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Happy New Year everybody, no matter what timezone you're in.


Euthanasia of someone unconnected to me


Universal, and then it's a picture of the Earth, and not the universe.


Watching Killjoys season one because of course I ordered this missing blu-ray. Why only have S2-5? I'm starting to notice that they are not afraid to show really bright sunbeams and large lens flares. Sometimes most of a scene is almost completely washed out by bright sunlight. This really helps in creating the impression of being on another world. So many sci-fi shows are just dark.
#Killjoys


Friendica has a button to enter an abstract since the new release! 😃 That is such a time-saver...


So, finally ready to hibernate until next year. What do you mean that's in under 30 hours? 😰


Setting up the facial recognition with a tooth brush in my mouth as some kind of second factor.


Upgraded to Friendica 2023.12, so it's all circles and groups now.
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And channels. I think I can really use this channels feature... Will need to set up some personalised one though.


Rewatching Killjoys but starting at season 2, because that is the disc I have and streaming fails yet again. (How can there be so many streaming services and yet when you want to see something none of them have it?)

Anyway, great to see Hannah John-Kamen, even though I don't get to see her introduce her character. And of course Stephanie Leonidas because she's the reason I have this disc.
themoviedb.org/tv/62413-killjo…
#Killjoys #HannahJohnKamen #StephanieLeonidas

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Killjoys 2x01

In this episode there's not just one but two female characters being ultra cool with Hannah John-Kamen and Stephanie Leonidas fighting side by side.

As I understand it Stephanie had to do all stunts herself as the prosthetic gun arm only fitted her and not the double.



Interesting how another server that identifies itself with the User Agent "facebookexternalua" has IPv6 addresses with ":face:" in it, like "2a03:2880:3ff:1::face:b00c". Not so nice that it seems broken and keeps requesting the same url over and over again around 10 times per second since yesterday, while circumventing caching. It is for now blocked.

(edit: I didn't even notice the "b00c" for "book"...)



Doing the thing that I do: watching a film I know nothing about with an actress I hardly know anything about. Sasha Lane was with Chloë Grace Moretz in the film The Miseducation of Cameron Post and she seemed interesting enough to watch American Honey in which she is the lead, or at least front and center on the poster.
#SashaLane #AmericanHoney

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It's more of an atmospheric film than a story and I like that. It's just not clear from the beginning that it's going to be like that, so for a while I was waiting for something to start happening. Many independent things happen, but none are really what the film is about.

The atmosphere is not unlike Mouth by Mouth, but that one is a bit more extreme.

I really liked the performance by Sasha Lane. She plays someone who never really fits in, but who also doesn't know where she would fit in. Someone who had she been born in a different family, would have led a totally different life.

I didn't realise before how much I dislike the brainwashing lyrics of sexually explicit rap music.
#AmericanHoney #SashaLane



A photo of Mylène Farmer in my timeline and it wasn't even me doing it!


New ETO mixtape :eyes_fast:
youtube.com/watch?v=wZKuWpCV3W…


All great inventions start with a lack of cheese.

This first Wallace & Gromit is so old it's in 4x3. They run out of cheese and naturally plan a trip to the Moon on A Grand Day Out.
#WallaceAndGromit



Happy Birthday, Lindsay!

Lindsay Armaou has her birthday today and it would be obvious to play her songs as celebration. She was in B*Witched as well as Clayton, and is again in B*Witched now they're performing and recording again. But I don't like to be obvious.

So for the Birthday Rewatch I'm rewatching the film (Two Days in) The Smoke, which is one of her acting jobs. It's a very long time ago I saw this film, so it's about time. 'The Smoke' is a nickname for the city of London.
#LindsayArmaou #BirthdayRewatch #TheSmoke

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Lindsay is also singing (and wrote words and music of) the song playing over the credits No smoke without fire.



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.