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.
Hi, this me from my Friendica instance. I also post from @GidiKroon@mastodon.social, @gidi@pleroma.gidikroon.eu as well as from Twitter, Instagram and Tumblr as @GidiKroon but I'm mainly using my own Friendica for now. Even though I have been on the fediverse for a few years, I've never done an #Introduction post, so let's do one for this channel.
I tend to post about actresses and singers I'm a fan of, sharing news about their new projects as well as my thoughts about films and tv I watch. In between I give my take on political things as well as about the fediverse. When I learn new things hosting a fediverse server or other technical things, I try to share them here too. Longer posts may end up on my blog gidikroon.eu (which you can follow at @GidiKroon@gidikroon.eu).
In real life I work as a software developer, but I keep work separate from a private account like this. I play (beach) volleyball when I can, at a very low level. I live
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Hi, this me from my Friendica instance. I also post from @GidiKroon@mastodon.social, @gidi@pleroma.gidikroon.eu as well as from Twitter, Instagram and Tumblr as @GidiKroon but I'm mainly using my own Friendica for now. Even though I have been on the fediverse for a few years, I've never done an #Introduction post, so let's do one for this channel.
I tend to post about actresses and singers I'm a fan of, sharing news about their new projects as well as my thoughts about films and tv I watch. In between I give my take on political things as well as about the fediverse. When I learn new things hosting a fediverse server or other technical things, I try to share them here too. Longer posts may end up on my blog gidikroon.eu (which you can follow at @GidiKroon@gidikroon.eu).
In real life I work as a software developer, but I keep work separate from a private account like this. I play (beach) volleyball when I can, at a very low level. I live in the Netherlands and occasionally cycle and take photographs. I read and watch sci-fi and fantasy, and am interested in ways to achieve social justice, gender and race equality, sustainable energy use and climate justice.
Feel free to follow, as I will also follow other accounts I find interesting without expectation of them following back. Feel free to share (boost, repeat) my posts if you want, using whatever share function comes with your platform. I tend to close DMs to only allow people I follow. I check my fediverse accounts only one or a few times a day, typically on my phone or tablet, so I tend to not be part of live discussions.
But anyway, we need more things with Stephanie Leonidas in a leading role. She's way too good an actress for all that supporting role, guest role stuff. And then they need to actually release the films to all countries instead of keeping it in the UK/US. #StephanieLeonidas
Stephanie Leonidas posted some photos of an upcoming film of hers on Twitter and Instagram. The posts don't say which film, but she captioned it "Donna", which according to imdb is her character in 5lbs of Pressure. #StephanieLeonidas #5lbsOfPressure
291 likes, 16 comments - stephleonidas on February 17, 2024: "Thrilled to finally share the trailer for 5lbs of Pressure . Was an absolute joy to work on . The..."
It's that day again, the birthday of Stephanie Leonidas!
I choose Crusade in Jeans from my 'Watch for Stephanie' letterboxd list for the birthday rewatch. A long time ago I only knew her sister Georgina Leonidas and knew she was a very talented actress. I saw that her older sister Stephanie was also an actress and thought that even if she only had a fraction of the talent of her younger sister, she would still be worth watching. So I took a punt buying this dvd. That was a very lucky punt... Stephanie turned out to be one of the best actresses ever and I since try to watch everything with her in it!
A boy plays and loses a football match with the national team, then drops in on his mother who's building a time machine. He goes back in time trying to win, but ends up in the middle ages and meets love interest girl (winning after all) Jenne in a children's crusade.
The story acknowledges that the crusades as we know them were wrong. This children's crusade is strictly nonviolent.
Stephanie Leonidas is filming a new film called Marching Powder. She just posted photos from the set.
IMDb says her film A Very Venice Romance was released last year (it doesn't list as available for me) and 5lbs of Pressure is still to come. #StephanieLeonidas #MarchingPowder
Rewatching Killjoys but starting at season 2, because that is the disc I have and streaming fails yet again. (How can there be so many streaming services and yet when you want to see something none of them have it?)
Following the season 1 cliffhanger, Dutch, Johnny and D’avin hit the ground running in season 2 to uncover Dutch’s duplicitous and mysterious childhood mentor, Khlyen’s secret agenda.
Though this Dutch character that Hannah John-Kamen plays is immediately clear in this second season as well as she dives head first into a planet's defensive layer without any plan whatsoever. She's the ultimate scifi-cool.
Stephanie Leonidas posted some photos of an upcoming film of hers on Twitter and Instagram. The posts don't say which film, but she captioned it "Donna", which according to imdb is her character in 5lbs of Pressure. #StephanieLeonidas #5lbsOfPressure
This photo she posted may or may not be from the same thing, but this is also about her wrapping on a film project. I don't know which one.
IMDb lists an upcoming project called A Very Venice Romance and that could be this. They say it releases next month already, 30 September. #StephanieLeonidas
Watching Luna to celebrate the birthday of Stephanie Leonidas. This film is made by some of the same people that made Mirrormask, which is another great candidate for the birthday rewatch. I chose this one because I can now finally watch my US disc in a player that accepts the region coding. If I remember a theme was a couple mourning after the death of a child, but the events are fantastical and may be based on wishful thinking. #StephanieLeonidas #Luna #BirthdayRewatch
The film is from a while ago, around 2014, but it also took many years after filming before it was released. The effect is that we're getting a much younger Stephanie. #StephanieLeonidas #Luna
In this film the animations, computer graphics and fantasy elements have more of a role than normal, being representations of people's bereavements and thoughts. It's quite beautiful. #Luna
I'm struck by the fullness of how Stephanie plays her character Freya, especially since at least initially she should not be that central to the story. But you immediately feel her, want to meet her, talk to her, a bit like Stephanie's other roles often are real people you'd like to know. The other characters in this film take longer to develop. #StephanieLeonidas #Luna
There's an interesting thing about this moment in the film that I hope I remember correctly. The director revealed that this isn't an official take, but is Stephanie preparing for another scene which he secretly filmed from around the corner because he liked how it looked when he saw her standing like that and thought it would fit great in the film. And it does.
There are some quick cuts back and forth between the previous scene and the scene she's preparing for here, with these clips mixed in, that's why it works. #StephanieLeonidas #Luna
I slightly misremembered. He says he found this shot between takes, so not secretly filmed as I thought. But it is Stephanie preparing and getting her mind ready for the next take.
Seven years it took between filming this film (2007) and it's eventual release (2014). And us in the rest of the world are still waiting (it's only out in the US and UK I think).
In the meantime, while the conversion runs and the PC is making a lot of noise to pretend it's busy, the amazing Stephanie Leonidas in Dracula. I've seen this version and as always she's very good. Though as always in stories the female lead is more the object than the subject, even more so in a Dracula story. What's great is that Stephanie really shifts her character when the influence of the count becomes stronger. #StephanieLeonidas #Dracula
Stephanie is Mina, doing her trademark multiple conflicting layers to her character. Sophia Myles is also in this as Lucy, and I know her as the memorable version of Marie Antoinette in a Doctor Who episode, the one who went the long way round.
Stephanie Leonidas. Actress: Mirrormask. Stephanie Leonidas is an English actress. She is perhaps best known for her roles as Helena in the fantasy film MirrorMask and as Irisa on the American science fiction television series, Defiance.
I've been a fan of Stephanie Leonidas for a long time. Her major projects are Mirrormask, Crusade in Jeans, Luna, Atlantis, Defiance, Snatch and American Gothic. More recently she was in S7 of Endeavour and I'm watching the dvd now. #StephanieLeonidas imdb.com/name/nm0503060/
Stephanie Leonidas, Actress: Mirrormask. Stephanie Leonidas was born on February 14, 1984 in London, England. She is an actress, known for Mirrormask (2005), American Gothic (2016) and Defiance (2013).
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