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Nicholas Latifi

2021-12-21 15:00:59


A message from me after the events of Abu Dhabi

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Watching Eliza Dushku's episodes of Banshee (that's starting with 4x04), since from 1 January all HBO content becomes unavailable in the Netherlands.
#ElizaDushku #Banshee

Eliza Dushku - IMDb

Eliza Dushku, Actress: Bring It On. Eliza Dushku was born in Boston, Massachusetts, to Judith (Rasmussen), a political science professor, and Philip R. Dushku, a teacher and administrator.
Eliza Dushku (IMDb)
#ElizaDushku

Hallo @hbomaxnl, 27 jan komt The Fallout wereldwijd bij HBOMax. Aangezien Ziggo stopt met HBO per 1 jan, kan ik er vanuit gaan dat ik deze film dan bij jullie kan zien? Het zou vervelend zijn als we in Nederland net buiten de boot zouden vallen. Ik wacht hier al lang op...
@hbomaxnl

The Disney film Upside-Down Magic is surprisingly sad. It's about squashed dreams and kids having to come to terms with having no future. Obviously there's a different resolution to the film. Siena Agudong as Reina (second lead in the film and the reason I watched it) is amazing as the girl who's buckling under the pressure of expectations and insecurities. You really feel this role. Alison Fernandez in the supporting role of Pepper is really good as well; I know her from Logan and the final season of Once Upon a Time. Izabela Rose of course carries the film very well as the girl who's magic is 'upside-down'.
#SienaAgudong #UpsideDownMagic

Upside-Down Magic (TV Movie 2020) - IMDb

Upside-Down Magic: Directed by Joe Nussbaum. With Izabela Rose, Siena Agudong, Kyle Howard, Elie Samouhi.
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#SienaAgudong #UpsideDownMagic

Now watching Brothers because of Natalie Portman, even though she doesn't play one of the brothers. Sounds like she could be the stereotypical military wife, but we'll see how it goes.
#NataliePortman #Brothers
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Brothers (2009) - IMDb

Brothers: Directed by Jim Sheridan. With Tobey Maguire, Jake Gyllenhaal, Natalie Portman, Sam Shepard. While on tour in Afghanistan, Sam's copter is shot down and he is presumed dead. Back home, it is his screw-up brother who looks after the family.
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#NataliePortman #Brothers
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The story of the brother that was presumed dead is the more interesting one. I think the character of the wife failed to be written in an interesting way, she's just there to support the story of others. She spends a lot of time just looking at people and herding kids. I didn't like the stereotype of her warming to a guy the moment he's kind to her kids. The few moments the character is allowed emotions, Natalie does this well of course. I'd wish her feelings after learning her husband was dead could be explored more than that one scene when she's laying on her bed; the remainder of the time she has to put up a brave face for her family.

I'm watching The Mauritanian because of Jodie Foster. I'm also testing the Pathé Thuis service, where the largest cinema chain in my country lets you watch new and old films at home for a per-film ticket price. This is an old one.
#JodieFoster #TheMauritanian #PatheThuis

The Mauritanian - movie: watch stream online

Is Netflix, Videoland, Pathé Thuis, Google Play, iTunes etc. streaming The Mauritanian? Find where to watch movies online now!
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#JodieFoster #TheMauritanian #PatheThuis
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The sound is in surround, which is better than some streaming services that you actually pay a subscription for. The subtitles are Dutch or none, with the latter being really none. Usually when you don't have subtitles on an English language film, you get English subtitles on the foreign language bits. But here they are like, you wanted no subtitles, you get no subtitles, hope you speak Arabic.
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The film is apparently not old, from 2021 it seems. I thought it was older, time flies.

The service has 160 films from 2021 and another 335 from 2020, so a quite up to date catalogue.

This has people worried. The emails also went out to individual hobbyists, testing their reaction, not just to companies and organisations. Intentionally or not, this is research on persons that didn't agree to being, or even knew they were, test subjects.
#PrincetonPrivacyStudy

Jeff Kosseff

2021-12-17 12:15:04


Because I'm friends with a bunch of privacy folks on here, I want to give a PSA about an oddly worded request for info about data access procedures. It's a Princeton study, and you are under no obligation to respond. I think it's worthwhile to outline the study and my concerns:
#PrincetonPrivacyStudy

The Fallout will be available on HBO Max from 27 January. I'm so excited to see Jenna Ortega in this film!
#JennaOrtega #TheFallout
#JennaOrtega #TheFallout
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Obviously I won't be able to watch it myself, since all HBO content will get removed in my country at the end of this year, with no mention of when it will be back. But I'm excited about everyone else seeing it. I'll have to wait patiently (or not) a little longer.

The Conversation

2021-12-17 17:44:47


Experts wanted to find out how COVID travels through the air in buildings so they could understand more about the risk of airborne infection

This is what they found ⬇️🧵

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"I'm not sure whose twisted idea it was to put hundreds of adolescents in underfunded schools run by people whose dreams were crushed years ago, but I admire the sadism."

A line from the new Netflix tv series Wednesday and it's a beauty.

#JennaOrtega #Wednesday

#JennaOrtega #Wednesday

Entertainment Weekly

2021-12-16 21:40:07


Read a script page from 'Wednesday,' Netflix's upcoming Wednesday Addams series starring Jenna Ortega. ew.com/tv/wednesday-n…

The cinema release for Scream (the fifth installment starring Jenna Ortega) is now listed in Dutch cinemas as 20 January. Earlier it had said 13, which would have been weird since it's 14 in the US and our Covid measures run to at least 14 Jan.

#ScreamMovie #JennaOrtega #Scream

#JennaOrtega #scream #ScreamMovie

"Mother/Android" with Chloë Grace Moretz may be out
on Hulu today (Friday), but that's US only. Apparently it's on Netflix in my country (NL) on 7 January.
#ChloëGraceMoretz #MotherAndroid

netflix.com/us/title/81038…

#ChloëGraceMoretz #MotherAndroid

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Chloë Grace Moretz

2021-12-16 21:59:57


Who’s gonna be checking out #MotherAndroid on @hulu tomorrow ?!
#MotherAndroid @Hulu

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Skipping some steps and using "what's your eighties band name" as a security question.

I like watching Lacey Chabert and nowadays that means watching Christmas films. So I'm watching A Wish For Christmas. Today is the last day it is in the Netflix catalogue, it's not as if there's some date coming up soon making it relevant.
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Lacey Chabert - IMDb

Lacey Chabert, Actress: Mean Girls. Lacey Nicole Chabert was born in Purvis, Mississippi, to Julie (Johnson) and Tony Chabert, a representative for an oil company. She is of Cajun (French), Italian, English, and Scottish ancestry.
Lacey Chabert (IMDb)
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According to the trivia she was pregnant while filming this. Her character isn't, so that explains the massively big handbags she's carrying in front of her.

How am I considered late with a task if the deadline is tomorrow? Isn't a deadline when you start doing things? More live-line than deadline.

Scream

2021-12-14 14:01:00


Suspect #7: Tara (@jennaortega)


#7 @Jenna Ortega

me: *opens local url*
browser: this site is secure.
me: how is this site secure?
browser: the certificate is valid.
me: how is the certificate valid?
browser: issued by Gidi CA.
me: ah, I see. messed with this before.

Jenna Ortega

2021-12-13 18:38:10


We are one month away, folks!

https://twitter.com/ScreamMovies/status/1470408178965762053

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Since Anna Hopkins is also in season 6 of The Expanse, I'm watching it now on amazon prime.
#AnnaHopkins #TheExpanse
instagram.com/p/CXbaPh-JpVT/
#TheExpanse #AnnaHopkins

Watching Chloë Grace Moretz in Kick Ass and Kick Ass 2 (which I call Hit Girl 1), because Chloë is amazing and because I got a better recording of them than I had before.
#ChloëGraceMoretz #KickAss #HitGirl

Chloë Grace Moretz - IMDb

Chloë Grace Moretz, Actress: Kick-Ass. Chloë Grace Moretz was born in Atlanta, Georgia, to Teri (Duke), a nurse, and McCoy Lee Moretz, a plastic surgeon. She has four brothers, all older, including actor Trevor Duke-Moretz.
Chloë Grace Moretz (IMDb)
#ChloëGraceMoretz #KickAss #HitGirl
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I sometimes argue that there's never a real fight between female and male characters in action films, that if there is a fight the female action hero always cleanly knocks out the male baddies. But I stand corrected here. There's a full out fight between a male baddie and the 12yo girl and she receives a lot of punches, having to dig really deep to survive.

I'm not promoting violence of any kind, but I like films being different. If it's an action film and you're going to have violence anyway, this sure is different.

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Another great thing about Kick Ass 2 is that it also has Lindy Booth and Ella Purnell in it.

It's good to get the information about the omicron situation from experts, even if the news is bad. Here a thread on Twitter.

My takeaways: a single shot of AstraZeneca gives 0% protection. But 2x Pfizer + Pfizer booster has the same protection we are used to. The latter is what we were going for anyway. Also, the extra doubling rate more than nullifies any reduced illness; in a few days you'll have the same levels of hospitalizations and deaths.

Ewan Birney

2021-12-11 15:41:23


COVID thoughts from cold, Christmas London. TL;DR The Omicron storm clouds are glowering above Europe, but its unclear whether this will just be rain and hail of COVID or rain, hail, tornados and hurricanes of infection and subsequent hospitalisation of COVID.
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For people using software that doesn't show quoted posts properly, looking at you Pleroma, here's the thread link: twitter.com/ewanbirney/status/…

Ewan Birney

2021-12-11 15:41:23


COVID thoughts from cold, Christmas London. TL;DR The Omicron storm clouds are glowering above Europe, but its unclear whether this will just be rain and hail of COVID or rain, hail, tornados and hurricanes of infection and subsequent hospitalisation of COVID.

It's the final weekend with #F1 on tv in the Netherlands. From next year it's recaps only.

If #MaxVerstappen doesn't win the championship this year, we won't see him win it other years either.

#f1 #MaxVerstappen
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But it's about 20 weekends of free time a year to do other stuff.

I'm about to watch me some Olivia Cooke, in Thoroughbreds. Just added on Netflix.

Olivia Cooke - IMDb

Olivia Cooke, Actress: Ready Player One. Olivia Cooke was born and raised in Oldham, a former textile manufacturing town in Greater Manchester, North West England.
Olivia Cooke (IMDb)

jeffrey combs

2021-12-08 15:52:12


How it is.

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I also learned that people think that the rumoured $799 for a Samsung Galaxy S22 is aggressive pricing, i.e. cheap. That's not my idea of cheap. Prices for high end phones have gone totally out of control.

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So apparently Instagram is working on trying to roll out the chronological feed somewhere next year.

Working on? Roll out? Next year? Just switch off that algorithm that messes up the feed and we're ok.

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Prof Alice Roberts💙

2021-12-09 00:00:05


It's not about "complying".
It's about being sensible and kind.
We can look after each other.

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Yeah. Sunlight is bad for magical plants.


-- Yasmin
#Nightbooks

#Nightbooks

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Scream

2021-12-05 00:45:22


Your number’s up, Tara. 📞 #ScreamMovie

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#ScreamMovie

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This film's classification says I need to be twelve to watch it. I'm not. So I guess I'm watching it illegally...

Stay Close, a series on Netflix that features Lindsay Armaou, will be available from 31 December!
#LindsayArmaou #StayClose
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Lindsay Armaou - IMDb

Lindsay Armaou, Soundtrack: The Smoke. Lindsay Armaou was born on December 18, 1978 in Athens, Greece as Lindsay Gael Christian Elaine Armaou. She is an actress and composer, known for The Smoke (2014), What Women Want (2000) and Wireless (2014).
Lindsay Armaou (IMDb)
#StayClose #LindsayArmaou

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The tumblr-style reblog(*) I did looks ok on Friendica, but not so much on Pleroma and Mastodon. There it's just a normal repeat or boost.

(*) essentially a quote share with the added text after the quoted post.

Measures to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by restricting the number of pigs on pig farms may reduce the number of pigs on pig farms, pig farmers warn.

Measures meant to reduce Covid spread by restricting the amount of people going to shops may reduce the amount of people going to shops, shopkeepers warn.

Measures meant to restrict Covid spread by restricting the amount of people travelling, may restrict the amount of people travelling, travel industry warns.

I suspect that one of these 110 Misskey servers reports 1234567890 users and the other 109 have 377 in total, or this is a very high, very coincidental number.
Federation statistics showing Misskey (110/1234568267)

I'd do a tip saying that you can best run your washing machine in off hours since evening out energy usage is better for the environment and that always doing that is even better since predictability of energy usage is even more important, but I'm afraid someone would come by and cancels me for using a washing machine instead of doing the laundry with a washing board. Only for that person to be cancelled for doing any laundry at all, since it's best to just keep wearing your smelly clothes. So I won't. I'll leave this here, do with it whatever you want.

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If by off hours you mean night, then I sure will cancel you for suggesting being noisy and interfering with my sleep. :)

An interesting parody thread over on twitter:

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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