12 April, the second series of the re-re-boot-boot of Doctor Who on the BBC. Here's the second trailer:
youtu.be/_xuo_FvPI18?si=1ZR00i…

#DoctorWho

Interview with a UK photographer and filmmaker, Edward Matthews, who went to Ukraine to help charities document their war effort. It also contains part of a documentary he made which is a very touching interview with a Ukrainian fire fighter.
youtu.be/77YNpx-7NOA?si=IyaRH7…

#Ukraine

There's so much going on that I can't post disapproving posts for every single thing. So here's just one blanket one.

It's all wrong. You know, everything. All of it. Not just in the US, but it's happening, or starting to, everywhere. The rule of law is abandoned and people are shipped off to uncontrolled foreign prisons. People's right to be who they are is removed. Institutions to help and better other people are disbanded.

We need to get back to caring about other people. Care about the next generation's ability to get educated. No matter the skin colour, no matter the social class, care about whether people can buy food. Care about people getting a fair trial. Care about people whether they are your gender or not, or have the gender you think they have, or even have a gender.

Care about other people, no matter what kind of 'other' they are.

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• Yes
• I'm washing my hair that day

Watching Uglies with Joey King on Netflix, where she plays one of the people who are considered Uglies. So that's a lie already.

#JoeyKing #Uglies

This is an interesting concept. That maybe when you as a content creator, or any other creative person, feel like you're stuck in a rut and don't know what too create next, maybe you're too stuck in your own head. Maybe you need to allow yourself to be inspired by others. Read a book. Listen to music.

New video by Tah:
youtu.be/Ix1TDb8DSiU?si=QAkrqy…

For those in the Netherlands who follow F1 but don't want to pay a lot of money to Viaplay or F1 TV, and therefore can't see it live: due to a deal signed only yesterday it will be on delayed broadcast, for free, on Ziggo channel 13 (so not the normal channel 14). This means that today's qualifying session is repeated at 20:30 tonight and tomorrow's race at 21:15, tomorrow of course. This may not be in your tv guides yet.

The usual summary broadcasts on Ziggo Sport and NPO 1 have been cancelled for this year.

Here's the "origin story" of Roxy Furman. She's a zoologist who makes the most gorgeous wildlife documentaries.
youtu.be/RGtGEsI7xiQ

#RoxyFurman #Zoologist

I don't know who will be back in the final season of You, but the trailer shows Amy-Leigh Hickman, so that's great already! 24 April on Netflix.
instagram.com/reel/DHBMx2Ro1NX…

#AmyLeighHickman #YouNetflix #You

YOU on Instagram: "all eyes on YOU 👁️ the killer final season of YOU premieres April 24th."

121K likes, 2,246 comments - younetflix on March 10, 2025: "all eyes on YOU 👁️ the killer final season of YOU premieres April 24th.".

^Instagram

Fly-by.

Or how to be caught out with the wrong lens on. This was a manual focus 2x macro lens...

📷 Canon EOS R10
🔭 Laowa 65mm F2.8 2x macro
1/800 s, ISO 500. F2.8 I think. Cropped.
Cc-by.

#Photography #Plane #Moon

I guess we'll have baby pigeons soon.

📷 Canon EOS R10
🔭 Canon RF 100-400mm
400mm, F9, 1/1600 s, ISO 3200, cropped
Cc-by.

#Photography #Pigeons

Interview in "Den of Geek" with Jenna Ortega and others about the film Death of a Unicorn, which was just premiered on the SXSW Film Festival.
denofgeek.com/movies/death-of-…

#JennaOrtega #DeathOfAUnicorn

Death of a Unicorn: Exclusive First Look at Jenna Ortega and Paul Rudd Going Medieval | Den of Geek

Exclusive: Jenna Ortega, Paul Rudd, and writer-director Alex Scharfman talk the dark side of unicorn mythology, eating the rich, and why purple blood is so hard to get out in the new A24 comedy, Death of a Unicorn.

^{David Crow (Den of Geek)}

New poster for Hurry Up Tomorrow, the film with Jenna Ortega in the lead.
instagram.com/p/DG5wE_gxS4Q/

#JennaOrtega #HurryUpTomorrow

Got a notification from my NAS, saying it's running low on disk space. It says it has only 3.5 TB left.

(Yet weirdly Windows also refuses to copy all of today's photos onto it, saying I need to free another 10GB.)

There's a mismatch of disk sizes, though. Come to think of it, that disparity is about 3.5 TB.

Upgraded my Pleroma to version 2.9.0, that came just out today. Or actually yesterday by now, because it took longer than expected. Maybe I missed some versions, but for me the upgrade was not as simple as suggested.

In this version I also needed to upgrade to a newer Elixir version. And there were also some migrations still to run. Upgrading Elixir turned out to not be possible on an old Debian server, so I needed to switch over to using asdf to get the newer version; but that doesn't work nicely with the systemd service file... I have to figure a better solution for that later, it is late, now I have just hardcoded the paths.

So far came across these:

• Gulf of West Russia
• Gulf of Moscow

😢🗝

Michelle Trachtenberg dies age 39.

bbc.com/news/articles/c778rp2j…
#MichelleTrachtenberg

It's just chocolate sprinkles... I don't get why foreign journalists are so obsessed by it that they write this whole BBC article about us eating hagelslag on a sandwich. I had it today...

bbc.com/travel/article/2025022…

The sweet Dutch sandwich that makes no sense

There's a pervasive belief in the Netherlands that this unconventional meal helps lift the national mood.

^{Deborah Nicholls-Lee (BBC)}

Birds are weird...

...or when you need a wide angle lens for bird photography.

Roxy Furman made this beautiful film of her encountering pelicans and includes some incredible photos.
youtu.be/QT8HT1Kvv3E
#RoxyFurman #Pelican #DalmatianPelican #Greece #Birds

Buzzards (I presume) seen from my balcony. The local newspaper in Best had just printed an article that they were spotted in town and they were not wrong. I think I saw four flying together over my flat, I don't know whether that's normal behaviour.

Photos by me, re-use allowed with attribution (cc-by). Canon EOS R10, Canon RF 100-400, cropped.
#Photography #Bird #BirdOfPrey #Buzzard

This article talks about Tumblr moving to WordPress and supporting Activitypub:

techcrunch.com/2025/02/11/tumb…

But, given that Tumblr has a history of breaking all kinds of stuff in various novel ways, I have just one question: what will they break this time, Tumblr, WordPress, or Activitypub?

Looks like the new US government found out this is still an issue with this year's theme... But they don't check these things beforehand...

Gidi Kroon

2024-06-16 02:14:48

My understanding of WordPress must be missing something.

There's this default theme 'twenty twenty four'. When you activate it, it inserts various hardcoded texts into your site. Things like "my book Money Studies is out now" and "I'm Leia Acosta, a passionate photographer". You have to use the site editor to find these and remove them. There are about four.

You have to do this on your live site, you can't customise a theme and preview it before activating, like you used to be able to. If you don't find them all, or ever did "Remove Customisations", you're site will say stuff like "A commitment to innovation and sustainability", without you knowing it.

So what if you're not called "Leia Acosta"? Or you don't have a book out called "Money Studies"? How did they think this was going to work?
#WordPress