My favourite period? This exact moment when King Edward desperately wanted a male heir to succeed him on the English throne, was dying, and nature told them no. Every descendant, even from the lines they didn't want (bastards, Catholics), was female. So on his death bed, he placed a woman in line of the succession for the first time ever: Jane, a 16 year old girl and I think one of the brightest people ever. She did become queen that next day and stayed so for a few more days, deposed by another woman (Mary I) who raised an army.
This is Tudor times and I don't know whether that counts as medieval or modern.
For people who are interested in "Western" history, what's your favorite period?
(I realize that breaking it down like this is probably going to piss some people off, but there are only 4 poll options and this isn't a fuckin journal)
Self regulating system on fedi: start an account with a female avatar, make a post that says the 'boost' button is to boost reply-guys out of your timeline and for everyone answering 'you need to use the block button', answer 'thanks, and done'.
Dove Cameron's first album is going to drop in the fall. It's going to be called ALCHEMICAL, will be a two parter with the first part coming out this fall. She just announced this on Instagram. #DoveCameron #Alchemical
Sure you remember Lexa Doig, the actress who played Andromeda in the scifi tv series Andromeda. She has a daughter who turned 19 today. Yeah, I don't know how that's possible either, feels like that series was only yesterday. That daughter, Mia Shanks, has written and produced her own song that came out today that's called yesterday. And it's not bad at all, someone to keep an eye on. tidal.com/track/313586990 #MiaShanks
Mia is also an actress, e.g. once playing the younger version of her mother's character (in Aurora Teagarden Mysteries, which I unfortunately haven't seen). Here's a photo of the two of them in their trailer from Lexa's insta. No, you're not seeing double. instagram.com/p/CWt6KJuPIl3/
I was looking for this photo, the absolutely best post Lexa has made on insta of the two of them. Mia not just 'cosplaying' her mother's character Rommie, but wearing the absolute original costume. instagram.com/p/CFF6oFnne8A/
Jenna Ortega's new Dior campaign photos are finally posted by the Dior Instagram account. Some had already seen them in the wild, as it includes a street advertising campaign. They promote the jewelry collection "Rose des Vents".
The mentioned site is fun (though I don't see the quoted questions, but different ones).
Reading through the various answers cures you from ever thinking these kind of AI can give logical answers. The 'I bought 10 apples ...etc' question had a massive amount of totally wrong answers, the 'five planets closest to the sun' question shows that many computers can't even count to five, and a disturbingly low amount of them knows that the Earth's 'distanceToEarth' is zero.
"Would you love me if I was down, and out?" "Would you still have love for me? "If I fell off tomorrow, would you still love me? "If I didn't smell so good, would you still hug me?" "If I got locked up and sentenced to a quarter century, could I count on you to be there to support me mentally?" "If I went back to a hooptie from a Benz, would you poof and disappear like some of my friends?"
Maybe we should have a social media/microblogging/fediverse platform where external links are only loaded when someone clicks to see it. This would apply to link previews, quoted posts and replies to a conversation.
A long time ago I watched The 4400, a series with Jacqueline McKenzie. I have all four seasons on disc, but somehow never got around to watching the final fourth season. Let's start it now, I hope I remember enough of the previous seasons.
It's a somewhat scifi series, with 4400 people suddenly returning to earth after presumably having been abducted by aliens. Jacqueline is not one of those, but a police person investigating things around it. As strange things happen: they start to show special abilities, they form a cult like organisation, and what really happened to them while they were missing is still unknown.
I liked seeing Eliza Dushku in the two seasons of Dollhouse. The concept allowed her to act different characters each episode and I see why she (co-)created the show like that. It's not unlike iZombie in that respect, where Rose McIver had great fun acting differently each week.
But the concept of people having their mind completely wiped and replaced by another personality, then sent on engagements with often (as they call it in the show) 'romantic' aspects, I choose to see as something purely fictional. If you'd consider it as a real thing, there's obviously a big problem with (lack of) consent. In show they have a flimsy excuse of a contract signed by participants. iZombie had Liv's personality only half mixed with someone else's, and that's actually quite smart.
It was weird seeing how in some episodes writers were well aware of this consent problem and dealt with the consequences in the story, then in a next episode it was as if they themselves were wiped and they were oblivious again (but this time with a male subject).
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I liked seeing Eliza Dushku in the two seasons of Dollhouse. The concept allowed her to act different characters each episode and I see why she (co-)created the show like that. It's not unlike iZombie in that respect, where Rose McIver had great fun acting differently each week.
But the concept of people having their mind completely wiped and replaced by another personality, then sent on engagements with often (as they call it in the show) 'romantic' aspects, I choose to see as something purely fictional. If you'd consider it as a real thing, there's obviously a big problem with (lack of) consent. In show they have a flimsy excuse of a contract signed by participants. iZombie had Liv's personality only half mixed with someone else's, and that's actually quite smart.
It was weird seeing how in some episodes writers were well aware of this consent problem and dealt with the consequences in the story, then in a next episode it was as if they themselves were wiped and they were oblivious again (but this time with a male subject).
Season two the story and subject matter was quite different and avoided the problems of season one. This was mainly due to the different things happening with Echo's mind, which I can't say due to spoilers. #ElizaDushku #Dollhouse
I have the disc of Underworld: Blood Wars in my to-watch stack and I think I better check where in the series this one fits before I watch it. Because I'm lost. I skipped the non-Kate Beckinsale ones, that I do know. #KateBeckinsale #UnderworldBloodWars #Underworld
This is the last one in the franchise, it's possible I find out why. (There are some final seasons of tv series where you realise they really had to stop)
It's a bit light on storytelling and on characterisation, but entertaining enough.
Maybe the "Dawn Alert!" over the PA system of the vampire coven was the best bit.
Selene does so much pining for her daughter Eve and others do so much searching for her, that maybe they should rewatch Underworld: Awakening and see India Eisley as Eve. Somehow the memory of that performance is what underpins this film.
Oh-oh, the spammers have found the address of my dev Wordpress. Maybe I'll just change the url or take it offline. Now it's asking me to moderate a comment on that boat post.
Finestkind will have its premiere at TIFF any moment now, but you can already watch a scene courtesy of this Deadline article. It features Jenna Ortega and like everything she does it's immediately captivating and intense. They say it's going to be on Paramount+ in November. #JennaOrtega #Finestkind
I didn't know Voyager 1 is still within the Oort Cloud, because I thought when people say 'interstellar space' they mean beyond the solar system. Things I learnt...
But Voyager 1 hasn't left the solar system. At 161 AU, its current distance from the Sun is a fraction of Sedna's 936 AU aphelion (though it is currently further out than the minor planet).
And it's nowhere near the inner edge of the Oort cloud, thousands of AU from the sun.
This chart shows Voyager 1's location in 2013, with distance from the sun plotted on a log scale. It is at roughly the same place today, since the next step on the scale jumps from 100 to 1000 AU.
I once said that trains in the Netherlands were ok as long as you don't need to go anywhere, and only after I said it realised how much this described them completely failing at their purpose.
What I meant is that it's a problem if you depend on them, like for getting to work (not just on time, but at all). If you are just planning an optional trip outside of rush hour and are ok with going somewhere completely different instead, then it's fine. #PublicTransport
First time in years of running this server/account that my dozens of saved searches have a hit and put a post in my timeline of someone I don't follow yet.
We’ll have to wait a bit longer than planned for the premiere of HBO’s True Detective: Night Country, starring Jodie Foster and Kali Reis. A specific premiere date had not previously be…
Your colleague was happy to have missed the endless stream of messages on the company chat, so we sent them a "here's what you have missed" email to remedy this.
Jealous of the Toronto people who have the ability to see Jenna Ortega in Finestkind this week. Hopefully worldwide cinema releases will follow soon. #JennaOrtega #Finestkind #TIFF23
Ok, so I'm trying to use some relays to help with 'discovery', since on a single user instance I basically only discover what I already know and sometimes only what I wrote myself. So far it is not that much of a success. Of the three relay types I tried, one worked (the rust one), one failed (the fedi-buzz one) and one said it worked but failed (the go one).
Great interview with Lindsay Armaou of B*Witched, talking an hour long about fame, becoming a pop band, image, the hectic schedules, breaking America, being dropped by the label and then starting up again and now decades later still going on. I have been and still am such a huge fan of hers, since before their first single was even scheduled for a release and I was afraid after that first time I saw them I would never hear from them again. Then their first four singles each entered the charts at number one and they became a record smashing (not literally) band. #LindsayArmaou #B*Witched
Lindsay and I spent a fascinating hour together talking about her time with hugely popular girl band B*Witched. We spoke about fame, the industry and the ban...
A thing she says in this interview that I didn't know is that they had already written the third album and were waiting for a call from the label to inform them about the release date of the first single. But when the label did call, it was to drop them. #LindsayArmaou #B*Witched
Stephanie Leonidas posted some photos of an upcoming film of hers on Twitter and Instagram. The posts don't say which film, but she captioned it "Donna", which according to imdb is her character in 5lbs of Pressure. #StephanieLeonidas #5lbsOfPressure
The point of this graph is to show that a human being on a bicycle is a more energy efficient way of getting around than the way (some/most) other animals do. I like that.
But a human by itself is quite energy efficient too, according to the graph. We evolved for walking and running long distances, so no surprise. But maybe not so nice that an airliner comes out pretty well too.
Painted some walls today. Overall it went well I think. But weird how paint so much wants to go onto things that aren't supposed to be painted, like me.
A problem is that now the contents of the wardrobe, and parts of the wardrobe, are on my bed waiting for the paint to dry so I can move it back. This is not going to happen today, so I've got to find somewhere else to sleep tonight...
It has happened often enough that I fell asleep on the couch watching tv, only waking up in the morning, so I guess this unplanned thing is going to be planned this time.
Gidi Kroon
in reply to Gidi Kroon • •Lexa's insta link announcing the song: instagram.com/p/CxJHyeQPY6t/
Mia's: instagram.com/p/CxHwKxqOgI4/
From the latter:
#MiaShanks #yesterday
Gidi Kroon
in reply to Gidi Kroon • •Mia is also an actress, e.g. once playing the younger version of her mother's character (in Aurora Teagarden Mysteries, which I unfortunately haven't seen). Here's a photo of the two of them in their trailer from Lexa's insta. No, you're not seeing double.
instagram.com/p/CWt6KJuPIl3/
#MiaShanks #LexaDoig
Gidi Kroon
in reply to Gidi Kroon • •I was looking for this photo, the absolutely best post Lexa has made on insta of the two of them. Mia not just 'cosplaying' her mother's character Rommie, but wearing the absolute original costume.
instagram.com/p/CFF6oFnne8A/
#LexaDoig #MiaShanks #Andromeda