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#FediTips #feditip There's more to the fediverse than #Mastodon. E.g. I post this from #Friendica, which allows longer posts with text formatting and pictures. It all connects anyway. (It also has editing, forums, side-channels, connectors with various mainstream services)

You also don't need to 'find a community that suits you', despite what many are saying, if you're not into that type of thing. You can, with some tech knowhow, self host a server like I do and have your very own place to post from. No-one setting quota, no-one setting rules you don't agree with. Or you can just join a big general server and post from there, if you want.

Finding posts about your interests is tricky however, since hashtags don't really work as you'd think. One way is to find people in the list of the trunk project or in the directories provided by your Mastodon or Friendica server.

Oh, and have fun!

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People in the US and the UK can now see the Charlie-centric episode Mourning Cloak of Fear The Walking Dead (7x10). For me that's going to be another couple of months if not a year. In yesterday's Insta-takeover Alexa Nisenson (who plays Charlie) revealed what her favourite episodes of each season were to film: 7x10 Mourning Cloak, 6x07 Damage From The Inside, 5x04 Skidmark and 4x10 Close Your Eyes. I've watched the latter many times already and can concur that it's a great episode, as are the others she mentions, though 5x12 Ner Tamid is a classic too.

Since I can't watch season 7, but want to mark the occasion anyway, I'll be rewatching these other episodes. In reverse order. Starting with session 6's Damage From The Inside.
#AlexaNisenson #FearTheWalkingDead
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It's also a great episode if you love Alycia Debnam-Carey, which I do.


Reply-spam is way more of an issue than I realised. If your federated timeline of your selfhosted server is public, like I think it is for PeerTube, any link spam replies to external videos just get hosted by you while on e.g. Wordpress these would have ended up in the moderation queue. At least I have disabled search engine indexing of external videos on my PeerTube, and made the federated timelines non-public on Friendica and Pleroma, so they don't get any seo satisfaction.


"I'm no doctor, but I've watched House [...]"

When replies are actually funny.

(Intentionally taken out of context since I don't want to promote that context)



I was wondering whether there was some kind of 'name my project' generator out there and it turns out there's a whole business around it. All the ones I saw though are very very bad.


First ever tweet:

just setting up my twttr

Second ever tweet:

where's that edit button?


long, thoughts about tumblr and what its differentiating factors are to me
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I forgot: side-blogs! At least Friendica has that. Ideal for different thematic channels...



It's the Freaky Friday episode... 😒

Also in another storyline, and I don't know how these things usually work, but is it customary for a woman to make a withdrawal at a sperm bank?



I'm going to have to figure out what music I was listening to in 1999, but those 8x4 'best' albums of 1999 aren't it. Most I've never even heard of. Guess regional differences were even greater back then.


"End User License Agreement"

Hang on, why would I want to end the agreement?



When Republicans are complaining about a thing, it's never really about the thing itself for them. They see politics and I guess all of life as a game, a debating game, where they analyse their opponents and see everything different from the norm as an opportunity to attack their opponents with. While to normal people taking a risk with anything (from fashion choices to supporting something ahead of the bandwagon) would be celebrated, they pounce on it. If it's something actually wrong, they enlarge it beyond recognition.

It's not even about them not doing the same thing. It's still that game: if your opponent has an opportunity to attack you back on the same thing, but doesn't, they don't see their own failing, but their opponent's weakness.

This is even true with Clinton's email server: they weren't phased one bit when it came out they did the same thing, because that never was the issue.

So don't debate back on the issue. Ignore. Don't point out the hypocrisy, they don't care. Don't reply. Counter with things they do wrong, for there are many.



Happy Easter / Passover / Ramadan / Holiday / Sunday!
(or whatever else applies)



Melissa Joan Hart (Clarissa in Clarissa Explains It All and Sabrina in Sabrina The Teenage Witch) posted this photo of Miranda Cosgrove (Carly in iCarly) on her Instagram and I have questions. I also don't have access to the iCarly reboot, so that's probably why.
#MirandaCosgrove #iCarly #LeadActressesAllTheWay


I really like this photo that Rachael Leigh Cook just posted of herself on Instagram. Such a gorgeous smile. Most people will know her from She's All That, Josie and The Pussycats and the tv series Perception. Reading through her imdb just now I came across more titles I have seen and am thinking how I can rewatch those.
#RachaelLeighCook


Rewatching Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. season one and I had forgotten what the name of Chloe Bennet's character was in this season. She's had a few.


Look what has arrived today and what I'll be watching! #ScreamMovie with #JennaOrtega is out on various discs in Europe this month.

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Will there finally be a story in a film or tv episode where the female character at the end of it doesn't choose between the male characters on offer, but just says no I have better things to do with my life than marrying the least worst option.
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Though I was watching an Agatha Christie story so I guess she should be happy they all survived.


"I mean, anyone would think that a vagina was an invisibility cloak."


-- Carolyn
#KillingEve

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New thriller with Jenna Ortega announced: Finestkind will be on Paramount+ where it does or will exist, with the possibility that we may get to see it elsewhere too.
#JennaOrtega #Finestkind

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Watching Stephanie Leonidas in the episode she filmed in Amsterdam, for Van der Valk, since the dvd arrived.
#StephanieLeonidas #VanDerValk

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Rewatching The Fallout since it's just such a good film.
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Another thing you wouldn't guess from the trailer is that this film at times is very funny.


Can someone put another quarter into the internet box?


Watching Ciara Bravo in Small Engine Repair. I missed when it was in the cinema in NL, if it ever was, but it's on digital now.
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Can't say more about it, but it's certainly an interesting film.


Me not understanding how the final episode of Doctor Who with Jodie and Mandip ended can be explained by it not actually being the final episode: we're getting another one with them 17 April. And I think another one after that, though I'm not sure.


Just back from watching Studio 666 in the cinema. I knew Jenna Ortega would be in it for only a bit, which was true. Impressive how even in these small moments she delivers and makes the experience intense and captivating.
#Studio666 #JennaOrtega


Season four of You (on Netflix) will have the amazingly talented Amy-Leigh Hickman in it. I'm also hoping we are getting Jenna Ortega back as Ellie, who already showed her extraordinary talents in S2. That would make for the perfect season!
#AmyLeighHickman #YouNetflix

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Season four of @YouNetflix will have the amazingly talented @AmyLHickman in it. I'm also hoping we are getting @jennaortega back as Ellie, who already showed her extraordinary talents in S2. That would make the perfect season!
#AmyLeighHickman #YouNetflix


EXCLUSIVE: Tilly Keeper, Amy Leigh Hickman, and Ed Speleers have joined #YouNetflix as series regulars opposite Penn Badgley in the upcoming fourth season of the Netflix series, which will be set in a new location, London bit.ly/376SJLd


Today Studio 666 is released in Dutch cinemas. This means that currently *three* films with Jenna Ortega are playing in the same cinema each day, as Scream and X are also running!
#Studio666Movie #XMovie #ScreamMovie #JennaOrtega


The video for Dove Cameron's song Boyfriend is out now:
#DoveCameron #Boyfriend
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"Zelensky vraagt: stop met de import van Russische olie en gas.

Dat gaat enorme impact hebben op onze economie, op onze levens.

Maar als het ons echt menens is, als we naast OekraΓ―ne staan, dan pakken we hier op door."

@jesseklaver in debat over de toespraak van @ZelenskyyUa:




"Russia threatens to stop supplying gas if not paid in roubles"

Let them. There are short term, midterm and long term solutions that we should have done ages ago. Let's use this blackmail to actually go ahead and achieve energy independence (from some other countries as well) and save the environment at the same time. It'll cost money, damage the economy, but that's both the price to pay for taking a moral stance to not finance a war, and the cost of acting too late to get our energy consumption in order. It's not as if we didn't know this already.



Reminded that the Chernobyl accident happened when they were doing a test, but at the last moment decided to do the test even more safely than originally planned. I.e. to do the test differently than originally planned... Don't do that.
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"So we planned, prepared and calculated to do this test at full power. Half power must be safer, what even are nonlinear characteristics" (Chernobyl)

"So we prepared and tested to automatically and regularly delete log files on this computer, but we have enough storage, they are only small and who knows we need them anyway, what even are inodes" (a Mars rover)

Edit: in trying to find details for the latter point I can only find info about the Spirit rover running out of disk space due to forgetting to delete old files, so nothing to do with inodes nor with a change of plan. So I guess I was misinformed about that.



Oh wow, apparently Mastodon is going to get editing. I didn't know that. The stuff I miss when I don't follow the developments.

Edit: nothing to edit but I do it anyway for purposes of snark.





On March 24 2009, I wrote my first essay about my harrowing experience as a child model working in the fashion industry.


Republican senators in the US that hear all the evidence, weigh all the information, then come to the conclusion that she's black.


Today is the release of season two of Bridgerton on Netflix. I came to watch season one because of Harriet Cains, Kathryn Drysdale and Phoebe Dynevor and came to love the performances by Claudia Jessie and Florence Hunt as well. So yeah, I'll be watching season two!
#Bridgerton


Yesterday a carpenter came round to do some work on the kitchen. He asked what work I do. When I mentioned that I made computer programs, he said that he only knew it as being about ones and zeros, but putting them in the correct order. And I guess, he's so right?
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