@StephenRees@mas.tohttps://actionnetwork.org/letters/reject-100-billion-submarine-purchase?source=direct_link&
I wrote a letter for the Action Network letter campaign: Reject $100 billion Submarine purchase.
Mark Carney recently announced the…
@servelan@newsie.socialHUD workers say Trump admin is violating civil rights law : NPR
https://www.npr.org/2026/04/16/nx-s1-5780859/hud-employees-trump-policy-protest-letters-website
@kerstinsailer@sciences.socialInsights from my latest piece of workplace research are now available to download from:
https://ais-interiors.com/the-space-between/
"The Space Between" explores the question whether office design has changed due to the Covid-19 pandemic (or do we simply work different…
@ddrake@mathstodon.xyzI hate NPR's weekend edition puzzle. Sorry Will Shortz, but it's bad. It's always the same kind of thing: take a word, do stuff with the letters, find another word, blah blah.
Does he think that manipulating words and letters is the only kind of puzzle?
The classic Car Talk puzzles, Many were somehow about cars, but didn't require any kind of extensive mechanical automotive knowledge. They also had many other kinds of logical puzzles -- prisoners and hats puzzles…
@catsalad@infosec.exchangeEvery sign has a story
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSan Francisco sends legal notices to Apple and Google demanding they take down 13 AI apps used to make deepfake nude images; Google says it has deleted the apps (Matt Burgess/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/san-francisco-demands-ap…
@rasterweb@mastodon.socialYou can't spell "FASCIST" without the letters "A" and "I"
@cdarwin@c.imA group of Democratic senators
and one Republican, as well as two Democratic House committees,
sent letters Monday to the National Science Foundation
asking it to reverse course on its plan to dismantle a sprawling ocean monitoring network,
with House lawmakers going further and accusing the agency of acting illegally.
The Ocean Observatories Initiative is a network of more than 900 ocean sensors built at a cost of $386 million.
Over the last decade it has…
@v_i_o_l_a@openbiblio.social"The Uniform Code Council requires that there be a period after each letter in U.P.C. because the letters UPC (without periods) is the trademark of the Universal* Plumbing Code." ☝️
[Nelson, Benjamin (1997): Punched Cards to Bar Codes. A 200 Year Journey with descriptions fo over 260 codes. Helmers. Page 85.]
* Uniform, not Universal. 🧐
https://
@trochee@dair-community.socialThis feels like a postmodern throwing of the gauntlet
If it's not considered a word, but I can make a meme of it, is it really unmemeable?
@memeorandum@universeodon.comMay 17, 2026 -- Thousands of people gathered today on the National Mall in Washington ... (Heather Cox Richardson/Letters from an American)
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/may-17-2026
http://www.memeorandum.com/260518/p23#a260518p23
@burger_jaap@mastodon.social“Buildings are the single largest energy consumer in Europe. Transposition and implementation of the #EPBD is key to boosting the EU's current very low annual energy renovation rate (1%), reducing bills for citizens and businesses and the EU's dependence on imported fossil fuels, and achieving a zero-emission and fully decarbonised building stock by 2050.”
@sauer_lauwarm@mastodon.socialA-hu-hu
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https://www.newyorker.com/puzzles-and-games-dept/shuffalo/2026/07/17
@detondev@social.linux.pizzaThrough a portal on 419 East 6th street in Manhattan, a traveler crosses into the parallel world called Sunset/Sunrise, to search for a lost treasure.
https://www.worldofawe.net/
@shaun@mastodon.xyz @cdarwin@c.imMullin threatens states that refuse Trump's election demands
Mullin also repeated his threat of withholding Federal Emergency Management Agency grant funding to states that don’t work to “secure” elections.
“If they’re not willing to do it, it should raise serious questions.
It’s not that hard. This isn’t a partisan issue,”
the homeland security secretary said.
This also comes after the Trump justice department sent letters to election officials in every sta…
@sauer_lauwarm@mastodon.socialhehe
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https://www.newyorker.com/puzzles-and-games-dept/shuffalo/2026/07/16
@paulwermer@sfba.socialIt looks like the "Christian" politicians I OK, allowing this happen, seem to have confused the behavior of the inquisitors of the Spanish Inquisition with Christ's teachings.
Smething about the devil quoting Scripture to his own ends?
‘It’s torture’: prisoners’ letters expose subterranean Oklahoma ‘dungeon’ known as the tombs
@PaulWermer@sfba.socialIt looks like the "Christian" politicians I OK, allowing this happen, seem to have confused the behavior of the inquisitors of the Spanish Inquisition with Christ's teachings.
Smething about the devil quoting Scripture to his own ends?
‘It’s torture’: prisoners’ letters expose subterranean Oklahoma ‘dungeon’ known as the tombs
@jom@social.kontrollapparat.deThis performative display of faith by professional athletes, paired with sensation-hungry media coverage, is a double nuisance. The former is over-staged, the latter simply excessive. And I say that as someone who belongs to a church. I miss when faith was a side note and a private matter. Can we please drop the religious spectacle and focus on the sport?
#WM2026
@sherold@mastodon.onlineMy fellow Mastodonians, can we all give this idea a little bit of praise, please?
@cjust@infosec.exchange
@billbert@mastodon.socialToday in Apple Autocorrect Sucks:
Some of us like to type phrases, clauses or words in all capital letters on occasion for dramatic or comedic effect. But more than once have I typed DONT or DON’t despite don’t.
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@sean@scoat.esTIL: you can spell Supply Chain Liability with just the letters P, H, and P. https://phpc.social/@naderman/116918391854914938
@georgiamuseum@glammr.usWe've got a brand-new book out.
"Much Love from Paris: Letters to My Family (1928 - 30)" (edited by Nelda Damiano with the assistance of Katherine Rabogliatti and with an essay by Robyn Asleson) lets Louise Heron Blair tell her own story: a young, rebellious American in Paris, learning how to make her own life.
@azonenberg@ioc.exchangeDid you know that "TOYOTA" is comprised entirely of letters that are symmetric about the vertical axis?
There's a dealer near Seattle that has huge 3D letters on the sign that you can see from both directions. But when you're across the highway it says ATOYOT instead.
@bourgwick@heads.social"precarious?"
"yo!"
"did you take the whole building down, too?"
"how else were we supposed to remove the letters?" #TOTDenthusiastsunite
@katrinakatrinka@infosec.exchangeGotta love it, when there's enough time for voters to react.
https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/letters/2026/07/06/letter-thank-you-kai-schwemmer/
"This revealed one of two things to the public: either Davidson was incompetent, failing…
@cdarwin@c.imThe executive branch plays no role in making election policy or regulating election administration
—the Constitution explicitly leaves those responsibilities to the states and Congress.
The “Proposed Rule: Ballot Mail for Federal Elections” therefore conflicts with the Constitution.
Beyond that, it is bad policy that will make it harder for election administrators to do their jobs,
runs the risk of potentially disenfranchising voters
and increases the chance of …
@ErikJonker@mastodon.socialDatini Letters. Geospatial Explorer
Francesco di Marco Datini's merchant correspondence network
#history
@mxp@mastodon.acm.orgHalfway through this paper that I’m reviewing appears an AI-generated diagram of the system the paper describes. The authors are transparent about it, but what do I make of this?
I’ve got to admit, this annoys me more than I expected.
Even if we assume that the diagram is structurally correct, the text contains the typical genAI artifacts (mashed-up letters, misspellings, etc.) that one wouldn’t accept in the main text—so it’s simply sloppy. What’s the point!?
@mxp@mastodon.acm.orgHalfway through this paper that I’m reviewing appears an AI-generated diagram of the system the paper describes. The authors are transparent about it, but what do I make of this?
I’ve got to admit, this annoys me more than I expected.
Even if we assume that the diagram is structurally correct, the text contains the typical genAI artifacts (mashed-up letters, misspellings, etc.) that one wouldn’t accept in the main text—so it’s simply sloppy. What’s the point!?
@mxp@mastodon.acm.orgHalfway through this paper that I’m reviewing appears an AI-generated diagram of the system the paper describes. The authors are transparent about it, but what do I make of this?
I’ve got to admit, this annoys me more than I expected.
Even if we assume that the diagram is structurally correct, the text contains the typical genAI artifacts (mashed-up letters, misspellings, etc.) that one wouldn’t accept in the main text—so it’s simply sloppy. What’s the point!?
@wraithe@mastodon.social
@ubuntourist@mastodon.socialThe GUARDIAN:
"After erecting scaffolding on Friday evening, workers in hard hats and hi-viz vests draped tarpaulin over the temporary structure at 2am to block public views of their progress but were seen, through a small opening in the scaffolding covering, to be removing the letters at about 3am."
@floheinstein@chaos.social
@seav@en.osm.townMurang #IcedMocha: pagsamahin ang San Mig 3-in-1 at Milo 😁
#coffee
@sauer_lauwarm@mastodon.socialUff.
Shuffalo, 6m 17s
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https://www.newyorker.com/puzzles-and-games-dept/shuffalo/2026/07/15
@cdarwin@c.imWhen I was first learning to write,
my letters and words ran from right to left, reversed as if in a mirror.
Being left-handed, I was imitating the hand strokes of my right-handed teachers instead of reversing their strokes to replicate the letters.
I gradually got the hang of writing in the correct direction, but it still feels natural for me to mirror-write.
I have a mirror-written childhood diary. Leonardo da Vinci, another lefty, did that too
@scott@carfree.cityHoax alert: that legal threat supposedly sent by Flock to a discussion group telling them not to "analyze or speculate" about Flock's security vulnerabilities was made up by the group.
What Flock *actually* does is evil enough, so don't muddy the waters by making stuff up, geez. Also I was mildly suspicious of this but boosted it anyway so my bad I guess.
@awinkler@openbiblio.socialDer Guardian über das Liebesbrief-Archiv (https://liebesbriefarchiv.de/):
Sixty thousand love letters and counting: volunteers help sift through vast German trove of devotion | Germany | The Guardian
@davidaugust@mastodon.onlineHantaviruses, which belong to the Bunyavirales order, replicate and transcribe their genome in the cytoplasm of infected cells. So Hantavirus already won’t enter the nucleus, and Ivermectin, an anti-parasite substance, won’t do much of anything to a virus.
“…orthomyxoviruses replicate and transcribe their genome within the cell nucleus, whereas bunyavirus genome replication and transcription occur in the cytoplasm.”
@bthalpin@mastodon.socialI forgot I sent a letter to the editor of the Irish Times on Thursday: they printed it
#mastodaoine
https://www.irishtim…
@chiraag@mastodon.online @sherold@mastodon.onlineHappy #PortfolioDay everyone. 🪴
I'm Sebastian. I like gazing at clouds, the crunching sound of dirt when I vacuum and writing stuff on the Internet. You can find some of it here.
https://finest.day/
…
@mpsgoettingen@academiccloud.social2 years after the stratospheric flight of #SunriseIII, first results are released today in a #SunriseIIIFocusIssue in The Astrophysical Journal Letters:
@matthiasott@mastodon.socialBeautiful type talk by Kimya Gandhi (motaitalic.com) full of amazing Devanagari letterforms shaped by history, culture, and context. 🤩 #btconf
@Nathan@social.lostinok.comDispatch — Squash Bug Front
Casualties: Adults 0 | Eggs 4
After last night's slaughter, both sides withdrew to their lines. No sentries crested the trenchline. Scattered egg fire at 0600 — harassing only, a reminder they still hold the zucchini salient.
#gardening #oklahoma
@janneke@todon.nlKris van Rens at @… "The XZ Utils backdoor -- Digging into a major cybersecurity incident"
After skipping very quickly through the technical section during the talk because of time constraints, afterwards Kris gave an interactive session on the technicalities for a handful of interested people. Lovely! Also: food for thought.
@compfu@mograph.socialOh no. My iPad auto updated iOS and it really is as badly designed as everybody said. #LiquidAss #iOS26 #Apple
@jamie@boothcomputing.socialGuess 3 was a waste. I can't count and didn't realize I already had 5 letters. Could have been a Wordle in 3. #Wordle
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@CubitOom@social.linux.pizzaShutdown the Dilley Concentration Camp. Free the Innocent.
This family is being held at ICE’s Dilley Family Concentration Camp in Texas. Here are two petitions to shut it down:
- DHS and CoreCivic: [change.org/p/close-dilley-ice-detention-center-protect-children](https://www.change.org/p/close-dilley-ice-detention-center-protect-children)
- US House and Senate: [actionnetwork.org/letters/mom-say-shut-down-dilley-close-the-camps-and-bring-our-kids-home](https://actionnetwork…
@nfdi4culture@nfdi.social❓Kennst du das, du hast eine Projektidee, aber keine Ahnung wo das Geld herkommen soll?
💡Als Teil des NFDI4Culture Helpdesks kann dir der Culture Kickstarter weiterhelfen! Wir beraten Projekte zu Fragen nach Förderprogrammen & unterstützen Neuanträge über die Koordination von Letters of Intents!
👉 https://nfdi4culture.de/id/E5079
@qurlyjoe@mstdn.socialI don’t know who needs to see this…
@avalon@jazztodon.comLetters from Earth
https://youtube.com/watch?v=5IrTa70FuNA&si=1RR0CZG0omeFqaof
@gevoel@mastodon.greenLieverds, er moeten toch manieren zijn om zonder typen en zonder google en andere verderfelijke zooi teksten op plaatjes om te zetten naar teksten met letters? Op linux en of op googlevrij Android?
@jake4480@c.imIn Rogue-FP on Steam, EVERYTHING is made of letters. When you kill a monster and come back later, there will often be flies (capital 'F' letters) flying around the remains 😂
#Rogue #Steam #SteamDeck
@nelson@tech.lgbtI don't know how to read your mind
The letters are too small
I guess you know what you mean
But it makes no sense to me at all
—Willie Nelson
@sauer_lauwarm@mastodon.socialShuffalo, 2m 43s
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https://www.newyorker.com/puzzles-and-games-dept/shuffalo/2026/07/14
@publicvoit@graz.social#ForAllMankind S05E10: is there nobody in the #SONY production team old enough to remember a correct #DOS prompt? 🤔
A bit embarrassing considering the overall situation of this scene. 🤷
@Kingu@sakurajima.moe @katrinakatrinka@infosec.exchange @cjust@infosec.exchange
@gray17@mastodon.socialThe moment after eating shrooms when you realize that you yourself are a shroom and you've just committed cannibalism.
@fanf@mendeddrum.orgheh, the dishwasher creatively redacted the label on this jar
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ngMonochrome thi.ng (2022)
An old exploration using only circles and the SDF-based fully parametric typeface I created as part of the work on my S-TRACE piece...
See here for other related WIP of this perpetually unfinished project:
https://mastodon.thi.ng/@toxi/tagged/STRACE
@markhburton@mstdn.social
@brian_gettler@mas.toDaoist road sign.
@memeorandum@universeodon.comMAGA Religious Leaders Dedicate and Bless 22-Foot Golden Trump Statue at Doral (Christopher Hale/Letters from Leo)
https://www.thelettersfromleo.com/p/maga-religious-leaders-dedicate-and
http://www.memeorandum.com/260509/p30#a260509p30
@paulwermer@sfba.socialThe President and his lickspittles in Congress are introducing legislation to shield fossil fuel companies from liability for their intentional and knowing actions to emit GHGs, fully aware of the damage, destruction and death that would cause.
Please, if you live in California, write you congress people and tell them to oppose this legislation. It's easy, I just did it using this action network link:
@PaulWermer@sfba.socialThe President and his lickspittles in Congress are introducing legislation to shield fossil fuel companies from liability for their intentional and knowing actions to emit GHGs, fully aware of the damage, destruction and death that would cause.
Please, if you live in California, write you congress people and tell them to oppose this legislation. It's easy, I just did it using this action network link:
@tschundler@leds.socialIt's an incredible thing to have something in my head and then in my hands, or seeing myself wear it in a mirror. It was even more surreal to imagine a space and then be standing in that thing from my imagination.
It still feels a bit hard to believe seeing photos from #Neotropolis last week - this place that people have these cool photos from is the place that previously existed onl…
@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.socialFor #TerryPratchettDay I want to share one of my favourite quotes. There are many, but this one just resonates with me as a writer. Sir Terry Pratchett's work is about how important stories are to humans and as a storyteller who grew up loving his books, unsurprisingly I feel the same way. He was the first celebrity where I was truly gutted when he died. Much love to everyone who w…
@grahamperrin@bsd.cafe@…
You Write Letters.
Go on … do it …
@servelan@newsie.social"Senate and House Democrats sent letters Thursday to more than a dozen recipients of Trump pardons and commutations, opening a formal investigation into whether the clemency was driven by “pay-to-play dynamics.”"
BREAKING: Trump's Pardons Under Investigation, Hantavirus Outbreak Spreads, DOJ Investigates Insider Oil Trading, and more...
https://www.adamkinzinger.com/p/breaking-trumps-pardons-under-investigation
@bthalpin@mastodon.socialThe title of this letter gives a flavour of what the UK looks like from the outside:
"Can post-Brexit Britain become governable?"
https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/letters/2026/06/23/whether-post-brexit-…
@cdarwin@c.imBetween May 29 and July 9,
roughly 51,000 comments were posted to regulations.gov
(and over 200,000 more had been received but not yet published).
The verdict on public sentiment is clear and lopsided:
about 94 percent oppose the proposed rule and only 6 percent support it,
with fewer than one percent marked as unclear.
The opposition is overwhelmingly grassroots rather than orchestrated.
Form letters make up only about 16 percent of all comments…
@sauer_lauwarm@mastodon.socialPuh
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https://www.newyorker.com/puzzles-and-games-dept/shuffalo/2026/07/13
@janneke@todon.nlToday's opening talk at @… by @…
"How to start anything -- from small projects to hackerspaces to huge events -- when you only have the foggiest of ideas".
Great, lovely, and very down-to-earth relatable and in…
@catsalad@infosec.exchangeThe summoning circle worked!
@Techmeme@techhub.socialLetters: House Homeland Security Committee and House China Select Committee are probing Airbnb and Cursor maker Anysphere over their use of Chinese AI models (Rachyl Jones/Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/article/04/29/2026/house-committ…
@jamie@boothcomputing.socialSwapped two letters in guess 4. #Wordle
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@memeorandum@universeodon.comMay 9, 2026 -- If you google the history of Mother's Day, the internet will tell you that Mother's ... (Heather Cox Richardson/Letters from an American)
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/may-9-2026
http://www.memeorandum.com/260510/p10#a260510p10
@chiraag@mastodon.onlineI reached the Genius 🎓 level in Spelling Bee.
My stats:
Words: 40/40
Score: 170/170
Play Spelling Bee 🐝 https://spellbee.org/
@cdarwin@c.imA Russian drone strike damaged part of the Centralized Spent Nuclear Fuel Storage Facilityin the Chornobyl Exclusion Zone overnight on June 7,
Ukraine's state nuclear operator Energoatom reported.
The attack comes amid growing concerns about nuclear safety in Ukraine,
as Russia continues to strike infrastructure tied to the country's energy system and nuclear sector
@bourgwick@heads.socialthe good ol’ grateful deadcast is back! we open season 13 with part 1 of our bobby weir tribute, with lots of archival audio, teen letters to john perry barlow, water balloons, the mccoy tyner influence, firing tape & glorious redemption arc. https://www.dead.net/deadcast/bobby-weir-part-1
@jamie@boothcomputing.socialDidn't think 4 was a valid guess. Apparently, there are some letters you can add to almost any word and get a valid word. 🤷 #Wordle
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@cjust@infosec.exchange♫ When a problem comes along . . . ♪
#Shitpost #Shitposting #Devo
@memeorandum@universeodon.comJune 6, 2026 -- In the wee hours of Friday morning, Senate Republicans passed a measure ... (Heather Cox Richardson/Letters from an American)
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/june-6-2026
http://www.memeorandum.com/260607/p14#a260607p14
@chiraag@mastodon.onlineI reached the Genius 🎓 level in Spelling Bee.
My stats:
Words: 45/45
Score: 223/223
Play Spelling Bee 🐝 https://spellbee.org/
@katrinakatrinka@infosec.exchangeSame. I plan to continue my subscription as additional donation.
When propaganda and hate is free, it's important to make good journalism accessible to everyone.
#Utah #Utahns #NoPaywall…
@memeorandum@universeodon.comJune 5, 2026 -- President Franklin Delano Roosevelt had good news for the American people ... (Heather Cox Richardson/Letters from an American)
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/june-5-2026
http://www.memeorandum.com/260606/p16#a260606p16
@cdarwin@c.imA part of the Atlantic Ocean, just south of Greenland and Iceland, has been cooling off while the rest of the world gets hotter.
This enigmatic patch is often referred to as the "cold blob" and scientists have been trying to figure out the mechanisms behind its cooling.
While some studies have blamed increased heat loss at the sea surface,
others suggest weaker currents are bringing less heat to the area.
Now, a new study, published in Geophysical Research…
@sauer_lauwarm@mastodon.socialShuffalo, 1m 46s
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@memeorandum@universeodon.comJune 3, 2026 -- Last night, in an unsigned opinion, the U.S. Supreme Court expanded its finding ... (Heather Cox Richardson/Letters from an American)
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/june-3-2026
http://www.memeorandum.com/260604/p75#a260604p75
@memeorandum@universeodon.comJune 2, 2026 -- Officials in the Trump administration have worked hard to restrict the access ... (Heather Cox Richardson/Letters from an American)
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/june-2-2026
http://www.memeorandum.com/260603/p9#a260603p9
@memeorandum@universeodon.comMay 1, 2026 -- Today is the deadline for President Donald J. Trump to ask Congress for approval for his war on Iran. (Heather Cox Richardson/Letters from an American)
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/may-1-2026
http://www.memeorandum.com/260502/p14#a260502p14
@memeorandum@universeodon.comApril 30, 2026 -- Today G. Elliott Morris of Strength in Numbers noted that Trump has hit ... (Heather Cox Richardson/Letters from an American)
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/april-30-2026
http://www.memeorandum.com/260501/p40#a260501p40
