Tootfinder

Hannah Spencer's speech.
Good speech.
One criticism: why is it called the Green party? What about the ecosystem and climate emergency? You have to use opportunities like this to level with people.
"Working hard used to get you a house, a nice life, holidays": Green's new Gorton and Denton MP Hannah Spencer rails against life in modern Britain as she vows to do things differently - Manchester Evening News

"Working hard used to get you a house, a nice life, holidays": Green's new Gorton and Denton MP Hannah Spencer rails against life in modern Britain as she vows to do things differently
The Green Party secured a big win in the Gorton and Denton by-election

Because some of the replies, while good, have wandered a bit off the rails, please consider:
1. “We should study and learn from how Hypercard lowered the barrier to entry to programming.”
2. “Hypercard or something like it would be unsuitable for many / most modern applications.”
Please note that both these things can be true (and both are in my view). Upthread I’m pushing for (1). And…

The Washington Post (via MSN): Trump votes by mail as he rails against mail-in ballots as cheating
https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/other/trump-votes-by-mail-as-he-rails-against-mail-in-ballots-as-cheating-report/ar-AA1…

🔧 Code quality:
• tdd — full test-driven dev workflow
• scaffold-exercises — builds coding exercises from spe cs
• edit-article — structured editing with context transfer
🛡️ Safety rails:
• git-guardrails-claude-code — blocks push, reset --hard & clean before #AI executes them
• setup-pre-commit — configures

❝ICE officers are paid a bonus every time they detain someone.❞
Read that. Reread that. Internalize it. Map that back to every story you’ve heard of ICE agents going off the rails, every random kidnapping, every brutal and stupid ICE story.
❝“Individual ICE agents get money per head that they detain – the guards told me that.”❞
🧵
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/21/karen-newton-valid-visa-detained-ice

Singapore-based MetaComp, which bridges traditional fiat payment rails and stablecoin settlement infrastructure, raised $35M across two pre-Series A rounds (Timmy Shen/The Block)
https://www.theblock.co/post/393509/metacomp-raises-35-million-alibaba

Diplomats said Robert Fico described Donald Trump as dangerous and worried about his psychological state, appearing traumatised and saying Trump seemed out of his mind after their meeting.
Slovakia’s PM rails against Politico report he was ‘shocked’ by Trump’s psychological state https://ground.news/article/slovakias-pm-rails-against-politico-report-he-was-shocked-by-trumps-psychological-state

#Finland gains direct rail link to Europe this summer
(h/t Aarne Granlund over on bsky)
https://yle.fi/a/74-20220038

Finland gains direct rail link to Europe this summer
Transport Minister Lulu Ranne (Finns) says a long-delayed cross-border train to Sweden should begin rolling this summer, allowing passengers to ride the rails from continental Europe to Finnish Lapland, or overland between the Finnish and Swedish capitals.

This budget battle over DHS that’s happening in the Senate now — it’s not about accountability or guard rails. It’s about whether a force like this should exist at all in the USA.