Just re-watched "Garden state" (2004).
Borrowed it from the library.

Maybe that's all family really is. A group of people that miss the same imaginary place.


I've seen it before, and remembered it as being nice enough for a re-watch.
I remembered correctly. (It's not a "oh, you must all watch this film!", but ... if you stumble upon it, and have the time to spare, then: why not?)
I didn't remember it being from "this century", though. 🙈

#GardenState #film
#library

imdb.com/title/tt0333766/

Just finished Ray Bradbury's "Fahrenheit 451" (1953),
which is eerily relevant to our times.

(I have a vague memory of having read it before, but that was probably in my teens - and also quite probably in Swedish, this time I read it in English - and enough time has past since, that I'd forgotten how it ended.)

Well worth reading. Your local library probably has a copy.

#book #RayBradbury #Fahrenheit451

There's a Volume 2 of the Elder Goth Dance Workout!
youtube.com/watch?v=xevL1VCg4p…

It feels like forever when I last was at a club, and I really should get my exercise routine going again. Well, dancing at home is definitely better than nothing!

#music #workout #dance at #home in your #livingroom #aerobics
#video #YouTube #SometimesTheAlgorithmOfOddSuggestionsActuallyWorks?

uh, so, I guess I'm late on the uptake, but

I just got to know / found out that "T. Kingfisher" = Ursula Vernon = creator of web comic "Digger"!

I've seen T. Kingfisher mentioned a couple of times online for book recommendations
(but I've got a long list of book recommendations already),
and for some reason I thought that the author of Digger would be Australian (because, yeah, wombat).

The more you know ...
I read Digger "when it unraveled", and don't remember much of it more than it was "odd"
... maybe I should look more into her other works? 🤔

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#UrsulaVernon #T.Kingfisher #author #creator #Digger #comic #webcomic #reading #book #books

I'm trying out Thumb-Key, and am playing around with the "Modify keys" feature, combined with not being able to decide whether I should go for one of the ready-made layouts

  • "svenska thumb-key", because Swedish is my native language,
  • or "english thumb-key" + added åÅäÄöÖ, because then I can use the "Tessera Mastery: Typing Games" app to practice 😬😅🙈),

or make one up (because on "svenska thumb-key", the vowels åäö are "more to the left", despite "vowels to the right"; the vowel y is on the correct/right side at least).

#ThumbKey #keyboard for smartphone

(Also, on another note:
If I select "english thumb-key compact", and have the "Maximize to fit screen width" left in default on mode, it's not possible to get back to "letters", after having chosen "numbers" ... ) @Thumb-Key

"Elder goth dance workout tape"
youtube.com/watch?v=OnvPBMema-…

I was never a goth, and my music tastes range from "slightly more synth-pop, to EBM" - but also everything in-between (and I remember describing my tastes as including "svartrock", which, uh, ... yeah, well 🙈),
and this one suited me fine.

#music #workout #dance at #home in your #livingroom #aerobics
#video #YouTube #SometimesTheAlgorithmOfOddSuggestionsActuallyWorks?

Ho, hodiaŭ estas la Esperanto tago - gratulon, ĉiuj! 😅🎉

#EsperantoTago #Esperanto #eo #epo

(Mi provas lerni la internacian lingvon ekde ... (tro multaj da jaroj)
do, bonvolu #KorektuMin ! 🙈)

eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esperant…
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esperant…

Esperanto Day (Esperanto: Esperanto-Tago) is a worldwide observance on 26 July, which celebrates the publication of Unua Libro, the first book in the Esperanto language, by the language's creator, L. L. Zamenhof on this day in 1887.

So.
I watched Nerdforge's video on "realistic norse fantasy armour"
youtube.com/watch?v=0ycg0XiHXQ…

#Nerdforge #Norge #Norway #fantasy #armour #armor #wool #linen #leather #steel
#video #YouTube

Kate Bush - Wuthering heights (1978)


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xkcd #3272: Time Change


(three-panel comic; 1) speaker on podium: We all hate springing forward, but we love falling back. (2) speaker on podium: Therefore, we are abolishing the SPRING time change ONLY. We'll gain an hour every year, but never lose one. (3) question from audience: Won't that cause the clocks to spiral out of sync with the sun?   speaker on podium: (with emphasis) Then we will meet the chaos clear-eyed and well-rested!
alt-text: All discussions of daylight saving time policy are doomed by a mix of contradictory, inconsistent, and impossible preferences, which is why I think the only thing we can really hope to do is to make it worse.

#xkcd #comic #TimeChange #SpringForward #FallBack
so called #DST #DaylightSavingTime #DaylightSavingsTime #SummerTime
#solution?

A Friend of Dorothy


full Oscar nominated short film starring Miriam Margolyes and Stephen Fry
youtube.com/watch?v=CMqUMXn7y5… (0:21:24)

#shortfilm #short #film #youtube #Dorothy #prunes
#MiriamMargolyes #AlistairNwachukwu #StephenFry #OscarLloyd

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guided meditation (26'41")


youtube.com/watch?v=7t-4t08j-W…

(Not meant as "to meditate things away", but "to strengthen ourselves, to get the energy to be able to do what we can".)

#KristineVike #meditation
#English

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Maintenance planned


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Two hikers walking uphill, in a landscape seen from the side:

hiker 1: "Okay, we're nearing the next downhill segment. I'll put in the order.
... confirming start and end points ...
submitted!
"

Thingamajig comes flying from above.
hiker 2: "Look, here it comes!"

The thingamajig is a waterslide, carried by six drones.
It is put down, and hiker 1 and hiker 2 goes down by means of the waterslide: "Wheeee"
while the drones hover above.

When the hikers are down slide, they continue their hike by foot, and the drones take the waterslide away.


xkcd alt-text: Every downhill walk is a waterslide that might have been.

xkcd #3126 - Disclaimer


alt-text: You say no human would reply to a forum thread about Tom Bombadil by writing and editing hundreds of words of text, complete with formatting, fancy punctuation, and two separate uses of the word 'delve'. Unfortunately for both of us, you are wrong.


🙄 🙈

Tom Gauld - Useful phrases for the murder mystery writer abroad


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Kia bela vilaĝo!
What a lovely village!

Ĉu ĉi tiuj estas venenaj?
Are any of these plants poisonous?

Kie oni povas aĉeti pafilon?
Can one purchase a firearm nearby?

Ĉu la tajdo povus forporti kadavron?
Could the tide carry a dead body away?


Saluton oficiro.
Hello officer.

Okazis miskompreno!
There has been a misunderstanding!

La murdo en mia notlibro estas fikcia.
The murder planned in my notebook is fictional.

Mi ŝatus telefoni al la Brita konsulejo.
I would like to telephone the British consulate.


2025-Jul-06: Tom Gauld on A phrasebook for crime writers – cartoon

#TomGauld #TravelDictionary
#Eo #Esperanto

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