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Lawrence of Canadia

@cactuarlar.bsky.social
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Film junkie. Fake writer. Punthusiast. Mostly harmless. Forever oscillating between hopeful and cynical.

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Lawrence of Canadia @cactuarlar.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I keep seeing posts that are like "don't use the new ai bot from the company that has demonstrated a repeated pattern of disregarding basic privacy and security ethics, because we've determined it'll look at and steal all your data" as if this is surprising in any way
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Lawrence of Canadia @cactuarlar.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I have a mother-in-law who not only actively wanted to watch Over the Garden Wall but also loved it. So basically what I’m saying is: suck it, everybody else.
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Lawrence of Canadia @cactuarlar.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Trying to parse through the 130 candidates for the upcoming Vancouver municipal election and slowly losing the will to exist.
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Lawrence of Canadia @cactuarlar.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I won't be engaging with this list other than to point out that animated and children's programming are both woefully underrepresented (not that this is surprising)
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🐺Cold🪦Sam🪾 @pdfmerchant.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
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Lawrence of Canadia @cactuarlar.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Seeing “woke garbage” in a comment section about a movie is an immediate beacon for me to think “huh, maybe I should check it out” and is more effective marketing than any actual marketing
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Lawrence of Canadia @cactuarlar.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
1. Hey 2. Absotootely 3. If 4. Sorry to hear about your kid, but look on the bright side, now he gets to meet Batman’s parents 5. Um
Unflattering image of a man who looks like he has none of the answers, with the caption “Five things to never say in a one-on-one with your manager.”
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Lawrence of Canadia @cactuarlar.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Found out today that I can report the ads Facebook shows me for their new AI assistant as a scam, and it doesn’t get less enjoyable no matter how many times I do it.
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Nathan Bulmer @natemorebikes.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
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Lawrence of Canadia @cactuarlar.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Watched Don Hertzfeldt's latest short, Paper Trail (2026), last night. The man who's made an entire career out of making life feel precious, and tragic, and funny, and futile, and hopeful. He fucking did it again. This fucking guy.
"Paper Trail, a film by Don Hertzfelt" overtop a piece of faintly lined paper partially covered with directionless pen scribbles.
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Lawrence of Canadia @cactuarlar.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Haribo basically made their own version of Gushers and it's everything I've ever wanted in a gummy candy.
A bag of HARIBO VULCANO ZING gummies. The name is in all caps because I'm yelling it, making myself harder to ignore. The children's librarian is shushing me, but I keep shouting, because this is far more important than making literacy fun and accessible. "You have to keep your voice down or we'll ask you to leave." You can't silence the new gummy revolution, lady. The world deserves to know the truth. Oh, what, you're going to drag me out of here by force? You and what ar--ow. Ow! Okay! I'm leaving!
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Lawrence of Canadia @cactuarlar.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Ed Sheeran, the Game of Thrones actor?
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Lawrence of Canadia @cactuarlar.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
(negotiating with my alarm clock) but what if, and hear me out, instead, I *didn’t* wake up today
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Lawrence of Canadia @cactuarlar.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Ethan Hunt attempting to infiltrate a long-term neurodivergent couple would blow his cover within five minutes, as soon as the first call-and-response vocal stim comes up, any one of potentially hundreds. We basically have built-in relationship opsec.
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whet moser @whetmoser.com · 15/09/2026
rhea seehorn didn’t win for better call saul so vince gilligan was like, what if she was the only character, what now
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Lawrence of Canadia @cactuarlar.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Shoutout to that one drug commercial tonight during the Emmys whose side effects include a taint infection so bad it can kill you
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Lawrence of Canadia @cactuarlar.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
The German release of Project Hail Mary is just called Der Astronaut, and while I understand this kind of localization happens all the time, it doesn’t make it any less funny
The German 4K UHD cover of Project Hail Mary, titled Der Astronaut
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Lawrence of Canadia @cactuarlar.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Seven failed password attempts before I realized caps lock was on has really set the tone for today's workday
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You Can't Stop Progress @petrochemicsoul.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Thinking about "plus they'll probably have to deal with Godzilla at some point".
"Tried to watch 'Shin Godzilla" on the plane only to realize by the end of the movie that it actually a drama movie called 'Tears for you'. Words can't describe the feeling of watching an incredibly sad movie while constantly thinking: 'Damn... This is depressing. Plus, they'll probably have to deal with Godzilla at some point too...'"

What follows are four screencaps (presumably from "Tears for You"), showing a smiling woman (subtitled "I really love you."), a distant image from above of axwonsn in a white dress (subtitled"Thank you... for raising me."), a short-haired person weeping, and finally, an apprehensive woman (subtitled "living happily.")
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Lawrence of Canadia @cactuarlar.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Brand new hill I could die on for a bit: if the equivalent of a one-book story is split across three separate physical volumes, that shouldn’t be called a trilogy
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Lawrence of Canadia @cactuarlar.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Physical 100 Italy is a fantastic pivot for the series, because it’s like what if our self-aggrandizing competition for extreme athletes was presented in the silliest possible language
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Lawrence of Canadia @cactuarlar.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Happy 108th Minute of Star Trek Generations Day to all who celebrate or Happy 11th Minute of Star Trek Day to all who celebrate or Happy 111th Minute of Star Trek Into Darkness Day to all who celebrate
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Lawrence of Canadia @cactuarlar.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
There should be a band called Ship of Theseus that replaces a core member every few years, forever
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Lawrence of Canadia @cactuarlar.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Batman Beyond and Tron: Uprising are the same show
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Lawrence of Canadia @cactuarlar.bsky.social · 14/03/2024
Authorial self-insertion in fiction can be a risky trope with very little payoff, but I have to admit that Dolores Umbridge is a pretty seamless entry
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Lawrence of Canadia @cactuarlar.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
lying on the couch wishing I had a li’l treat o, what cruelest fate
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Lawrence of Canadia @cactuarlar.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
As someone who has had cats, and will one day have more cats, more than anything else I want a supplemental anecdote detailing exactly how this now-routine interaction was initially discovered
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Lawrence of Canadia @cactuarlar.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
This is good advice, but also, the structure of the last two sentences made me laugh because it felt like the post took a sudden 180 to endorse drowning your phone
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Newbie Star Trek @newbiestartrek.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
The Proper Way to End a Star Trek Episode
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Lawrence of Canadia @cactuarlar.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
My hottest film take is that Ridley Scott’s best movies are good by accident, and his worst ones are those that most successfully convey his vision. Whenever he talks about a movie I liked in an interview, I'm often thinking, "THAT'S what you were going for? Huh, good thing you're bad at your job."
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Lawrence of Canadia @cactuarlar.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Michael Emerson line delivery appreciation post
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Lawrence of Canadia @cactuarlar.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Facebook served me an ad for pants that looks like if a tech startup just invented the concept of the inseam
Three differently-sized models, looking at each others’ non-nude legs in awe, all wearing THE PANT! AVAILABLE IN 3 LENGTHS!
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Lawrence of Canadia @cactuarlar.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
doctor: treatment is simple, no more right turns, no more left turns, walk in straight line only man: but doctor, I am zagliacci
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Lawrence of Canadia @cactuarlar.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Quaid, preheat the reactor to 425
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Lawrence of Canadia @cactuarlar.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Now entering the “accidentally taking a close-up photo of my jeans” to “suddenly becoming too interested in finding out how denim is made” pipeline
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Lawrence of Canadia @cactuarlar.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Nice double entendre, or as the French would say, 𝘥𝘦𝘶𝘹 𝘮𝘦𝘢𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘴
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Lawrence of Canadia @cactuarlar.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
how to negotiate with your adhd in two easy steps: [monday] buckle up, we have a lot of work to get done before friday, it’s time to focus, we can do this [thursday night] okay but seriously
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Lawrence of Canadia @cactuarlar.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
[mathematician watching the trailer for godzilla minus zero] why didn't they just call it godzilla
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Lawrence of Canadia @cactuarlar.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
If AI disappeared tomorrow I’m not even joking when I say that it would probably take me days to notice, and when I finally noticed it’d be because I’d be thinking “why have I been in such a good mood lately?” while at my desk
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Lawrence of Canadia @cactuarlar.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Random thoughts while watching all the Resident Evil movies: 1. Umbrella Corp loves branding everything. Monitors, knives, solar panels. They could make more on merch if they stopped killing everyone. 2. Waking up naked in an unfamiliar place happens so often that I now consider it a theme.
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Lawrence of Canadia @cactuarlar.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Years later and this running gag still makes me laugh. Never gonna feel too old to watch kids’ cartoons.
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Lawrence of Canadia @cactuarlar.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Whether someone might love or hate Metal Gear Solid games can be boiled down entirely to how they'd react to the origin of the codename Big Boss
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Lawrence of Canadia @cactuarlar.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Saw it tonight. He got turned into a pig, and later he threw a rock at a cow. 𝘊𝘭𝘢𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘤 𝘚𝘦𝘢𝘯.
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Lawrence of Canadia @cactuarlar.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Saying “hey” makes you sound old. “What’s waggin’, my doggie” instead.
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Lawrence of Canadia @cactuarlar.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Was looking at the cast of The Odyssey and noticed that Sean Avery, like the actual greatest hockey super-pest who ever lived, the guy who the NHL had to literally make a new rule for, not just some random actor also named Sean Avery, is in the movie? What?
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Lawrence of Canadia @cactuarlar.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Type of request: enhancement Scope of request: all of reality Brief description of request: if enough people boo a man in unison, he should simply drop dead Additional notes: apply retroactively if possible
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Lawrence of Canadia @cactuarlar.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
From the ADHD archives: Today, instead of listening to management report on Q4 KPIs, my brain hummed the theme song to 1993’s Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey, a movie I haven’t seen or thought about in over 30 years.
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Lawrence of Canadia @cactuarlar.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
movie about a weird vagina called The Oddussy, is that anything
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The Midnight Society @midnightpals.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
[mysterious circle of robed figures] JK Rowling: hello children Rowling: apparently amnessty international ssayss i'm anti-rightss Rowling: how dare they! Rowling: i'm going to take away their right to ssay that
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