Kevin Boyd (he/him) 🇨🇦

Software Developer, Photographer, Sailing Enthusiast. (he/him)

Victoria, BC, Canada

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kboyd@phpc-social.mostr.pub

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2025-04-23 21:51:40

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@nprofile…as5c perhaps you would enjoy InnerSpace (1987).

2025-04-23 20:36:45

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@nprofile…l99m @nprofile…8snm Indeed; I found it via a search on my instance because I happened to remember that it contained the word "beta".
A scope-narrowing filter that would be polluted with toxic masculinity garbage on any other platform.

2025-04-23 20:34:29

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@nprofile…d6wq @nprofile…dazm The best time to stop the trolley was 10+ bodies ago. The second-best time is now.

2025-04-23 19:50:41

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@nprofile…9rpf neat! Hangouts and Meet. Given how many times google has reused those names, it's probably closer to 40%.

2025-04-23 19:40:01

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@nprofile…l99m can you remember anything else about it? Maybe we can crowdsource the spelunking.

2025-04-23 19:28:14

Actual typo today (that I caught in time to fix): "refister"
I mean, it's not my fault. The keys are, like, right next to each other.

2025-04-23 19:08:08

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@nprofile…qxkt it's called "pop psychology syndrome"

2025-04-23 07:14:02

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@nprofile…unqv This better not be a prelude to an AI pitch

2025-04-23 06:24:13

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@nprofile…gffv one, two, three, four, I declare a monkey's paw thumb war

2025-04-23 05:52:32

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@nprofile…3hcl @nprofile…7aa6 Ah! Good point.

2025-04-23 01:48:10

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@nprofile…as5c I'm not sure which wolf to enable. Perhaps audiobooks while riding would feed them both? (But listening to audio while riding on roads is generally a bad idea)

2025-04-22 20:17:11

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@nprofile…5jtd looks like it still has a keel, so that's a promising sign

2025-04-22 20:08:20

Can't shake the feeling that this is the exact opposite of how this meme template is supposed to be used.
https://wehavecookies.social/@ProgrammerHumor/114378277245538389

2025-04-19 19:42:29

"an unexpected wind instrument"
#flickr #wildlife #lighthouse #photography
https://flic.kr/p/2qYxZ7E
https://media.phpc.social/media_attachments/files/114/366/332/634/228/372/original/0a34afe44bfe5e37.png

2025-04-18 21:20:46

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@nprofile…3hcl ah! iOS ate the "g". Thanks!

2025-04-18 17:08:23

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https://media.phpc.social/media_attachments/files/114/360/064/355/255/075/original/3f332ca3a559019b.jpeg

2025-04-18 05:24:35

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@nprofile…r9rs the console: the original liminal cyberspace

2025-04-17 23:51:55

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@nprofile…unqv Right? Like my 25-year Nissan boycott. They'll feel the pinch any day now.

2025-04-17 22:40:52

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@nprofile…vnuv ah, I haven't seen it. Closest I've seen is ... Dangerous Minds with michelle pfieffer, who is definitely not sam jackson

2025-04-16 22:00:16

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@nprofile…9rpf
https://media.phpc.social/media_attachments/files/114/349/887/502/843/360/original/cf189c1b65cf8284.mp4

2025-04-16 16:37:49

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@nprofile…vz0p "Say my name."
"Honkenberg!"
"You're HONKing right."

2025-04-16 15:32:09

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@nprofile…m2eu all part of trying to prevent folks from "cheating the system" 🙄 earth to countries: just do ubi, it's less effort than these lesser approaches

2025-04-16 15:29:20

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@nprofile…qdk8 @nprofile…zwgs same but ivory 😂

2025-04-15 23:09:22

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@nprofile…vv8v reminds me of NaturalHabitatShorts:
"Mouth"
https://youtube.com/shorts/Oly8f4h5C78

2025-04-15 21:20:06

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@nprofile…6wcr next up: making a dead cat microphone cover out of a dead cat.
🤢🤮
(I'm assuming that the instructable was about taxidermy weirdness.)

2025-04-15 20:37:30

Headline: "California governor urges Canadians to ignore Trump, come back for sand, sun and wine"
Not gonna get much sand, sun, and wine when ICE starts sending tourists to El Salvador instead of their facilities in Arizona.
And I'm guessing the AZ facilities only have merlot.

2025-04-15 18:09:14

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@nprofile…kyct rescheduling it will cause the habs to blow it, IMHO

2025-04-15 06:54:09

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@nprofile…d2rl this sort of travesty wouldn't happen at JFK.
Or ... LaGuardia ...
... with the sushi ...
https://media.phpc.social/media_attachments/files/114/340/662/202/376/976/original/b254a2ba1d24bc0a.mp4

2025-04-15 06:50:35

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@nprofile…d2rl the chowder!!!

2025-04-14 19:11:07

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@nprofile…h3hl
https://media.phpc.social/media_attachments/files/114/337/897/744/900/593/original/2d161f0937e9035f.mp4

2025-04-14 18:02:45

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@nprofile…yqdf nor do I, but imagine if it had gone poorly ...

2025-04-14 15:58:14

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@nprofile…ugpu Wordle 1,395 3/6
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2025-04-14 00:09:10

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@nprofile…36ju
https://media.phpc.social/media_attachments/files/114/333/407/402/191/435/original/5bc4c699b2ec1ad6.mp4

2025-04-12 01:24:39

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@nprofile…sm8w Good point. They should be cognizant of how the quantity selector interplays with the cart experience.

2025-04-11 04:44:03

Found an interesting photographer on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGTanj7mqVk
This video is about trash photography.

2025-04-11 00:05:49

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@nprofile…n0j0 it's better than another food app I use, where selecting a bottled pop meant having to manually add tax items as "required extras" - and then for some reason it would reject the whole order because one of the taxes was the wrong kind
https://media.phpc.social/media_attachments/files/114/316/407/335/909/768/original/70728d0e8e8cd080.png

2025-04-10 23:52:51

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@nprofile…jxfj @nprofile…d2rl pan-roasted brussels sprouts
But another answer is: romanesco broccoli
https://media.phpc.social/media_attachments/files/114/316/356/164/263/477/original/44f034f1309d1e42.mp4

2025-04-10 23:42:12

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Okay, so, I figured out a workaround.
My cart total was 10 items. So, since that is a nice round number, a developer might think "Hmm, that's a good cutoff, 10 items is a bit sus."
But, let me tell you what the ten items were:
2 subs
1 salad
1 drink
...
And six cookies.
That's why the app refused to let me add another item. Because of the six cookies.
I was forced to sacrifice a cookie.

2025-04-10 23:34:57

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@nprofile…d2rl actually, i forgot, there is one thing that doesn't fall into those categories:
Brassica oleracea. It's apolitical, non-furry, and it isn't corn.

2025-04-10 23:12:40

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@nprofile…d2rl all topics fall into one of those categories, I'm afraid.
Yes, even Dance.

2025-04-10 06:09:19

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@nprofile…dazm looks like it's an actual english word
https://media.phpc.social/media_attachments/files/114/312/174/329/682/377/original/28e31fc397b6716a.jpeg

2025-04-10 04:26:30

If I were to write a conference talk about how today went at work, I would call it "Psalms and Spasms: Just Shut Up Already, Automated Tooling".
Part of it was AI's fault (copilot + claude 3.7), part of it was my fault, and most of it was the psalm tool being unnecessarily persnickety.

2025-04-10 03:35:37

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@nprofile…n305 @nprofile…ps99 hiw about: "That state has unfortunately taken itself off of my list of preferred destinations"
Or replace "taken itself off" with "fallen off".

2025-04-10 03:33:52

.... hmm. If someone is convicted of a crime, serves their sentence, and doesn't re-offend, is it unfair/inaccurate to refer to them as a "criminal"?

2025-04-10 03:31:42

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@nprofile…hquz @nprofile…0swg she's a more respectable criminal, too!

2025-04-09 23:20:19

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@nprofile…5qlu and of course, First Officer Ethel Mertz would always have her back

2025-04-09 22:44:53

Me looking at apple watch features:
"Cycle Tracking ..."
Hey, I like cycling. That sounds promising.
"... with retrospective ovulation estimates"
Oh. 🤦‍♂️

2025-04-09 20:24:44

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@nprofile…psrp so ... disqualification & condemnation from the international association is now an award of courage? Hmm.

2025-04-09 19:33:27

"Precarity and anxiety"
Hmm. I'll have to think about that.
https://hackers.town/@lmorchard/114309462363422423

2025-04-09 19:12:06

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@nprofile…p4t5 were they ever great? I mean, I get that there's an attachment to the historic nature of the company (because we have so little of historical value that we're willing to celebrate/understand), but every time I've ever shopped there it's felt depressing and stifling.

2025-04-09 19:09:09

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@nprofile…f9kf there was an entire Captain America movie about this.
https://media.phpc.social/media_attachments/files/114/309/578/463/593/155/original/30c6b97e69febbe9.mp4

2025-04-09 17:02:35

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@nprofile…r9rs i did need that, thank you

2025-04-09 16:58:25

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@nprofile…hq4y @nprofile…gw4z I just had to fix a half dozen style guide violations (and four possible fatal errors) due to AI code completion. And that was in the output that I thought had worked properly!

2025-04-08 15:41:48

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@nprofile…hq4y the premier of bc technically attempted this a month ago, ostensibly to be able to react more quickly to trump's shenanigans. It got shot down.

2025-04-08 03:43:29

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@nprofile…z8gd "his main flaw, if any, is that he is almost TOO glorious ..."

2025-04-08 01:19:42

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@nprofile…ksf8 @nprofile…5lc3 true, but that's hard to differentiate from any other corporate email.

2025-04-07 22:02:29

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@nprofile…5jtd ah, always good to have some extra counterweight, right?

2025-04-07 14:41:58

"blubbins the seal"
#wildlife #flickr #photography
https://flic.kr/p/2qWjBbq
https://media.phpc.social/media_attachments/files/114/297/203/181/313/343/original/1cbb30bccf5b3a72.png

2025-04-07 06:36:38

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@nprofile…h3ac @nprofile…gqp6 Here's one: https://www.flickr.com/photos/sallyneely/21138365590/

2025-04-02 21:57:09

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@nprofile…z22s cold gravy

2025-04-01 20:50:19

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@nprofile…56hp @nprofile…wuyc it almost seemed like the liberals were going to do that, with how long it took them to find a candidate

2025-03-25 22:24:13

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@nprofile…zrf5 @nprofile…5vye I have questions ... and a burning desire to never have them answered.
https://media.phpc.social/media_attachments/files/114/225/410/833/720/890/original/2b8e52f76d58435e.jpeg

2025-03-24 01:09:13

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@nprofile…erxa hmm, so "Decker" isn't an obvious enough surname for my novel about a budding sailor

2025-03-20 18:44:23

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@nprofile…wuyc The planes are actually smaller than that fwiw.

2025-02-21 04:52:45

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@nprofile…u37z there's a hack you can use to get it to show up as a column, but it's really dumb. I think it involves temporarily renaming the folder to Pictures or Photos or something.

2025-02-10 19:49:12

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@nprofile…fv4z was it from PayPal Invoices, their most utterly broken and exploitable feature?

2025-01-13 22:49:16

What are some tips for configuring a windows laptop for a kid to use safely? It's an Asus. I haven't used windows for many years, so I've probably missed out on some gotchas.
I've installed firefox + ublock origin, unpinned chrome, run all the updates. I think next up will be uninstalling the bundled McAfee infestation.

2024-11-22 19:43:05

Went to the library to renew my card, and was surprised to find that a hold was ready for me. At a branch I'd never visited before.
Consider Phlebas.
I'd forgotten that I had placed a hold a while back (it was a long waitlist), and I just happened to arrive a few days before the hold expired.

2024-11-09 19:06:06

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@npub1j2u…c034 You could say that.
https://media.phpc.social/media_attachments/files/113/454/557/538/034/427/original/1d469736a0970b7f.mp4

2024-11-06 16:51:13

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@npub1j2u…c034 or rather, by Moscow rules.

2024-10-25 06:23:13

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@npub1c4v…cqk7 Thanks! But in this case I wanted to keep the tracking strings in order to properly inform Paramount's metrics about the show they stupidly cancelled.

2024-10-25 06:19:05

Ooh, fun! Paramount seems to have put the S5E1 premiere of #StarTrek #LowerDecks on youtube https://youtu.be/0OE46re11tQ?si=ONP4x9-MiWa7wJbC
(US-only, unfortunately)

2024-10-11 06:58:01

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@npub13w7…mktw Last time I took one of my kids to the (canadian) ER, the official wait time at 11pm was 6+ hours. We ended up being seen in under an hour, though. And it was free.

2024-10-05 22:17:50

A wind farm (and dilapidated farmhouse) on the NB/NS border. #windfarm #flickr #photography #windPower
https://flic.kr/p/2qkMygX
https://media.phpc.social/media_attachments/files/113/257/130/582/607/798/original/e7a8a79507be71ba.png

2024-09-13 23:53:13

Anyone in #yyj #victoriaBC want an all-weather ebike? RideTheGlide is having a forklift sale. (Because of the time a dude smashed their front entrance in with a forklift and stole some bikes.)
https://media.phpc.social/media_attachments/files/113/132/934/857/821/439/original/3cb7daeaad5004c3.jpeg

2024-09-09 00:31:24

Lost my wallet this afternoon in Sidney BC. If this were twitter-of-old, I could reasonably tag this with where I lost it ( #Sidney #SidneyBC #yyj #VictoriaBC) and hope that someone might see it and reconnect me with it. But, sadly, I don't think fediverse has quite the same level of reach. And I'm certainly not signing up to facebook or whatever to try asking there.
Hopefully someone found it and did something reasonable, like dropping it in the post.

2024-09-07 05:35:36

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@npub17yk…hcfk "what are self-sealing stem bolts?"

2024-03-15 22:07:05

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@npub17yk…hcfk is there a Boothby?

2024-03-15 02:14:40

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@npub1jpp…u59l guinness. It's blarney for lager.

2023-12-13 03:52:34

My 8 year old is currently highly impressed at the accuracy of a magic 8 ball.
"I asked it, does one plus one equal two, and it said yes!"
A little vignette that, today, underlies an entire burgeoning industry.

2023-12-02 20:20:39

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@npub1vd3…cn5z @npub1pdv…gqz2 gonna be really interesting for the future of humanity if the medical-aid-delivering airships end up exhausting the global supply of helium that is needed in part by the medical profession to run diagnostic equipment.
(Though, in researching the state of things for this post, I found there are low- and no-helium MRI machines in development)

2023-11-04 19:19:36

Is there an equivalent to electron that uses gecko instead of chromium?

2023-08-30 17:25:57

unquenchable thirst isn't a good look
https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica/110979696251465534

2023-08-27 17:06:50

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@npub1jpp…u59l seemingly, yes :)

2023-08-27 16:52:19

TIL: When writing a bash/zsh function, "exit" does not behave the way I expected.
The entire terminal closed! 😂

2023-08-26 19:42:39

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@npub1jpp…u59l allow me to introduce the cargo shorts schism.
*riiiiip*

2023-08-24 16:28:08

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@npub1az9…swru I've set mine up so that it applies a red colour filter (with a tiny bit of blue in order to make certain things visible). Allegedly it will help with night vision & might encourage natural sleepiness.
Also, I added a siri shortcut - I keep renaming it. Currently, it is "Hey Siri, red alert" and "Hey siri, cancel red alert".
Doesn't show up in screenshots, though, so I can't grab an example. Heh.
https://media.phpc.social/media_attachments/files/110/945/532/338/609/974/original/68fe48b1bde42959.png
https://media.phpc.social/media_attachments/files/110/945/532/871/197/966/original/4117a6929dfa6bb4.png

2023-08-20 03:37:15

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@npub1jpp…u59l Aperix and Obelix

2023-08-18 05:28:51

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@npub1jpp…u59l I kinda wish I had the time and energy to remake this video entirely with footage from The Hobbit https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6yCIDkFI7ew

2023-08-16 20:38:42

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@npub1jpp…u59l Yep.

2023-08-16 20:26:04

Hmm, Zapier just updated their TOS to include wording about AI stuff. They seem to be very explicit about the fact that the training stuff is for internal use only, not resale.
Cue freakout? Or are they handling it properly?

2023-08-16 01:23:05

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This is for FOSS/self-hostable projects, of course. For a company that wants to bring their product to the fediverse, things would be much different - and they would likely already have a crackerjack moderation team.

2023-08-16 01:19:45

I have a suspicion that the right way to develop a project for fedi is to start small, build it in relative obscurity - with a single community server to act as a demo.
Then, if the demo reaches some level of criticality, the appropriate actions are either:
A) Turn it off. Gently, of course.
B) Lock it so that no new signups are allowed.
C) Spin it off as a separate entity, likely a co-operative.
This will encourage the project to grow, and will separate development from community management.

2023-08-14 18:03:27

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@npub1503…uxwg swampede!
No, nevermind.
It's a Torpede!

2023-08-10 22:52:04

Is it possible to host a mastodon instance on a subdomain (e.g., social.example.com) and have a regular site on the main domain (example.com, or example.com redirecting to www.example.com), with the accounts all being @ exampleuser @ example.com?

2023-08-10 02:15:13

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@npub1jpp…u59l I guess I have to hold out for ~5 more years for the Battlestar Galactica treatment

2023-08-10 02:13:07

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@npub1jpp…u59l oh no :(

2023-08-10 00:55:26

By my calculations, this year is the year we should have been introduced to "Firefly: The Next Generation", with a swanky ship, and costumes that need much improvement. And an all new cast, but with some cameos from the original cast (much-aged by makeup). And a producer/creator/writer who has some rather antiquated viewpoints in some respects (yet not in others), who eventually gets pushed to the side so his creation can live forever as a Brand.

2023-08-09 06:39:54

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@npub1j2n…c2rd @npub1q4y…x7aj Honestly, while I knew the full brand list was disgustingly long, I kind of expected it to be longer & more varied than this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Unilever_brands

2023-08-08 17:49:23

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@npub1503…uxwg ooh, this is an interesting way of solving the don't-get-hit-by-a-car issue with taking road photos