Luke R. J. Maynard 🇨🇦

Novelist/musician/lawyer/academic! He/him. 🇨🇦
Enemy of fascism.
For positivity, follow my *peacetime* public social media account @lukemaynard.bsky.social.

[Luke R. J. Maynard 🇨🇦 @lukemaynard]

@Walrathis @EU_Commission @EUparliament One of the most important things to know about Canada: we don't have to "belong" to anyone to be loyal friends.

We don't have to be a member of the EU to be a devoted, dependable ally & stable partner to the EU.

Other countries confuse "independence" with "neutrality." Not us.

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@Burnouts3s3 5/5

…for most of the show.

He was annoyed that he worked his butt off to get into the best shape of his life, and he knew nobody would ever actually see it—which, for the most part, they never did.

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@Burnouts3s3 3/x
…months and got into the best shape of his life so that he wouldn't look ridiculous standing half naked next to Dolph Lundgren. He put on about 30 pounds of solid, chiseled muscle for the part, then when he showed up for his costume test, they put him in that shapeless bag…

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@Burnouts3s3 4/x
…cloak with molded chest armor, and completely concealed all the work he had done to get in shape for the movie.

I think the next film project he took after this was a really steamy romance drama and a bunch of stage work on Broadway, where he had to be onstage shirtless…

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@Burnouts3s3 2/x
…going to have to be onscreen in the little leather harness, wearing nothing but a skull mask and blue body paint, next to a 6'5" totally jacked young Dolph Lundgren.

Langella hit the gym BIG TIME. he was in decent shape, but he was really quite skinny. He trained for…

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@Burnouts3s3 1/x
For me, always, Langellator>SkeLeto, no question.

My favorite fun about it, side from how much the monologuing he ad libbed, is that #FrankLangella prepared for the role by watching the Filmation cartoons with his son, and was convinced that already in his 40s, he was…

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@quantumbiosis @TheCinesthetic I unironically LOVED this movie as a young child, then briefly got "too cool for it" in my teens, before I learned more than anyone should about the huge production nightmares it faced behind the scenes. The more you know about how doomed it was, the harder it is not to love it.

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@Reil76 2/2
…a little bit every year until we sell it.

But let's see what the US exports to Canada: A 2026 Mustang will be worth 30% less in 2028. US memory chips & computer parts will be devalued by Moore's Law. Corn & oranges rot. Waiting a year costs us nothing and them everything.

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@Reil76 1/2
Another aspect of asymmetry: it's not like we'll struggle to find buyers for oil, aluminum, cobalt, lumber, potash. But if it takes us 2 years to arrange new buyers, fine. All those resources winter well. Hell, if we don't log UNTIL the lumber contract is signed, it'll grow…

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@GBC_Press Those who say he can't unilaterally decide to remove the U.S. from NATO may have a good legal understanding. But they're grossly underestimating his ability to act in a way that gets the U.S. thrown out, which he'd view as the same thing.

U.S. dignity has zero cash value to him.

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@SebasP49474734 @Randaroo1212 I love the English language, but one of my favourite features of German is that single words like this can and do exist. 🇩🇪🧡

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@Lyons_Pen 13/13
hand-painted cover around? I don't think it works that way.

The availability of mediocrity for cheap is maybe a devil's bargain. But it is a bargain. I doubt much "business" is lost to people who would do without rather than hire a human.

But maybe something worse is.🤔

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@Lyons_Pen 2/x
…best described by an analogy I haven't managed to beat since I came up with it:

Steven Spielberg gets his loyal, elderly friends together for one last Indiana Jones movie.

Jackie Chan makes another classic Chan movie too.

Let's say word gets out that both have used AI.

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@Lyons_Pen 12/x
…fantasy horror shelved under fantasy, or under horror.

Do we lose something in failing to stand up for skilled painters? Maybe. But will human painters sighted by human writers simply go to ChatGPT to generate genetic mediocre slop novels that they then wrap a lovingly…