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Don Hood @dbhidi.bsky.social · 16h

The still image montage from Alan J. Paula's The Parallax View.
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Don Hood @dbhidi.bsky.social · 1d

There was a desert wind blowing that night. It was one of those hot dry Santa Anas that come down through the mountain passes and curl your hair and make your nerves jump and your skin itch.*

Red Wind ~ Raymond Chandler

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Don Hood @dbhidi.bsky.social · 2d

Reup. No reason.🇨🇦

ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 3d

Duchamp Flies, by Carmen Cicero, 2009, 📸 by Frank Franklin II

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samuel @quilombo.bsky.social · 2d

This from @realgdt.bsky.social talking about 'Frankenstein' is so good.

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Don Hood @dbhidi.bsky.social · 2d

Man, there is nothing more satisfying than donning a garment 25 plus years old that has never lost its shape.

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Don Hood @dbhidi.bsky.social · 2d

Reminds me of David Lynch about Dune:
"With 'Dune,' I sold out on that early on, because I didn't have final cut, and it was a commercial failure, so I died two times with that. With 'Fire Walk with Me,' it didn't go over well at the time, but I loved it so I only died once.."

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Don Hood @dbhidi.bsky.social · 2d

This is a great point. I think the problem is all the focus has been on the LLM models, which are DOA.

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Don Hood @dbhidi.bsky.social · 2d

Home town Toronto.
There is no second 't'; for locals it's elided: Toe-ran-no, even Trawna.

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Don Hood @dbhidi.bsky.social · 2d

Describe your Bluesky account in a single image

A black and white production still from Tod Browning's Freaks.

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Don Hood @dbhidi.bsky.social · 2d

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Yonge Street! - Part 1

YouTube video by Darryl347

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Cole Haddon @colehaddon.bsky.social · 3d

How could a straight-to-series greenlight go so wrong for the first TV series I ever created?! Today, the 5AM StoryTalk Podcast brings you Part 1 of a four-part Hollywood horror story I describe as a cautionary tale for screenwriters about what can happen when all your dreams come true.

The Horror of 'Dracula': The Unbelievable True Story of the 2013 TV Series - Part 1

Podcast Episode · 5AM StoryTalk · 10/07/2025 · 15m

podcasts.apple.com

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ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 3d

Duchamp Flies, by Carmen Cicero, 2009, 📸 by Frank Franklin II

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Don Hood @dbhidi.bsky.social · 6d

Obscure YT of the day – h/t @jfkenney.bsky.social
Really Weird Tales.
An SCTV adjacent of Twilight Zone-ish parodies.
'I'll Die Loving' with Catherine O'Hara, John Hemphill and Jayne Eastwood has cracked me up more times than I can count.
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Really Weird Tales

YouTube video by Pineapple Toker

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Don Hood @dbhidi.bsky.social · 7d

I fear this will be exponential. Increasing reports this week of incidents where a person breaks down emotionally during an abduction and the agent laughs and whips out a phone to take a selfie with them. Depraved stuff.

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Rachel Lichtman @rachellichtman.bsky.social · 7d

A look at the new Programme 4 telecast, coming to a candlelit lounge or paneled rumpus room near you!

Programme 4 @programme4.tv · 7d

Coming up on Programme 4: Gary Brooker (Procol Harum) is BROOKER

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Don Hood @dbhidi.bsky.social · 8d

Great way to roll with it.🎩
3 days of entertaining baseball under beautiful skies in a lovely looking city.

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Don Hood @dbhidi.bsky.social · 8d

Oof!
I'm at latter stage Roger in reading Bad Company and yes:
That is actually crazy, right?
As in, how did these soulless vultures get so much power in something as essential as healthcare.

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Don Hood @dbhidi.bsky.social · 8d

The tsunami of betting ads on live sports broadcasts is unconscionable.
And for the riskiest stuff: parlays, in game betting.
Surely at least the in game stuff should be ad prohibited. You could crash and burn in a heartbeat.

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Don Hood @dbhidi.bsky.social · 8d

He got it right with his first 6 words.
The rest: tl;dr.

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LA Dork @ladork.bsky.social · 8d

While still a teen, Edward James Olmos -- yes the actor -- once fronted a rock/psychedlia band. They were called Eddie James and the Pacific Ocean (cuz nothing's bigger than the Pacific Ocean!) & played the Sunset Strip, including Gazzarri's, in the 1960s. We need a reunion show!

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Your daily John Waters screenshot @johnwatersbot.bsky.social · 8d

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 9d

The first known use of 'chimpanzee' was in 1738, and it comes from the Kongo dialect word 'chimpenzi.'

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Don Hood @dbhidi.bsky.social · 9d

That was an entertaining game!

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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 10d

This is why we fund scientists to study things like oyster slobber even if you don’t think it sounds important

Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 11d

⚠️ Chinese researchers have invented bone glue that mimics how oysters stick to surfaces underwater.

The adhesive can reportedly repair orthopedic fractures in 2-3 minutes, even in blood-rich environments, and is bioabsorbable.

interestingengineering.com/science/chin...

China's oyster-inspired 'bone glue' bonds fractures in minutes

A new oyster-inspired Bone-02 adhesive can revolutionize bone repair without metal fasteners.

interestingengineering.com

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Don Hood @dbhidi.bsky.social · 10d

Ah, thanks for the clarification.
Same vibe to this day though.

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