While I did still visit Twitter a couple of times to day, I notice the only people really tweeting are those with like 5k+ followers who don’t even need Twitter Blue to reach their audience, because they’re audience will find them. But, thinking about it, it’s been that way for a while anyway. The little people have all gone.

Replied to So long, Twitter API, and thanks for all the fish by Ryan BarrettRyan Barrett (snarfed.org)
https://snarfed.org/twitter_logo_upside_down.png https://snarfed.org/twitter_logo_upside_down.png Well, it’s come to this. Twitter is burning, a billionaire owes money, an API will soon get lobotomized, so Bridgy‘s Twitter support will die within the month. Granary‘s and twitter-atom too. The ...

Thanks, so much! People like you made made the web. Shame about the billionaires.

I just disabled desktop alerts for new emails in Outlook. No idea why that took me two years of using Teams to do…

Watched The Sound of Music (1965) by an author from letterboxd.com
A tomboyish postulant at an Austrian abbey becomes a governess in the home of a widowed naval captain with seven children, and brings a new love of life and music into the home.

I have now seen the whole of this film for the first time.

My favourite part was doing the Billie Whitelaw “fascist” line from Hot Fuzz whenever Rolf appears.

★★★★

My review

Watched Orphan: First Kill (2022) by an author from letterboxd.com
After escaping from an Estonian psychiatric facility, Leena Klammer travels to America by impersonating Esther, the missing daughter of a wealthy family. But when her mask starts to slip, she is put against a mother who will protect her family from the murderous “child” at any cost.

You’d think having a 26 yo reprise their role as a 12 yo would be doomed to failure but it actually works incredibly well. I was impressed.

Sadly, there is little else to recommend this. It’s barely even a thriller. Until a welcome pivot in the second act, you seriously wonder why Julia Stiles is here…

★★½

My review

Watched Top Gun: Maverick (2022) by an author from letterboxd.com
After more than thirty years of service as one of the Navy’s top aviators, and dodging the advancement in rank that would ground him, Pete “Maverick” Mitchell finds himself training a detachment of TOP GUN graduates for a specialized mission the likes of which no living pilot has ever seen.

I rarely watch a movie and think it’s better the second time…

Apart from being preposterous… could it be better?

★★★★★

My review