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A tip if you're visiting a website that does overuse lambdas and cdn's for cropping and downscaling their images, i.e. every commercial website: right click or long tap the photo, select open in new tab, edit url, remove anything that is like 'width' or 'crop' and hit enter.
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Example of doing that. The original photo loads as 681x383 pixels. When you edit the url by clicking the pencil icon, you see the parameters ?w=681&h=383&crop=1. Remove that. Click to load that address instead. You'll see that the non-downscaled photo is also on the site and is much larger: 4541x2564 pixels.
The browser indicates 681x383 pixels
Editing the url, showing the parameters after and including the '?' selected
Still editing the url, but the parameters have been removed and it ends with '.jpg'
The browser now indicates 4541x2564 pixels
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Such a waste of storage space for something no-one (but me) ever gets to see. They pay for storage, for the serverless processing and for the cdn to limit the amount of serverless processing.

Interview with Jenna Ortega in WWD about her recent projects. Shame they cropped that great photo by Jonny Marlow in the article; the twitter preview crops it even weirder, so I'll include the uncropped photo you can download from their site.
#JennaOrtega
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Black and white photo of Jenna Ortega by Jonny Marlow. Jenna is wearing a black dress and looks at the camera.
#JennaOrtega

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It's all good rooting for the underdog, but it's not a game.

I'm trying to listen to a podcast, a neighbour is trying to drill holes in concrete. I guess they're winning, or in fact it sounds like the concrete is.

Happy Birthday Georgina Leonidas!

You may know Georgina Leonidas as Miss Molly in The Basil Brush Show or maybe from the Harry Potter films, but here she is as Cousin Maureen in Jessie Cave's Flat White series on YouTube: youtu.be/UtlTilRJotU


Flat Whites: The Wheel

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Happy Birthday @George_Leonidas !

You may know Georgina Leonidas as Miss Molly in The Basil Brush Show or maybe from the Harry Potter films, but here she is as Cousin Maureen in Jessie Cave's Flat White series on YouTube: youtu.be/UtlTilRJotU

@George_Leonidas

The international volleyball association seems to think it's perfectly ok to let the men's world championships happen in Russia this year. The Dutch volleyball association has a very weak response of being 'surprised'.

Some say "but what if we can't buy Russian gas anymore?". Actually, let's fully stop dealing with Russia including not buying their gas. It'll be hard, but it's needed. As silver lining we can use the gas price increases to urgently switch to more sustainable energy consumption.
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It may seem odd to include that last point now, but the thing is we should have done this ages ago.

If you're in the US, tomorrow Friday the 25th you can see Studio 666 in the cinema. This is a horror comedy with and by the Foo Fighters in which you can also see Jenna Ortega. Should be fun! I'm so jealous.
#JennaOrtega #Studio666Movie
#JennaOrtega #Studio666Movie

Auschwitz Memorial

2022-02-24 12:44:30


The Auschwitz Memorial statement on the situation in Ukraine.

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This is what happens if you only impose weak, token sanctions. Putin takes it as a sign it's ok to continue his war. We should have zero economic dealings with Russia and a country that so flagrantly violates international law, has no place in the UN Security Council.

Select all squares with a pipe

Skip.

Before I was going to make this joke picture myself, I realised it must have been done before. h/t twitter.com/BenceNanay/status/…

A meme with the "select all squares with" challenge, but the picture is the "Ceci n'est pas une pipe" painting by René Magritte

Starting to suspect that people going on dates is just a myth perpetuated by the film industry to sell more films. Like the story of the emperor's new clothes, but 'you're not a worthy individual if this dating world seems invisible to you' and everybody going like, that's not me, I'm not that loser. Well, I'm the little boy.

"Heat it up but don't let it boil"

Sorry, what do you mean? Should I heat it up or not?

Your furniture is second-hand? Mine is last-leg.

It seems that 2 million pounds buys the UK ruling party and ensures that no more than token sanctions will be imposed.

I don't understand why most of @DoveCameron's previous singles are suddenly inaccessible on both @TIDAL and @Spotify. Leaving only 'Boyfriend' and 'Taste of You'. Now my playlists are so empty...
Playlist with Dove Cameron's music in the TIDAL app, with all but the newest two greyed out.
@Dove Cameron @Spotify @TIDAL

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Seth Abramson

2022-02-22 00:48:08


MEDIA: If you use the word “peacekeepers” in your heds or subheds you are indulging Kremlin propaganda. *Stop it*. This is a Russian invasion of Europe and your *job* as a journalist is to say so clearly and unambiguously.

—a journalism professor at an R1

Putin's invasion of Ukraine seems extremely imminent and I feel so helpless. We should not accept another country to be swept of the map. Any sanctions should be complete and absolute, the Russian regime should be cut off from any international dealings whatsoever. Don't take their gas. Don't include them in any political or economic decision making. Don't do any business at all. And not in that way that it is just a card to play in any future negotiations. We're done with Putin and will not deal with him as long as he's in charge of Russia.

Jane Lytvynenko

2022-02-21 20:42:57


The worst possible thing the West can do right now is impose weak, inconsequential sanctions.

Putin will treat them as a doormat for him to step on as he further invades Ukraine.

Binged the final (fourth) season of UnREAL this weekend, the series with Shiri Appleby. It was a worthy closing of this amazing show, getting to quite some climax. Two episodes this season directed by Shiri, so that's great too.
#ShiriAppleby #UnREAL #UnREALtv
#UnREALtv #UnReal #ShiriAppleby

I'm not thinking appeasement will work this time either.

"They have either all retired while still teenagers or gone on a break from the sport with no return imminent."

There is something really wrong in (Russian) figure skating.

Shared a photo and video on Instagram and as part of my split social media personality wanted to share it on the fediverse too. Photo went ok on Pixelfed, the video was not accepted. Tried Friendica, failed too. Where oh where to upload a video on the fediverse?

Hang on. I have my own Peertube server. Why didn't I think about that...

Anyway, the share-as-remote-self function of Friendica has now also been tested and works fine.

Empire Magazine

2022-02-16 17:17:37


EXCLUSIVE: Jenna Ortega talks playing Wednesday Addams for Tim Burton: "She's a Latina character, and that's never been represented," she tells Empire.

READ MORE: empireonline.com/movies/news/je…

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For the Stephanie Leonidas #BirthdayRewatch I'll start my rewatch of season one of Snatch. Hapless London gangsters need the help of Stephanie's character to shift their accidental loot before the mob finds out they have it.

Stephanie Leonidas

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Stephanie Leonidas (born 14 February 1984 in London, England) is an English actress of Greek Cypriot descent.
The Movie Database
#BirthdayRewatch

14 February is a date with a special significance: it's Stephanie Leonidas's birthday! Happy Birthday @StephLeonidas !

Here she is in Van Der Valk. Catch her also in Killjoys, Defiance, American Gothic, Snatch, Mirrormask, Crusade in Jeans, etc, etc...

Stephanie as Eva Meisner in Van Der Valk. Red top, brown jacket, leaning on a bar with many almost empty bottles on it.
@StephLeonidas

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Completed my collection of American Gods blu-rays recently, which is that series where Emily Browning plays 'the dead wife'. Interesting that her character dies season 1, episode 1, yet in season 3 she's still around. As she should be. Starting the rewatch at season 2.
#EmilyBrowning #AmericanGods
#AmericanGods #EmilyBrowning
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Yeah, he's my husband. If you hurt him I'll kill you.
-- Laura


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I have read the first two books, seen the first film based on the second book, but haven't seen the third film based on the fourth book yet. It has Felicity Jones in it, so let's go.
#FelicityJones #Inferno #DanBrown
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Inferno (2016) - IMDb

Inferno: Directed by Ron Howard. With Tom Hanks, Felicity Jones, Omar Sy, Irrfan Khan. When Robert Langdon wakes up in an Italian hospital with amnesia, he teams up with Dr.
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#FelicityJones #Inferno #DanBrown
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Depicting the WHO as an efficient tracking and tracing organisation. Rather dates this film.
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Stuff to discuss, which I won't because of spoilers, but let's just say that 'evil organisation' has some logic flaws in their propaganda which are easy to point out but which this film doesn't. Which makes the film feel like just some light viewing.

As a Jessica Alba fan I have of course seen The Eye, a thriller from a while back (2008). But iMDB alerted me to a small role that Chloë Grace Moretz also plays in this film. This means that without knowing it, I had already seen Chloë even before Kick Ass, which I thought was where I saw her first. Checking it out now, with this extra information.

This "you won't believe her eyes" tagline... very funny. I'll be remembering that along with the "fuller" line out of Dark Angel... no further comment.

dvd cover with Jessica Alba, her eyes white (her character is blind)
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It must have been the bandana that made me not recognise her...

I knew Emily Browning gave a mesmerising performance in Sucker Punch, but only today I found out that some mesmerising versions of songs on the soundtrack were sung by her as well. E.g. the hauntingly fitting version of Sweet Dreams (are made of this) is her.

Colombia Records posting a bathroom selfie from one of their artists rather than some official glossy photo shoot, I like it.

Dove Cameron's boyfriend comes out on Friday.

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Also, in Europe it's already Friday and for us her song is already available on TIDAL and Spotify!

Happy Birthday @ChloeGMoretz !

I'm celebrating her 25th birthday by rewatching her amazing performance in The Miseducation of Cameron Post. May I also recommend the other films I saw recently, Shadow in the Cloud and Mother/Android? Or her million other films.
#ChloëGraceMoretz

#ChloëGraceMoretz @Chloë Grace Moretz

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The Miseducation of Cameron Post is such a great film! I may have some weird taste in films, having Life is Sweet and Home for the Holidays in my all time favourites list rather than some classics, but this film certainly is a recent addition to that list. It's right up my alley.

My attempt to use TIDAL is not going well. Upon minutes of signing up I find several songs attributed to the wrong artist and no way to report this. Also despite TIDAL (like Spotify) supposedly having 80mln songs, I'm missing some artists. Also, it's not free outside the US.

Watching more Felicity Jones in Chalet Girl.
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Chalet Girl (2011) - IMDb

Chalet Girl: Directed by Phil Traill. With Miquita Oliver, Rick Edwards, Felicity Jones, Bill Bailey. Former skateboard champion Kim wants to make more money after her mother's tragic death.
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Girl tries to win a snowboarding competition for the prize money and the fact that she never snowboarded before isn't even the biggest problem. Nice film with themes of dealing with loss and class differences. I like that the men in this film that are pigs are really shown to be pigs.

A bit disturbing of this mainstream tv series to have a baby character straight up murder someone, not accidentally but intentionally. I know they have this good vs evil thing going on and the guy was very evil, but still.
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The only way to stop a bad baby with a gun is a good baby with a gun

It says on the packaging that these cookies can be kept until October 2022, but that's not true since I finished them already.

We need nuclear fusion to be viable and we need it now.

Looks like there are two more steps:

  1. The next research reactor (ITER) needs to break even
  2. Commercial reactors generate more electricity than they use


BBC News - Oxford's JET lab smashes nuclear fusion energy output record
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If dinosaurs would spend less time roaring and more time hunting, they wouldn't let all these time travelling humans get away.

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