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Happy Birthday, Lindsay!

Lindsay Armaou has her birthday today and it would be obvious to play her songs as celebration. She was in B*Witched as well as Clayton, and is again in B*Witched now they're performing and recording again. But I don't like to be obvious.

So for the Birthday Rewatch I'm rewatching the film (Two Days in) The Smoke, which is one of her acting jobs. It's a very long time ago I saw this film, so it's about time. 'The Smoke' is a nickname for the city of London.
#LindsayArmaou #BirthdayRewatch #TheSmoke

#BirthdayRewatch #LindsayArmaou #TheSmoke
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Lindsay is also singing (and wrote words and music of) the song playing over the credits No smoke without fire.
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Y’all know how this whole debacle with artificial “intelligence” and plausible-sounding nonsense is going to end, right?

“42.”
“What's that supposed to mean?”
“Fuck if I know. Build a better computer!”
*entire planet wasted*

#ai #llm

#ai #llm

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I'm going to do some mixed-up rewatch to see the combined talents of Jenna Ortega and Amy-Leigh Hickman by jumping between the second and fourth seasons of You. Double the brilliance. I'll be doing episodes 2x08, 4x08, 2x09, 4x09, 2x10 and 4x10.
#JennaOrtega #AmyLeighHickman #You #YouNetflix
#YouNetflix #JennaOrtega #AmyLeighHickman #you tv Jenna Ortega Amy-Leigh Hickman
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You 2x09 Ellie report (spoilers)
Ellie walks in on Joe and Love who have met up the morning after the events of Forty's process. She is still looking for her sister Delilah and proceeds to spend the day cooking with Love. She tells Love about how she came to live with her sister after her father died. Later in the episode she has the arguably most heartfelt moment of the series where she has her 'what's wrong with me' outburst in the kitchen, when she believes her sister has left her.
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You 4x09 Nadia report (spoilers)
Nadia is talking to Marianne about the plan to get her out without involving the police, while Joe walks in and she needs to hide around the corner. This is when a panic-stricken Nadia properly sees the madness of her professor, indicating the reality closing in on Joe. When he's gone Nadia and Marianne agree that the only way is for Joe to die. When Nadia is later rushing back after sourcing the drugs and knife needed, she gets into a mishap at the underground access gates and is taken to the police station. Once outside, she receives the remainder of the drugs she needs for plan b that Marianne has set in motion due to the delay. Meanwhile, she has to admit to her 'boyfriend' that she doesn't consider him her boyfriend as this is not the kind of conversation that you can postpone because you're in a hurry.
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"You know what my father once told me? He said: 'A good way to judge a society is by the conduct of its police officers'."
-- Jackson


#WeHuntTogether

#WeHuntTogether

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I remember when I first learned about the Peter Principle, l could tell it was a salient insight

but also, the assumption that competence inevitably led to promotion was puzzling, then darkly funny.

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@grimalkina I’ve needed, and been missing, the frame of backlash effects and feel a little lighter now that I have it. thanks ❤
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These are examples re: gender beliefs but many other examples!

"dominant group members are motivated to reinforce group-based hierarchies in response to situations that disrupt them" (even at a cost to others' achievement that we want to happen! --> journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.11…)

"stereotyping thrives on ambiguity [...] when an individual has achieved a high-status position in a gender-incongruent occupation, making a mistake can prove especially damaging" (journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/1…)

It's happening again: the film account for Finestkind has been promoting since forever that its release on Paramount+ is 15 December. That's now, so I check: nothing. Loads of other people in the comments having the same problem. It looks like it may have been a release in the US only. They literally never mentioned that. Which also means that there is no word whatsoever if I am ever going to get to see it here.
#Finestkind #JennaOrtega
#JennaOrtega #Finestkind
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I'm so done with the entertainment industry thinking that the US equals the world. And with regional release dates.

I know that the argument is that the local distributors can have their own campaigns and social media accounts promoting their local release. But they never do. Because the US accounts always present themselves as the overall global one, representing the film to the world, until they don't.

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Miller’s Girl (2024) Official Trailer - Martin Freeman, Jenna Ortega
Miller’s Girl - Watch the trailer now! In Theaters January 26. Starring Martin Freeman, Jenna Ortega, Dagmara Domińczyk, Bashir Salahuddin, and Gideon Adlon.
#MillersGirlMovie #Lionsgate #Movies
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Miller’s Girl (2024) Official Trailer - Martin Freeman, Jenna Ortega

Miller’s Girl - Watch the trailer now! In Theaters January 26. Starring Martin Freeman, Jenna Ortega, Dagmara Domińczyk, Bashir Salahuddin, and Gideon Adlon....
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#movies #lionsgate #millersgirlmovie

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Bridgerton season three (part one) will be on Netflix 16 May, with part two the next month on 13 June. Looks like Claudia Jessie is back.
media.netflix.com/en/only-on-n…
#Bridgerton
#Bridgerton tv
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I'm excited for this film: Jenna Ortega's Miller's Girl will be in theatres 26 January, after being in a film festival earlier that month. Sounds like a difficult story that can fully use (and showcase) her acting talents.

deadline.com/2023/12/jenna-ort…

Teacher and student, Jenna Ortega and Martin Freeman, sitting next to each other looking at each other.

#JennaOrtega #MillersGirl

#JennaOrtega #MillersGirl film Jenna Ortega

Tomorrow on BBC Two is going to be the repeat of last week's episode of Hannah Fry's The Secret Genius of Modern Life, that I missed. In this series she explores the amazing components and inventions that make up mundane everyday objects. I've just watched the episode about the microwave. Not only is there obvious science in generating the waves, but also using a turntable needed to be invented. Tomorrow will be about headphones. The new episode this week, Thursday, is about lifts.

Hannah looking at the viewer, the backdrop has the name of the series over science-y type diagrams

#HannahFry #TheSecretGeniusOfModernLife

#HannahFry #TheSecretGeniusOfModernLife

Tonight's repeat of Liz Bonnin's Wild Caribbean on BBC Two is I think the one with guest Trinidadian biologist Laura Baboolal in the segment where the T&T Field Naturalists' Club treks through the jungle looking for monkeys. I may have spent some time before I found the correct spelling of her name, while I could just have switched on the subtitles... She seemed like an interesting person, passionate about nature, as you can also see on her twitter feed (from which I've copied this photo). Anyway, sometimes I notice these random people on tv from the other side of the world, that I likely never will see again. If she ever gets famous Jane Goodall style, I have posted proof I noticed her before...

I liked that this nature trek and the scientists leading it were almost all women without any explanation given, just like we've seen so many science things with only men also without any explanation.

All episodes of this series are interesting though!

Laura in a forest sitting on a tree

I watch a lot of British tv. Despite that I still keep thinking to myself that they're getting in on the wrong side of the car. And in a way, they do.

Episode 2x04 of London Kills has a guest role for Klariza Clayton. It's so great to see acting that's a cut above, and to see her of course. It's still a 'girlfriend of/wife of' type of role, but done well.
#KlarizaClayton #LondonKills
#KlarizaClayton #LondonKills tv

The oppression of women in Iran needs to end and I'm glad this has been recognised by awarding the Nobel Peace prize to Narges Mohammadi. And I like the gesture of the prize being received by her children (since she is in Iranian jail) and that there was a symbolic empty chair between them.

bbc.com/news/world-middle-east…

Three people, one handing the document representing the prize to the two 17yo children (twins, a son and a daughter) who are beaming with pride

The children are sitting in chairs listening to a speech over headphones, an empty chair between them

#NobelPeacePrize #NargesMohammadi

Teenage children of jailed Narges Mohammadi accept her Nobel Peace Prize

In a speech smuggled from prison and read out by her twins, Narges Mohammadi denounces "tyrannical" Iran.
By Francesca Gillett (BBC News)
#nobelpeaceprize #NargesMohammadi

I know 'ngl', 'smh', 'til', but I never know what the abbreviation 'ig' means. Something about Instagram I guess.
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I also know 'cf', 'eg', 'cs', etc but that's a completely different generation.

A film and tv account, from the US: Successful show xyz has been renewed for a tenth season!
Me, a European: I have never heard of it, it is not on here.

There are essentially four major highways in my country going south (in my perspective of south and major) and two of these are closed southward this weekend due to planned roadworks. The two middle ones (A2, A27). You have to go either all the way west (A16) or all the way east (A50). Don't know who planned this.

It's going to be so quiet here in the south...

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Stop by the Girls Who Hack booth at BSides Philly and pick up a T-Shirt

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Good to see you out there making the world a better place. I'm sporting your sticker on my laptop!

My servers should now be dual stack, finally supporting IPv6 next to IPv4. Nothing broke, weirdly. All tests, e.g. with testmyipv6(.com) succeed.

Soon I'm going to have to make some servers IPv6-only, since the old addresses start to cost money. That should break things I guess. The average ActivityPub server will not be IPv6 ready I suspect. It seems DNS64/NAT64 is too expensive to enable, so if it is too much of a problem I'm going to have to run a forward proxy.

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Yeah, way too many instances are IPv4 only, especially the ones hosted by a provider. The big ones, and the ones with a tech background, tend to support IPv6.

I just watched Nimona on Netflix with the voice of Chloë Grace Moretz. Firstly Chloë is really good at putting character in the performance using only her voice. Secondly: it's a really good story!
#ChloëGraceMoretz #Nimona
#ChloëGraceMoretz #nimona film Chloë Grace Moretz

Watching Gunpowder Milkshake with Karen Gillan on Prime Video. There's another actress who plays the younger version of Karen's character (seems hardly necessary) and it struck me as funny if that would be the same family member (cousin, niece?) who played the younger version of Amy Pond in Doctor Who. But it doesn't look like it. Interesting film so far though.
#KarenGillan #GunpowderMilkshake

Prime Video: Gunpowder Milkshake

In her turbulent life as a professional assassin, Scarlet was cruelly forced to abandon her daughter Sam and go on the run. Years later, despite the estrangement, Sam has also grown up into a cold blooded hitwoman.
app.primevideo.com
#karengillan #GunpowderMilkshake
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It's very stylish and fun! The younger version is played by Freya Allen who later became well-known for playing Ciri in the Witcher adaptation!

Can confirm that there's no hint of returning to before the time jump in the House of the Dragon season 2 trailer. Watched it for you.
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The Thundermans Return - Official Teaser Trailer! | Nickelodeon
NEW MOVIE COMING MARCH 2024 on Nickelodeon and Paramount+!
#ThundermansReturn #Thundermans #AD #ParamountPlus #OfficialTeaser #Movies #Streaming
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The Thundermans Return - Official Teaser Trailer! | Nickelodeon

#AD Check out the official teaser trailer for The Thundermans Return, new movie coming March 2024! Kira Kosarin (Phoebe) and Jack Griffo (Max) are back for a...
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#streaming #movies #ad #ParamountPlus #officialteaser #thundermansreturn #thundermans

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Today's Doctor Who took a while to get interesting, then it really did. Don't be put off by the bad cgi, though.
#DoctorWho
#DoctorWho

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Doctor Who - The Wild Blue Yonder
For a moment I thought they'd run into Marvin, at the end of the universe... But no, it was a completely different robot, and at the edge of the universe.
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found it pretty enjoyable. I think that people are spoiled with a Next Great Thing every week... Sometimes what you need a good old simple plot well developed

What is this habit of making such chopped up edits of videos, even with good intentions?

#MentalHealth #EmiliaClarke #WithWomenInMind

It's Doctor Who minus 57 minutes. Not enough time to watch a film, so I should do something sensible like make dinner.

Volume 1 of Dove Cameron's first album Alchemical is out now, if you live in Friday-land. Other parts of the world wait a few hours.
tidal.com/album/331401278
#DoveCameron #Alchemical
#DoveCameron #alchemical music Dove Cameron

Jenna Ortega is in the Forbes 30 under 30 list, in her case far under 30.
forbes.com/profile/jenna-orteg…
#JennaOrtega #Forbes30Under30

(Actually they have many sub-lists, but I'm going to ignore that)


Jenna Ortega

Jenna Ortega on the 2024 30 Under 30 - Hollywood & Entertainment - Jenna Ortega has been acting since she was a child: She got her start as a young Jane
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#JennaOrtega #Forbes30Under30 Jenna Ortega
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Google could do a 'Wrapped' of 'Your best friends of the past year', based on bluetooth and wifi proximity, similar website visits, bookmarks and searches, video viewing habits, whether you are in each others phone contacts, and all the other stuff they know about you.

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Google/Instagram/Apple should do a 'Wrapped' of the subjects you most talked about with your friends and colleagues while your phone was near.

First impressions of Windows 11: what I like or can deal with is that much hasn't changed, what I dislike is the things that have changed.

Last day of our Gandi free mailboxes that came with our domains. Just over eight hours until they become one of the most expensive email providers without even allowing a custom domain.

Tip: tutanota(.com etc) allows three custom domains for around half their price, ideal for mailboxes that don't need imap.
#Gandi #TutaNota #Tuta #email

#email #tutanota #gandi #tuta
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#oldschool
Image shows a bare foot touching an old PC with their big toe. Caption: This is how we turned on our computers in the 2000s
#OldSchool

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Tearfully calling mom to inform her that this won't be the year of Linux on the desktop.

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I don't care what others say. For me every year is year of the Linux on the desktop!

Google should understand that if I search something, sometimes I do not want to buy it. Maybe I already have it and want to find information about it.
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Google has become useless as a search engine.

Can we get AltaVista back?

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@feld Thanks, I've bookmarked it. Though for being a 'search client' rather than 100% using their own index, the price is a bit high. I suspect they can lose access to the data any moment. Luckily their AI/LLM costs extra, so you can just not pay that to avoid that.
@feld

When actual directors start doing fantasy castings... Alert me when you've done the actual casting and leave my notifications alone until then.
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"You should stay home if you're sick, have that salad instead of pizza, stop complaining, etc."

"You should do this, that, the other thing or STOP doing this, that, or the other thing."

Please, before you "should" someone, stop to think that maybe their circumstances are not yours. Should someone stay home if sick? Yes. But does everyone have sick time to do that? No.
Maybe someone's complaints are valid, or they had a salad for lunch.

Please, let's stop dictating what people 'should' do

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so you’re justifying murder because they need a days pay? If you’re going to be a contract killer at least get decent money for it. This is just pathetic. Everybody else in that workplace needs that money too, you don’t get to make everybody sick just because you have to be sick that’s disgusting and selfish.
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the patriarchy death throes are an ugly thing.🙁

Just found that the Disney+ app is broken on Chromecast and only old school casting to it works. I hope I still get it in 4k, since I wanted to rewatch the Doctor Who episode like that. Apparently it has been broken for weeks already, that's how often I use my subscription, or how small their library is.
#DisneyPlus
#DisneyPlus
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I had tried many times during the day, including restarting the chromecast, before posting this. However, after complaining it now suddenly works again. Yay!
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We upgraded to the latest Chromecast recently because we were basically watching Buffy the blue ring slayer. Since then it has been working very well though.
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