Tootfinder

Oh great! More novels and books and series that I could add to my increasing books-to-read list! 📚
#books #novels

Major brands were replaced by direct-response advertisers during commercial breaks of CBS News' December 13 town hall with Erika Kirk, moderated by Bari Weiss (Brian Steinberg/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/advertisers-wary-cbs-news-…

Big Advertisers Appear Wary of CBS News' Bari Weiss Town Hall Format
Many major advertisers appeared to sit out a new CBS News town hall format moderated by Bari Weiss and featuring a conversation with Erika Kirk

Big Advertisers Appear Wary of CBS News' Bari Weiss Town Hall Format (Brian Steinberg/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/advertisers-wary-cbs-news-bari-weiss-town-hall-1236608265/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251213/p63#a251213p63

Oh great! More novels and books and series that I could add to my increasing books-to-read list! 📚
#books #novels

This would affect about two-thirds of the already dwindled-down CISA workforce, and other valuable DHS components, and that’s not good.
Otherwise it will eventually make life harder for CBP and ICE and that’s great!
DHS shutdown imminent as Senate leaves town without deal

DHS shutdown imminent as Senate leaves town without deal
It would be the third shutdown of President Trump's second term.

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Katy J Pearson:
🎵 Talk Over Town
#NowPlaying #KatyJPearson
https://katyjpearson.bandcamp.com/track/talk-over-town
https://open.spotify.com/track/3aoB09FhpvYOQ1MDj3P0kF

‘We’ve lost everything’: anger and despair in Sicilian town collapsing after landslide https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/feb/09/anger-despair-sicilian-town-crumbles-landslide-niscemi

A matter of perspective. A Tom Gauld editorial cartoon from a while back.

#LB Não conhecia este número daqui.
https://merveilles.town/@oppen/116205907703111232

“I know that thousands of gay men in Russia watched Heated Rivalry—on pirate sites, of course, because they have no legal way to watch the series. The Russian authorities would undoubtedly ban the show as LGBTQ propaganda, but most Western platforms don’t function in Russia either. As a result, Russian queer people have to break every possible law simply to live in the same world as members of their own community.”

In Putin’s Homophobic Russia, Watching ‘Heated Rivalry’ Is an Act of Rebellion and Hope
The explicit hockey romance is an enormous hit there—perhaps because its closeted Russian hero feels surprisingly true to life.

Before you head out for the weekend, don't miss today's Metacurity, which delivers developments that go beyond the usual infosec news echo chamber.
Today's items cover
--The imminent DHS shutdown will hamper US ability to respond to cyber threats,
--CISA will hold town halls on cyber incident reporting regs,
--Palo Alto removed China attribution in fear of retaliation,
--Tianfu Cup returns,
--Ring cancels partnership with Flock,
--TX AG lau…

The imminent DHS shutdown will hamper US ability to respond to cyber threats
CISA will hold town halls on cyber incident reporting regs, Palo Alto removed China attribution in fear of retaliation, Tianfu Cup returns, Ring cancels partnership with Flock, TX AG launches probe into Conduent breach, AI vibe coding platform Orchids has an unfixed flaw, much more

David Loggan spent 12 years sketching & engraving the town & colleges of Cambridge before publishing his book of plates in 1690 as 'Cantabrigia Illustrata'. Background: https://www.museumofcambridge.org.uk/2025/10/david-loggans-views-of-ca…

David Loggan’s views of Cambridge: An extraordinary visual testimony of 17th century Cambridge
By Dr N. Henry The Museum of Cambridge has on display, on the first floor, an antique print of David Loggan’s views of Cambridge from the east and the west. This print was once part of Cantabrigia …

It was also interesting to see Albert Dock before the gentrification/renovation.
My mum's home town, I can just remember the thriving docks, seen from the Birkenhead ferry, one of three highlights, the others being the Green Goddess trams and the swings in the playground near my grandparents' Corporation semi.

The 26th ACM Symposium on Document Engineering (#DocEng26) invites submissions for its upcoming edition in #Fribourg, Switzerland.
Theme: Document Engineering in the Era of AI and Sustainability
Key Dates:
• Full Papers: April 21, 2026
• Short Papers & Demos: June 9, 20…

from my link log —
That British mid-century signage font is called “Festive”.
https://precastreinforced.co.uk/2024/04/22/that-mysterious-font-is-festive-not-stymie/
saved 2026-02-12

That mysterious font is Festive, not Stymie
What is that font? You know, THAT font? The chunky italic lettering you see on launderettes and council blocks, on post-war churches and new town butcher’s shops, across the UK. The font you’re thi…

A small town in Alberta has its own 'ramen library'
#Canada

A small town in Alberta has its own 'ramen library'
So many options! 🍜

I saw the article "Why ATMs didn’t kill bank teller jobs" pop up and it reminded me of the local bank in a small town near where I worked once upon a time. They went from the two employees taking their lunch in shifts to being closed from 11am to noon after they installed the ATM outside.

The ACLU of New Hampshire recently revealed via a Right-to-Know request that NH Gov't was notified of ICE's intent to convert a warehouse in the town of Merrimack into a detention facility. I OCR-ed the document they received and converted it into a searchable blog post:
https://medium.com/@cooljeanius/aclu-nhs-rtk-request-re-proposed-ice-facility-in-merrimack-nh-ff5451ab2d21

Travel planning with Google Gemini. It's astonishingly good at this. I give it an itinerary and it gives me detailed and personalized suggestions like "You have this reserved, but note it's 1.5km of walking over steep, uneven surfaces. As an alternative it's easy just to go into town and look around."
I love being able to throw an enormous amount of data at the LLM and have it make sense of it. In this case it doesn't matter if the answers are not 100% correct as long as they are close and the suggestions are verifiable.

Dutch local elections ahead, so #smr fever rising to higher levels 'within 10 years every town has its own smr'.
Even promising a new smr up and running in 2030 (design hasn't past safety regulation yet)
Looking forward to the roast by Michael Barnard, Paul Martin and others. https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2026/03/12/liever-een-kernreactor-dan-een-zonneweide-staat-over-tien-jaar-in-iedere-gemeente-een-kleine-kerncentrale-a4922327?gift_token=4922327~1773937879~8461zGC_TN2dSsAGxzbXqQ~5UXd7goH3xxy5Z5xXiZBnqQu7LLovsNgpvXQ_9XMoPk

With the JP Morgan "Health" conference in town, I think it is a good day to cross the bay.

I’ll let Letterkenny say what I think about this (I thought for sure I had already posted this clip up here, since apparently not, it’s long overdue) https://mastodon.social/@Wraithe/116066743468588206

This hand-drawn #hockey infographic about #NHL players in the #Olympics is so good! 🤩

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #DriveTime
White Town:
🎵 Your Woman
#WhiteTown
https://jamesdalgliesh.bandcamp.com/track/tribute-to-white-towns-your-woman-2
https://open.spotify.com/track/3UBItNVbFQiVC5hBQlBvnr

Sigh, having fun with addressing information questions.
Hint ->
For Canadian addresses, street address, city/town, postal code and province ARE NOT OPTIONAL fields. It is NOT acceptable to have province as part of the CITY name. Even where you have postal boxes there is an address for that.
Same goes for other counties. Find out what the rules are and then put in edit checks.
Is it too early for Scotch?

A new ProPublica investigation reveals new details about a sprawling ICE detention complex
where families describe horrific conditions inside, such as being served contaminated food,
with children and parents at times finding worms in their meals.
Lights are reportedly left on for 24 hours a day.
South Texas Family Residential Center, in the town of #Dilley a few dozen miles from …

“I Have Never Felt So Much Fear”: Immigrant Children Speak Out on Life Inside ICE Jail in Dilley, TX
A new ProPublica investigation reveals new details about a sprawling ICE detention complex where families describe horrific conditions inside, such as being served contaminated food, with children and parents at times finding worms in their meals. Lights are reportedly left on for 24 hours a day. South Texas Family Residential Center, in the town of Dilley a few dozen miles from the southern border with Mexico, detains an estimated 3,500 people, more than half of them children. “I have never …

wait wut?!?
https://dobbs.town/@odessa/116160245419894285

This hand-drawn #hockey infographic about #NHL players in the #Olympics is so good! 🤩

Today I learned very sad news: legendary #Toronto bassoonist #jeffBurke has left the planet. Jeff lived as a monk in service of the goddess Music, in all her forms and genres. When #SunRa came to town, he ask…

RE: https://social.linux.pizza/@midtsveen/115873378435033835
When you translate the lyrics to english, it sounds something like this!
In the square of my town, the day laborer said to the master,
In the square of my town, the day laborer sa…

Today is #TownMeetingDay in #Vermont where we will all go and vote to elect our town leaders… we’ll also vote on school budgets and various things like buying school buses or fire trucks, preserving open land, putting money aside for future risks, etc. (In our town one of the items involves r…

Your guide to Vermont's Town Meeting Day tradition in 2026
We've updated our Town Meeting Day guide with some new details for this year, plus a new bingo card.

Ex-Gorman star Jalen Nailor has high hopes for homecoming with Raiders https://www.reviewjournal.com/sports/raiders/ex-gorman-star-jalen-nailor-has-high-hopes-for-homecoming-with-raiders-3724233/

Pro-Trump Town Stunned to Learn They're Not Exempt From ICE Raids (Edith Olmsted/New Republic)
https://newrepublic.com/post/206401/donald-trump-idaho-town-not-exempt-ice-raids
http://www.memeorandum.com/260210/p90#a260210p90

PS. With all the Discord stuff, in case you wonder why you never see me promoting Matrix, it’s not because it’s a usability nightmare (which it is) but because it’s made by the kind of people who’d be happy to call ICE a customer.
The “F” in FOSS doesn’t stand for fascism.
@…

The mission that began in a Circus: Ned Weeks and Abington Square https://edintone.com/ned-weeks-mission/ For more than twenty years, Ned Weeks preached to packed halls of working men and women.

The mission that began in a Circus: Ned Weeks and Abington Square - Miscellanea Edintone
For over twenty years, Ned Weeks led a mission in Northampton, shaping a significant chapter in the town's religious life that endures today. Mission.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Early
The Jam:
🎵 Town Called Malice
#TheJam
https://thespecializedproject.bandcamp.com/track/town-called-malice
https://open.spotify.com/track/0gdmDP6xy3ZV7JNoHWAN9k

Just finished reading the latest #SlowHorses novel, Clown Town. Man o man this is a nasty one. Lamb is pissed that his joes keep getting killed, and that Taverner is more or less responsible. Dunno if this one will ever be televised. #recommended

RE: #Geoguessr rematch! (That Manchester gambit at the end was hilarious! 😆)

ICE is really hoping this whole town blows, trying to make it happen.
I think they underestimate us. The Twin Cities have layers of care and community these pathetic little people can’t even begin to imagine.
I’m still worried. They’re going to drag us through hell trying to make things explode. And folks in positions of leadership here damn well better make sure the folks on the streets believe that somebody’s doing something.
/end

RE: https://beep.town/@zion/116025223395990218
Sometimes I wonder if Matrix Bot is like a horoscope. Is it predicting my future, or am I just reading too much into the messaging?
Either way... It works 🤣

You’re Not Ugly (or Broke). You’re Just in Cape Town.
A Tired Black Girl’s Reflections on Beauty, Assimilation, and the Spatial Politics of Belonging in the Cape.
https://kenyaamzee.substack.com/p/youre-not-ugly-or-broke-youre-just

You’re Not Ugly (or Broke). You’re Just in Cape Town:
A Tired Black Girl’s Reflections on Beauty, Assimilation, and the Spatial Politics of Belonging in the Cape.

Cracow: Australia's Last Gold Rush Town
Recollections, relics and stories from the town of Cracow, Queensland...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/cracow-australias-last-gold-rush-town/

How locals in Potters Bar, a town near London, are challenging Equinix's $5B data center plans, as the UK reclassifies "green belt" land to boost construction (Joel Khalili/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/the-small-english-town-swept-u…

The Small English Town Swept Up in the Global AI Arms Race
The residents of Potters Bar are working to protect the “green belt” of farms, forests, and meadows that surround London from the endless demand for AI infrastructure.

I recently learned of this #JS library that works with #LeafletJS, @…, or @…

GitHub - ramSeraph/india_boundary_corrector: Library to correct the Indian Boundary for existing raster basemaps
Library to correct the Indian Boundary for existing raster basemaps - ramSeraph/india_boundary_corrector

🎵
”out in the West Texas town of El Paso
I had a fight with some party balloons…”
🎵

Sources: Ted Sarandos and Greg Peters held a town hall to explain Netflix's decision to withdraw from the WBD bid; the town hall excluded a Q&A session (Nellie Andreeva/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2026/02/netflix-town-hall-after-…

Netflix Leaders Reassure Staff At Town Hall After Ceding Warner Bros. To Paramount By Not Raising Bid
Netflix co-CEOs Ted Sarandos and Greg Peters reassured staff at a town hall Friday morning after ceding Warner Bros. to Paramount by not raising bid.

I recently learned of this #JS library that works with #LeafletJS, @…, or @…

Three years ago,
on Feb. 3, 2023,
the Norfolk Southern train derailment and chemical disaster
—one of the worst industrial disasters in US history
—took place in the small town of
East Palestine, Ohio.
Since that fateful day,
residents have been exploited and abandoned by Norfolk Southern,
the government,
opportunistic politicians,
sensationalist media outlets,
and self-serving attorneys
-- but we haven’t forgotten them.

A billion-dollar company poisoned their town, then moved on. Now people are dying.
“It doesn't matter what side of the political spectrum you're coming from, nobody cared about us… we've been so let down and our trust is so broken. Everything's been taken from us.”

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
The Go-Betweens:
🎵 Streets Of Your Town
#NowPlaying #TheGoBetweens
https://theblogthatcelebratesitself.bandcamp.com/track/echodrone-streets-of-your-town
https://open.spotify.com/track/4ImZYT2EsMgcracYQIQ5vH

Monarch butterflies could disappear. Butterfly Town USA is scrambling to save them https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/05/monarch-butterfly-california-conservation

One fascinating film trivia I learned recently is that Sofia Coppola and Spike Jonze’s marriage from 1999 to 2003 partially inspired Coppola’s 2003 film Lost In Translation and Jonze’s 2013 film Her.
Coincidentally, both films star Scarlett Johansson as the main female protagonist, both films were nominated for the Oscar Best Picture, and both films won the Oscar Best Original Screenplay for Coppola and Jonze.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #PacificNotions
Barry Walker Jr.:
🎵 A Trip Into Town
#BarryWalkerJr
https://barrywalker.bandcamp.com/track/a-trip-into-town

Man Donates Empty Field to His Town So it Can Be Made Community Orchard https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/man-donates-empty-field-he-inherited-to-the-town-on-the-condition-it-be-made-community-orchard/

Elon Musk’s new AI data center has turned a formerly quiet Mississippi town into a noisy nightmare.
The $20 billion facility, run by Musk’s AI firm xAI, is powered by ⚠️27 methane gas turbines that run day and night,
belching fumes and emitting a constant noise like jet engines, NBC News reports.
The turbines were trucked in because Southaven, the unsuspecting rural community that Musk chose to build the data center in, can’t provide the electricity the facility needs. 

Musk's AI power plant generates sound and fury in Mississippi
The jet-engine roar has been almost nonstop in a Mississippi town, residents say, since 27 turbines arrived on trailers to power Elon Musk’s AI ambitions.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MiddayShow
Sneaker Pimps:
🎵 Small Town Witch
#SneakerPimps
https://djcrackerjacks.bandcamp.com/track/sneaker-pimps-small-town-witch-rily-nso-mashup
https://open.spotify.com/track/2kJrzDzrdX4zg4aiQbDPcI

OSM Japan is bidding to host @… 2026 this September! 🇯🇵
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/State_of_the_Map_Asia_2026/Call_fo…

I kinda regret opting for only 8GB of RAM for my 3-year-old MacBook Pro. 🫤

As you may know, India has border disputes with China and Pakistan. And because OSM’s on-the-ground policy means that the default borders are based on the actual lines of control, this does not square with India’s requirement to show their preferred borders making most OSM-based maps illegal in India.

Jenny O’Connell-Nowain was ready to go to jail.
She had been prepared to spend six months in the custody of the Shasta county sheriff’s office.
One of the top prosecutors in this part of far northern California had presented the evidence against her in a weeklong trial,
and a jury had delivered a guilty verdict.
A judge offered probation, but O’Connell-Nowain did not agree to the terms.
Her crime?
Sitting on the floor in front of the dais of the board o…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #PositiveVibrations
Chronixx:
🎵 Spanish Town Rockin'
#Chronixx
https://djzen1of1.bandcamp.com/track/chronixx-spanish-town-rockin-dj-zen-epic-intro
https://open.spotify.com/track/4Qup2zholspnhLpgkO77C2

RE: https://en.osm.town/@seav/115786480647345250
It’s been over a month since this post and I am still obsessed with this TV show. 📺

I’d like to think that I have a really good grasp of English, but I still have to look up the definitions of ‘alternate’ vs. ‘alternative’ to know which one to correctly use.
#languages #linguistics #EnglishLanguage

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Continent
Chronixx:
🎵 Spanish Town Rockin'
#Chronixx
https://djzen1of1.bandcamp.com/track/chronixx-spanish-town-rockin-dj-zen-epic-intro
https://open.spotify.com/track/4Qup2zholspnhLpgkO77C2

I’ve visited 8 Olympic host cities so far, including Milan, which is currently co-hosting the 2026 Winter Olympics.
1. 🇨🇦 Vancouver*
2. 🇯🇵 Tokyo
3. 🇩🇪 Berlin
4. 🇬🇧 London
5. 🇪🇸 Barcelona
6. 🇳🇱 Amsterdam
7. 🇮🇹 Milan*
8. 🇮🇹 Rome
* I had visited this city before it became a host city
#Olympics

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #AfternoonShow
The Specials:
🎵 Ghost Town
#TheSpecials
https://pjbridger.bandcamp.com/track/the-specials-ghost-town-pj-bridger-refix
https://open.spotify.com/track/6ewN9MaFbi78oDLT9wYDgn

The musical skill needed to recreate the 2011 synth-pop hit “Midnight City” by M83 is hella impressive!
#music

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MorningShow
The Jam:
🎵 Town Called Malice
#TheJam
https://thespecializedproject.bandcamp.com/track/town-called-malice
https://open.spotify.com/track/0gdmDP6xy3ZV7JNoHWAN9k

It’s only the third day of 2026! 🤬
#uspol #vepol #WagTheDog

I have never tried asin tibuok before and so this CNA documentary about the #Philippines’ artisanal salt (maybe even more prized than Himalayan pink salt) is very informative. 🧂
https://youtu.be/Nz4L0e2bRAc

I was surprised to learn that famously neutral #Switzerland 🇨🇭 has been a member of the Council of Europe 🇪🇺 (which is *not* the same as either of the European Council 🇪🇺 and the Council of the European Union 🇪🇺) since 1963. For reference, Switzerland joined the #UnitedNations in 2002.

#TIL that video game preservation website #Myrient is another casualty of the rising costs of RAM and SSDs caused by the #AIBubble. 😠

Retro Video Game Preservation Site Myrient Shutting Down
The impact of AI datacenters on hosting and hardware costs have made maintaining the site unsustainable, its founder said

I delayed the update by a couple of months, but my main #Linux machine is now running #Kubuntu 25.10 (Questing Quokka) with Plasma 6.4.
#KDE

#SilentSunday #peppercorns #photography

RE: #Veritasium recently published a very comprehensive and educational video about the XZ Utils backdoor incident two ye…

Let’s normalize #LaborUnions in every industry! If Hollywood actors have SAG-AFTRA and NHL players have the NHLPA, why shouldn’t tech workers?
https://wikiworkersunited.org

Finally, #PhysicsGirl feels well enough to host a science video after years of dealing with Long COVID!
https://youtu.be/B3m3AMRlYfc

RE: #Paris is March 1st!

#TIL about Pride Versioning, a whimsical take on Semantic Versioning. 🏳️‍🌈
https://pridever.org
Edit: tagging the creator so you can all follow him: @…

Pride Versioning - Pride Versioning 🏳️‍🌈 0.3.0
Forget semantic versioning, use PRIDE VERSIONING 🏳️‍🌈

I’m watching season 2 of Netflix’s Culinary Class Wars and I am envious of the people and judges eating the delicious dishes! 😋
#TV #Netflix #CookingShows

This is the first time I ever completed a perfect Connections puzzle a la Hank Green! (Basically solving the puzzle with the purple group first, then blue, green, and finally yellow without any mistakes.)
#Connections
Puzzle #936
🟪🟪🟪🟪
🟦🟦🟦🟦
🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟨🟨🟨🟨
#NYTGames

Happy Public Domain Day! 🎉
#PublicDomain #PublicDomainDay

I have finished editing an additional 50 photos, meaning I have now completed doing perspective corrections on 500 photos of NHCP #HistoricalMarkers of the #Philippines 🇵🇭! 🎉
You can browse through all 500 in

I only noticed now that the famous string riff in the iconic shower scene in Psycho accompanies the mention of the movie in Billy Joel’s song “We Didn’t Start the Fire”.
#TIL #music #songs

Do you still use analog desk or wall calendars? (Planners not included.) 🗓️ :boost_requested:

#TuneTuesday (Feb 24)
I think #Kygo produces the most similar music to the late #Avicii and “Happy Now” in particular was sung by the same singer (Sandro Cavazza) as “Without You”, one of my favorite Avicii s…

Let’s normalize the terms “Chinese ravioli” and “Italian dumplings”! 🥟
#food

Many of my fellow Filipinos hoped that Cardinal Tagle would become the first far eastern and Filipino pope in last year’s #conclave, but a new book claims that he was never a serious contender.
“Tagle, while charismatic and from the Philippines [...] was considered not to be a strong enough administrator, the book says. He also suffered harsh social media attacks which damaged his candidacy. …

How Pope Leo was elected: New details of dramatic conclave battle revealed
“Conclave” the movie provides a gripping, if fictional, behind-the-scenes look inside the secretive election of a new pope. But last year’s real-life conclave was just as dramatic, with plenty of plot twists, political battles among cardinals and a surprise outcome.

Is it just me or is the #Wikidata Query Service quite flaky as of late? When using the public API, I sporadically get HTTP 504 (upstream timeout) errors.

I don't speak nor understand Spanish but I know a ton of loanwords in Tagalog. This video by #Langfocus is very interesting and I learned several new things. Like the fact that the Tagalog word for peanut 🥜 (“manî”) comes from Taíno and not Spanish or Nahuatl, and that “barkada” (group of friends) comes from the Spanish for “boatload”.

I absolutely love how #TheVerge has titled one of their video’s chapters on an updated #Samsung Galaxy AI feature as “slop generator”. 👍 (Oh, and that privacy display feature is actually cool.)

I love that, aside from giving a very decent half-hour summary of the fall of #Twitter ever since #ElonMusk took over it in late 2022, #JohnOliver insists on still calling it Twitter.

For a company ostensibly against humanity, they sure are more humane than the current U.S. administration. 👍
#CardsAgainstHumanity

Cards Against Humanity Gives You Your Fucking Money Back
We're giving 100% of our tariff refund back to our customers.

RE: https://en.osm.town/@seav/115944704453132773
Speaking of this poll, the results are not at all surprising and I suspect that this actually follows a power law distribution for the general population.
I personally go with the last option because I have l…

Despite already knowing #AlexHonnold successfully climbed the exterior of #Taipei101 earlier today with no safety equipment, I can’t help but feel anxious seeing him scale the skyscraper. 🏢

The comic / graphic novel will be ending soon and then the wait for the final Netflix movie will start. #Heartstopper 🏳️‍🌈
#LGBTQ #AliceOseman

Today is the 40th anniversary of the Challenger disaster.
#SSChallenger