bug in Apple's Objective-C runtime.
This is a regression in iOS 26.1 beta:

Surprisingly affordable - even with the tariffs.
#Shitpost #Shitposting #ShamelesslyStolenFromSomewhereElseOnTheInternetHonestlyICantKeepTrackOfThisStuffAnymore

"The most effective kind of propaganda is defined as the kind where the subject moves in the direction you desire for reasons which he believes to be his own."
– Frances Stonor Saunders, The Cultural Cold War: The CIA and the World of Arts and Letters (published January 1, 1999).

Tell me this is not exactly what tech companies are doing. And UX, my own industry, has a lot to answer for.

Movies watched in December, loosely ranked (being on the bottom doesn’t mean it’s bad)
- Listy z Wilczej (Letters from Wolf Street)
- In the Mood for Love 🌏🔁
- Yi Yi 🌏
- Sentimental Value
- Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery
- L.A. Confidential 🕵
- Brick
- The Lady from Shanghai 🕵
- The Secret Agent
- Anemone
- The Addams Family 🩸
- Chronicle
🔁 — rewatch
🩸 — Creepy Crypt
🕵 — Boulevard Noir
🌏 — in the mood…<…

I do wonder if the Voynich Manuscript was just some scribe's (or bored elite's) elaborate piece of handwriting practice. When I was trying to learn Carolingian minuscule decades back, I'd cover pages with gibberish like this trying to get transitions between letters to "look right." It didn't need to say anything; it was about nailing the æsthetic.

'Stop sending butt plugs to Bahrain': Toronto sex store receives letters from U.S. Department of War (Alex Arsenych/CP24)
https://www.cp24.com/local/toronto/2026/01/06/stop-sending-butt-plugs-to-bahrain-toronto-sex-store-receives-letters-from-us-department-of-war/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260106/p68#a260106p68

Per @…’s prompt, this week’s #ThursdayFiveList is #TheLastFive songs I’ve listened to:
5. Cat Power, “New York”—

When you've been fighting the aarch64 MMU all morning but your kid wants to play
(My code actually runs in EL3 but i couldn't find the lego 3 lol)

fun fact: i learned that the letters "grub" stand for "GRand Unified Bootloader" before i found out what "a grub" is. so i was like, 18 or something when i first google-imaged "grub". i was like 😨

Seen in #brno

And yes, all these sizes were referred to as "diskettes" (small disk), even the 8" one, even by their inventor, IBM.
Even in huge letters on the sleeve.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #SoundOfCinema
Bobby Krlic & Bobby Krlic:
🎵 Anemone "The Letters"
#BobbyKrlic
https://open.spotify.com/track/7KjJMeQdxB26OkRissDS73

Windy and chilly #FirstDayHike at Claytor Lake State Park

How Private Equity Made Piracy Great Again
#culture #media

Pornhub parent company Aylo sent letters to Apple, Google, and Microsoft urging the adoption of device-based age verification across their app stores and OSes (Jason Parham/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/pornhub-is-urging-tech-giants-to-e…

December 10, 2025 -- Today is Human Rights Day, celebrated internationally in honor ... (Heather Cox Richardson/Letters from an American)
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/december-10-2025
http://www.memeorandum.com/251211/p32#a251211p32

The Lurie/Mandelman RV ban is still set to go into effect and tow people's homes on Nov. 1, the same day SNAP expires and at the same time federal agents are in the Bay to terrorize immigrants.
Send a letter to the mayor and BOS asking them to extend the towing deadline:
https://

Donald Trump has taken over the United States Institute of Peace building in Washington, D.C.,
and put his name on it,
even as the legal battle over who owns the building is ongoing.
Independent journalist Marisa Kabas posted about the visible signage on the building Wednesday showing “DONALD J. TRUMP” in block letters tacked to the building.
Kabas reports that Trump plans to use the building to host the signing of a peace agreement between Rwanda and the Democratic…

What unholy clucker-fuck fusion of cuisines is this?
I
MUST
GET
ONE
#Shitpost #Shitposting

#Wordle 1,670 5/6*
⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ <1% of 220,079 (1,085)
⬜⬜🟨🟩⬜ 2% of 47 (9)
⬜🟨⬜🟩⬜ 0 of 2 (2)
🟩⬜⬜🟩🟩 0 of 0 (1)
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
WordleBot
Skill 97/99
Luck 31/99
Eliminating letters ftw!

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Chance the Rapper:
🎵 Letters
#ChancetheRapper
https://ennnnvvvvyyyy.bandcamp.com/track/letters-envy-remix
https://open.spotify.com/track/0xg25m2SiZJkAXEXAcURNb

World War I Message in a Bottle Found in Australia and Delivered to Families More Than a Century Later https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/world-war-i-message-in-a-bottle-found-in-australia-and-delivered-to-familie…

January 10, 2026 -- Yesterday, in an apparent attempt to regain control of the national ... (Heather Cox Richardson/Letters from an American)
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/january-10-2026
http://www.memeorandum.com/260111/p19#a260111p19

I need to be more of a hard-ass when asked to write letters of recommendation.

Today (October 31) in 1980, The Smithereens released their debut 4 song EP 'Girls About Town'. The four songs were also included on 'Attack of the Smithereens', one of their compilations. Great bunch of songs here. It didn't have them in a playlist on YouTube, so I made one.
https://

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #SoundOfCinema
Bobby Krlic & Bobby Krlic:
🎵 Anemone "The Letters"
#BobbyKrlic
https://open.spotify.com/track/7KjJMeQdxB26OkRissDS73

Das Wort "Carryout" war mir unbekannt, und doch vermochte ich es zu finden.
https://www.nytimes.com/badges/games/v1/bee.html?d=2025-12-06&l=oacrtuy&p=248&r…

“Many questions remain about the fund-raising for this project,
including the amount of each contribution,
the agreement reached with each contributor,
what promises may have been or may yet be made in exchange for what presumably will be substantial contributions,
and why the White House chose to allow donors to remain anonymous,”
Mr. Blumenthal, the ranking Democrat on the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, wrote in letters to several donors

…

#Wordle 1,593 6/6*
⬜⬜⬜🟨🟩 <1% of 228,956 (53)
⬜🟩🟩⬜🟩 17% of 18 (10)
⬜🟩🟩⬜🟩 13% of 8 (6)
⬜🟩🟩⬜🟩 11% of 166 (3)
🟩🟩🟩⬜🟩 14% of 1,101 (2)
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 75% of 365
WordleBot
Skill 90/99
Luck 40/99
Pulled it out, but you're really not puzzling out the answer when there are so many words that fit that initial 3 known letters, each using different letters (well I guess the last 2 did share a letter, so if I had thought of all of the words when I made guess 3, I should have tried one of them first.
Actually I see there were 2 pretty common first letters among the 10 remaining words. And it ended up that getting the answer was just lucky.

Wouldn't it be nice if the ACA tax credits were extended? I'm lucky, and it doesn't affect me directly. But indirectly? You bet. I have friends and acquaintances who will suffer if they aren't restored. I just contacted my Congresspeople, asking them to follow through on the discharge petition to have the house vote on this issue. It's easy you can do it too -The action network template makes it easy:

Wouldn't it be nice if the ACA tax credits were extended? I'm lucky, and it doesn't affect me directly. But indirectly? You bet. I have friends and acquaintances who will suffer if they aren't restored. I just contacted my Congresspeople, asking them to follow through on the discharge petition to have the house vote on this issue. It's easy you can do it too -The action network template makes it easy:

January 8, 2026 -- On MS NOW today, columnist Philip Bump broke down when talking ... (Heather Cox Richardson/Letters from an American)
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/january-8-2026
http://www.memeorandum.com/260109/p47#a260109p47

My RAs have been transcribing letters from the mid-nineteenth century for the past several months. While they're improving by leaps and bounds, they remain wholly incapable of recognizing "Esq." or "Esqre." for what it is. Maybe I'll make them watch Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure.
#histodons

U.S. Senator Mike Lee (R-UT) introduced dumb-ass legislation today
that would allow private entities to play at Pirates🏴‍☠️in the Caribbean
The "Cartel Marque and Reprisal Reauthorization Act"
authorizes felon-president Trump to commission American pirates,
under "letters of marque"
to seize property and persons on land or sea.
Representative Tim Bimbo Burchett (R-TN) introduced the House version of the legislation.

November 7, 2025 -- The repercussions from Tuesday's vote, in which Democratic candidates ... (Heather Cox Richardson/Letters from an American)
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/november-7-2025
http://www.memeorandum.com/251108/p7#a251108p7

#Wordle 1,602 4/6*
⬜⬜🟨⬜🟨 <1% of 227,384 (147)
🟨⬜⬜🟨🟨 2% of 694 (6)
🟨🟩🟨🟩⬜ 25% of 125 (1)
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
WordleBot
Skill 89/99
Luck 55/99
Felt I had to be led to the answer and beat over the head with it! That's how it goes when you have 4 letter and know where 3 of them belong and have to walk through all of the remaining letters to find the word!

Paul’s Address Book app updated! https://edintone.com/pauls-address-book-app-updated/ My 'address book' inspired by the Apostle Paul's letters and the book of Acts, has had a r

"Quite frankly I was pissed off!" Growing online page chronicles Trump Justice Dept. resignation letters (Scott MacFarlane/CBS News)
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-justice-dept-resignation-letters-chronicled/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251123/p76#a251123p76

U.S. District Judge Sara Ellis on Oct. 9 ordered “visible identification” that is “prominently displayed.”
But dozens of photographs of uniformed immigration agents shot by Chicago Sun-Times photojournalists in four separate locations since the court order show how the feds have fallen short.
The 80-plus photos show that not all officers are displaying a visible identification code that mixes numbers and letters during some of the most contentious recent immigration actions that…

In Private Letters, Harvard and Trump Administration Escalate Duel (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/24/us/trump-harvard-letters-deal.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/251224/p53#a251224p53

December 6, 2025 -- On the sunny Sunday morning of December 7, 1941, Messman Doris Miller ... (Heather Cox Richardson/Letters from an American)
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/december-6-2025
http://www.memeorandum.com/251207/p26#a251207p26

January 5, 2026 (Monday) -- Five years ago, on January 6, 2021, more than 2,000 rioters stormed ... (Heather Cox Richardson/Letters from an American)
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/january-5-2026-monday
http://www.memeorandum.com/260106/p63#a260106p63

December 3, 2025 -- Republican Matt Van Epps won yesterday's special election ... (Heather Cox Richardson/Letters from an American)
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/december-3-2025
http://www.memeorandum.com/251204/p50#a251204p50

January 3, 2026 -- Today was the legal deadline for the Department of Justice to submit ... (Heather Cox Richardson/Letters from an American)
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/january-3-2026
http://www.memeorandum.com/260104/p16#a260104p16

Pope Leo Confronts Trump: Don't Invade Venezuela -- and No "Solo Deal" in Ukraine (Christopher Hale/Letters from Leo)
https://www.thelettersfromleo.com/p/pope-leo-confronts-trump-dont-invade
http://www.memeorandum.com/251202/p172#a251202p172

November 2, 2025 -- Last Monday, October 27, right-wing personality Tucker Carlson interviewed ... (Heather Cox Richardson/Letters from an American)
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/november-2-2025
http://www.memeorandum.com/251103/p44#a251103p44

Just after midnight on January 1, in a private ceremony in the long-closed former City Hall subway station ... (Heather Cox Richardson/Letters from an American)
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/january-2-2026
http://www.memeorandum.com/260103/p33#a260103p33

December 1, 2025 -- President Donald J. Trump's behavior over the holiday weekend has increased concern about his mental acuity. (Heather Cox Richardson/Letters from an American)
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/december-1-2025
http://www.memeorandum.com/251202/p52#a251202p52

November 30, 2025 -- On Friday evening, the Wall Street Journal published an article ... (Heather Cox Richardson/Letters from an American)
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/november-30-2025
http://www.memeorandum.com/251201/p11#a251201p11

November 29, 2025 -- In the wake of yesterday's report from Alex Horton and Ellen Nakashima ... (Heather Cox Richardson/Letters from an American)
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/november-29-2025
http://www.memeorandum.com/251130/p12#a251130p12