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
The US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is considering plans by the start-up
💥Reflect Orbital
to illuminate parts of the Earth at night using reflective satellites,
as well as applications from
💥SpaceX that could dramatically expand satellite numbers in low Earth orbit.
“The proposed scale of orbital deployment would represent a significant alteration of the natural night-time light environment at a planetary scale,”
said the presidents of the Europ…
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
Shuffalo, 2m 46s
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https://www.newyorker.com/puzzles-and-games-dept/shuffalo/2026/04/04
🤔 "Add text-autospace to status content" https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/pull/37694
From Webkit blog (
Looks like “ANNIE” is a TERF.
https://mastodon.social/@Thayer/116002682012736788
"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
Someone posted this, perhaps in some other context. It is worth repeating here.
(I noticed a mild similarity to another short piece by Twain, his "Letter To the Earth", part of the Bernard de Voto assemblage "Letters From the Earth".)
The piece below is quite proper and relevant to the crazed faux "warriors" who have brought our nation into several illegal wars.
Mark Twain, “The War Prayer” (ca.1904-5)
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/
"Don't Panic" being projected in large friendly letters.
#TOTP
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/
#MoviesWatched 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
…
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…
Save 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
Letters to Sen. Ed Markey: six autonomous vehicle companies say remote assistants don't directly control vehicles; Tesla says its operators are allowed to do so (Aarian Marshall/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/tesla-says-its-robotaxis-are-sometimes…
Don't let the Epstein Files become lost in all of the intentional distraction.
#editorial #cartoon #EditorialCartoon
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.
Stolen from @dragonsandsapphics@bsky.social who doesn't seem to bridge their account:
Do you want to see tragic Greek lesbian gods? Polyamorous lesbian dragons? All #trans, too? Click right here!
https://itch.io/b/3594/tdov-bundle
Cornell's № 15 Avi Adam skates towards the goal with the puck while № 22 Michaela Littlewood tries to take it away
#photo #photography #sports
That’s the first time I got no correct letters in the first two guesses.
#Wordle 1,747 5/6*
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Letters From the Children Detained at ICE’s Dilley Facility — ProPublica #ice
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
"Saltier seas in spring double the chance of extreme El Niño events, study finds"
#Climate #ClimateChange
https://
🇺🇦 #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
Classmates of Liam Ramos wrote letters to ICE agents: "You're scaring schools, people and the world."
Source:
#politics
Shuffalo, 7m 11s
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https://www.newyorker.com/puzzles-and-games-dept/shuffalo/2026/02/03
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 1,691 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.
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!
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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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
Today's April Fool's puzzles were pretty good, especially including
Happy #TransDayOfVisibility to all who celebrate 🏳️⚧️
I am grateful for all the trans folks who stand visible, who talk openly about their experiences and life despite the danger to themselves. Your voices are so important because I don't think the imagination of cis people (even well-meaning) can truly capture the struggles and the joys of trans lives. I promise to stand…
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…
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-(…
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
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*?
I’m told this has raised nearly $65,000 for Letters Charity. You are amazing! https://fugazi.bandcamp.com/album/albini-sessions-benefit-for-letters-charity
Pro tip: bookmarking https://www.tind.io/ is an effective way to let Firefox autocomplete accidentally bring you to a safe space when you're at risk of visiting a dangerous domain a few letters longer.
I scored 277 points in the Spelling Bee game 🐝 https://spellbee.org/.
Can you beat my score?
Fugazi Albini
Albini Sessions (Benefit for Letters Charity)
https://fugazi.bandcamp.com/album/albini-sessions-benefit-for-letters-charity
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
Shuffalo, 4m 41s
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https://www.newyorker.com/puzzles-and-games-dept/shuffalo/2026/04/03
The letters 'f', 'b', and 'i' can also spell 'fib'
FBI denies shutting down civil rights investigation into ICE shooter Jonathan Ross | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/ice-shooting-investigation-jonathan-ross-fbi-b2904055.html
#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.
One useful way to think about today's chatbots is that they function more like secretaries than physicians.
They are remarkably effective at organising information, summarising text, and structuring complex documents.
These are the kinds of tasks where language models are already proving useful within healthcare systems,
for example in drafting clinical notes, summarising patient records, or generating referral letters
The promise of AI in medicine remains real, …
Shuffalo, 4m 33s
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https://www.newyorker.com/puzzles-and-games-dept/shuffalo/2026/03/02
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…
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
You've til Monday to demand a better transport plan for Greater Manchester. We need more than a 8% reduction in motor traffic!!
https://actionnetwork.org/letters/demand-a-better-plan-for-a-greater-manchester?source=direct_link&
Letter: The GOP candidate in Utah's new District 1 is going to have to actually earn the vote of the people.
Republicans must find that so distasteful.
https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/letters/2026/03/19/letter-utahs-district-1-candidate/
Letters: industry groups pushed back after India proposed in January that Apple, Google, and others consider pre-installing biometric ID app Aadhaar on phones (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/china/indias-proposal-p…
#Wordle 1,692 5/6*
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⬜⬜🟩⬜⬜ 1% of 155 (32)
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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.
I enjoyed a really fun writing workshop with @… and @sgl_in_progress@instagram.com on the theme of female rage in contemporary and fantasy fiction. I am not a literary scholar, so the analyses by workshop hosts Lena and Simoné gave me greater insight into the differences of female rage in these two broad genres and I got a new book out of it too 📖
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:
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
I reached the Genius 🎓 level in Spelling Bee.
My stats:
Words: 38/38
Score: 171/171
Play Spelling Bee 🐝 https://spellbee.org/
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…
Students table for the Big Red Buddies who volunteer to help Head Start
#photo
Following Disney, Paramount sent a cease-and-desist letter to ByteDance, alleging its AI-generated Seedance videos and Seedream images infringed Paramount's IP (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/film/news/par
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
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…
Shuffalo, 3m 36s
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https://www.newyorker.com/puzzles-and-games-dept/shuffalo/2026/03/29
March 28, 2026 -- Almost exactly a year ago, on March 27, 2025, President Donald J. Trump issued ... (Heather Cox Richardson/Letters from an American)
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/march-28-2026
http://www.memeorandum.com/260329/p21#a260329p21
bissi faul heute
Shuffalo, 4m 44s
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https://www.newyorker.com/puzzles-and-games-dept/shuffalo/2026/01/29
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
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…
ready to be infected?
Shuffalo, 8m 20s
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https://www.newyorker.com/puzzles-and-games-dept/shuffalo/2026/01/26#i…
In an interview with Reuters on Monday, Singapore's minister for foreign affairs ... (Heather Cox Richardson/Letters from an American)
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/march-26-2026
http://www.memeorandum.com/260327/p24#a260327p24
Shuffalo, 3m 51s
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https://www.newyorker.com/puzzles-and-games-dept/shuffalo/2026/02/23
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
Warren questions DOD about Anthropic blacklist that 'appears to be retaliation' - CNBC
U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren is questioning the Defense Department about its supply chain risk designation on Anthropic as Claude continues to be used in the Iran war.
Warren said the move by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth "appears to be retaliation" and there were less drastic ways to end ties with the company.
Warren also sent a letter to OpenAI CEO Sam Altman questioni…
'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
Shuffalo, 2m 41s
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https://www.newyorker.com/puzzles-and-games-dept/shuffalo/2026/03/24
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
March 22, 2026 -- President Donald J. Trump's behavior is increasingly erratic as he lashes ... (Heather Cox Richardson/Letters from an American)
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/march-22-2026
http://www.memeorandum.com/260323/p45#a260323p45
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