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Watching Chloë Grace Moretz in Kick Ass and Kick Ass 2 (which I call Hit Girl 1), because Chloë is amazing and because I got a better recording of them than I had before.
#ChloëGraceMoretz #KickAss #HitGirl
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I sometimes argue that there's never a real fight between female and male characters in action films, that if there is a fight the female action hero always cleanly knocks out the male baddies. But I stand corrected here. There's a full out fight between a male baddie and the 12yo girl and she receives a lot of punches, having to dig really deep to survive.

I'm not promoting violence of any kind, but I like films being different. If it's an action film and you're going to have violence anyway, this sure is different.

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Another great thing about Kick Ass 2 is that it also has Lindy Booth and Ella Purnell in it.


It's good to get the information about the omicron situation from experts, even if the news is bad. Here a thread on Twitter.

My takeaways: a single shot of AstraZeneca gives 0% protection. But 2x Pfizer + Pfizer booster has the same protection we are used to. The latter is what we were going for anyway. Also, the extra doubling rate more than nullifies any reduced illness; in a few days you'll have the same levels of hospitalizations and deaths.


COVID thoughts from cold, Christmas London. TL;DR The Omicron storm clouds are glowering above Europe, but its unclear whether this will just be rain and hail of COVID or rain, hail, tornados and hurricanes of infection and subsequent hospitalisation of COVID.
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For people using software that doesn't show quoted posts properly, looking at you Pleroma, here's the thread link: twitter.com/ewanbirney/status/…




COVID thoughts from cold, Christmas London. TL;DR The Omicron storm clouds are glowering above Europe, but its unclear whether this will just be rain and hail of COVID or rain, hail, tornados and hurricanes of infection and subsequent hospitalisation of COVID.


It's the final weekend with #F1 on tv in the Netherlands. From next year it's recaps only.

If #MaxVerstappen doesn't win the championship this year, we won't see him win it other years either.

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But it's about 20 weekends of free time a year to do other stuff.


I'm about to watch me some Olivia Cooke, in Thoroughbreds. Just added on Netflix.



I also learned that people think that the rumoured $799 for a Samsung Galaxy S22 is aggressive pricing, i.e. cheap. That's not my idea of cheap. Prices for high end phones have gone totally out of control.

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So apparently Instagram is working on trying to roll out the chronological feed somewhere next year.

Working on? Roll out? Next year? Just switch off that algorithm that messes up the feed and we're ok.

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It's not about "complying".
It's about being sensible and kind.
We can look after each other.

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This film's classification says I need to be twelve to watch it. I'm not. So I guess I'm watching it illegally...


Stay Close, a series on Netflix that features Lindsay Armaou, will be available from 31 December!
#LindsayArmaou #StayClose
imdb.com/name/nm0035328/

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The tumblr-style reblog(*) I did looks ok on Friendica, but not so much on Pleroma and Mastodon. There it's just a normal repeat or boost.

(*) essentially a quote share with the added text after the quoted post.





Measures to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by restricting the number of pigs on pig farms may reduce the number of pigs on pig farms, pig farmers warn.

Measures meant to reduce Covid spread by restricting the amount of people going to shops may reduce the amount of people going to shops, shopkeepers warn.

Measures meant to restrict Covid spread by restricting the amount of people travelling, may restrict the amount of people travelling, travel industry warns.



I suspect that one of these 110 Misskey servers reports 1234567890 users and the other 109 have 377 in total, or this is a very high, very coincidental number.


I'd do a tip saying that you can best run your washing machine in off hours since evening out energy usage is better for the environment and that always doing that is even better since predictability of energy usage is even more important, but I'm afraid someone would come by and cancels me for using a washing machine instead of doing the laundry with a washing board. Only for that person to be cancelled for doing any laundry at all, since it's best to just keep wearing your smelly clothes. So I won't. I'll leave this here, do with it whatever you want.

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If by off hours you mean night, then I sure will cancel you for suggesting being noisy and interfering with my sleep. :)


An interesting parody thread over on twitter:


Is watching the 1984 Ghostbusters movie killing people?

Recent data show death rate of 10-59yr olds who have watched the 1984 Ghostbuster Movie is 2x higher than those who have watched the 2021 Ghostbuster movie

I don't know how to explain this other than movie-caused mortality

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This new circuit for #F1 seems too dangerous to hold a qualification session on. The race will likely be ok, but the speed differences and lack of visibility will cause a major accident if drivers doing in/out-laps are not keeping to a minimum speed. Which it seems they don't.
#f1


Jurassic World Camp Cretaceous season 4 is shaping up to be the best yet. They go deeper in the emotions than even before.
#JurassicWorldCampCretaceous



Jurassic World Camp Cretaceous season four, here we go!
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Brooklynn's roots are showing. I knew pink was not her natural hair colour...




I don’t think the White House understands how much its weakness in the fight for democracy demoralizes a public that will have to find strength to fight for democracy after Biden is out of office and his staff is back at their big law firms and influence peddling consultancies.


Look what I came across: Rachael Leigh Cook and Tamara Mello in a photo that was a throwback even in 2016. Love them both! Neither of them age by the way, they still look like that. Drank some potion I guess.
#RachaelLeighCook #TamaraMello
instagram.com/p/BBV2pf9MBUI/
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Brought to you by me wondering why I never saw any Instagram post by Tamara anymore. Turns out she has at least four profiles that I can find and she's nowadays posting on one I wasn't following yet. Confirmed authentic since it's followed by her dog.


Nice of Twitter to give you 4280 characters per post.


Thanks to the ocr function of Samsung's s-pen. I wrote a lot of stuff as image description, forgot to copy it to the clipboard, then decided to do the poor-man's version of crossposting that is just manually making the other post.


I may have listened to Dove Cameron an 'evil' amount of times this year...

Spotify wrapped top 5 songs. 1 Evil - Dove Cameron, 2 LazyBaby - Dove Cameron, 3 Waste - Dove Cameron, 4 Bloodshot - Dove Cameron, 5 Space Between - Dove Cameron (and Sofia Carson)

I feel Dove Cameron is cheating here, appearing 4 times in my top 5 list of 7 artists.






Not only is today's date a palindrome, it's also an ambigram. You can read it left to right, right to left, and also upside down #nerdalert

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Tomorrow season four of Jurassic World Camp Cretaceous will be available on Netflix. The character Brooklynn is voiced by Jenna Ortega.
#JennaOrtega #JurassicWorldCampCretaceous #jwcc
netflix.com/us/title/81009646

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Why is Mastodon always doing that, showing a 'preview of the hashtag' rather than the shared link?



Can you believe I never saw anything with Alicia Vikander in it? I'm going to watch Tomb Raider now. So I know nothing about whether she's a good actress (I suspect she is), but she looks ultra cool in the promo stills. The film also has the über cool Hannah John-Kamen in it.
#AliciaVikander #TombRaider #HannahJohnKamen

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I like this version of the Lara Croft character. I haven't seen the other film, but I like this take on her. Intelligent, obstinate, and dare I say it, realistic. At least personality-wise someone you believe could exist.
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I agree. I thought this was a much more realistic and vulnerable portrayal of Lara than in other movies.



"Make sure your photos show your personality!"

They do and that's the problem.



The blu-ray for Volition has arrived! This is a film with Magda Apanowicz and has only just been released (not counting geo-blocked streaming services). Watching now.
#Volition #MagdaApanowicz


I'll pin this for a while: if you're not getting updates from this account but you should be, you can unfollow and follow again to fix it, or let me know and I can fix it in the db here. If you are however getting updates and shouldn't (this should not be happening, I was quite careful to check before fixing things), you can also let me know.

An issue in Friendica, fixed a while ago, had caused the following-state of some accounts to be out of sync between my server and other servers.



Rewatching Taxi Driver with Jodie Foster. She was 12 when she made this film, played a prostitute, had to be psychologically evaluated to check whether she would be capable of handling the subject matter, was formally not allowed to watch the film herself and got her first Oscar nomination. That's right, 12 and her first Oscar nomination.
#JodieFoster #TaxiDriver

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The seduction at the beginning of the film is so sleazy and the character of the woman so empty...
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The film is told from Travis' perspective, mostly, and since he's quite the racist, a lot that is said in the film is as well. Those are the perils of having a morally unjust character as pov.

It is left to the viewer to decide that he is morally unjust, though. In the end the film even portrays him as a hero.



I guess I need to figure out why my Wordpress no longer posts to Activitypub and why link previews of it are not working on Friendica, but are fine on Pleroma and Twitter.