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By IRONY in Kingston Upon Thames, UK for The Royal Borough Of Street Art.

43 Purrfect Street Art Pieces: A Tribute to Our Cats: streetartutopia.com/2024/08/10…

See all of the mural 🔽

Close-up of a mural by street artist IRONY in Kingston Upon Thames, UK, for The Royal Borough of Street Art, featuring a realistic depiction of an orange and white cat squeezed into a square box. The cat is curled up in a tight space, with its limbs twisted playfully, and its large, bright eyes staring forward. The detail in the cat's fur and expression captures its playful yet slightly awkward position, adding a humorous and lifelike charm to the artwork. The realistic style emphasizes the softness of the fur against the hard edges of the frame.

43 Purrfect Street Art Pieces: A Tribute to Our Cats | STREET ART UTOPIA

Feline Inspired Street Art: A Global Phenomenon The world of street art is a vibrant, ever-evolving canvas that reflects the thoughts, ideas, and aesthetics of diverse cultures around the globe.
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🇵🇱🤔🇺🇦 Ukrainians have a "short memory", because during the first months of the invasion, Poland transferred equipment and humanitarian aid, and Zelensky is trying to "draw other countries into direct participation in the conflict" against Russia, - Polish MoD

❗️He added that Zelensky's words "sounded a note that Poland is not doing everything it can. Poland has done and continues to do everything possible. But there is a line that I will never cross, it is a question of Poland's security."

in reply to MAKS 25 👀🇺🇦

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Winter blue tardis

I don't want to be a mean person, but if he really said that, this is really ungrateful and shows how much appreciation he actually has about other countries helping when help was needed. Compassion goes so far, but threatening a nation's security in the name of war allies, wellp. Nope. If only everyone could go for peace. Just for a year, or like 20... Often people have short memories about help. Humans just cannot appreciate today. I am not going to talk about the other end, where ukrainians here live better than us in my own country, but okay. Unfortunately it happens a lot these days that someone else lives better in someone else's country. People need to learn how to appreciate, and how to have compassion. Because we're all connected, want it or not. Even on a human level we're the same, we do the same things. So a bit of respect won't go unnoticed. and saying so and so isn't doing enough but you know they can more is just, greed. I am sorry.

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HER salary is 13% less than HIS.

On #EqualPayDay, we symbolically mark the date when women stop earning compared to men. For every €1 a man earns, a woman earns only €0.87.

So, from today until 31 December, it is as if women in the EU effectively work for free.

Our message is clear: Equal work deserves equal pay.

We are committed to tackling pay inequality with legislation on:

🔹 pay transparency
🔹 gender balance on boards
🔹 minimum wages
🔹 work-life balance

More → europa.eu/!TBqJj8

Illustration showing two stacks of euro coins representing the gender pay gap. The stack labelled 'Hers' is shorter, with some coins faded, symbolising the lower average earnings for women. The stack labelled 'His' is taller with one additional coin on top, representing higher average earnings for men. In the bottom right corner, there is an EU flag with stars arranged in a circle.

Statement by Vice-President Jourová and Commissioners Schmit and Dalli on the occasion of the European Equal Pay Day

On the 2024 European Equal Pay Day, we reaffirm our commitment to build a Europe where women and girls can thrive and where their contributions to the labour market are fully valued.
European Commission - European Commission
#equalpayday

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Time for my yearly Desert Bus 2024 art thread!

To start out with, some work I did for @DB_VST ! From left to right, paintings for call-ins, a representation of ORB and string-worms, and a new Beer O'Clock icon!

Illustrations in watercolour, text in ink, on 160gsm wood-pulp watercolour paper.

(Note: The bottom text is digitally composited from 2 attempts, because I messed up the first time =V )

@desertbus #desertbus #DB2024 #calligraphy #watercolor #watercolour #aquarelle #art

Three watercolour paintings. From left to right: 1) a 1950s-style red telephone receiver. 2) the ORB, its red button pointed forward and glowing, on a bed of plush string-worms. 3) A beer stein, with an overflowing head of foam. Below the paintings, the words "BEER O'CLOCK" in uncial script in brown ink. Signed Laogeodritt, dated 9 November 2024.
#art #watercolor #calligraphy #watercolour #aquarelle #desertbus #db2024 @Desert Bus For Hope @VST
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Laurabunny

Desert Bus 2024, Day 5. Carrie cares about the lives of tabs, and so do I. Twinsies?

Italic script. India ink and watercolour on wood paper.

@desertbus

#DB2024 #DesertBus #calligraphy #ItalicScript #art #watercolour #watercolor #aquarelle #poetry #poem #PlayFrame

Calligraphy and a small watercolour painting on cream-coloured paper. In black ink and italic script, it reads, "Every closing of a tab is a tiny murder". Below that, a painting of a browser tab with a knife through its X-shaped close button. The tab icon is an A in a circle, and the title reads AAAAAAAAA, in script that gets messier as it goes. Signed Laogeodritt, dated 13 November 2024.
#art #poetry #watercolor #calligraphy #poem #watercolour #aquarelle #desertbus #db2024 #italicscript #playframe @Desert Bus For Hope
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Laurabunny

Desert Bus 2024, Day 7. (Yes, I did skip Day 6.)

A Night Watch Art Challenge for their Beyblades slogan, "If you love something, let it rip!"

In Japanese, the Beyblades anime uses "Go shoot!", so I translated this as「何かを好きならGO SHOOT」.

Sumi ink, watercolour, Japanese calligraphy brushes, watercolour brushes, Western broad nib pens, cold-press watercolour paper.

@desertbus

#db2024 #desertbus #art #calligraphy #japanesecalligraphy #書道 #ItalicScript #watercolour #watercolor #wordArt #slogan

A logo-like word art piece. It reads, in Japanese, "nanika wo suki nara GO SHOOT!!". The first line is in kaishō script in black, and the words GO SHOOT are in red watercolour. Below it, the English words in italic script and black ink, it reads: "If you love something, let it rip!!" The S in GO SHOOT is extended to create two disks, in a red-to-yellow gradient above and below that evoke spinning beyblades. A light orange splotch forms the background, on white paper.
#art #watercolor #calligraphy #watercolour #desertbus #db2024 #italicscript #japanesecalligraphy #書道 #wordart #slogan @Desert Bus For Hope
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If you are on a good Mastodon instance remember to support the person who keeps that instance going, like with money if you can. For the spot on Mastodon that I hang out in you can toss some coins at ko-fi.com/kindsocial

Support Kind.Social on Ko-fi! ❤️. ko-fi.com/kindsocial

Support Kind.Social On Ko-fi. Ko-fi lets you support the people and causes you love with small donations
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Winter blue tardis

Oof, how did that happen? Also I am fan of hard drives, not SSds, mainly because they spin, and because the sound is kind of soothing if the hard drive is well-made. SSD is just like, nothing, silent. I have a 500Gb one, and it works, it's okay, but only if I need to use it for a VM from time to time. I won't deny the faster speeds though, also there should be some care of these ssds and whatever. I am not sure and I don't understand so I can't say much on it.

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It was the best of #DoctorWho, or it was the worst of Doctor Who - but can a story be both things simultaneously? Find out as we discuss The Web Planet:

strangersinspace.libsyn.com/wh…

Strangers in Space: Who Review Extra 40: The Web Planet

Doctor Who was only twelve stories old when they decided to mount a production as ambitious as The Web Planet, but was that a mistake or was it a decision justified by the enormous audiences The Web Planet achieved? Our thoughts on Schrödinger's Doct…
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#doctorwho

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Thomas E. Kurtz, an American mathematician, computer scientist, and co-inventor of the BASIC programming language with John Kemeny, died at 96 on November 12 (Dag Spicer/CHM)

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In Memoriam: Thomas E. Kurtz, 1928–2024 - CHM

CHM remembers the remarkable career and contributions of 2023 Fellow Thomas E. Kurtz, who passed away on November 12, 2024.
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🕛Z #NowPlaying at the top of the hour, 2 hours of relaxing #NewAge, #ambient, and #meditationmusic on Northern Lights: The New Age Show, #live with Kelly Sapergia. More information is at ksapergia.net/northernlights/. Tune in either by visiting theglobalvoice.info and clicking on the Listen Live link, or go directly to theglobalvoice.info:8443/broad… #TGVRadio #audio #radio 📺🗣️📻🎶🎙️🌌🌈🫣🫰🩵🪬🫶

Welcome to The Global Voice - The Global Voice

The Global Voice brings together an international team of broadcasters, producers and radio journalists to present for you a wide range of entertaining and informative programs.
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#audio #radio #nowplaying #ambient #live #newage #meditationmusic #tgvradio

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Added some post embeds for bluesky and mastodon to the sidebars of my articles, built with web components!

Example! heather-buchel.com/blog/2024/0…

Highly recommend taking a look at @DavidDarnes blog posts for implementation. I started with that as a base then chopped it up a bit since I can hardcode a bit of it.

Links: darn.es/mastodon-post-web-comp… & darn.es/bluesky-post-web-compo…


bluesky-post Web Component

The bluesky-post Web Component allows you to turn a regular link to a Bluesky post into an embeddable post quote including metadata such as reply count, repost count, likes and more.
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@Dave 🧱

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New update from @brewsterkahle on how the Internet Archive is learning from recent cyberattacks.

🔗 blog.archive.org/2024/11/14/le…


Book Talk: The Line: AI and the Future of Personhood

Join us for a book talk with legal scholar JAMES BOYLE, discussing his book THE LINE: AI and the Future of Personhood, in conversation with KATE DARLING of the MIT […]\n
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@Brewster Kahle

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Your guide to AWS Analytics at AWS re:Invent 2024
aws.amazon.com/blogs/big-data/… #aws #blog

Your guide to AWS Analytics at AWS re:Invent 2024 | Amazon Web Services

It’s AWS re:Invent time, where you turn your ideas into reality. Get a front row seat to hear real stories from AWS customers, experts and leaders about navigating pressing topics like generative AI and data analytics.
Amazon Web Services
#blog #aws

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NEW: Security researchers have confirmed that iPhones running iOS 18 now automatically reboot if they are not unlocked for 72 hours.

The feature, called "inactivity reboot," will make life harder for thieves, law enforcement, and forensic experts trying to extract data from iPhones.

techcrunch.com/2024/11/14/new-…


New Apple security feature reboots iPhones after 3 days, researchers confirm | TechCrunch

“Inactivity reboot" effectively puts iPhones in a more secure state by locking the user's encryption keys in the iPhone's secure enclave chip.
Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai (TechCrunch)

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yikes, bsky removing or labeling Palestinian accounts as spam, ostensibly because they are following too many people or posting gofundmes, but according to these threads the problem looks too widespread to just be a coincidence from e.g. automated flagging. Can't find any response from their mod team. Composable moderation is good but i am not sure how the atproto labeling model addresses the baseline problem of scaling suspensions/bans - either they take a very light touch and you get a flood of nazis, or you need to lean on automated tools or overworked mods without enough context which has (hopefully accidentally, but still really bad) impacts like this.

bsky.app/profile/mommunism.bsk…
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#bluesky

#bluesky

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How Uncrustables Reinvented the Peanut Butter and Jelly Sandwich
https://www.mentalfloss.com/uncrustables-history?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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How Uncrustables Reinvented the Peanut Butter and Jelly Sandwich

A sealed, crustless sandwich shook the patent world to its core.
Jake Rossen (Mental Floss)
@all-mental-floss-stories-mental_floss
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hansup

Ok, super! But why then TRUMPets for BlueSky?

Bluesky is almost an exact copy of X, a centralized dickland. We really should just stop sheering for and jumping on these same toxic boats over and over again.

I rather prefer that people stay on X than that they go to Bluesky bragging believing they did a good thing.

I understand that you want to promote your product everywhere, but keep in mind that you might loose some if you're having to much parties on certain boats...

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10 Commonly Mispronounced Phrases That Make Smart People Look Uneducated | yourtango.com/self/commonly-mi…

10 Commonly Mispronounced Phrases That Make Smart People Look Uneducated

The English language is difficult, which can create confusion around certain words and phrases. Here are 10 commonly mispronounced phrases that make smart people look uneducated.
Alexandra Blogier (YourTango)
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