2026-02-05 17:46:14
Please stop splitting words into their constituent letters. GSAP SplitText is not as robust as you think.
https://adrianroselli.com/2026/02/you-know-what-just-dont-split-words-into-letters.html
Please stop splitting words into their constituent letters. GSAP SplitText is not as robust as you think.
https://adrianroselli.com/2026/02/you-know-what-just-dont-split-words-into-letters.html
February 4, 2026 -- On the heels of last weekend's special election in Texas ... (Heather Cox Richardson/Letters from an American)
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/february-4-2026
http://www.memeorandum.com/260205/p42#a260205p42
If the application to your MSc program requires recommendation letters (and you had something to do with this decision) you need to feel bad about yourself.
If it requires _three_ recommendation letters, the Hague needs to be involved.
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…<…
🤔 "Add text-autospace to status content" https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/pull/37694
From Webkit blog (
Kansas Sends Letters To Trans People Demanding The Immediate Surrender Of Drivers Licenses
Today, transgender people across Kansas are reporting receiving letters from the Kansas Division of Vehicles
stating that they must surrender their driver's licenses
and that their current credentials will be considered invalid upon the law's publication in the Kansas Register on Thursday.
Should any transgender person be caught driving without a valid license,
th…
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:
Looks like “ANNIE” is a TERF.
https://mastodon.social/@Thayer/116002682012736788
I've got a bold plan to emphasize some text by making the letters thicker and darker
"A Critical Collection History of Nineteenth-century Women’s Letters: Overcoming the Occluded Archive with Data-Driven Methods"
https://dhq.digitalhumanities.org/vol/19/4/000791/000791.html
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
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.
From Sat 24 Jan: Love Letters exhibition reveals the lengths we go for love https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/about/news/from-sat-24-jan-love-letters-exhibition-reveals-the-lengths-we-go-for-love/
Hackers are sending snail mail letters to Trezor and Ledger wallet owners
https://coinpedia.org/news/ledger-and-trezor-scam-alert-fake-letters-target-wallet-users/
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #SoundOfCinema
Bobby Krlic & Bobby Krlic:
🎵 Anemone "The Letters"
#BobbyKrlic
https://open.spotify.com/track/7KjJMeQdxB26OkRissDS73
@axbom@axbom.meSave important peat moss in Greater Manchester.
Trafford Council is applying for planning permission for the Carrington Relief Road, and we have until 27 February to object.
The Carrington Relief Road will cause harm to Carrington Moss, a 335 hectare peat moss, which Natural England considers to be an irreplaceable habitat. It will also damage or totally destroy 40 hectares of productive agricultural land, and increase traffic,.
Take action::
we had a toilet issue last year that was diagnosed as "you need a new toilet" so lynn picked one out and printed in big letters on the side of the box was an announcement CAN FLUSH A BUCKET OF GOLF BALLS and it's all i can think about when i twist that lever
Don't let the Epstein Files become lost in all of the intentional distraction.
#editorial #cartoon #EditorialCartoon
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. <…
If you think you are starting 2026 with a disadvantage in life, just be thankful you aren’t setting out with this embarrassingly stupid tattoo.
#MemeChatGPT #MemesFor2026 #StupidTattoo
Crafting a robust #Strategy for an online business is like assembling a complex puzzle. My analytical side thrives in this, unraveling intricate issues until clarity emerges. Efficiency and Strategy — deserving of capital letters — are often undervalued! 🧩✨ Let's celebrate the power of a well-planned approach and its incredible potential.
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:
Shuffalo, 7m 11s
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https://www.newyorker.com/puzzles-and-games-dept/shuffalo/2026/02/03
Cornell's № 15 Avi Adam skates towards the goal with the puck while № 22 Michaela Littlewood tries to take it away
#photo #photography #sports
Have a great last day of the year and a wonderful start into 2026, everyone 🥳 🥂
#NewYearsEve #HappyNewYear2026
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #SoundOfCinema
Bobby Krlic & Bobby Krlic:
🎵 Anemone "The Letters"
#BobbyKrlic
https://open.spotify.com/track/7KjJMeQdxB26OkRissDS73
Letters From the Children Detained at ICE’s Dilley Facility — ProPublica #ice
Movies watched in January, loosely ranked (being on the bottom doesn’t mean it’s bad)
(1/2)
- Children of Men
- 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple
- KPop Demon Hunters
- Brokeback Mountain
- Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind 🌏🔁
- Sinners 🔁
- The Stepford Wives 🤖
- John Wick 🔁
- Letters from Wolf Street 🔁
- Friendship
- Hamnet
- House of Games 🕵️
- …
🔁 — rewatch
🩸 — Creepy Crypt
🕵 — Boulevard Noir
🗞️ — B…
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
"Saltier seas in spring double the chance of extreme El Niño events, study finds"
#Climate #ClimateChange
https://
Classmates of Liam Ramos wrote letters to ICE agents: "You're scaring schools, people and the world."
Source:
#politics
Conduent Data Breach Notification Letters Sent to Millions
as Ransomware Group Claims
⚡️ 8 Terabytes Stolen in One of the Largest U.S. Incidents.
Letters began reaching affected individuals this month detailing a major data breach at #Conduent Business Services, LLC,
a government technology contractor that processes payments, healthcare claims, and back-office services for clients n…
#Wordle 1,661 4/6*
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WordleBot
Skill 91/99
Luck 37/99
Now this is how i like it. Eliminate 10 letters up front then the guessing is easier!
Guess what happens when a public service is privatised.
Royal Mail staff tell BBC letters sit undelivered as firm prioritises parcels - BBC News
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c39wlryn20vo
Long weekend coming and want to avoid it? I’ve got recent posts!
New this month:
• https://adrianroselli.com/2026/02/you-know-what-just-dont-split-words-into-letters.html
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You can share this with your asshole "conservative" relatives
If you have "conservative" friends for the love of fuck block me you fucking freak
https://www.propublica.org/article/ice-dilley-children-letters
Tomorrow in my History of Here course - one of my department's intro classes - we'll be discussing letters written in response to early-20th-c speeding tickets. My favorite claims it's unfair since he'd sped with so many cars before and never gotten a ticket ("as this is the fifteenth car that he has been the owner of, and has never been fined for speeding, he feels that he is being imposed upon by the commission").
This is an excellent video from #veritasium touches in the history of free software, #compression #algorithms and the dangers of supply chain attacks in open source projects.
How One Ha…
🇺🇦 #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
just found an ancient geocities foot fetish website with an unexpectedly cool artsy design
https://web.archive.org/web/20091022202041/http://geocities.com/Area51/Realm/1637/FEETHOUSEindex.html
Cornell's № 14 Corbin Zentner from Alpine, Utah has № 23 Sebastian Whitfield from Virginia Beach of the Princeton Tigers on his tail
Find more shots from this game on my Bēhance: https://www.behance.net/gallery/243329557/Cornell-vs-Princeton-(…
Shuffalo, 4m 33s
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https://www.newyorker.com/puzzles-and-games-dept/shuffalo/2026/03/02
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 real problem here is that I was born to be on the Watcher's Council or a Man of Letters or in the Talamasca or on the tenure track at Miskatonic in a world where I make more money fixing your damn computer and also those societies don't actually exist
.......but, and hear me out on this....could they?
Urban Demons III 👻
城市鬼魂 III 👻
📷 Nikon F4E
🎞️ Rollei RPX 400
If you like my work, buy me a coffee from PayPal #filmphotography
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/
Report: Staff at Dilley raiding cells to confiscate kids' letters and drawings detailing conditions inside - San Antonio Current https://www.sacurrent.com/news/san-antonio-news/report-staf…
The clue: "right, right, right" (4)
The answer in the grid: ISEE
The answer I plonked in without any crosses: LEFT
So, yeah it slowed me down a lot to have four wrong letters, early
But wasn't my answer *better*?
Kansas Sends Letters To Trans People Demanding The Immediate Surrender Of Drivers Licenses (Erin Reed/Erin In The Morning)
https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/kansas-sends-letters-to-trans-people
http://www.memeorandum.com/260225/p126#a260225p126
Rogue on Steam does this thing where it can make everything 3D, and everything (monsters, scenery, all of it) is made from the letters and numbers. It's wild, and I'm hooked. 😂 Totally amazing to play on a Steam Deck.
#Rogue #roguelike
#Wordle 1,691 3/6*
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WordleBot
Skill 69/99
Luck 68/99
I feel like there should have been lots of words left ending with those 3 letters...only 5, and looking at them I see why the bot gave my lucky guess a 47 skill rating, it only eliminated 1 word, a better guess would have gotten it down to 1 or 2.
February 1, 2026 -- On February 1, 1862, in the early days of the Civil War ... (Heather Cox Richardson/Letters from an American)
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/february-1-2026
http://www.memeorandum.com/260202/p25#a260202p25
From Heather Cox
Richardson, Letters from an American:
<< Trump explained to Republican lawmakers: “You gotta win the midterms. Because if we don’t win the midterms, it’s just gonna be—I mean, they’ll find a reason to impeach me. I’ll get impeached.” >>
He KNOWS he deserves to be ousted!
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #Breakfast
Leos Janšček & Smetana Quartet:
🎵 String Quartet No 2, 'Intimate Letters' (2nd mvt)
#LeosJanáček #SmetanaQuartet
https://open.spotify.com/track/2xXCSBCuJKZDqF8s7zVAty
The Federal Trade Commission sent letters to 13 data brokers warning them of their responsibility to comply with the Protecting Americans’ Data from Foreign Adversaries Act of 2024 (PADFAA).
https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/pres…
Steve Bannon, one of the leading figures behind President Donald Trump’s MAGA movement discussed opposition strategies against Pope Francis with disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein.
Bannon, a former White House adviser to Trump, told Epstein that he wished to “take down” the leader of the Catholic Church.
In June 2019, Bannon wrote to Epstein: “Will take down Francis. The Clintons, Xi, Francis, EU
– come on brother.”
This exchange came years after Epstein served a lig…
#Wordle 1,718 5/6*
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WordleBot
Skill 92/99
Luck 19/99
eliminating letters for the win! I was quite happy to see no letters found in my 1st 2 guesses. That always makes it easier.
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
Constitutional concerns raised as for profit concentration camp in Dilley, Texas seize letters from prisoner children and families. Following ProPublica’s publication of the letters.
Video Source:
https://reddit.com/comments/1r82oqx
Article:
#Wordle 1,692 5/6*
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WordleBot
Skill 94/99
Luck 29/99
Felt like a perfect wordle, each guess built on the last testing for likely letters, and now looking at it, it seems the bot agrees since I got an overall 94 skill on 5 guesses.
bissi faul heute
Shuffalo, 4m 44s
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https://www.newyorker.com/puzzles-and-games-dept/shuffalo/2026/01/29
In early February there were more than 750 families,
nearly half of them including children,
as well as some 370 single adult women
being held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center in South Texas.
It is just one of many immigration centers across the country,
but the only one holding families.
Since the start of the Trump administration, the number of children in Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention has skyrocketed,
-- increasing sixf…
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/
Under Pope Leo XIV, American Catholics Are Uniting to Defeat MAGA Authoritarianism (Christopher Hale/Letters from Leo)
https://www.thelettersfromleo.com/p/under-pope-leo-xiv-american-catholics
http://www.memeorandum.com/260131/p65#a260131p65
Students table for the Big Red Buddies who volunteer to help Head Start
#photo
February 27, 2026 -- On Monday, February 23, Daniel Ruetenik, Pat Milton ... (Heather Cox Richardson/Letters from an American)
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/february-27-2026
http://www.memeorandum.com/260228/p32#a260228p32
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.
December 29, 2025 -- In an appearance on New York's WABC radio on Friday ... (Heather Cox Richardson/Letters from an American)
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/december-29-2025
http://www.memeorandum.com/251230/p6#a251230p6
#Wordle 1,658 5/6*
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WordleBot
Skill 78/99
Luck 54/99
Getting 3 letters so early is so often a bad sign. I'm glad I got this one. I had to guess words as I thought of them because I kept thinking of words that used the few letters I had eliminated!
January 28, 2026 -- Federal agents continue to rain terror on Minneapolis, Minnesota ... (Heather Cox Richardson/Letters from an American)
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/january-28-2026
http://www.memeorandum.com/260129/p51#a260129p51
ready to be infected?
Shuffalo, 8m 20s
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https://www.newyorker.com/puzzles-and-games-dept/shuffalo/2026/01/26#i…
Rep. Kelly has filed three articles of impeachment against Secretary Noem:
🔸Obstruction of Congress: Secretary Noem willfully obstructed Congressional oversight and withheld Congressionally appropriated funds in violation of her constitutional oath and federal law.
🔸Violation of Public Trust: Secretary Noem compromised public safety, violated due process of American citizens, and directed unconstitutional actions.
🔸Self-Dealing: Secretary Noem abused her office for persona…
Shuffalo, 3m 51s
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https://www.newyorker.com/puzzles-and-games-dept/shuffalo/2026/02/23
December 27, 2025 -- Over the Christmas holiday, the Trump administration threw its weight ... (Heather Cox Richardson/Letters from an American)
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/december-27-2025
http://www.memeorandum.com/251228/p27#a251228p27
January 27, 2026 -- The murder of Alex Pretti in Minneapolis on Saturday morning at the hands ... (Heather Cox Richardson/Letters from an American)
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/january-27-2026
http://www.memeorandum.com/260128/p60#a260128p60
January 26, 2026 -- Yesterday President Donald J. Trump blamed Democratic officials ... (Heather Cox Richardson/Letters from an American)
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/january-26-2026-273
http://www.memeorandum.com/260127/p59#a260127p59
January 25, 2026 -- As the nation mourned the killing of VA ICU nurse Alex Pretti yesterday ... (Heather Cox Richardson/Letters from an American)
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/january-25-2026
http://www.memeorandum.com/260126/p53#a260126p53
'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
January 24, 2026 -- This morning, on a street in Minneapolis, at least seven federal agents tackled ... (Heather Cox Richardson/Letters from an American)
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/january-24-2026
http://www.memeorandum.com/260125/p18#a260125p18
February 20, 2026 -- Today, in a 6-3 decision, the U.S. Supreme Court found ... (Heather Cox Richardson/Letters from an American)
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/february-20-2026
http://www.memeorandum.com/260221/p26#a260221p26
February 19, 2026 -- In the United Kingdom this morning, Thames Valley Police arrested ... (Heather Cox Richardson/Letters from an American)
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/february-19-2026
http://www.memeorandum.com/260220/p44#a260220p44
January 22, 2026 -- Vice President J.D. Vance was in Minnesota for the administration today ... (Heather Cox Richardson/Letters from an American)
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/january-22-2026
http://www.memeorandum.com/260123/p38#a260123p38