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I cook, I cherish, I sing, I dance, I DevOps. Old-timer from USENET days (different handle then). Occasional guest podcaster speaking on SFF books (and would also talk happily about SFF audio drama).

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@diazona@techhub.social avatar diazona , to random

Let us lock that movie behind a brick wall and never think of it again (though Teresa's cynicism will be missed)

Thanks as always @ryan for hosting and everybody for posting! See you next week!

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@diazona @ryan I thought it was funny that Teresa was claiming to be ready to run off with the peddler for a life of adventure and he was like "oh, no, I'd kind of like to settle down"

@mother_of_biscuits@retro.pizza avatar mother_of_biscuits , to random




I figured it out, he chained Fortunado up because he is a terrible mason.

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@mother_of_biscuits He really is a terrible mason, all that mortar spilling everywhere!

@diazona@techhub.social avatar diazona , to random

I hope there's a dead guy in the Cask of Amontillado

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@diazona Not exactly ...

@diazona@techhub.social avatar diazona , to random

Wow so he literally did hypnotize someone out of dying

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@diazona Hypnosis used to be a lot more interesting/powerful.

@plaidtron3000@jorts.horse avatar plaidtron3000 , to random

Man, that CANDU reactor is going to be hell to clean the scientist out of.

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@plaidtron3000 Yes, I wouldn't trust that reactor to behave properly any more with a guy stuck inside it. 1959

@elaterite@mastoart.social avatar elaterite , to random

The drummer is having too much fun in this movie!

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@elaterite It sounds like part of the Twin Peaks soundtrack right now.

@alvin@curiously.legit.industries avatar alvin , to random

My first !

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@alvin Used to be ... before Frankenstein was published?

@rebeld@mstdn.ca avatar rebeld , to random

And Quatermass learns nothing.

The END.

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@rebeld Quatermass was the real monster, all along!

@Princejvstin@wandering.shop avatar Princejvstin , to random

Zoo scenes are reminding me of old style zoo enclosures from when I was young

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@Princejvstin Yes, very sad for the poor animals at that terrible zoo. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Panther_(poem)

@Configures@mindly.social avatar Configures , to random

I got this "Quatermass" background image free from the BBC during the lockdown, but I don't know if this scene will come up during this viewing.

A science lab with beakers and bottles and skulls on a cabinet, a poster on the wall of an elk hunt attacked by a spaceman? and an "island" (like kitchen island) with a giant alien bug on it, and a microscope.
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@Violinknitter@wandering.shop avatar Violinknitter , to random

Ah, Quatermass is just a guy with a weirdly spelled last name

And is American. This is bad

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@Violinknitter I'm glad to know how to pronounce Quatermass at last, but I hate this guy who doesn't care about safety because he's impatient, is arrogant because he thinks he's so smart, his rocket crashes with 2/3 crew missing, resists letting the shocked astronaut go to hospital and harangues him, and yet is lionized in the press as a hero and the mission called "successful". Bleah! A technocrat who hates regs, is unsafe and harmful to worker safety, and thinks he's smarter than everyone else. Precursor to Elon Musk and his ilk.

@jonny@neuromatch.social avatar jonny , to random

Here's a draft FEP to do full account migration with posts and whatever other kinda objects you want to bring with you. It's a trivial expansion of existing ActivityPub/streams systems and supports gradual migration as it's implemented and after an account migration. It should be possible to migrate pretty much everything this way, both private and public objects.

criticism, feedback, revisions, etc. welcome - i don't think this is a "final version" and there are certainly things i overlooked.

https://codeberg.org/sneakers-the-rat/fep/src/branch/move-map/fep/1580/fep-1580.md

https://codeberg.org/fediverse/fep/pulls/692

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@jonny You boosted someone I think was saying good things about your post about your FEP but there's a warning and inability to see which of your posts it is:

@Victorsigmoid@hachyderm.io avatar Victorsigmoid , to random

I too don't understand the werewolf situation in this movie. Wut?

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@bunnyhero @Newpa_Hasai @allanb Yes, he does. That's how Dracula gets off the Exeter? the boat that comes to the English shore -- the news clipping has a thing about the dead ship and the big black dog (wolf) jumping off it in the port city.

@hollie@social.coop avatar hollie , to random

It's that time of the week!

begins in mere moments, this is my first post and all the rest will go under it.

Mute the hashtag if you want, or join in by watching Fright Night with us here on Tubi:

https://tubitv.com/movies/100000586/fright-night?start=true


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@hollie Did you see how the vampire was quietly coming at Peter Vincent from above, when Peter Vincent was leaning out the window, until Charlie yelled at Peter that Amy was getting worse? SUCH a cool shot!

@chpietsch@fedifreu.de avatar chpietsch , to random

Cory Doctorow @pluralistic on :

[T]he AI bubble is driven by monopolists who've conquered their markets and have no more growth potential, who are desperate to convince investors that they can continue to grow by moving into some other sector, e.g. "pivot to video," crypto, blockchain, NFTs, AI, and now "super-intelligence." Further: the topline growth that AI companies are selling comes from replacing most workers with AI, and re-tasking the surviving workers as AI babysitters ("humans in the loop"), which won't work. Finally: AI cannot do your job, but an AI salesman can 100% convince your boss to fire you and replace you with an AI that can't do your job, and when the bubble bursts, the money-hemorrhaging "foundation models" will be shut off and we'll lose the AI that can't do your job, and you will be long gone, retrained or retired or "discouraged" and out of the labor market, and no one will do your job. AI is the asbestos we are shoveling into the walls of our society and our descendants will be digging it out for generations:

https://pluralistic.net/2025/05/27/rancid-vibe-coding/#class-war

The only thing […] that we can do about this is to puncture the AI bubble as soon as possible, to halt this before it progresses any further and to head off the accumulation of social and economic debt. To do that, we have to take aim at the material basis for the AI bubble (creating a growth story by claiming that defective AI can do your job).

This and more: https://pluralistic.net/2025/09/27/econopocalypse/#subprime-intelligence

(via https://mas.to/@BruceMirken/115279614805786800 @BruceMirken )

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@chpietsch @pluralistic @BruceMirken "AI is the asbestos we are shoveling into the walls of our society and our descendants will be digging it out for generations." Yep.

18+ @SnoopJ@hachyderm.io avatar SnoopJ , to random

is a weekly fediverse community event (Sundays @ 9 PM ET) where a bunch of folks watch a monster movie of some description in sync with each other and post about it. Partial list of past movies: https://wiki.neuromatch.social/Monsterdon#Movie_List

All are welcome! Look to the tag if you want to see annoucements about upcoming movies.

I will pin this post to my profile when I am participating in the event. If you do not want to see these posts, mute the tag and/or me!

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@SnoopJ I thought when he answered the phone facing away from us, that his face/arm would be hideously deformed. But he reacted badly to the mirror. What changed? Is his hair slightly more grey? Is he older? Oh noes he killed Brian accidentally!