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#MovieThread V: Definitely Not The Final Frontier, Chapter Eleven — November Edition

From 2020 to 2023 I watched 1492 movies. This year so far, I've watched another 388, for a total of 1880 movies.

Numbers still check out.

This month:
* 1945 Best Picture nominees
* Actually starting Elaine May.
* Probably some Star Trek.

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Alex Daily! (@Alexis@beepboop.one)

#MovieThread V: Definitely Not The Final Frontier, Chapter Ten — October Edition From 2020 to 2023 I watched 1492 movies. This year so far, I've watched another 356, for a total of 1848 movies. Numbers still check out. This month: * 1944.
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#MovieThread
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Alex Daily!
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Everything I know about Transformers is either vague recollections of the Michael Bay series or better recollections of several rereads of Shortpacked!.
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Alex Daily!
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🚗 #394: "Transformers One" (2024)

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Hi everyone. Headache still killing me. Asked my brother not to visit today. I hope everyone has an awesome day.
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David Goldfield
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Hey, I'm so sorry you had to cancel a visit with your brother. Praying you'll feel better.

OK, my one and only political post as it honestly doesn't engage me.

Am I alone in thinking it's really messed up to allow a convicted criminal to even run for presidency, let alone be able to take office.

What kind of message does that send out?

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Sean Randall
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people voted Johnson in, after all.
There's probably some merit in the idea of the government we deserve.

Oh look, Substack where buttons don't work as intended--especially the cancel subscription button. I wonder why!

Well, expect more Randy Rainbow at least. There has to be one good take-away from this utter fucking shit-show mustn't there?
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Sean Randall
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The second Coming of Covfefe is dawning.
We brexited. They've done a double donald.
I wonder what the world'll look like in a few years.
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Andre Louis
Andre Louis
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@cachondo Brexit seems like a child's playground spat in comparison to Don the friggin Mong.
@Sean Randall

Don’t expect Chrome to support keyboard-operable scrolling regions until (maybe) version 132 (anchor link):
adrianroselli.com/2022/06/keyb…

Only 14 versions past its target release!

#accessibility #a11y


Keyboard-Only Scrolling Areas

I have spent a few years banging on about ensuring scrolling areas on a page are accessible to keyboard-only users.
Adrian Roselli
#a11y #Accessibility

okay everyone, you can stop doomscrolling now. you got to the bottom and found the Doom

Just a reminder that #DoubleTap was pre-recorded this week to allow our travels so we will not be reacting in any way to the results of the US election so if you need a break from the world come join us in all the usual places.
#doubletap

Hartgen Consultancy has released scripts for Apple Music.
hartgen.org/AppleMusicScripts

what's your favorite programming language? why? please boost i need to distract myself lol

Leasey Update, Build 9110 groups.io/g/tech-vi/message/80…

Leasey Update, Build 9110

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Remember y'all, the only thing you always have control over are your reactions, always. It's an autonomy nobody can take away when you think about it, you and you alone have control of how your feelings alter your own actions. (Unless of course you're hooked up to mind and body control systems, but let's not think about that.)
It's very disheartening to see so many already panic and talk of leaving a country when there's zero reason to worry until and if we reach any of those moments.
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Tamas G
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Huge hugs to you! I totally get your feelings and they are valid, but I also hope it doesn't go that far. If they are planning to mirror Orbán, who is largely the prime-minister keeping me away from returning to visit Hungary, the ones at highest risk are undocumented and entering the border immigrants. They would have much harder times getting rid of naturalized citizens or actual people without huge consequences and protests first, so I wouldn't worry til it happens. :) #USPol
#uspol
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Keri Svendsen
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Sadly we will get that far. Trump will not leave in 4 years. He is the American Hitler. It is hard enough now for us, it's going to get much worse. :(

USPol

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The world needs more cat photos right now. Here’s my contribution. It’s a cat laying on a stuffed duck.
A fluffy gray and beige cat lies on a wooden floor with her front paws resting over a stuffed duck

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El Pleno del Tribunal Constitucional declara inconstitucional que las madres biológicas de familias monoparentales, trabajadoras por cuenta ajena, no puedan ampliar su permiso por nacimiento y cuidado de hijo más allá de 16 semanas
tribunalconstitucional.es/Nota…

Many years ago, around 1990, I was in a bus with a friend, discussing UNIX process management. After a while I realized the other passengers were looking at us in a very worried way.

Don't talk about parents outliving their children, or killing their children, without saying you're talking about processes.

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Now that it's no longer possible to rank in web searches, unless you're a content farm or a major publisher, it's a good time to ditch SEO, drop keywords, use descriptive headlines instead of catchy or clickbait ones, and write for humans. SEO won't help anyway, so let's help the readers who care.

#seo #WebSearch #blogging

#blogging #seo #websearch

Just finished watching #Ludwig on @BBCiPlayer! 🎬🕵️‍♂️ Thought it was a straight-up detective show, but pleasantly surprised by the comedy twist! 😂 A delightful blend of mystery and humor. Highly recommend! #MustWatch #ComedyDrama #DavidMitchell
#Ludwig #mustwatch #comedydrama #davidmitchell

Not USpol, but US related, a call to get your passports
Please get your passport if you at all can, it's self-Id for gender right now, and is valid overseas for many many things, including proof of gender, it's an incredibly important document and can help open your possibilities so much, even in the midst of all of this uncertainty

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Chris 🌱
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Gentle reminder that most disabled people can NOT leave the United States. Countries don’t want to take in disabled, chronically ill and “high cost health users”. There are serious financial barriers to moving - leaving most people behind.

Spare a thought for all of us tonight - people are scared. Then regroup and find a way forward … we are stronger together.

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Guess all the “illegal alien” voting they were talking about went for him and it’s fine now, right?

I was joking that we should have build a wall and gotten the US to pay for it.
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Hubert Figuière
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turns we should even if they'd never pay for it.

(I'm talking about a wall to protect Canada)

Is there any cloud provider that doesn't rely on the US?
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Utility Nerd
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There are no parts of the world that do not in some way rely on the US. 🙁

Not that the world would collapse if we were gone, but hooooo boy would you notice.

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Olivier Mengué
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Cloud rely on DNS. DNS rely on the US.
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Still paying for Spotify? Still driving a Tesla?

Still funding fascism.

BTW Tesla are gonna be useful to find all these enemies the fascists want to eliminate.

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My alarm ringtone is "I got you babe". I started using it as a joke over groundhog day last year.

I think it's over.

The Purge.

Remember that DNA you gave to figure out your ancestry?

The fascists thank you for that.

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Patrick
Patrick
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Trading away all our privacy, all the time, to big business? Not great either.
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Hubert Figuière
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@PatrickoftheG yeah. Between Google, Microsoft and AWS, most of the IT "infrastructure" has been given to a fascist country.
@Patrick

"I didn't think he would do that"

We are all getting the flu. Pipi feels legitimised. And the media will prop him up.
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Remember, billionaires love fascists. They'll embrace them.

Today is probably the right day to rewatch the best video essay ever made (IMO). Nothing stuck with me that much: Carlos Maza's "How to be Hopeless"

youtube.com/watch?v=iJaE_BvLK6…


How To Be Hopeless

To everyone who fights the plague -- on the streets and in our minds. If this video meant something to you, I'd love to hear about it.PATREON: https://www.pa...
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No matter what story we try to tell ourselves, in the end, America prioritized preserving our shameful history and culture of bigotry and misogyny over all else. #USPolitics
#uspolitics

I'll summarize the story for you so you don't have to waste any precious moments of your life reading it: Privileged American couple move to France and find out that France has its own culture **AND LANGUAGE** that they refuse and/or are incapable of learning so they hate it.

This was on the landing page of CNN, just under the election dross. This story of intolerance and incompetence was deemed important enough to be on the landing page. Marked as "featured".

edition.cnn.com/travel/us-coup…

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modulux
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Oh my, this reads so incredibly absurd: in France they have bureaucracy, we do too but it's different because we know it, also no frozen yoghurt.

What the hell.

Imagine, when you move into a different country they speak a different language and do things in different ways.

I'm sure moving is not for everyone and people will miss things, but it sounds like they just wanted to have the same experience, at which point why bother moving.

Woke up this morning to the news in the US. I have no words. How can a country willingly vote in such an awful person again.
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Michael Feir
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What? Trump's in again? That's profoundly bad. So basically, you can ignore facts, lie, be a despicable person, be a convicted criminal, corrode people's trust in good journalism, science and actual expertise, and end up the most powerful person on Earth. This will have all kinds of horrible ramifications here in canada. Conservatives will follow his playbook. They already are. (1/2)
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Jason Fayre
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@mfeir Absolutely. There are intelligent people in that country. Just not enough of them clearly.
@Michael Feir

Yesterday's news leads me to forecast the next big thing in SF/F genre fiction: the Cosy Dystopia—a future or fantasy setting in which the backdrop is ghastly but the sympathetic protagonists are running a tea shop in the borderlands.

Think Warhammer 40,000 space marines, with added knitting. (Narrative focus STRONGLY on the knitting.)

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Cinco apuntes sueltos:

1- Trump esta vez ganó el voto popular. Cortó fuertemente ventaja en lugares fuertemente demócratas. Eso se explica en parte por la insatisfacción con Biden pero también porque la persona estadounidense promedio (igual que la persona promedio en todo el mundo) se parece más a Trump que a Harris.

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modulux
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Esto que significa?

la persona estadounidense promedio (igual que la persona promedio en todo el mundo) se parece más a Trump que a Harris.

La reelección de Trump es una mala noticia para los pueblos del mundo.

Representa el autoritarismo, el pisoteo institucional, el matonismo tabernario internacional y el desprecio a la clase trabajadora.

Y por otro lado, es garantía de privilegios a los ultrarricos y a los genocidas.

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Izquierda Unida 🔻🇵🇸
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En Europa, el trumpismo traerá aranceles y tensiones.

El debate que tenemos delante es si Europa asumirá el rol de sumisión para continuar con la agresión genocida e imperialista en Ucrania, Oriente Próximo y Asia, o si replanteará sus relaciones con EEUU para no pagar los platos rotos de su política exterior.

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Izquierda Unida 🔻🇵🇸
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Por la parte que nos toca, es urgente deshacernos de la influencia estadounidense para que sus guerras no nos arrastren a la miseria y la barbarie.

Tenemos que explorar el nuevo horizonte de relaciones multilaterales que se abre en torno al BRICS para fortalecer unas relaciones internacionales de cooperación de y paz.

USPol/USGov question

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csh
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USPol/USGov question

They don't have a big enough margin in the Senate to pass just anything. I don't know about the House, yet. They may stay as disorganized as they have been the last two years.

None of that is good... But hopefully it will be useful.

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