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That's a fun little game!


If you ever felt (or knew) that most “just the tip of the iceberg“ slide illustrations look kinda wrong, you can put any iceberg to the test and see how it floats. :D

joshdata.me/iceberger.html




Proof that announcing a book on the fediverse can also lead to sales... This is "Anatomical Oddities" by @Prof Alice Roberts . Just arrived today!
#AliceRoberts #AnatomicalOddities




Jenna Ortega interviewed by Jimmy Kimmel on the Jimmy Kimmel Show, about Wednesday, Tim Burton, Christina Ricci, starting acting so young and her mom.
#JennaOrtega #JimmyKimmel
youtu.be/HWE6cWEk74g


I still pronounce iCarly as 'ickerly' because once a joke is funny it remains funny, right? Right?
#iCarly


Russia's war in Ukraine

Many people are worrying about what will happen next, now it may be that Russian bombs have landed and killed in Poland, a Nato country. A few years ago Russia shot down a whole airliner killing all people on board, and nothing happened. Why would today be any different?

(Something, nonviolent, should have happened so maybe we wouldn't be here today)



Great photos of the honourees including Jenna Ortega. Note that the link they give accesses the original, full, non-watermarked photos, in case you like such a thing.


Check out some of our FAV pics 🔥from last night @imdbpro portrait studio with our Celebrate Latino Cinema honorees
More at from the IMDB PRO GALLERY LINK at dam.gettyimages.com/assignments/im… dam.gettyimages.com/assignments/im…

#celebratelatinocinema @jennaortega @IsmaelC_C #CriticsChoice
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It was a beautiful night at the @CriticsChoice 2nd Annual Celebration of Latino Cinema and Talent! Help us honor these incredible selections.

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Wednesday Addams had a very on-brand message for Netflix employees in the elevators this morning

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When you follow someone and receive their messages, you'd think that's an action you do, or your server does for you. But it's the other way around: the other account, or its server, is sending these messages to you. It's like being on a mailinglist. You've subscribed once (or clicked 'follow'), but after that they're the ones sending out the messages.

"But can someone put you on their followers list without you clicking 'follow'?" In theory, yes. They can send messages to your server as if you follow them. But your server will not present them in your timeline since the 'follow' is not registered in your account as well. In this case you'll not see these messages. So in practise there's no problem.



How romantic it must be to get imprisoned in a castle and made to squeeze out heirs


-- Rhaenyra
#HouseOfTheDragon

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"I would happily row myself back to King's Landing, ..." I think the reason why Rhaenyra's words make such an impact on the people around her is that they know she would do it.
#HouseOfTheDragon


Watched some more of the new iCarly yesterday to get my Miranda Cosgrove fix. I'm still on season 1, she's filming season 3 already. Now I'll do the next episode of House Of The Dragon. Only two more episodes left until they jump to a later time and other actresses, so that will be no more Milly Alcock as Rhaenyra (😪) but we get to see Olivia Cooke as Alicent (🥳).

With that name I can only imagine Milly getting bullied at school and that when she has to give her name in any formal setting, they come back with: 'I'm sorry how do you spell that?'. I feel that now, by becoming a major actress, she's got her vengeance.

#MirandaCosgrove #iCarly #MillyAlcock #OliviaCooke





This idea that having to pay for a vip subscription would stop bad people, have they learned nothing from tinder? It's how you recognise the scammers over there...

A photo of a beautiful woman, on tinder, not listing age or location (a pay-only feature) ==> fake.



I love that Caroline Orr (rvawonk) is now also on the fediverse! (As @Caroline Orr Bueno ). I have to quote her message on twitter about it though:


Lol everyone on Mastodon is all, “I love dogs”, “Saving the planet,” “Humanity is great” …. and then I burst in the room with “Studying hostile social manipulation and weaponized influence.”

She is of course wrong. It's cats.

I'm kidding, “studying hostile social manipulation and weaponized influence” is exactly what a lot of people here would be interested in, in my experience. I certainly am.



Wow, I had both the Wordle and Framed in two guesses today!


Mentioning Twitter
What if @Twitter really went bankrupt? Its new owner is floating the idea. We've been sort of half dealing with the influx into the fediverse, but a full on migration of everybody is something the servers will probably not survive. There are just some things in ActivityPub that just don't scale.
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Mentioning Twitter
@Hank G ☑️ I hope so, but I don't know which platform people could flock to. Tumblr? Discord? I don't see Snapchat or Tiktok covering the same use case.


I dislike that there are sometimes interviews of days ago that I didn't hear about. I understand that it's not on the fediverse, but also not on twitter or Instagram. You'd think I'd get a thrill from being the first to share news, but I'd much rather be the receiver of news... Much more relaxing. Where are the days that someone's publicist would publish an official website?


Another Jenna Ortega interview about Wednesday, on WhenInManilla. She talks about playing the cello and how she insisted it was her, and also about choreographing the dance. Sounds like Tim Burton trusted her input a lot, and why not.
#JennaOrtega #WednesdayNetflix #Wednesday
youtu.be/XDLwQyjsTUQ


Jenna Ortega talks to a guy named Jake on "Jake's takes" about Wednesday. They discuss how she choreographed the dance and that if Wednesday were to watch Scream, she'd criticise Ghostface for being clumsy.
#JennaOrtega #WednesdayNetflix #Wednesday #Scream
youtu.be/P4xDMEhoDSw


Jenna Ortega interview with ExtraTV about Wednesday. I love how you get hints of how she's more involved in the process of making films and shows than is normally expected from an actor. About the fencing, about how the romance was handled.
youtu.be/cUNqlFnD7wo
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I like the "and she knows" comment. And the "not to brag, but..." bit about the fencing... Btw, she also got praise from the cello teacher, not mentioned in this interview. Is there anything she can't do?

(forgot the hashtags)
#JennaOrtega #WednesdayNetflix #Wednesday



Jenna Ortega and her Wednesday cast mates speak to NME interview, with interesting tidbits about the show.
#JennaOrtega #WednesdayNetflix #Wednesday
nme.com/features/tv-interviews…


Email subject: internet and tv for €1 per month!
Me: Sounds a bit too good to be true.
The offer itself: it's actually €22,95 per month.
Their rationale: the offer is for existing tv customers that already pay €21,95 per month.


We're all actors here in the fediverse (*) (**).

(*) In Activitypub, one of the protocols behind the fediverse, any addressable entity is called an actor. So your account is an actor. The server is an actor. Your separate PeerTube channels are actors. Forums and groups are actors. Unfortunately, hashtags aren't actors.

(**) In some circles social media accounts are accused of being actors suggesting there's some paid motive to some movements.





So you actually *can* distinguish between types of verified users by clicking on the checkmark in their profile.

Still an annoying extra step, but … better than nothing:

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It's Wednesday, so a new Wednesday clip! An amazing look inside Nevermore Academy with some cast and crew quotes. There are some new clips with Jenna Ortega as Wednesday and I'm even more impressed; she doesn't just always excels, she exceeds. It's going to be so amazing! (23 Nov, Netflix)
#JennaOrtega #Wednesday #NevermoreAcademy
youtu.be/N1OKeHFX0PQ



Going around correcting people who didn't ask you to is such an ugly trait. It is not 'helping people get a feel for the place'.


There may be around five million accounts on the fediverse, but four million of those are me.


uspol, midterm elections
I find it hard to parse what the election results so far mean. It's easy to put a positive spin on it, it's easy to see possibly losing control of a chamber as problematic. But with all that went on (coup, supreme court decisions), a total 100% wave of Democratic successes is the only thing that would make sense. And that's not happening, it's all still so 50-50. My conclusion is so far that the US as a whole just doesn't care about abortion rights, women, or democracy.


Just had my fourth Corona vaccination, yay! Another one next year I guess.


Insomnia tip, brought to you by the people who always fail at everything: go lie in your bed and try not to sleep.


"Do I look like someone who can't see himself in a mirror?"


-- Dracula
#Dracula

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I suspect there are some people watching the federated timeline fire hose and then decry that people should use content warnings. One of the reasons I'd wish the federated timeline didn't even exist. To be replaced by good search, lists and just following people, filters and temporary mute buttons.


Wait until all these new people find out there's also a whole alternative to YouTube. And that because the whole of the fediverse is connected, you're already connected to that!
#PeerTube #YouTube #fediverse
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@Hyproviola I'm totally not taking credit for the term fediverse... It's based on the fact that there are all these different platforms 'federating' with each other, like Mastodon, Pleroma, Friendica, Misskey, Pixelfed, PeerTube, Zap, etc.
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Yeah I understood that, I meant that I've been seeing that term around #Mastodon. It seems really cool, and with the whole #Twitter thing, it might actually become mainstream.


To have 44 billion dollars that you can just burn.

And it isn't even without precedent, the freenode guy did it before.



I'm watching this show illegally: it says I have to be 16 to watch it, but I'm much older than that. Don't tell my tv!