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Seeing a post by an actress I follow in my timeline on Instagram, where she is promoting a film and appears all bloodied in special effects makeup (shark attack) reminded me of the time I saw a post by another actress who was all bloodied in my timeline and I thought 'great! new film!', but when I checked the caption to see what film it was, I found out it was real... (cat attack) (she's fully recovered now).


I may be the only person in the world who clicks the 'watch credits' button in Netflix.


me: how do I use product x?
google: buy product x here!
or here!
get x cheap!
five ways to buy x
other people search for 'where can I buy x'
*pages and pages more like that*
me: but I already have product x, I just want to find information about using it... :-(

Google has become impossible to use as a search engine, which is unfortunate since it is a search engine.



Watching the recent film North Hollywood for the first time, because it has #MirandaCosgrove in it.
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I was going to complain that I forgot to check my Pleroma notifications for account migrations so I could do them manually in Friendica, but it seems that somehow Pleroma sometimes follows an account migration without showing the notification. (Maybe if the old account gets deleted?)


I'm already under mosquito attack sitting on my balcony, but it's too early and too warm to retreat inside. I'm going for a walk and hope they can't keep up.

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I think Ella Al-Shamahi is the real-life Indiana Jones. The below photo is not really an illustration of that fact, just an interesting picture of her, though I did think of captioning it "Real-life Indiana Jones and the Dinosaur".

The photo shows Ella in Cambodia with a bird that is more than half her size (and she's not short) playfully biting her finger. The bird is a Great Hornbill.
#EllaAlShamahi #GreatHornbill #RealLifeIndianaJones

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The bird is not in captivity and free to leave the sanctuary it's in. Though it seems like paying football too much to do so. Yes, football. Watch in this amazing video Ella posted on her Instagram: instagram.com/tv/CXWVFNwDrfU/

(I may edit this post later too include the video, for now it's over my own upload limit)

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People in the UK are in luck, a documentary series presented by her starts on Channel 4 tomorrow. This channel is blocked outside the UK, but apparently us in the rest of the world get this documentary series later this year. It's about the discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb and the curse-myth that followed.
#EllaAlShamahi #Tutankhamun

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Seen an old rebroadcast of a topical news quiz. All prime ministers featured have since gone, but despite what we thought at the time things could get worse.


Still feels weird to realise that the Commodore 64 was named after its 64kB of memory. Kilobytes, not MB or GB. Or 64 bits...

And of those 64 kilobytes, 32 kB were switched off by default and its address space used for the I/O chips. Because who needs that much memory?

There were businesses that ran their whole admin on one Commodore 64.





Browsing a site, going to page 5 in the list and it looks like they have to switch tapes in the machine to serve this request. Page 4 already took considerable time, for this one I think they even need to open a box, after locating it first.


Just started watching High Fidelity with Zoë Kravitz on StarzPlay. I really like it so far, Zoë is such a star and she seems to be in her element leading a tv series that she also exec produces. She has long since stopped being 'the daughter of' (either her father or her mother) and is a great actress (and singer) in her own right.
#ZoeKravitz #HighFidelity
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Reading up on something and apparently I can set any locale as the default locale for a cloud instance, provided I choose "C" since that is the only one that works. Also, for ssh connections it by default uses any locale specified by the client, provided it specifies "C" since that's all that it has.

(Free from Blackadder's "last meal" scene, where the prisoner could choose any last meal, provided he chose sausages since sausages was the only thing the cook made)

(I see the info about dpkg-reconfigure locales to install extra locales, but that is manual and only after a cloud instance has been instantiated. I was looking into what cloud-init can do for me)



There will be a season two of the musical tv series Schmigadoon! (exclamation mark part of the title) and Dove Cameron and Ariana DeBose will be back.
#DoveCameron #Schmigadoon
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It's so odd, I factory-reset my tv and now suddenly the picture quality is good again in a way that just reseting the picture settings didn't achieve. Or maybe a proper switching off and on again would have done the same thing?


I'm watching the season finale of Alta Mar (High Seas) again, since I can't remember what happened and I suspect it may be useful to know before watching the next seasons. I must have been very tired when I watched it, since I've got no clue. Netflix insists I did finish that episode. Anyway, more Ivana Baquero.




I'm clearly not keeping up with blogging about Jenna Ortega news because there is just so much of it. How can she do more things than I can write 'she did this thing'... Until I've caught up a quick overview:


  • She stunned at the MET gala last month and with that attendance brought in much money for charity
  • She stunned again at the MTV Movie & TV Awards yesterday, on the red carpet and on stage where she presented an award to Olivia Rodrigo
  • She won at the MTV Movie & TV Awards for her performance in Scream
  • Scream, X, Studio 666 are all out on digital and discs
  • American Carnage, the film she made long ago (I think 2019), finally has a trailer out and has a release date set for next month
  • Wednesday is coming in the Fall and will have a first look today
  • She just finished filming the film Finestkind two days ago
  • She will film Scream 6 this summer



Jenna only won at the MTV Movie Awards 'Best Frightened Performance' for Scream! That was an amazing performance indeed, well deserved!
#JennaOrtega #Scream #ScreamMovie #MTV
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Using the #Hyperspace frontend on Friendica looks reasonably ok. The notification screen even makes more sense, showing only actual notifications (instead of Friendica's 'someone you don't follow replied to another post in the thread than the one you favourited').

However, they don't seem to know all notification types, so when an rss post comes in you get this notification:



Bought a sunshade for my balcony yesterday, but couldn't test it yet because it was already later in the afternoon and the sun had turned around the building. Today it's extremely depressing weather, continuous rain and light levels haven't been above dusk yet. I'm sorry for jinxing the summer for everybody...




Instagram acting surprised and asking me to verify whether I've input my birthdate correctly, because that would make me 52 years old. Well, sorry, I am.
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YouTube asked me to verify that I'm over 18 on my account forced upon me during the G+ days from said Google account (that way even older) :surprised_pikachu:

Yes, I get it, it's a legal requirement but still… :wat:



Most people agree that the war in Ukraine needs to stop. But there's a difference in what people mean when they say that. Some, including me, think that Russia should stop its aggression and withdraw to within its own borders. Others think Ukraine should just give up and let itself be overrun.

The people arguing things like the west prolonging the war, drawing out the conflict, etc are of the latter opinion.

Why are they wrong? Because Russia will just start the next war to invade the next country. As they've done before. In fact, there's already a treaty between Russia and Ukraine where the former solemnly swore to not invade. See what those promises are worth.



It feels so weird to me to see people talking about reading books as if it's like eating snacks, consuming many of them really fast. I mean how fast can you read a book? It takes me years to read one...


Questions I have: what is foo and why are they fighting it and what is trooping and why are they doing that to colours?



We are finally stopping with Russian oil (with caveats). Great. But I wish this was done with immediate effect. Quote from Latvia's PM: "It's going to cost us more. But it's only money. The Ukrainians are paying with their lives."
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Something you can take from a role model is the inspiration to know your passion and to have the drive to persue your passion.

But I must be careful not to focus on how far from that goal I am, which could be depressing. I sort of half know what my passions are or were, but I have so little energy which manifests in having so little time to do something with that. I used to love discovering new music and going on journeys through the songs I already had. Now even putting a cd in the player already feels like too much effort.



People who deal with things they disagree with by harassing others, can and should be ignored. But I know it's hard.


I think my latest order has shipped with a steamboat.


Great to hear that #tumblr is going ahead with trying #indieweb integration. When I first saw them posting that, they confused indieweb with Mastodon, so I didn't have much faith. Now they seem to know indieweb and activitypub are two different and interesting targets to connect with.

I mean, WordPress can already do indieweb with the right plugins and tumblr sort of is WordPress these days... (well, owned by)


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As I see it, their second amendment doesn't allow private gun ownership.


There was a time when a politician's position could become 'untenable'...

Now, e.g. in the UK, a Prime Minister can take 'full responsibility' and then nothing happens. Other ministers can have reports published confirming they bullied staff, or wholly mismanaged an evacuation, and nothing happens.

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@Rothgar The problem seems to exist in a lot of countries including mine, but the examples are from the UK, two of the three even this week.


She lights the candle with a lighter, what kind of witch does that?


I was about two pages into writing a blog post that was supposed to be short and think it'd be another two pages, when the thought struck that this was all nonsense. Anyway, I'll leave it as a draft for a bit, see what I think later.
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