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I think if Canada wants to have a strong cultural identity we need to go back to doing what we're best at, making the weirdest fucking TV shows you've ever seen
November 26, 2025 at 7:33 PM
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Hell with it, I'm just going to post the whole thing here via screencap and alt text. It's Kaleb Horton, man, his writing always deserves the second read, especially since it could have just easily been lost forever like so much else. Read it, share it.
A look at forgotten Hollywood landmarks By Kaleb Horton Let's say you come in from down south, and you're looking for an unsung movie landmark. So you fly in to LAX, rent a car, blow right past Hollywood, leave Los Angeles county heading north, go over the Grapevine, gape at the monumental hills and, wow, there really is a Smokey Bear Road, then you turn off the air conditioner when the sign tells you. Once you come down the grade too fast and see the world's loneliest Denny's, you're well on your way to what you're looking for – the middle of nowhere. You're going to Kern County to find the spot where Alfred Hitchcock filmed one of the greatest scenes in movie history, the crop duster sequence from "North by Northwest." It takes place in Indiana, of course, but the Indiana road sign and the imported corn field can't deceive this Bakersfield native. The parched and desolate heat of the scene feels too much like Kern County. The scene people know off-hand — Cary Grant running from an airplane — isn't why "North by Northwest" is a classic. The film's greatness, as was often the case for Hitchcock, lies in its build-up, its suspense, its mood. The plane moment is almost anticlimax. It is those five minutes before Grant's desperate escape that constitute a mathematically perfect suspense scene. So expert is Hitchcock's hand that he creates suspense, a slow burning dread, with no camera tricks and no music in broad daylight. Grant's character is a prototypical James Bond. His perfect suit, fast wit, high-alcohol tolerance and effortless charisma have got him out of every predicament so far. In the city, among people, he has powers. Take him away from people, put him nowhere, and he's just like us — totally helpless. He has no powers: His suit is no good out here; his million-dollar tailoring and perfect haircut is just vanity now. No amount of pretending can provide escape. Here, is the one place where he can die, and he gets by on the grace of God. All he can do is wait for what's coming. So when you seek the lost landmark of this scene, you're looking for an idea as much as a place. You're on Highway 99 now, going 30 miles north of Bakersfield, looking for an unassuming patch of dirt that carries spiritual weight. The scene was filmed neart Garces Highway to the west of Delano. You'll think there's a handy exit for it. There's not. You'll probably get lost in Delano, counting on a connection. You're at once a million miles from Hollywood and a hundred miles away. It's lonely. The horizon sprawls forever like there's nothing past it. There are broken down trucks on the side of the road, plumes of smoke from faraway fires. You'll find Garces eventually. You'll pass a bar called Rosy's Place, abandoned houses, an oil field, a prison, a cemetery, a sign that says "we clean headstones," and a whole lot of gold-on-brown punctuated by an occasional trailer or car going faster than you. You're looking for where Garces meets Corcoran Road. That's where this "North by Northwest" scene was filmed. You'll get a vague idea where it is but you'll never be exactly sure, since there's little impetus for clear signage 10 miles from a prison. Maybe Corcoran Road is unlabeled. Besides, that Indiana sign and the prop cornfield haven't been there in 56 years. If you're anything like me, you'll lose the light and call it a day, unsatisfied with the route you took. You return to I-5 northbound. From the 5, you'll meet Route 46, and go through a place called Lost Hills, then back in to the location from Corcoran Road instead. That's how Hitchcock probably did it. More intuitive. Still in the middle of nowhere, but on your way to Corcoran Road, you're right next to another Hollywood landmark: Blackwells Corner, James Dean's last stop. It's a glorified Texaco, and gas is 50 cents a gallon more than it should be. They sell Jelly Bellys and '50s kitsch artifacts — plates with Marilyn Monroe's face on them, and so forth. They really figured out how to cash in on death. You don't want to stop here. But I stopped. I asked the kid at the Blackwells Corner counter how to get to Corcoran Road. He gave me a look that said "there's no reason to go there," and then wearily told me where to go anyway. I was about 8 miles from the destination. Going there is a meditative experience. You're not just going to the middle of nowhere. You're going to the perfect nowhere. Going alone, in the hypnotic heat of the Central Calfiornia Valley, you might even forget what year it is. There is no reason to believe the road would be so well preserved for half a century, intimately tied to the career of an actor born in Bristol 111 years ago, but it has been. There's an abandoned house. A barn with a cross on it. But almost nothing has changed in 56 years. At some point new lines were added on the road. There's overgrowth where there didn't used to be overgrowth. A couple discarded Budweiser cans from who knows when, but mostly it's identical. This is the same sleepy loneliness that Alfred Hitchcock used to make great art in 1959. And that may sound dull, but tranquility is the point. You stand on that dirt and there's no distraction from what's in your soul. It's an inner destination, not an outer one. I told my grandma about it when I got back to Bakersfield. She told me her Uncle Harold thought it was the prettiest road in America. And she showed me a picture of a Corcoran grade school class posing in the dirt with Grant and Hitchcock. It's just a field trip picture. The kids are fidgeting, many with arms folded, some shielding their eyes from the sun, all with obedient smiles. They'd all be in their sixties now, but they'd remember where this road is. It emphasized the ugliness of James Dean's last stop becoming a place to sell T-shirts. It's about what we preserve, and what we don't, and what we remember, and what we don't. It's easy to find shrines to morbidity and hard to find meaningful places. For those, you have to go looking.
November 26, 2025 at 9:52 PM
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antlervel.vet
Video game boss strategies? NO! THE WARMTH OF MY DOG'S BELLY!
Differences between power supply SKUs? NO! THE SMELL OF FRESH DILL!
Summaries of TikTokker beefs? NO! THE FEELING JUST BEFORE I KISSED HER FOR THE FIRST TIME!

DO NOT LET THE COMPUTER IN!
antlervel.vet Stella Sacco @antlervel.vet · Nov 17
if you are asked to learn a new computer thing: DON'T!! you can fit SUNSETS and OCEAN WAVES and THE TOUCH OF HER HAND in your brain!! do not allow COMPUTER in there!!
November 17, 2023 at 2:02 AM
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cicadaqueen.bsky.social
I've gotten more pressure to use AI than I ever did drugs and alcohol.
October 23, 2025 at 1:17 PM
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kenlowery.bsky.social
Put your fucking shopping cart away and push in your chair
zachweinersmith.bsky.social Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · Oct 16
Do you have any extremely niche, but serious, ethical stances?
October 17, 2025 at 3:08 AM
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kenlowery.bsky.social
Walmart nostalgia is Blockbuster nostalgia, to me. The things you liked about it were pale imitations of concepts they stole from the places they ran out of business. You don't like Walmart, you like the shadows of the things they destroyed
September 29, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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hadas.bsky.social
writing my annual review
September 22, 2025 at 10:20 AM
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thatweissguy.bsky.social
Telecom deregulation has been a disaster on so many levels.
September 18, 2025 at 12:28 PM
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hankgreen.bsky.social
It’s ok to put the phone down.
September 10, 2025 at 9:58 PM
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iainnd.bsky.social
The bank app is telling me to "tap & pay like a boss😏" and "rally my crew". I am 37 years old and you are the bank. Don't talk to me this way.
September 1, 2025 at 9:09 PM
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olafurw.com
Then: "Do not give a 3rd party access to our source code!"
Now: "With this new tool we give a 3rd party access to our source code after each key press."
August 7, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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willmasonmusic.com
Every rich person is going to tell *you* how great AI teaching is while sending *their* kids to the kind of schooling the Ancient Greeks would recognize. I just wish everyone would think about why that is.
phdhurtbrain.bsky.social Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · Aug 5
I think we’re on the cusp of mass attempts to automate teaching, and I also think it is going to be a massive wasteful failure in ways that will make the “learning loss” of the pandemic look like a speed bump next to a mountain.
August 5, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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madammaleficent.bsky.social
Your free time is not the same as your availability.
July 30, 2025 at 11:36 AM
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marygillis.bsky.social
Every. Single. Story. about women not using AI as much as men portray it as bad for their future career prospects (without a shred of evidence) and a result of women being fearful little ladies rather than looking at AI's output and saying "this sucks, it's not going to help me."
For women, the increase of AI use in the workplace may affect their careers: Harvard study
Women are using AI significantly less then men and it’s going to have a major impact on their careers, according to extensive research on the topic.
www.ctvnews.ca
July 26, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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calebdmtg.bsky.social
I remember when the Internet was good 😔
Google search's AI telling you that a Google search could give you a helpful answer to your query, and describing what a useful search result might look like.
June 24, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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jameshunt.bsky.social
Another in-person day in the office so that I can “collaborate” and “form stronger relationships” with my co-workers
A dimly lit office space with a modern, open-plan layout where the motion-sensing lights have deactivated due to inactivity. In the foreground, there is a wooden desk with a Lenovo ThinkPad laptop showing the Windows 10 desktop screen. Several more desks with office chairs and computer monitors are visible towards the back, arranged in pods. A window lets in some natural light, and the walls are white with a red-framed picture on the far wall. A glass-walled meeting room is visible in the background, illuminated by ceiling lights. The overall atmosphere feels quiet and deserted.
June 24, 2025 at 2:04 PM
dennisagain.bsky.social
Happy anniversary to Jaws. I still remember the awe I felt the first time I saw the shark crawl up on land to have a sword fight with the sheriff.
June 20, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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walmsley.bsky.social
the John Wick universe is what you get if someone explained everything about Vampire: the Masquerade except that the characters are vampires
June 15, 2025 at 3:03 PM
dennisagain.bsky.social
Commander Farsight takes his rightful place on the shelf of less shame. :)
A shelf containing numerous painted Warhammer 40k T'au Empire miniatures.
June 15, 2025 at 7:54 PM
dennisagain.bsky.social
Warhammer 40k T'au Empire Commander Farsight progress pictures 7. I felt like I was spamming this mini a bunch, so I stopped posting progress pictures and all of a sudden, it was just... done? As always, there's a few things that could be improved, but I'm happy overall and ready to move on.
A painted Warhammer 40k T'au Empire Commander Farsight miniature. A painted Warhammer 40k T'au Empire Commander Farsight miniature. A painted Warhammer 40k T'au Empire Commander Farsight miniature. A painted Warhammer 40k T'au Empire Commander Farsight miniature.
June 15, 2025 at 7:53 PM
dennisagain.bsky.social
If Megatron can fail time and time again, but still have the self-confidence to write "Megatron Rules!" on himself, surely the rest of us can believe in ourselves a little more.
June 10, 2025 at 2:51 AM
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June 8, 2025 at 3:55 AM
dennisagain.bsky.social
Warhammer 40k T'au Empire Commander Farsight progress pictures 6. Not a ton of change, but I was really happy with how the hand turned out and I know I'm about to wreck stuff doing the elbow and shoulder, so here's some pictures. :)
A Warhammer 40k T'au Empire Commander Farsight miniature in teh process of being painted. A Warhammer 40k T'au Empire Commander Farsight miniature in teh process of being painted. A Warhammer 40k T'au Empire Commander Farsight miniature in teh process of being painted.
May 23, 2025 at 9:35 PM
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olafurw.com
cute norwegian house "my simple web project" huge container ship run ashore next to it "my node_modules folder"
May 22, 2025 at 9:43 PM
dennisagain.bsky.social
Warhammer 40k T'au Empire Commander Farsight progress pictures 5. I had a little bit of painting time tonight, so I got the plasma rifle to where I'm happy with it. I think the shield arm is up next, starting on the little knuckle gaps. Pray for me.
A Warhammer 40k T'au Empire Commander Farsight miniature in the process of being painted. A Warhammer 40k T'au Empire Commander Farsight miniature in the process of being painted. A Warhammer 40k T'au Empire Commander Farsight miniature in the process of being painted.
May 23, 2025 at 3:24 AM