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It should be illegal for predatory birds to be flying overhead when I have my ultra wide lens on the camera. And I'm too lazy to change it.

"And now a word from our sponsors"

Wouldn't it be great if it really was just one word?

Brought on by the in-video advertisement being interrupted by YouTube's advertisements.

Walked in the woods near sunset. Found some trees.

Canon EOS R10, RF-S 10-18.
#Photography

A low sun shines through two trunks of a tree, creating a sun star. Only the leaves of a few young twigs coming out of the ground, are illuminated while most else is in the shadows, suggesting the sun star is shining only for them.
A tree's root misses the ground when it comes down a small hill. Several offshoots of the root go straight down into the ground, suggesting the tree has made a fence.
#photography
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Most rains may have been a while ago, but some paths are still flooded.
The paths and the woods are still flooded.
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The human eye is really much better at dynamic range than electronics is...

Tonight in the #BirthweekRewatch for Jenna Ortega's birthday last Friday: The Fallout. Her best film.

play.max.com/movie/012b03e9-a1…
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Watch The Fallout on Max. Plans start at $9.99/month. Megan Park's award-winning feature screenwriting and directing debut "The Fallout" is a compelling exploration of the inexplicable resiliency of life and the hope that emerges out of loss.
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That opening is still great: not showing the event makes it more powerful, not less.

Interesting phone interview by The New York Times with Jenna Ortega, done just before the recent press tour for Beetlejuice Beetlejuice. She talks about her life, including becoming a child actress and how you learn to feign maturity early on. Also about why she deleted Twitter a few years ago.
youtu.be/OAqtpS0qKfk
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#JennaOrtega

Happy Birthday, Jenna Ortega!

She may be busy filming Wednesday season two in Ireland, but today it is also her 22nd birthday and I feel like celebrating it with a #BirthweekRewatch. A week because a Friday doesn't give enough time to rewatch all I want to see. She made so many great things!

I saw Miller's Girl twice in the cinema, because I liked it so much. Now from the comfort of my own blu-ray player.

Photo of the blu-ray of Miller's Girl. The cover shows Jenna Ortega and Martin Freeman as their characters, separated by the film's title.

#JennaOrtega #MillersGirl

#JennaOrtega #BirthweekRewatch #MillersGirl

TIL: I can wirelessly browse the photos on my camera using my phone and download the photos, even when it (the camera) is physically turned off.

Bird. I don't know about brands.

Canon EOS R10, RF 100-400mm F5.6-8 IS USM, 400mm, F8, 1/1000s, ISO 640.
#Photography #Bird

Black, white, red bird sitting on a bare tree, looking like it's going to peck some wood
#photography #bird

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yep, Bixby is right. The red spot on the bottom differentiates them from the regular "bonte specht"

Taking an interest in local affairs. The Moon.

Canon EOS R10, RF 100-400mm F5.6-8 IS USM, 400mm, F8, 1/30s, ISO 100. Auto-focus subject tracking, tripod, 10s delay, manual exposure, daylight whitebalance, cropped.
#Photography #Moon

The Moon, almost full, in a black sky
#photography #moon

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There's only a small gap between the trees where the Moon could be seen from my balcony, so I had to set this up quickly. Otherwise I may have had more time to increase the sharpness, maybe with manual focus, maybe with remote control, maybe with faster shutter speeds and higher iso. I did take multiple exposures and some already had out-of-focus leaves smeared over the Moon. It's interesting how quickly heavenly bodies move seen through 400mm. Though I think some lower exposure shots might be better than this one, I still have to check on my pc. This was just cropped on camera and sent to my phone.

It feels like yesterday but last year Mia Shanks impressed me with her first single Yesterday. Today, on her birthday, she announces her second single The Sound Of It. I'm really excited. We'll know the sound of it on 27 September.

Mia Shanks on the cover of her single The Sound Of It. The photo is multiple exposures of her face.

#MiaShanks #TheSoundOfIt

#MiaShanks #TheSoundOfIt

So if you tell the Canon EOS R10 auto-focus system to focus on Saturn it's like, ok, I've got it.

Admittedly, it's very vague and it's a tiny crop from the whole photo, it being barely a spec of light, but the photo is taken with a budget camera with a budget lens and it is Saturn and the auto-focus did acquire focus. No telescope involved.
#Photography #Saturn

The black night sky with a vague image of the planet Saturn where the rings are visible.
#photography #Saturn

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Specs: camera Canon EOS R10, lens RF 100-400mm F5.6-8 IS USM, at 400mm, F8, 1/20s, ISO 100, tripod, IS off, 10s delay, white balance daylight, manual mode, AF one-shot. Cropped heavily.
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Note that Saturn is visible with the naked eye currently during the night due to being close in its rotation and being opposite the sun. This doesn't happen often. The rings should be visible with any kind of magnification, but I had no luck with my binoculars.

I may have repaired my dishwasher by cleaning it. I was operating under the theory that a dishwasher, being a machine that cleans, can't get dirty on the inside, but that turns out not to be true. Years of gunk buildup apparently gets in the way of smooth operation.

Amazon: We think you may be interested in a new HDMI cable.
Me: Why? What do you know?

(I have literally never bought an HDMI cable on Amazon)

Great to see that the large majority of people really enjoyed seeing Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, as did I, even in forums like letterboxd where otherwise sour people who don't like films seem to gather.
#BeetlejuiceBeetlejuice #JennaOrtega
#JennaOrtega #beetlejuicebeetlejuice
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Jenna's role is bigger than you would expect for a sequel featuring most original characters, but her role didn't completely take over the franchise as it was for Scream. Not yet anyway. Of course I would have wanted the story to be fully about her character, yet it wasn't, it involves everybody. But at the same time, it is sort of clear that without her performance in the way only she can do, the sequel would not have worked. The other cast members have remarked in interviews that the sequel had to wait so long because she still needed to be born, grow up and become an actress, and that's true.

My camera has earrings.
#Photography
Canon EOS R10 camera seemingly with earrings. Where normally the shoulder/neck carry strap is attached, now two round buttons are attached, unto which the strap can be clicked on. This allows the strap to be easily taken off when it would be in the way.
#photography

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Just seen Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, I really liked this! Enough retro, enough modern, enough bigger than the original. Great performance by Jenna Ortega, I love being a fan of hers, she's creating a great catalogue of films.
#JennaOrtega #BeetlejuiceBeetlejuice
#JennaOrtega #beetlejuicebeetlejuice

Jenna Ortega's film Beetlejuice Beetlejuice is out this week! So I'm watching Beetlejuice now to get ready to see it in the cinema. Oops, did I now say it three times?
#JennaOrtega #BeetlejuiceBeetlejuice
#JennaOrtega #beetlejuicebeetlejuice

The website: the experience is better in the app.

The app: this is not supported, please visit the website.

It keeps catching me off guard when a semi governmental organisation sends me a message saying that they are starting work now, and I then find out in the same message that this means '2026, maybe'.

So, somewhere between now and the end of times my apartment will be gas-free.

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They literally said 'the coming months', which apparently is the coming 24 months.

Weird how much stops working if a computer runs out of disk space, but also weird how much of an ActivityPub server keeps going on regardless. Like it receives and shows posts fine, but fails to load preview images; also existing accounts work fine, but looking up new accounts suggests there are network errors...

I had a vision while we were in the porn room
-- Liv

#iZombie

#izombie

I saw Deadpool & Wolverine this evening in the cinema, and the first film this morning to see what it is about. Can't say I'm a fan of the franchise. But Dafne Keen is in this one, so that is enough reason. Her role is small-ish, but not nearly as small as I feared. And if you've seen Logan back in the day (now that is a film I like), there's some nice touches where this film refers to that one.
#DafneKeen #DeadpoolAndWolverine
#DafneKeen #deadpoolandwolverine

This Friendica server is now fully updated to the previous version and run all its post-update tasks. Will start the upgrade to yesterday's new version later today; this may take several days during which either the maintenance screen is shown, or the pages just blank out. Or be much faster, who knows...
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And it is updated. Not weeks, apparently. I didn't time it, but it was some minutes, up to half an hour.

Friendica 2024.08 is just released. That's great, but I only updated to 2024.03 last week and it's still running the post update actions...
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Upgraded a test server that was already on 2024.03 and which has a very small database. Yet it gave the PHP 'white screen of death' (i.e. it crashed with an error) for several minutes. After a while it automatically came back and is now ok. So, need to panic if you get this error:

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2024-08-17T20:11:26Z app [ERROR]: Uncaught Exception Error: "Call to undefined method Friendica\App::getLoggedInUserNickname()" at /***/src/Module/Home.php line 54 {"exception":"Error: Call to undefined method Friendica\\App::getLoggedInUserNickname() in /***/src/Module/Home.php:54\nStack trace:\n#0 /***/src/BaseModule.php(250): Friendica\\Module\\Home->content()\n#1 /***/src/App.php(682): Friendica\\BaseModule->run()\n#2 /***/index.php(55): Friendica\\App->runFrontend()\n#3 {main}"} - {"file":null,"line":null,"function":null,"request-id":"66c103ee0c55f","stack":"ErrorHandler::handleException (128), ErrorHandler::Friendica\\Core\\Logger\\Handler\\{closure}","uid":"81689d","process_id":1696336}
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This server made it from postupdate version 1507 to 1544 a few days ago, but it is still there. It needs to reach 1550... Now running it as a foreground process instead and the database cpu usage suggests it is really properly doing something.

Checking the information page of other people's servers and I'm not the only one still at 1544...

The film Beetlejuice Beetlejuice with Jenna Ortega has its release date in my country, NL, on Thursday 5 September, one day ahead of the US. Tickets are available from today.
#JennaOrtega #BeetlejuiceBeetlejuice
Still from the film Beetlejuice Beetlejuice with Jenna Ortega as Astrid looking scared and like she's in the afterlife world
#JennaOrtega #beetlejuicebeetlejuice

Jenna Ortega is promoting Beetlejuice Beetlejuice in Mexico and just posted this red carpet photo.
#JennaOrtega #BeetlejuiceBeetlejuice
Jenna Ortega promoting Beetlejuice Beetlejuice on the red carpet in Mexico. She looks very stylish.
#JennaOrtega #beetlejuicebeetlejuice

Dafne Keen getting a reminder on her phone from Disney+ that Deadpool & Wolverine is in the cinema... She knows, Disney, she's in it.

Waiting for the time when companies will fall over each other to claim that there's zero AI in their products.

I like this! Promotion of the film Beetlejuice Beetlejuice (in cinema 6 September), posting Astrid's three moods:


  • cozy spooky
  • hauntingly spooky
  • otherworldly spooky


Jenna Ortega as Astrid in the film Beetlejuice Beetlejuice. On screen text: "Astrid has three moods".

Jenna Ortega as Astrid in the film Beetlejuice Beetlejuice. On screen text: "cozy spooky". She's surrounded by cozy spooky stills from the film.

Jenna Ortega as Astrid in the film Beetlejuice Beetlejuice. On screen text: "hauntingly spooky". She's surrounded by hauntingly spooky stills from the film.

Jenna Ortega as Astrid in the film Beetlejuice Beetlejuice. On screen text: "otherwordly spooky". She's surrounded by otherworldly spooky stills from the film.

#JennaOrtega #BeetlejuiceBeetlejuice #Beetlejuice

#JennaOrtega #beetlejuice #beetlejuicebeetlejuice
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