Thomas Midena

My YouTube channel is very much in its awkward teens, full of dreams but unsure about everything.

Just a delight to chat with my best pal in the whole wide world, Meta support <3

I didn't know about Beeper when I set up my Matrix Synapse server... but I'm still very glad I did it.

Blog: https://thomid.me/matrix-bridges-got-me-off-social-media/

#matrix #beeper #socialmedia #selfhosting #blog

Just realised Instagram has an AI translation feature which was automatically dubbing Spanish vlogs into English AND even changing the way the person's mouth moved so that it matched the dub. It took me ages to clock it wasn't real.

Thanks I hate it!

Better late than never, here are my favourite 25 soundtracks from 2025.

Presented in a few different forms:

Blog: https://thomid.me/my-favourite-soundtracks-2025/
PeerTube: https://codec.au/w/f28ciwaGNMJ8G8DypQzVcW
YouTube: https://youtu.be/uLExESRgjt0

#soundtrack #score #ost #film #tv #games

This year I'm very excited to be directing a play with a great company in a beautiful theatre. A modern existential horror, no less.

Here's the magical poster with graphic design by Bonnie McAllister.

🎭 POMONA
Written by Alistair McDowall
Directed by Thomas Midena
August 7–16
🎟 pomonaplay.au

#theatre #adelaide #pomona

Thankfully THE DRAMA is still really good even if it's been spoiled for you.

And as a bonus, getting spoiled by Facebook's feed might be the thing that finally gets me to stop browsing that loathsome website.

#thedrama

Why stop there?

• [x] started selfhosting old podcasts on castopod
• [x] set up filebrowser quantum for remote file access
• [x] deduplicated a bunch of photos on immich

Yes there are more important things I'm supposed to be doing.

Indulging my inner nerd* this week:

- [x] kindle jailbroken
- [x] website upgraded to astro 6
- [x] peertube media migrated to s3 storage
- [x] new loops server running

*let's be honest it's not that "inner"

RE: @noellemitchell@mstdn.social

Unfortunately it's unlikely that Bsky stays good. Who knows when, but at some point greed leads to bad decisions. It doesn't have the built-in protections of Mastodon.

#bluesky

It's surreal to have a voice as familiar to me as Bertie Carvel's become such public property with the popularity of A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms.

The intimacy of hearing him voice my Imperial Agent over hundreds of hours of decision making in Star Wars: The Old Republic is profound. His voice became mine.

And I see he'll be Fudge in the new Harry Potter. Glad to have to share him with the wider world.

#swtor #aknightofthesevenkingdoms

To my surprise, Wonder Man's depiction of "yearning for Hollywood" outdoes both The Studio and The Franchise.

Plenty of similarities between these three recent shows, but Wonder Man has the biggest heart.

#tv #wonderman

It's a pity so many are still hung up on the messy ending of Game of Thrones.

They're missing out on two excellent seasons of House of the Dragon and four really really really brilliant episodes of A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms.

Some of the world's finest TV-makers doing their thing here.

#tv #aknightofthesevenkingdoms #gameofthrones

I wrote about ditching Trakt last year, and how things are going on Yamtrack (much better thank you).

https://thomid.me/yamtrack-beats-trakt/

#trakt #yamtrack #media #tracker #scrobbling #selfhosting

RE: @massivelyop@mastodon.social

This is absolute insanity.

If it's all over, this is surely one of the biggest game crash-outs of all time.

#mmorpg #ashesofcreation