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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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Marko Kloos @markokloos.bsky.social · 14h

"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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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 1d

Looking for one thing you can do right now to help protect the right to vote? It will only take a few minutes, and you can share it with all of your friends. joycevance.substack.com/p/a-thing-yo...

A Thing You Can Do Right Now To Help Protect The Right To Vote

The U.S.

joycevance.substack.com

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Charles Ghoul-ba ✡️ @charlesgaba.com · 1d

Looks like all votes are in?

GOP total: 36,854 (54.3%)
Dem total: 31,002 (45.7%)

If this was the general that'd be a 13.7 pt Dem overperformance vs. Trump's margin in TN-07 last year, FWIW.

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Patrick De Klotz @patdeklotz.bsky.social · 1d

"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 · 1d

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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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 1d

Pam Bondi admits she spoke to Apple to "get the ICEBlock app taken down." Sounds an awful lot like coercion to suppress disfavored speech to me. A clear violation of the 1st Amendment.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Bondi claims that the ICEBlock app was "criminal in that people were posting where ICE officers lived"

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The Road Jess Travelled @jesspected.bsky.social · 2d

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 · 2d

“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

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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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Charles Ghoul-ba ✡️ @charlesgaba.com · 2d

For those too young to remember.

Although honestly, DC bears as much resemblance to how it's depicted in the West Wing as the actual 1950's did to Leave it to Beaver.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvr1...

West Wing - Crime - Boy I Don't Know.mpg

YouTube video by jrobb101

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Steve Mullis @stevemullis.net · 2d

"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 · 2d

Modern English? Are you kidding me?

Being Liberal ®🗽🏳️‍🌈 @beingliberal.bsky.social · 3d

"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 · 3d

It's currently available on MUBI.

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Michelle 🔥

Sylvie @slywit.bsky.social · 3d

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 · 3d

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

Sylvie @slywit.bsky.social · 3d

L.A. in the 70s, as seen in HOLLYWOOD 90028

Cabs in front of a row of theater marquees

A man walks in front of a large mural depicting a map of L.A.

A car in front of a Victorian-style house on Bunker Hill

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Sylvie @slywit.bsky.social · 3d

It's hard to find the words to describe this stunner. So here are some pictures:

A man crouching in front of a bright window

A man walking from his car by some post office boxes

A man sitting on a boat on a beach with the ocean in the background

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Sacrifice! At the Harvest Festival @theharvestmaid.bsky.social · 3d

The sexists do not listen to the audiophile lighthouse keeper because she is a woman. If I lived in a small town with a female audiophile lighthouse keeper, I'd heed her advice on literally anything

Should I dump him, queen?
Which cheese should I buy, queen?
Fight the fisherghosts tonight, queen?

Sacrifice! At the Harvest Festival @theharvestmaid.bsky.social · 3d

Poster for the Fog. Jamie Lee Curtis in a red leather jacket is pressed against a wall that's turning to fog with a ghost on the other side

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Jason Kander @jasonkander.bsky.social · 3d

I was a skeptic about the import of the Epstein files.

But 3 invasions of cities, one military buildup outside Venezuela, a government shutdown, and so many other things meant to distract have me convinced whatever’s in there is the biggest presidential scandal in U.S. history.

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Sylvie @slywit.bsky.social · 3d

"Welcome to Hollywood! What's your dream? Everybody comes here; this is Hollywood, land of dreams. Some dreams come true, some don't..." 📽️
On the word of @oldfilmsflicker.bsky.social, tonight's #DirectedByWomen horror selection is HOLLYWOOD 90028 (1973) by Christina Hornisher, #48 of #52FilmsByWomen

Poster for the 4K restoration of HOLLYWOOD 90028

Sylvie @slywit.bsky.social · 4d

As God is my witness, I thought OZARK SHARKS (2016) by Misty Talley was going to be good bad and not bad bad. Of course, I should have known early on I was in trouble when I realized the emo "overly engrossed in her book" teen was reading MRS. DALLOWAY. Scary stuff. #47 of #52FilmsByWomen 📽️

A young woman reading a book in front of cabin steps.

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Glasgow Smiley @neokefka99.bsky.social · 4d

John Carpenter made the movies he made because he was a fan of Howard Hawks, westerns, science fiction, gothic horror, noir...while all the people who try to imitate him are just fans of John Carpenter movies.

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Sylvie @slywit.bsky.social · 5d

Since it's #FemaleFilmmakerFriday I'm following up my rewatch of ASSAULT ON PRECINCT 13 with new-to-me TENEMENT aka SLAUGHTER IN THE SOUTH BRONX (1985) by Roberta Findlay, In addition to being one of the rare films rated X for violence, it features the debut of Paul Calderon. #46 of #52FilmsByWomen

The poster for TENEMENT (left) with a scene of the residents on the staircase defending themselves (right).

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