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Was testing a new lens, the wide angle Canon RF 28mm f/2.8 STM. I like it. It's very flat. And I'm starting to learn that if you pay attention there doesn't need to be (much) distortion even for a wide angle lens. I.e. look at and not ignore the level meter on the display...

Photos below are unprocessed, except crop and downscale on my phone for posting. Taken on a Canon EOS R10, so there's a 1.6 crop factor (28mm has the equivalent field of view of 45mm).

Taken at the WW2 memorial at Kruispark in Best.
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A wooden structure with several vertical poles supports the leaves and branches of winding trees or plants. One winding trunk goes up next to a straight vertical pole in the foreground, being 'the odd one out'.
A small park centred around a wooden cross that is a WW2 memorial. Some red flowers are at its base. Trees, poles and a flagpost are also seen, forming several vertical lines. There's a comically small fence. Inscriptions on several plaques can not be read from the photo, but say among others that there's no point to war, in Latin.
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Eloise may have the best lines in Bridgerton as always, but I love this one said to her by her brother.
#Bridgerton

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"Love is not finite, Eloise"
-- Benedict


#Bridgerton


#Bridgerton

"Love is not finite, Eloise"
-- Benedict


#Bridgerton

#Bridgerton

"A lot of dust in here too"
-- Eloise

#Bridgerton

#Bridgerton

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Two 'Whoa!'s: first that I apparently forgot to mention here that Siena Agudong will lead the upcoming film for tubi called Sidelined: The QB and me, playing Dallas (the cheerleader, not the city).

Second 'Whoa!' today is that Mia Shanks is joining her in that film as Emily. Mia is a singer and actress who may be known as the daughter of Lexa Doig (Andromeda in Andromeda) but she is now making her own mark.
#SienaAgudong #MiaShanks #SidelinedTheQBAndMe #TheQBBadBoyAndMe

#SienaAgudong #MiaShanks #SidelinedTheQBAndMe #TheQBBadBoyAndMe

So when I went from 2GB of RAM for postgresql to 1GB and at that same time Pleroma search went from responding fine to not functioning at all, this was not a coincidence? I'm in that majority...

But still, why is loading a remote user to follow even implemented as a search action. Mastodon anti-pattern...

Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:

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Also vast majority of admins not having enough RAM to store the search index, and not knowing they need it because they've never dealt with actual database load before.

My head is bottle-weary.


Thank you Bridgerton for that new expression!

"Arriving today by 20:00". It is 19:20. It has not dispatched yet.
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I was checking because I received a package containing 1 of the quantity 2 I ordered; I was not expecting the quantity of 2 to come in separate packages and assumed something had gone wrong.

Just back from walking around in Venlo and taking some photos, just because I hadn't been there before. The city centre is nice enough and there are some historic buildings to see, but it's very small and since there was no guide online or available locally, you can only find the major sites.

The city seems ideal for shopping and drinking at an outdoor cafe, but is not really suited for someone walking around alone like me. The only place you can have a sit down for a bit is next to the river, which is a nice enough spot.

I don't know how street photographers do it, but in my experience people become hyper aware when they see a photo camera, so nice shots of what streets full of people look like are difficult. Buildings it is then.

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Decreased the resolution enough to protect people's privacy, I think.
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The general impression of the city: shoppers, cafe's, historic buildings.

A typical street during a sunny day in Venlo: shoppers are walking, people are sitting outside cafe's, an historic building is seen in the background.

#Venlo

#Venlo

Testing my new ultra wide angle lens. This is at 10mm (field of view equivalent to 16mm), the view is so much wider than by eye.

I wasn't paying much attention to the exposure, was also getting a bit late in the evening since I had to cycle around the forest to get to another entrance.
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Wide angle view of a heath, with some water, some sporadic trees but a denser treeline in the distance.
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I notice that as long as there aren't many shapes for which your brain has much reference (like rectangular buildings) an ultra wide angle lens can compose nice pictures, else the distortion can be obvious and sometimes distracting. Something to keep in mind.

Found my excuse why I haven't been running lately: the forest is flooded! This is the path where I normally run, many others were completely blocked too.
Path in the forest completely flooded with water; the water extends well into the trees.
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Can confirm that this much standing water breeds a lot of mosquitos.

Today's Doctor Who, spoiler-ish quote
Rogue: Why isn't it cloaked?
Doctor: It is behind a tree!

Review for Jenna Ortega's Winter Spring Summer or Fall, now at the Tribeca film festival. I hope I get to see it one day...
hollywoodreporter.com/movies/m…
#JennaOrtega #WinterSpringSummerOrFall

'Winter Spring Summer or Fall' Review: Jenna Ortega's Feathery Romance

The 'Wednesday' actors headline Tiffany Paulsen's Tribeca-premiering feature about two teens falling in love over the course of four seasons.
Lovia Gyarkye (The Hollywood Reporter)
#JennaOrtega #WinterSpringSummerOrFall
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She's so many projects ahead of me... They still haven't even released Finestkind in my country...

The Not-So-Intelligence of autocomplete seems to think a shoe-stealing performance is more likely.

Absolutely great to see Hayley Squires in this week's Inside No. 9 "Curse of the Ninth". She was brilliant and stealing the show as always as Devonshire.
themoviedb.org/tv/61746-inside…
The cast members posing facing the camera around a grand piano, including Hayley Squires as the servant and Natalie Dormer as the lady

#HayleySquires #InsideNo9
#HayleySquires #insideno9

I was checking out photo camera lenses since Canon has extended their range of RF lenses. I thought it would be interesting to get a macro lens, which was followed by me looking up 'what actually is a macro lens', which seems to include a minimum focusing distance of under 30cm. Turns out the two lenses I do have, which are not marked as macro lenses, are as good or better at macro than lenses especially marked as macro (30cm for the 50mm one, 17cm 12cm for the 18-150mm RF-S one). So I'm getting an ultra wide angle instead (10-18mm RF-S), because that is something I'm missing with buildings and stuff being too big or the streets next to them too narrow. A lens which btw will also out-macro the macros, focusing at 12cm I think 8cm in MF.
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The film X with Jenna Ortega is going to be in cinemas again for one day only in a nationwide fan event on the 18th of June. They don't specify which nation, but I can guess. See their insta post. You're also going to get a sneak peak at the third film in the trilogy, MaXXXine.
#JennaOrtega #X
instagram.com/reel/C7y28UVsUkF…
#JennaOrtega #X

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Jenna was not in the second film Pearl and is extremely unlikely to be in MaXXXine, I hope I'm not suggesting she is.

We can see Dafne Keen in Star Wars The Acolyte from today.

(That's what all the online information and social campaigns said, but when I just checked Disney+ it's not there but will be tomorrow.)

disneyplus.com/browse/entity-a…
#DafneKeen #TheAcolyte #Disney+

#disney #DafneKeen #TheAcolyte

Someone I follow started using a picture of Rachael Leigh Cook as profile picture and though confusing, I do approve.

Kiran Sonia Sawar is an actress who let's you feel the emotion of the character and the situation so deeply. She's been underrated for so long, it's good to see her in TrueLove doing a major character for a change. Just saw the final episode.
#KiranSoniaSawar #TrueLove
#truelove #KiranSoniaSawar

Now watching another Dot, in Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries. Still also have a Bubble waiting to be watched on my set top box.

Today's Doctor Who episode Dot and Bubble was actually quite powerful.
#DoctorWho
#DoctorWho

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Dafne was on The One Show (BBC) promoting The Acolyte. I caught only the last minutes of it (and the on demand viewing is geoblocked), but the show posted these pictures to prove it. I did learn that Dafne got an especially small light saber because she's short and kept hitting the ground with the normal sized one.
#DafneKeen #TheAcolyte
Dafne and costar Amandla Stenberg taking a selfie before going on the show. Overlay text: Swapping the dark side for The One Show
All today's guests and presenters pose for an after-show photo. Dafne stands next to Stephen Merchant and is half his size. The other people I know in the photo are Eleanor Tomlinson and Alex Jones. Overlay text: Happy Wednesday and may the force be with you.
#DafneKeen #TheAcolyte

Saw Everything Everywhere All At Once and sorry, I couldn't get into it. But it's a ride. Spoilers in the link.
boxd.it/6zDTk7

A review of Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022)

This review may contain spoilers. Visit the page to bypass this warning and read the review.
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I thought I had recorded the 1990 version of The Witches, but it turned out to be the newer 2020 one. Having watched it, I'd still much rather would have watched the older one...
#TheWitches
#TheWitches

Jenna
Jenna Ortega takes a selfie on her bed in her hotel room or apartment on a day off from filming Wednesday season two in Ireland.
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She posted the short caption "Instagram", so I repost similarly... Apparently she had a day off from filming and posted some scenic shots of Ireland. Link above.
#JennaOrtega
#JennaOrtega

Dove Cameron will star in the new series Obsession, which is apparently an erotic and psychological crime thriller.
deadline.com/2024/05/dove-came…
#DoveCameron #Obsession

Dove Cameron, Avan Jogia To Star In 'Obsession' Series For Prime Video

Dove Cameron and Avan Jogia will star in 'Obsession,' a new Prime Video thriller series based on Catherine Ryan Howard's bestseller '56 Days.'
Matt Grobar (Deadline)
#DoveCameron #obsession

having a vehicle’s headlights pulse to inform passers-by that they may be being recorded


Not sure all passers-by are fluent in Morse code.

AI in search engines is like having April Fool's Day all year round.

The Beetlejuice Beetlejuice trailer is here. Can't wait to see Jenna Ortega in the cinema again.
instagram.com/reel/C7UVuXKubqz…
#JennaOrtega #Beetlejuice #BeetlejuiceBeetlejuice
#JennaOrtega #beetlejuice #beetlejuicebeetlejuice

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I know it's only been a few weeks since I saw her in the cinema in Miller's Girl, but the withdrawal is hard.
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