I hope this doesn't affect my virginity

-- Phoebe
#Charmed

The US putting on quite a show now, to try to rival the UK one a few days ago:

Judge: It seems absurd to instruct you again that you must tell the truth while you testify, yet here I am
Judge: This is not your show
Judge: Just because you claim to think something is true, doesn't make it true. It does not protect you

(See The Washington Post on Twitter: twitter.com/washingtonpost/sta…)

And this was not even the big bombshell that was dropped just now: there's proof he's lying since his own attorney sent all his email (and phone?) messages of the past two years to the other party, by accident.

https://twitter.com/washingtonpost/status/1554856818450612225

A judge scolded right-wing conspiracy theorist Alex Jones on Tuesday for lying under oath during his defamation trial in Travis County, Tex. “You must tell the truth while you testify,” Judge Maya Guerra Gamble said. “This is not your show.” wapo.st/3bvkz6f

^Twitter

"with midnight arriving 1.59 milliseconds sooner than expected"

I felt that.

Never has anyone won a court case more decisively I think.

R: You're an X
V: That's libel! I take you to court!
Judge: But you are an X.
Judge: Can't be libel if it's true. Also, the statements you gave in court were lies. Also, the evidence that was mysteriously lost, you destroyed it.

(paraphrased of course)

I'm going to embrace the cliché

-- Phoebe
#Charmed

I switched off the twitter cards plugin on my site and now the twitter cards are no longer working. I wonder whether there's a connection.

The plugin was not maintained and also switching it back on didn't fix the cards according to the validator, so I leave it off. I guess I'll just have to adapt the theme myself.

Miranda Cosgrove posted this photo on her Instagram, with the caption:

So excited to announce that we are starting Season 3 of @icarly! Can’t wait to get back to work with my people ❤️ Thanks for watching 💕

So yay, new iCarly! And great photo!

I'm trying the #Hinge dating app. I'm at setting up my profile and uploaded 6 photos. Now it only gives me this screen, can't go back or forward. I've tapped everywhere. Already tried closing the app and restarting. The purple button is to skip and gives a warning that your profile won't work if you do that.

Now what? Anybody knows how this screen works?

Pleroma when receiving a picture from Socialhome: let's show it twice(*), just in case.
Pleroma when receiving a picture from Friendica: let's show it three times(**), must be important.

(*) once the inline picture, again as the attachment, because it doesn't recognise the picture is already shown inline.
(**) same, but also as link preview because the Friendica inline preview image has a link to the full image, which Pleroma thinks it needs to generate another preview for.

(I understand how this happens so no complaint, a rule like 'don't show an attachment already shown inline' was never claimed to be implemented and may not even be possible. That Mastodon correctly shows the picture once is just because it can't show inline images at all)

I understand that content warnings don't work in Friendica for your own posts, while they do work for other people's posts. The argument seems to be that you don't need to be warned for content you wrote yourself.

But by that same argument, should your own posts appear in the network timeline at all?
#Friendica

Russia...

BBC News - Ukraine war: Explosions rock Ukrainian port hours after grain deal

Ukraine war: Explosions rock Ukrainian port hours after grain deal

Six blasts hit Odesa on Saturday morning, with local officials blaming a Russian missile attack.

^{By Matt Murphy (BBC News)}

Who will win, the sound of my phone, the neighbour's sound system or the neighbourhood dog?

Narrator: It's the dog.

"Journalists were actually actively looking for the contrarians."

Hence the problems.

If 999 out of 1000 scientists say sane environmental things and 1 is paid to believe the opposite, a journalist presenting both sides equally is not presenting a valid picture.
bbc.com/news/science-environme…

The audacious PR plot that seeded doubt about climate change

Thirty years ago, a bold plan was hatched to persuade people that climate change was not a problem.

^{By Jane McMullen (BBC News)}

Arrogant rich guy takes new girl to his castle, then leaves her outside while he goes in, saying 'you'd better not come in, just look around the grounds or something'. I had already seen the last episodes of the miniseries so I know she's still going to marry him.

I noticed A Very British Scandal is on Amazon Prime so I can catch up on the episodes I missed. Because Claire Foy plays the lead and she's an amazing actress.
#AVeryBritishScandal #ClaireFoy

Brooklynn dyed her roots again at the earliest opportunity! I really like these little touches like showing the passing of time by her pink hair growing out.

Watching season 5 of #JurassicWorldCampCretaceous out today on #Netflix, because #JennaOrtega is voicing Brooklynn.