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Elysia Macht

@elysiamacht.bsky.social

120 followers 32 following 2K posts

HOSTILE. ⛔ BLOCK follow-baiters. Don't add me to anything w/out asking. Drivel, appreciation of beauty. Villain connoisseur, actor buff. She/they. Likely reposts, monsters & the most niche characters ever. Depression & dreams, space & scifi. NSFW.ish.

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Elysia Macht @elysiamacht.bsky.social · Jun 14

While some views of mine may seep through in reposts, I have for years had a slight policy to not RT or address e.g. catastrophes or disasters or other things involving loss of human life.

Elysia Macht @elysiamacht.bsky.social · Apr 27

I'm not following political accounts. Never have, never will. Not here nor Twtr. Nor want them following my fandom account tbf.

Less still now, even more so if all US nonsense.

Also, stop following me, ppl, as I always say when any turn up. I'm not in sociable/approachable states to 97% of people.

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AjiWings @ajijaakwe.bsky.social · 9h

All the right-wing "war on terror"/copaganda shows

Lego Dolemite @psychoalpastor.bsky.social · 9h

Thought experiment for y'all:

If putting Jared Leto into franchises is enough to kill them off, then what series would you *deliberately* put him in to get rid of it?

Gizmodo @gizmodo.com · 21h

A new report suggests that the disastrous opening weekend for the Jared-Leto-starring sequel may lead to Disney pulling the plug on the Grid once and for all.

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Steven W. Thrasher is finishing The Overseer Class @thrasherxy.bsky.social · 5h

The nightmare scenario. When I hear calls for deplatforming most people, I always worry that if they can be deplatformed or kept from using banking services, pro-Palestine supporters will inevitably have their accounts terminated

Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 21h

No doubt this de-banking will also be splashed across the front pages of every single newspaper in the country and lead BBC bulletins for weeks on end too? www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Pro-Palestine activist couple have UK bank account closed without explanation

John Nicholson and Norma Turner’s joint retirement savings account was shut by Yorkshire Building Society

www.theguardian.com

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Operation: Dr. Mack | Friend of Eggbug @jaidamack.bsky.social · 47m

"I will return again."

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Andy Orin @andyor.in · 14h

I also got some helpful advice from Google AI this morning. Turns out the city in Texas is pronounced How-stun.

Query: is john huston pronounced houston. No, the surname "Huston" is not pronounced like the city of "Houston". The correct pronunciation for the director John Huston is closer to "HYOO-stuhn" (like the first syllable of "hue" followed by "stun"). This is different from how the city of Houston is pronounced,
which is typically "HOW-stuhn".

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Martin Calladine @uglygame.bsky.social · 4h

Happy 10th birthday to the most resonant political tweet of all time.

One day, people will get wise to right-wing populism, but seemingly not yet.
x.com/Cavalorn/sta...

Adrian Bott @Cavalorn

'I never thought leopards would eat MY face,' sobs woman who voted for the Leopards Eating People's Faces Party.

9:18 16 Oct 15

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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 24d

Doesn’t everyone get $150K from daddy for their Congressional primary? projects.propublica.org/itemizer/fil...

During the week leading up to a seven-way Democratic primary in Illinois in March, a super PAC called SunshinePAC blitzed the battleground 6th Congressional District with $130,000 in mailers and phone calls. Because it started spending money so late in the race, SunshinePAC didn't have to reveal its donors before the primary.
But nearly a month after the election, SunshinePAC revealed its lone funder: Tom Casten, the father of primary contender Sean Casten - raising questions about whether the super PAC was really independent from the campaign. By then, Sean Casten had eked out a victory in the primary by 2,177 votes.

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RikuNKMR | COMMS 2/2 (waitlist mode) @rikunkmr.bsky.social · 5d

Predator in chat apps is like fork being found in the kitchen.

They're too busy committing crimes they don't have time to enjoy/create fiction.

But sure, "you make/enjoy taboo/rape/gore fic therefore you're a criminal".

Solid logic/sarc

Mike Stabile @mikestabile.bsky.social · 5d

DeHaas said he founded Covenant Eyes to keep his kids from accessing porn on the internet. The app blocks porn sites as well as screenshots images from your device and sends them to your "accountability partner"

His son used the app Hush to lure a 14 year old for sex, asking for her to send pics.

08/10/2025
T: If only tou had a fake id lol. Lots more options then
B: Like what?
T: Like motels, adult theaters, etc. And then even if we were caught by security or something it's way easier to get out of it (monkey emoji x2)
08/10/2025
B: Haha ok! So what do we get to do IF we find a good place? (heart eye emoji)
T: We'll have to see when the time comes. (kiss emoji) I'm trying to start slow, see how we feel about the vibe
B: Oh I hope u like my vibe!
T: And I hope you like mine (heart face emoji)
08/11/2025
T: Off to bed yet?
B: No lol its early lol
B: Rur kids my age? Lol do they go to bed this early????
T: Yeah I guess lol
T: What are you up to?
T: Way younger lol
B: Oh lol
B: Im just chilling lol I like thinking about u

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Jack Lewis @jacklewis.bsky.social · 4d

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LoboJoe @lobojoe.bsky.social · 4d

Is Mike Johnson the one who adopted a black 16yo when he was in his 20s?

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Billy Dildos 💦🥩 @mrmatthewgeorge.bsky.social · 5d

maybe I'm the weird one, but I've never thought to begin eating something by extending my tongue completely out of my mouth.

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Billy Dildos 💦🥩 @mrmatthewgeorge.bsky.social · 5d

hahaha. the ad for Covenant Eyes is my avatar picture. seriously, in a commercial about not watching porn, this tradwife just houses a whole pickle like this, totally normal.

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Disney Prime Video + @disneyprimevideo.bsky.social · 5d

Hell Comes to Frogtown (2025)

Portland Frog (Roddy Piper Jr) takes on the minions of Satan

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Martin The Mess aka Big Brother @martinthemess.bsky.social · 5d

@disneyprimevideo.bsky.social will you be adding a remake/reboot/re-imagining of this classic Troma film to your lineup soon? The recent rise in use of Frog costumes to protest ICE activities, and the threat to bring National Guard troops to Portland for a Frog Hunt, would suggest now is the time.

Movie Poster for "Hell Comes To Frogtown", featuring Rowdy Roddy Piper as a Mad Max-esque hero facing off against a bunch of man-sized Frog Mutants while a blonde woman in a bikini cowers at his feet.

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PeteSig 🇨🇴 🇸🇩 🇦🇺 @padreilpadrone.bsky.social · 6d

The MAGAddicts Congress!

Chevron @lachevron.bsky.social · 6d

RFK Jr did his own research folks.

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Adam Rose @adamrose.bsky.social · 14d

All of this is to say that DHS is taking their war on civilians -- and especially on journalists -- to the sky.

And "war" isn't that hyperbolic when you look at their gear. They're literally flying predator drones over large civilian population centers as super creepy surveillance.

Predator drones shift from border patrol to protest surveillance

Civil rights experts question the use of drones to monitor protests on U.S. soil.

www.latimes.com

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Adam Rose @adamrose.bsky.social · 14d

In LA, most TV stations have helicopters. Not cheap, but flies above TFRs. Their overhead views helped me identify lies in DHS court filings!

Reportedly, a DHS helicopter chased away a TV station helicopter during ICE raid in Ventura. To be clear, airspace is NOT supposed to work that way. Scary.

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Adam Rose @adamrose.bsky.social · 14d

FAA has issued MASSIVE temporary flight restriction which prohibits drones (i.e., photography) over Chicago.

They did similar around federal buildings in Los Angeles since June protests, but really no comparison...

Chicago's TFR covers 900x more area than ones in LA! 🧵👇
tfr.faa.gov/tfr3/?page=d...

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michael lutz @ztul.bsky.social · 13d

shortly: stories of AI psychosis follow the pattern of the hero's journey, with the person affected being told that they are some sort of chosen one who has gained access to an incredible power or truth before being ratcheted to a point of symbolic boundary-crossing (murder and/or suicide)

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zoya the destroyer @sophiahelix.bsky.social · 13d

www.libraryofshortstories.com/onlinereader...

The Veldt by Ray Bradbury - Library of Short Stories

It won’t hurt for the children to be locked out of it a while. Too much of anything isn’t good for anyone. And it was clearly indicated that the children had been spending a little too much time on Af...

www.libraryofshortstories.com

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zoya the destroyer @sophiahelix.bsky.social · 13d

“good news, we’ve created the playroom that tells kids whatever they want to hear and makes them not care about their parents from the seminal Ray Bradbury short story, Don’t Create the Playroom That Tells Kids Whatever They Want to Hear and Makes Them Not Care About Their Parents”

Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 13d

Some parents are letting their kids talk to ChatGPT in the guise of characters. Some are using it to tell bedtime stories or create coloring books.

"My son thinks ChatGPT is the coolest train loving person in the world. The bar is set so high now I am never going to be able to compete with that.”

‘My son genuinely believed it was real’: Parents are letting little kids play with AI. Are they wrong?

Some believe AI can spark their child’s imagination through personalized stories and generative images. Scientists are wary of its affect on creativity

www.theguardian.com

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Amanda Watson @amndw2.bsky.social · 10d

I couldn't resist. #pleasingterror

A bingo card for the ghost stories of M.R. James. Boxes read:
"Spiders
Terrible hotel stay
Narrator makes fun of golf
Latin passages
Eerie disembodied voices
Confirmed bachelor main character
Vengeful spirit
Evil magician
Working-class character as comic relief
Bleak East Anglian coast
Visit to an archive
Narrator in guidebook mode
FREE SPACE
Unholy doings in a church
Frogs or toads
Queen Anne style house
Cursed artifact
Don't buy that rare book!
Something hairy and horrible
Someone gets too curious
Tentacles
Story told via old manuscript
Research trip gone horribly wrong
Beds are scary
Tactile horror

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Callisto Khan @callistokhan.bsky.social · 4d

What it feels like getting a vision from Dionysus

Jason Adams @jamnpp.bsky.social · 4d

Sometimes there's so much beauty in the world,... I feel like I can't take it. And my heart is just going to cave in.

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💙🤔🔵 🐸 @mubduh.bsky.social · 1d

Perfect depiction!

Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 1d

How MAGA sees things.

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yitzi2.bsky.social @yitzi2.bsky.social · 9h

2. One large (but not country-covering-size) frog came up. When they attacked it, it split into more.

3. One frog came up via Moses and Aaron. Then Pharoah's magicians repeated the "trick" to show it was no big deal. *Now* there were enough frogs to constitute a plague.

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Valkyrie @izaleu.bsky.social · 19h

I can't believe none of you told me about Biblical Kaiju Frog.

Lev Gerstle @onmylevels.bsky.social · 20h

Fun bible fact of the day: in the original Hebrew, it's not frogs plural, but just one giant frog that comes and plops itself down and covers the entire land by itself. Beeg frog boi

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