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As long as I live, I will never understand why America would rather elect a singularly worthless white rapist as president than an exceptionally impressive black woman.

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Misinformation. I saw something tonight that postulated that 50% of Americans have <6th grade reading comprehension. People like that are fish in a barrel to the likes of Musk and other right wing propaganda.

So the US has openly voted for fascism. The first time there was the excuse of populism, but this time the mask was off.
#USPol
#uspol

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Just remember, we're not 1930s Germany. WE ARE HYPER-ARMED. There will be no house to house harassment. 8/10 houses will present a serious fire fight. Nazis didn't have to deal with that. It's time the left recognizes what the 2nd amendment is actually for.

Fixed my @F-Droid app on my tablet as I found it had a radically different idea of which versions of several apps were available than my phone had. Both were also behind reality, but that is normal. I noticed this because the @Tuta app failed to download, maybe because such an old version (August) no longer existed. Somehow going into the 'nearby people' function triggered a new wifi permission popup, or maybe it was me toggling wifi off-and-on that fixed it. But after that thumbnails and screenshots loaded again and new(-ish) app versions were shown.

In researching this I found the remark that F-droid has supported unattended upgrades for a while. That is a feature I was really waiting for, as clicking Install on each separate update then wait a minute then click the next etc was getting really annoying. But it is not happening for me. Turns out that this is only available for newer Android versions, which neither of these devices has... See f-droid.org/2024/02/01/twif.ht… .

@Tuta @F-Droid

The more a certain presidential candidate comes out as fascist and racist, rather than just hinting at it, the more the billionaires are standing behind him, rather than just hinting at it.

Being in an office building where all the lights are on motion detectors. It's late, everybody is gone home already. Everywhere it's dark, the only light that's on is around my desk. Suddenly a light switches on in another corridor. I look up. No one's there.

I still don't understand how a commercial company can claim to own the name of a community project and blame another company, its direct competitor, for using (or hinting at) that name. Neither should own that name, or control the community website.

The trailer for Stephanie Leonidas's new film Marching Powder is out, here on her Instagram: instagram.com/reel/DBMnkugMWKz… . Warning that it's quite violent.
#StephanieLeonidas #MarchingPowder
#StephanieLeonidas #MarchingPowder film Stephanie Leonidas
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We’re excited to launch Mosaic: a new initiative from the Bonfire team that empowers organisations by creating their own customised and federated digital space - built just for them.

✨ Learn more about Mosaic: bonfirenetworks.org/mosaic/

📣 Read our announcement post: bonfirenetworks.org/posts/mosa…

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A federated social network for individuals and communities to design, operate and control their own digital lives.
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@meljoann @radiofreefedi yeah it’s a pity we still didn’t found a way to focus on RFF pilot! We are trying to get the 1.0 out and at same time find sustainability to pay ourselves and onboard new devs among other things. Maybe applying to a grant to develop the needed features could be a way to push this forward? Happy to chat more about it…
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That’s understandable, yeah we’re in a tricky position for grants as we’re so international. A grant to support both your work and our main dev would be amazing.

I’m not a tech person myself (just experience with Arts funding). So, a bit out of the loop regarding funding help available… any leads you could point us to? I’d be happy to help with the application

@radiofreefedi

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So there are people in the US who are undecided between a clearly unqualified openly racist candidate, and a clearly qualified person of colour. Sounds to me they are not undecided at all.

The playbook of create a crisis to invoke a crisis.
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Could be WordPress, could be the Dutch extremist government, could be something else. Who knows.

Made it to the start of the Eindhoven City Run (5km, this year relegated to the Saturday and not on the actual Marathon day). Also made it to the finish, but I was too tired to take another photo. My time was 34:29, not the slowest ever despite having to hold back due to an injury (the uphill bits were difficult for more than the normal reasons). Made it back home too and added to my collection.

I'd wish they had changing facilities near the finish line, or at all since on Saturday nothing is available. It was a long cold walk back in my t-shirt... Sitting here now trying to warm back up.
#EindhovenCityRun #ASMLMarathonEindhoven

Selfie at the start of the Eindhoven City Run. Many people can be seen as well as the start banner in the distance.
Selfie of me back home from the 5km City Run, wearing the starting number and the medal.
The 40th edition medal of the 5km City Run during the Eindhoven Marathon, hanging on top of my other medals of previous editions. The number 40 is prominently visible. Other text says ASML Marathon Eindhoven.
#EindhovenCityRun #ASMLMarathonEindhoven
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My position was 1879 out of 3937 participants. There I was worrying I would not be able to finish before the closing time.

Today it's exactly one year ago that an unthinkable massacre was committed by a terrorist organisation against ordinary people in Israel. I'm still hoping the people responsible will be handed over to international courts to face justice.

During this year unthinkable war crimes have been committed in what followed as a response to that massacre. So much so that they overshadow the massacre itself in the public debate. These war crimes have to stop immediately and unilaterally. For both sides there should be no need for negotiations or agreements to stop war crimes. Stop bombing civilians, now. Stop involving civilians in your fight. I'm also hoping these war crimes go to the international courts.

These are the more immediate things I'm hoping to see happening. More idle hope I have is that someone realises that by always retaliating, the fighting never stops; a brave leader (so not one of the ones in power today) is going to decide to not hit back, breaking the circle of violence.

Apologies to the people taking the train in the south east of the Netherlands: I decided to take the train today, so naturally everything is cancelled.

It should be illegal for predatory birds to be flying overhead when I have my ultra wide lens on the camera. And I'm too lazy to change it.

"And now a word from our sponsors"

Wouldn't it be great if it really was just one word?

Brought on by the in-video advertisement being interrupted by YouTube's advertisements.

Walked in the woods near sunset. Found some trees.

Canon EOS R10, RF-S 10-18.
#Photography

A low sun shines through two trunks of a tree, creating a sun star. Only the leaves of a few young twigs coming out of the ground, are illuminated while most else is in the shadows, suggesting the sun star is shining only for them.
A tree's root misses the ground when it comes down a small hill. Several offshoots of the root go straight down into the ground, suggesting the tree has made a fence.
#photography photography
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Most rains may have been a while ago, but some paths are still flooded.
The paths and the woods are still flooded.
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The human eye is really much better at dynamic range than electronics is...
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Continuum in art

#art #fineart #artist #painting #painter #finearts #fineartstudent #portrait #portraitphotography #streetphotography #photography #urbanphotography #urbanphoto #naturallight #naturallightphotography #urbanart #foto #fotografia #fotografie #fotografiaartistica #london #nationalportraitgallery #opensource #freeopensourcesoftware #opensourcesoftware #darktable #darktablephotography #gimp #gimpart

#foto #opensource #artist #art #gimp #darktable #portrait #painting #fotografie #streetphotography #London #urbanphotography #painter #urbanart #naturallight #fineart #opensourcesoftware #portraitphotography #urbanphoto #fotografia #finearts #gimpart #naturallightphotography #darktablephotography #freeopensourcesoftware #fineartstudent #fotografiaartistica #NationalPortraitGallery

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Tonight in the #BirthweekRewatch for Jenna Ortega's birthday last Friday: The Fallout. Her best film.

play.max.com/movie/012b03e9-a1…
#JennaOrtega


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That opening is still great: not showing the event makes it more powerful, not less.

Interesting phone interview by The New York Times with Jenna Ortega, done just before the recent press tour for Beetlejuice Beetlejuice. She talks about her life, including becoming a child actress and how you learn to feign maturity early on. Also about why she deleted Twitter a few years ago.
youtu.be/OAqtpS0qKfk
#JennaOrtega
#JennaOrtega

Happy Birthday, Jenna Ortega!

She may be busy filming Wednesday season two in Ireland, but today it is also her 22nd birthday and I feel like celebrating it with a #BirthweekRewatch. A week because a Friday doesn't give enough time to rewatch all I want to see. She made so many great things!

I saw Miller's Girl twice in the cinema, because I liked it so much. Now from the comfort of my own blu-ray player.

Photo of the blu-ray of Miller's Girl. The cover shows Jenna Ortega and Martin Freeman as their characters, separated by the film's title.

#JennaOrtega #MillersGirl

#JennaOrtega #BirthweekRewatch #MillersGirl film Jenna Ortega

TIL: I can wirelessly browse the photos on my camera using my phone and download the photos, even when it (the camera) is physically turned off.

Bird. I don't know about brands.

Canon EOS R10, RF 100-400mm F5.6-8 IS USM, 400mm, F8, 1/1000s, ISO 640.
#Photography #Bird

Black, white, red bird sitting on a bare tree, looking like it's going to peck some wood
#photography #bird photography

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yep, Bixby is right. The red spot on the bottom differentiates them from the regular "bonte specht"

Taking an interest in local affairs. The Moon.

Canon EOS R10, RF 100-400mm F5.6-8 IS USM, 400mm, F8, 1/30s, ISO 100. Auto-focus subject tracking, tripod, 10s delay, manual exposure, daylight whitebalance, cropped.
#Photography #Moon

The Moon, almost full, in a black sky
#photography #moon photography

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There's only a small gap between the trees where the Moon could be seen from my balcony, so I had to set this up quickly. Otherwise I may have had more time to increase the sharpness, maybe with manual focus, maybe with remote control, maybe with faster shutter speeds and higher iso. I did take multiple exposures and some already had out-of-focus leaves smeared over the Moon. It's interesting how quickly heavenly bodies move seen through 400mm. Though I think some lower exposure shots might be better than this one, I still have to check on my pc. This was just cropped on camera and sent to my phone.

It feels like yesterday but last year Mia Shanks impressed me with her first single Yesterday. Today, on her birthday, she announces her second single The Sound Of It. I'm really excited. We'll know the sound of it on 27 September.

Mia Shanks on the cover of her single The Sound Of It. The photo is multiple exposures of her face.

#MiaShanks #TheSoundOfIt

#MiaShanks #TheSoundOfIt music

So if you tell the Canon EOS R10 auto-focus system to focus on Saturn it's like, ok, I've got it.

Admittedly, it's very vague and it's a tiny crop from the whole photo, it being barely a spec of light, but the photo is taken with a budget camera with a budget lens and it is Saturn and the auto-focus did acquire focus. No telescope involved.
#Photography #Saturn

The black night sky with a vague image of the planet Saturn where the rings are visible.
#photography #Saturn photography

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Specs: camera Canon EOS R10, lens RF 100-400mm F5.6-8 IS USM, at 400mm, F8, 1/20s, ISO 100, tripod, IS off, 10s delay, white balance daylight, manual mode, AF one-shot. Cropped heavily.
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Note that Saturn is visible with the naked eye currently during the night due to being close in its rotation and being opposite the sun. This doesn't happen often. The rings should be visible with any kind of magnification, but I had no luck with my binoculars.

I may have repaired my dishwasher by cleaning it. I was operating under the theory that a dishwasher, being a machine that cleans, can't get dirty on the inside, but that turns out not to be true. Years of gunk buildup apparently gets in the way of smooth operation.

Amazon: We think you may be interested in a new HDMI cable.
Me: Why? What do you know?

(I have literally never bought an HDMI cable on Amazon)

Great to see that the large majority of people really enjoyed seeing Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, as did I, even in forums like letterboxd where otherwise sour people who don't like films seem to gather.
#BeetlejuiceBeetlejuice #JennaOrtega
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Jenna's role is bigger than you would expect for a sequel featuring most original characters, but her role didn't completely take over the franchise as it was for Scream. Not yet anyway. Of course I would have wanted the story to be fully about her character, yet it wasn't, it involves everybody. But at the same time, it is sort of clear that without her performance in the way only she can do, the sequel would not have worked. The other cast members have remarked in interviews that the sequel had to wait so long because she still needed to be born, grow up and become an actress, and that's true.

My camera has earrings.
#Photography
Canon EOS R10 camera seemingly with earrings. Where normally the shoulder/neck carry strap is attached, now two round buttons are attached, unto which the strap can be clicked on. This allows the strap to be easily taken off when it would be in the way.
#photography photography
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Just seen Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, I really liked this! Enough retro, enough modern, enough bigger than the original. Great performance by Jenna Ortega, I love being a fan of hers, she's creating a great catalogue of films.
#JennaOrtega #BeetlejuiceBeetlejuice
#JennaOrtega #beetlejuicebeetlejuice film Jenna Ortega

Jenna Ortega's film Beetlejuice Beetlejuice is out this week! So I'm watching Beetlejuice now to get ready to see it in the cinema. Oops, did I now say it three times?
#JennaOrtega #BeetlejuiceBeetlejuice
#JennaOrtega #beetlejuicebeetlejuice film Jenna Ortega

The website: the experience is better in the app.

The app: this is not supported, please visit the website.

It keeps catching me off guard when a semi governmental organisation sends me a message saying that they are starting work now, and I then find out in the same message that this means '2026, maybe'.

So, somewhere between now and the end of times my apartment will be gas-free.

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They literally said 'the coming months', which apparently is the coming 24 months.
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A map of Every European City

➡️ credit: Malachi Ray Rempen

Some kind of tower WW2 Memorial Avenue Pigeon owned central station The single syllable ruver Suits ties & windows district Hipster home brickworks Dystopia block housing Drug dealer park Hate able new bridge Loveable old bridge Postcard old town St. Tourist traps cathedral Your hostel (5km)
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In the half second before reading anything, I legitimately thought it might have been a place I visited once.
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The year is 3129. Humanity is extinct. The last LG SmartFridge is desperately emailing its last owner that they are low on orange juice.
The satellites still left, their orbits decaying, dutifully relay the message.
The automated "away from office" response turns on, as it always does, notifying the refrigerator that it's owner will likely return to the office in 3-5 business days.
A pack of roombas, the local wind turbines giving out, search for the next functional docking station.
A washing machine tweets: "anyone need to do a load” every Saturday at 1:30 a.m. eastern standard time.
The replies are filled with Al thirstposters and their hypebots.
In North America, raccoons have entered the bronze age, while babboons riding domesticated battlewolves rule most of Asia.
Unbeknownst to either, the octopi are mastering nuclear fusion.

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Weird how much stops working if a computer runs out of disk space, but also weird how much of an ActivityPub server keeps going on regardless. Like it receives and shows posts fine, but fails to load preview images; also existing accounts work fine, but looking up new accounts suggests there are network errors...

I saw Deadpool & Wolverine this evening in the cinema, and the first film this morning to see what it is about. Can't say I'm a fan of the franchise. But Dafne Keen is in this one, so that is enough reason. Her role is small-ish, but not nearly as small as I feared. And if you've seen Logan back in the day (now that is a film I like), there's some nice touches where this film refers to that one.
#DafneKeen #DeadpoolAndWolverine
#DafneKeen #deadpoolandwolverine film Dafne Keen
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10,000 Maniacs
Our Time in Eden

How good was it?

All the good

(Also the first CD I ever bought 😊) #music

#music

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This Friendica server is now fully updated to the previous version and run all its post-update tasks. Will start the upgrade to yesterday's new version later today; this may take several days during which either the maintenance screen is shown, or the pages just blank out. Or be much faster, who knows...
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And it is updated. Not weeks, apparently. I didn't time it, but it was some minutes, up to half an hour.

Friendica 2024.08 is just released. That's great, but I only updated to 2024.03 last week and it's still running the post update actions...
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Upgraded a test server that was already on 2024.03 and which has a very small database. Yet it gave the PHP 'white screen of death' (i.e. it crashed with an error) for several minutes. After a while it automatically came back and is now ok. So, need to panic if you get this error:

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2024-08-17T20:11:26Z app [ERROR]: Uncaught Exception Error: "Call to undefined method Friendica\App::getLoggedInUserNickname()" at /***/src/Module/Home.php line 54 {"exception":"Error: Call to undefined method Friendica\\App::getLoggedInUserNickname() in /***/src/Module/Home.php:54\nStack trace:\n#0 /***/src/BaseModule.php(250): Friendica\\Module\\Home->content()\n#1 /***/src/App.php(682): Friendica\\BaseModule->run()\n#2 /***/index.php(55): Friendica\\App->runFrontend()\n#3 {main}"} - {"file":null,"line":null,"function":null,"request-id":"66c103ee0c55f","stack":"ErrorHandler::handleException (128), ErrorHandler::Friendica\\Core\\Logger\\Handler\\{closure}","uid":"81689d","process_id":1696336}
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This server made it from postupdate version 1507 to 1544 a few days ago, but it is still there. It needs to reach 1550... Now running it as a foreground process instead and the database cpu usage suggests it is really properly doing something.

Checking the information page of other people's servers and I'm not the only one still at 1544...

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