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I'm going to do some mixed-up rewatch to see the combined talents of Jenna Ortega and Amy-Leigh Hickman by jumping between the second and fourth seasons of You. Double the brilliance. I'll be doing episodes 2x08, 4x08, 2x09, 4x09, 2x10 and 4x10.
#JennaOrtega #AmyLeighHickman #You #YouNetflix
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You 2x09 Ellie report (spoilers)
Ellie walks in on Joe and Love who have met up the morning after the events of Forty's process. She is still looking for her sister Delilah and proceeds to spend the day cooking with Love. She tells Love about how she came to live with her sister after her father died. Later in the episode she has the arguably most heartfelt moment of the series where she has her 'what's wrong with me' outburst in the kitchen, when she believes her sister has left her.
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You 4x09 Nadia report (spoilers)
Nadia is talking to Marianne about the plan to get her out without involving the police, while Joe walks in and she needs to hide around the corner. This is when a panic-stricken Nadia properly sees the madness of her professor, indicating the reality closing in on Joe. When he's gone Nadia and Marianne agree that the only way is for Joe to die. When Nadia is later rushing back after sourcing the drugs and knife needed, she gets into a mishap at the underground access gates and is taken to the police station. Once outside, she receives the remainder of the drugs she needs for plan b that Marianne has set in motion due to the delay. Meanwhile, she has to admit to her 'boyfriend' that she doesn't consider him her boyfriend as this is not the kind of conversation that you can postpone because you're in a hurry.


"You know what my father once told me? He said: 'A good way to judge a society is by the conduct of its police officers'."
-- Jackson


#WeHuntTogether

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It's happening again: the film account for Finestkind has been promoting since forever that its release on Paramount+ is 15 December. That's now, so I check: nothing. Loads of other people in the comments having the same problem. It looks like it may have been a release in the US only. They literally never mentioned that. Which also means that there is no word whatsoever if I am ever going to get to see it here.
#Finestkind #JennaOrtega
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I'm so done with the entertainment industry thinking that the US equals the world. And with regional release dates.

I know that the argument is that the local distributors can have their own campaigns and social media accounts promoting their local release. But they never do. Because the US accounts always present themselves as the overall global one, representing the film to the world, until they don't.



Bridgerton season three (part one) will be on Netflix 16 May, with part two the next month on 13 June. Looks like Claudia Jessie is back.
media.netflix.com/en/only-on-n…
#Bridgerton


I'm excited for this film: Jenna Ortega's Miller's Girl will be in theatres 26 January, after being in a film festival earlier that month. Sounds like a difficult story that can fully use (and showcase) her acting talents.

deadline.com/2023/12/jenna-ort…


#JennaOrtega #MillersGirl



Tomorrow on BBC Two is going to be the repeat of last week's episode of Hannah Fry's The Secret Genius of Modern Life, that I missed. In this series she explores the amazing components and inventions that make up mundane everyday objects. I've just watched the episode about the microwave. Not only is there obvious science in generating the waves, but also using a turntable needed to be invented. Tomorrow will be about headphones. The new episode this week, Thursday, is about lifts.


#HannahFry #TheSecretGeniusOfModernLife



Tonight's repeat of Liz Bonnin's Wild Caribbean on BBC Two is I think the one with guest Trinidadian biologist Laura Baboolal in the segment where the T&T Field Naturalists' Club treks through the jungle looking for monkeys. I may have spent some time before I found the correct spelling of her name, while I could just have switched on the subtitles... She seemed like an interesting person, passionate about nature, as you can also see on her twitter feed (from which I've copied this photo). Anyway, sometimes I notice these random people on tv from the other side of the world, that I likely never will see again. If she ever gets famous Jane Goodall style, I have posted proof I noticed her before...

I liked that this nature trek and the scientists leading it were almost all women without any explanation given, just like we've seen so many science things with only men also without any explanation.

All episodes of this series are interesting though!



I watch a lot of British tv. Despite that I still keep thinking to myself that they're getting in on the wrong side of the car. And in a way, they do.


Episode 2x04 of London Kills has a guest role for Klariza Clayton. It's so great to see acting that's a cut above, and to see her of course. It's still a 'girlfriend of/wife of' type of role, but done well.
#KlarizaClayton #LondonKills


The oppression of women in Iran needs to end and I'm glad this has been recognised by awarding the Nobel Peace prize to Narges Mohammadi. And I like the gesture of the prize being received by her children (since she is in Iranian jail) and that there was a symbolic empty chair between them.

bbc.com/news/world-middle-east…

#NobelPeacePrize #NargesMohammadi



I know 'ngl', 'smh', 'til', but I never know what the abbreviation 'ig' means. Something about Instagram I guess.
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I also know 'cf', 'eg', 'cs', etc but that's a completely different generation.


A film and tv account, from the US: Successful show xyz has been renewed for a tenth season!
Me, a European: I have never heard of it, it is not on here.


There are essentially four major highways in my country going south (in my perspective of south and major) and two of these are closed southward this weekend due to planned roadworks. The two middle ones (A2, A27). You have to go either all the way west (A16) or all the way east (A50). Don't know who planned this.

It's going to be so quiet here in the south...



My servers should now be dual stack, finally supporting IPv6 next to IPv4. Nothing broke, weirdly. All tests, e.g. with testmyipv6(.com) succeed.

Soon I'm going to have to make some servers IPv6-only, since the old addresses start to cost money. That should break things I guess. The average ActivityPub server will not be IPv6 ready I suspect. It seems DNS64/NAT64 is too expensive to enable, so if it is too much of a problem I'm going to have to run a forward proxy.

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Yeah, way too many instances are IPv4 only, especially the ones hosted by a provider. The big ones, and the ones with a tech background, tend to support IPv6.


I just watched Nimona on Netflix with the voice of Chloë Grace Moretz. Firstly Chloë is really good at putting character in the performance using only her voice. Secondly: it's a really good story!
#ChloëGraceMoretz #Nimona


Watching Gunpowder Milkshake with Karen Gillan on Prime Video. There's another actress who plays the younger version of Karen's character (seems hardly necessary) and it struck me as funny if that would be the same family member (cousin, niece?) who played the younger version of Amy Pond in Doctor Who. But it doesn't look like it. Interesting film so far though.
#KarenGillan #GunpowderMilkshake
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It's very stylish and fun! The younger version is played by Freya Allen who later became well-known for playing Ciri in the Witcher adaptation!


Can confirm that there's no hint of returning to before the time jump in the House of the Dragon season 2 trailer. Watched it for you.


Today's Doctor Who took a while to get interesting, then it really did. Don't be put off by the bad cgi, though.
#DoctorWho

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Doctor Who - The Wild Blue Yonder
For a moment I thought they'd run into Marvin, at the end of the universe... But no, it was a completely different robot, and at the edge of the universe.
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found it pretty enjoyable. I think that people are spoiled with a Next Great Thing every week... Sometimes what you need a good old simple plot well developed


What is this habit of making such chopped up edits of videos, even with good intentions?




It's Doctor Who minus 57 minutes. Not enough time to watch a film, so I should do something sensible like make dinner.


Volume 1 of Dove Cameron's first album Alchemical is out now, if you live in Friday-land. Other parts of the world wait a few hours.
tidal.com/album/331401278
#DoveCameron #Alchemical


Jenna Ortega is in the Forbes 30 under 30 list, in her case far under 30.
forbes.com/profile/jenna-orteg…
#JennaOrtega #Forbes30Under30

(Actually they have many sub-lists, but I'm going to ignore that)



Google could do a 'Wrapped' of 'Your best friends of the past year', based on bluetooth and wifi proximity, similar website visits, bookmarks and searches, video viewing habits, whether you are in each others phone contacts, and all the other stuff they know about you.


Google/Instagram/Apple should do a 'Wrapped' of the subjects you most talked about with your friends and colleagues while your phone was near.


First impressions of Windows 11: what I like or can deal with is that much hasn't changed, what I dislike is the things that have changed.


Last day of our Gandi free mailboxes that came with our domains. Just over eight hours until they become one of the most expensive email providers without even allowing a custom domain.

Tip: tutanota(.com etc) allows three custom domains for around half their price, ideal for mailboxes that don't need imap.
#Gandi #TutaNota #Tuta #email



Google should understand that if I search something, sometimes I do not want to buy it. Maybe I already have it and want to find information about it.
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Google has become useless as a search engine.

Can we get AltaVista back?

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@feld Thanks, I've bookmarked it. Though for being a 'search client' rather than 100% using their own index, the price is a bit high. I suspect they can lose access to the data any moment. Luckily their AI/LLM costs extra, so you can just not pay that to avoid that.
@feld


When actual directors start doing fantasy castings... Alert me when you've done the actual casting and leave my notifications alone until then.



Just found that the Disney+ app is broken on Chromecast and only old school casting to it works. I hope I still get it in 4k, since I wanted to rewatch the Doctor Who episode like that. Apparently it has been broken for weeks already, that's how often I use my subscription, or how small their library is.
#DisneyPlus
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I had tried many times during the day, including restarting the chromecast, before posting this. However, after complaining it now suddenly works again. Yay!


If like me you use an app like Series Guide to track the tv episodes you've watched and which you still have to catch, you may like to know that the people at tmdb, trakt, etc, unlike imdb, are listing the Doctor Who series that started today as a new show rather than series 14 of the 'original reboot': themoviedb.org/tv/239770 . So you have to add a new show to track, then find today's episode under specials (because they count next year's series 15 as number 1).
#DoctorWho

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Doctor Who
I like how we have characters back, between the events, instead of just events and talk.

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And later this evening Doctor Who: Unleased will also be on BBC1, for those who are blocked from watching BBC3 where I believe it is first shown. This is the behind the scenes thing.


Don't normally share my Wordle result, but this one is quite something:

Wordle 887 2/6

⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
#Wordle



Humanity first.

Instead of 'Own people first'. After all, all human beings are our own people.



There was some kind of 'five for the price of two' deal on shampoo. I'm only a single person with not a lot of hair, so when I next need to buy it we'll all be using cyber-shampoo or something.


New reading material arrived!

On paper, because who has ever heard of tools and devices with which one can read html.


#JennaOrtega #Elle #HarpersBazaar



Why are so many people in several countries nowadays voting for extreme right wing parties? Do people think it doesn't hurt to vote for parties that want to hurt people?
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And when foreign media talk about one of the parties in my country as 'populist', you can just read that as right wing extremists.


No point watching, or even making, Scream 7, now that Jenna Ortega will not be in it due to scheduling conflicts.

deadline.com/2023/11/jenna-ort…

Wednesday season one took eight months to film, she's doing season two soon, so there's just no time fitting in a seventh Scream. Apparently this was already being discussed before the strike began.
#JennaOrtega #Scream #Wednesday