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Bought a book about autism in adults, which seems written with a scientific perspective. Hopefully it will counteract the enormous amount of stuff that's out there focusing on autistic children.

It's my theory that it takes especially communicative people to draw attention to something, and autistic people don't tend to be that, but their parents might be. So when these children grow up and leave the house, they are forgotten about, as if somehow adulthood cures autism or as an adult you learn to live with it. But it doesn't and you don't. You just live your life in obscurity.

I'd love to find a proper book explaining exactly how autistic people should live their life. Sounds weird, but since we don't know naturally and we like clear rules and explanations anyway, a book like that sounds obvious?



Another disadvantage of taking the train for environmental reasons: if you made it to your destination but then the trains stop going and you can't get back. Time and again fate shows me I should just have gone by car.
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Ok I made it home. Not everybody could be crammed into the hourly regional bus, but a bit of local knowledge and a quick reaction made that I was front of the queue, so I made it.


Four important dates:

  • 21 October: The Peripheral on Amazon Prime with Chloë Grace Moretz
  • 23 November: Wednesday on Netflix with Jenna Ortega
  • 5 December: His Dark Materials season three on HBO Max with Dafne Keen
  • 10 February (& 10 March): You season four on Netflix with Amy-leigh Hickman

#ChloëGraceMoretz #JennaOrtega #DafneKeen #AmyLeighHickman #ThePeripheral #Wednesday #HisDarkMaterials #You



The postgresql database for Pleroma needed a REINDEX and VACUUM ANALYZE and now it's running fine again. For the last couple of weeks I had not been able to see my timeline. These statements should normally not be necessary for postgresql, but the exceptional case they describe that would need it seems to me exactly what Pleroma does: delete most objects but leave a few so index pages don't get completely empty and hang around.


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Proving that you can't be too old to be #AcceptedToNevermore Academy as long as you're weird enough. I'll be one year behind @wednesdayaddams, hope she will be kind to us new students.

Ah the smell of false hope on a #Wednesday...
#Netflix #NevermoreAcademy

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Wednesday, the highly anticipated #JennaOrtega series about Wednesday Addams at Nevermore Academy, will premiere 23 November at #Netflix.

It is that late so other shows can cling on to the hope of being best series of the year, only for #Wednesday to shatter their dreams.



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@Gidi (@twitter) The phrase "So dreamy" was no longer in vogue even before she was born, but she embodies it.
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I'm loving her positive radiance, despite enduring rainy Paris.


Hmm, so the fine print for the free embedded viewer of Getty Images says that they can show advertisements through that viewer on your site, without your knowledge. I think we're just going to have to take the risk, since despite being too expensive you can't even legally buy the images if you wanted to, since the same fine print says you can only buy a license to use their images if you're a company.

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tbh i think that it is a pretty niche view to see caring about that stuff as unimportant… explicitly held only by techbrain havers, less consciously held only by those who don’t realize a lot of what they care about is indeed aesthetic/class concern
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fair, I guess this probably just says a lot about people on fedi or internet in general because I didn't expect it to be so techbrain

I just run into this viewpoint every few days from different people so at this point I thought I'd post about it

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I actually use my aesthetics brain when I do code reviews. If the code doesn't look aesthetically pleasing to me, there is usually a present or future bug there.

Aesthetically pleasing code is more easily maintained, because it's easier to read and understand.



"The kids learn online at Ukrainian schools, using Russian internet and Western VPNs," Boris says. "It's quite ironic."

BBC News - A rare glimpse of daily life in occupied Ukraine
bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-63…



Jenna Ortega is at a fashion show in Paris (Maison Valentino) and I've seen her look on Instagram on the fan accounts. It's an amazing look. I'm going to have to visit the stock photo sites again this evening...

These photos are by fashion photographer Genevieve Leah (instagram.com/p/CjOBgW7LxwR/) and make up artist Naoko Scintu (instagram.com/p/CjN2hHeMuxX/).
#JennaOrtega

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I mean the most breathtaking woman arrives at Paris Fashion Week and she's not even one of the models:

(Photos by a photographer who on Instagram goes by Sharon. I'd really like to credit her full name, but I just don't know it. See link)
instagram.com/p/CjOWDKEMgXe/
#JennaOrtega #ParisFashionWeek

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It's weird to me how, when seeing photos of the fashion events, a lot of people involved in fashion seem to try to project an image of being miserable. Don't know why this is, it's somehow fashionable and a way to seem relevant. So seeing Jenna's attitude, of being happy to be there and to be able to interact with fans, is like a breath of fresh air.


Finally for #JennaBirthweekRewatch (I'm doing a week running from Sunday to Saturday apparently) of course Scream. Jenna performs her scenes of being the victim with such accuracy, that it becomes hard to watch: you actually see a girl in danger.
#JennaOrtega #ScreamMovie


10 items per month, for one year: €229. 25 items per month, for one year: €599. I've re-calculated this a couple of times, but the bigger subscription is more expensive even per item, right?

Anyway, that's all moot since the type of things I need/want are actually around €80 per item; or €400 for the good ones.



The English terms from cooking eggs seem weird to me. "Sunny side up" doesn't at all sound like my way of doing it, still it is. "Over easy" seems more my style, but is too hard for me. Though "Scrambled" is both what I occasionally do and befitting my personality.


Woman talking about the bad stuff men they are dating say and do is triggering for me, since logically it would mean I am worse. Which I guess I am.


May the Russian army "regroup" all the way back to Russia.



It was new that the coffee corner in the bookshop was completely utterly full. Usually it's quite empty and safe to buy a cappuccino and some cake, then find a seat. So now I'm home for coffee. (But no cake)


Public transport is like when you park your car and they charge you for entering and exiting the parking. And then you still have to take another bus from the parking place to where you need to be.

I'm still doing it, for environmental reasons, but they could make it more available financially and practically.



It has been a few months ago, but the database process got killed again today due to out-of-memory. If it's going to be another few months before it happens again, I think it's ok. (I predict the next event is going to be out-of-disk-space instead...)


It was nice of a fellow inhabitant of my apartment building to give me a package he had found that had my address on it. It was apparently put in the elevator by 'non-delivery service' DPD. I never take the elevator, how should I have known?

It had already been opened by other people and is likely no longer complete. Since it was not a package I was expecting or ordered (a surprise), I don't know whether any contents are missing.

So in addition to not using DHL as I mentioned earlier, we shouldn't be using DPD either.




Today in the #JennaBirthweekRewatch I finished watching The Babysitter: Killer Queen (it was late yesterday) and I'm now doing another episode of You season 2. #JennaOrtega steals that show.

Yesterday I also rewatched an episode of Richie Rich. She's so funny in it! And so tiny, this show was when she was very young...



For today's #JennaBirthweekRewatch I'm going to be a heretic and watch what I consider #JennaOrtega's best horror film: The Babysitter: Killer Queen. Not only is she one of the leads, the film also remains character-based whilst running from killers.

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Wishing #JennaOrtega much happiness for her 20th birthday as she gives us fans much happiness seeing her talent in her many projects.


Today in the #JennaBirthweekRewatch : The Fallout on HBO Max. This is still the best film where Jenna as the lead shows how great a character actress she is. #JennaOrtega should be the lead in all films.
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That is a seriously good film, really my kind of film, the best. I wish all films were like that, good story, good characters, talented performance, with a heart, meaning. This is why I follow Jenna, because this is what she can do.
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Of course for #JennaBirthweekRewatch I'll watch an episode of You season 2 as well. #JennaOrtega 's performance as Ellie was such a masterclass, grounded it and made it the best season.
#YouNetflix


This Tuesday #JennaOrtega has her 20th birthday and I'll be celebrating by (re)watching her films all week. To start #JennaBirthweekRewatch, the 4k collector's edition of X. #XMovie


Watched Hermione Corfield and Eve Myles in the first season of We Hunt Together, since the second season has its run on tv here. Quite interesting! Hermione's character Freddy Lane is something special.
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We Hunt Together season one
I like that they have various black characters, not just the token one, of different walks of life. And that when the police people were discussing the chances of making a case against Hermione's character stick, they were like 'A pretty blonde girl with a cut on her nose? No way'.


One of the security risks in the future for enterprises will I think be when adults follow the kids in being on BeReal, or the current kids become adults, and the BeReal forced selfies are taken in the workplace. Paranoid me thinks this may even be their business case.

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Why are you whooping? This isn't a time for whooping!


-- Baba
#WeHuntTogether

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Jenna Ortega presenting a clip from Wednesday on today's Netflix 'Tudum' event.
#JennaOrtega #Netflix #Wednesday


Amy-Leigh Hickman in the season 4 teaser trailer for You, as shown in today's Netflix 'Tudum' event.
#AmyLeighHickman #Netflix #YouNetflix



Rice with raisins and some sugar is also one of these quick things to make if it's too late to make full dinner, or even to heat up the oven for pizza. It's 23:30 and I forgot to eat earlier.


Anyway, Morgan Saylor's new film Spoonful of Sugar will be on 'Shudder' in 2023 for those that can access it. Hopefully it will also be elsewhere.
#MorganSaylor


It should be illegal for streaming services that no one can watch to acquire the rights to a film. What even is 'Shudder'.


Claudia Jessie in this teaser for Bridgerton season three, where her colleague is trying to paint her, says he's accidentally put on too much paint and she correctly guesses 'am I drooping?'. Her comment: 'well, I can't play a teenager forever'. So funny, he was however talking about using too much paint for her eyes...

She did convincingly play the 17 year old teenager Eloise at 31 in season one; I don't think she has anything to worry about.

Also in this clip, Nicola reading Lady Whistledown's opening lines of season three.
#Bridgerton #ClaudiaJessie
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