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I may have repaired my dishwasher by cleaning it. I was operating under the theory that a dishwasher, being a machine that cleans, can't get dirty on the inside, but that turns out not to be true. Years of gunk buildup apparently gets in the way of smooth operation.

Amazon: We think you may be interested in a new HDMI cable.
Me: Why? What do you know?

(I have literally never bought an HDMI cable on Amazon)

Great to see that the large majority of people really enjoyed seeing Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, as did I, even in forums like letterboxd where otherwise sour people who don't like films seem to gather.
#BeetlejuiceBeetlejuice #JennaOrtega
#JennaOrtega #beetlejuicebeetlejuice
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Jenna's role is bigger than you would expect for a sequel featuring most original characters, but her role didn't completely take over the franchise as it was for Scream. Not yet anyway. Of course I would have wanted the story to be fully about her character, yet it wasn't, it involves everybody. But at the same time, it is sort of clear that without her performance in the way only she can do, the sequel would not have worked. The other cast members have remarked in interviews that the sequel had to wait so long because she still needed to be born, grow up and become an actress, and that's true.

My camera has earrings.
#Photography
Canon EOS R10 camera seemingly with earrings. Where normally the shoulder/neck carry strap is attached, now two round buttons are attached, unto which the strap can be clicked on. This allows the strap to be easily taken off when it would be in the way.
#photography

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Just seen Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, I really liked this! Enough retro, enough modern, enough bigger than the original. Great performance by Jenna Ortega, I love being a fan of hers, she's creating a great catalogue of films.
#JennaOrtega #BeetlejuiceBeetlejuice
#JennaOrtega #beetlejuicebeetlejuice

Jenna Ortega's film Beetlejuice Beetlejuice is out this week! So I'm watching Beetlejuice now to get ready to see it in the cinema. Oops, did I now say it three times?
#JennaOrtega #BeetlejuiceBeetlejuice
#JennaOrtega #beetlejuicebeetlejuice

The website: the experience is better in the app.

The app: this is not supported, please visit the website.

It keeps catching me off guard when a semi governmental organisation sends me a message saying that they are starting work now, and I then find out in the same message that this means '2026, maybe'.

So, somewhere between now and the end of times my apartment will be gas-free.

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They literally said 'the coming months', which apparently is the coming 24 months.

Weird how much stops working if a computer runs out of disk space, but also weird how much of an ActivityPub server keeps going on regardless. Like it receives and shows posts fine, but fails to load preview images; also existing accounts work fine, but looking up new accounts suggests there are network errors...

I had a vision while we were in the porn room
-- Liv

#iZombie

#izombie

I saw Deadpool & Wolverine this evening in the cinema, and the first film this morning to see what it is about. Can't say I'm a fan of the franchise. But Dafne Keen is in this one, so that is enough reason. Her role is small-ish, but not nearly as small as I feared. And if you've seen Logan back in the day (now that is a film I like), there's some nice touches where this film refers to that one.
#DafneKeen #DeadpoolAndWolverine
#DafneKeen #deadpoolandwolverine

This Friendica server is now fully updated to the previous version and run all its post-update tasks. Will start the upgrade to yesterday's new version later today; this may take several days during which either the maintenance screen is shown, or the pages just blank out. Or be much faster, who knows...
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And it is updated. Not weeks, apparently. I didn't time it, but it was some minutes, up to half an hour.

Friendica 2024.08 is just released. That's great, but I only updated to 2024.03 last week and it's still running the post update actions...
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Upgraded a test server that was already on 2024.03 and which has a very small database. Yet it gave the PHP 'white screen of death' (i.e. it crashed with an error) for several minutes. After a while it automatically came back and is now ok. So, need to panic if you get this error:

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2024-08-17T20:11:26Z app [ERROR]: Uncaught Exception Error: "Call to undefined method Friendica\App::getLoggedInUserNickname()" at /***/src/Module/Home.php line 54 {"exception":"Error: Call to undefined method Friendica\\App::getLoggedInUserNickname() in /***/src/Module/Home.php:54\nStack trace:\n#0 /***/src/BaseModule.php(250): Friendica\\Module\\Home->content()\n#1 /***/src/App.php(682): Friendica\\BaseModule->run()\n#2 /***/index.php(55): Friendica\\App->runFrontend()\n#3 {main}"} - {"file":null,"line":null,"function":null,"request-id":"66c103ee0c55f","stack":"ErrorHandler::handleException (128), ErrorHandler::Friendica\\Core\\Logger\\Handler\\{closure}","uid":"81689d","process_id":1696336}
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This server made it from postupdate version 1507 to 1544 a few days ago, but it is still there. It needs to reach 1550... Now running it as a foreground process instead and the database cpu usage suggests it is really properly doing something.

Checking the information page of other people's servers and I'm not the only one still at 1544...

The film Beetlejuice Beetlejuice with Jenna Ortega has its release date in my country, NL, on Thursday 5 September, one day ahead of the US. Tickets are available from today.
#JennaOrtega #BeetlejuiceBeetlejuice
Still from the film Beetlejuice Beetlejuice with Jenna Ortega as Astrid looking scared and like she's in the afterlife world
#JennaOrtega #beetlejuicebeetlejuice

Jenna Ortega is promoting Beetlejuice Beetlejuice in Mexico and just posted this red carpet photo.
#JennaOrtega #BeetlejuiceBeetlejuice
Jenna Ortega promoting Beetlejuice Beetlejuice on the red carpet in Mexico. She looks very stylish.
#JennaOrtega #beetlejuicebeetlejuice

Dafne Keen getting a reminder on her phone from Disney+ that Deadpool & Wolverine is in the cinema... She knows, Disney, she's in it.

Waiting for the time when companies will fall over each other to claim that there's zero AI in their products.

I like this! Promotion of the film Beetlejuice Beetlejuice (in cinema 6 September), posting Astrid's three moods:


  • cozy spooky
  • hauntingly spooky
  • otherworldly spooky


Jenna Ortega as Astrid in the film Beetlejuice Beetlejuice. On screen text: "Astrid has three moods".

Jenna Ortega as Astrid in the film Beetlejuice Beetlejuice. On screen text: "cozy spooky". She's surrounded by cozy spooky stills from the film.

Jenna Ortega as Astrid in the film Beetlejuice Beetlejuice. On screen text: "hauntingly spooky". She's surrounded by hauntingly spooky stills from the film.

Jenna Ortega as Astrid in the film Beetlejuice Beetlejuice. On screen text: "otherwordly spooky". She's surrounded by otherworldly spooky stills from the film.

#JennaOrtega #BeetlejuiceBeetlejuice #Beetlejuice

#JennaOrtega #beetlejuice #beetlejuicebeetlejuice

Add DCC to that for me, as well as some CD-i.

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"If people want to know why Gen X is always mad it's because we had to replace our record collections with a tape collection and then replace that with a CD collection that we slowly replaced with an MP3 collection and now need a subscription to listen to music."

Fear The Walking Dead 8x08 "Iron Tiger" spoilers

It's so amazing that Alexa Nisenson (Charlie) is back for this episode! Her acting abilities are chilling, this suddenly puts the whole thing on a new level again.

It's the final season and they're wrapping up storylines and characters. Some favourites are already gone. I knew that going in this season. And is it believable that Charlie did what she eventually did? Yes I think so, this was already signalled in the first season she was in.

Reminded that the BBC once replaced a guest that didn't show up with a 'tub of lard', which was just asked questions as normal. That's still a valid idea.

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Further things I learned in photography today: ducks, like humans, are very skittish when they have a black barrel pointed at them. They don't quite panic, but they do swim the other way. Also, dragonflies are really quick.
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:-(

Posting on Instagram and Pixelfed both failed, in different ways. Instagram flatly refuses, Pixelfed corrupts the photoset. Maybe trying a single picture?

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Ok, single picture on Pixelfed worked, can't post the set I wanted. Instagram finally succeeded when I copied the photos to my tablet first. So if you want to see some other pictures of my walkabout, here's the insta link: instagram.com/p/C-GmSPHo8Tn/ , or maybe wait until I start a photo blog or something.

Siena Agudong's film The 4:30 Movie will be released in the cinema 13 September!
#SienaAgudong #The430Movie
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Maybe the European title will be 'The 16:30 Film'... ;-)

#SienaAgudong #The430Movie

The film Issac, where Dove Cameron plays Cassi, which has its release date 'coming soon' for centuries now, has its release date coming soon ('the next announcement') but also has a new title: Love Me Dead. They also say that the release is going to be worldwide!
#DoveCameron #Issac #LoveMeDead
instagram.com/p/C-DSJLypDoE/
#DoveCameron #Issac #LoveMeDead
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Love Me Dead, previously known as Issac, will be released on Valentines Day. In this film Dove Cameron plays Cassi.
#DoveCameron #LoveMeDead

instagram.com/p/DDqQIjry724/

#DoveCameron #LoveMeDead

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I was photographing with my zoom lens for a while but now Mr Bird wants a word.

A jackdaw (presumably) looking angry (don't they always?) and looking as if it's walking towards me

(Cropped and scaled down for the socials. Canon EOS R10, Canon RF-S 18-150mm F3.5-6.3 IS STM @ 150mm, ISO 320, Av f/7.1, Tv 1/320, Fv priority mode, Servo AF, Animal Subject Tracking. Yes, I should have increased the shutter speed, I forgot.)
#Photography

#photography

As metaphors go, I expected better from an English teacher
-- Pip

#AGoodGirlsGuideToMurder

#AGoodGirlsGuideToMurder

Miranda Cosgrove has a new film coming up: The Wrong Paris for Netflix. Obviously it involves her character wanting, no needing, to be in Paris, France, but finding herself in Paris, Texas.
#MirandaCosgrove #TheWrongParis
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#MirandaCosgrove #TheWrongParis

Emilia Clarke's film The Pod Generation is now on Amazon Prime in my country, but under a new title: "Baby to Go". I really liked this film when I saw it in the cinema, I dislike that new title.

To add your IMAP account to Outlook, we need to sync your mails to the Microsoft Cloud.


You what?

Since I didn't even ask to use Outlook, that seems like a no from me.

(The 'Learn more'-page says that this even applies to Gmail. You have the let Microsoft copy your whole Gmail inbox, all your mails, onto their servers.)

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So I added only my Microsoft mail account, figuring that they are not a third party to that. The first thing this new Outlook does is show me an advert inserted at the top of my inbox. The old Windows Mail never did that.

Switched back for now. They say that in 2024 we can't switch back anymore and we need to use the new Outlook. Hoping it doesn't turn 2024 anytime soon.

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My problem with Microsoft wanting a shadow copy of all your emails and run your accounts from their servers is this:

Your email box is one of the most sensitive things you have. It contains all information anybody needs to take over all your accounts anywhere, even take over your whole life. I pay my email provider to handle this securely, with competent people and with proper support channels. I don't pay Microsoft anything. And to provide this free service for me, they even need and keep all my email passwords. Where whoever can access them.

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