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I forgot how much music does to me. Yes, I'm listening to my @Dove Cameron playlist again. BTW, she's on tour at the moment, for the people in the US.
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Now arrived at Ms Dynamite. Yes I have eclectic taste. This is more from my own time. Every one of her words is sharp.
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The inability to balance on one leg for 20 seconds or longer is linked in otherwise healthy people to an increased risk of small blood vessel damage in the brain and reduced ability to understand ideas.

This is not a link I was expecting. (I can't do this at all...)

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Today I watched episode In Dreams of Fear the Walking Dead (season 6). This focuses on Grace, the character played by Karen David. Such a wonderfully told story, so amazingly performed, so heart wrenching too.
#KarenDavid #FearTheWalkingDead

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We have known for a while that for our daily commute we needed to switch from fossil fuels to electric power. But who knew that would be more routers and video bandwidth?

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I notice Instagram has a slightly different look and feel when you click a video. They had some downtime rolling it out. Not sure it was worth it.




I guess the best screenshot posts are still mainly from tumblr.


"Gremlins you say? The Gremlins are in your head."

Yeah, that's the problem.

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.@ChloeGMoretz I just saw #ShadowInTheCloud and your performance is amazing. I'm still shaking... Such a powerful film! Thank you for making films with such an important message.


Here we go with Shadow in the Cloud. It's one of two recent films with Chloë Grace Moretz as lead that I haven't seen yet and I'm rectifying it now.
#ChloëGraceMoretz #ShadowInTheCloud #NowWatching
imdb.com/title/tt9691136/

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Wow... Chloë takes being the lead in a film to a whole new level. So much about this film that I can't say because of spoilers. Gender preconceptions are a main theme I guess, both misogyny in institutions like the military, but gender stereotypes in films as well. That ending is probably the most powerful thing ever in a film, never seen before, but we can't mention it...
#ChloëGraceMoretz #ShadowInTheCloud

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Fun to find out they were thinking of crediting Chloë for all departments, like lighting, hair, makeup, wardrobe, grip. For over two weeks they shot scenes with her in a cramped space where they couldn't do these things, so Chloë had to do it herself.

Less fun if you realise she's claustrophobic...
#ChloëGraceMoretz #ShadowInTheCloud

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My haul for today:

The haul of yesterday actually, arriving piecemeal today with stragglers later this week.

It's been too long that I've seen a new film with Chloë Grace Moretz...
#ChloëGraceMoretz #ShadowInTheCloud #JennaOrtega #Songbird

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If you're looking for something better to do while facebook is down, I humbly ask you to take a look at my wt.social pilot project. We need good people ready to try something new.


Facebook and Instagram down? I'm posting this from my Friendica, which as all the fediverse it connects to is very much still online... 😉


Facebook / Instagram offline, Friendica / Pixelfed still running. :-)


Jenna Ortega's performance in the final episode of You season 2 is such a tour de force. Rewatched it today and it is amazing.
#JennaOrtega #YouNetflix

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Of some of my socks the material has gotten so bad from many wash cycles and degraded elastic material, they are now very long. So I am essentially Gidi Longstocking.


Yes I'm watching Richie Rich. I hadn't seen it since it is from a long time ago and Jenna Ortega was very young in it, didn't seem the main priority to watch for me. I'm giving it a chance now and Jenna is so funny in it! Great comedic delivery, I had no idea.
#JennaOrtega #RichieRich





A #Friendica tip, at least something I didn't know yet and just found out, is that when you're on the network timeline and you open the left side menu where the forums you're subscribed to are listed, like in this screenshot:

you can click on either the name or the icon of the forum. When you click the name, your network timeline gets filtered to show only the posts from that forum. This is similar to when you click groups or protocols in that same menu.

When you click the icon however, you get directed to the page of that forum itself, on the remote server. This could be useful if some posts have since expired on your own server.

I noticed this when clicking the icon of a non-Friendica group (gup.pe or zap), where the redirect was not possible and an ugly php error was the result. Anyway, it's a neat function.



I like how in #Friendica you can switch accounts without logging in and out. Like side-blogs.

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True visionaries make the world better, not worse. Hopefully, one day, you'll understand that.
-- Brooklynn
#JurassicWorldCampCretaceous

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I'm about to import my follows list from Pleroma into Friendica. This means that several accounts will be getting a follow notification from my Friendica account, including people who have not posted in a while. That may seem strange. I apologise in advance. Also to those people who have locked accounts and that I was following from Pleroma already. Please feel free to either accept or reject, or do nothing, it's completely up to you.

Thanks for everybody's understanding.



I don't understand the UK fuel crisis. In a country lead by a very right wing government, which likely believes in the market forces of supply and demand, you would expect that low supply (truck drivers) and normal demand (fuel) would be met with higher resource costs (truck driver wages) to let the market stabilise itself. And higher investment in truck driver training if needed.

Instead they are wining about drivers from low income countries having gone home, after they kicked them out. And are deploying the army to deliver fuel, presumably for free, until the drivers from the low income countries come back on temporary visas. As if they would knowing they are only going to get kicked out again.
#UKpol #Brexit #FuelCrisis

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One of the problems here is that low supply has hit rock bottom: there is no supply left. Its not just the European truck drivers who have left the country, but also European waiters, bricklayers, chefs, plumbers, electricians, you name it. Logistics companies are basically left with poaching drivers from each other. Thats great for drivers wages (and these have been too low for ages), but it doesn't help with the fuel supply.

All this has been foreseen of course. This government is not for long-term thinking. It believes in some magic form of free market, in which any demand is immediately magically matched with supply.



Last year Jenna Ortega's birthday was on a Sunday so I could spend all day watching various of her films and series. This year it was last Monday, so no such opportunity. So I've declared a birthweek instead, watching a little over the days. I've seen some of You, the film The Little Rascals Save The Day of very long ago, Saving Flora and will now continue with season three of Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous. I know there are some recent major films with her on Netflix, but I've seen them too recently for a rewatch. Next this weekend is her book; I've found I really need to reserve time and clear my head to read it properly, since it makes me think a lot.
#JennaOrtega


If I ever find myself in a post-apocalyptic world, I'd like to be part of Amber's tribe. It is the best tribe.
#TheTribe #BethAllen




In Go (the programming language, not the game) 5 nanoseconds multiplied by 1 minute is 5 minutes instead of 300 nano second-squared. And people explain that with saying that you need to make types explicit, that they aren't automatically converted like in other languages, and not with saying that it's just weird.



It isn't just me then. It's quite something for the main account of Netflix to come out with such a message about an actress who I think is amazing: "she's an icon, she's a legend, and she IS the moment."


@contodonetflix @jennaortega she's an icon, she's a legend, and she IS the moment.



Happy Birthday @jennaortega!

Jenna Ortega is a great actress you know from You, The Babysitter: Killer Queen, Yes Day and will know from The Fallout, Scream and of course Wednesday where she plays the Wednesday Addams. I hope she has a great day!
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With so many streaming services being American only, being a fan is often like this:

actress to her worldwide audience: I'm in a new show!
we the fans: yay!
actress: it's on paramount+! (or hulu, or hbomax, or ...)
we: oh. well, have fun. tell us how it was. can somebody make screencaps?

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While it used to be in the olden days of broadcast television:

actress: i can't talk about any new project yet, it's a big secret
(months go by)
pr for new show: show x will star your favs and begins tomorrow!
(much fanfare. appearances on all talk shows)
non-us fans: we are geo-blocked, why?
some faq: all countries want to have their own control over how and when to release and market, so there are separate licence agreements
(years go by)
some local tv station: *broadcasts show in complete silence so we all miss it*
(meanwhile)
amazon: no, we are not allowed to ship this dvd to your country



I've upgraded to Friendica 2021.09 and followed some accounts I was already following over on my Pleroma, but who were on Mastodon servers federation was broken with in the previous Friendica.


As we're getting ready for the S3 release of @YouNetflix on 15 October, I'm eagerly scanning all clues they post on social media for any sign of Ellie / @jennaortega returning in season three. None so far...

Though Ellie could be wearing the baseball cap of invisibility...

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#nft

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