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Sylvie

@slywit.bsky.social

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Half 🇺🇸, half 🇫🇷, all-around opinionated. Editor currently living in San Francisco. Hitchcocko-Hawksienne. National parkologist. Opera aficionada. Supporting women directors is my jam. Blog: slywit.wordpress.com

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Sylvie @slywit.bsky.social · Jan 11

It's #FemaleFilmmakerFriday! To celebrate, I've decided to begin this year’s #DirectedByWomen thread (and my annual Indie Spirit blitz) with GHOSTLIGHT (2024) by Kelly O’Sullivan and Alex Thompson, nominated for Best Lead Performance (Keith Kupferer). #52FilmsByWomen #1 #Filmsky 🎬🎞️📽️

A man (Keith Kupferer) acting on stage in GHOSTLIGHT

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Sylvie @slywit.bsky.social · 4h

This #FemaleFilmmakerFriday, more Hollywood horror hijinks with a rewatch from the vault of unscored long-ago watches: BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER (1992) by Fran Rubel Kuzui. Enjoyable, but should have been much better given the cast and script. #DirectedByWomen #52FilmsByWomen #49 #Filmsky 📽️

Kristy Swanson and Luke Perry from the poster of BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER

Sylvie @slywit.bsky.social · 5h

It probably does. I was just referring to his comments about sending the NG to SF.

Sylvie @slywit.bsky.social · 8h

He can just gtf outta here with this nonsense. Sad to see one of the (relatively) good ones go this route.

Noah Shachtman @noahshachtman.bsky.social · 9h

"Benioff, who also owns Time magazine, said he had not closely followed the news about the immigration raids, Mr. Trump’s call to gerrymander congressional districts before the midterm elections, the government shutdown or the administration’s attacks on the media."

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

Marc Benioff Says Trump Should Send Guard Troops to San Francisco

www.nytimes.com

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Sylvie @slywit.bsky.social · Apr 5

Quote with a gif of you on the day you wake up and finally hear the news:

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AskAubry 🦝 🐆 @askaubry.com · 13h

The way these dudes always think they are going to be the "masters".

Serious

I think slavery should be legal

Today at 2:11 PM

Potbellypos

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and people should be raised like cattle

Potbellypos

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Today at 2:11 PM

I think if we breed humans and don't send them to school then they could be effectively used like animals. Some animals are shown to reach the intelligence of a 7 year old human, so if we're allowed to harvest and exploit animals then I don't see why humans should be off limits. Incels are already treated as sub-human, so what's the difference? Ignorance is bliss, so living a simple life as an uneducated slave is probably better than our existence anyway. We could have work slaves so that we can relax and enjoy our copes and we would obviously have sex slaves to fulfill our sexual desires. Giving women rights in the first place was probably the worst mistake humanity has

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Sylvie @slywit.bsky.social · 14h

It was a first time watch for me. I'm doing a challenge at the other place and so going through his whole filmography. It's a pretty straightforward (and long) bio-pic but I was pleasantly surprised by Russell in it.

Sylvie @slywit.bsky.social · 15h

One of these things is not like the other
#LastFourWatched #LetterboxdFriday 📽️

Letterboxd posters for (left to right) ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK, THE FOG, THE TRAIL OF THE LONESOME PINE, ELVIS

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Sylvie @slywit.bsky.social · 16h

Yes, I've done it. I just meant they complain about it like COBRA is some different, special kind of insurance when it's not.

Sylvie @slywit.bsky.social · 16h

Yes, I'm always amazed when people complain about how much COBRA costs. It's literally what your insurance already cost,* it's just no longer being subsidized by your employer.

*+2% for admin fees

Charles Ghoul-ba ✡️ @charlesgaba.com · 17h

The reason people THINK employer coverage is significantly less expensive than ACA coverage is because around 75% of the premium cost is typically PAID BY THE EMPLOYER.

ACA tax credits effectively take the place of the employer's share of ESI premiums.

KFF.org: Avg. annual worker & employer premium contributions

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Sylvie @slywit.bsky.social · 16h

This is what I miss most about living in California. Right about now was always the best time to go up to the lake.

Christine Hallquist @christinehallquist.bsky.social · 1d

Vermont Autumn Beauty at the Fluery Maple Farm in Richford Vermont

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Meatball Rob @wrenispinkle.bsky.social · 1d

HAHAHAHAHAHA get fucked you rich asshole

Carlsbad homeowner ordered to remove private gate to public beach, fined $1.4 million

John Levy was penalized by state Coastal Commission for a string of Coastal Act violations stretching back years

www.sandiegouniontribune.com

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perfect knight @shiningknightx.bsky.social · 1d

"we cant uninvent ai" no we cant but we couldnt uninvent nfts either and nobody gives a fuck about them anymore

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Marko Kloos @markokloos.bsky.social · 2d

"the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa"

An image of Julie Andrews in The Sound of Music, twirling on an alpine meadow in a long Austrian skirt, next to an image of Christopher Plummer as Georg Von Trapp in the same movie, tearing a Nazi flag in half.

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Patrick De Klotz @patdeklotz.bsky.social · 3d

"One by one, the free peoples of Middle Earth fell to the power of the Ring.

"But there were some who resisted."

Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 3d

Incredible (via www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...)

A group of apparent armed agents assemble at the end of a street, as seen from the perspective of a person in inflatable frog costume, their frog’s eyes dominating the foreground. The Ice facility in downtown Portland on Monday. Photograph: Mathieu Lewis-Rolland/AFP/Getty Images

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The Road Jess Travelled @jesspected.bsky.social · 4d

Looking forward to the lectures that we need to welcome them & not reject/shame these MAGAts because what the left truly needs are more bigoted white dudes having the mic over marginalized people & people who didn't usher in this suffering.

Rolling Stone @rollingstone.com · 4d

“I voted for none of this."

Prominent influencers, including Theo Von, Joe Rogan, and Andrew Schulz, are starting to distance themselves from the president they helped propel to the White House.

Story: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

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Patton Oswalt @pattonoswalt.bsky.social · Sep 8

So glad ICE is in Chicago. The city is a lawless hell-scape. Blues musicians wrecking hundreds of police cars. High schoolers doing weird scientific sex experiments. Kids home alone during the holidays. Women killing their husbands and lovers and then SINGING about it sassily. This has to stop.

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Sylvie @slywit.bsky.social · Jul 18

Came across this repost in my profile feed and it just continues to sadden me that so many people ignored these warnings. And now here we are with much of their mission accomplished.

Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · Nov 18

Everything you need to know about what’s in Project 2025 - and what’s coming from Trump Term 2 - in two minutes flat.

Project 2025: Everything You Need to Know in Two Minutes

YouTube video by Zeteo

youtu.be

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Sylvie @slywit.bsky.social · Jul 21

Happy Monday!

Winnie-the-Pooh and Piglet walking in the forest meme with Piglet asking Pooh, "Is he dead yet?" and, when Pooh responds in the negative, Piglet says "Fuck."

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Steve Mullis @stevemullis.net · 4d

"hand-to-hand combat with antifa every night"

a guy in a frog costume standing facing a line of police and ICE agents in Portland

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Sylvie @slywit.bsky.social · 4d

Modern English? Are you kidding me?

Being Liberal ®🗽🏳️‍🌈 @beingliberal.bsky.social · 4d

"It can't happen here"-until it does. It's happening here... right now!

In this gripping modern-English translation of Sinclair Lewis's prophetic 1935 novel, It Can't Happen Here, journalist Doremus Jessup watches in disbelief as the USA descends into authoritarian rule under the populist dictator

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Sylvie @slywit.bsky.social · 5d

It's currently available on MUBI.

Sylvie @slywit.bsky.social · 5d

Michelle 🔥

Sylvie @slywit.bsky.social · 5d

It's like the novel IN A LONELY PLACE if it took place in the 70s and Dix Steele was a veteran of porn instead of WWII.

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Sylvie @slywit.bsky.social · 5d

Signs you may be in L.A.

Burlesque show neon sign from HOLLYWOOD 90028

"The Pink Pussy Cat" sign from HOLLYWOOD 90028

Adult "novelties" sign next to a health food store sign (from HOLLYWOOD 90028)

Two people walk behind the H of the Hollywood sign in HOLLYWOOD 90028