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Most people that I meet on my photography adventures don't know that "taking pictures for Wikipedia" is a thing. So, when I'm out shooting, I often engage in conversations about how Wikipedia needs more photos. That's what happened this morning, when I took this image for the article "Greater white-fronted goose":

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greater_…

Please consider sharing your photos with a global audience through #Wikipedia !

#PacificFlyway #wikiphotographer #birdphotography #wikimediacommons

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I was actually thinking of this recently when walking in the Austrian countryside - lots of small settlements worldwide get stub articles and I bet tons of them could get pictures added.

I've not had good experiences editing Wikipedia in the past, though, which makes me reticent to invest too much time on it... there's lots I'd like to add but I've found editors far too keen to just snipe out one's work based on flimsy interpretations of the notability guidance.



Wednesday episode 1x01 quote
"I find social media to be a soul-sucking void of meaningless affirmation."
-- Wednesday


She knows...

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Wednesday episode 1x04 quote
"Whoever invented high heels clearly had a side hustle as a torturer."
-- Wednesday


Wednesday stating the truth as usual.

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Wednesday episode 1x04
That dance in episode four that Jenna choreographed herself is so amazing, that I'm thinking she is not only going to be awarded the Emmy for her performance as Wednesday Addams, which seems a given at this point, but maybe also for the choreography.
#JennaOrtega #Wednesday #WednesdayNetflix

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picking a mastodon server to join is easy -- just think of it like you're allying with one of many families in a war-torn medieval land, each with their own histories, feuds, laws, blood rituals


I guess it's going to be a weekend of doing some WordPress stuff. Writing a post, but also finding out how and if the block-theme works and setting up a multisite install for real.

Putting it out here so it will feel as more of a failure if I don't. Since I was going to do it last weekend...

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Ok, only did the first thing and then got into a wordpress-plugin-rabbit-hole.


Don't like how these radio stations here in my country are pushed to play dutch rap, or as I call it, drap.


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150 jaar na de afschaffing van de slavernij volgen binnenkort eindelijk excuses van de Nederlandse staat. Hier is door heel veel mensen al heel lang voor gestreden.

Excuses zijn ongelooflijk belangrijk, want de gevolgen van het verleden werken nog steeds door in het heden.

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Gaan de plaatselijke koningen en hun afstammelingen in west Africa ook exuses aan bieden trouwens, die mensen dus die de slaven aan ons verkochten? Lijkt me wel gepast dat ze dat doen...

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It's amazing how many so-called classic movies have terrible script editing. For example at the end of Spartacus loads of characters who aren't Spartacus say they're Spartacus. This is the sort of thing you're supposed to catch in the read through.

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Got reminded of doing a training a few years back where the trainer, from South Africa, was presenting slides, made in the US, while she would dramatically stop and apologise profusely for the spelling mistakes whenever American spelling appeared in the slides.


I've been informed my electricity bill will rise from 53c to 40c and I guess I'm misunderstanding the full picture.
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Ah, it had risen from 8c to 17c then 22c and is now 53c, would rise to 83c next year but will be capped at 40c. Yet, I apparently use such a small amount of electricity, that in the most recent yearly bill I got money back. Also, the specification of past year shows that of the electricity they delivered to me, 100% was wind energy, so yay!

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I'm so happy I can share #videos here because I was under the impression that you couldn't! Here's a video of a bodypaint I posted yesterday. This was painted by me, on me.

All #bodypaint and #makeup + skin tight latex bras.
Arms and stomach have been painted black, pictures and videos taken in front of a black backdrop.
#pumpkin #Halloween #cosplay

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✨ Bodypaint✨
This was my take on the comic book version of Mystique 🥰
This is all #bodypaint (+ skin tight latex bra on each side), painted by me on me. I think this took about 7 ish hours?
#mystique #marvel #cosplay #makeup #xmen

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I'm three episodes in and it's so so good! Jenna is amazing, striking exactly the right tone to let a character like Wednesday Addams lead the story and draw you in.
#Wednesday #JennaOrtega
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It was totally amazing. I want a season two. It's showing such great judgement by Jenna Ortega of presenting exactly the right kind and amount of internal torment to hook you on the character and the story, while also being true to the version we know who had her emotionless one-liners as a support character but which wouldn't work for leading eight episodes. This works. But we know, and many people say it, Jenna always delivers.
#JennaOrtega #Wednesday



Long, interesting interview in The Face magazine with Jenna Ortega by Olivia Rodrigo. A very different photo shoot, with many interesting photos.
#JennaOrtega #TheFace
theface.com/culture/jenna-orte…



Took me so long to see what Netflix's "Tudum" refers to...


Preview! Watch the first 10 minutes of Wednesday on the Netflix site:
netflix.com/tudum/articles/wed…

Jenna Ortega is even more amazing than I was expecting!
#JennaOrtega #WednesdayNetflix #Wednesday

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Tv interview with Jenna Ortega on Good Morning America, with clips from the show, her mentioning all the training she did for it, and where she shows her reset face and Kubrick stare.
#JennaOrtega #Wednesday #WednesdayNetflix #GMA


youtu.be/zwGtH8sOTnM



Interview with Jenna Ortega on ET Canada about Wednesday. Out tomorrow!
#JennaOrtega #WednesdayNetflix #Wednesday #ETCanada
youtu.be/ecrz_kc9EVY


Great interview and great photo shoot with the great Jenna Ortega in People en Español (it's in English at least when I open it) about Wednesday, diversity, representation for Latinos and Latinas, using your platform, etc.
#JennaOrtega #WednesdayNetflix #Wednesday
peopleenespanol.com/chica/jenn…


This is a podcast interview with Rosie Day, about acting, being a child actress (she started at 4yo!) and growing up with "the good girl complex". She also tells about developing her play Instructions for a Teenage Armageddon and the book she wrote with the same title. She really is a formidable person. I like these people that you hear being interviewed but you only want to talk with them more about what they are saying?
#RosieDay #TwoShotPodcast
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/…


House of the Dragon: it's 25 days later, we can't possibly have these characters played by the same actresses.
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I liked one reviewer who concluded that Daemon must be a vampire.


Two more days to Wednesday and Jenna's face gets everywhere. I don't know what trays these are, it's not the Netflix canteen, is it? From an Instagram story by one of the show's creators.
#JennaOrtega #WednesdayNetflix #Wednesday


I finally succeeded in putting the Wordpress media files on S3 and served by cdn, on a test site. This should not have stumped me this much, there's a plugin for it to help and I managed to configure it on Pleroma and PeerTube without the help of a plugin. Maybe these have better instructions...

One of the issues was that the instructions of W3 Total Cache said to give minimal S3 access permissions to the access key but doesn't say what that is, so I did GetObject, PutObject and DeleteObject but that doesn't work. Blog posts acknowledge this and say to just give full permissions. Fortunately AWS had a list and it also needs ListBucket, GetObjectAcl and PutObjectAcl. Even if Acl's are disabled. Just ignore that the test upload doesn't work. Also ignore people who say that the S3 bucket needs to be open to the public.
#Wordpress #W3TotalCache



To prepare for series three of His Dark Materials on 5 December, there's this recap of series one and two on Instagram, with quotes from the cast, including Dafne Keen. (I see what she meant about the dirt...)
#DafneKeen #HisDarkMaterials


Quick black-carpet interview by ET with Jenna Ortega about Wednesday. She really did months of cello and fencing before and during shooting. It's going to be so amazing.
#JennaOrtega #WednesdayNetflix #Wednesday
youtu.be/Wf4snhwDtD4


A video interview in TeenVogue with Jenna Ortega with a very detailed explanation of all that goes into making Wednesday Addams. Experiments with voice inflection, how the no blinking happened. Transcript on the site.
#JennaOrtega #Wednesday
teenvogue.com/video/watch/char…
youtu.be/m0aG6urHpSI


I know Rosie Day is a great actress, but by all accounts she's a great director and producer as well. I still have to see the films she's directed, they're not very available. Her stage play she wrote got rave reviews as well. I do know she's a formidable person, I'm definitely looking out for anything she does.

The photo she posted a while back on Instagram shows what it looks like if you write a stage play just as a dare, then turn out to be really good at it. All five stars.
#RosieDay



Rosie Day is involved in this film-short as the title character Billie. The film-short still needs to be made and needs crowdfunding. The test trailer has just been posted on Instagram by director Safi Tobi and looks great. The funding page is at Indiegogo. Their synopsis there:


"Billie is trying to process her past, then she meets Sophie and everything falls into place."

Subjects cover LGBTQ+ women and mental health.

#RosieDay #Billie #FilmShort #CrowdFunding #MentalHealth


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Without any binding commitments to rapidly and immediately reduce greenhouse gases, the world stands no chance to deliver on the 1,5°C limit, and by doing so minimising risks of uprooting the life supporting systems we all depend on and endangering countless human lives.
#COP27

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It's up to the People of the world to bind our governments and employers to those commitments. To not take no for an answer. #generalstrike #blockadeeverything


"I had an extra hand"

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Three days to go until we can marvel in the brilliance of Jenna Ortega as Wednesday Addams in Wednesday on Netflix. Here a clip on their Instagram.
#JennaOrtega #Wednesday #WednesdayNetflix
instagram.com/reel/ClMSn2NqYoy…

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It's grating, whether it's in real life or as now fictional, when some organisation congratulates itselves on its diversity and it's all white guys and one woman.

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The plural of regex is regrets.

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I like that in this extremely old tv series they sometimes write a story where they're trying to find 'the big bad' leader of a crime organisation, passing the secretary many times while investigating their office, ignoring her because she's a woman, then only to find she's the criminal mastermind after all.

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Looking ahead for a moment, next year’s UN climate summit will take place in Dubai in November/December 2023. (And as many commentators are pointing out, given #COP28 will be hosted by an oil state, the United Arab Emirates, it is difficult to imagine much progress on a phase down of fossil fuels.) #COP27 (Guardian blog)

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Imagine shouting in the void on another field where no one hears you, then the Glastonbury festival moves in there too with all its noise and still no one can hear you.


literally cannot describe what it's like being one of these people who were on mastodon before nov 2022. Imagine if you were chilling in a field with like 20 other people and then suddenly the glastonbury festival swarms in


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literally cannot describe what it's like being one of these people who were on mastodon before nov 2022. Imagine if you were chilling in a field with like 20 other people and then suddenly the glastonbury festival swarms in

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I hope COP27 will reach some actual results, rather than an excuse to wait until the next one. They're currently in overtime, but seem to have an agreement on a damages fund. Great, but proper action to limit fossil fuels are needed.
#ClimateChange
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I feel the COP27 has been a failure. We need to stop using fossil fuels, yet this agreement almost seems to do the opposite. The damages fund is a good thing though, even if it is low on detail.
#ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #COP27

BBC News - Climate change: Five key takeaways from COP27
bbc.co.uk/news/science-environ…