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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.

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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.
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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

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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

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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
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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
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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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I hope this email finds you no matter where you try to hide.

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The film Beetlejuice Beetlejuice with Jenna Ortega has its release date in my country, NL, on Thursday 5 September, one day ahead of the US. Tickets are available from today.
#JennaOrtega #BeetlejuiceBeetlejuice
Still from the film Beetlejuice Beetlejuice with Jenna Ortega as Astrid looking scared and like she's in the afterlife world
#JennaOrtega #beetlejuicebeetlejuice film Jenna Ortega

Jenna Ortega is promoting Beetlejuice Beetlejuice in Mexico and just posted this red carpet photo.
#JennaOrtega #BeetlejuiceBeetlejuice
Jenna Ortega promoting Beetlejuice Beetlejuice on the red carpet in Mexico. She looks very stylish.
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Dafne Keen getting a reminder on her phone from Disney+ that Deadpool & Wolverine is in the cinema... She knows, Disney, she's in it.

Waiting for the time when companies will fall over each other to claim that there's zero AI in their products.

I like this! Promotion of the film Beetlejuice Beetlejuice (in cinema 6 September), posting Astrid's three moods:


  • cozy spooky
  • hauntingly spooky
  • otherworldly spooky


Jenna Ortega as Astrid in the film Beetlejuice Beetlejuice. On screen text: "Astrid has three moods".

Jenna Ortega as Astrid in the film Beetlejuice Beetlejuice. On screen text: "cozy spooky". She's surrounded by cozy spooky stills from the film.

Jenna Ortega as Astrid in the film Beetlejuice Beetlejuice. On screen text: "hauntingly spooky". She's surrounded by hauntingly spooky stills from the film.

Jenna Ortega as Astrid in the film Beetlejuice Beetlejuice. On screen text: "otherwordly spooky". She's surrounded by otherworldly spooky stills from the film.

#JennaOrtega #BeetlejuiceBeetlejuice #Beetlejuice

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If you're running a single-person Fediverse server, it might seem weird to publish rules for your server as you're the only person on there. However, it's still a good idea to publish server rules!

Admins of other servers may be trying to decide if they should federate with you, and published rules help them do that. (This is especially true of admins that use allowlists to decide federation.)

Here's a brief guide:

➡️ fedi.tips/should-i-publish-som…

#FediAdmin #MastoAdmin #SelfHosting


Should I publish some server rules if I’m running a single-person Fediverse server? | Fedi.Tips – An Unofficial Guide to Mastodon and the Fediverse

An unofficial guide to using Mastodon and the Fediverse
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thank you, i often have this discussion too. Also why, for example, the Fedimins agreement states that you should have server rules.
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Periodic reminder that websites aren't "forced" to give you those annoying cookie consent notices.

They only need to annoy you if they want to track you/make money off of you/do anything else that goes beyond the reason you're visiting the website in the first place.

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How to Ask a Girl to the Movies

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Add DCC to that for me, as well as some CD-i.

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"If people want to know why Gen X is always mad it's because we had to replace our record collections with a tape collection and then replace that with a CD collection that we slowly replaced with an MP3 collection and now need a subscription to listen to music."

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Jackdaw* looking for food.

Camera: Canon EOS R10. Lens: Canon RF-S 18-150mm F3.5-6.3 IS STM @ 150mm. Servo AF, subject tracking with Animal and Eye detection. Cropped. f/6.3, 1/1000, iso 500.

*I think

Black bird walking on green grass.
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Fear The Walking Dead 8x08 "Iron Tiger" spoilers

It's so amazing that Alexa Nisenson (Charlie) is back for this episode! Her acting abilities are chilling, this suddenly puts the whole thing on a new level again.

It's the final season and they're wrapping up storylines and characters. Some favourites are already gone. I knew that going in this season. And is it believable that Charlie did what she eventually did? Yes I think so, this was already signalled in the first season she was in.

Reminded that the BBC once replaced a guest that didn't show up with a 'tub of lard', which was just asked questions as normal. That's still a valid idea.

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