Grigory Lukin ✨️is on sub✨️

Yes* and yes.

*I enjoy Dr Pepper but I wouldn't say it's my all-time #1 soda. It's close, though. 🙃

Funniest citizen arrest ever. 🤣

Friendos! :) Three of my short films are in a sci-fi film festival that can be streamed online (this week only), and I can get you the friends&family code for a 100% discount. 😎 Not posting it out in the open haha - DM me, eh.

We need a Station Eleven / Fallout crossover. 😀

Photo of a NYC subway platform with "42" all around it.

#iykyk

New York, I am in you! 🥳 (For the next 91 hours. Terms and conditions apply. 🙃)

the genius ceo of the world's hottest tech company here offers the stunning business insight that openai will "have to somehow make money"

My best bad guess is that Google lost money on it because the article-only view had no ads. 🫠

And Google Reader. 🥲

Adirondack Trailways from Montreal - leaves around 10:50pm, arrives around 4-6am? (YMMV lol) The mandatory customs circus takes place around 2-3am, which is not ideal, but hey, still beats flying. 😉

Guzzling my final Tim Hortons coffee for quite a while as I await my overnight bus to New York... Film festivals, then Workaway until February-ish? I genuinely do not know what country I'll be in a month from now, and that's exciting beyond words. 💖

Onward, eh.

Never watched a single episode of Seinfeld. 🙃

It's official—Scientists revive 32,000-year-old extinct plant in Russia with seeds frozen in Siberian permafrost Do you think it’s possible to revive an extinct plant? Well, let me tell you it is. Scientists were able to do this, but they didn’t revive any plant, it was

Today in wacky Siberian news! ☃️😀

Scientists revived an extinct plant whose 32,000-year-old seeds were found beneath 100' of Siberian ice. 😮

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Feral Artist Nomad odyssey, part 1 The first part of my 2025-26 Feral Artist Nomad adventure is just about done. It’s Sunday, and I’m enjoying the somewhat fresh air on a bench in the sun by the big bus station, awaiting…

New blog post! :) "Feral Artist Nomad odyssey, part 1"

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An alternate universe... The Steelyverse! 😀

The people you partner with can change for the worse. Know where your red lines are.

corresponds to a Nazi dog-whistle, then online mobs will harass you. (See the tragic case of Isabel Fall, a trans writer whose sole crime was the birth year listed in her short bio: 1988.)

We live in a very strange world.

Stray thought: some immaterial things (names, information) are, for all intents and purposes, cursed. If a terorrist has the same name as you, good luck with your flights. If your new phone number used to belong to someone with many creditors, you will not know peace. If the year you were born [1/2]

I was referring to World War II.

The other day, I went wayyy outside my comfort zone and finally joined the CouchSurfing site. And it worked! I'll spend two days in Colorado in between the film festivals, and one of them will be with a cool host in Denver. :)

Huzzah for new friends! Down with overpriced hotels! 🤘😎

Germans and gases.

This is so cool!!! 🤓

Keep in mind that this is someone who - while making a film about a man who brought a steamboat through the Andes - actually brought a steamboat through the Andes.

At my hostel right now, a German girl tried to cook, and she burned her food *so badly* that ~10 people started coughing and ran outside.

...if I were to include that in my fiction, readers would've accused me of perpetuating very very bad stereotypes. 🤣

The Endless September has ended at last...

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Ted Chiang's amazing novella "The Lifecycle of Software Objects" was about this exact thing. 🥲

Yeah, it sounds like the platform fee popped up about 6 years ago. Roughly $5 USD a month.

The world is a very small place! 🙃 Conversely, there was a gymnast named Nastya Lukina (rhymes with, um, "lasting" and "nah-nah-NAH" hahaha) and absolutely nobody on TV said her name correctly. x_x

...the picture-uploading page is beyond broken (had to log out and back in several times, to upload one at a time), and the actual host-finding page is filled with pop-ups. 🤨

I'm sure I'll find good people on that site, but wow - that's a terrible way to welcome new members. Enshittification?..

Stepping out of my comfort zone to join the CouchSurfing site, and... has it always sucked this much? 😭 I'm fine with the monthly platform fee, but trying to trick me into the verification program (with the nearly-invisible text about the $80 fee) is dishonourable. Also...