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@TheUrbanDragon Looks nice as a set - BTW why does the colour change? Just auto white balance being weird or was it actually different for some reason?

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9 days of moon shots

A collage of 9 photos showing 9 days of the moon from just after Full to a thin crescent

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Svalbarðseyri Lighthouse (Svalbarðseyrarviti) in North Iceland might not be one of the most majestic lighthouses in Iceland but it is certainly one of the cutest that I've been to.

#Lighthouse #Iceland #Travel #Photography

A moody photo of a fairly short, orange lighthouse with a red top, a ladder on the right hand side that leads to the top, and a picnic bench on the left hand side. A fjord and foggy mountains are in the background.

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Got myself out of the house for the first time in months for a walk in the wetlands today

https://flic.kr/s/aHBqjCiFYb

A tri-color heron is perched on the top of a tree looking to the right over his shoulder

An anhinga is standing on a log in the pond, their wings spread wide to dry

A small alligator floats at the top of the pond

@TheUrbanDragon I never heard of an anhinga before! Nice pic.

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We have been doing bananas all wrong.

Bananas in different animal shapes. There are banana giraffes, banana penguins, banana beavers and banana lamas.

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Fun fact: If you see someone at a nerd event wearing a vim-themed shirt, it's because they put it on in 2003 and couldn't figure out how to take it off

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Use Signal. We promise, no AI clutter, and no surveillance ads, whatever the rest of the industry does. <3

Image of a screenshot of news headline, saying, "WhatsApp is getting ads using personal data from Instagram and Facebook
Forced Consent & Consent Bypass
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16 June 2025
Meta announced today that it also wants to introduce ads on WhatsApp, which will be based on personal data from Facebook and Instagram. This further integrates WhatsApp into other Meta services - an originally independent app, which initially was available for just $1 per year without ads or data usage. This also means that Meta is consolidating its social networking monopoly. EU law was actually supposed to prevent this."

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And now the moon
(Got a new camera)

A zoomed in photo of the near full moon clearly showing the craters

Neat #Guardian / Cambridge Uni feature for whistleblowers to send secure messages within the Grauniad news app.

All installs send fake secure messages periodically, and encrypted replies from journalists are also sent to all app users, so unless your phone is infected by malware, there's no way for anyone to even tell you've been messaging them.

https://www.coverdrop.org/coverdrop_guardian_implementation_june_2025.pdf

@slowe Neat, yes I think that helps make it clearer eg fuel poverty where it confirms there are more stars for lower values. (Value for my constituency is 6.1% which sounds quite low, but I guess is actually bad!)

@slowe Very cool but I found the star ratings a bit confusing. If they correspond to percentiles then maybe some text that also covers the direction like:
⭐⭐⭐ Lower than 60% of constituencies
Or ditch them altogether and just show the median?
Only my quick thought anyway.

Sometimes you get the impression that a child might even have some similarity with their (cynical) parents...

'Are you in a bad mood now?'
'Yep.'
'Why?!'
'Because I have to read that good mood book.'

School reading book titled My Good Mood Book. It's literally the kid version explanation of gratitude journals.

Last year's holiday snaps! August 2024, Aberdovey/Aberdyfi, Wales.
https://live.leafdigital.com/pics/aberdovey/
Including steam trains in the rain.

Light blue shop back door (with a two-pane window with diamond-shaped pieces of paper stuck to the reverse) with shadow of building opposite.

The boiler side of a shiny blue-painted steam locomotive with painted name 'Tal-y-llyn' (also the name of the whole railway).

@TheUrbanDragon Yes agree the writing is a bit clumsy!

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2025/may/22/austrias-eurovision-winner-wants-2026-edition-without-israel?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
Well done that guy for speaking out - it's not exactly the most important issue, but still a crazy situation.
(I still think it's slightly cheating at Eurovision to be a professional opera singer, but it was nice to see him win anyway, he seems lovely.)

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Programmers are usually fed a steady diet of features and bug fixes. But occasionally they get to work on performance problems. This development methodology is known as intermittent fasting.

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