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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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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 1d

Trump and Vought are now breaking both sides of spending law. They’re illegally not spending where the law requires them to spend, and they’re illegally spending where they don’t have the money to spend.

What we have is an appropriations king.

Spending “deals” are meaningless under that setup.

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Erik Robson @erikrobson.net · 1d

Find someone who loves you as much as rich assholes love bitching about San Francisco after they've moved away.

(And honestly, bitching about housing/rent/real estate prices would be defensible, but that's not even their gripe.)

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Sylvie @slywit.bsky.social · 1d

Almost there, folks. A HOUSE OF DYNAMITE (2025) by Kathryn Bigelow is #50 of my #52FilmsByWomen. I liked the structure of this intense thriller quite a bit although I thought the third act could have been stronger. And, as with most films, it could've used more Rebecca Ferguson. #Filmsky 📽️

Rebecca Ferguson on the telephone in A HOUSE OF DYNAMITE

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Erik Anderson @awardswatch.bsky.social · 2d

'Hamnet' Wins Audience Award at 48th Mill Valley Film Festival

‘Hamnet’ Wins Audience Award at 48th Mill Valley Film Festival

Today, the 48th Mill Valley Film Festival (MVFF48) has announced the winners of its Audience Awards after officially wrapping on Sunday, October 12. Chloé Zhao's Hamnet, which opened the festival on October 2, was the Overall Audience Favorite. This follows the TIFF People's Choice win at the Toronto International Film Festival and its double wins at Telluride from both press & industry and general audiences.

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 2d

NO. It's fundamentally inappropriate for the @dscc.bsky.social to form a fundraising committee with Janet Mills. What happened to staying OUT of the primaries?

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 2d

Federal officials telling social media companies to take down posts was supposedly a free speech crisis. It’s not even really hypocrisy, since the right was lying about much of it.
And this isn’t misinformation, foreign influence ops, or public health, just 1A-protected speech the govt doesn’t like.

Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 2d

At the request of the U.S. Department of Justice, a Facebook group used by nearly 80,000 people to report sightings of federal immigration agents in the Chicago area has been taken down by the social media giant Meta, Facebook’s parent company.

Facebook suspends popular Chicago ICE-sightings group at Trump administration’s request

The group, "ICE Sighting-Chicagoland," has been increasingly used in the last five weeks of President Donald Trump’s intense deportation campaign to warn neighbors that federal agents are nearby.

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Sylvie @slywit.bsky.social · 2d

The only reason I haven't gobbled them all up is that I also have Wicksons and King Davids right now.

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Steven Santos @stevensantos.bsky.social · 2d

How to Remove AI From Your Google Chrome Experience

How to Remove AI From Your Google Chrome Experience - Opus

Follow these steps to resist the AI-pocalypse in your everyday web browsing.

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Sylvie @slywit.bsky.social · 3d

In my neck of the woods (SF), these were particularly good this year.

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bleary @bleary.off-the-records.com · 3d

If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.

Did people really memorize phone numbers before cell phones, or is that just a movie thing?
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I was watching some old shows from the 90s and noticed people would just dial numbers from memory - like they'd call their friends or family without looking anything up.
Made me wonder if that was actually normal back then? Did people genuinely have all their important numbers memorized, or did most folks keep a little address book or written list nearby?

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Sylvie @slywit.bsky.social · 3d

Word.

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Michael Edison Hayden @michaelehayden.bsky.social · 3d

“They are highly organized … [they] have purchased their own animal costumes”

Andy ngo mad about muppets again — this time in Chicago

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 4d

It is not difficult for men to express their feelings; they do so all the time. What they mean is that they don’t get the response they hope for—or the one they feel entitled to from women—afterwards.

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 4d

So thankful that dudes without game now have the option of driving all of our energy bills up to come up with devastating lines like it was nice to meet you

C. Buckthorn @cbuckthorn.bsky.social · 4d

This is amazing. I laughed out loud www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

As 32-year-old Rich points out, though, "it's not like using ChatGPT guarantees success".
When he met someone in a bar one Friday night and swapped social media handles, he asked AI what his next move should be.
ChatGPT discerned that sending an initial message on Monday midmorning would set the right pace. "Then it gave me some options for what the message could be," says Rich.
"Keep it light, warm, and low-stakes so it reads as genuine interest without urgency," the bot advised. "Something like: Hey Sarah, still laughing about [tiny shared moment/reference if you've got one] - good to meet you!" Rich went back and forth with ChatGPT until he felt they'd hit upon exactly the right message ("Hey Sarah, it was lovely to meet you") but sadly she never replied, he says. "It's been two weeks now."

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Shelley Stamp @shelleystamp.bsky.social · 4d

My opinion? Bigelow > PTA. An utterly propulsive thriller that doesn’t center white dudes, doesn’t fall back on a tired rescue plot, and deals with some very real sh*t. #AHouseOfDynamite

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Neil Mackenzie @nmackenzie.bsky.social · 4d

#Hellzone
San Francisco, CA

Photo of many peaceful people, sitting around in groups, enjoying the sun in a deep green Dolores Park. The skyscrapers of downtown San Francisco, including Salesforce Tower, are visible in the distance. There are a few fluffy white clouds below a bright blue sky.

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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 4d

Unconstitutionally taking money that the law says must be spent on one purpose & using it for something else—when it's to establish personalist control over the FUCKING MILITARY—is about as dangerous a constitutional crisis/failure as you can imagine

Via: www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

The Office of Management and Budget sent a notification to Congress about their intent to use research and development funds to pay members of the military, two sources with direct knowledge tell NBC News.

A spokesperson for the OMB confirmed to NBC News that it plans to use the research and development funds and that there are two years' worth of funds available within the Department of Defense.

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Sylvie @slywit.bsky.social · 4d

For the record...

Letterboxd posters for (left to right) MATEWAN, INCENDIES, REDS, THE SUBSTANCE, GRIZZLY MAN, THE STRAIGHT STORY, GODZILLA MIINUS ONE, BIRTH, A QUESTION OF SILENCE, LOVE AND ANARCHY

Sylvie @slywit.bsky.social · 4d

I was just reminded I only watched REDS for the first time last year. I had avoided it for a long time (probably because of its length). But it's worth every minute—in large part due to Diane Keaton. It ended up being #3 of my new-to-me watches for the entire year (out of 250+). Highly recommend.

Diane Keaton sits on a piece of driftwood on the beach in REDS.

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Sylvie @slywit.bsky.social · 4d

I only watched it for the first time a year or so ago and I was sorry to have waited so long.

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Sylvie @slywit.bsky.social · 5d

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

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Sylvie @slywit.bsky.social · 5d

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

Sylvie @slywit.bsky.social · 5d

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 · 5d

"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

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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 · 6d

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

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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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