We'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.
A 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
Does Pride still matter in #Utah? Yes! Because the #utpol #GOP won't stop, so the public needs to counter them with the reality that we support our families, friends, and neighbors at every turn.
Hantaviruses, 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.”
"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
Kris 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.
June 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
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Guess 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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Datini Letters. Geospatial Explorer
Francesco di Marco Datini's merchant correspondence network
#history
Murang #IcedMocha: pagsamahin ang San Mig 3-in-1 at Milo 😁
#coffee
It'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…
A 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…
♫ When a problem comes along . . . ♪
#Shitpost #Shitposting #Devo
Der 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
The 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:
The 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:
Now that the trump name is being removed from the Kennedy Center I wonder whether trump will try to sell off the physical letters that were removed and keep the proceeds to himself?
Lieverds, 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?
The moment after eating shrooms when you realize that you yourself are a shroom and you've just committed cannibalism.
I don’t know who needs to see this…
June 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
Today'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…
Swapped two letters in guess 4. #Wordle
Wordle 1 843 5/6
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The summoning circle worked!
Саме автентичних слів розширеного "художнього" лексикону мені не вистачає в перекладі коміксу. Часто здається, що текст виходить занадто сухим. Доводиться навмисно шукати по словнику щось менш поширене.
...а потім мешканці Бестемного пишуть, що не розуміють, що це означає.
Це також складно. Не факт, що люди так взагалі говорять. Постійні сумніви — а ну як я це слово неправильно використав? Або навіть правильно, але воно настільки застаріле, що вже не сприймається?
…
#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. 🤷
Beautiful type talk by Kimya Gandhi (motaitalic.com) full of amazing Devanagari letterforms shaped by history, culture, and context. 🤩 #btconf
heh, the dishwasher creatively redacted the label on this jar
Letters: 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…
Monochrome 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
Happy Monday everyone. 🌻 If you're already struggling, here is a friendly reminder.
It's all about the stories you use to make sense of the world. 🤗
Have a great start to the new week.
#DailyAppreciation #FriendlyReminder
Didn'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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the 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
@…
You Write Letters.
Go on … do it …
Most capitalists, as a class, don't think "oh, we should fire people to make sure we don't lose control." But, as here, a few people do. All it takes is a few because you have highly class aware companies like BlackRock, which own enough stock to just force boards to force CEOs to lay people off. Strongly worded letters from private equity can kick off firing sprees in FAANG. Everyone else just follows their lead because "they must have some information we don't" or "they're smart, so we should follow their lead."
It takes a very tiny portion of the capitalist class to maintain the system. It mostly acts without any centralized control channel. That's one of the the things that makes the system so stable.
In 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
Caroline Lucas here is saying what's missing from most current Green Party messaging.
Leaders must be honest about the likelihood of collapse.
For Keir Starmer to talk of national resilience and ignore nature is absurd | Climate crisis | The Guardian
Insights 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…
The 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-…
June 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
Did 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.
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I 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…
EU project proposals have become a bureaucratic endurance test.
The application process is painfully long, the evaluations often opaque, and rejection letters can feel almost dismissive. Even when a proposal succeeds, far too much of the budget disappears into compliance, coordination, reporting, controls, and audits.
When roughly 60% of resources go to administration rather than impact, something is fundamentally broken.
Europe cannot afford to turn innovation into paperwo…
On the ongoing collapse of the United States and US science and engineering: Trump has terminated several members of the independent National Science Board https://www.engadget.com/science/trump-has-terminated-several-m…
Three little kids from our neighbourhood were selling bracelets (two girls, one boy, just to break any stereotypes) and now I have the coolest wrist (well, I think so anyway) ✨
#bracelets #bray #ireland
It almost look like a scam, although the ads actually leads to Lucidchart-dot-com
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U 004C : LATIN CAPITAL LETTER L
U 0075 : LATIN SMALL LETTER U
U 0441 : CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER ES
U 0069 : LATIN SMALL LETTER I
U 0501 : CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER KOMI DE
U 0441 : CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER ES
U 04BB : CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER SHHA
U 0430 : CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER A
U 0072 : LATIN SMALL LETTER R
U 0074 : LATIN SMALL LETTER T
We're in a cafe, and someone is wearing a t-shirt that reads "GAYTRIOT" in colorful letters. 🥳🏳️🌈👕
Wordfeud got even harder now
Playing with improvising some sanquhar-style patterns in the round (so I don't have to do purls), and decided to turn it into a sock for my lovely Zoom L6 portable mixer. #knitting
Just passed a "FOG AREA" sign with the letters faded
@… heh that somehow reminds me of "russisch brot" ("russian bread"), a baked sweet we have in germany. despite the name, i think i have only ever seen it in latin letters.
Through Their Eyes
From battlefield artefacts to fragile letters, museum collections and recorded histories, we follow the threads that connect individual lives to larger moments around the world...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/throug
I'd rather have it and not need it than need it and not have it.
#Shitpost #Shitposting #OpenCarry
🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#ThroughTheNight
- Ardeo Quartet and pianist Barry Douglas
At the West Cork Chamber Music Festival in Ireland, the Ardeo Quartet performs Janšček's String Quartet no 2 'Intimate Letters'. Barry Douglas plays Schubert's Piano Sonata no 16.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002xnd8
It 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
It 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
June 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
Some historical documents from 2009 for #TextureTuesday... A high-res render and some detail crops of the award-winning generative typography & branding system/application I designed & developed for the DECODE exhibition at Victoria & Albert Museum London (one of the largest group shows the V&A had organized and curated in a few decades, and which later traveled to other m…
May 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
Same. 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…
(LinkedIn) Blind recipient of retinal implant from Chinese company Nanochap Electronics identifies letters on second day of testing, 2 weeks after surgery, after 15 years of blindness from RP (retinitis pigmentosa) https://www.linkedin.com/posts/retinitispi
April 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
RE: https://mas.to/@seeingwithsound/116804001517308051
What can this blind recipient of a Nanochap Electronics retinal implant do that she could not have done with The vOICe vision BCI?
(YouTube, 2010) Hearing letters with The vOICe
A 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…
There is a frenzied feeling to the news coming from the White House these days. ... (Heather Cox Richardson/Letters from an American)
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/april-28-2026
http://www.memeorandum.com/260429/p44#a260429p44
June 27, 2026 -- Observers are noting that the reflecting pool fiasco, in which Trump created ... (Heather Cox Richardson/Letters from an American)
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/june-27-2026
http://www.memeorandum.com/260628/p15#a260628p15
April 25, 2026 -- Tonight the White House Correspondents' Association (WHCA) ... (Heather Cox Richardson/Letters from an American)
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/april-25-2026
http://www.memeorandum.com/260426/p39#a260426p39
April 22, 2026 -- Virginia voters yesterday agreed to a constitutional amendment ... (Heather Cox Richardson/Letters from an American)
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/april-22-2026
http://www.memeorandum.com/260423/p20#a260423p20
April 21, 2026 -- There is the unmistakable feeling that the wheels are coming off the MAGA bus. (Heather Cox Richardson/Letters from an American)
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/april-21-2026
http://www.memeorandum.com/260422/p50#a260422p50
April 20, 2026 -- Late Saturday evening, Josh Dawsey and Annie Linskey of the Wall Street ... (Heather Cox Richardson/Letters from an American)
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/april-20-2026
http://www.memeorandum.com/260421/p58#a260421p58