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Greg Machlin @gregmachlin.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

REJECTED is predictable. The others are varying degrees of predictable if you know me! www.my9movies.com

9 movie posters in a 3 by 3 grid. Top row: Rejected, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, The 39 Steps. Middle row: La Jetee, Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey, The City of Lost Children. Bottom Row: The Snowman (animated, 1982), Us, The Hudsucker Proxy.

Greg Machlin @gregmachlin.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Final ballot: Documentary Now was on my ballot for a long time… until I found out Crazy Ex-Girlfriend didn't make the Times list.

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Greg Machlin @gregmachlin.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

With Mr. Scorsese, I felt I should have at least one documentary show on the list. And Undone is just impeccable. But seasons 2-5 of The Magicians are so good, and at such a high difficulty level, that I couldn't ignore it.

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Greg Machlin @gregmachlin.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

My personal NY Times 10 best ballot, though I went specifically for "10 best shows that SHOULD'VE been on the list." Gleeful comedy Legends of Tomorrow seasons 3-5 is an insanely great run and contains the most dementedly funny fight scene I've ever seen. ("Beeebo WANT CUDDLES!")

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Greg Machlin @gregmachlin.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

The male journalist in question made a post on Twitter… you know what, I'll just post two screenshots. He's since deleted the post on the left. Underlining on the right post is not mine.

Post from Twitter. Jeff Sneider writes: "I plan to write about Inde Navarette for a long time. I can be a useful friend to her team... or I can share literally everything I hear about her. The best part is, THEY get to decide. I can forgive being ghosted this summer. I won't forget, but I can forgive… just not twice."

A follow up post in which Sneider doubles down.

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Greg Machlin @gregmachlin.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

This is a fast, fun, free game where you recast Hollywood movies with actors from different eras. And its name is a pun. Recommended! cast-ablanca.com

Screenshot from the free game Cast-ablanca, featuring Brazil directed by Lina Wertmuelller, and starring Lee Marvin as Sam, Rita Moreno as Jill, Cary Grant as Harry Tuttle, and Earth Kitt as Mrs Lowry, and $203 million gross worldwide.

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Greg Machlin @gregmachlin.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

This is an absolutely brilliant (disturbing) webcomic, and I devoured all 85 strips (so far) in an hour. Really playing around with and stretching the form. Quick read. Strongly recommended.

Single panel from a webcomic. A young woman with brown/blonde hair stands in front of a circus tent. Typed text above her head: "Bright lights, plentiful food, the echoing memory of thousands of bleary good times. But no people." There's a cartoon, drawn polaroid photo of the woman (named Grey) to the right, pointing at a symbol on a brown wall. it's as if the photo has been placed on top of the panel. White text on black background, circled, reads "Well look at that...It's not on the list but I can guess what that symbol means."

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Greg Machlin @gregmachlin.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Highly underrated and my personal favorite:

A cover of a book: black and white photo of an eternally spiraling spiral staircase. "Black House: The Sequel to the Talisman: A novel by Stephen King and Peter Straub" say the spiraling letters. They call out to us. The spirals. The spirals.

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Greg Machlin @gregmachlin.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

This account has made *137* posts in the past two days, and an astounding 10,400 posts overall, all of which are reposts of media--Twitter screenshots, Youtube videos w/ no comment, etc. This is either a bot or someone getting paid by the post. Feel free to report!

Screenshot of a right-wing bsky poster, reposting one in an endless series of right-wing tweets.

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Greg Machlin @gregmachlin.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

Since Aoife is asleep now, and doesn't know about this yet, I have to insult *myself.*

A Star Trek: The Next Generation episode title card, with a shot of the Enterprise. The episode title is "Greg's face is dumb."

A Star Trek: Deep Space 9 episode title card, with text against the backdrop of the circular space station. The episode title is "Greg's Face is Dumb, but on a space station."

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Greg Machlin @gregmachlin.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

Post something random AND you'll have a GREAT May. (i don't do threats.)

A honey pitcher with googly eyes on its top, so its spout looks like a mouth, is pouring out honey. The caption is "Excuse me, sir, may I interest you in my BLEHHHHHHHHH."

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Greg Machlin @gregmachlin.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

unless the same thing happened at two different locations in LA yesterday, it was almost certainly the one I was at: their instagram account is @communityselfdefensecoalition.

Community Self Defense Coalition flyer for self defense training in LA.

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Greg Machlin @gregmachlin.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

Ah, Fallen London. So prophetic. So inadvertently prophetic.

Screenshot of text reading "It's Greg M! Welcome to The Gates of Hell, delicious friend!" It is from the online text-based game Fallen London.

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Greg Machlin @gregmachlin.bsky.social · 26/12/2025

6/ Five teenage humans vs. three angry boxes are not good odds. My friends, god bless 'em, stood their ground. Thanks Gav, Ben, David, and Shawn.

photo of five Caucasian men, outside, wearing coats. Four of the five wear glasses. The author of this post is in the center. They are smiling, as if to celebrate a long-ago victory over boxes.

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Greg Machlin @gregmachlin.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

Hi all! More Than Sex Ed, the non-profit org that I'm a teacher for, is raising $3,700 in 24 hours in honor of the 37 schools & community groups we served last year for #givingTuesday. If you're able to donate, that would be amazing! All gifts are doubled. Link: www.ahfwad.org/site/TR/Even...

Text: Today is Giving Tuesday! More than Sex-Ed is raising $3,700 in 24 hours in honor of the 37 schools & community groups we served last year. Donate today and your gift will be doubled!

Image of a box with hearts and dollar coins coming out of it.

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Greg Machlin @gregmachlin.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

First you get down on your knees, Fiddle with your rosaries, Bow your head with great respect and Genuflect, genuflect, genuflect

The pope speaks into a microphone. A frows of cardinals and media figures, all in black, bustle behind him.

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Greg Machlin @gregmachlin.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

1/2 WAYSIDE SCHOOL IS FALLING DOWN, by Louis Sachar. The meta-narrative games he plays blew my 10-year-old mind. (In the first book, SIDEWAYS STORIES FROM WAYSIDE SCHOOL, Chapter 19 reads, in full: "There is no 19th story. There is no Miss Zarves. Sorry.")

The cover of the children's book WAYSIDE SCHOOL IS FALLING DOWN. A part of a brick building tilts at a forty-five degree angle. Through a large window, we can see three children floating and looking alarmed, along with a globe.

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Greg Machlin @gregmachlin.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

@vivaciousvandal.bsky.social has arrived at #AFF2025. Panels have been great so far! We have new *ideas* on how to pitch our current projects.

A white woman with short bleached hair wearing a neon sweater holds up two fingers, trying to do bunny ears on a white man with a skeptical smile in glasses.

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Greg Machlin @gregmachlin.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

Photos from today’s LAUSD No Kings protest and march!

A white man in pink Godzilla shirt and baseball cap stands on a sidewalk and holds a cardboard sign that reads “Hey Donald, everyone’s laughing at you and no one likes you!”

A black man at a protest smiles and wears a union army civil war uniform and holds a sign with the confederate flag on it and Donald trumps faced superimposed on the flag and the words “Benedict Donald.”

A man holds a sign that reads “not a paid protester I hate Trump for free.”

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Greg Machlin @gregmachlin.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

Currently it’s this big dumb shiny fellow. Garbodor!

Screenshot of a turquoise and gray blob with dumb adorable eyes from the mobile game Pokemon Go.

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Greg Machlin @gregmachlin.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

Post a RANDOM PICTURE or else everything will go bad in September but if you post the picture things will go GOOD in September

An old woman with glasses and a red cardigan sits on a couch in a seated position, asleep, in her living room. At least three frogs in lily pads float in front of her. The frog in the foreground holds a remote control and looks pleased. This image is from a picture book named Tuesday that won the Caldecott. The book has no words. The frogs are everywhere.

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Greg Machlin @gregmachlin.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

Troll alert: A more-clever-than-usual troll going by the name of "Myles Penfeld" is using a stolen photo of an upstate NY dentist. Block & report.

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Greg Machlin @gregmachlin.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

@myles-penfield.bsky.social Is there a reason you're using a stolen photo of a dentist as your avatar? That's really weird. Also, your name does not appear to have pub credits anywhere, let alone in the Times or the Atlantic. Weirdness all around!

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Greg Machlin @gregmachlin.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

This book sounds fantastic, Charlie! To paraphrase The Simpsons, "why is it when I heard the word "gayest" and the word "witch" I immediately thought of the word @vivaciousvandal.bsky.social?"

Still image of a Simpsons cartoon. Chalmers, a yellow-colored man in a blue suit, has an annoyed look on his face, standing on the roof of a school. Text on the image reads "why is it when I heard the word School and the word Exploded I immediately thought of the word Skinner!"

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Greg Machlin @gregmachlin.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

Look, I know that these are all real band and musician names, but they *sound* made-up when you list them off in a commercial… Portugal the Man! Peggy Gou! KHRUANGBIN! (it's pronounced CRUNG-ga-bin.)

The words "Portugal. The Man" in large white text against a backdrop of a photo of a stage.

The words "Peggy Gou" in large white text against a backdrop of a photo of a crowd.

The words "Anderson Paak & the Free Nationals" in large white text against a backdrop of a photo of a crowd

The word "Khruaungbin" whichis actually pronounced "CRUNG-guh-bin." In large blue text against a backdrop of a photo of a concert.

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Greg Machlin @gregmachlin.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

This was Aoife’s answer to the prompt in the very fun game “Ransom Note,” where you use magnetic poetry to create your answers. highly recommended!

A card reading “Summarize Greek mythology.” Below it, a magnetic board with four magnet words on it: “Man adventure. Avoid wife.”

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Greg Machlin @gregmachlin.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

Aoife did me so I felt obligated to do them: Aoife-coded characters!

A woman with brown hair and a brown jacket points a large gun from a sniper position diagonally across the screen; this is Shaw from CBS's Person of Interest.

Still image from animation of Marcelene from "Adventure Time." A young woman with long black hair plays guitar while a tree appears about to devour her. The young woman is a vampire.

A young blonde girl wears a light aqua hoodie with a unicorn horn and a striped shirt. This is Angelica from the TV series Daybreak.

A redheaded woman in a green sweater looks anxiously past the camera, outdoors. Behind her, in soft focus, is a pre-teen girl against a backdrop of large rocks. Aya Cash in the Apple series Wolf Like Me.

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Greg Machlin @gregmachlin.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Congrats to @cjhoke.bsky.social for co-writing SHRINKING season 2 episode 7!! Literally my only issue with the ep is that there were no talking squirrels like there were in play she wrote. I'M KIDDING it's a fantastic ep of a fantastic show.

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Greg Machlin @gregmachlin.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

That canceled TV show you'll never stop thinking about

Upbeat image of white man in green jacket and colllared shirt and tie next to Hispanic woman in the same outfit. Both are holding futuristic guns. The image is from the TV show The Middleman.

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Greg Machlin @gregmachlin.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

I've never seen DESPICABLE ME before and I'm already impressed. DAMN, movie! You go *hard*!

Sign reading "Bank of Evil" in large letters with smaller letters below, saying "formerly Lehman Brothers." From Despicable Me.

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Greg Machlin @gregmachlin.bsky.social · 20/09/2024

One Perfect Shot: CONCLAVE (2024)

An animated Pope from Rick and Morty levitates and glows with energy in front of a diagonal arch.

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Greg Machlin @gregmachlin.bsky.social · 17/09/2024

I am #428,717. The first 10%! i'm not the earliest of adopters, so sue me.

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Greg Machlin @gregmachlin.bsky.social · 16/09/2024

Why no, my writing partner is NOT a Miyazaki creature, they are a perfectly normal human-- EVERYONE ELSE: They're a Miyazaki creature. ME: (sigh): They're a Miyazaki creature.

A female feature hunched over a laptop in a tent. Her large black floppy hat hides her face. Her body is covered by an aqua towel except for her hands.

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Greg Machlin @gregmachlin.bsky.social · 09/09/2024

I may have watched a little bit too much Interview with the Vampire because I just wrote this.

Half of a screenplay page:
Greg's Apartment - Night.
Greg looks out the window. Thoughtfully. Moodily. He's talking to an Interviewer.

Greg (affected accent): I begged her to come back, of course. And she did. How could she not? We were writing partners.

Interviewer: And then?

Greg: Fights. Screaming. Scratching out each other's pages with venomous pens. We would hurl our laptops at each other. Also venomous.

Interviewer: Really?!

Greg turns away from window and drops the accent.

Greg: Of course not! We were chill all the time! But Jesus Christ, if you want this to outsell Anne Rice, I gotta make it interesting somehow.

Smash cut to black.

Title Card: Interview with the Vamp-Writer.

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Greg Machlin @gregmachlin.bsky.social · 02/09/2024

I don't know if I mentioned this but Aoife (@vivaciousvandal.bsky.social) is very funny when they're high.

Text from Aoife: "I'm too dumb right now."
Greg: "Yay high Aoife!"
Aoife: "I like a baby who thinks it's night under a blanket."
Aoife: "That's parrots."
Aoife: "Never mind."
Aoife: "Babies don't know what night is yet."

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Greg Machlin @gregmachlin.bsky.social · 28/08/2024

For anyone curious, the full context… doesn't make me look any better! 😅

Text exchange:
"Right know [sic] they got off too easy. And you are very good at torture!"
"ugh you are gonna make me hurt my babies again!"
"But u love when I make u hurt the babies because I am not as good at hurting the babies."
"That's going on bluesky you sicko."

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Greg Machlin @gregmachlin.bsky.social · 10/08/2024

6/ and a conclusion of the very lengthy list.

Obama raised taxes on the wealthy and cut them on the poor and middle class by expanding the earned-income tax credit and the child tax credit, causing a major and lasting effect on income inequality. It would consume too much space to list the smaller Obama achievements, but an abbreviated list includes nationalizing the student-loan industry, allowing gay people to serve openly in the military, expanding eligibility for overtime pay, cracking down on for-profit colleges, banning hidden credit-card fees, and the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act banning sex-based wage discrimination.

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Greg Machlin @gregmachlin.bsky.social · 10/08/2024

5/ Obama accomplishments, more:

With the Dodd-Frank law, Obama implemented sweeping reforms to ensure another financial crisis wouldn’t occur, creating higher capital requirements on systemically important firms, requiring investment firms to do what’s best for their customers, and founding a new agency, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, to protect people from scams, among other measures.

And there was so much more. The administration enacted the largest green-energy-subsidy program in American history ($90 billion of the stimulus), bolstering a fledgling domestic wind sector and creating a solar industry virtually from scratch. Greenhouse-gas emissions declined, and the administration made landmark climate deals with China, slingshotting those agreements into the first global climate treaty. Obama raised taxes on the wealthy...

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Greg Machlin @gregmachlin.bsky.social · 10/08/2024

4/ Why doesn't Bsky have the ability to thread?? Obama accomplishments, the saving-the-auto-industry-part and the don't-falsely-blame-him for the Bush bailout part.

What people most remember about Obama’s record, other than Obamacare, is that he bailed out Wall Street. Except he didn’t. They’re remembering the bailout that occurred in October 2008 under the Bush administration. The “Obama bailout” has been repeated so often it has become canon in the public memory — for example, Semafor’s recent claim that “Barack Obama and his Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner bailed out the bottom lines of banks and financial institutions.” In truth, Obama’s main contribution to the Bush-era Wall Street bailout was to use the leftover funds to rescue the auto industry. The move not only saved the industry, its suppliers, and quite likely the entire upper Midwest from economic collapse, it also saved the U.S. government $100 billion in pension bailouts and health subsidies it would have had to shell out had it let Detroit go bankrupt.

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Greg Machlin @gregmachlin.bsky.social · 10/08/2024

2/ The start of Obama's accomplishments...

Most people remember Obamacare, though few realize what a massive conglomeration of reforms were encompassed in that single law. It turned the market for individual insurance, which was small and virtually useless for anybody with less than perfect health, into a subsidized and regulated exchange that provides affordable coverage to more than 20 million people. It expanded Medicaid to cover an additional 25 million Americans. It closed the “doughnut hole” in Medicare’s prescription-drug coverage, which had forced millions of senior citizens to shell out thousands of dollars for their medicine. And it implemented a wide array of cost reforms that have helped bring down medical inflation with the result that the American health system now spends less money while covering more people.

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Greg Machlin @gregmachlin.bsky.social · 20/07/2024

Yo @sepinwall.bsky.social you gonna let @moryan.bsky.social diss you like this?? (dedication reads: "I am better than Alan Sepinwall (sometimes!)"

Signed title page from Mo Ryan's nonfiction book BURN IT DOWN, reading "To Greg — I am better than Alan Sepinwall (sometimes!) Thanks so much, Mo Ryan."

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Greg Machlin @gregmachlin.bsky.social · 10/07/2024

"In 1962, he founded the avant-garde journal Fuck You/A Magazine of the Arts."

Wikipedia Screenshot: "Sanders wrote his first notable poem, "Poem from Jail," on toilet paper in his cell after being jailed for protesting the launch of nuclear submarines armed with nuclear missiles in 1961. In 1962, he founded the avant-garde journal Fuck You/A Magazine of the Arts."

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Greg Machlin @gregmachlin.bsky.social · 05/07/2024

guys i just found this new game nobody's heard of called disco elysium and it's really good

Screenshot of writing from the game Disco Elysium. Text reads: "LIMBIC SYSTEM - The stench of liquor rises from your mouth. And with it -- an *ungodly* headache.
1. Help! someone! Cut my head off it's trying to murder the rest of me!
2. Who *am* I? What sort of creatures does this to their own mouth?!
3. Okay, I'm a bit scared now. let's go back to the dark."

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Greg Machlin @gregmachlin.bsky.social · 15/05/2024

RIPLEY on Netflix is incredible. The black and white images are a feast. Steven Zallian and D.P Robert Elswit have outdone themselves.

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Greg Machlin @gregmachlin.bsky.social · 25/04/2024

Me reading Doctor Who wiki: Who the heck were the Raxacoricofallaptorians? Answer: Well, I don't know what I expected....

Screenshot from the Doctor Who wiki, stating: "The Raxacoricofallapatorians were a race from the planet Raxacoricofallapatorius."

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Greg Machlin @gregmachlin.bsky.social · 22/04/2024

Aoife & I finished a *major* revision of BLACK & BLUES, our Miles Davis screenplay which we're calling "a biopic fever dream." (More than half the script was completely rewritten.) This post is a REMINDER to ANYONE WHO'S FINISHED a script to CELEBRATE it. Which Aoife & I promise we will do. Srsly.

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Greg Machlin @gregmachlin.bsky.social · 19/01/2024

I’ve worked in 3 bookstores and never seen this in the ISBN area before. Book, I like you already!) (This is from Lance Henriksen’s autobiography Not Bad for a Human. He’s led an *insane* life.)

Copyright page from Lance Henriksen’s autobiography “Not Bad for a Human,” but the key part is where the I S B N number should be, it reads “Fuck I S B N numbers.”

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