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Hi, when I follow someone I usually do this from multiple accounts, with different servers and platforms. This is partially as backup. It’s also because different software has different features. E.g. at the moment of writing I mainly post from my Friendica server, but it doesn’t yet support polls, or account migrations. So I also follow from my Pleroma server, which does notify me someone has migrated.
I also sometimes use platforms that support nomadic identity, that allows my channels on multiple servers to be synced. From software that doesn’t support that, a follow request looks like multiple separate requests from those channels.
Content warning: pinned opinion about nude scenes in films
Many actresses are somewhere in their career forced to do a nude (sex) scene. The male actors hardly ever are. To me the purpose seems sales rather than art. I'd wish for films to never include nude scenes and to always use suggestion instead.
Content warning: crossposting policy
#CrossPosting
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@GidiKroon@mastodon.social, @gidi@pleroma.gidikroon.eu as well as from Twitter, Instagram and Tumblr as @GidiKroon but I'm mainly using my own Friendica for now. Even though I have been on the fediverse for a few years, I've never done an #Introduction post, so let's do one for this channel.I tend to post about actresses and singers I'm a fan of, sharing news about their new projects as well as my thoughts about films and tv I watch. In between I give my take on political things as well as about the fediverse. When I learn new things hosting a fediverse server or other technical things, I try to share them here too. Longer posts may end up on my blog
gidikroon.eu (which you can follow at @GidiKroon@gidikroon.eu).In real life I work as a software developer, but I keep work separate from a private account like this. I play (beach) volleyball when I can, at a very low level. I live in the Netherlands and occasionally cycle and take photographs. I read and watch sci-fi and fantasy, and am interested in ways to achieve social justice, gender and race equality, sustainable energy use and climate justice.
Feel free to follow, as I will also follow other accounts I find interesting without expectation of them following back. Feel free to share (boost, repeat) my posts if you want, using whatever share function comes with your platform. I tend to close DMs to only allow people I follow. I check my fediverse accounts only one or a few times a day, typically on my phone or tablet, so I tend to not be part of live discussions.
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This is the trailer for three Doctor Who episodes that will be released in or around November 2023. So frustrating that still no date is mentioned, I'm sure I'm going to totally miss it when it finally appears on tv and they announce the release date five seconds before.
#DoctorWho
NEW! Doctor Who 2023 - 60th Anniversary Specials Trailer | BBC
Destiny isn’t done with them just yet… Doctor Who returns with three special episodes ❤️❤️➕🔷 #DoctorWho coming soon to #iPlayer
#DoctorWho #BBC #DisneyPlus #OfficialTrailer #Television #Streaming
https://youtu.be/UTRam_4a4cw?si=fYrp6zF_1vdK2ADb
NEW! Doctor Who 2023 - 60th Anniversary Specials Trailer | BBC
Destiny isn’t done with them just yet… Doctor Who returns with three special episodes ❤️❤️➕🔷 #DoctorWho coming soon to #iPlayerSubscribe and 🔔 to the BBC ?...YouTube
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Listening to The McCarricks, a husband and wife band consisting of one cello and one violin, making really cinematic music. I just noticed that they do have an EP on TIDAL and Spotify, but it's not the one I have and am listening to (which is self-titled).
I've seen them as support for Kristin Hersh and it was quite magical, their music with a video projection on a screen behind them. Bought the EP from them in person.
#TheMcCarricks
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🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio1:
#EuropesBiggestDanceShow
- 2023
Europe's Biggest Dance Show is back for 2023!
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001qyr6
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I saw a ladybug too, but fuck those minnie mouse looking mfers
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Also if your mobile app's 2fa screen doesn't survive switching to the authenticator app.
On a related note, if you are responsible for building a 2FA confirmation screen, and you do not automatically focus the cursor in the field for the code when the page loads, I hope you get atomic mutant space syphilis
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Instead of gold bars, the #Republicans required all their bribe money to be paid in #Trump NFTs so it couldn't be traced
#nerlingersjokes #GOP
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🔊 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio1:
#EuropesBiggestDanceShow
- 2023
Europe's Biggest Dance Show is back for 2023!
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001qyqp
Europe's Biggest Dance Show is happening again now, listening to it via Studio Brussel. The BBC set we had a little ago was quite good, Ukraine coming up too (they had a good show last year). Looking forward to Belgium too.
Eleven radio stations in ten countries over Europe broadcast a show together, to share the best dance music of the continent. Each country does a half hour set, of course mainly showcasing their own music.
#EuropesBiggestDanceShow
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#EuropesBiggestDanceShow #Ukraine
It has been my belief that training a system on content to generate other content, is making a derivative of that content. With most free licenses this is not allowed without mentioning the source (all of them) and in case of normally copyrighted work it's just plainly forbidden.
I hope this case, and the others they mention, succeed.
BBC News - Game of Thrones author sues ChatGPT owner OpenAI
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-66866577
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Finally Mastodon will show incoming text formatting (with today's release) and the rest of us can stop wondering how garbled our posts are going to be on Mastodon and we can just post as we intended. Mastodon people still can't write rich text though. Baby steps.
It's not true though that Mastodon used to strip all formatting from posts. They were just very selective about what formatting they preserved:
- paragraph breaks were preserved
- hyperlinks were preserved
- some inline images were preserved
What tended to be messed up on Mastodon:
- lists
- context provided by emphasis
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me about a year ago: yeah, I can buy this pack of 10 downloads, it's valid for a year, plenty of time to choose; when I've used all downloads in a few months time I'll just buy another pack
me now: six days left, plenty of time
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You know about phishing, and maybe you even know about vishing, but are you aware of fishing!
Fishing is a technique where an attacker uses a layer 1 device with a worm payload to hook a remote fish that they can then retrieve using a reel.
Remember to never chomp down on worms you find in the water! Worms actually don't like water, so if you see one flopping around there's a good chance it's actually a fishing attack!
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Both Friendica and Pleroma seem to have the same problem that video files are loaded the moment they appear in your timeline(*), whether you click play or not. And both are completely ignoring the provided cover image. Mastodon does this much nicer, showing the cover image, the actual PeerTube channel account, and only loading the video in an embedded player after you click to do so.
(*) I know, because when I'm browsing on cellular data I'm almost immediately out of my data bundle if a PeerTube video post appears in my Friendica timeline.
Natalie Portman spoke at the United Nations about violence against women. She posted it as an Instagram reel, I've mirrored it for those who don't want to access mainstream media.
https://peertube.gidikroon.eu/w/bZtLgMnpq9z6tneY6cDByU
Natalie Portman speaking at the United Nations
Natalie Portman speaking at the UN about violence against women and girls. Mirrored from Natalie's Instagram. Natalie's description:It was an honor to speak at the UN about the urgency of ending violence against women and girls, and to highlight the @spotlightinitiative’s effective model for doing so. Woman Life Freedom. #WithHer @unitednations #UNGA #SDGActionZone
(Copyright remains with Natalie and the United Nations)
Natalie Portman on Instagram: "It was an honor to speak at the UN about the urgency of ending violence against women and girls, and to highlight the @spotlightinitiative’s effective model for doing so. Woman Life Freedom. #WithHer @unitednations #UNGA #SD
108K likes, 9 comments - natalieportman on September 20, 2023: "It was an honor to speak at the UN about the urgency of ending violence against women and girls, ..."Instagram
Actors and writers strike going strong. The studios should pay them properly and give them adequate protection against AI. Photo: Ivana Baquero picketing, on her insta.
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You may of course discuss:
- The most recent film you watched.
- The quality of films and/or the industry in general.
- What draws / repels you from theatres and/or community film-watching.
- Twizzlers.
had to look up Twizzlers. I think I've had them as a child. Is it a traditional cinema thing in the US?
Also, I recently went to watch Barbie with my sisters. But the last time I went to the movies before that, was Captain Marvel I think? Years ago anyway. Definitely before corona.
@mees Overpriced snacks / candy / popcorn / drinks in general. Concession sales are the key mechanism by which most US theatres make any profit.
https://www.mashed.com/252446/reasons-why-movie-theater-food-is-so-expensive/
Reasons Why Movie Theater Food Is So Expensive
While we'd never condone lining your pockets and purses with dollar store candy and snacks before heading to a movie, it can be pretty tempting to do exactly that once you take a look at the high menu prices for movie theater food.Ian Mikrut (Mashed)
The last movie I saw at the cinema was Independence Day Resurgence - I specifically took my mum to see it, as she was a huuuuge fan of the original, and Roland Emmerich in general.
When I say 'was', I don't mean to imply that she's dead or anything. She's just not a fan of Independence Day, Roland Emmerich, or the cinema anymore, after that.
@ixtlidekami Times are from present. So "past decade" would be the period from 20 Sept 2013 through 19 Sept 2022, though I'll allow fuzzing on the day/month by a bit.
"2020" is then "within the past decade, but not the most recent year".
I'd been interested in how cinema-viewing habits have changed, and am chasing a hunch that most people are going to theatres relatively infrequently. That's obviously been influenced strongly by the COVID-19 pandemic (still ongoing, and surging again in the Northern Hemisphere as both colder weather and schools return, both fairly ideal spreading conditions). Though I'd suspected some decline even before that.
It's official: it was in the last decade…=)
I'd say that movie quality has been in decline for more than a few years. Lots of sequels of dubious quality, unnecessary reboots (to us, the public), new films copying one another. Add the pandemic and even more not-so-good films, and you have the current crisis.
Then only film from this year I'm interested is Oppenheimer, and I'll wait until it's in streaming.
Saw the last Indiana Jones at the cinema, couple of months back now
Went to an early showing to minimise the number of people there because Covid
@bastardsheep #cinemastodon can always be added to a response in a thread with a note to look to the originating toot. Which I've now done.
I believe if I edit my poll toot I'll lose the votes accrued to date, which would be annoying. I'll experiment to see if that's the case on another poll.
@bastardsheep Test poll, FYI:
https://toot.cat/@dredmorbius/111096892187147033
Will this poll's results change when I edit the word "red" below to "blue" after some votes have been registered?blue
I'll give this about 12 hours before editing, and will note results at the time of the edit for the responses:
- It is certain: 15% (3)
- Outlook not so good: 10% (2)
- Reply hazy, try again: 40% (8)
- Ask again later: 35% (7)
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@bastardsheep As for hashtags: most people won't follow up. But some may. And given that hashtags are still the Fediverse's principle search/discovery mechanism, this is one of the few ways people can stumble across content.
Even if it's only Future Me trying to find things.
I've had hashtags help greatly in search, as in a recent SciFi short story question which received the precisely correct response in under three hours: https://toot.cat/@dredmorbius/110845946719205808
The person who answered doesn't follow me and all but certainly saw the hashtag instead.
I'm trying to remember the name & author of a sci-fi story (unsure if short or novel) in a dystopian future with a corrupt and fascistic government which offers to relocate its citizens to Venus. Except that the rocket ships are junk and blow up shortly after launch.But yeah, that.
"The Martian", 2015.
Before that, "Skyfall".
It's been a dry spell.
Last film I saw in a theatre was Captain Underpants. My daughter and I had just finished the books. They're weren't a huge deal in the UK, we'd been gifted them by US cousins. We wore our CU t-shirts and laughed like drains at all the in-jokes.
But honestly, the price of tickets, COVID, streaming and the fact we've got a 60" TV at home means I'll happily never go back. I just don't see the point. Unless and until CU2 comes out.
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My movie theatre trip last Friday was an exception: It was the premiere of the new Aki Kaurismäki movie. His are still those kind of films that I just need to see in a proper cinema. And in premiere, if possible.
But before that…. whheee… can’t even remember, tbh.
Most recent film-theatre date survey results
Usual caveats on selection and all that, but given my presumption was that relatively few people are regular movie-goers, results seem to bear this out.
54% report seeing a film in a theatre within the past year. That leaves 46% at more than a year ago.
I'd like to see what the impact of Covid-19 has been based on more robust methodology. Though I suspect there's been something of a long-term secular trend, based on costs, repetitive and childish plots, improved television and streaming options (despite not watching broadcast/cable television, I'll allow that there've been some excellent series out, and have caught a few of those on video release).
Pre-pandemic I was a regular. There's an old theater out here (first theater in the state!) and a couple theaters in a nearby college town that show old favorites and art-house fair. I'd get out probably once a month to a movie.
I do miss it when I drive by and see the billboards with the new films on them listed. It does make me feel sad to see them go as an institution. I've even considered going to see a film with an N95 if something I really wanted to see came out between surges.
But it's just not something I think is worth risking a permanent disability over.
@lordbowlich My brain took a moment to parse N95 as something other than a new film rating along the lines of NC-17. And was having difficulty rationalising the film-rating interpretation.
Though on second thought, rating film screenings as N95 might make some sense in our New Endemic Age.
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I found Odlaw and Waldo and my sense of childhood wonder but not the plane *yet.*
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Wait a minute that's a mark 15 thermonuclear weapon of Tybee Island, how did I mistake one for the other???!??
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I feel it's less good as a trap if it isn't clickable
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faaaaaaaacking ell
i was about to give up and put you on fediblock for being a liar
but there it is
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•it’s either going to start on the 23rd November, or finish on it, or be shown around that weekend.
I’m sure the date will be announced in advance. Do you remember the “Save The Day” campaign for the 50th anniversary?
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