Tootfinder

Seeing members of the Iranian women's football team get asylum in Australia reminds me of this in the UK: Lift the Ban: Why People Seeking Asylum Should Have the Right to Work - Refugee Action https://www.refugee-action.org.uk/lift-the

It's not so hard to lift yourself by your bootstraps once you're off the ground.
-- Daniel B. Luten

It would take a small pickup for Democrats to gain control of the House, where they hold four fewer seats than Republicans, with three vacancies.
Winning back the Senate is a bigger lift; they would have to gain four seats, and this year’s map has them mostly playing defense of the ones they hold.


Given how many districts and states are safely in the hands of one party or the other,
the vast majority of congressional races will effectively be over when a primary win…

Analysis | Primary season has arrived. Why these races matter so much in 2026.
A 21st-century-record number of seats are opening, and races will be raucous and crowded, reflecting both parties’ ideological, stylistic and generational tensions.

Straight to lift muzac. #totp

As cheesy as this sounds - even if you’re failing by all the world’s metrics of success, if you can lift someone else up today - even in the smallest way - you’ve done something of weight and - for all involved - kept the darker things at bay.
And multiplied by many, a society that values this will outlast every society that doesn’t anyway.
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US Temporarily Lifts Sanctions on Russian Oil, a Key Lever on Kremlin - Business Insider
https://www.businessinsider.com/us-temporarily-lift-sanctions-rusian-oil-kremlin-ukraine-war-iran-2026-3

Trump is 'wrong': Europeans slam US decision to ease Russia oil sanctions (Politico)
https://www.politico.eu/article/germany-friedrich-merz-blasts-donald-trump-lift-russian-energy-sanctions/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260313/p99#a260313p99

We have a squirrel this morning who does not know how to lift the flap on the squirrel feeder. That implies that it's a squirrel new to my wood, which is exciting because my wood is relatively isolated and quite hard for squirrels to travel to.

Super Bowl 2026: Who is performing Lift Every Voice and Sing ahead of Seahawks vs. Patriots in Super Bowl LX

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/super-bowl-lift-every-voice-and-s…

Indonesia lifts its ban on Grok after receiving a letter from X "outlining concrete steps" to prevent misuse; Indonesia was the first country to ban Grok (Jin Yu Young/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/01/world/asia/indonesia-lift-grok-ban.h…

Indonesia Lifts Ban on Grok After New Assurances From X Corp
Indonesia joined Malaysia and the Philippines in reversing its restrictions, weeks after it blocked the chatbot because it was used to generate sexually explicit images of real people.

Then the orange dufus goes on "an excursion" in Iran, triggering what will likely be the worst oil crisis since the #70s. Interest in #EVs is surging. Foreign manufacturers can pivot by bringing in overseas models, but of course tariffs will impact models. Domestic manufacturers will be slashing profits in order to move some pickups and SUVs.
Americans will fall further behind the rest of the world.
https://www.businessinsider.com/higher-gas-prices-lift-interest-in-electric-cars-2026-3

Almost a quarter of Republicans in Congress are urging the FCC not to lift the national TV ownership cap, warning that doing so would trigger massive consolidation, undermine local news coverage and raise costs for consumers.
https://www.threads.com/@newsmax/post/DUkCrTREXBv/almost-a-quarter-of-republicans-in-congress-are-urging-the-fcc-not-to-lift-the

As a pre-show you can also watch the #Proton-M launch of an Electron weather satellite at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwiBFPB0Vgs - lift-off planned for 8:52 UTC i.e. in a few minutes.

As bombs have been falling across the Middle East, I’ve been re-reading Etel Adnan, Lebanese-American poet and painter, especially her book The Arab Apocalypse.
At the same time I have returned to her paintings, which I first encountered at Documenta 13 in 2012. These paintings are small, yet they offer expanses of color and light that fill the eye and lift the spirit.
I thought you might like to see them too.

Just Seeing: Etel Adnan
Etel Adnan's paintings are abstracted landscapes made of color and light.

Oil Prices Rise Despite Trump's Decision to Lift Russia Sanctions (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/12/business/oil-stock-gas-markets-iran.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260313/p95#a260313p95

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #SundaySoul
Ray Charles:
🎵 Lift Every Voice and Sing
#RayCharles
https://raycharles.bandcamp.com/track/lift-every-voice-and-sing
https://open.spotify.com/track/5oBUCgMggrp5P3GoSDUeUc

Super Bowl 2026: Who is performing Lift Every Voice and Sing ahead of Seahawks vs. Patriots in Super Bowl LX

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/super-bowl-lift-every-voice-and-s…

Hours after ICE agent Charles Exum shot a Chicago woman five times, Greg Bovino offered to extend the agent's scheduled retirement as a reward for his "excellent service in Chicago." Incredible.
#ICE #CBP #Bovino

Jason Meisner (@jmetr22b.bsky.social)
///BREAKING/// Body cams, texts, emails and other evidence have been released in the Oct. 4 shooting of Marimar Martinez by Border Patrol Agent Charles Exum, including this email to Exum by Cmdr. Greg Bovino on the day of the shooting Background: https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/02/06/protective-order-lift-marimar-martinez/

Orange cat vs stink bug

It's effin' cold this morning (whoever said that lamb and lion stuff about March never spent April in Ontario). So how about a climatically appropriate pop ditty? Maybe it'll lift our spirits ("you know the summer's coming soon").
Fountains of Wayne, "Valley Winter Song" (live, 2011)
https://youtu.be/oPqMl0…

It’s worth noting that even •attempting• this is a hell of a lift, and she has political room to do it because of the steadfast local resistance to ICE and the tremendous international outpouring of support for the Twin Cities — which in turn exist because of the individual and community action of local residents.

Series D, Episode 03 - Traitor
LEITZ: I already have. He's here.
SLEER: [OOV] Good. Tell him I'll take charge of the investigation. We need an arrest before Headquarters are told of Practor's death. [Lift opens. General enters.]
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/403/337 B7B2

@… Interesting! I’ll look into it, thanks! The actual app I’m targeting makes use of many OS-level features (custom menus, taskbar icons, etc) and has background services to deal with network events. But if I can do that in Bun, I’d be stoked. Rust is cool but a big lift for my brain. I don’t like Javascript but at least I understand it

Finland to lift full ban on hosting nuclear arms, government says | Reuters
https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/finland-lift-full-ban-hosting-nuclear-arms-government-says-2026-03-05/

Lifting systems for finite length modules
Benjamin Katz, Nawaj KC, Kesavan Mohana Sundaram, Andrew J. Soto Levins, Ryan Watson
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.01440 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2602.01440 https://arxiv.org/html/2602.01440
arXiv:2602.01440v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: This paper is concerned with lifting modules along a surjective map of noetherian local rings, say $\varphi \colon R \twoheadrightarrow S$. A finitely generated $R$-module $L$ is a naive lift of an $S$-module $M$ if $L \otimes_R S \cong M$. We are concerned with the maximum depth and dimension among all naive lifts of $M$, which we call the liftable depth and liftable dimension, respectively, of $M$ along $\varphi$. We approach this via a notion of lifting systems that we introduce in this paper. We then provide a necessary and sufficient condition for a module of finite length to lift and Serre lift to a regular local ring in terms of lifting systems.
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Publicis reports 2025 net profit of €1.65B, down from €1.66B in 2024, and total revenue up 8.5% YoY to €17.4B, but PUB falls 8% driven by AI fears (AdriŠ Calatayud/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/business/earnings/p…

Baidu joins Alibaba in raising prices for its AI computing power-related services by ~5% to 30% and its parallel file storage system by 30% from April 18 (South China Morning Post)
https://www.scmp.com/tech/article/3347030/alibaba-and-bai…

Alibaba and Baidu lift cloud prices by up to 34% amid AI demand surge
The Chinese firms’ price increases are ‘a reasonable response to evolving market conditions’, says IDC China analyst Cui Tingting.

Had so much fun taking the cable bus (line 3) in Mexico City. It’s fast and the view is amazing. Makes me think of a ski lift but just a bit higher.
🚡🚠
#mexicocity #cdmx #transit

Weekly Climate Solutions Digest #21!! 💖🌊✨
https://www.forpeopleandpla.net/weekly-climate-solutions-digest-21/?utm_source=bri-mastodon&utm_medium=social&src=mstdn

Weekly Climate Solutions Digest
Welcome February light has a new confidence. In northern towns, snowdrops spear the soil and maples hold a quiet pressure of sap. South of the equator, cicadas stitch the warm air and late sunsets float like lanterns. It feels like the world is leaning toward growth. That same lift runs

We can save the internet by going back our roots*
*cat memes

A capitalists will find a way of benefiting from everything...
'Standard donor forms, like those provided by donor registries such as Donate Life America, make no specific mention of “fat” or “adipose tissue”, they fall under the category of “bone and associated tissue”.
One wonders: would a prospective donor tick that little box while renewing their driver’s license if, say, they knew their adipose tissue was reaped and redeployed for a Brazilian butt lift?'

I hope you can embrace my big takeaways: Love yourself, love yourself, love yourself. Growing up doesn’t end when you become an adult. Outrage is the appropriate response to deception and betrayal.
The way out is through. Make peace with what hurts and head toward joy. Run with the people who love you, lift you, and make you laugh. Write your future with the ink of today. May you go farther sooner.
Xx Moon
-- From "Earth to Moon: A Memoir" by Moon Unit Zappa

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Expansions
Daniel Steinberg:
🎵 Lift Me Up (Extended Mix)
#DanielSteinberg
https://armsandlegsrecords.bandcamp.com/album/lift-me-up-cone-snail
https://open.spotify.com/track/0HeRjXg0mqaeg4aEBR9205

Approximate Cartesian Tree Matching with Substitutions
Panagiotis Charalampopoulos, Jonas Ellert, Manal Mohamed
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.08570 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2602.08570 https://arxiv.org/html/2602.08570
arXiv:2602.08570v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: The Cartesian tree of a sequence captures the relative order of the sequence's elements. In recent years, Cartesian tree matching has attracted considerable attention, particularly due to its applications in time series analysis. Consider a text $T$ of length $n$ and a pattern $P$ of length $m$. In the exact Cartesian tree matching problem, the task is to find all length-$m$ fragments of $T$ whose Cartesian tree coincides with the Cartesian tree $CT(P)$ of the pattern. Although the exact version of the problem can be solved in linear time [Park et al., TCS 2020], it remains rather restrictive; for example, it is not robust to outliers in the pattern.
To overcome this limitation, we consider the approximate setting, where the goal is to identify all fragments of $T$ that are close to some string whose Cartesian tree matches $CT(P)$. In this work, we quantify closeness via the widely used Hamming distance metric. For a given integer parameter $k>0$, we present an algorithm that computes all fragments of $T$ that are at Hamming distance at most $k$ from a string whose Cartesian tree matches $CT(P)$. Our algorithm runs in time $\mathcal O(n \sqrt{m} \cdot k^{2.5})$ for $k \leq m^{1/5}$ and in time $\mathcal O(nk^5)$ for $k \geq m^{1/5}$, thereby improving upon the state-of-the-art $\mathcal O(nmk)$-time algorithm of Kim and Han [TCS 2025] in the regime $k = o(m^{1/4})$.
On the way to our solution, we develop a toolbox of independent interest. First, we introduce a new notion of periodicity in Cartesian trees. Then, we lift multiple well-known combinatorial and algorithmic results for string matching and periodicity in strings to Cartesian tree matching and periodicity in Cartesian trees.
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Cleared off the driveway from the second snow. It was nice and powdery, so no big deal.
Then I had to clear in front of the garage doors from the first snowstorm. Snow drifts with frozen rain on top had turned them into glaciers.
After some trial and error, I found that using the maul would break the ice into boulders. Then it was a function of breaking the boulders to the point where I could lift them and toss them clear.
They were not light and I am very tired.

DeMeco Ryans on expectations for Tank Dell's Texans return: 'It's going to lift our team' https://www.nfl.com/news/demeco-ryans-on-expectations-for-tank-dell-s-texans-return-it-s-going-to-lift-our-team

The EU gives Google a six-month deadline to lift technical barriers to rival AI search assistants on Android and give key data to other search engine providers (Samuel Stolton/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-…

Google Android Told by EU to Open Up to Rival AI Systems
Google was handed a six-month European Union deadline to lift technical barriers to rival AI search assistants on Android and give key data to other search engine providers in the latest round of its Big Tech crackdown.

After some days work, I finally made my first unassisted warp, and got it on the loom and threaded up - 189 ends. It seems I had only one small mistake in the threading, just had to swap two threads. Can't wait to explore some lift patterns with this ! #weaving

Environmental groups urge appeals court panel to lift halt on closing Florida's 'Alligator Alcatraz' (Mike Schneider/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/florida-immigration-desantis-alligator-alcatraz-83266006bf642ac998be578a4e403d0a
http://www.memeorandum.com/260407/p89#a260407p89

From Pig Tales by Marie Darrieussecq

What a chaotic launch broadcast for an historic mission ... here is the only lift-off full view, visible merely for a brief fraction of a second. Anyway, Orion and ESM are in Earth orbit now!

Moved, sawed, and chopped wood until I could hardly lift my arms or stand. I guess that'll do for today.

An over-entitled HOA president dropped a $500,000 sports car off a lift & got sued by the owner.
#karma

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #RoundMidnight
Steam Down:
🎵 Lift Me Up
#SteamDown
https://open.spotify.com/track/0W3kPHcxMiEvoLw78QoTpb

Snow conditions suck, but the views are totally worth the cost of the lift ticket #mtbaker

I realized that a lot of my AI discussions are explaining the difference between hiking a mountain and taking a lift.
If you’ve done both, you know the difference between getting to a summit view efficiently and discovering a mountain.
Apparently though, surprising amount of people literally do not see a difference and I find myself unable to explain it.

@… Diese und andere kritische Fragen habe ich jemandem gestellt der solche Systeme programmiert. Er hat mich überzeugt. Es ist mehr wie ein Assistenzsystem im Auto. Hilfssysteme gibt es jetzt schon. Bei neuen Systemen braucht es nur jemanden unten am Lift der das ganze beobachtet und steuert. Die Bilderkennung ist halt heutzutage mit KI gemacht, funktion…

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth
has threatened Antropic with blacklisting
if the AI company refuses to allow its tools to be used for autonomous drone attacks or mass surveillance
– a chilling show of the Pentagon’s priorities.
In a meeting with the company on Tuesday, Hegseth said that
the company must lift its demands for the safety restrictions by Friday at 5:01 pm.
Otherwise, officials warned, the Pentagon will declare the company a “supply chain ris…

Pentagon Threatens Retaliation If Anthropic Bars Use of AI for Mass Surveillance
Anthropic’s CEO has expressed concerns about the use of AI for autonomous drones and surveillance.

Was there a weapon and if so, how did she hold it?
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/world-news/vaginal-weightlifter-sex-coach-charged-25966566

Vaginal weightlifter sex coach charged with assaulting census taker who knocked at door
Kimberley Hawrelak, 50, who runs “intimacy retreats” and posts pictures showing what she can lift with her privates, is accused of attacking a 60-year-old woman at her home

4 ways Trump has suggested the Strait of Hormuz could be reopened -- and why they're a tough lift (Scott Waldman/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/04/07/four-ways-trump-has-suggested-the-strait-of-hormuz-could-be-reopened-00862588
http://www.memeorandum.com/260407/p136#a260407p136

Asia's smaller chip companies are joining their bigger peers in hiking prices as robust AI demand fuels capex, projected to rise 25% YoY to over $136B in 2026 (Nikkei Asia)
https://asia.nikkei.com/business/techn

Chip price hikes spread as Asia's chipmakers plan record $136bn spending
Smaller suppliers aim to lift rates for first time in years on supply crunch

Super Bowl 2026: A look at Coco Jones, Green Day and every musical performance from the big game

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/super-bowl-2026-coco-jones-green-day-musi…

Recovery Under Way: https://eyebeemania.net/2026/01/19/recovery-under-way.html

Recovery Under Way
I’m not allowed to lift much. I’m not allowed to …

A permanent webcast of #ArtemisII has begun at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3kR2KK8TEs and will first cover tanking and run all the way to splashdown (separate webcasts will cover special mission phases like lift-off). Also live updates will be published on the page https://www.nasa.gov/blogs/missions/2026/04/01/live-artemis-ii-launch-day-updates/ just set up.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #6MusicArtistInResidence
Moin:
🎵 Lift You (feat. Sophia Al Maria)
#Moin
https://m-o-i-n.bandcamp.com/track/lift-you-feat-sophia-al-maria
https://open.spotify.com/track/14Pbm2W3kF8lEc0EGDsdjH

2026 NFL Draft needs: The one goal each NFC team must nail https://www.nfl.com/news/2026-nfl-draft-needs-the-one-goal-each-nfc-team-must-nail

If you need some *good* stories about *good* people to lift your spirits...
▶️ Finding People with No Customers, Then Buying Them Out - Steven Schapiro
https://youtube.com/watch?v=IpkQ20i5qhs&si=GoCEFR1hvjH2B5gm

A U.S. appeals court has cleared the way for a Louisiana law requiring poster-sized displays of the Ten Commandments in public school classrooms to take effect
The six judges who voted against the decision wrote a series of dissents,
with some arguing that the law exposes children to government-endorsed religion in a place they are required to be,
presenting a clear constitutional burden
Circuit Judge James L. Dennis, an appointee of Democratic President Bill Clinton,…

Court clears way for Louisiana law requiring Ten Commandments in classrooms to take effect
The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has cleared the way for a Louisiana law requiring displays of the Ten Commandments in public classrooms to take effect. The full court voted 12-6 to lift a block placed on the law that a lower court first issued in 2024. In the opinion released Friday, the court said it was too early to make a judgment call on the constitutionality of the law. But the six judges who voted against the decision wrote a series of dissents, some saying that the law exposes chil…

Despite Anthropic winning a ruling against the DOD in California, it must still convince the DC Circuit Court of Appeals to lift the supply chain risk label (Brendan Bordelon/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/03/27/p

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #Breakfast
George Frideric Handel, Dunedin Consort & John Butt:
🎵 'Lift up your heads' (Messiah)
#GeorgeFridericHandel #DunedinConsort #JohnButt

Solak: Why Maxx Crosby fits perfectly with the Ravens' defense -- and their Super Bowl window https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/48129144/2026-nfl-free-agency-trade-maxx-crosby-ravens-raiders-defense-minter-lamar…

The #Celeste launch by #RocketLab for #ESA was a success: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vls1yNbQtZ0 = the lift-off, https://rocketlabcorp.com/updates/rocket-lab-successfully-launches-85th-mission-and-first-dedicated-launch-for-european-space-agency/ and https://www.esa.int/Applications/Satellite_navigation/Celeste/Celeste_s_first_satellites_launched_to_explore_LEO-based_satellite_navigation = press releases by both parties and https://bsky.app/profile/rocketlabcorp.com/post/3mi3zwvuric2m and https://bsky.app/profile/rocketlabcorp.com/post/3mi4fuyzpwk2d = pictures.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said on Thursday that
the United States was planning to lift sanctions on Iranian oil
in an effort to shore up the global market,
reversing years of U.S. measures to cripple Tehran’s economy.
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2026/03/20/…

Iran War Live Updates: U.S. Steps Up Efforts to Clear Strait of Hormuz as Oil Prices Remain High
U.S. warplanes and attack helicopters are hitting Iranian targets in an effort to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, officials said. The price of oil remained high as new strikes hit Gulf energy facilities.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #GillesPeterson
Echo Juliet:
🎵 Lift Your Face to the Sun
#EchoJuliet
https://echojuliet.bandcamp.com/album/lift-your-face-to-the-sun
https://open.spotify.com/track/5uL82AKeh1A2E0Fec82bD3

China birthrate shrinks to lowest on record as policies fail to to lift births
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/19/china-birthrate-record-low-aging-population-fertility-crisis.html

Next attempt for the #RocketLab #Electron with #Celeste today (28 March): webcasts from 8:50 UTC at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bR1en0oGPRs and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJxRic-a4SU and lift-off - https://www.esa.int/Applications/Satellite_navigation/Watch_live_First_Celeste_launch - at 9:14 UTC.

Circana: the Switch 2 ended December and 2025 as the US' best-selling video game hardware, offsetting declines among rivals to lift overall hardware spend by 9% (Vlad Savov/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #KEXP's #VarietyMix
Danny Brown:
🎵 Lift You Up
#DannyBrown
https://dannybrown.bandcamp.com/track/lift-you-up-1
https://open.spotify.com/track/4hSTvY4GQrNDC2TsCwhEFc

Good Morning #Canada
As a belated public service announcement, here is some fairly bland reporting on snow removal tools. If you live in Toronto, where 50 cm of the white just fell, all shovels and snow blowers will be sold out in every store by 8:42 am. Pro tip - salt doesn't work on 2 feet of snow. Here in Belle Ewart, where we received 20ish cm from #MotherNature, I will be using 2 regular shovels, one with an ergonomic sexy curve, and my handy single stage battery blower. The electric blower struggles with the chunky heavy stuff the evil plow operator dumps at the end of my driveway but so far it hasn't been defeated. Remember to lift with your legs, which I've never seen anyone do.
#CanadaIsAwesome #Snowstorm
https://youtu.be/6Svjwzy9Yu4