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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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#HurryUpTomorrow which ⭐ #TheWeeknd #jennaortega and #BarryKeoghan will be releasing in theatres, May 16, 2025
#JennaOrtega #barrykeoghan #theweeknd #hurryuptomorrow

My 1000th Wordle today! Not a stellar performance, only in the fifth guess.
#Wordle
My Wordle stats today. Exactly 1000 played. Also 97% win, 5 current streak, 106 max streak, today's word in guess 5.
#Wordle

Spring can't come fast enough!

The trailer for the new film with Jenna Ortega is out! Death of a Unicorn, coming soon.
#JennaOrtega #DeathOfAUnicorn
instagram.com/reel/DDuPMQQo2wv…

#JennaOrtega #DeathOfAUnicorn film Jenna Ortega

Beetlejuice Beetlejuice with Jenna Ortega and The Pod Generation with Emilia Clarke arrived on blu-ray!

The German release of the latter has an alternative title Baby To Go, which isn't even in German. In my own country hardly any discs are released anymore, so we have to make do with these German releases.
#JennaOrtega #BeetlejuiceBeetlejuice #EmiliaClarke #ThePodGeneration #BabyToGo

Blu-rays that have just arrived: The Pod Generation (as Baby To Go) with Emilia Clarke and Beetlejuice Beetlejuice (in 4k) with Jenna Ortega, the latter not pictured on the cover. Both are the German releases and photographed before unwrapping.
#JennaOrtega #EmiliaClarke #ThePodGeneration #beetlejuicebeetlejuice #BabyToGo film Jenna Ortega
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I assume I won't see Spotify Wrapped posts from people berating others they use platforms that support right wing extremism. Right?

To me Spotify is still cancelled. I'm surprised how normalised it is again among others.

AI noise reduction in bird photography: I hope all these photographers spending hours in the wilderness to photograph a bird, know that when they apply AI noise reduction to remove the noise from the bird's feathers, it instead removes the noisy feathers and inserts completely made up feathers without noise. Is it even the same bird? Why not stay home and draw a bird instead?

Wednesday season 2 wrapped filming, now we can start waiting for it to be released in 2025.
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Jenna Ortega as Wednesday Addams in gothic surroundings, because when is she not.
#JennaOrtega #Wednesday tv Jenna Ortega
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So here's yet another example of #Google Search AI Overviews completely missing the point of a question and giving misleading/wrong answers. I asked Google how much larger a 75 inch TV is than a 55 inch TV. Google replied with an AI Overview (as below) declaring the 75 was 36% larger than the 55, "meaning the viewing area is significantly bigger on the 75 inch screen", it confidently declared.

Only 36%? That doesn't seem right. We're talking about viewing area, as the AI reply itself stated.

So what went wrong? If you look at the calculation that the AI answer used, it simply calculated how much longer the diagonal of the 75 is vs. the 55. Yeah, it's about 36% longer. But that's NOT the viewing area.

If you calculate out the actual viewing area, a term mentioned by the AI answer itself, the actual result is that the 75 viewing area is about 86% (!) larger than the 55. Not a mere 36%.

So the AI Overview answer was utterly misleading at best, and just plain stupid wrong at worst. Not even close.

USELESS!
#google

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because it doesn't "know" anything. It has no idea what a TV is, or what dimensions are. It's just a huge bag of words.

This video of Corina Bradley singing a cover is very beautiful, as is her voice. As far as I know she didn't publish anything like this before.
youtu.be/LmhV3gVWbKY
#CorinaBradley
#CorinaBradley music
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I also love how this video is shot, with the Corina on the right doing backing vocals for the Corina on the left.
#CorinaBradley
Split video with on the left Corina's face seen from the front and on the right Corina's face seen from the side. She's behind a microphone with screen. The lighting is very cinematic. She looks very tranquil.
#CorinaBradley
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I can't add it to my music playlist due to YouTube being weird, but it reminded me of this other video on that list of a slightly more famous actress also showing her gorgeous voice in a beautifully filmed studio setting in a video for her YouTube channel.
#MirandaCosgrove
youtu.be/dAfYBOsQQY8
#MirandaCosgrove
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It's around freezing outside, so it's a great time for the heating in my flat to not be working.
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It's fixed! It took a few days but it's so great to be able to be in a living room where I can raise the temperature above 15 degrees.

Glow is also in Best this year, as last year, side-Glow as it were.

Canon EOS R10, RF-S 10-18mm. cc-by.
#Photography #Glow2024

Saint Odulphus, or his statue, stands guard in front of the church which is brightly illuminated with many colours for the Glow festival. The statue catches some of the light. The photograph looks steeply up, the wide angle exaggerating its prominence.
#photography #Glow2024 photography

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More of Glow in Best, with the Windmill, the cemetery and eyes at the train station. The main Glow festival is of course in Eindhoven.
#Glow2024
The windmill illuminated with playful colours, as part of the Glow festival.
In the dark, people walk over a footpath past the cemetery, itself hidden behind a green hedge. As part of the Glow festival the hedge lights up in bright changing colours and sound can be heard coming from that side. Or maybe it's not Glow, but the cemetery's ghosts acting up.
Two large glowing eyeballs for Glow, seen in context of the traditional illuminated tree art work.
#Glow2024
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I had also taken photos in Best some days earlier with my RF 50mm 1.8 lens. Nothing wrong with those results, but I haven't processed these to jpeg yet. The 50mm, on an APS-C camera, didn't allow me to capture whole buildings, yet the aperture difference of 1.8 vs 4.5-6.3 makes itself felt in the dark...

Glow Eindhoven 2024.

I tried to take some photos with my Canon EOS R10, with the RF 50mm 1.8 lens, some with the RF 28mm 2.8.
#Photography #Glow #GlowEindhoven #Glow2024

A stream of visitors of Glow walking into a tunnel, the entrance illuminated with red lights.
The bridge over the Dommel illuminated with led lights that change colour. At the moment they are green and red. In the dark, people walk by.
The ground is also illuminated while people are watching another light show. Only people's feet are shown, the ground has abstract shapes projected and drawn on it.
#photography #glow #GlowEindhoven #Glow2024

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For the second one of these two I needed the other lens (building too big, etc).
Sign with an arrow showing the route of Glow. The arrow points upwards. Above it are the word Glow and a glowing street lamp.
Illuminated building with a light show as part of Glow 2024.

Birds. Possibly a sparrowhawk and a pigeon.

Canon EOS R10 with Canon RF 100-400mm.
#Photography #Birds

Small predatory bird perched on a branch, looking for prey.
Pigeon perched on a small branch, looking back to see where that sound of the shutter is coming from.
#photography #birds photography

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As long as I live, I will never understand why America would rather elect a singularly worthless white rapist as president than an exceptionally impressive black woman.

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Joe Hill 🇮🇱🇵🇸🇺🇦
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Misinformation. I saw something tonight that postulated that 50% of Americans have <6th grade reading comprehension. People like that are fish in a barrel to the likes of Musk and other right wing propaganda.

So the US has openly voted for fascism. The first time there was the excuse of populism, but this time the mask was off.
#USPol
#uspol

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Just remember, we're not 1930s Germany. WE ARE HYPER-ARMED. There will be no house to house harassment. 8/10 houses will present a serious fire fight. Nazis didn't have to deal with that. It's time the left recognizes what the 2nd amendment is actually for.

Fixed my @F-Droid app on my tablet as I found it had a radically different idea of which versions of several apps were available than my phone had. Both were also behind reality, but that is normal. I noticed this because the @Tuta app failed to download, maybe because such an old version (August) no longer existed. Somehow going into the 'nearby people' function triggered a new wifi permission popup, or maybe it was me toggling wifi off-and-on that fixed it. But after that thumbnails and screenshots loaded again and new(-ish) app versions were shown.

In researching this I found the remark that F-droid has supported unattended upgrades for a while. That is a feature I was really waiting for, as clicking Install on each separate update then wait a minute then click the next etc was getting really annoying. But it is not happening for me. Turns out that this is only available for newer Android versions, which neither of these devices has... See f-droid.org/2024/02/01/twif.ht… .

@Tuta @F-Droid

The more a certain presidential candidate comes out as fascist and racist, rather than just hinting at it, the more the billionaires are standing behind him, rather than just hinting at it.

Being in an office building where all the lights are on motion detectors. It's late, everybody is gone home already. Everywhere it's dark, the only light that's on is around my desk. Suddenly a light switches on in another corridor. I look up. No one's there.

I still don't understand how a commercial company can claim to own the name of a community project and blame another company, its direct competitor, for using (or hinting at) that name. Neither should own that name, or control the community website.

The trailer for Stephanie Leonidas's new film Marching Powder is out, here on her Instagram: instagram.com/reel/DBMnkugMWKz… . Warning that it's quite violent.
#StephanieLeonidas #MarchingPowder
#StephanieLeonidas #MarchingPowder film Stephanie Leonidas
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We’re excited to launch Mosaic: a new initiative from the Bonfire team that empowers organisations by creating their own customised and federated digital space - built just for them.

✨ Learn more about Mosaic: bonfirenetworks.org/mosaic/

📣 Read our announcement post: bonfirenetworks.org/posts/mosa…

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A federated social network for individuals and communities to design, operate and control their own digital lives.
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@meljoann @radiofreefedi yeah it’s a pity we still didn’t found a way to focus on RFF pilot! We are trying to get the 1.0 out and at same time find sustainability to pay ourselves and onboard new devs among other things. Maybe applying to a grant to develop the needed features could be a way to push this forward? Happy to chat more about it…
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That’s understandable, yeah we’re in a tricky position for grants as we’re so international. A grant to support both your work and our main dev would be amazing.

I’m not a tech person myself (just experience with Arts funding). So, a bit out of the loop regarding funding help available… any leads you could point us to? I’d be happy to help with the application

@radiofreefedi

@radio free fedi

So there are people in the US who are undecided between a clearly unqualified openly racist candidate, and a clearly qualified person of colour. Sounds to me they are not undecided at all.

The playbook of create a crisis to invoke a crisis.
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Could be WordPress, could be the Dutch extremist government, could be something else. Who knows.

Made it to the start of the Eindhoven City Run (5km, this year relegated to the Saturday and not on the actual Marathon day). Also made it to the finish, but I was too tired to take another photo. My time was 34:29, not the slowest ever despite having to hold back due to an injury (the uphill bits were difficult for more than the normal reasons). Made it back home too and added to my collection.

I'd wish they had changing facilities near the finish line, or at all since on Saturday nothing is available. It was a long cold walk back in my t-shirt... Sitting here now trying to warm back up.
#EindhovenCityRun #ASMLMarathonEindhoven

Selfie at the start of the Eindhoven City Run. Many people can be seen as well as the start banner in the distance.
Selfie of me back home from the 5km City Run, wearing the starting number and the medal.
The 40th edition medal of the 5km City Run during the Eindhoven Marathon, hanging on top of my other medals of previous editions. The number 40 is prominently visible. Other text says ASML Marathon Eindhoven.
#EindhovenCityRun #ASMLMarathonEindhoven
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My position was 1879 out of 3937 participants. There I was worrying I would not be able to finish before the closing time.

Today it's exactly one year ago that an unthinkable massacre was committed by a terrorist organisation against ordinary people in Israel. I'm still hoping the people responsible will be handed over to international courts to face justice.

During this year unthinkable war crimes have been committed in what followed as a response to that massacre. So much so that they overshadow the massacre itself in the public debate. These war crimes have to stop immediately and unilaterally. For both sides there should be no need for negotiations or agreements to stop war crimes. Stop bombing civilians, now. Stop involving civilians in your fight. I'm also hoping these war crimes go to the international courts.

These are the more immediate things I'm hoping to see happening. More idle hope I have is that someone realises that by always retaliating, the fighting never stops; a brave leader (so not one of the ones in power today) is going to decide to not hit back, breaking the circle of violence.

Apologies to the people taking the train in the south east of the Netherlands: I decided to take the train today, so naturally everything is cancelled.

It should be illegal for predatory birds to be flying overhead when I have my ultra wide lens on the camera. And I'm too lazy to change it.

"And now a word from our sponsors"

Wouldn't it be great if it really was just one word?

Brought on by the in-video advertisement being interrupted by YouTube's advertisements.

Walked in the woods near sunset. Found some trees.

Canon EOS R10, RF-S 10-18.
#Photography

A low sun shines through two trunks of a tree, creating a sun star. Only the leaves of a few young twigs coming out of the ground, are illuminated while most else is in the shadows, suggesting the sun star is shining only for them.
A tree's root misses the ground when it comes down a small hill. Several offshoots of the root go straight down into the ground, suggesting the tree has made a fence.
#photography photography
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Most rains may have been a while ago, but some paths are still flooded.
The paths and the woods are still flooded.
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The human eye is really much better at dynamic range than electronics is...
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Continuum in art

#art #fineart #artist #painting #painter #finearts #fineartstudent #portrait #portraitphotography #streetphotography #photography #urbanphotography #urbanphoto #naturallight #naturallightphotography #urbanart #foto #fotografia #fotografie #fotografiaartistica #london #nationalportraitgallery #opensource #freeopensourcesoftware #opensourcesoftware #darktable #darktablephotography #gimp #gimpart

#foto #opensource #artist #art #gimp #darktable #portrait #painting #fotografie #streetphotography #London #urbanphotography #painter #urbanart #naturallight #fineart #opensourcesoftware #portraitphotography #urbanphoto #fotografia #finearts #gimpart #naturallightphotography #darktablephotography #freeopensourcesoftware #fineartstudent #fotografiaartistica #NationalPortraitGallery

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Tonight in the #BirthweekRewatch for Jenna Ortega's birthday last Friday: The Fallout. Her best film.

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Watch The Fallout | Max

Watch The Fallout on Max. Plans start at $9.99/month. Megan Park's award-winning feature screenwriting and directing debut "The Fallout" is a compelling exploration of the inexplicable resiliency of life and the hope that emerges out of loss.
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That opening is still great: not showing the event makes it more powerful, not less.

Interesting phone interview by The New York Times with Jenna Ortega, done just before the recent press tour for Beetlejuice Beetlejuice. She talks about her life, including becoming a child actress and how you learn to feign maturity early on. Also about why she deleted Twitter a few years ago.
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#JennaOrtega
#JennaOrtega

Happy Birthday, Jenna Ortega!

She may be busy filming Wednesday season two in Ireland, but today it is also her 22nd birthday and I feel like celebrating it with a #BirthweekRewatch. A week because a Friday doesn't give enough time to rewatch all I want to see. She made so many great things!

I saw Miller's Girl twice in the cinema, because I liked it so much. Now from the comfort of my own blu-ray player.

Photo of the blu-ray of Miller's Girl. The cover shows Jenna Ortega and Martin Freeman as their characters, separated by the film's title.

#JennaOrtega #MillersGirl

#JennaOrtega #BirthweekRewatch #MillersGirl film Jenna Ortega

TIL: I can wirelessly browse the photos on my camera using my phone and download the photos, even when it (the camera) is physically turned off.

Bird. I don't know about brands.

Canon EOS R10, RF 100-400mm F5.6-8 IS USM, 400mm, F8, 1/1000s, ISO 640.
#Photography #Bird

Black, white, red bird sitting on a bare tree, looking like it's going to peck some wood
#photography #bird photography

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yep, Bixby is right. The red spot on the bottom differentiates them from the regular "bonte specht"

Taking an interest in local affairs. The Moon.

Canon EOS R10, RF 100-400mm F5.6-8 IS USM, 400mm, F8, 1/30s, ISO 100. Auto-focus subject tracking, tripod, 10s delay, manual exposure, daylight whitebalance, cropped.
#Photography #Moon

The Moon, almost full, in a black sky
#photography #moon photography

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There's only a small gap between the trees where the Moon could be seen from my balcony, so I had to set this up quickly. Otherwise I may have had more time to increase the sharpness, maybe with manual focus, maybe with remote control, maybe with faster shutter speeds and higher iso. I did take multiple exposures and some already had out-of-focus leaves smeared over the Moon. It's interesting how quickly heavenly bodies move seen through 400mm. Though I think some lower exposure shots might be better than this one, I still have to check on my pc. This was just cropped on camera and sent to my phone.

It feels like yesterday but last year Mia Shanks impressed me with her first single Yesterday. Today, on her birthday, she announces her second single The Sound Of It. I'm really excited. We'll know the sound of it on 27 September.

Mia Shanks on the cover of her single The Sound Of It. The photo is multiple exposures of her face.

#MiaShanks #TheSoundOfIt

#MiaShanks #TheSoundOfIt music

So if you tell the Canon EOS R10 auto-focus system to focus on Saturn it's like, ok, I've got it.

Admittedly, it's very vague and it's a tiny crop from the whole photo, it being barely a spec of light, but the photo is taken with a budget camera with a budget lens and it is Saturn and the auto-focus did acquire focus. No telescope involved.
#Photography #Saturn

The black night sky with a vague image of the planet Saturn where the rings are visible.
#photography #Saturn photography

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Specs: camera Canon EOS R10, lens RF 100-400mm F5.6-8 IS USM, at 400mm, F8, 1/20s, ISO 100, tripod, IS off, 10s delay, white balance daylight, manual mode, AF one-shot. Cropped heavily.
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Note that Saturn is visible with the naked eye currently during the night due to being close in its rotation and being opposite the sun. This doesn't happen often. The rings should be visible with any kind of magnification, but I had no luck with my binoculars.
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