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The Peripheral episode one
I find it a nice touch that in that first The Peripheral episode Flynne, as a male avatar in a sim, is asked to seduce a woman which she feels some trepidation about. Then when things continue she seems to quite get into it. Chloë is really doing the 'I'm actually enjoying this' bit...


I usually cut and remux video files with a paid Windows program, which is really intuitive to use. I don't mind paying for it, but my Windows PC is very old so now I'm trying to do the same in #kdenlive on my linux laptop. Still at the start of what looks like a steep learning curve.

One thing I just realised: the "project bin" is not like a recycle bin, but something to be used rather than avoided. I was ignoring all menu items that said something with 'bin' when looking for how to cut clips...

Still somewhat annoyed kdenlive can't open video files on network disks, while Windows had no problem with it.

(Oh, when looking up that Windows program, #VideoReDo, I found that the company has ceased due to the founder passing away last month. My attempts to switch are coincidental and not related!)

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Ok, I think I sort of managed to do what I wanted, but it is incredibly slow and the output file is also transformed rather than just having its frames copied. The #kdenlive documentation provides an answer to the problem: it says not to use kdenlive for this, but #avidemux.

I think that sort of worked, but that program looks so old it doesn't fill me with much faith. E.g. it seems to not be able to handle wide-screen videos (16:9) in its preview area. And it also can't open files from network drives.




Watching Vanessa Paradis in Café de Flore on HBO Max, where she's the mother of a son with Down Syndrome. Vanessa may be known as singer, and there too I think she's a much better singer than she's given credit for, but for me she really shines as an actress. Her fame and career as singer allows her to be really selective about the films she does.
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Ella Al-Shamahi announces a series on BBC Radio 4 & BBC Sounds called Why Do We Do That?, relating our experiences to our evolution, e.g. why we feel heartbreak as actual pain. Sounds interesting!
#EllaAlShamahi
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Watching #ThePeripheral because the first two episodes came out today, or more precisely because #ChloëGraceMoretz is in it.


Interesting insight into how a character comes to be, among other things. Christina Ricci has a chat with Jenna Ortega about Wednesday.
#JennaOrtega #ChristinaRicci #Wednesday

(My take: I'd always trust @jennaortega to get the character right. It's her artistry we want to see)

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I was wondering what episodes of Mary Kills People to watch for the #KatieDouglas birthday rewatch. Luckily a Google search turned up a tumblr post by some guy called Gidi Kroon that helped with that.
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Happy Birthday to @Katie_E_Douglas! She turns 24 today. I've seen her in Defiance, Creeped Out, Level 16 (one of my all time favourite films), Mary Kills People, Ginny & Georgia and Believe Me: The Abduction of Lisa McVey. I'll be celebrating by rewatching some of these!

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BBC News on tv reports about the dire situation in Somalia, where there's a severe drought, people especially children are dying and an 'official' famine is likely declared soon. So I went to the BBC News app to share the story, but there's nothing there... Anyway, now you know about it.

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Chances of me picking up my phone to do a thing and then do the thing: 0%

Chances of me getting distracted and doing something else: 100%



Old school posted a letter. With a real stamp. And now new school mentioned it on the socials from my mobile on my own server crossposted to the mainstream site.


Jenna Ortega interviewed by WhoWhatWear (interview during the photoshoot, which is an interesting thing). About Wednesday, her headphones being her child, etc.
#JennaOrtega #WhoWhatWear
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The crosspost to twitter gets the cutest Wednesday Addams icon attached to her name!


A mini-budget to trigger a mini stay in office. Though firing someone for having done what you asked them to do is quite rich.
#UKpol
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Why do people keep voting for this mess? Is Labour really that bad?


Listening to the #Ukraine section of #EuropesBiggestDanceShow, the annual pan-Europe radio show featuring dance music broadcast from radio studios all over the continent.


People don't become a billionaire by being nice.

(This is not advice to be a nasty human being. Just a reflection on the constant disappointment in some people's behaviour)

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In tv series and films, patrols of the enemy never look around the corner where our heroes are hiding, they always blindly march on. Also they make so much noise before they come into view that there's ample time to hide. Wonder if these patrols are ever effective, could just as well not walk around.


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We sat down with the new Scream Queen @jennaortega during the #WednesdayNetflix panel and ask her what attracts her to that genre, hitting several spots on the horror bingo card, and Jenna tells us she has a face people wanna spill blood on

Video via GVN’s @JC202034


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TikTok, and scamming middlemen, take so much money from donated money, that almost nothing arrives where the gifter expects it to arrive. The BBC did a test: if 106 dollars were gifted to an account in Syria, similar to many refugee families there asking for money, only $19 would arrive in the hands of the family. TikTok's response: we get on it immediately and delete this illegal content asking for money (paraphrased) (they were fine with earning money from it).

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For any commercial platform, yes.


They've cycled around and we're now back at the greatest Charmed episode, the one with Jennifer Sky and Melody Perkins (greatest because it's with Jennifer Sky and Melody Perkins): 6x04 The Power of Three Blondes. Watching it!


At least the loading animation loads quickly, which I then get to enjoy for a long time.


I do not know the details of the protests that are happening in Iran, but I do admire the bravery of the women trying to change society and maybe the regime, and risking their lives doing it. I hope that as a result women in Iran and elsewhere may finally decide themselves how they live their own lives and how they choose to appear.




This is an incredible piece on the current revolution happening in Iran. I encourage everyone to read, spread, and to support Iran’s youth during this transformative time.

https://twitter.com/ksadjadpour/status/1579196190318481410






The passion that @jennaortega has about #WednesdayNetflix and portraying the iconic character is so beautiful. I continue to be impressed by her in every single way. What an honor it was to speak with her at #NYCC today.

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Bought a book about autism in adults, which seems written with a scientific perspective. Hopefully it will counteract the enormous amount of stuff that's out there focusing on autistic children.

It's my theory that it takes especially communicative people to draw attention to something, and autistic people don't tend to be that, but their parents might be. So when these children grow up and leave the house, they are forgotten about, as if somehow adulthood cures autism or as an adult you learn to live with it. But it doesn't and you don't. You just live your life in obscurity.

I'd love to find a proper book explaining exactly how autistic people should live their life. Sounds weird, but since we don't know naturally and we like clear rules and explanations anyway, a book like that sounds obvious?



Another disadvantage of taking the train for environmental reasons: if you made it to your destination but then the trains stop going and you can't get back. Time and again fate shows me I should just have gone by car.
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Ok I made it home. Not everybody could be crammed into the hourly regional bus, but a bit of local knowledge and a quick reaction made that I was front of the queue, so I made it.


Four important dates:

  • 21 October: The Peripheral on Amazon Prime with Chloë Grace Moretz
  • 23 November: Wednesday on Netflix with Jenna Ortega
  • 5 December: His Dark Materials season three on HBO Max with Dafne Keen
  • 10 February (& 10 March): You season four on Netflix with Amy-leigh Hickman

#ChloëGraceMoretz #JennaOrtega #DafneKeen #AmyLeighHickman #ThePeripheral #Wednesday #HisDarkMaterials #You



The postgresql database for Pleroma needed a REINDEX and VACUUM ANALYZE and now it's running fine again. For the last couple of weeks I had not been able to see my timeline. These statements should normally not be necessary for postgresql, but the exceptional case they describe that would need it seems to me exactly what Pleroma does: delete most objects but leave a few so index pages don't get completely empty and hang around.