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The Netflix show Wednesday made sure everybody now knows the talent of Jenna Ortega. Her followers on Instagram went from 8 million to over 26 million. So I'm wondering whether the director of Songbird already regrets cutting out her scenes.
#JennaOrtega #Songbird
#JennaOrtega #Songbird

I had todays framed.wtf in one go, I'm so proud. May rewatch that film (and not mention it before the day is over), I like it so much.

Eating my dinner around dinner time. How new.

Just came across this performance on YouTube. This really was the music of my youth. I may have initially at high school started with liking Sting, The Dire Straits, The Smiths, but I quickly saw the light and it became all female (fronted) music for me: The Throwing Muses, The Sundays and definitely Mazzy Star. Here's the latter on a Dutch radio show doing Flowers in December. 26 years ago... I have all their CDs of the time and I also have their more recent albums as well as Hope Sandoval's solo albums from iTunes.
#MazzyStar #FlowersInDecember #HopeSandoval #nostalgia

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Mazzy Star - Flowers in December (Live on 2 Meter Sessions)

Mazzy Star perform 'Flowers in December' of their 1996 album "Among My Swan" on Dutch music show "2 Meter Sessies". Filmed on November 6, 1996. Subscribe to...
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#nostalgia #MazzyStar #HopeSandoval #FlowersInDecember
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A rarely well-lit performance. Usually the recordings of their stage appearances were very dark where you could hardly see the people. The albums also didn't have her on the cover and the liner notes photos were very vague. They really wanted to keep her face out of the impression you had of the band and to let the music speak for itself.

There is a thing in the music industry where if a woman is good-looking, especially very good-looking, her music can't be taken seriously.

What I didn't like about yesterday's football world cup match between the Netherlands and Argentina was the ice hockey(*) attitude of it.

(*) my stereotypical ideas of ice hockey, I don't actually know the game itself.

Maybe when explaining the fediverse to new people, or outsiders, or journalists, we shouldn't focus on explaining multiple servers so much. What it is, is social media like twitter but run by volunteers. I think that's the important distinguishing part.

Then when they ask how it's organised, who's in charge and stuff like that, who sets the rules, then we can say volunteers can setup their own servers with their own rules. Only when they wonder stuff like that, this server thing becomes interesting. Until then, it's just details.

Why is liquorice something you always need to eat more of?

I'm sad to read that my country was one of those voting to exclude Romania and Bulgaria. Especially since it was over a supposed migration issue.

BBC News - Schengen: No EU border-free zone for Romania and Bulgaria
bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-63…


Schengen: No EU border-free zone for Romania and Bulgaria

EU ministers vote to admit Croatia to the Schengen zone, but Romania and Bulgaria must wait.
By Nick Thorpe (BBC News)
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I just found the most amazing #puzzle game on @fdroidorg, its called #FlowIt and is very fun to play! 😃

The #game looks and feels very simple at first, but as you go through the levels you'll see the #puzzles getting more complex and interesting.

F-droid: f-droid.org/packages/com.byteh…

Google Play: play.google.com/store/apps/det…

Source code: github.com/Flowit-Game/Flowit

They also seem to have a desktop version of the game but I haven't tried it out - github.com/Flowit-Game/flowit-…

#FDroid #FOSS #PuzzleGame #FLOSS

Screenshot of the game. There are lots of little boxes colored Yellow, Grey, Red, and Green. Most of the boxes are empty and only has color on its border, except a few special ones which has an arrow or circle on it.
A screenshot of the game where they explain how it works. The title at the top reads "How to play Flow it" and there is a simple diagram explaining the basic concept of the game. Below the diagram it reads "Fill all boxes with the color of their border".
Screenshot of a finished game, in front of you is a text that reads "Level complete".
Screenshot of the game showing a more complex level. This time it has many special boxes containing an arrow, circle, bomb or an arrow combined with a little rotate symbol on it.

Flowit | F-Droid - Free and Open Source Android App Repository

f-droid.org
#floss #foss #game #fdroid #puzzle #puzzles #flowit #puzzlegame @F-Droid

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@Josteglitz You mean puzzle number 10? I played that in easy mode and the solution was: green, red, gray, green, yellow, gray, gray.
@josteglitz 🌱💚

You can win a Wednesday poster signed by Jenna Ortega!

You can, I can't, because I'm not a US resident...
#JennaOrtega #Wednesday #WednesdayNetflix
netflix.com/tudum/articles/wed…


Win ‘Wednesday’ Signed Poster From Jenna Ortega and Cast

Welcome a little piece of Nevermore into your home.
Ariana Romero (Netflix Tudum)
#JennaOrtega #Wednesday #WednesdayNetflix
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I don't tend to photograph the #forest at the #goldenhour - particularly when the sun is strong.

That doesn't mean I am not out looking for images at this time of day; it's just that direct sunlight usually adds unwanted complexity to most scenes. The woods are full of chaos & need to be simplified.

Below are some images where the strong golden light did add something extra.

p.s. A big THANK YOU for all of the awesome support on my Groot #tree post.

#photography #naturephotography #woodland

A hill-top beech woodland bathed in golden side light.
An avenue of beech trees backlit by the setting sun.
An ancient road through ancient woodland in Hertfordshire with mature beech trees lining the road in peak autumn colour, backlit by the rising sun.
An ancient road backlit by the early morning sun.
#photography #naturephotography #forest #woodland #tree #goldenhour

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@AbandonedAmerica thanks for your kind words - I've just discovered yours and loving it so far. I'll find time to explore your website at some point!
@Abandoned America
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I'm constantly surprised at the number of people who are looking for lists of people to follow. There's no shortage of fascinating breadcrumb trails here.
Pick a toot that resonates with you and open it up. See who commented, or retooted it. Look at those people's profiles. Follow them.
Look at their older toots and follow the people whose comments on those toots pique your interest.
I've been here a month & have a global circle, not one of whom I knew before coming here. #IFollowTheCrumbs
#ifollowthecrumbs
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Interesting observation. I opened a twitter account in 2009, followed about 600 people, and then I didn't use it again as my feed was full of stuff.

I've just joined Mastodon, and I'm learning the craft of ensuring my follow list is carefully curated as that defines my experience here. It has taken me a while to realise that and be super picky on who to follow rather than just follow anyone. If I am following someone, there is a reason why.

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@markvos
I started that way here too, but I found that some of my most interesting connections have come not from those I directly followed initially, but rather those they responded to or boosted. Also, it's been super easy to mute or unfollow people, and no one complains. They are all too busy looking at all the new any shiny posts to miss me commenting on their stuff 😅
I wish for you, the curated feed of your dreams. It's not hard to do here. The people are fantastic.
@Mark Vos
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Yes, very true. And you are a great example of that because I followed you as a result of the tweet I initially responded to. It made me curious, so I looked at your other posts and thought "easy - person is nice, helpful, and thoughtful and covers topics I enjoy". Boom. Followed. All the best in your Mastodon experience too!
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@markvos very cool! Oh, and The Peripheral is a fun romp. Now that I've seen it all the way through, I'm going to go back again and watch it with less confusion (knowing what I know now)
@Mark Vos
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oh yes this! Follow the rabbit warren that is Mastodon. I have lost many hours to it 😉🤣🤣👍

New music by Dove Cameron will be coming out this Friday: the single Girl Like Me.
#DoveCameron
#DoveCameron Dove Cameron
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How to say number "92" in European countries

by u/Redstream28 on reddit

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I love how the designers of the SD card socket included a little spring capable of setting amazing speed records for data transfer across a small room.

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next: SD cards with aerodynamic properties. tiny propeller seeds of data. floating away in the wind.
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Quokka 🇦🇺
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reminds me I still haven't found that 400GB microSD card I've misplaced.
Still astounds me that something so small can hold that much data. #AlmostBoomerButNotQuite
#almostboomerbutnotquite

Watching His Dark Materials series 3 episode 1 on HBO Max. The first two episodes are out now, then we'll get the next episodes weekly (Mondays US, Tuesdays NL). The UK has to wait until 18 December, but then they'll get all eight episodes at once.
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Netflix

2022-12-06 22:23:31


Jenna Ortega reveals her five favorite Wednesday costumes


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'Sup.
Mouse on top of a stalk just chillin'. Lookin' at you.

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NEWS TRAVELS FAST 📰

This is probably one of my most technically successful escalator portraits. Taken at Bank station with a 0.8 second exposure. Featuring artist Maddie. We were very lucky with recurring colours.

#mastoart #londonunderground #longexposure #london #escalators #photography #photo #potd #streetphotography #art #underground #uk #streetphoto

Shot of someone reading a newspaper on an escalator
#MastoArt #photo #photography #art #uk #streetphotography #London #longexposure #underground #potd #streetphoto #londonunderground #escalators

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More fun with expressions!
#comics #art #mastoart #webcomics
Comic panel of smiling girl in a room
#MastoArt #comics #webcomics #art

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You would expect PeerTube, being a video server, to be the heaviest server I run. But it's one of the lightest. The reason is that the difficult bit, playing the video, is 'totally not my problem'. Playing is done in the webbrowser of the visitor. Streaming the content is done by the object storage and cdn. None of which is on my server.

Interesting when someone posts an article link where the content covers more than the title suggests, most replies to the post reveal that people didn't read the article.

Since HBO Max has not put His Dark Materials series 3 online yet, despite it being 5 December already, here's a Dafne Keen interview about s3 in W to pass the time.
#DafneKeen #HisDarkMaterials
wmagazine.com/culture/dafne-ke…

‘His Dark Materials’ Star Dafne Keen on Lyra’s Final, Pivotal Season

The actress—who has booked a secret role in the ‘Star Wars’ film ‘The Acolyte’—discusses growing up alongside her ‘His Dark Materials’ character, Lyra.
Max Gao (W Magazine)
#HisDarkMaterials #DafneKeen

I've found that Jenna Ortega's film The Fallout is called "The Life After" in some regions. This has not yet resulted in me finding an available blu-ray or dvd, however. In the US a dvd (not blu-ray) is available under its normal name and the film is on HBO Max wherever HBO Max is.
#JennaOrtega #TheFallout #TheLifeAfter
#JennaOrtega #TheFallout #TheLifeAfter

Volleyball balls are more expensive than I would expect. Proper match balls are €75 - €65. A piece. Even cheaper versions are €50. Considering how many balls are used by even an average club, that's a lot of capital tied up in that.

This 'Mastodon is difficult to understand' is the new 'VCRs are difficult to program', i.e. a way to separate the fashionable people from the nerds. I'm the latter.

Finished watching series two of His Dark Materials, excited for series three tomorrow. I hope it explains the confusion I had with the way story arcs were wrapped up at the end of the second series, especially around Will's father. And in fact Lyra's. And I hope Lyra will become important again, which seemed to go away in that series. I haven't read the books, so I don't know.

Episode 5 of The Sandman, "24/7", is actually quite good, mainly because it's not at all like the episodes that came before it. It's featuring different characters and has a different concept.
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I drew Wednesday 🫶🏼

#WednesdayAddams
#Wednesday
#art #illustration

#illustration #art #Wednesday #WednesdayAddams

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Wednesday 🖤
#wednesday #wednesdayaddams #FanArt #drawing #MastoArt
Zeichnung Porträt Wednesday Addams
#MastoArt #drawing #FanArt #Wednesday #WednesdayAddams

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New subtitle just dropped on #Wednesday on #Netflix
#Netflix #Wednesday

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The good thing about holding back from properly cleaning the table after spilling a drink over it is that if you spill another drink in the same day you don't feel that bad about it. Currently debating whether to wait for the third one.

People doing group think is bad, worse when this group think is that they are somehow victims.

Americans selecting entertainment things that were great in a year that was my youth, using American lists, always has me thinking I don't know any of these.

His Dark Materials series three gets released on HBO Max this Monday, 5 December. It'll be later in December on the BBC. I'm rewatching series one and two because it is so good and Dafne Keen is such a good actress. I'm at 1x07 now.
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A good director will know that if you have a good actress you can just let a scene play out by having a continuous close-up of her face and you don't actually need to see the scene itself. I've seen that done with great effect several times, as it is here with Dafne Keen.
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The first time I was aware of this choice of shot was long ago when Emilia Fox was an unknown actress, two super famous actors were doing a scene and her character had no lines or involvement in that scene. Yet the director realised her talent over those super famous people and had the camera just on her face this whole long scene. It was very powerful. And a very courageous thing to do for the director, given the difference in industry standing. (I think it's in the director's handbook under what to do if your two stars have an off day and the new girl is very talented)
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Only one day left for the rewatch. Series two has only seven episodes, though. I still haven't heard the explanation why the BBC suddenly cancelled one of the eight episodes (was it after filming, or just before). It made the ending of series two a bit weird.

I happened to look at my tv without my glasses on. I had turned it on already because I'm going to rewatch His Dark Materials, but I was first checking out my tablet. If I squinted my eyes I could just about make out that the HBO app was already on the correct card, since it looked like the big title was about three words. I'm reminded of the guy I used to know who complained that the pixels of his computer monitor were the wrong shape. To me not even cga monitors had pixels.

I dislike 'whisper-acting', so having the lead in this series do that is not nice. And now they even have another character mumble to address a crowd.
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I like watching fantasy and I like seeing great acting, so when the two of these come together I'm very happy. When it's only fantasy and not the other, not so much.

I feel that both Instagram and YouTube could use a marking when something is an original production vs a repost, fan edit or reaction vid. And a search filter for that.

Keeping a mental to-do list of things to add to a to-do list.
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