Replied to Automatically sending Webmentions from a static website by James Mead (jamesmead.org)
I'd also like to find a way to say thank you to Aaron Parecki who built webmention.io and Ryan Barrett, Kyle Mahan, et al who built brid.gy. However, I can't see a way to do either and, indeed, the latter explicitly say "We don't need donations, promise." 
In the past, I’ve heard many of them say to make a donation or support the IndieWeb Open Collective instead.
Read From Bean to Brew: The Coffee Supply Chain (Visual Capitalist)
How does coffee get from a faraway plant to your morning cup? See the great journey of beans through the coffee supply chain.
Nothing terrifically new here, but an interesting visualization. This might be interesting to James Gallagher, though it also reminds me that he’ll more likely appreciate this episode of Bite from Mother Jones and the associated podcast Containers if he hasn’t come across it yet.
Watched "Vera" Hidden Depths from Hoopla
Directed by Adrian Shergold. With Brenda Blethyn, David Leon, Wunmi Mosaku, Paul Ritter. A handsome young man, a coquettish student teacher, nothing in common between them - except that both were murdered and left with their bodies meticulously posed.
This is apparently only available for streaming on Hoopla, so I’m giving it a whirl there. The UI isn’t horrible though the video UI is very sparse and incredibly small to see/interact with via desktop.

Vera in this incarnation isn’t as heavy or frumpy as I might have imagined, but the show seems relatively engaging. Curious to see how the character evolves.

Watched Confessions of a Shopaholic (2009) from Amazon Prime
Directed by P.J. Hogan. With Isla Fisher, Hugh Dancy, Krysten Ritter, Joan Cusack. A college grad lands a job as a financial journalist in New York City to support where she nurtures her shopping addiction and falls for a wealthy entrepreneur.

Watched on Sunday October 11, 2020.

Rating: ★★★½

Evie watched a bit with us before bed and then didn’t want to go to sleep.

It’s harder to watch this now after having watched Hugh Dancy in Hannibal. But still an entertaining romp. I hadn’t noticed before, but the winning bidder for the green scarf at the end was apparently Kristen Connolly who I’d not recognized in the movie before, but who is now better known as Christina Gallagher in the US remake of House of Cards.

Read - Reading: Raven Black (Shetland Island #1) by Ann Cleeves (Minotaur Books)
Raven Black begins on New Year’s Eve with a lonely outcast named Magnus Tait, who stays home waiting for visitors who never come. But the next morning the body of a murdered teenage girl is discovered nearby, and suspicion falls on Magnus. Inspector Jimmy Perez enters an investigative maze that leads deeper into the past of the Shetland Islands than anyone wants to go.
Finished chapter 3

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