2025-12-10 07:56:13
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/
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/
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
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).
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
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.
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…
#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.
October 12, 2025 -- On October 9, President Donald J. Trump's office issued ... (Heather Cox Richardson/Letters from an American)
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/october-12-2025
http://www.memeorandum.com/251013/p25#a251013p25
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.
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…
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
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…
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, @…
Ah yes, behold this relic I crafted ages ago. Is it good? Absolutely not. Do I cherish its beautifully terrible quality? Absolutely yes.
#Anarchism
new boots, new sign
#FuckIce #AbolishIce
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…
Good ol' Roger Williams makes it into the London Review of Books! https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/n03/letters
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.
#Wordle 1,635 3/6*
⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ <1% of 232,260 (1,134)
🟨⬜🟩🟨🟩 0 of 56 (1)
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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.
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/
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
No wine, chocolate, or coffee but we’ll still have billionaires (or maybe even trillionaires).
Worth it, no? https://mastodon.social/@Snoro/115490957176403898
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 …
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #ThroughTheNight
Leos Janšček & Quatuor Ardeo:
🎵 String Quartet no 2 'Intimate Letters'
#LeosJanáček #QuatuorArdeo
https://open.spotify.com/track/4EboQ4MODsqFWP00zSnJpf
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
Can a visual neuroprosthesis communicate with the brain? https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/can-visual-neuroprosthesis-communicate-brain-2025a1000yhe Archived at
Surprisingly affordable - even with the tariffs.
#Shitpost #Shitposting #ShamelesslyStolenFromSomewhereElseOnTheInternetHonestlyICantKeepTrackOfThisStuffAnymore
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
<…
: "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
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. <…
I've got a bold plan to emphasize some text by making the letters thicker and darker
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
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:
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.
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.
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
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…<…
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
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:
@axbom@axbom.mePer @…’s prompt, this week’s #ThursdayFiveList is #TheLastFive songs I’ve listened to:
5. Cat Power, “New York”—
I need to be more of a hard-ass when asked to write letters of recommendation.
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Chance the Rapper:
🎵 Letters
#ChancetheRapper
https://ennnnvvvvyyyy.bandcamp.com/track/letters-envy-remix
https://open.spotify.com/track/0xg25m2SiZJkAXEXAcURNb
Seen in #brno
Have a great last day of the year and a wonderful start into 2026, everyone 🥳 🥂
#NewYearsEve #HappyNewYear2026
I'm sure you'll be relieved to know that #GhislaineMaxwell is not being mistreated. https://www.rawstory.com/amp/ghislaine-maxwell-2674277682-2674277682
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 😨
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
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…
'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
“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
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…
What unholy clucker-fuck fusion of cuisines is this?
I
MUST
GET
ONE
#Shitpost #Shitposting
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://
#Wordle 1,637 3/6*
🟨⬜🟩🟨⬜ <1% of 231,716 (12)
🟩🟩🟩⬜⬜ 11% of 867 (5)
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 37% of 417
WordleBot
Skill 83/99
Luck 66/99
well that went better than expected with a 3 letter prefix and only 4 eliminated letters
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…
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #SoundOfCinema
Bobby Krlic & Bobby Krlic:
🎵 Anemone "The Letters"
#BobbyKrlic
https://open.spotify.com/track/7KjJMeQdxB26OkRissDS73
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://
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…
🇺🇦 #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
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
#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!
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:
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #SoundOfCinema
Bobby Krlic & Bobby Krlic:
🎵 Anemone "The Letters"
#BobbyKrlic
https://open.spotify.com/track/7KjJMeQdxB26OkRissDS73
#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.
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
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 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
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
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
"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
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