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There's so much going on that I can't post disapproving posts for every single thing. So here's just one blanket one.

It's all wrong. You know, everything. All of it. Not just in the US, but it's happening, or starting to, everywhere. The rule of law is abandoned and people are shipped off to uncontrolled foreign prisons. People's right to be who they are is removed. Institutions to help and better other people are disbanded.

We need to get back to caring about other people. Care about the next generation's ability to get educated. No matter the skin colour, no matter the social class, care about whether people can buy food. Care about people getting a fair trial. Care about people whether they are your gender or not, or have the gender you think they have, or even have a gender.

Care about other people, no matter what kind of 'other' they are.



If your world view consists of white cowboy hats and black cowboy hats you may want to check whether your white cowboy hats aren't just black cowboy hats that have been spray painted white.


Pinned post, about following from multiple addresses

Hi, when I follow someone I usually do this from multiple accounts, with different servers and platforms. This is partially as backup. It’s also because different software has different features. E.g. at the moment of writing I mainly post from my Friendica server, but it doesn’t yet support polls, or account migrations. So I also follow from my Pleroma server, which does notify me someone has migrated.

I also sometimes use platforms that support nomadic identity, that allows my channels on multiple servers to be synced. From software that doesn’t support that, a follow request looks like multiple separate requests from those channels.

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Someone mentioned Million Dollar Secret on Netflix. It didn't seem my thing at all, but checking it out anyway it reminds me of a very old Belgian tv game show called De Mol (the mole). It may still exist, but isn't any good anymore, but the initial seasons I liked very much. It's from the time when there wasn't much television and everybody watched the same thing and discussed their theories next day at work or school.

Unlike this Netflix version, the mystery identity was also hidden to the viewer and was the same throughout the season. Due to the mechanics of that show the other contestants deployed the tactic to make themselves suspect as well, while now it's just about trying to avoid suspicion.

What remains, though, is that people are strange.
#MillionDollarSecret



Just finished watching the final (fifth) season of You on Netflix. I think by now it is not a spoiler anymore that Amy-Leigh Hickman is back, as Nadia. She was totally amazing. She nails all the details of how Nadia would have been affected by what happened. I like it when someone reprises a role but doesn't just play it the same.

No Jenna Ortega as Ellie in this season, unless you count a glimpse of a small photo of her on a website in episode six... But then I still imagine that the broad strokes of the Nadia storyline are what was originally envisioned for Ellie.
#AmyLeighHickman #YouNetflix #You


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bookmarking this one! Love the cocaine analogy!

“Coincidentally, Natalie Ponte on LinkedIn posted today: try replacing “ai” with “cocaine” in all the posts you read about it. it’s pretty funny

Let’s try it!

“My cocaine skeptic friends are all nuts, they’ll be left behind.”

“Cocaine isn’t going to replace you. Someone using cocaine is going to replace you.” Checks out.

Cocaine doesn’t make you a business genius — it just makes you think you’re a business genius. Same for AI.”



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🔥 Great coverage from @TechCrunch on the Bonfire Social 1.0 release candidate we announced at #fediforum
techcrunch.com/2025/06/05/bonf…
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I hope companies (e.g. temu) know that if I've skipped their annoying advert the previous 1000 times they've fed it to me in a row, I'm also going to skip the 1001st time and make a mental note to never buy their product / use their service. They are literally wasting money and losing sales.

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Generative AI is like a restaurant with a sign like this:

"HI! And welcome! Please note that the restaurant does not take any responsibility if you get sick from eating here! Sometimes the food will look great and be fine. Sometimes it will look awful and you obviously won't want to eat it. Sometimes it will look great and taste great but make you horribly ill. It's your responsibility to run appropriate tests on the food before eating it and then deciding whether or not you want to eat it. Thanks for coming!"

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/me snerks

And AI fans are all, "See? Sometimes the food is great! This restaurant is the future!!!!!!!11111one"

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So just don't go to that restaurant!? No one is forcing you.

Also, the sign is on the supermarket. And the other supermarket, which has the same parent company. And the only competitor supermarket, because the country has a duopoly. And where did all these food trucks come from? I don't ever eat from food trucks but they're blocking my street and they all have the sign.



Another one of Roxy Furman's gorgeous wildlife films just came out on YouTube, this time she's filming in Costa Rica.
youtu.be/AM3Gp8Qs7Mc?si=_L2Jn5…

#RoxyFurman #RoxyTheZoologist #Wildlife #CostaRica



In this video Jenna Ortega discusses past characters she played and her motivation behind them. Very interesting!

youtu.be/0rxDPmvVpNM

She also has a great interview with Harper's Bazaar US, which is a great read with great photos as well.

harpersbazaar.com/culture/film…

#JennaOrtega #HarpersBazaar



Another good side to photography YouTube: I already liked following the channel of Justine with her mix of photography and life in the Ontario snow, but the latest video with a small photography project is so cute. She recreates old photos of her father when he lived in London, while her travelling takes her to the same city.
#Photography #YouTube #JustineFiles

youtu.be/zyRJnebh_5Q

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Lovely! Thanks for sharing. I’ve photos of myself in London in 1985 & 2015, & probably some of my parents in 1977. A project for the next generation?


"Tips to take terrible photos", so fun and totally worth it to follow photography YouTube.
#Photography #YouTube

youtu.be/LrE74-SnN1g



Experimenting with adding ?udm=14 to Google Search addresses, and/or immediately clicking the "Web" instead of "All" tab in the results. Seems to help somewhat, but not sure yet what it exactly does.


Sneak peak of Wednesday season 2: spoiler, Jenna Ortega is still brilliant.

On ex-twitter: https://x.com/wednesdayaddams/status/1924814561418608855
On Instagram: instagram.com/reel/DJ4FRH0R4LA…
On YouTube: youtu.be/XWQlSo6eBNw

#JennaOrtega #Wednesday #WednesdayNetflix

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Having a little look at other reviews... I'm not a film buff at all and in no way more likely to understand esoteric cinema, but how can so many people not get it? I mean even her character's name could be considered a spoiler.

And how come so many people mention things in their review that is in the short blurb description, but not mentioned in the actual film? I guess they make these to catch these people out...



My bicycle broke down on my way home with 30 minutes to go. Which became a lot more minutes to go since I had to walk the remainder of the way. Finally got home after 2am...


Jenna Ortega will also be back in season two of Wednesday on 6 August and 3 September.
netflix.com/tudum/articles/wed…

#JennaOrtega #Wednesday



Pulling a lot of fluff from my phone's belly button: the headphone port.


Jenna Ortega's new film Hurry Up Tomorrow will be released tomorrow in my country (The Netherlands) and Friday in the US, with similar dates around the world. I am very excited for it!
#JennaOrtega #HurryUpTomorrow


I really like Varada as the Doctor Who companion, and how the character is written as well. Such a forceful person.


I find no information about whether that thing is landed yet and taking pictures...

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'Each man thought: one of the others is bound to say something soon, some protest and then I will murmur agreement, not actually say anything. I am not as stupid as that, but definitely murmur very firmly, so that the others will be in no doubt that I thoroughly disapprove, because at a time like this it behooves all decent men to nearly stand up and be almost heard. But no one said anything. The cowards, each man thought.'

- Terry Pratchett - Guards, Guards.

#RandomQuote #quotes #quote #bot

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Looking out of the window and checking the street when you need to go to the toilet...

... the experience waiting for a delivery when living alone.


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thought they’d mention that the Doctor isn’t even in it much to rub it in

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it is my opinion that "I'll give you access to my NAS" is a romantic gesture, and that "I'll add you to the sudoers list" is tantamount to a proposal

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🧵 THREAD: A federal whistleblower just dropped one of the most disturbing cybersecurity disclosures I’ve ever read.

He's saying DOGE came in, data went out, and Russians started attempting logins with new valid DOGE passwords

Media's coverage wasn't detailed enough so I dug into his testimony:

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Source for everyone in cybersecurity to read through and experience the craziness themselves whistlebloweraid.org/wp-conten…

If the world survives, this will be a required reading in many #cybersecurity courses.


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Breaking: The Supreme Court announces that publication of Justice Alito’s dissent in the deportation case will be delayed as it is translated from its original German.

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Votes for 16 year olds: the scientific argument

theneuroscienceofeverydaylife.…

A lot of the arguments against it basically boil down to "they do knife crime!"

But unless you believe nobody over 18 has ever done a crime, this claim falls apart when you think about it for even a second

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I've mentioned her before, as an actress and as a singer, but Corina Bradley is also a really good dancer. Here in a choreography of her own:

youtu.be/KRi2nZDs6Nc?si=b1RYuy…

#CorinaBradley #Dance



Interview in Interview by Jenna Ortega with Natalie Portman. They talk about acting, life, being a child star, and Jenna describes how as a 5yo kid she used to think all TV was real and cameras were in everybody's house. I mean, they aren't?
interviewmagazine.com/film/nat…

#JennaOrtega #NataliePortman #Interview




Coming up for air for a bit from watching YouTube to tell you that "Show up" is the new buzzword.



Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Bernie Sanders have been on a Fight Oligarchy tour.

I think history is going to remember AOC's 'We are not powerless' speech. This is some watch:
youtu.be/1LQ8s8sKoXY?si=65GNYx…

Back home, Sanders made this 'Bad News / Good News' address:
youtu.be/70nHmlapu7w?si=YinCHQ…

#FightOligarchy #AlexandriaOcasioCortez #AOC #BernieSanders #Bernie #USPol

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Waiting for someone to come back at me and mention that she doesn't actually say that slogan in this speech... Made you watch... But isn't misquoting historical speeches sort of the norm? The slogan is very much the theme of the speech however, it is in the caption, and she does say it in another version of this speech. Also, sorry, I misremembered.

What she does say however:

That we have to get rid of Big Money out of politics.

That we need a Democratic party that actually fights for people, that congress people who don't should be booted out, but that this means that voters should vote at every opportunity for those Democrats that will stand up for people.

That believing that a minimal wage should cover the cost to live, and that illness shouldn't cause bankruptcy, is common sense, not something out of a communist manifesto.

That she welcomes everybody who will fight for someone they don't know.

That the fabric of community is what can defeat fascism.

(Yeah, we're literally calling it that now)


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on Linux, is there a way to switch off "Tamagotchi Mode"? specifically i mean the thing where you set up linux exactly how you want, and every 2 weeks you run package updates and some obscure part of your system which you didn't even know existed now no longer works the way you set it up, and you have to spend 90 minutes fixing it, and it's always a different thing, and this happens every 2 weeks, forever. how do you switch that off? (ideally in a way where it won't switch back on after 2 weeks)

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Android and Valve/SteamDeck manage it well enough.

I can answer definitively yes "Linux" can be configured to practically never change and never break.

But a distribution built by arbitrarily cobbling together thousands of projects moving at their own pace and keeping them up to date, sorry the answer will be likely no.

Your choice of cobblers matter insofar as the frequency of allowed breakage.

Becoming your own cobbler can help but requires much study and more frequent frustration.

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I may have just manually triggered the "Tamagotchi Mode" by trying to use the NVIDIA card from Linux directly again, instead of just keeping it inside the Windows PCIe passthrough VM. :( That reminded me of this post quickly.


"But surely they'll realise they're crashing the economy?"

"We have to raise awareness that these actions will burn the planet!"

"They'll stop once they see the impact on human lives, especially their own people."

We have to remember that the destruction is the point. They do want to reset everything, believing they are best placed to be the only survivors of the human race and the ones to start a new era. That's also why they amass so much more wealth than they need now.



Just back from watching Jenna Ortega in Death of a Unicorn. I really liked it! There's also something about the combination of her acting with detailed realism and the story being like 'well, unicorns', and that is a combination that I weirdly really liked. I guess it adds to the multiple things her character is trapped in.

My review of Death of a Unicorn on Letterboxd boxd.it/9jRbqN