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Just watched a film called Hide and Seek which is an American remake of an Asian film called Hide and Seek, neither of which are the film called Hide and Seek that I wanted to see.

It could be a case study in how not to write a film, and as such have some merit. Still interesting enough to sit through it once, though.




The suffix "The Movie" means 'the same, but slower'.


I'm thinking of what moderation rules I would set if I were to set them for some microblogging server. I'd do something sensible and normal like have specific rules that only apply to replies, like: no reaction gifs, no links, no photos, no changing the topic and no evangelising ('have you tried rust/mastodon'). Each top level post is in my mind a new forum with strict rules against off-topic messages or posts that don't contribute anything new.

But more than that I would want replies to be hidden by default. With the original poster being the moderator of this microforum. Maybe able to set the no-links etc rules per post.

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Also: it would be illegal to reply to a post with a link to an article, without reading the article. (Twitter is already doing something like this!)

Also: a reply should take at least as much effort as the original post. When you reply to something quicker than someone took to post it, or write the blog, you will be automatically locked out of your account for the remainder of the time.

Yeah, I'd make completely normal rules.



I guess I'll have to swim to work tomorrow. So much rain tonight.


Jenna Ortega shows her football skills in this clip for Adidas Sportswear and the World Cup. As far as I can tell it's not an edited video. But even if it is, it's fun.

instagram.com/reel/Cu6L_KRNS9J…

Some photos of her for the same campaign:

#JennaOrtega #Adidas #AdidasSportswear

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I don't know how to upload and insert a video on Friendica, that's why it's only a link to the reel.
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Uploaded the video using a separate account:
[share author='Jenna Ortega fan channel (resharing clips)' profile='https://friendica.gidikroon.eu/profile/jennaortegatrailersandclips' avatar='https://friendica.gidikroon.eu/photo/356510832164deee12ca2b0607770161-5.png?ts=1692331566' link='https://friendica.gidikroon.eu/display/1f16c6da-3864-df64-445b-5ad766653822' posted='2023-08-18 12:29:56' guid='1f16c6da-3864-df64-445b-5ad766653822' message_id='https://friendica.gidikroon.eu/objects/1f16c6da-3864-df64-445b-5ad766653822']The World Cup final is soon and Jenna Ortega shows how to do it.

This was part of a photo shoot for Adidas Sportswear, of which she's the brand ambassador.

(I finally found a way to share the video unlisted, in a rather indirect way, using another account and my PeerTube. Original link in video description.)
#JennaOrtega #Football #AdidasSportswear

peertube.gidikroon.eu/w/g7d7Wy…



It has been confirmed that Scream 7 will happen, but it is not known yet whether Jenna Ortega, or in fact anyone else, returns. These negotiations will probably wait until after the strike.
#JennaOrtega #Scream #Scream7


Odd how in films and tv, search teams never look around corners or into alleyways.



I think organising to harass is always a bad thing, even if the people doing it convinced themselves that the recipient is deserving of such treatment. That's what the other side is telling themselves too.


Did a proper way to follow hashtags on the fediverse already get established? I know of none.

I don't mean where you can pin hashtags in Mastodon or save searches in Friendica, where you get the hashtags your server knows about. I mean actually following hashtags that are 'out there' on other servers.



Link previews on the fediverse used to just take smaller sites down, now I see more and more of those sites implementing rate limiting, so I see link previews like:

and even:

We really need to do something about the fedi-ddos.



Boyfriend: "please don't use any magic"
His witch girlfriend: "of course not, I wouldn't"
Literally five seconds later: total mayhem due to several spells interacting.

I like this series.




Ah yeah, Netscape. Nothing was loading but at least the logo was animated so you knew it wasn't frozen.


Jenna Ortega is, or will be, filming Death of a Unicorn. As an A24 film this is not impacted by the strike (as A24 accepted the union's conditions and the union promotes people working on such projects).

I think this is good news not just because I want to see more Jenna Ortega films, and preferably good ones like A24 usually makes, but also because it provides work for all those other professions that depend on the film industry (catering, drivers, builders) and that would otherwise be impacted by the strike.
#JennaOrtega #DeathOfAUnicorn



An interesting aspect of the US actors strike is that if an independent film accepts the union's proposal, work is allowed there. The same goes for small studios that are not part of the producers organisation with the abbreviation that I can never get right. The idea is that this proves that the union proposal is not unreasonable as the producers claim.

The studio A24 has done just that. Not recently, already a while ago, but this means A24 films are going full steam ahead. Providing income and proving the point. And the coming years may very well be A24's years, since the majority of films out will be theirs. Quite a good consequence of all this.
#A24 #SAGAftra #SAGAftraStrike



The way they migrated calckey.social to firefish.social may have broken federation with Friendica for existing (but now suddenly renamed) accounts. Trying again. At least new accounts work fine. They did send out migration messages for the old accounts, but that doesn't work on Friendica, so I have to (try to) re-follow manually.

Also when checking on the site itself I wish I'd knew how to set the UI to English rather than (presumably) Japanese.



The people who make DVDs seem to think everybody watching them is watching an illegal copy, with the amount of shaming they do. There's no consideration for the few people like me who legally bought them with their own money.


Now, again, watching the brilliance that is Jenna Ortega in The Fallout. I hope she makes many more films like this. I don't care whether they are super famous film franchises or relatively unknown indies like this, I'll watch it anyway. I'm watching it from my dvd (only a US region coded dvd is available, no blu-ray, no European disc).
#JennaOrtega #TheFallout #NowWatching
boxd.it/tViI



So weird how Friendica's link preview insists on using the middle link of the three, again. Even when the preview in the post screen shows the last link.
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Not complaining about the full screen Felicity this results in.


Now watching series four of The Worst Witch, aka series one (and only) of Weirdsister College, aka the one where Felicity Jones is back. They're now at college, Mildred and Ethel have to room together and go head to head. I remember this series to be more intense and deeper than the previous ones. I'm playing this from my own (German) discs.
#FelicityJones #TheWorstWitch #WeirdsisterCollege
imdb.com/title/tt0315093/?ref_…
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One of the episodes on this dvd has the wrong audio track, of another episode. So I had to watch it with the German dub instead.
#WeirdsisterCollege


Now watching Scream VI in 4k from my disc. I saw it in the cinema when it came out and watching Jenna Ortega in this film was such an experience, she's so good. But when has she ever not been at the top of her game? Never. What also stood out to me about this film is that it's a horror with properly fleshed out characters, with everybody doing a good job.
#JennaOrtega #ScreamVI #Scream6 #Scream #NowWatching
imdb.com/title/tt17663992/?ref…


Mazzy Star is the music of my youth (only played on MTV Europe in their after midnight show Post Modern) and I thought I had all of their old and newer albums, and all of Hope Sandoval's albums as well, but I don't have this one (apparently from 2001). Thanks @Chris Trottier for the trigger to do something about that.


Hope Sandoval & The Warm Inventions - Suzanne (4:54)

This is the last song of the set and I thought we’d end on a hazy, beautiful song that sends us off for the night. By the way, Hope Sandoval was the vocalist for Mazzy Star. But this is my favourite song done by her.

youtube.com/watch?v=v-LRD9bR2o…




I've seen a documentary about this thing once and it's completely fascinating. It's a device (or was before it eroded on the seabed) that can calculate future astronomical events (planet positions, eclipses) and is small enough to be handheld or at least portable. It is two thousand years old, ancient Greek, a time of great accomplishments but this we didn't know they could do. Some call it the world's first computer.


The Antikythera Mechanism

Image Credit & License: Marsyas, Wikipedia

apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap230723.ht… #APOD




#NowWatching The Gathering with Christina Ricci. I liked this film and Christina's performance when I saw it a long time ago, but I don't remember much about it. It's difficult to find as it's not on any of the streaming services, but I found a dvd.
#ChristinaRicci #TheGathering

themoviedb.org/movie/10943-the…

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Interesting concept, I had forgotten about that. Dark, even for a horror film.



Just watched Jodie Foster in Hotel Artemis. She deserves a better script. I have no idea why she chose to do this.

Usually I try to find something positive to say, but I get no further than she's indeed in it.
#JodieFoster



I especially let a spider in my house to deal with the fly, like you would get a cat to catch mice, but no.


Why would the US military send email to .mil (US military) addresses while they can send it to .ml (Mali) instead. Much shorter.

BBC News - Typo sends millions of US military emails to Russian ally Mali
bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada…

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Something that automatically sends or deletes based on the prompt of you clicking the Send or the Delete button. Must be A.I.!


It is being treated as hazardous

and

kids were digging sand castles around it

(From BBC News - Australia baffled as unidentified mystery object washes up on beach
bbc.co.uk/news/world-australia…)

Australian kids may have a different idea of hazardous.



Parcel left the carrier facility

And somehow has been going around for days now.

This is not a big country. Driving a few hours it should either be at another facility, or at my address, or it has left the country again.



Watching the last episode of Yellowjackets since it came out today in my country. I'm fully ready for a Lost-like experience and still get no answers.
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Yellowjackets 2x09 season finale
Some wrapping up of storylines, but indeed no real answers. And I think we're never going to get the answer what 'it' is and whether it even is something.


And after all that, my auto-complete still says Jenna Ortega if I type "J". I trained it well.


Thinking again of Jane Grey, a royal of Tudor times, and how the world was robbed of her brilliance when she was beheaded on orders of Queen Mary, when Jane was only seventeen. Most people focus on the history around her short time wearing the crown of England (the first woman, or girl, to do so in her own right), but to me her life before is much more fascinating.

The writings of her tutor and of philosophers in Europe, where you can feel how much in awe they were of her intellect while knowing she was a fifteen year old girl, are spine tingling. Her translating a book into ancient Greek from another ancient language and giving it to her father as his birthday present, at that same age, indicates she was indeed super smart but also a total show-off.

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During her months in The Tower, Mary sent her own chaplain, the most learned Catholic in the country, to Jane every single day to try and convert her. Every day he reported back to Mary that he had not succeeded in converting Jane to Catholicism. His private writings in his journals have been preserved. In it he says that not only did he not succeed in converting her, but many days Jane almost succeeded in converting him.

She could argue like the best. And she would never give in.

(She was aware that the deal was that if she converted to Catholicism, she would be let out and not executed. It says quite something that she didn't take that deal.)

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In those days science wasn't some people together doing experiments, but it was a network all over Europe of individual people, usually old gray men, at home thinking about stuff and writing their thoughts down in letters to each other. What blows my mind is that 15 year old Jane Grey was part of that network. Not by trickery, writing under her father's name, or them only replying out of politeness. No, they fully knew who she was and they accepted her as an equal. It's a shame her letters have not been preserved.

What could she have achieved had she been able to live into adulthood. I believe she would have become an important scientist whose name we'd remember. Can you imagine that an earlier scientist even than Isaac Newton would have been a woman, rather than us having to wait centuries later for Marie Curie? I think our whole perception of gender in science would be different.



Emilia Clarke posted the trailer for her new film The Pod Generation, which looks very interesting. Out 11 August in theaters. Maybe only in the UK.
instagram.com/reel/Cupa_URrAQV…
youtube.com/watch?v=rGMx_7oAeU…
#EmiliaClarke #ThePodGeneration




But of course what's already in the can will still be released, but without promotion. E.g. Zoey102, the film sequel with the people from the Zoey101 series, comes out 27 July on Paramount+. The important one for me in that cast is and always has been Erin Sanders as the legendary Quinn.