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kevinteljeur

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Dublin 15, Ireland. Nobody wants to read what I write once they’ve read what I’ve written. I assuredly will write it. I also post occasionally about coding, bird-feeding, photos of things, cycling, and drawing (once in a while).

I architect and develop web systems to move data for a very big non-commercial organisation. I'd love to make something that improves the world for everyone though. Maybe one day?

he/him. #nobot

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kevinteljeur , to random
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DuckDuckGo, the search engine I use as my reliable alternative to Google, is down.

In other news, I've discovered that I know absolutely nothing about anything. I don't even know how socks work, or what air does. I'm lost.

kevinteljeur OP ,
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@vampiress What if I need to leave the house, or forget how to breath?

(Seems that the browsers themselves have driven a lot of this; the address bar is just a search engine pipeline now)

vampiress ,
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@kevinteljeur I am at lest appreciating that in Safari, its default option if you begin typing will be to find the most likely domain name, only resorting to a search if you 100% have not entered even a partial domain name.

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On the BBC’s new ‘Famous Five’ series, and how George might originally have been effectively trans. I'm straying out of my lane a bit here (sorry), and The Mary Sue is never shy of hyperbole, but it might interest some of you (I didn't know a lot of this): https://www.themarysue.com/bbcs-famous-five-controversy-explained/

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@vampiress @kevinteljeur cis as they make em and ignorant about gender around the time I read the books here o/ but hard agree. George was a special character noticeable to kids and a modern show could do a lot with that.

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@vampiress I was wondering if BBC were doing that thing where they sort of can't do things at once with a character and went one way instead of the other? But very interesting to me to read that Blyton was actually going with it. I just hope that the BBC runs with it instead of folding. It's rough in the UK right now.

kevinteljeur , to random
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Good Friday cycle. (Posting a bit late) 1/2

Photo, landscape, exterior: A selfie of a middle-aged man in red, white, and black cycling gear wearing a cycling helmet.
Photo, landscape, exterior: An obelisk in a park, trees in the distance.
Photo, landscape, exterior: A view down a canal, towpath on the left, trees on the right.

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@kevinteljeur What's this weird colour that all the plants and trees are? The one next to all the blue? So confusing to a poor Australian whose flora is all yellow/brown.

kevinteljeur OP ,
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@vampiress Aha, that’s what you get when it rains constantly for 9 months!

kevinteljeur , to random
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There’s a really weird thing in Fingal, North Dublin where the main selling point of attractions is how close they are to the airport. Presumably because as soon as you get off the plane, your most pressing problem is how to get to, for example, a model railway display.

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@vampiress

kevinteljeur , to random
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Watched 'The Creator' with the child over two nights this week. It went surprisingly hard for a 12s movie. A lot to take in. Reminded me a lot of 'Tales from the Loop', although it's never cited as an influence.

kevinteljeur OP ,
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@vampiress This is it. 'Jaws' is 12s, where a man is graphically bitten in half by a shark. I think 'The Matrix' is 15s because it has drug references and explicit violence, and of course the whole concept.

I think the 'The Creator' had more swearing in it than 'The Matrix' too.

Anyway, I'm just always trying to feel my way around what's appropriate. I saw 'Alien' when I was 10 or 11 or so, with permission of my parents to stay up and watch it. Traumatised.

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@vampiress My brother saw 'The Terminator' when he was 14 or so. Movies have more stuff in them now for younger ages, but we're all more careful about what our kids get to see, I guess.

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