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company: thank you for your patience.
me: I explicitly tried to avoid the impression that I had any patience.



We're still buying Russian gas and oil. Let's stop that. Let's stop funding a war.
in reply to Gidi Kroon

This will raise energy prices, certainly. But one could argue that the energy prices should have been higher a long time ago anyway according to supply and demand, when we found out the unsustainable nature of the supply.




This Nature paper concludes that even mild cases of Covid have a substantial impact on risk of heart disease.
It should give pause for thought to all those tennis players and football players yet to be vaccinated.
And, of course, it reminds us once again that Covid is not a cold

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A film with Robin Tunney and Neve Campbell? About witches? Yes please! Rewatching The Craft now. No idea what language the link preview poster is in.
#RobinTunney #NeveCampbell #TheCraft
themoviedb.org/movie/9100


🧵 over on 🐦: twitter.com/jennaortega/status…


We must never give up on the people of Ukraine, Yemen, Palestine, Kashmir, Iraq, Syria… the list goes on unfortunately. For anyone who is willing & wanting to contribute any way they can, I want to form a thread with information. Does anyone have resources/links they could add?


In Nederland kan je doneren aan de samenwerkende hulporganisaties @Giro555 via giro555.nl .


Hundreds of thousands of people across Ukraine have been forced to flee their homes. Families have been separated, homes destroyed and lives are in danger. #UkraineAppeal Donate to @decappeal now

bit.ly/DECUkraineAppe…

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We must never give up on the people of Ukraine, Yemen, Palestine, Kashmir, Iraq, Syria… the list goes on unfortunately. For anyone who is willing & wanting to contribute any way they can, I want to form a thread with information. Does anyone have resources/links they could add?





Already dislike letterboxd, it only allows me to have four favourite films. That's not compatible with how my mind works...


Turns out the recording of a tv programme on a set-top box is adversely affected by blowing a fuse.



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.
in reply to Gidi Kroon

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.
in reply to Gidi Kroon

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
wwd.com/eye/people/jen…

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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



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



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.
in reply to Gidi Kroon

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



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.



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?




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...

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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.




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


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.