Also fediverse things:

Q: where are the adverts?
A: there aren't any.

Q: how do I switch the timeline to newest first?
A: it already is newest first.

Q: what algorithm controls the timeline?
A: none.

Q: do I get to see 'promoted posts'?
A: no.

Q: do I get to see 'posts that have been liked by someone you follow'?
A: no, if they wanted followers to see the post, they would have hit the button to share it with their followers.

Q: if I report a post that bothers me, what automated systems handle those reports?
A: a person does.

#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!

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
imdb.com/title/tt13158346/

"Fear the Walking Dead" Damage from the Inside (TV Episode 2020) - IMDb

Damage from the Inside: Directed by Tawnia McKiernan. With Lennie James, Alycia Debnam-Carey, Maggie Grace, Colman Domingo.

^IMDb

"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)

First ever tweet:

just setting up my twttr

Second ever tweet:

where's that edit button?

Please don't be kind to me

-- Bunty
#FatherBrown

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?

"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.

One mistake at a time

-- Agent May
#MarvelsAgentsOfSHIELD

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

-- Carolyn
#KillingEve

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

deadline.com/2022/04/paramo…

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

imdb.com/name/nm0503060/

Stephanie Leonidas - Actress

Stephanie Leonidas. Actress: Mirrormask. Stephanie Leonidas is an English actress. She is perhaps best known for her roles as Helena in the fantasy film MirrorMask and as Irisa on the American science fiction television series, Defiance.

^IMDb

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

deadline.com/2022/04/you-tilly…

'You' Adds Tilly Keeper, Amy Leigh Hickman, Ed Speleers & Brad Alexander Among New Cast For London-Set Season 4

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

^{Nellie Andreeva (Deadline)}

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

Deadline Hollywood

2022-04-01 15:38:51

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

"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.

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.