I would be remiss if I did not post at least one #SuperbOwl today, and this is the most recent superb owl photo I have.
Taken in El Atteuf, Algeria. I suspect it may be a Pharaoh (or Egyptian) eagle owl, possibly a young one.
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Miranda Cosgrove / CBS's Mission Unstoppable for the International Day of Women and Girls in Science (no autocomplete, not 'in Scotland') on their Instagram, calling to 'Bridge the gap'. The amount of women in science is nowhere near 50% and that has to change.
(I can't post video here, so the link's it)
#MirandaCosgrove #Science #IDWGS
#JennaOrtega #Doritos
Happy Birthday Chloë Grace Moretz!
It's her 27th birthday and I'll be celebrating rewatching a recent film of hers, Shadow in the Cloud, from my 4k blu-ray. It's such a powerful performance!
#ChloëGraceMoretz #ShadowInTheCloud #BirthdayRewatch
Some people will have you believe that Nirvana's Smells Like Teen Spirit is the most 90s song of all time, but they're wrong
The most 90s song is Mazzy Star's Fade Into You
Not up for debate, so don't even try it
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Primus fits the mood the best. Not only did it suck, but it actually sucked and no one wants to remember it.
[Litte sad Metallica got beat by Colvin]
I'm gonna straight up tell you I know at some point I knew who Mazzy Star was but I can't call Fade Into You to mind at all.
Hawkins' song was always and remains a "change the damn channel" when it comes on song. Ugh.
There's early 90s and late 90s anyway. The most early 90s song there is is These Are Days by 10,000 Maniacs and you're not convincing me otherwise.
@MichaelTBacon It's all subjective, Michael
But now that you mention 10,000 Maniacs, I've bumped up "Dreams" by The Cranberries. Easily top 5
Dreams is one of those that hold to, like, "you had to be in a certain place and time to remember this song." These Are Days was both omnipresent and is one of those songs that remarkably can be listened to like 10 times on end and still be okay.
I know this because a guy in my dorm blasted it on infinite repeat one afternoon and even after like 45 minutes I was still grooving to it.
@MichaelTBacon It's this:
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New Radicals - You Get What You Give (Official Music Video)
REMASTERED IN HD!The New Radicals' official music video for 'You Get What You Give'. As featured in the 2021 playlist for the Biden Presidential Inauguration...YouTube
I just said a song name, I didn't post a video.
And I even backed off to that one because even posting the name L--p B-----t might call down evil spirits or something.
Nah, it's gotta be "She's so High" by Tal Bachman. At least in Canada.
Tal Bachman - She's So High (Official Video)
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Had to look up that Fade Into You song because the title doesn't sound familiar, nor the artist.
Listening to it now. I have absolutely no recollection of this song from before playing it now.
No. I live in the UK though. I don't recall the song, sorry. I looked it up and that song reached only 48 here.
Oh those are definitely songs I have heard....a lot... and bloody hate. Especially anything Pulp. Britpop was definitely not my thing. :P
At that time, I was more into Prodigy, NIN and anything else I'd be introduced to by the soundtracks to things like The Crow. And my dad's collection of Queen, Cash and Springsteen I had enjoyed since mid 80s. :)
@talia_christine
That's cool. I have reasons why I dislike Pulp in particular but I've already been my annoyingly autistic self today :/
Instead, enjoy all the music you enjoy and have a good weekend, everyone. :D
PS. Teen Spirit was a hit here too and unlike Britpop I actually really liked Nirvana. And the Nirvana t-shirt/hoodie has been a common clothing item for past few decades even here in UK :P
Also they did this on our main music show and it was cool:
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Why Nirvana Self-Sabotaged Their Performance on 'Top of the Pops'
Nirvana purposely delivered a strange, off-key, yet undeniably memorable performance on 'Top fo the Pops' on Nov. 25, 1991.Ultimate Classic Rock
@talia_christine When I was a kid it was Dancing in the Dark cos it was a fun-sounding song and I dressed up as him and performed it at school when I was about 7 years old.
These days it's still a fave but I also find myself singing along to personal fave lesser known album tracks like Life Itself from 2009's Working on a Dream. Or All I'm Thinkin' About from 2005 Devils and Dust (where he's a lil quiter and more falsetto, quite different to his usual big rough iconic style)
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Give You My Lovin’ was my favorite Mazzy Star which is quite similar but happier?
Very quintessential cross-over Fade Into You though
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Apparently you can't cancel or change a preorder at Amazon even more than a month before release, despite what they suggest. Chat bot/human just says it already started shipping. I don't believe that, with an estimated arrival listed in April... Is it coming by snail?
Guess I'll have the blu-ray and the dvd then.
I'm giving the keynote at Sunshine Cyber Con!
"Past, Present, Predictions"
A look into AI, psyops, deep fakes and the upcoming elections.
Hope to see you there!
@cybersecurityfl
Amazing Photo by:
@gabrielabarrantesphoto
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#JennaOrtega #ItsAllLove
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Jenna Ortega is going to be in a new film called Klara and the Sun.
Her film Beetlejuice 2 will be in the cinema 6 September 2024.
Both bits of news just shared by Jenna's mother.
#JennaOrtega #Beetlejuice #KlaraAndTheSun
#JennaOrtega #Beetlejuice #BeetlejuiceBeetlejuice2024AD #Beetlejuice2 #KlaraAndTheSun
#JennaOrtega #Beetlejuice #Beetlejuice2
Stephanie Leonidas is filming a new film called Marching Powder. She just posted photos from the set.
IMDb says her film A Very Venice Romance was released last year (it doesn't list as available for me) and 5lbs of Pressure is still to come.
#StephanieLeonidas #MarchingPowder
Miranda Cosgrove just announced that her film Mother of the Bride will be on Netflix globally on 9 May!
#MirandaCosgrove #MotherOfTheBride
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Copied my followed tags into a "Followed tags" channel and copied my followed searches into a "Followed searches" channel. This works quite well. I think this is going to be useful. Channels maybe a quite powerful new Friendica feature.
It's starting to feel like tumblr again, except tumblr would occasionally just delete all tags alphabetically after 'k'.
@Tuta
I notice a difference in my mails shown to me in the Linux desktop app and the Android app. The former shows only one mail, the latter shows all mails that checking via a browser shows. I've checked that the filter is set to 'all emails' for all.
It seems related to the 'local data' setting which for both apps is on the default of one month and all missing mails are older than one month. So I've changed this to 366 days for both clients.
However, the old mails still do not show up in the desktop app. Is there another filter I'm missing?
How can I use the desktop client to see all mails I can see via the browser?
No you misheard me, I don't use Discord I use this cord.
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This, about RAM, is a much misunderstood bit about monitoring resource usage.
Also: cpu usage. When someone comes to me with 'panic, panic, your application is using 100% cpu', I'm like 'great, call me when it doesn't', for then there's a bottleneck elsewhere.
I'm not saying there's no such thing as software bloat (there is) but the reason that your computer magically always seems to use 80-90% of the ram no matter how much ram you install is that the computer understands empty ram doesn't do anything but ram being used to cache files makes your user experience much fasterthis is a good thing! if your computer stopped doing this everything would suddenly feel very sluggish and stuttery!
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Yes!
Also, everyone should watch your video on Instagram from a few days ago, it is complete and total fire, I've been hitting a few people over the head with it this week. 😁
Lesley Carhart on Instagram: "Who’s telling you no?"
155 likes, 14 comments - hacks4pancakes on January 21, 2024: "Who’s telling you no?"Instagram
Literally every toot should be on the curriculum.
The fact that folks don't teach their kids things like this should be considered neglect.
There is a tonne of research showing that naps are healthy and part of our natural sleep cycle. All other mammals nap. We should all take an afternoon nap. The ruling classes the world over hate the idea because they imagine lost productivity.
This whole thread is gold.
I "hate follow" (for want of a better term) a few ppl like that.
Like, aside from basic morals, I don't agree with anything they say at all. That can't mean I'm right about everything, so different perspective is good.
there’s also rechargeable oak and iron air pumps and cans of fix-a-flat. I have one of the larger oak and iron pumps. It filled an R17 suv tire to 30 lbs in ten minutes. Rechargeable on usb from the car!
By larger, I mean it’s the size of a large paperback book.
Also, your car benefits from an OnStar system. I won’t buy a car without one.
Even if you know that kind of stuff, adding roadside assistance coverage to your insurance is worth it when your starter gives out and you can’t get your car started again at the rural Iowa place you stopped at to pee at after dark while road tripping home… I pay something like 13 bucks a year for it.
(I had a manual, tow driver help me pull-start it. Drove home, no stopping, and left it against the mechanic’s garage door)
also running the lid under hot water often can help too as it slightly enlarges it.
I’m always nervous whacking anything glass on a hard surface no matter how much I mentally know it’s not going to explode and kill me.
Re: banging the lid and breaking the jar ... my mom whacked the jar lid upwards from the edge with a table knife. Sometimes one method, sometimes the other.
I have a rubbery disk that I put over the lid, it gives great grip on the lid and that alone helps me open the jar most of the time.
I’ve done that for years — learned it from watching my mother. But I never ever thought about that as the reason it works.
I guess I always figured it was just breaking free … small amounts of liquid or whatever that froze it in place.
or, rather, releasing the lack of pressure. jars are sealed under vacuum, which is what holds the lid on tight and prevents bacteria ingress, and implements the "pop up" safety feature in the lid that tells you if the seal is broken.
most lids are designed with ridges so you can fit a butter knife between the threads and the side of the lid, then lever out to break the vacuum.
Oh, yeah, I get it. Just never thought about it that way before, always figured it more about something in the threads jamming it up.
But that makes perfect sense.
Speaking of, putting food while *hot* into a jar will let it seal, and gives it a chance to last longer. Especially if there's some liquid in it, turn it upside down while cooling to give it a better chance to seal.
co-signed all. Being polite is basically magic, even if you can’t afford to tip well.
(Alas, I’m a person for whom hormonal BC causes problems)
You're a role model and I'm so glad to have found you in this wide world
There are many that will ask how you are doing, but they do not listen. They really do not care about you, they just want to pretend they do.
My pat answer: Not sure yet.
Sadly.
There are quite a few who are glad to help, but also quite a few who expect "favours" of their own preference/suggestion after offering to "help" you even though you did not ask.
Ask me how I know : -p
(Just adding to @hacks4pancakes thread, I'm sure they already know.)
These are all great words of wisdom.
You should break them up into single quotes and repost them all from time to time.
This one is like the master draft that will come in handy if you want to claim original authorship to any of them.
Do it now.
Lesley dropping the truth bombs again.
Thanks.
Enjoy your mead.
> "if you have ovaries that work you can just take birth control forever and never have a period, there are some health caveats but it’s mostly sorta kinda just a stigma not to"
This is a fascinating one. There's all this history about the invention of the contraceptive pill and how the decision to interrupt the pills and for women to [appear to] menstruate was more a political/moral/religious/marketing decision than a medical decision.
I heard this amazing podcast about it, which I can't find right now.
One of the interesting questions is, how many times in their lives, total, would woman have menstruated in the old days before the pill?
If they were having children … not many. Because from a young age, they would spend huge blocks of their life pregnant and/or breast feeding.
this is an amazingly distilled list of things. Thank you for sharing.
One thing that stuck out for me is the wedding officiant piece. I got my license through the Church of The Latter Day Dude (#TheDudeAbides) to perform a wedding for my cousin and her now wife. It was a wonderful thing to be part of and I’m so glad I did it. ❤️
Not sure what improvement this new 'night posting' icon is on Mastodon...
I don't think the old term 'unlisted' covered what it does (as it does more than unlist a post), but the current terms and icon aren't much better.
(I'm still thinking 'real unlisted' posts have a purpose)
"Heatwave"
That's the title of this Roswell episode.
The episode has a theme of temptation and giving in to desire and this opening scene with Shiri Appleby captures it so well in the non-obvious way.
That box is tempting...
But why resist?
#ShiriAppleby #Roswell
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!Friendica Support
Recently I started following a prolific account that advises Mastodon followers to put them on a list and then exclude the list from the normal timeline. I wanted to do something similar in Friendica using circles, channels and channel frequency settings.
I added them in a new circle. That works fine.
My normal timeline is 'Latest posts', but I can't create a channel based on that. There is however 'Network' which I think is similar, so I used that. It seems to use 'Latest creation' sorting instead, but that's ok for now.
I set the account's channel frequency to never show in a channel (last option). They still show in their circle, so that's great.
I found I have to go to 'Settings' -> 'Display' -> 'Timelines' to actually enable the new channel for it to show up. Now I can see the new channel, great!
But, the prolific account still shows in the channel, so my experiment failed. Could this be because they always use reshare (boost) to fill their feed and maybe reshares aren't taken into account when applying the channel frequency?
How else can I achieve this?
@Michael Vogel
Ok, thanks for the reply. So it also wouldn't work for Friendica groups, I guess.
I've thought of another work-around: creating a new account on my server and follow them from there. Then switch accounts to see that timeline. My normal saved hashtag searches should surface anything I want to see under my normal account.
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For many years, DSL/Cable routers by German company AVM, sold under the Fritz!Box brand, did some internal dns tweaking so that when you typed in fritz.box it would lead you to the config page of the router in your network. Now, years later, there actually is a .box TLD (Top Level Domain) and AVM forgot to register the fritz.box domain. Someone else did. And activated Certificate Pinning (HSTS). #Oops
UPDATE 2024-01-27: Their dns entries are flaky ATM, sometimes there, mostly not.
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Well sure, they could not have known back in the day that .box will be a tld some day. But they could have changed the setup when it became available and they could not register it themselves
uhm sorry, no. The idea to use some tld that does not exist was a bad idea to begin with and exactly the reason why .home.arpa was introduced back in the days. this mess is a result of hanging on to a fancy idea that was probably never changed for marketing reasons or some other stupid internal company politics.
They even made it extra hard to change this! Failing to grab the official domain just adds to this. Many did see this coming for years. I did.
Same for .local for different reasons
@bekopharm @cy agreed that it was a bad idea to begin with, but AVM's use of fritz·box predates RFC 8375 (even most if not all "new" TLDs), and ICANN frowns upon the use of "private" (i.e., unregistered) domains for good reasons. (They don't have any say in what the IETF does with .arpa, though.)
What I request from AVM is to make the domain their DHCP provides configurable while keeping the DHCP and DNS of the Fritzbox.
@woelfisch even without that RFC was it only a question of time. Really anyone working in this has seen this coming.
AVM may be huge in Germany but international? cmon. Am Deutschen Wesen mal wieder, oder was?
Yeah, the ability to change this is long overdue. It's possible afair by downloading the config, set it there, recalculate the totally secret checksum and re-upload the config.
Or at least it was. I didn't keep taps. Using my own service for DNS ignoring this for years.
@bekopharm oh, it isn't (wasn't? I haven't dealt with any other home routers for quite some years...) only AVM doing that.
IIRC the whole thing started when .local was hijacked for mDNS in 2000, which was used by numerous home router vendors previously. AVM (foolishly) decided to use .box instead, though they should've registered a dedicated second-level domain under an existing TLD.
But hey, I bet marketing just loved "fritz·box"...
#FritzBox
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Two girls see themselves on screen, except it's not themselves, but the other girl who is completely identical. They didn't know they were twins. It uncovers a long running scandal in Georgia. Story by BBC News.
Georgia's stolen children: Twins sold at birth reunited by TikTok video - bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-68…
Georgia's stolen children: Twins sold at birth reunited by TikTok video
Thousands of people in Georgia have found out they were stolen from their parents at birth and sold.By Fay Nurse and Woody Morris (BBC News)
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US people: reminder that Miller's Girl, a film with Jenna Ortega in the lead role, is in your theaters tomorrow. I think it's going to be a good one!
For people in NL like me, we wait until 14 March.
#JennaOrtega #MillersGirl
#MorenaBaccarin #FireCountry #CBS #ParamountPlus #Television #Streaming
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I have the boxset of The Shannara Chronicles, another one of these series they keep disappearing from the streaming services. It features two absolutely great actresses: Ivana Baquero and (from season two) Melise. Both are utterly cool here, which is sort of what this show is about.
Ivana was the little girl in Pan's Labyrinth and also as an adult she impresses a lot. Melise is an actress and singer who previously played 'rock chick' Lucy Stone in Big Time Rush. I was playing one of her songs just today.
Starting my rewatch of the show now.
#IvanaBaquero #Melise #TheShannaraChronicles
It is set in a time after our time, when nature has mostly recovered from us and everything is overgrown with lush forests. The story starts in the Kingdom of the Elves and with a premonition showing the end of times and the destruction of all life.
It takes a while to establish the main characters, in fact you're introduced first to some Elf characters that will not be that important in the long run.
A long time ago I saw the tv series Roswell and loved it. I started watching it for Shiri Appleby, who I knew from Xena, but would probably have watched it anyway. Shiri is nowadays besides a great actress also a great director. She was amazing in Unreal and the episodes she directed were the best.
Starting a rewatch of Roswell now from my boxset.
#ShiriAppleby #Roswell #NowWatching
I'm Liz Parker and five days ago I died. After that, things got really weird.
Love story openings like that.
It's nice to see what a really great lead actress brings to a series. She not only plays her role very well, but she also captures the audience and sets the tone. I think she makes Roswell the warm and interesting show it is.
That her role would be the lead wasn't that obvious. The series is about aliens hiding in Roswell and she is just a human. But I think it works out well, to have human Liz as point of view.
#ShiriAppleby #Roswell
#JodieFoster #NastassjaKinski #AmandaPlummer #HotelNewHampshire
Going to see Emilia Clarke. Not in person, she will be on a big screen. The Pod Generation is finally arrived in my country (NL). Release this Thursday, but prereleases all over the country this week.
Looked great in the trailer and it's always great to see Emilia.
#EmiliaClarke #ThePodGeneration
Finally saw The Pod Generation with Emilia Clarke on the big screen, it has taken a while to arrive in my country. It's today maybe even more relevant than when it was made, now we're confronted with AI wherever you go.
In some future where not just pregnancies are artificial (the 'pod' of the title) but almost everything (virtual assistants, your home, nature and I think at some point even air), a couple have a baby via a pod, or in fact the woman springs that on the man. She is a corporate type, he is relatively a hippy, and throughout this artificial pregnancy they have to figure out their roles and feelings. All in a house where the clean and clinical interior is compensated for by an almost comical amount of throw cushions, and the only clinical and somewhat dodgy seeming Womb Center.
It's an interesting investigation of the dynamics in a relationship going through pregnancy when certain restraints of the biological situation are removed. It's also questioning how much you want big tech involved in your life, in this case something as personal as pregnancy.
Emilia Clarke is this amazing actress where you don't even notice she's playing a completely different character because it seems like you've always seen her like that. But here she's not the strong and willful queen, nor the bumbling assistant, but a high performing executive with a lot of calmness about her. It does of course have a scene where she walks along the beach and touches the sand, though.
#EmiliaClarke #ThePodGeneration
So many people in reviews annoyed that the film raises questions but doesn't provide answers and I'm annoyed at those reviews. Firstly, films don't have to provide answers, you can think for yourself, after the film explored the concepts. Secondly, I think this film does provide the answers, just not in an obviously hammered home way where the plot literally gives the answer, but the conclusions the film makers draw are clear from how it affects the characters. I didn't know film watchers had gotten so lazy.
Also there's a mid-credits scene about the big tech aspect, so don't go running to the toilet just yet.
#IndiaEisley #Kite #NowWatching
Based on the kind of story you'd expect this film to be cheesier than it is. Instead, India Eisley acts her character Sawa so realistically, it's as if a real-life young assassin with amnesia has stumbled upon the film set and is trying to make sense of the clues she finds, hell-bent on exacting revenge on things in her past she can't quite remember. Some other bits of the film may live up more to the original expectation.
I disagree with the blu-ray cover image's suggestion that she doesn't play the lead character. But big names and all that.
#IndiaEisley #Kite
If you heard the headlines at the end of last year about Binance and Changpeng Zhao being charged by the DOJ, here's a LOT more detail on what they did, and what this may mean for the company going forward.
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#Crypto #cryptocurrency #binance #ChangpengZhao
The charges against Binance
The charges against Binance: what are the accusations, and what's next for Binance and its former CEO, Changpeng "CZ" Zhao?Attribution and sourcing for this ...YouTube
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Podcast - by Molly White - Citation Needed
If you would like to add the spoken version of this newsletter to your podcast feed, search for "Molly White's Citation Needed" on your favorite podcasting app or find it in the links here.Molly White (Citation Needed)
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The charges against Binance
The charges against Binance: what are the accusations, and what's next for Binance and its former CEO, Changpeng "CZ" Zhao?Attribution and sourcing for this ...YouTube
I excited clicked through to YouTube from your newsletter only to find your content is hiding behind a 43-minute unskippable ad‽ 🤯😵💫
I don't know how much control YouTube gives its creators, but maybe see if you can limit ad length..?
Quote shared in an attempt to add a content warning. This is an interesting, and scary, read. Explaining why fascists think they are democratic.
Trump can claim he’s for democracy, and he can accuse others of fascism, but it’s been his own rhetoric and beliefs that put him in a fairly textbook fascist category.theconversation.com/why-some-p…
#USPolitics #Election #Politics #TrumpWhy some people think fascism is the greatest expression of democracy ever invented
Some fascists claim that democracy and fascism have the same goal – to give effect to the will of the people. But who the people are is where the ideologies divide.The Conversation
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Love the ending and what it says. (But telling would be spoilers)
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