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]

@thatsnakeflag @stelzner_n1150 It's really easy to point fingers from the Left and say "we told you," but the truth is, everything about him was an obvious betrayal of Liberal American values from Day One.

It took years longer to see just how deep a traitor to CONSERVATIVE American values he has ALSO become.

[Luke R. J. Maynard 🇨🇦 @lukemaynard]

@videodungeon1 @jk_tidwell I take no credit for the visuals since they're fake art from the Great Mediocrity Machine. But I AM proud of the @CourteneyCox parallel from Scream/MotU '87, and also the "Battle-Ac" for #Gwildor's unreleased vehicle.

"Dark Dancin' Gale," of course, was: https://t.co/o1Gy9KQtWt

[Luke R. J. Maynard 🇨🇦 @lukemaynard]

@videodungeon1 @jk_tidwell ⬆️See, this is why non-experts who aren't actively working in this space just don't know based on how the industry worked even 5 years ago. I'm *kinda* savvy but this was a blind spot for me too.

Comparing box offices already fails if we compare what merchandise DOESN'T exist:🤣

[Luke R. J. Maynard 🇨🇦 @lukemaynard]

@rafadazora @Variety I really, REALLY need to rewatch the original cartoons based on my memory (which might be faulty, but maybe isn't) that Scooby "talks" to everybody, but other than the audience I think Shaggy is the only one who understands his actual words, not just general emotions.

[Luke R. J. Maynard 🇨🇦 @lukemaynard]

@ReaveleyBarbara @MattThomas2021 @maddenifico @brucehayes I keep saying, my cat also has the intelligence of a 4-year-old child. He would ALSO sell your country to Russia for 2 lbs. of salmon.

Answer: DON'T let my cat be President.

If you DID, it's not my cat's fault for acting his nature. It's the fault of all those who let him rule.

[Luke R. J. Maynard 🇨🇦 @lukemaynard]

@theXRPfamily @mark_slapinski I wish the people who call Carney a communist could meet up with the people who won't shut up about his former ties to Brookfield, so they can finally resolve these irreconcilable facts the only way they know how: by saying nothing at all without their craven digital anonymity.

[Luke R. J. Maynard 🇨🇦 @lukemaynard]

@EmanonNamow @DonnieGarretson @timruss2 Well obviously the screwworms are checking people's paperwork when they hop aboard, and if everything's in order, they stay home 😅

Maybe it's all the MAGA tourists who have to go somewhere more exotic now that Epstein-Trump Island is closed for business.

[Luke R. J. Maynard 🇨🇦 @lukemaynard]

@trincun @Lyons_Pen Almost as long as I could read, the industry standard of grossly overreaching the USD/CAD exchange rate has felt unfair to me.

Your ratio is already fairer than most trad publishers.👍 But $4.99 USD is currently $6.95 CAD. I likely underprice here to stay near the exchange rate.

[Luke R. J. Maynard 🇨🇦 @lukemaynard]

@TedPillows When a casino crashes, watch the offer of the casino. If he's crying, you're watching a crash. If he's dancing, you're watching a robbery.

[Luke R. J. Maynard 🇨🇦 @lukemaynard]

@Dytanr1 @CBUncharted Your misreading of annoyance with butthurt fans as "butt hurt" itself is a master class in projection.

You also can't prove an opinion wrong. If I like the worst movie, you (OK, not you, but someone) can argue convincingly that it's garbage. They can't disprove that I like it.

[Luke R. J. Maynard 🇨🇦 @lukemaynard]

@LiteraryExile @ThomasStorai There was a time I thought Episodes 7, 8, and 9 could have just been straight-up adaptations the Heir to the Empire trilogy.

But what would they have done when Carrie Fisher died part-way through Episode VIII, and her entire Lady Vader/Noghri arc fell apart?

[Luke R. J. Maynard 🇨🇦 @lukemaynard]

@WhyADuck2 @allenanalysis @SafeSchoolMAP I wonder whether he's taking the test so many times on the premise that people whose job description includes drawing clocks and counting backwards by seven, and who drills these skills on a daily basis, might present better on a MoCA regardless of hs general functional decline.

[Luke R. J. Maynard 🇨🇦 @lukemaynard]

@rospigge60559 It DOES affect Sweden's security.
It ensures another state neighbouring Russia—one that has recently shown it's willing to take the fight right into Moscow if needed—is well equipped to come to its aid if & when Russia decides it wants to let Sweden be the new Finland #WinterWar2

[Luke R. J. Maynard 🇨🇦 @lukemaynard]

@SolinceTheWolf @Kyle36482968 @vr_mama @mexopolis This is NOT, by the way, an endorsement of AI. It's, an endorsement of arguing from the truth, not from whatever unsourced made-up numbers support what we want to hear.

You know who makes up sources and doesn't care whether they're true if they confirm user bias? ChatGPT does.

[Luke R. J. Maynard 🇨🇦 @lukemaynard]

@SolinceTheWolf @Kyle36482968 @vr_mama @mexopolis I'm ready to believe this IF the number doesn't trace back to Kaen Hao's "Empire of AI," which mistook L/sec. instead of m³/hr., overestimating the water use of AI data centers by about 100,000%.

Source: https://t.co/diU46IyJtx

But given how few alarmists care, it likely does.

[Luke R. J. Maynard 🇨🇦 @lukemaynard]

@Ddyritz @emkenobi A sentiment shared wholeheartedly by one of Lucas's most iconic film co-creations!

[Luke R. J. Maynard 🇨🇦 @lukemaynard]

@Pathfin27511244 @tryin2bgreenman @sawyeurism I'll just leave this here. I'm not a big fan of the narration, but it has some fantastic gems from the cutting room floor and a few glimpses of what the film would have looked like, and DID look like.
https://t.co/6xLXjVrOtY

[Luke R. J. Maynard 🇨🇦 @lukemaynard]

@Mr_Zilla1 @JoshPhillipsPhD Not to throw a monkey wrench into your plans, but... 😅

[Luke R. J. Maynard 🇨🇦 @lukemaynard]

@KevinLamb74 @cineburk 3/3
…Chancellor, to fund clone research on a huge scale.
I've always understood the Empire as a means to an end, not the end itself. Palpatine's true enemy is mortality. But he had to funnel the galaxy's wealth into clonetech to achieve "somehow return" capacity in his lifetime.

[Luke R. J. Maynard 🇨🇦 @lukemaynard]

@KevinLamb74 @cineburk 2/3?
…to reclaim his ancestral wealth as the ruler of Serenno. People forget that he bankrolled the battle droids because he didn't want the large-scale loss of life of civilian militias defending their homes.

That army gave Palpatine the justification, once he became Supreme…