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Andrea Bellemare @dreabells.bsky.social · 8h

In honour of Anne Carson winning the Nobel in Lit, the Globe and Mail reprinted an interview with her from 2000. "In three different rooms, she has three desks with different projects on each." THREE ROOMS OF HER OWN WITH THREE DESKS AND THREE PROJECTS, THE DAMN DREAM

"When I go home and open the door, there's like fifty hundred Greeks in there." Her mind is "a small screen," she explains, "and when I go into myself to see what I can say about something that's happened, the stuff I meet is Samuel Beckett beside Aristophanes." In three different rooms, she has three desks with different projects on each. She writes in long-hand, and moves from one project to the other, when the mood strikes her, cross-pollinating one with information from the other.

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Andrea Bellemare @dreabells.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Just recently rented a car with no knobs (except for the gear shift, which sucked because it was a laggy knob) and I join this chorus

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Andrea Bellemare @dreabells.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I'd say Guelph or Hamilton, maybe London, Ont, but the first two for sure.

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Andrea Bellemare @dreabells.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Look, it's her first time probably, she'll get it

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Andrea Bellemare @dreabells.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

This makes sense to me - we passed peak usefulness and now there's all sorts of digital clutter/barriers

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Andrea Bellemare @dreabells.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

This is a good thread cutting through the hype around AI as world ender and how to actually talk about the Hugging Face hack. I particularly like the section about the chatbots imitating hacker conference transcripts, a thing people have taken to show AI was actually "planning" not just imitating

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Andrea Bellemare @dreabells.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

What's wackier, western MB and eastern Que having the same time zone in the winter, or the winter time sandwiches of Kenora, Ont. and NWT?

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 20/09/2026

Fully electric aviation has some major challenges (mostly: batteries are heavy and don't get lighter as they get used up) but I love the idea of decreasing aircraft emissions through a hybrid approach, perhaps as a step toward new, clever solutions for fully electric air transport in the future.

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Andrea Bellemare @dreabells.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

The way the composer put sound to represent the transits of the sun and moon across the sky, gorgeous. Particularly loud booms for lightning! From beauty to bafflement, I guess these are the pleasures and perils of short films 🤣

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Andrea Bellemare @dreabells.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I wanted to stay to hear Johann Lurf talk about Forever...Forever. He shot it on 65mm, a series of timelapses of day & night at the Ottenstein Reservoir. The days and nights get shorter as the film goes on. Stunningly beautiful! Day & night blur! Life is fleeting! johannlurf.net/foreverforev...

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Johann Lurf - Forever...Forever

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Andrea Bellemare @dreabells.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I too had to leave, it was too much! Would be effective for torturing someone maybe, but also felt very overdone in an effort to be artsy. Also included eyeball closeups (reminiscent of A Clockwork Orange), night-vision like imagery of a herd of wild boars appearing to eat a carcass, etc

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Andrea Bellemare @dreabells.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Went to see TIFF's Wavelengths 3, a selection of 4 experimental short films. The last film was James Richard's Fevers, which had strong strobe effects & an overwhelming sound mix. In my row, one woman left, another guy had his eyes closed, a third guy was leaning foward, rapt. This is cinema 😂

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Sheldon Birnie @badguybirnie.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Strong competitor for new author photo just dropped 📷 @dreabells.bsky.social

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Andrea Bellemare @dreabells.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

😂😂😂 takin care of business

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Andrea Bellemare @dreabells.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Also where would they have filmed all those scenes from Suits otherwise?

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Andrea Bellemare @dreabells.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I've taken out-of-towners there to see the displays, visit the festival store, get a coffee in the Varda lounge or a cocktail on the 2nd floor. To say nothing of the films I've seen there! I really like the Lightbox. My only complaint is it needs more bike parking.

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Andrea Bellemare @dreabells.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Certainly there were fears it might be an expensive waste, and the trend seemed to be people watching movies at home (particularly because of the pandemic), but nice to see that it's a year-round destination.

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Andrea Bellemare @dreabells.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Interesting little tidbit about the TIFF Lightbox: "According to data obtained by The Globe, the Lightbox’s 2025 year-round box office, outside of the festival, came in at just more than $1.6-million, the theatre’s highest annual gross since 2018." www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/film...

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Can TIFF navigate a global film industry facing a ‘turning point’?

The pressure is rising for Toronto to deliver a festival that has real impact

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Andrea Bellemare @dreabells.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Seems like the first rule of toothbrush making is dealing with the whole water issue

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Andrea Bellemare @dreabells.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Just feel like I'm bleeding already

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Andrea Bellemare @dreabells.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Avocados are smaller and soft, you could use a smaller knife. It's the cheese size and the lack of grip among other things

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Andrea Bellemare @dreabells.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Other people in the comments say that too, but then still others talk about the injuries they've gotten from that. I personally would not, even if i'm camping and don't have the same surfaces

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Andrea Bellemare @dreabells.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Watching a video about cooking Brie and fruit in a skillet over a campfire and who the hell cuts Brie this way, is your hand still attached?

Person holds a Brie wheel in left hand and cuts the top in their right with a big knife. Questions remain about whether the knife punctured their hand

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Andrea Bellemare @dreabells.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I switched from one provider to another, and then the signal got worse but it wasn't possible to get a stronger modem, just pay more for a booster

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Andrea Bellemare @dreabells.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I too had to get boosters, because my wifi isn't strong enough to cover my whole apartment??? and somehow the wifi costs more than ever

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Andrea Bellemare @dreabells.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

As always, feels like a good day to remind people of DARVO, a tactic favoured by manipulators: Deny, Attack, and Reverse Victim and Offender. Just in case that reminds you of any particular international situation, maybe.

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Andrea Bellemare @dreabells.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

"Fancy grocery stores have become a nexus for laundering conservative ideology under the compelling guise of pantry goods that are nice to look at." www.eater.com/food-culture...

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I’m Over the Erewhonification of Fancy Grocery Stores

The rise of “luxury” grocery stores feels deeply sinister

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andy™ @andylevy.net · 08/09/2026

werner herzog on AI filmmaking (from here www.indiewire.com/features/int...)

Q: A couple years ago at IDFA, I saw this movie "About a Hero," which is this partly Al-generated hybrid documentary that tries to recreate the atmosphere of your films.

A: The intention of this young filmmaker was never to remake any [of my films], but making something in the spirit. And I immediately said, "You will fail. It is such a stupid idea. It's phenomenally, abysmally stupid. I will not take part in it." He wanted me to explain things and have my voice in it.
I said, "You are alone. There's such a thing as free speech, which I respect. So go ahead and fail." And it is a failure, period.
It's so standardized that Al can step in because there's not real storytelling. It's mimicry of something that has happened before. And I welcome Al to replace all the idiots who are into nothing but repeating, repeating, repeating until it's ad nauseam.
When it's ad nauseam, please, please, please let Al step in and do the job.

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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 08/09/2026

All else aside there is nothing I want or need genAI to do for me. I like reading. I like doing research. I like playing around in spreadsheets. I like interviewing people. I like writing. I like doing these things for myself because I take pleasure in the doing and they make me a better thinker.

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John Nichols @nicholsuprising.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Dolly Parton logged a combined total of 115 years of union membership. Throughout her working life, the “9 to 5” singer/songwriter carried the union cards of two major unions: The American Federation of Musicians Local 257 in Nashville — for 58 years. SAG-AFTRA — for 57 years. HAPPY LABOR DAY!

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Opinion | Celebrate Dolly Parton's working-class solidarity

John Nichols: She carried two union cards, sang Woody Guthrie songs and mocked the bosses in "9 to 5."

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Andrea Bellemare @dreabells.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

“If most of our business is outside of the U.S. and it’s more expensive because of the self-inflicted tariffs to build things in the U.S., that does not encourage us to build more things in the U.S,” Agranat said. “That’s counter to that.” www.thestar.com/business/fac...

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Trump’s tariffs forced this U.S. company’s move to Canada. And it’s not the only one

Faced with Trump tariffs, some U.S. manufacturers are moving production to Ontario and Quebec to cut costs by almost 30 per cent.

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Andrea Bellemare @dreabells.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Donair Force One and Halicopter are also good

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Andrea Bellemare @dreabells.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

This Proud Boys chapter says they have plans to keep harassing this DSA group - maybe if there's more free food they'll end up joining the DSA instead

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Andrea Bellemare @dreabells.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Extremely Toronto note: tried to bike down Shaw Street today on the way to work, still downed power lines there from yesterday's store. Or perhaps newly downed, as a police car was nearby and road not properly blocked off to prevent traffic turning down. A measure of how much damage the storm caused

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Andrea Bellemare @dreabells.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Oh! Tiki is your dog. Tiki deserves all the Kraft singles!

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Andrea Bellemare @dreabells.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

as a canadian, what is Tiki cheese? Like orange cheddar?

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Andrea Bellemare @dreabells.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

You know what you need to do!! Can't resist that face!

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Molly Morrison @mollyhannahm.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

the fact that the NBA was forced to investigate and punish its richest owner because of a scandal uncovered by an investigative journalist… shoutout to pablo torre! journalism is so important!!!

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Andrea Bellemare @dreabells.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Not entirely certain but think I passed a gas leak on my way home - fire truck had blocked off the street and the aroma of gas was strong. Realized there's no obvious way to check online, like a hydro outage. Wild storm #torontostorm #ontariostorm

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

What Pablo Torre did was ridiculously impressive. Uncovered a conspiracy between rich guys, withstood a propaganda campaign by one of the richest guys in the world with a pretty good reputation, didn't buckle or panic, and just kept reporting. That's some Pulitzerin' right there.

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