Notices by Mark H (neonbubble@mstdn.social)

Kir Royale?

Yes.

Hours of wanting Finland to win?

Yes.

Let's go.

#Eurovision

France.

"Staging? I was thinking 'What if I were singing while being buried alive in a grain silo?'"

"Yeah, we can do that. Do you want it to look like you're farting grain at one point?"

"If it's not too much trouble."

#Eurovision

This feels like exactly the sort of thing you'd get if you asked AI to improve the results announcement format.

#Eurovision

Loving this Made in Switzerland song. Why wasn't this entered?

#Eurovision

My niece has #detention for running out of a class in #school, and her mum is apparently not happy. Because I'm sure she never got detention at school.

I had loads of detentions. My favourite one was the last day of term one year when I and a couple of other boys who'd not turned up for the end-of-year play were given detention after school by the English teacher.

A few classes later, the whole class was given detention by the French teacher.

We raised our hands.

1/2

Started looking into instructions for installing Linux on an old laptop gathering dust in our spare room before catching myself. Whoa there, boy! Steady on! You've only been on Mastodon for three years. Let's not rush into this whole Linux cult thing.

#Linux #Mastodon

"Don't the people on Mastodon like things like that?" asked my wife, pointing at the growth of fungus on the base of a cut-down tree trunk as we walked near our hotel.

"Not all of them," I replied. "Half a dozen on beige.party likely don't care for this stuff at all, and as for infosec.exchange, don't even go there. But the rest, yes."

"What?"

"I'll post the photo."

#Fungi #Tree #Photography

Spidey senses tingling.

Just seen very new accounts that are ridiculously similar in text and images:

dalegphoto and morgancarmont and timcooper on mastodon social.

Images all look AI garbage. Text all looks AI garbage.

Accounts "chatting" to each other. Highly suspect.

Yeah, new spam via mastodon dot social, definitely.

Four photos of #nature #photography from someone with an #introduction from some wilderness location spot?

Yeah, AI crap flooding. Block the fuckers.

Something warm and bright from the travel archive on this cold and dreary Saturday afternoon.

This is Panagia Paraportiani, a Byzantine church (technically five churches), in Mykonos town.

#Photography #Travel #Mykonos #Church #Byzantine #Greece #TravelPhotography #Architecture

Ah, it's finally happened. #YouTube now prompts me to tell me that ad blockers aren't allowed. It's a small thing but I always said that if they ever did this then I'd delete all the travel videos I've uploaded over the years and that's what I've now started doing.

If you haven't seen the trailer for the James Gunn version of Superman coming out next year then the trailer you want to see is this one which has all the same visuals but has replaced the music used in it with that from the original John Williams score as arranged by John Ottman for Superman Returns. It's simply better.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9YpmlX31xMU

#Superman #JamesGunn #Movies

I grabbed my 1995 edition of William Gibson's Neuromancer off the shelf today; stiff yellow pages and mustiness that suggested a last reading back in around 2000.

There's always a danger when you re-read something you last read a long time ago that it won't be as good as you remembered. I wondered how dated it would all feel. It doesn't, though. It's incredible writing. So descriptive, so atmospheric. The world-building is suffocatingly intense.

#Bookstodon #WilliamGibson #Neuromancer

Catching a bit of the Jets/Texans game before bed and watching the Jets is not entertaining. But watching the shots of Jets fans in the stadium... now that's entertaining.

#NFL

We're law-abiding people when it suits us and there's an old anniversary law that states you must drink something bubbly on your anniversary. So we are.

It's still early in the season and anything could happen but I am enjoying this Commanders team's improvement and results.

#NFL

Up to the in-laws for the evening, taking advantage of the free buses at the weekend, and always nice to see what crocheted postbox topper is on the walk down from the bus stop to their house.

#Crochet #Postbox #PostboxTopper

Just relocated a couple of future moths from the raspberries. I was quite taken with the horned beast which appears to be a rusty tussock moth, while the other one is a ruby tiger.

#Moth #Caterpillar #Nature #Photography #Gardening #Insects

We're #soap people. Put us in water and we foam up. No, wait, I mean that we use actual soap rather than that liquid stuff, and we always pick up soap when we #travel which, being something we do a lot, means we have a lot of soap. We have a filled cake bowl of soap and this is our overflow bowl from the shelf given over to soap in the bathroom cabinet. We're currently using an Icelandic soap made with volcanic ash. Feels wonderful, smells terrible. Anyway, that's it for today's soap news.

The theme for #TuneTuesday today is #BetterCover - a song for which the cover is better, allowing for personal taste and the fact we all like different things.

For me, the industrial flavour, distortion, noise, and extra energy from the 1000 Homo DJs version of Black Sabbath's Supernaut is what makes it better than the original.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xjho-zVgDXo

#Music #1000HomoDJs #Supernaut #BlackSabbath