Crepuscular animal - Wikipedia
a crepuscular animal is one that is active primarily during the twilight period,[1] being matutinal (active during dawn), vespertine/vespertinal (active during dusk), or both. This is distinguished from diurnal and nocturnal behavior, where an animal is active during the hours of daytime and of night, respectively. Some crepuscular animals may also be active by moonlight or during an overcast day. Matutinal animals are active only after dawn, and vespertine only before dusk.
📺 Watching
Bizarre nightmares unfold in eight tales of terror in a visually stunning, spine-tingling horror collection curated by Guillermo del Toro.
I love a good anthology series!
With about 20mm of rain since midnight, and how leaky the roof has been the last couple of months, I’m afraid of what I’ll find when I head down to the sports club later this morning.
A collection of animated short stories that span various genres including science fiction, fantasy, horror and comedy.
New Season! 🙌
🔗 What Is a Planetary Alignment and How Do You Watch It?:
Let’s delve into this phenomenon and how you can watch when it happens next.
🔗 Ye Olde Blogroll - Because blogs are the soul of the web:
You are viewing a humanly curated list of 721 fine personal & independent blogs and sites that are updated regularly. No algorithms ever!
My Read, Comment, Share Workflow Still Sucks
This is a little rant born from the frustration of trying to connect and setup a couple of indieweb applications for subscribing to and reading RSS feeds, saving to a read later service, and posting commentary from either the RSS reader or the read later service, kind of like a social reader.
After logging into Aperture using my micro.blog hosted domain, I added it’s microsub endpoint to the head of my website, then added a few Channels, some RSS feeds to those Channels, and they seemingly pull in the entries from each of them…looks like progress!
Then I jumped over to Monocle, logged in via my domain again, and could see that the channels I added into Aperture were there, but none of the articles. Hmm. I wondered if Monocle might be playing up as I saw that it’s creator was using a different reader, so I tried Together and end up with the same result…hrmm
Back to IndieWeb I go, more reading, starting to think I need a service like Watchtower to poll the subscriptions, but I’m not certain as the directions aren’t super clear as to whether it’s needed or not.
So back to my micro.blog hosted domain, return the microsub endpoint back to the micro.blog default, log back in to Aperture and now the channels I added earlier are gone. Curiosity piqued, I logged into Monocle and confirmed the channels from Aperture are not just gone, but they’ve been replaced by micro.blog’s standard channels (Timeline, Mentions, Bookmarks, Discover). I do the same on Together, yep, same result.
My next question is, can you have multiple microsub endpoints in your website’s head? I couldn’t find a clear answer, but my own testing leads me to believe that it can, however, it’s not clear how you define what goes where (at least on micro.blog) so that’s a dead end.
Ugh! I give up!
All I want is an app / service where I can;
- subscribe to RSS feeds
- read those subscribed RSS feeds (replacing Feedly)
- save articles of interest to read later (replacing Pocket)
- share / post commentary from those saved articles to my website
It needs to be pretty seamless, easy to setup and maintain, and needs work on iOS and either MacOS or in a browser. It’s pretty much the indieweb reader that Aaron describes in his Building an IndieWeb Reader article.
Some things I’ve already tried;
NetNewsWire (RSS subs) shared to Micro.blog (both iOS and Mac) - was hit and miss whether the link was passed over, I couldn’t ever get any copied or highlighted text across. Also, on iOS it only works the first time with both apps freshly installed, but subsequent shares do nothing.
I had similar experiences sharing from anywhere iOS to Micro.blog’s iOS app, it works the very first time the app is opened from a fresh install, then it never works again. Delete the app, re-authenticate with Micro.blog, share to the Mb iOS app once and then it stops working again.
I also tried sharing from Feedly to Drafts to Micro.blog’s api, it works but it was a janky feeling workflow that I just couldn’t make part of my read / share / post routine. I would also forget how I was formatting things, and I’ll be honest, I was also too lazy to setup templates in Drafts for each type of post I wanted to share. This is probably an option I should revisit seeing as Drafts is essentially the same app no matter if it’s on iOS or MacOS and the workflow would be the same no matter the device I’m on.
What’s your workflow? Do you have any suggestions for me?
To be continued…
Trying to get Aperture, Indiepaper, Monocle, and micro.blog connected and working together so I can bring all my subscriptions over to Aperture, my ‘read later’ saves into Indiepaper, and then read the lot in Monocle so I can share / post back to micro.blog…not having much success so far 🤷♂️
⚽️ Congratulations to Crystal Palace Football Club on winning the English FA Cup overnight.
Another test from monocle, correct blog chosen this time…I think
Hopefully this forecast of 200mm over the next 4 days is wildly inaccurate!
🔗 Dylan Graves Surfed One of Australia’s Rarest Novelty Waves
The wave only breaks a few times a decade — when the swell direction, tide, and wind all align — and this was one of those magic days! At a spot I’ve always wanted to go!
Back in the 90’s I was lucky enough to surf Newcastle Harbour a bunch of times. You really don’t want to hit the bottom! 🤕
🏀 Did not see the Knicks making it past Boston…and then they did, pretty impressively too! 👏
📺 The Great North has been one of my favourite discoveries this year, super funny, really dry humour, and quite weird.
And there’s 5 seasons of it! 🐻
The rain continues to fall here in Newcastle. 30mm in the last 24 hours, that’s on top of all the rain we’ve had since mid-March. I’d guess we’ve had 1000mm fall across that period, April had >640mm alone.
No chance we’re playing football this weekend. That’ll be 6 rounds washed out so far! 🤯
We’re had so much rain this year. April was super wet, we had around 620mm of rain across the month. With the constant wet and humid conditions, mushrooms and other fungi have been popping up all over the place.
📺 Loved the second season of Andor! I think I’m going to rewatch it from the very first episode through Rogue One seeing as that portion of the arc is pretty much complete now.
Always dropping my glasses!
I bought new prescription glasses a month or so ago, normally I get whatever Specsavers have the 2 for $199 deal on, but this time I splurged and bought 2 pairs of Rayban’s that ended up costing me $800+ after the private health rebate.
They’re comfortable to wear, they suit my face, I think they look pretty good…but they have got to be the worst glasses I’ve ever bought as every day I have to re-tighten the screws.
As I don’t need to wear them full time, only for reading, I often hang them on my shirt, but due to the arms needing to be tightened every day they pretty much fall off onto the floor whenever I bend over to pick something up, leading to them getting scratched up.
I think I’m going to have to get some of those lame glasses straps for them, like those neoprene ones surfers wore in the 80’s, or the beaded ones that the nosey receptionist from various 80’s and 90’s movies…not sure if I’m ready for that look yet. 😝
Out on water near Bolton Point, looking north toward Warners Bay. Not a fish to be found, at least the view was good.
Heading up the Hunter River toward the Stockton Bridge.
🎥 Watched: The Killing Game
When a hitman is diagnosed with a terminal illness, he decides to take a hit out on himself. But when the very hitmen he hired also target his ex-girlfriend, he must fend off an army of assassin colleagues.
Not a bad movie, full of all the cliches you’d expect from the genre, kind of a fun “John Wick” vibe.
🎥 Watching: MaXXXine
In 1980s Hollywood adult film star and aspiring actress Maxine Minx finally gets her big break. But as a mysterious killer stalks the starlets of Hollywood, a trail of blood threatens to reveal her sinister past.
There’s a certain weirdness and awkwardness that Mia Goth brings to her roles that works quite well for the characters she tends plays.
🎥 Watching: Sicario
An idealistic FBI agent is enlisted by a government task force to aid in the escalating war against drugs at the border area between the U.S. and Mexico.
I think I maybe expect too much from other people. Hard not to when you both signed up to and agreed upon the same narrative. Frustrating.
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So now the auditions begin to replace Pocket, an app I’ve used everyday for 10 years…ugh