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Sid Fiore Branca @sidbranca.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

doing final picture locked exports today for a feature-length essay film / experimental documentary type beat that i've been working on as the editor on and off for almost a year, please clap

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Sid Fiore Branca @sidbranca.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

since people on here are chatting about Duchamp's Fountain, if anyone wants to know my lukewarm take, it's that i think the 1917 urinal-as-art piece is perhaps interesting in an additional way if you accept the slightly hotter take that Marcel Duchamp aka Rrose Sélavy really Had Some Gender Going On

a signed print of Rrose Sélavy photographed by Man Ray, in which she is frankly serving

wikipedia screenshot of the sculpture Why Not Sneeze, Rose Sélavy? by Marcel Duchamp aka Rrose Sélavy. it's primarily sugarcubes in a cage, along with cuttlefish bones and a thermometer, and i am not gonna lie this title and material combination feels extremely trans to me

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Sid Fiore Branca @sidbranca.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

braved some thrift stores in hopes of finding something to wear when the Canadiens are playing, instead ended up with a kinda ratty Smashing Pumpkins shirt, in case anyone was wondering if my heart is still in a game of tug of war between Montréal and Chicago

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Sid Fiore Branca @sidbranca.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

i have to translate "geil" for something where someone is speaking German and while i *understand* the various uses of this word, trying to pick an English translation for this specific use case is honestly so difficult

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Sid Fiore Branca @sidbranca.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

it’s bisexual visibility day apparently, which is making me realize that i have been out for around 27 years??? which is longer than some of my friends have been alive??? what is time

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Sid Fiore Branca @sidbranca.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

this detail of the literacy crisis makes me so unwell, it takes 100% of my patience & empathy to not scream uncontrollably when i see "casted" you can say "so-and-so was cast in..." like an adult who has had conversations with other adults about theater & film, please, i am begging, for my sanity

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Sid Fiore Branca @sidbranca.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

just heard my neighbor playing a beautiful rendition of "You Never Give Me Your Money" on the keyboard, which unfortunately i think does mean this neighbor has been hearing me have sex late at night or, more embarrassingly, singing along off-key to Stone Temple Pilots songs

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Sid Fiore Branca @sidbranca.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

we really gotta invent a cheese grater you can actually sharpen

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Sid Fiore Branca @sidbranca.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

i am back in montreal from a lovely quick trip to toronto and i have 17 days here before i leave town again for a month, how many of the Things I Gotta Do will actually happen in these 17 days??? i guess we shall see!!!!

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Sid Fiore Branca @sidbranca.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

if anyone is interested in a very specific form of time capsule, i moved to a new music streaming service & am recreating some physical mix cds as playlists, so here's some peak ~ it's 2004 and your much older gen x boyfriend from long island made you a mix cd ~ vibes play.qobuz.com/playlist/703...

play.qobuz.com

Qobuz

Listen to your music in high quality

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Sid Fiore Branca @sidbranca.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

seeing the random carabiner on the floor (clipped to my umbrella), my purse with its old patches on it etc, around this dog who's so cartoonishly adorable as to look almost artificial, has me anticipating the rise of a certain horror vacui aesthetic as an indication of being a non-gen-AI image

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Sid Fiore Branca @sidbranca.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

every time i visit toronto i honestly cannot believe my friends’ dog is real

the most cartoonishly adorable big eyed long haired dachshund you’ve ever seen

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Sid Fiore Branca @sidbranca.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

any of y'all familiar with trying to get into a sold out screening at TIFF? is it worth rolling up to see if there's a waitlist? now that i'll be around Toronto Monday morning i'm trying to go to the screening of The Beloved, but it sold out while i was going from my phone to my computer 😢

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Sid Fiore Branca @sidbranca.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

reposting for the day crowd -- anyone i know going to be in toronto this weekend? i may not be at anything TIFF-related (i am going for lake-and-friendship-related reasons) but could surely sneak in a coffee or a drink or something

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Sid Fiore Branca @sidbranca.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

lmao i only just realized i am going to toronto for other reasons during the opening weekend of TIFF??? (i have clearly not processed it being into september already) do i try to squeeze in a screening or two into this weekend? is that feasible to do last minute? will any mutuals be in town?

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Sid Fiore Branca @sidbranca.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

am still really trying to not be Online rn bc i have so much work to do on many different things!! unfortunate that 90% of that work is on the computer, where the internet is i wonder if there's a way to disable the router part of my modem & only have access to the internet via ethernet cable...

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Sid Fiore Branca @sidbranca.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

somehow it has only been just now, at 38 years old and living in Montreal, that Jehovah's Witnesses came to my door for the first time? I was so surprised that I just sort of blurted out "I'm not sure how to say this in a way that is polite, but if hell is real I'm going there!"

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Sid Fiore Branca @sidbranca.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

ok, i'm gonna take a week-long break from instagram and bluesky because i have a LOT of work to do and these are too tempting, plus i need to stop consuming the news in specifically such a chaotic and unintentional way my email address is sid@sidbranca.com & my discord handle is doctorpagliacci 🖤

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Sid Fiore Branca @sidbranca.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

huge win for me personally in the realm of “things that in the grand scheme are utterly unimportant but drive me as an individual absolutely insane”: figured out how to lower the beep volume on my oven 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

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Sid Fiore Branca @sidbranca.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

saw a stupid take not worth replying to, but now wondering how few people are aware that in the US, some higher education depts structurally rely on the higher tuition paid by international students in order to stay in existence & thus educate any domestic students

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Sid Fiore Branca @sidbranca.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

realizing that one small but vulnerable part of why the back to back deaths of Dolly Parton and Tim Curry have me so upset is that i'm being reminded that my mother, less than two years younger than both, won't live forever. but hey, maybe she will!

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Sid Fiore Branca @sidbranca.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Tim Curry had a wide-ranging career full of iconic parts -- I am after all a scholar of clown horror, over which he reigns, & many of his other roles have a special place in my heart -- but my obsessive rewatching of Legend as a child deeply informed my personhood in ways difficult to articulate

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Sid Fiore Branca @sidbranca.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

i did indeed go to the event i was contemplating going to despite not knowing people there, and i had the utterly delightful experience (and this week particularly politically relevant) of 4 québécois francophones enthusiastically giving me a chaotic lesson on québécois french swear words

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Sid Fiore Branca @sidbranca.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

i was telling someone this weekend that when i was a teen, i decided between moving to chicago or nashville, & i think sometimes about the alternate version of me who spent 20 years in tennessee. i‘m certainly thinking of tennessee today, & how much dolly i bet you can hear in nashville right now

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Sid Fiore Branca @sidbranca.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

people have been asking me what i thought of Nolan’s Odyssey film, but i wanted write something Serious and Elaborately Thoughtful that i don’t actually have time to do so i oops just didn’t write anything! so instead i finally put down some loose chaotic notes if you’re curious boxd.it/g0sAEl

boxd.it

A review of The Odyssey (2026)

I didn't log this at the time because I put kind of a lot of pressure on myself to have something articulate, thorough, and thoughtfully written to say about this interpretation of The Odyssey, being ...

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Sid Fiore Branca @sidbranca.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

i am so sorry i don’t have a photo but i need you all to know that in case there was any doubt i live in a francophone location, i just saw a fancy looking dog carrying a very long, paper-wrapped baguette delicately in its mouth

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Sid Fiore Branca @sidbranca.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

it’s all goth gf this goth gf that, and yet no one is joining me on my couch eating ice cream and watching Friday the 13th Part III at 10pm on a wednesday? i may not be precisely a girl per se but this is frankly criminal

my laptop on my lap because i’m too lazy to set up my projector screen rn, you can see the opening credit A STEVE MINER FILM. someone is maybe gonna make some kind of comment about how you can see my toes in the background but to be honest i think the people who say “no free feet” sometimes underestimate the amount of administrative labor involved in getting paid for foot pics and i am honestly unlikely to do all that?? a recent lover would maybe disagree but i don’t think my feet are my best asset. anyway: POV you are watching a slasher movie on my couch

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Sid Fiore Branca @sidbranca.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

made it through an interaction at the Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec without me or the francophone librarian getting hopelessly confused, only slightly confused this time!!!! please clap

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Sid Fiore Branca @sidbranca.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

this came up elsewhere and it seems like both pronunciations are accepted but i’m struggling to figure out if it’s a regional thing or something else, so: do you pronounce “miasma” as mee-az-muh or my-az-muh, and where are you from??

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Sid Fiore Branca @sidbranca.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

man, Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No. 2 in C Minor is so goddamn good

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Sid Fiore Branca @sidbranca.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

would it be extremely annoying if i used a thread on here to hold myself accountable for the 800000 tasks i have to do this week with an otherwise completely open and flexible schedule because jesus christ

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Sid Fiore Branca @sidbranca.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

fyi if you have a google workspace business account & you turned off Gemini "note-taking" that auto-transcribes your Google Meet meeting & feeds it into google's AI bullshit, you now have to separately turn it off for meetings with 3 or more people workspaceupdates.googleblog.com/2026/07/new-...

workspaceupdates.googleblog.com

Google Workspace Updates: New Google Meet 'Take notes for me' settings for admins and end users

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Sid Fiore Branca @sidbranca.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

are there any dating apps other than Feeld that do *not* operate on the “you have to make an immediately yes/no swipe decision on this specific person before you can look at anyone else” tinder style model? perhaps that even have a not dogshit interface for looking at/sorting your matches?

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Sid Fiore Branca @sidbranca.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

i used to live with someone who had been a child star, and seeing the way men would talk about her child self online was… eye opening in a sort of “opening your eyes in a vat of acid” kind of way

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Sid Fiore Branca @sidbranca.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

i quite liked Maddie's Secret, and unsurprisingly @scumbelievable.bsky.social has thoughtfully articulated part of why it worked for me

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Sid Fiore Branca @sidbranca.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

seeing many tributes to the incredible effects work of Screaming Mad George as we learn of his death earlier this year; something i haven't seen mentioned much is that in addition to his iconic film work & his own music, he also designed the masks for Slipknot during their Iowa and Vol. 3 eras

a photo i snagged from the instagram account @ drh_theametal of Screaming Mad George with various prototypes of masks designed for the band Slipknot, who famously always perform masked and update the masks for each album

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Sid Fiore Branca @sidbranca.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

the tail end of a migraine is usually when i look most like some guy that would have temporarily ruined my life after we met at 2am at the condemned architecture firm building turned DIY venue under the el tracks

sid wearing red sunglasses and no shirt, neck and chest tattoos visible and their hair looking especially wild from taking a super hot shower to mitigate a migraine, getting their hair all wet and then doing absolutely nothing to it. they have a little bit of mustache stubble and look kinda drunk because of a migraine.

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Sid Fiore Branca @sidbranca.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

i realize this probably shouldn't be my main takeaway from I Want Your Sex but can we please please make sure Cooper Hoffman keeps his fucked up teeth, we need this

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Sid Fiore Branca @sidbranca.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

in other news, i lost a very small key in a very chaotic room full of objects and then i found it, i am living someone's i spy puzzle game and winning

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Sid Fiore Branca @sidbranca.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

displeased to realize Annie Rose Malamet of Girls, Guts, & Giallo was still following me on letterboxd when i thought i blocked her after she deliberately deceived me about her abuse of her partners, calculated exploitation of my/others' labor & money, & her complicity in my being sexually assaulted

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Sid Fiore Branca @sidbranca.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

eavesdropping in montreal is doing it on hard mode tbh, trying to overhear other people’s gossip as i walk past but it starts out like “mais to be fair je—“ pronounced so fast as to sound like one single word let alone two languages

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Sid Fiore Branca @sidbranca.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

for some reason looking at this kind of glasses on anyone’s face (i’ve seen multiple people wearing them online & irl since Wicked) makes me nauseous in the same way seeing someone with a split tongue makes me nauseous (sorry to people who like/have them, i can’t help it)??? brains are weird

Elphaba in Wicked wearing those glasses that are framed at the bottom of one lens and the top of the other, and then frameless the other way

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Sid Fiore Branca @sidbranca.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

hi hello i have horrible ovulation cramps i need someone to come over and help me unpack my stuff from storage and fix my bathtub faucet and run me a bath and be really nice to me and make me feel better about how behind i am on work bc i have to be in a very specific position to feel sort of ok 😭

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Sid Fiore Branca @sidbranca.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

offered my eclipse glasses to assorted strangers to borrow if they wanted to look at the partial solar eclipse (i like sharing cool experiences!) & it somehow feels notable the only people to be weird about saying no (as if i was the weird one for offering) were guys under 30 (& one's presumable gf)

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Sid Fiore Branca @sidbranca.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

it never really dawned on me until right now that 3 of my first 4 boyfriends had, by today's standards, thiiick long island accents (and the other one was from tennessee)

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Sid Fiore Branca @sidbranca.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

watching a lot of ‘80s slasher movies this year has made me even more aware that men need to be wearing slutty little shorts again, but also my god: regional accents are hot

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Sid Fiore Branca @sidbranca.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

the face of someone who was so goddamn brave cleaning the maggots out of the compost bin and so now (one extremely thorough shower later) gets to walk to the cinémathèque at golden hour for a cocktail and a movie

selfie of sid walking down a residential street in montreal with some lovely light and a bold red lipstick

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Sid Fiore Branca @sidbranca.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

is there any email program that lets you do "if i manually apply a label to this email after receiving it, it is then automatically forwarded to a different email address" ?? maddening to me that this seems to be an impossible ask (vs. creating a million filters & not being able to manually decide)

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Sid Fiore Branca @sidbranca.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

even when i'm just hopping on as a PA for the day, i love making movies

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Sid Fiore Branca @sidbranca.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

incredibly grateful to have a balcony where i can sit and watch the rain while drinking a cup of tea

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