Oh yes! Let's talk about this!
"A reasonable conclusion is that most screenplays submitted to the Black List website are competent but not exceptional, and those that are exceptional are quite rare (which roughly mirrors what most of us know instinctively if we’ve read a lot of screenplays)."
The best write-up I’ve read that voices what we’re all feeling. Reading Trump’s rambling this time is staggering. Worth a few minutes of your time and a repost.
04.03.2026 00:46 — 👍 74 🔁 33 💬 1 📌 1Amazing!
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27.02.2026 16:02 — 👍 28 🔁 10 💬 0 📌 0Austin area folks: Austin Animal Services is over capacity & needs help with foster & adopt. Additionally there is a Central Texas wide name your adoption fee event coming up, March 6-8. Please consider fostering if you can't adopt. Homes without children & pets are unicorn homes for some dogs.
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Your personal essay for TV programs isn't filler—it's your third writing sample. Decision-makers (myself included) weigh essays heavily. A compelling, engaging story can be the difference between an interview and a pass. Give it real creative effort.
#scriptsky
This 53 year old man who lived in my neighborhood w/no criminal record & who had been in the US for 30 years, was detained and thrown into a cold cell for days, caught pneumonia and COVID there and deported.
He finally died.
I am so angry.
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You’re writing a script about a killer shark, reach Act 3 and need to figure out how to kill this unkillable monster. What if it chomps on an oxygen tank and blows itself up? That could work but must be set up earlier. So this week’s #Scriptsky #Screenwriting thread is on PLANTS AND PAYOFFS.
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She's live! My short film Woman Dies Alone is now available to watch on YouTube!
Happy Galentine's Day to all who celebrate!
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NEW: A federal tool meant to find noncitizens on voter rolls is consistently marking citizens as noncitizens, especially if they were born outside the U.S., causing chaos as election clerks try not to disenfranchise voters, @zachdespart.bsky.social and I found. 🧵 www.propublica.org/article/save...
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Happy Lunar New Year everyone! #lunarnewyear
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we need to talk about that Ring Super Bowl ad
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This is 18-mo-old Amalia waving to me when she was detained.
She was hospitalized with a respiratory infection while at ICE’s Dilley facility for immigrant families.
She’s one of dozens of detainees who I spoke to via video and phone calls, letters and an in-person visit. 🧵1/
1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken.
Hundreds of kids are still detained.
We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵
Split image of Ricky Martin and Bad Bunny. Both wearing tuxedoes. (Martin in black, Bad Bunny in white.)
If I were a film studio head I’d be moving heaven and earth to produce a Spanish-language buddy spy comedy with these two adventuring around the globe.
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Award-winning episodic director CARL SEATON droppin game on screenwriters rant room y’all! 🔥🎙️🔥
HOW TO BUILD YOUR AUDIENCE
youtu.be/9WtvsYKjCVo
#screenwritingtips #driectingtv #podcast
@Balance510
@tracygrant.bsky.social
You just caused this bookseller to order for our store! reachandteach.com
03.02.2026 20:16 — 👍 28 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
For so long Amazon has had a monopoly on selling self-published books. Good to see that @bookshop.org is ready to compete in the space! www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...
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BLACK GAME DEVELOPERS, WRITERS, ARTISTS AND CREATIVES AT LARGE I NEED YOU TO BE LOUD THIS MONTH*. I NEED YOU TO SHARE YOUR WORK LIKE YOU WILL DIE OTHERWISE, DO NOT BE PRECIOUS ABOUT ABOUT IT
*This message also applies to every other month of the year, but the extra attention should be leveraged
Amount of time CBC News’s The National spent covering the US protests (and Lemon): 2 minutes, 30 seconds.
Telling that CBC covers American opposition to Trump better than CBS. (This is a great report, btw. TV news is so much better in Canada)
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We’re just not a free country.
Any American watching this play out between regime forces and journalists overseas would recognize it for what it is.
Let's not be afraid to call a lie a lie:
26.01.2026 21:53 — 👍 68 🔁 18 💬 4 📌 0I approve of this disapproval
26.01.2026 15:21 — 👍 684 🔁 98 💬 3 📌 4This is Alex Pretti.
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I'm calling bullshit on the media narrative that JD Vance tried to "soften" things in Minneapolis. He blamed the left for ICE violence and called the 5-year-old's father an "illegal alien" even though he's lawfully applying for asylum.
New piece from me:
newrepublic.com/article/2056...
LA folks around Burbank: ICE is out and about in NoHo today, particularly at Home Depot on Sherman Way and near Burbank Blvd and Vineland. Be careful.
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In perhaps the most perfect pairing of show and guest in podcast history I popped up on the latest episode of Screaming Into the Hollywood Abyss to talk about stuff!
15.01.2026 23:24 — 👍 56 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 0I'm on a podcast! Brilliant poet @anthonyetherin.bsky.social and I talk the TV biz and I rant a bit! Is it informed ranting? SOMETIMES!
10.01.2026 19:07 — 👍 32 🔁 8 💬 1 📌 0
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For San Diego folks who are looking for an e-bike, just want to give a shout out to Electric Bike Central on San Diego Ave. Small shop that only sells quality bikes and 100% takes care of their customers.
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