Ronsboy67

ये दुनिया है या आलम-ए-बदहवासी? ہم دیکھیں گے۔
je ne sais rien, non sono qui.
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2026-03-14 08:35:53 UTC

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We got to see two kiwi during the morning when we visited - one male, one female, and a saddleback . No yellowheads though 😢

2026-03-14 05:22:03 UTC

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Magnificent shots, thanks for sharing. Did you get a chance to visit Te Wharawhara/Ulva island?

2025-12-12 18:22:47 UTC

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I wasn't going to reply, but to save you wasting energy I will. I utterly ABHOR that Drama for whitewashing a psychopath and selling it as a romcom. I will not engage any further on it. This was my first and last reply.

2025-12-12 17:47:03 UTC

TFW when someone lets loose on a #kDrama whose very existence you seriously LOATHE
😍
https://youtu.be/J4f0KHqrbOk?si=rChqWqXsZ3VokyB5

2025-12-07 20:40:23 UTC

There's no danger of my 2 entries for #MurderEveryMonday this week not qualifying: one from my favourite GAP(ublisher), Dean Street Press and one from my favourite GAQ, Margery Allingham
#Mystery #Bookstodon
https://crossexaminingcrime.com/murdereverymonday-theme-list/
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2025-10-03 12:00:29 UTC

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whereas I VERY MUCH preferred Hot Stove League because it was ACTUALLY about baseball, not merely named after the sport, as I strongly feel The Winning Try was. knowing #kDrama any S2 of #TheWinningTry will be exactly like the first season: 80% about corruption and mismanagement in a completely unrelated sport, 15% about that sport and 5% about Rugby.. If we got an S2 in which RUGBY was central in terms of plot and screentime, that would be awesome

2025-09-13 04:34:52 UTC

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Ah. Mention of a monthly theme made me think of an entire #kDrama, where the theme was significant. One episode of one Drama doesn't feel like part of a "recurring theme" to me.
I'd be more likely to include "Beyond the Bar" as part of a legal 'theme' given its near overlap with "Law and the City"
With the rise of pre-shot over live-shot, we're seeing less of this than formerly. Fewer "all vampires" "all doctors" "all judges" than in the days of yore.

2025-09-12 19:50:01 UTC

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apart from Mary Kills People, which is not a #kDrama original but a remake of a Western show, what other #kDrama recently have focused on euthanasia as a major topic or plot point?

2025-09-07 20:41:17 UTC

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👆 👆 👆 👆
It's the deliberate whitewashing and victim-painting that angers me with Yoona's #kDrama - sageuks would at least show it *more* like it was, without that whole "they were mean to his Mummy, it's not his fault" bakvaas🤮

2025-09-02 22:37:48 UTC

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I first saw her in #kDrama #SummerStrike and then seeing er play a COIMPLETELY different character in #TwinklingWatermelon blew me away. She was the only reason I endured that underwhelming overblown mess to the tedious end. #I'll be watching #LoveUntangled today

2025-09-01 05:16:10 UTC

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Yes, 10+ yeas of MDL has taught me that 😂
It's one of several reasons why I built my own personal database and amn in the process of planning and designing a new and improved version. So that I can ut the MDL cord almost entirely.

2025-09-01 05:02:40 UTC

MDL lists "comedy" as one of the genres for 12 episode #kDrama #TheWinningTry - there are total of maybe 15 minutes of comedy in the first 11 episodes. Of course, having started nearly 500 #kDrama I know that wallowing in misery, pain and the triumph of evil IS considered fun in #kDrama

2025-08-29 20:09:48 UTC

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Thanks - I have Firebird installed already, but was looking for an ARD to help with planning and design, rather than actual building🙏

2025-08-29 01:35:42 UTC

Does anyone have any recs for (at least relatively) simple ERD software for #database design? I'm planning to build a new version of my personal hobby db for tracking #jDrama #cDrama #kDrama etc and want to spend some time getting it clear in my head first. I have DBeaver Community, but its ERD option is an Eclipse plugin, which seems like using a freight train to crush a peanut.
I'm looking for something free/libre and local. Not a fan of cloud.

2025-08-26 18:05:06 UTC

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Always LOVE Seeing #HotStoveLeague getting some love - a much underappreciated gem, imo. And like you, the I find the absence of romance in it a big plus for this Drama
#kDrama

2025-08-15 05:21:20 UTC

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it was the poverty that troubled me the most - for not being nearly extreme enough. The whole thing seemed overly sanitised from the absolute hellishness of the reality

2025-08-15 04:59:20 UTC

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It would be really interesting to find out how it was received in the DPRK - the whole section of the Drama set there was eye-rollingly nonsensical from my POV, given what little I know of the place. Fun, but pure fantasy of a level that makes wuxiia/xianxia seem like dull documentary. How the blatant propaganda of that part of the Drama went down where it was set would be fascinating to know

2025-08-11 02:44:04 UTC

In my Calibre library of Christopher Bush ebooks from Dean Street Press , 3-4 don’t fit this week’s #MurderEveryMonday theme, but happily a few others do https://crossexaminingcrime.wordpress.com/murdereverymonday-theme-list/ #TheCaseOfTheUtmostUnderstatement
#bookstodon #Mystery @npub1ny7…uv57
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2025-08-01 12:13:19 UTC

Every now and again, a rare flash of adult maturity imposes itself on my decision-making - like right now when it's 00:!5 on Saturday morning and I stop watching #kDrama #MoneyFlower with just 5 eps left because I have a 7 hour night shift starting at 18:00 I'm so proud of me! 🤣

2025-07-23 14:03:14 UTC

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whatever the reason, I'm glad they made that choice. I'm VERY hematophobic, so medical Dramas are normally no-go zones for me.

2025-07-23 13:37:58 UTC

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When I saw your post, I checked my DB to see what score I gave it. SNAP! 8/10 😀

2025-06-25 15:18:57 UTC

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Fanny was an early prototype of the passive-aggressive martyr and too "good to be true", and Aunt Norris was so noxious as to need having her quietus made. BUT all the characters were real and believable. For me, the sharpest and most acidic of Austen's works, but the rapier wit and incontestable correctness of her cynical observations delivered many genuine laughs. It's my 2nd favourite after the sublime Persuasion

2025-05-11 21:35:46 UTC

It's https://crossexaminingcrime.wordpress.com/murdereverymonday-theme-list/ time up here in #Aotearoa so here's my troika: 1 from https://www.deanstreetpress.co.uk/pages/books_page/2
(I can't 'bear' #MurderEveryMonday without them), 1 from here, and 1 from Harini Nagendra set in her (& my cousins') hometown #Reading #bookstodon @npub1ny7…uv57
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2025-04-28 08:44:09 UTC

This week's #MurderEveryMonday is all about temperature.No Dean Street Press entry from me this week, Instead a plug for
Martin Edwards' excellent "Lake District Cold Case' series
this week, along with another Martin and an Elly Griffiths I'm looking forward to checking out #bookstodon #Reading #ebooks #Mystery
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2025-01-30 23:18:00 UTC

@justjustin@flipboard.social @npub1ny7…uv57 @npub10hx…05w6 Thanks!

2025-01-30 23:07:51 UTC

@justjustin@flipboard.social @npub1ny7…uv57 @npub10hx…05w6 If you had included Kobo, the "neither" count would be lower, I'm sure

2025-01-30 15:18:02 UTC

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"the asides are savage, and the social critiques are delivered in a flurry of bon mots"
THIS is why my two favourites are, in order, Persuasion (I'm a brony at heart) and Mansfield Park. She quite literally had a rapier wit.

2024-12-11 14:24:55 UTC

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Thanks! This is definitely my pattern. I sideload as I get them,normally one or two at a time, but when Kobo has promotional specials, often quite a few more.

2024-12-11 14:02:56 UTC

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"None of the above" I sideload ALL my books, but I do as I buy them. I buy them (almost all from Kobo), strip the DRM to make them truly mine, then sideload them. So if I buy 2 books, I'll be sideloading 2 books. If I buy 6, then 6, etc.

2024-12-11 01:58:53 UTC

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Them's fightin' words! 😂
For those who read a lot, ereaders are anything but redundant. I read 454 books in 2022, ~230 last year and ~ 190 this year. Reading that much is VERY MUCH easier on e-ink devices. Kinder on the eyes, MUCH better battery life, and a single-purpose tool. Modern ereaders are very good for *reading*. No apps, no distractions, just reading. That EVERY major ereader maker is investing in new models shows they don't think them redundant

2024-12-11 01:04:03 UTC

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Kobo might be worth checking out. I switched from Kindle to Kobo 6 years ago because the Kobo walled garden is LESS walled. It offers more DRM free ebooks, does not ADD drm to books the author has stipulated should be DRM Free (which Kindle does), and Kobo devices read MANY more formats than Kindle readers. THAT requirement of yours is likely the trickiest, as Amazon/Kindle insists only its formats are best. Another option to check out may be Pocketbook

2024-12-03 08:39:28 UTC

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for a much more authentic pronunciation, the Youtube video I linked to a week or so go, to a song called "Aotearoa" was written and sung by an artist for whom Māori is effectively his L1

2024-12-03 08:30:28 UTC

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The meaning is also meteorologically accurate - as plenty of ISS photos attest 😀 "I'm not Māori, I'm a student of the Māori language. I'm from Aotearoa" - the accuracy of pronunciation in the attached mp3 is not for me to assert. 😱
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2024-10-02 16:32:11 UTC

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Apparently saying "hopefully this will be the year" is the same thing as saying "this is the year", according the BBC and PL copywriters. Never let the facts get in the way of a good headline, I guess.

2024-10-02 12:10:19 UTC

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Except, of course, he said no such thing.
Don't you just love it when someone stoops to manipulating someone else's words to push their own agenda?

2024-09-27 05:35:07 UTC

#AmReading Bellos' "Is that a Fish in Your Ear?" and being reminded of my lowbrow tastes. In a passage about the impact of non-L1 poetry learned long ago, he cites Rilke's "Wer, wenn ich schriee, hörte mich denn aus der Engel Ordnungen?" - while I went straight to German too -Morgenstern's
"Es war einmal ein Lattenzaun, mit Zwischenraum, hindurchzuschaun" which I especially love for the 'punchline' at the end. 😀
@npub1ny7…uv57 #poetry #translation #nonfiction #linquistics

2024-07-30 06:25:48 UTC

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Heretical view incoming:
I was introduced to the book in my late teens, JUST before the movie was released. Enjoyed the book enough to watch the movie, which I absolutely ADORED. Decades later came back to the book and after finishing it was left with the VERY, VERY strong impression that
THE MOVIE IS BETTER😱
(the only exception being the whole sequence of rescuing Wesley from the Pit of Despair - a real shame that couldn't have been in the film)

2024-07-30 06:11:40 UTC

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Book Challenge: 20 Books that have had an impact on who you are. One book a day for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, just book covers, with alt text.
#20books #20books20days
#books
#bookstodon
#Inconceivable
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13/20
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2024-07-29 08:05:25 UTC

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Book Challenge: 20 Books that have had an impact on who you are. One book a day for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, just book covers, with alt text.
#20books #20books20days
#books
#bookstodon
#LewisCarroll
#MeatSafe
#Belfry
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12/20
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2024-07-28 07:07:22 UTC

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Book Challenge: 20 Books that have had an impact on who you are. One book a day for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, just book covers, with alt text.
#20books #20books20days
#books
#bookstodon @npub1ny7…uv57
11/20
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2024-07-27 09:15:47 UTC

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Book Challenge: 20 Books that have had an impact on who you are. One book a day for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, just book covers, with alt text.
#20books #20books20days
#books
#bookstodon @npub1ny7…uv57
10/20
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2024-07-26 12:02:43 UTC

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Book Challenge: 20 Books that have had an impact on who you are. One book a day for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, just book covers, with alt text.
#20books #20books20days
#books
#bookstodon @npub1ny7…uv57
#Aotearoa #Shakespeare #Macbeth #Theatre
9/20
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