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I use colour codes for Google Calendars to track different classes of event. Birthdays are yellow. Can you find the yellow on this Android Google Calendar?
Yes, the yellow for the birthday calendar is the single pixel stripe beneath the green background cake to which I am totally ADHD-blind. I’m looking for colours not for cakes. Google Calendar events on Android are spontaneously decorated with themed cartoons based on the event text and you can’t switch it off. I miss so…
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“Pottery Is Womens’ Work” – the triumph of Nigerian ceramicist Ladi Kwali
So in the early 1960s my father, who was working in Nigeria, purchased a large ceramic pot; as he wrote in his diary: (emphasis mine) “Princess Alexandra whom, when she visited it to celebrate its Independence the North [OF NIGERIA] had taken especially to its heart, was soon to marry and a suitable wedding present…
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Morning So Far…
Izzy: “WANT PASTA!”Alec: “Pasta is not for breakfast…”Izzy: “HOW ABOUT BUTTER RICE?”
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Fake audio of Sadiq Khan is not a crime, says Met | … I’m sure the cast of Dead Ringers on Radio 4 are relieved
Police say faked audio purporting to capture the Mayor of London calling for Armistice Day to be re-scheduled for a pro-Palestinian march “does not constitute a criminal offence”. Sadiq Khan’s office said false material was being “circulated and amplified by a far-right group”. A Met spokesperson said specialist officers had reviewed the content. They described…
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IKEA pictograms | a fun little perspective from people who worked on them
https://www.above.se/ikeapictograms
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INHOPE — the umbrella group for the likes of NCMEC and IWF — continue to paint surveillance and monitoring as “content scanning”
That they are doing so after the European Parliament declared the intention of nixing ChatControl, is not terribly good timing. Fighting a good fight the wrong way, is not good.
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Identifying adult black-backed gulls | BTO – British Trust for Ornithology
A long time ago I used to be a teenage birder & Worcestershire county twitcher, including 2x, perhaps 3x, 24-hour birdwatches; I’d like to get out more and parenthood offers that opportunity to dust off the 8×32 Trinovids and stomp around in the rain some more. As such, finding that the BTO are producing helpful…
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Experts in Standardising Backdoors continue unabated
One of the things to note with Kim’s article: a massive backdoor security hole in #TETRA, recently discovered, that had been hiding behind secrecy imposed by #ETSI European Telco Standards Institute. What’s ETSI’s *latest* project? Why, #eIDAS #QWACs of course — the EU HTTPS backdoor!