🔄 Updated
📸 A test as much as anything to see what Gemma 4 26B did with providing ‘accessibility text’ for my photo.
This is what it came up with:
A small structure with a dark roof covered in solar panels sits nestled among a dense backdrop of lush green trees.
Not too shabby. It was that kind of phrasing I had in my mind when I took it down by the beach last week, observing how the roof of an old boathouse (Unused? Do not know.) could double up as a baby solar ‘farm’ and not be that distracting.
Farm? Ok ‘backlot’.
🔄 UPDATE: 5 Minutes Later
Now I have read 🔗 Manton’s post properly - point of clarification -
While the checkbox is present in the current build, the server-side work is not yet enabled for any users.
So jury remains out as to how good the local model will be. I will run a test on the same image when it is available … so marking this post 🚧
🖋️ Caveat - Not My Words ...
… but there for the grace of whatever power you hold true - do we all go. Sometime sooner. Sometimes very much later. But go we do. Few have the power to control ‘when’.
🎥 On The Waterfront ★★★★
In a nutshell - if you havent seen it - watch it. If you have seen it - watch it again.
🎥 ABBA: The Movie, 1977 ★★
Abba was never my bag, so why I went to see this in the Odeon (I think) cinema in Streatham, South London - I have no idea. It was fine - until it exploded into the closing credits. All this time later - I still remember the image and the music - a movie all by itself. Only two stars - but try to find the closing credits - sound up - on a big screen - dark room. Still 🤯
🎥 F1, 2025 ★★★★
I have no idea why it took us until last night to finally get round to watching. But get round to watching we did. I now have even less understanding as to why the delay.
If you still haven’t seen it … rectify the situation ASAP.
🎥 Big Fish, 2003 ★★★★★
When I first saw this film … film, not movie - film … I logged it as one of my top, personal favourites of all time.
My opinion hasn’t changed.
🎥 Nobody 2, 2025 ★★
Not as good as Nobody - but then Nobody caught me out - where as Nobody 2 was - well ... Nobody 2. Colin Hanks looks so much like his Dad. Sharon Stone looked nothing like Sharon Stone - and yet was. The whole film was way better than any of Chevy's vacation movies - and the set up for the final action scene was lifted straight out of The A Team - and just as much fun.
🎥 Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man, 2026 ★★
This is a film - not a show and so lacked .. a lot. It also requires the watching of the magnificent series that preceded it to really get it. So yes … enjoyed, but if you haven’t seen the shows … don’t bother and if you have, you will be disappointed.
.. and very glad I missed it in the Theaters.
The star rating might seem harsh - it seemed that way - even to me - but this is a good example of how a normalised rating system can help you - dear reader - get better clarity on the 'why'. To cut to the chase - I did enjoy it - any film that sits with 2 or more stars in here are worth watches - but at this level - a lot of caveats.
🎥 The Courier, 2020 ★★★
Yeah .. No.
BC did a really good job - including the transformation - but so slow …
And if you know me and historical dramas .. doubling down on the ‘yeah .. no’
🎥 The Instigators, 2024 ★★
Average score for an average movie. Casey? Never been overly bothered, but Matt is capable of so much more.
📺 Peaky Blinders ★★★★★
The Series that is. The film at the end - to bring ‘closure’? Yeah - not so much
Creating a Loop Problem In Feedbin
- Find the RSS feed for ⭐️ posts
- Add that feed to Feedbin
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Star any post .. it appears in the ⭐️ posts
The new RSS feed now displays that ⭐️ post
That ‘new’ ⭐️ post now appears in ⭐️ posts
The new RSS feed now displays that ⭐️ post
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🤦♂️ Have now deleted the RSS feed!
2021
“For the party to move forward, we got to move the party with Donald Trump. There’s no way to be a successful Republican Party without having President Trump working with all of us and all of us working with him. That’s just a fact. And I think we got a decent chance of coming back in 2022. But we can’t do it without the President.”
Lindsay Graham, 2021
2016
“If we nominate Trump we will get destroyed. And we will deserve it.”
Lindsay Graham, 2016
UPDATED - 26-01-27
🔇 It’s a ‘Sound’ update!
Convocast : 6 ✅
BUNKER-19 : 4 ✅
Snickelcast : 9 ✅
Snickelcast : 10 ✅
OK - @macgenie … I’m ready for the podcast challenge!
🔇 Having highlighted the issue about needing quiet when producing convo/micro/snickel/pod … casts, having got the convocast out, I decided to use the quiet to produce two others.
Hope you like. All feedback, comments & suggestions welcome.
Even if they say PLEASE SHUT UP !
🔇 Convocast 4 is available, a little later than would be good manners - but FINALLY.
The Convocast is a conversation between myself and friend @AndySylvester
This episode answers Andy’s question about Cooperatives and finds me asking Andy about life in the Aerospace industry.
