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Walter Shaub

2021-12-03 00:40:22


I don’t think the White House understands how much its weakness in the fight for democracy demoralizes a public that will have to find strength to fight for democracy after Biden is out of office and his staff is back at their big law firms and influence peddling consultancies.

Look what I came across: Rachael Leigh Cook and Tamara Mello in a photo that was a throwback even in 2016. Love them both! Neither of them age by the way, they still look like that. Drank some potion I guess.
#RachaelLeighCook #TamaraMello
instagram.com/p/BBV2pf9MBUI/
Rachael wearing sunglasses and Tamara a hat, both on their heads
#RachaelLeighCook #TamaraMello
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Brought to you by me wondering why I never saw any Instagram post by Tamara anymore. Turns out she has at least four profiles that I can find and she's nowadays posting on one I wasn't following yet. Confirmed authentic since it's followed by her dog.

Nice of Twitter to give you 4280 characters per post.

Thanks to the ocr function of Samsung's s-pen. I wrote a lot of stuff as image description, forgot to copy it to the clipboard, then decided to do the poor-man's version of crossposting that is just manually making the other post.

I may have listened to Dove Cameron an 'evil' amount of times this year...

Spotify wrapped top 5 songs. 1 Evil - Dove Cameron, 2 LazyBaby - Dove Cameron, 3 Waste - Dove Cameron, 4 Bloodshot - Dove Cameron, 5 Space Between - Dove Cameron (and Sofia Carson)

I feel Dove Cameron is cheating here, appearing 4 times in my top 5 list of 7 artists.

Spotify 2021 wrapped top 5 artists. 1 Dove Cameron, 2 Vanessa Paradis, 3 Cast of Liv and Maddie (2x Dove on the cover), 4 Sofia Carson, 5 The Girl and the Dreamcatcher (Dove's band at the time)

I may have listened to Dove Cameron an 'evil' amount of times this year...
Spotify wrapped top 5 songs. 1 Evil - Dove Cameron, 2 LazyBaby - Dove Cameron, 3 Waste - Dove Cameron, 4 Bloodshot - Dove Cameron, 5 Space Between - Dove Cameron (and Sofia Carson)

Michelle Kessel

2021-12-02 14:39:11


Not only is today's date a palindrome, it's also an ambigram. You can read it left to right, right to left, and also upside down #nerdalert

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#nerdalert

Tomorrow season four of Jurassic World Camp Cretaceous will be available on Netflix. The character Brooklynn is voiced by Jenna Ortega.
#JennaOrtega #JurassicWorldCampCretaceous #jwcc
netflix.com/us/title/81009646

Watch Jurassic World Camp Cretaceous | Netflix Official Site

Six teens invited to attend a state-of-the-art adventure camp on Isla Nublar must band together to survive when the dinosaurs break out of captivity.
www.netflix.com
#JennaOrtega #JurassicWorldCampCretaceous #jwcc

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Why is Mastodon always doing that, showing a 'preview of the hashtag' rather than the shared link?

The tea! Every single time...

Can you believe I never saw anything with Alicia Vikander in it? I'm going to watch Tomb Raider now. So I know nothing about whether she's a good actress (I suspect she is), but she looks ultra cool in the promo stills. The film also has the über cool Hannah John-Kamen in it.
#AliciaVikander #TombRaider #HannahJohnKamen

Tomb Raider

Lara Croft, the fiercely independent daughter of a missing adventurer, must push herself beyond her limits when she finds herself on the island where her father disappeared.
The Movie Database
#AliciaVikander #TombRaider #HannahJohnKamen

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I like this version of the Lara Croft character. I haven't seen the other film, but I like this take on her. Intelligent, obstinate, and dare I say it, realistic. At least personality-wise someone you believe could exist.
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I agree. I thought this was a much more realistic and vulnerable portrayal of Lara than in other movies.

Stars on a star. Miranda Cosgrove photographed by Claire Leahy for Mission Unstoppable.
#MirandaCosgrove #MissionUnstoppable #ClaireLeahy
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#MirandaCosgrove #MissionUnstoppable #ClaireLeahy

"Make sure your photos show your personality!"

They do and that's the problem.

The blu-ray for Volition has arrived! This is a film with Magda Apanowicz and has only just been released (not counting geo-blocked streaming services). Watching now.
#Volition #MagdaApanowicz

Volition

A man afflicted with clairvoyance tries to change his fate when a series of events leads to a vision of his own imminent murder.
The Movie Database
#MagdaApanowicz #Volition

I'll pin this for a while: if you're not getting updates from this account but you should be, you can unfollow and follow again to fix it, or let me know and I can fix it in the db here. If you are however getting updates and shouldn't (this should not be happening, I was quite careful to check before fixing things), you can also let me know.

An issue in Friendica, fixed a while ago, had caused the following-state of some accounts to be out of sync between my server and other servers.

Rewatching Taxi Driver with Jodie Foster. She was 12 when she made this film, played a prostitute, had to be psychologically evaluated to check whether she would be capable of handling the subject matter, was formally not allowed to watch the film herself and got her first Oscar nomination. That's right, 12 and her first Oscar nomination.
#JodieFoster #TaxiDriver

Taxi Driver

A mentally unstable Vietnam War veteran works as a night-time taxi driver in New York City where the perceived decadence and sleaze feed his urge for violent action, attempting to save a preadolescent prostitute in the process.
The Movie Database
#taxidriver #JodieFoster

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The seduction at the beginning of the film is so sleazy and the character of the woman so empty...
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The film is told from Travis' perspective, mostly, and since he's quite the racist, a lot that is said in the film is as well. Those are the perils of having a morally unjust character as pov.

It is left to the viewer to decide that he is morally unjust, though. In the end the film even portrays him as a hero.

I guess I need to figure out why my Wordpress no longer posts to Activitypub and why link previews of it are not working on Friendica, but are fine on Pleroma and Twitter.

New blog post: I make a list of all the upcoming Jenna Ortega projects and what I know about them. There are many!

#JennaOrtega
Jenna Ortega: what’s in the pipeline?

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While Jenna Ortega is making magic in Romania (filming Wednesday) I thought it a good moment to make a list from a fan's perspective of what is in the pipeline. Much to look forward to!
#JennaOrtega
gidikroon.eu/2021/11/28/jen…
#JennaOrtega

Just watched Teen Spirit, where #ElleFanning rather brilliantly sings the songs herself. It follows a girl from a humble background entering one of those televised singing competitions 'streaming to 10 million viewers', where she's clearly talented enough but can she handle the limelight?

Teen Spirit

A shy teenager living on the Isle of Wight dreams of pop stardom. With the help of an unlikely mentor, she enters a singing competition that will test her integrity, talent, and ambition.
The Movie Database
#ElleFanning

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Rewatching On the Basis of Sex with #FelicityJones.

It contains the great line (paraphrased): we already hired a woman last month, what would we do with another one?


On the Basis of Sex

Young lawyer Ruth Bader Ginsburg teams with her husband Marty to bring a groundbreaking case before the U.S. Court of Appeals and overturn a century of sex discrimination.
The Movie Database
#FelicityJones
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Each time I say 'watching film X with actress Y' I am fantasising watching it with that actress...

We had snow today, quite unusual for November.

Prof Jeffrey S Morris

2021-11-23 19:46:35


Is watching the 1984 Ghostbusters movie killing people?

Recent data show death rate of 10-59yr olds who have watched the 1984 Ghostbuster Movie is 2x higher than those who have watched the 2021 Ghostbuster movie

I don't know how to explain this other than movie-caused mortality

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2021-11-23 23:22:42


DOVE CAMERON // #GRAMMYS

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#GRAMMYS

I quite dislike the anti-vaxx message in current Doctor Who (Flux), or at least that I read it that way.

I quite dislike the anti-vaxx message in current Doctor Who (Flux), or at least that I read it that way. Glad that these are the last episodes of the current show runner.

Ik zou willen dat ze bij #ZiggoSport #F1 stopten met die stemmingmakerij.
#f1 #ZiggoSport

I've got all three seasons of Mary Kills People on dvd now, so I'm (re-)watching it to get my Katie Douglas fix. Just started season three. So great to see her.
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Season three is even better than the first two. Though Katie's role is still somewhat small, it's deeper and more heartfelt.

I dislike profile questions like "What is the current goal in your life?". The current goal in my life? Working towards making dinner. I'm posting this now here, so you can guess how well that's going.
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It starts with awareness, so that's good. Also, I have already selected potatoes to peel, so first steps going well. They are the same as yesterday when I eventually put them back and boiled rice instead.

taber 🟣

2021-11-18 23:49:13


a popular myth is that people who are Very Computer have computers that work. nothing could be further from the truth. the Very Computer are capable of generating much more novel and fascinating ways to make computers not fucking work and exercise this capability wantonly

A well regulated militia's right to be scared.

G. L. DiVittorio

2021-11-19 18:36:04


I feel sick. What do you even do when the country's legal system openly declares that white people can kill whoever they want?

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Miranda Cosgrove casually posting pictures in her/a kitchen and casually being the shiny personification of the positive radiance that she is. #MirandaCosgrove instagram.com/p/CWbhFERBnQ-/
Miranda posing in her/a kitchen, which is very clean
Miranda feigning surprise
Miranda leaning forward like she's going to tell you a secret
Miranda making the v sign
#MirandaCosgrove

Staples to be reshaped as pyramids.

Thinking about how Jodie Foster in 1976(*), when she was 12/13yo, made four films. In one she played a prostitute (Taxi Driver), in another her character was all about seducing the male character (Bugsy Malone) and in a third her 13yo character has a sexual relationship with a 19yo boy (The Little Girl Who Lives Down The Lane). I haven't seen the fourth (Echoes of a Summer). What is a girl to make of that growing up? Luckily hyper smart Jodie seems to have been above all that.
#JodieFoster

(*) this is the release year. The films were made in 1975 and with Jodie's birthday in November 1962, that explains the age.

#JodieFoster

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Some more Jodie Foster history, here in gangster musical comedy Bugsy Malone. Watching it now. (I'm also interested in finding her more current films of course) #JodieFoster #BugsyMalone
#JodieFoster #BugsyMalone
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Forgot the image description: it's a photo of the rather plain cover of the blu-ray.
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I feel a bit for Florrie Dugger (now Florence Garland) who as Blousey played a much bigger part than Jodie's Tallulah, but she's never shown anywhere on dvd covers and the like. I guess that's the difference between having only one acting credit in imdb vs a double academy winner. She plays Blousey really well though and I think Blousey makes the film.

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Electricity season has started.

Where the ultimate answer is 311.

John Aravosis 🇺🇸🇬🇷🏳️‍🌈

2021-11-13 16:11:09


I challenge anyone to decipher this. (Seen this morning on DC.)

Listening to Harriet Wheeler and her band The Sundays on their first album reading, writing and arithmetic.

Reading Writing And Arithmetic

The Sundays · Album · 1990 · 10 songs.
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Another Jenna Ortega film announced today: the Foo Fighters horror comedy project Studio 666. It will be released in cinemas on 25 February 2022.
#JennaOrtega
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Foo Fighters Make Horror Film 'STUDIO 666', Set February Release Date

EXCLUSIVE: Think A Hard Day’s Night of the Living Dead, with laughs among the scares and splatter, and you’ve got a handle on STUDIO 666.
Mike Fleming Jr (Deadline)
#JennaOrtega

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I apologise to Americans for writing dates the correct way.

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