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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.
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#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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#KarenGillan #GunpowderMilkshake
Prime Video: Gunpowder Milkshake
In her turbulent life as a professional assassin, Scarlet was cruelly forced to abandon her daughter Sam and go on the run. Years later, despite the estrangement, Sam has also grown up into a cold blooded hitwoman.app.primevideo.com
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NEW MOVIE COMING MARCH 2024 on Nickelodeon and Paramount+!
#ThundermansReturn #Thundermans #AD #ParamountPlus #OfficialTeaser #Movies #Streaming
https://youtu.be/uc8eAjwSesI?si=RCkLD13kGR4r3hI8
The Thundermans Return - Official Teaser Trailer! | Nickelodeon
#AD Check out the official teaser trailer for The Thundermans Return, new movie coming March 2024! Kira Kosarin (Phoebe) and Jack Griffo (Max) are back for a...YouTube
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Emilia Clarke in this Instagram reel reposted on my mirror channel, talking as ambassador for With Women in Mind about mental health.
#EmiliaClarke #MentalHealth #WithWomenInMind
Emilia Clarke as ambassador for "With Women in Mind"
Emilia Clarke is the ambassador for With Women in Mind and founder of Same You. Here she is interviewed by the charity Mind in this short clip about mental health.Originally posted by them as an Instagram reel at https://www.instagram.com/reel/C0UUltzNCbL/, copyright remains with them.
#EmiliaClarke #MentalHealth #WithWomenInMind #SameYouOriginal caption by @mindcharity:
“To me, mental health is the very definition of life. It’s how you feel when you wake up, how you feel when you go to bed, how your friends feel, how your family feels, it can transform or destroy someone’s entire life.”
@emilia_clarke is an ambassador for our With Women in Mind collective, which will be supporting young people affected by trauma.
If you’re struggling with your mental health or have been affected by trauma, speak to us 💙
Emilia is also co-founder of @sameyouorg which campaigns for better mental health support after brain injury.
Mind on Instagram: "“To me, mental health is the very definition of life. It’s how you feel when you wake up, how you feel when you go to bed, how your friends feel, how your family feels, it can transform or destroy someone’s entire life.” @emilia_clark
85K likes, 586 comments - mindcharity on December 1, 2023: "“To me, mental health is the very definition of life. It’s how you feel when you wake up, how..."Instagram
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I think it's still an open question whether it will actually BE a major social media platform by that time
but the point stands, unfortunately.
(In some twisted sense, Elon has made us slightly safer by making Twitter unusable, as well as making things worse for us by making Twitter unusable.)
If you include newspapers or radio as media platforms, then total control by disinfo people is nothing new
Walter Winchell; Father Coughlin; Hearst ; Colonel McCormack in Chicago
I am know that USA is The Number One in believing that the Earth is flat, but don’t you think that That Site just so thoroughly compromised itself that its influence will be a little bit less?
For good karma: https://youtu.be/wTjMqda19wk
The Newsroom - America is not the greatest country in the world anymore...(Restricted language)
Will McAvoy (Jeff Daniels) hits the nail straight on the head in the opening minutes on HBO's new series 'The Newsroom'. He is asked by a college student a ...YouTube
Putin trolls went undetected until after the election.
The other more serious concern is that major media outlets appear committed to supporting Trump.
https://tidal.com/album/331401278
#DoveCameron #Alchemical
Jenna Ortega is in the Forbes 30 under 30 list, in her case far under 30.
https://www.forbes.com/profile/jenna-ortega/?list=30under30-hollywood-entertainment%2F
#JennaOrtega #Forbes30Under30
(Actually they have many sub-lists, but I'm going to ignore that)
Jenna Ortega
Jenna Ortega on the 2024 30 Under 30 - Hollywood & Entertainment - Jenna Ortega has been acting since she was a child: She got her start as a young JaneJenna Ortega (Forbes)
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Last day of our Gandi free mailboxes that came with our domains. Just over eight hours until they become one of the most expensive email providers without even allowing a custom domain.
Tip: tutanota(.com etc) allows three custom domains for around half their price, ideal for mailboxes that don't need imap.
#Gandi #TutaNota #Tuta #email
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Google has become useless as a search engine.
Can we get AltaVista back?
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"You should stay home if you're sick, have that salad instead of pizza, stop complaining, etc."
"You should do this, that, the other thing or STOP doing this, that, or the other thing."
Please, before you "should" someone, stop to think that maybe their circumstances are not yours. Should someone stay home if sick? Yes. But does everyone have sick time to do that? No.
Maybe someone's complaints are valid, or they had a salad for lunch.
Please, let's stop dictating what people 'should' do
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True, and I think "someone" and "people" include ourselves
Yes, I check my actions and my motives. I attempt to do the next right thing. But I try not to frame it as "I should..." Past tense is even worse. "I should have...". Or, " I shouldn't have..."
I do not find it helpful to "should" all over myself
“Don’t tell people they shouldn’t drive drunk! You don’t know their life, what if they NEED to go somewhere? Maybe they drive ok drunk! Mind your own business!”
“Don’t tell people they shouldn’t abuse their kids! Maybe that kid really did need to get smacked! You don’t know what they go through with that kid. Are you even a parent?”
Ewwww this is NOT the way to exist in a healthy society.
#DisneyPlus
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Vinyl lovers with records: Keeps records in their sleeves, uses white gloves to remove the record, rubs an anti-static brush over the record, puts record into a hermetically sealed environment where a stylus lightly touches the record with an angelic kiss.
Vinyl lovers with CDs: Pulls the coffee cup off of the CD, flings it off of two walls where it ricochets into their Playstation 3 slot. A blob of peanut butter and jelly drips from the slot. When the disc is done the disc barely ejects before someone pulls it from the slot and uses it to skid across the floor in their human shuffleboard contest.
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I *buy* vinyl for albums that I love because I can still play -- pops, scratches, skips, and all --vinyl records that my grandparents bought as teenagers in the 1930s, on a cheap, easily accessible player.
I've got CDs from less that 20 years ago that just don't play on some, or sometimes *any*, hardware I can find.
My hearing went to shit decades ago so I'm not particularly interested in the audiophile perspective; I just want my grandkids to be able to listen, you know?
@whitneymcn My counter-example is that i still have compact discs that I bought in high school (back in the 1980s) that still play fabulously. I'm meticulous with my discs to a point of obsession.
Drawer players, eschewing slot players did the trick.
There's probably not much of an argument to be had here, alas: "if you take care of your physical media well, they'll continue to work." We'll have to just agree.
Except for cassettes: that tape stretched out and distorted super quickly, which is why there used to be cassette tape tumbleweeds at the side of every highway in the US. Rage-throwing of shitty cassettes. ;)
My 16yo child buys cassettes again these days.
What a world. :)
You forgot the part where the dvd drive is a great coffee cup holder when empty. Or not empty.
#DoctorWho
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The Doctor and friends travel from the dawn of human history to distant alien worlds. And everywhere they go, they find adventure, terror, fun, chases, joy and monsters.The Movie Database
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Don't normally share my Wordle result, but this one is quite something:
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Humanity first.
Instead of 'Own people first'. After all, all human beings are our own people.
New reading material arrived!
On paper, because who has ever heard of tools and devices with which one can read html.
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#Scream #JennaOrtega #MelissaBerrera #ParamountPictures #Movies
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No point watching, or even making, Scream 7, now that Jenna Ortega will not be in it due to scheduling conflicts.
https://deadline.com/2023/11/jenna-ortega-scream-departure-melissa-barrera-wednesday-1235634200/
Wednesday season one took eight months to film, she's doing season two soon, so there's just no time fitting in a seventh Scream. Apparently this was already being discussed before the strike began.
#JennaOrtega #Scream #Wednesday
Jenna Ortega Not Returning to 'Scream 7' Due To 'Wednesday' Schedule
EXCLUSIVE: Jenna Ortega, who was a lynchpin draw in getting Scream VI to the horror franchise’s best opening grosses ever at $44.4M stateside, $67M global, isn’t expected to return for …Anthony D'Alessandro (Deadline)
Finestkind with Jenna Ortega, 15 December is getting close. On Paramount+.
#JodieFoster #Nyad #NowWatching
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Watched Nyad. It should be illegal for Jody Foster to be that fit.
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If you're in the US and you've also been idly wondering why "I don't like to drive at night" has become such a common thing to say in the past few years, stand near to a modern LED streetlamp and block it with your hand. In about two thirds of a second, the whole road brightens up as your pupils open.
You're not just getting old; between over-bright streetlights, over-bright headlights of oncoming cars, over-bright instrument clusters, over-bright porch lighting, nobody can see in the dark anymore.
Just in the last decade we've made it much harder and more dangerous to drive at night. Oh, and we also gave up the stars.
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This is probably not how physics works but I can dream
we REALLY need some regulation of these lights. Both brightness and color band. ASAP.
This is going to cause accidents and kill people.
This is an exceptionally frustrating arms race because there are no winners other than the manufacturers. Drivers are less safe, pedestrians, cyclists, and other road users are less safe, wildlife is less safe (and almost certainly more affected by the brighter and generally bluer light), the skies are emptier, and life after dark is generally more irritating.
What's worst is that I can't see a path back from this. That "use dimmer headlights" ad campaign will be a tough sell...
This is the future that they took from us: The Polaroid Headlight System
Why the changing colour of our streetlights could be a danger for insect populations
The increasing prevalence of white LED streetlamps spells worrying population declines for insects like moths.The Conversation
This is so true. I'd rather drive at night in some super rural area with no streetlights these days than anywhere near a city.
(I mean this is true in general, but especially at night).
The problem has indeed gotten worse. Five years ago, I was thinking the problem with the nighttime glare or car head and taillights was because of my aging eyes.No, it's because the lights got brighter.
When I am out inline skating after dark (which is often), I regularly have my left hand ready to block the light of an oncoming vehicles, and that includes the handle bar lights on many bicycles.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/05/business/led-hid-headlights-blinding.html
yes, i had a scary incident a few years back when i was driving down the highway at night in winter, on an icy road. i saw flashing emergency lights ahead but because they were so dazzling i literally could not tell that the vehicles were parked in the middle of the road (and not driving along with the rest of traffic) until it was almost too late to stop.
wtf good are lights so bright that they blind the people they're supposed to be warning?
Interesting to note the spike in nighttime pedestrian fatalities starting in 2014. Daytime fatalities increased 16% in the 2010s, but night went up 54%.
See p.17 here, but don’t take this as an endorsement of GHSA or the overall report: https://www.ghsa.org/sites/default/files/2021-03/Ped%20Spotlight%202021%20FINAL%203.23.21.pdf
Brighter is not always better.
You really, really don't want to be blinding the other people on the road. Or yourself. Honestly.
@thegibson We’re driving an older car and what the hell happened to new headlights?
They should really be regulated to a maximum brightness federally. It is straight up unsafe.
I used to love how the lights looked at night, but these brighter ones are almost more depressing.
When I lived in San Jose, CA the city was lit at night by very orange sodium vapor light, because the color was easily filtered out by the Lick Observatory overlooking town. People complained because it looked odd; but one could easily see the streets magically because night vision wasn’t impaired. I could actually see the stars at night from my house downtown in one of the largest cities in California.
They’ve started replacing them all with LED.
The history of headlights is actually really interesting; back when regulators were less scared to create rules, we had standards that basically meant every car had the same lighting system, designed with glare in mind. That was done away with in the 80s, and for 30 years, no one could really make too much of a mess because of the limitations of incandescent lightbulbs.
LEDs changed that, and so, in the quest to see better individually, we collectively see worse. Oops.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/bright-digital-billboard-on-yellowhead-an-eyesore-motorist-says-1.4502544
But I don’t think LED itself is the problem. It’s more the idea of „brighter, let’s make night into day“ (and failing to do so).
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