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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.


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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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Moving inside again to escape the mosquitos.

I wish the nice cool temperatures of the early evening when you'd like to sit on your balcony, aren't also prime mosquito time.


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thank you for PuTTY! I thankfully do not have to run it currently, as I do not *have* to work on any windows machine (and see no reason to run it elsewhere)
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Does this make the situation any clearer? putty.org/20250713-MiraiF-Emai…

As putty hasn't died, it must have "become controlled by large corporations and political entities."



This sounds like a really interesting programme/series coming up on the BBC, about new discoveries around human origins:

youtu.be/73NQuGXaM_w?si=ceBuXm…

Ella Al-Shamahi is also one of the best science presenters you can get.

#Human #EllaAlShamahi



I'm back from walking around and taking pictures in Genneper Parken, which is a large park inside Eindhoven that I had somehow never been too, despite having previously lived in Eindhoven for six years and now in the region for several decades.

From the information I read I had imagined it to be a park like Central Park, or St James Park, where people gather on a sunny day. I had brought sandwiches and a towel to sit on. Yet it's more a nature area with bicycle and footpaths, and lot of bridges over the two rivers that meander through it. So more a nice area to go through rather than to gather. I did a lot of walking and I'm now very tired.

But dinner to eat and photos to sort through. The above is my icecream break at the water mill.



Very interesting video about how crushes by someone who is autistic are even more intense.

youtu.be/LJYLN-bOFv0


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Father Brown ep 12x06 spoiler
"A homosexual in ballroom dancing. It's unthinkable!"
-- Bestwick

#FatherBrown

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Welcome to the US, where citizens are grabbed and arrested for going to work while Hispanic.

Is this seriously where they want to host the World Cup in 2026? Will that be a whites only tournament, or what is Trump's plan?

youtube.com/watch?v=T_HNgE7Kx4…



The fair is in town and I took some pictures, that I still need to sort out. But also as a first since a long time I actually went into some attractions rather than just looking at other people having fun. For the bumper cars I took some time looking how people paid for the ride, expecting that nowadays you would tap your phone on the car, or type in some code. But no, it is still exactly as it was when I was a kid: you buy a plastic coin that you insert in the car.

Then I went into one of these high-g-force rides and am still feeling it...

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The problem with being alone is that all these rides are made for two people. So to not take up someone's space by being alone in a car, I first check that it isn't a busy time and some seats are empty anyway.
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Did some more rides today on the last day of the fair and these were more doable. Also interesting to see that on such a last day the operators of the rides are already dismantling them while people are still riding on it. And that some of the fair people chill out on the kids rides on such a last day.

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Bonus points if you can pull a string in his back and he shouts, "There are four lights!!!"
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someone else pointed out that he comes with a hook to hang him off the ceiling, and I was instantly deceased
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Doing an unintentional test of server caching. Works quite well, considering...


Yeah, Mastodon's Unlisted is such a misnomer. My biggest gripe with it is that it mainly means "unsearchable".

And you can't really change that on a server, since that would mean that people who did mean "unsearchable" when they chose "unlisted", suddenly find their posts showing up in searches without their consent...

Friendica meanwhile shows threads as threads, but without the collapsing which would be very useful.


That's an urban legend, alas. While that *would* be a great way to make "unlisted" work, that's absolutely, positively, 100% *not* how "unlisted" works.

More here, including how to manage threads in your timeline:

pluralistic.net/2023/04/16/how…


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@feld @pluralistic I wonder if this is a legacy decision, left over from the time before Mastodon implemented ActivityPub support and had better control through the Mastodon API.
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@ramsey @pluralistic Mastodon has a history of using its popularity to unilaterally control the direction of the Fediverse. If a new spec is proposed that Mastodon doesn't care for, it gets killed. If Mastodon wants to change the rules about how something works, now everyone is forced to accept it or things break.

e.g., There is no such thing as a "Content Warning"; that is the subject field in ActivityPub but Mastodon abused it for another purpose and now we all have to treat it that way. It is probably the perfect field for something like Lemmy to be using as the subject for a thread, but nope -- it's a content warning so they had to invent the title of a post being some <p><a> HTML on the first line of the message body.

Gargon pretends to be a supporter of an permissive, interoperable, federated ecosystem shaped by open democratic processes but in reality all he cares about is what is good for "Mastodon the project".


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Good to hear that even flat out wrong assessments are classified top-secret.


Spain-based Korean Foodie Doobydobap does Coachella, which she describes as Christmas for influencers (fully acknowledging that she is one), rating the food and adding up the prices.

youtu.be/0GZ7KKBN_8U?si=mhU8Bp…

My further takes:


  • how does she manage to not get a single stain on her white dress, eating all that food?
  • inventive microphone handling, clipping it on the plates and food boxes
  • give a foodie one piece of bad food and she won't forget it, even among all the other tasty things


So funny that YouTube now has a Jump Ahead feature to skip over in-video ad segments that aren't YouTube's.


Flowers

Canon EOS R10 + Laowa 65mm F2.8 2x macro, handheld and I couldn't really see the screen so I was guessing focus a bit.


#Photography #Macro #MacroPhotography

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YouTube video title auto-translations are getting more and more annoying.

They are by definition unnecessary: if I'm watching a video in English, why would I want its title translated from English?

And they are also very bad, a jumbled mess of random Dutch words which hides what the original title could have been.

The reason we know that Google knows how bad they are? The fact they provide no switch to turn them off.






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.