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I googled a question I had and actually found an answer, how weird.

With all the account migrations going on, I have to occasionally check Pleroma for migration notifications and do the re-follow manually from Friendica. So apologies for the extra follow requests that come in late, which I know are especially annoying for locked accounts. Sorry.

Watching Mila Kunis. Well, she's following a script as Ani in Luckiest Girl Alive and it's on my Netflix. But it's not as if the film's premise of 'woman gets married' drew me in, so I have to be honest and it's because I'm watching her. Right of the bat there's more going on with her character, suggestions of her being psycho, so that's a nice link to where I saw Mila first: American Psycho II: All American Girl. I liked her in that.

Mila Kunis - IMDb

Mila Kunis, Actress: Black Swan. Milena Markovna "Mila" Kunis was born to a Jewish family in Chernivtsi, Ukraine. The spoken language in her family is Russian, not Ukrainian.
Mila Kunis (IMDb)
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Trivia at its truest should be somewhat useless info and this one from imdb is truly that:

Despite having different last names, she and her husband, Ashton Kutcher, have consecutive IMDb profile numbers. Mila has nm0005109 and Ashton has nm0005110.
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This film is completely different from what I thought it was going to be. This line early in the film about being psycho is a red herring. It is about a woman who, possibly due to events that happened when she was a teenager, is a different person on the inside than she is on the outside. Her narrating a lot of the film helps show this. It's a very interesting film.
#MilaKunis #LuckiestGirlAlive
#MilaKunis #LuckiestGirlAlive

Watching Suspiria (2018) on blu-ray because it has Chloë Grace Moretz in it, even though she's not the lead. I had a chance to see it in a cinema once, but they literally had The Miseducation of Cameron Post (also with Chloë, but as the lead) playing on another screen, opposite the hallway, in the same cinema at the same time.

Could be scary though...
#ChloëGraceMoretz #Suspiria
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Suspiria (2018)

A darkness swirls at the center of a world-renowned dance company, one that will engulf the troupe's artistic director, an ambitious young dancer and a grieving psychotherapist. Some will succumb to the nightmare, others will finally wake up.
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It starts with Chloë though! And confusingly, since I play it from a German blu-ray after explicitly selecting the English sound track rather than the German dub, a lot of Chloë's dialogue is in German...
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It's a quiet confusing film, seemingly about the ever connected areas of witchcraft, terrorism and dance.

I need to update the blog post since most mentioned #JennaOrtega projects are out now, but in the pipeline now are:

* #Wednesday (23 November on Netflix)
* Scream 6 (March 2023 in cinemas)
* Finestkind (unfortunately on Paramount+ 😪 )
* Miller's Girl

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2021-11-28 17:39:30


While Jenna Ortega is making magic in Romania (filming Wednesday) I thought it a good moment to make a list from a fan's perspective of what is in the pipeline. Much to look forward to!
#JennaOrtega
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#JennaOrtega #Wednesday
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Scream (6) with Jenna Ortega will now be out 10 March 2023, instead of the 31 scheduled earlier. This is the same day as You season four, but it's unlikely Jenna will be in that due to filming loads of other things.
#Scream
#scream

Dove Cameron has a new song out: Bad Idea. After Boyfriend and Breakfast she's still at the B's. What are the chances her album will be called something like B-side?
#DoveCameron #BadIdea #NewMusic
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'Bad Idea - Single' van Dove Cameron

Album · 2022 · 1 nummer
Apple Music
#DoveCameron #newmusic #BadIdea

Great interview with Chloë Grace Moretz in NME about The Peripheral and choosing projects to act in. Also interesting how most photos they use are marked 'do not use'...
#ChloëGraceMoretz #ThePeripheral
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Chloë Grace Moretz: "I'm in my 'fuck it' era!"

Playing Hit-girl in 'Kick-Ass' turned Chloë Grace Moretz into one in real life, but since 2018 the former child star's been taking it slow...
Ella Kemp (NME)
#ChloëGraceMoretz #ThePeripheral

Forgot to switch on the daemon processes for Friendica after Thursday's troubles. Interesting how much remains functional without it. Though I do think a properly scalable platform should delegate as much as possible to some queuing system, it seems to work almost fine with just some maintenance jobs using the queue.

Leading up to our Sinterklaas present of His Dark Materials season 3 on 5 December, there's this interesting interview with Dafne Keen in Fabric Magazine, with photos by Joseph Sinclair.
#DafneKeen #FabricMagazine
Three photos of Dafne in white clothes

Dafne in a woolly green white top that has a big zipper

Dafne in a green jacket and skirt, with a white top

Black and white photo of Dafne in a black suit jacket over a white shirt

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Exclusive Interview: Dafne Keen - Fabric Magazine

Dafne Keen: Star of the BBC's His Dark Materials tells us how the role has shaped her career and what it has taught her about life.
Liz Skone James (Fabric Magazine)
#DafneKeen #FabricMagazine
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I like seeing the scar on Dafne's forehead in photos: it means the photographer didn't go overboard with the photoshopping, or at least knew enough about their subject to know the scar is a well-known feature of hers.

Watching some #ThePeripheral episodes with #ChloëGraceMoretz. Not actually with Chloë of course, she's likely gaming on her big new computer as we speak.
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https://twitter.com/PowerGPU/status/1586069983557140480

The official PC build for @ChloeGMoretz. Thank you once again @NVIDIAGeForce for sending out the RTX 4090FE. Intel 13900k Deepcool LS720 Asus Prime Z790 Corsair 6200mhz CL36 Mushkin 2TB Nvme Gen4 Nvidia RTX 4090FE MSI 1000Gen5 This is a monster!!!
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Chloë essentially plays three different characters in #ThePeripheral: Flynne in 2032, the Flynne peripheral in the 2100s, and the empty peripheral when Flynne doesn't embody it. The last two look exactly the same of course (same clothes, same hair and makeup), but how Chloë is making these two completely different characters is impressive.

This whole concept of an empty peripheral is a fascinating one...
#ChloëGraceMoretz

#ChloëGraceMoretz #ThePeripheral

Another weekend of hermitting.

The Peripheral episode one
I find it a nice touch that in that first The Peripheral episode Flynne, as a male avatar in a sim, is asked to seduce a woman which she feels some trepidation about. Then when things continue she seems to quite get into it. Chloë is really doing the 'I'm actually enjoying this' bit...

I usually cut and remux video files with a paid Windows program, which is really intuitive to use. I don't mind paying for it, but my Windows PC is very old so now I'm trying to do the same in #kdenlive on my linux laptop. Still at the start of what looks like a steep learning curve.

One thing I just realised: the "project bin" is not like a recycle bin, but something to be used rather than avoided. I was ignoring all menu items that said something with 'bin' when looking for how to cut clips...

Still somewhat annoyed kdenlive can't open video files on network disks, while Windows had no problem with it.

(Oh, when looking up that Windows program, #VideoReDo, I found that the company has ceased due to the founder passing away last month. My attempts to switch are coincidental and not related!)

#kdenlive #VideoReDo
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Ok, I think I sort of managed to do what I wanted, but it is incredibly slow and the output file is also transformed rather than just having its frames copied. The #kdenlive documentation provides an answer to the problem: it says not to use kdenlive for this, but #avidemux.

I think that sort of worked, but that program looks so old it doesn't fill me with much faith. E.g. it seems to not be able to handle wide-screen videos (16:9) in its preview area. And it also can't open files from network drives.

#kdenlive #avidemux

Why even brew limited tea?

Watching Vanessa Paradis in Café de Flore on HBO Max, where she's the mother of a son with Down Syndrome. Vanessa may be known as singer, and there too I think she's a much better singer than she's given credit for, but for me she really shines as an actress. Her fame and career as singer allows her to be really selective about the films she does.
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Vanessa Paradis - IMDb

Vanessa Paradis, Actress: L'arnacoeur. Vanessa Paradis is a renowned French actress, model and singer born in 1972. She started her career as a model and singer before becoming a movie star.
Vanessa Paradis (IMDb)

Ella Al-Shamahi announces a series on BBC Radio 4 & BBC Sounds called Why Do We Do That?, relating our experiences to our evolution, e.g. why we feel heartbreak as actual pain. Sounds interesting!
#EllaAlShamahi
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Ella holding a spear in front of what looks like cave paintings
#EllaAlShamahi
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2022-10-23 23:06:07


I almost fell to my knees interviewing Jenna Ortega at the #SavannahFilmFest @ThisIsForReel


#SavannahFilmFest @ThisIsForReel

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Watching #ThePeripheral because the first two episodes came out today, or more precisely because #ChloëGraceMoretz is in it.
#ChloëGraceMoretz #ThePeripheral
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Interesting insight into how a character comes to be, among other things. Christina Ricci has a chat with Jenna Ortega about Wednesday.
#JennaOrtega #ChristinaRicci #Wednesday

(My take: I'd always trust @jennaortega to get the character right. It's her artistry we want to see)

Interview Magazine

2022-10-20 16:42:16


"It's witchcraft." @jennaortega opens up to #ChristinaRicci about her latest role in @wednesdayaddams, #TimBurton's new #Addamsfamily adaptation 🦇

interviewmagazine.com/film/jenna-ort…

#JennaOrtega #Wednesday #ChristinaRicci #TimBurton #Addamsfamily @Jenna Ortega

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#UKpol Please don't let them go back to the previous idiot!
#UKpol

I was wondering what episodes of Mary Kills People to watch for the #KatieDouglas birthday rewatch. Luckily a Google search turned up a tumblr post by some guy called Gidi Kroon that helped with that.
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Katie Douglas as Naomi in Mary Kills People, episodes Wolf, Meet Henhouse and A Goddamned Saint.
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2022-10-19 16:30:33


the iconic vision and gothic whimsy of Tim Burton really takes Wednesday to the next level


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Happy Birthday to @Katie_E_Douglas! She turns 24 today. I've seen her in Defiance, Creeped Out, Level 16 (one of my all time favourite films), Mary Kills People, Ginny & Georgia and Believe Me: The Abduction of Lisa McVey. I'll be celebrating by rewatching some of these!
DVDs and blu-rays of Defiance, Mary Kills People and Level 16. Find her other projects on Netflix!
@Katie_E_Douglas

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BBC News on tv reports about the dire situation in Somalia, where there's a severe drought, people especially children are dying and an 'official' famine is likely declared soon. So I went to the BBC News app to share the story, but there's nothing there... Anyway, now you know about it.

Chances of me picking up my phone to do a thing and then do the thing: 0%

Chances of me getting distracted and doing something else: 100%

Old school posted a letter. With a real stamp. And now new school mentioned it on the socials from my mobile on my own server crossposted to the mainstream site.
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I could tell you a joke about trickle-down economics but 99% of you won’t get it. :) (h/t @Peter Wyrm )
@Peter Oram

Jenna Ortega interviewed by WhoWhatWear (interview during the photoshoot, which is an interesting thing). About Wednesday, her headphones being her child, etc.
#JennaOrtega #WhoWhatWear

Jenna Ortega in Technicolor | Who What Wear October Cover

Stepping into the shoes of Wednesday Adams is no small task, but Jenna Ortega (Scream franchise, You, Jane The Virgin, X) is more than ready for the challeng...
YouTube
#JennaOrtega #WhoWhatWear
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The crosspost to twitter gets the cutest Wednesday Addams icon attached to her name!
Screenshot of the hashtag #JennaOrtega over on twitter with an icon of Wednesday with her braids

A mini-budget to trigger a mini stay in office. Though firing someone for having done what you asked them to do is quite rich.
#UKpol
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Why do people keep voting for this mess? Is Labour really that bad?

Listening to the #Ukraine section of #EuropesBiggestDanceShow, the annual pan-Europe radio show featuring dance music broadcast from radio studios all over the continent.
#Ukraine #EuropesBiggestDanceShow

People don't become a billionaire by being nice.

(This is not advice to be a nasty human being. Just a reflection on the constant disappointment in some people's behaviour)

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In tv series and films, patrols of the enemy never look around the corner where our heroes are hiding, they always blindly march on. Also they make so much noise before they come into view that there's ample time to hide. Wonder if these patrols are ever effective, could just as well not walk around.

We detected a login from a location you don't normally use: your home.
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2022-10-11 21:43:24


We sat down with the new Scream Queen @jennaortega during the #WednesdayNetflix panel and ask her what attracts her to that genre, hitting several spots on the horror bingo card, and Jenna tells us she has a face people wanna spill blood on

Video via GVN’s @JC202034


#WednesdayNetflix @Jenna Ortega @JC202034

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Sophia Soto

2022-10-12 23:56:40


One of the biggest #NYCC 2022 highlights for me was speaking with @jennaortega about Latina representation and how much she cares about @wednesdayaddams. She’s brilliant. @TheNerdsofColor @netflix #WednesdayNetflix #WednesdayAddams 

thenerdsofcolor.org/2022/10/12/jen…

#WednesdayNetflix #NYCC #WednesdayAddams @Jenna Ortega @Netflix @Wednesday Addams @TheNerdsofColor

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Who What Wear

2022-10-12 17:40:02


On the set of our October cover shoot with the one and only @jennaortega: nytv.to/ZG8L3


@Jenna Ortega

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TikTok, and scamming middlemen, take so much money from donated money, that almost nothing arrives where the gifter expects it to arrive. The BBC did a test: if 106 dollars were gifted to an account in Syria, similar to many refugee families there asking for money, only $19 would arrive in the hands of the family. TikTok's response: we get on it immediately and delete this illegal content asking for money (paraphrased) (they were fine with earning money from it).

bbc.com/news/world-63213567


TikTok profits from livestreams of families begging

Children are among those pleading for hours for digital gifts, as the company takes a cut of up to 70%.
By Hannah Gelbart, Mamdouh Akbiek and Ziad Al-Qattan (BBC News)
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For any commercial platform, yes.

They've cycled around and we're now back at the greatest Charmed episode, the one with Jennifer Sky and Melody Perkins (greatest because it's with Jennifer Sky and Melody Perkins): 6x04 The Power of Three Blondes. Watching it!

At least the loading animation loads quickly, which I then get to enjoy for a long time.

I do not know the details of the protests that are happening in Iran, but I do admire the bravery of the women trying to change society and maybe the regime, and risking their lives doing it. I hope that as a result women in Iran and elsewhere may finally decide themselves how they live their own lives and how they choose to appear.
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