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🧵I was on GMB this morning responding to Katherine Birbalsingh's comments that girls aren't choosing physics at A-Level because they don't like the hard maths and are more empathetic than boys...

I had a *lot* more to say but sadly didn't get time.

So here is a thread! 1/14

https://twitter.com/GMB/status/1519936349603778562



I have imported 'The Thread'.

Screenshot of collapsed thread saying '353 comments - Show more'. I'm afraid to click it.

Linking it here because my server is still recovering from the shock and fails to bookmark it.
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I wish the tone-policers stayed on the other side, or inhabited their own island. That's not a nice part of the current influx.


Now watching High Seas (Alta Mar) with Ivana Baquero. She impressed everybody with a standout performance in Pan's Labyrinth when she was tiny, and later as an adult the few people that saw The Shannara Chronicles were also impressed by her cool and strong portrayal, at least I was. This series on Netflix is in Spanish, so subtitles it is.
#IvanaBaquero #HighSeas #AltaMar
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The first officer on the ship is a bit of a ladies man, I remember a sci-fi series like that.
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A family boards a massive cruiseschip in the post-war forties to celebrate a wedding at sea, but it looks like nobody is really looking forward to the happy occasion and all of them have a secret agenda. I already like Ivana's character, who's a smart, independent woman.


I'm having a bit of withdrawal symptoms and I really need to see new Jenna Ortega and Dafne Keen content. Seen much already, some very recently, but so it is with these things. Not to fret, things are on their way: Jenna has finished season one of Wednesday and we're just waiting for Netflix to flip the switch. She's also filming Finestkind as we speak. Dafne has finished season three of His Dark Materials ages ago, don't know what HBO is waiting for. In the meantime we have to do with small appearances in Spanish music videos by a musician friend of hers.


What to do if you're on mobile and there's a function in the website you're browsing that's accessed by 'just hovering over it'? Well, I don't really know, but some things that help me sometimes:


  • If you have an s-pen, you can hover with that
  • long tap the item so the context menu pops up. Click outside it so it disappears, the hover popup may also have popped up behind it and still be there. (Works sometimes in Friendica)
  • in some circumstances you can tap just long enough for it not to be a click (short tap), but short enough not to be a right click (long tap), but it still brings up the hover popup. (Works sometimes in Pleroma)
  • if the thing you wanted to see was alt text (image description), in some browsers like Chrome it will show on top of the context menu. So long tap... If the text is not fully shown, tap on the text and it expands.

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Why do IDEs insist on having a different idea about what's on my disk than my disk does?


Continuing the rewatch of Alexa Nisenson (imdb.com/name/nm6835961/) centered episodes of "Fear The Walking Dead", with her choice for season five: "Skidmark" (5x04). It's the episode where her character seems to be in quite some danger which she needs to face alone, but in real Charlie style she's very cool about it. Also yet again an episode where Alexa shows she can have a real connection with another actor and spark of each other. I don't mean the cat, though the cat has a starring role too...
#AlexaNisenson #FearTheWalkingDead #Skidmark
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Rewatched some other standout episodes as well (Ner Tamid, Close Your Eyes, In Dreams). That's jumping through the seasons a bit, but all amazing acting performances by Alexa Nisenson, Alycia Debnam-Carey and Karen David. They sure can occasionally write material in which people can shine. Goosebumps inducing all around.
#AlexaNisenson #AlyciaDebnamCarey #KarenDavid #FearTheWalkingDead


More tips in the category of 'forget about the usability, just go with it', but now Amazon Prime Video:

To play a video on your tv, first open the app on your tv, then select your profile, find your series, select the season, find the episode, click ok to play it. Then repeat all previous steps because the app crashed. Always the first time you use it, without fail. Open the app again, select profile, series, season, episode, click ok. This second time it never crashes. Now click ok again to skip the advert. Yes advert, despite paying for a subscription, but you can skip it. Now your episode plays. Happy watching!



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Tomorrow's King's Day in my country, when the King has his birthday and has to work and we all celebrate that fact by having a holiday. (Obviously the people in the hospitality industry don't have a holiday because do they ever)


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!

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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