🎉 Please help us welcome the first new IWC members of 2026!!! 👏👏👏 EXCELSIOR! ☕️ Jon Baskin Jennifer Dunn @jenniferdunn.bsky.social Sarah Granger @sarahgranger.com Leon Masters Nick Perlman @nickperlman.bsky.social Emilie Svensson Danielle Tjoelker @dtjoelker.bsky.social #WeAreTheIWC

I interviewed former TV exec & script consultant Rebecca Stay for @pipelineartists.bsky.social -- she's so smart & has some amazing advice for writers. Check it out here - pipelineartists.com/former-tv-ex...

Remember that time I “Jurassic Parked” a dragon and then threw in some Edith Piaf just to prove to my teenaged daughter that I could? Well now you can read that for free. 🙂 (Now with cool art by @thaisibir.bsky.social!)

"Scientists from Google and the University of California at Berkeley estimated the [AI] training process alone consumed 1,287 megawatt hours of electricity (enough to power about 120 average U.S. homes for a year), generating about 552 tons of carbon dioxide." news.mit.edu/2025/explain...

Read our analysis of the new data at the link below! Image Description: text reads "In 2024, only 2.4% of speaking characters in the Top 100 movies were depicted with a disability. The number "2.4%" is larger than the rest of the text.

It's book day! Cressida and her friends have finally discovered the source of their Headmaster's obsession, but can they stop it before he makes good on their school's ominous "change the world" motto? A magical school that isn't TERFY, teens standing up for good, and a middle finger to eugenics.

It's been a good month for my sci-fi scripts. My pilot, M-CAP2, won StoryPros' combined sci-fi/fantasy/horror category. And yesterday I found out my feature, THE COMMUNING ENGINE, is a quarterfinalist in the PAGE Awards (top 10% out of ~10k submissions), moving on to the next level in competition. 🎉

as someone who has disabilities, I am really tired of AI proponents using the disability argument. It's demeaning to us, infantilizes us, and doesn't help If they really wanted to help, they would build accessible cities and make existing ones more accessible. But they don't care about us

I had so much fun talking with TV comedy writer, Jimy Shah, about her career leading up to and including the upcoming AppleTV+ series, Stick. Our conversation here: pipelineartists.com/a-tv-writers...

Tonight's the night! #Duster premieres at 9pmEST/6pmPST tonight May 15th on @streamonmax.bsky.social !! Ride on!! #TVSky #WritingSky

Apple warns some iPhone users of mercenary spyware attacks (what to do if you're notified) - www.pcmag.com/news/apple-w...

So I helped get an indie feature film made and it's now officially released on demand! STAY WITH ME -- about a woman with an undiagnosed mental illness and the 2 closest people in her life who had to pick up the pieces after her suicide. Check it out on Prime Video, AppleTV, more. bit.ly/3EE536M

Authors Guild webinars are SO good and helpful. On May 9, AG will be hosting Nonfiction Proposals: What Agents and Editors Want. It's free. Register here: authorsguild.org/event/nonfic.... @authorsguild.bsky.social #booksky

Some interesting data here about social platform trends re: media & entertainment.

It's fine... everything's fine...

Sadly I was expecting this. Going after Wikipedia. Oh, the hypocrisy.

White Hat – Sarah Granger One-Hour Drama Series @sgranger.bsky.social On the brink of losing their funding, a female led startup of ethical hackers chase a long shot government deal in an attempt to show competitors and investors that they have what it takes. #TV #Scriptsky

A threat to everyone -- www.theguardian.com/global/2025/...

LMAO at the first 2 episodes of #TheStudio. So fun. I hope they share the pilot script sooner vs. later. Can't wait to read it.

I've been knee deep in revisions on 5 scripts the past 3 weeks, each for different reasons. It's been good mental exercise -- and more fun than I expected. Hopefully it'll be worth the time and effort. Nice to take a break today though -- such a perfect LA day outside. (Photo from my walk.)

They used my book. I own the rights. They did not ask for nor do they have my permission.

THE COMMUNING ENGINE A closed-off particle physicist who lost her dad in a mysterious accident attempts to recreate his research, unwittingly unlocking a portal that could alter how humanity views death, forcing her to face her own grief. CONTACT + ARRIVAL #ScreenPit #Fea #SFi #ScriptSky #WrWo #SeRe

For those who are authors or thinking of becoming authors, here's a telling chart (from a paywall WSJ piece) about the decline of the paperback worth noting. If your publisher plans a hardcover release, don't hold your breath on a followup. (Source: www.wsj.com/business/med...)

Open caption tech helps everyone, not just the hearing impaired - www.indiewire.com/features/gen...

"Zelenskyy’s main objective going into the sit-down had been to press Trump not to abandon his country and to warn against moving too closely to Russian President Vladimir Putin. Instead he got shouted at while Trump appeared to play up the drama for the cameras." apnews.com/article/zele...

"Most of EPA’s work happens behind the scenes, like when one of its enforcement teams raided a warehouse in Colorado full of mislabeled oil barrels that had been prepared for a landfill and discovered they contained nuclear waste..." www.nytimes.com/2025/02/27/o...

21 DOGE staffers resign refusing to dismantle public services. Good for them. (I tried to remove the image of El0# from the post but BSky keeps re-adding. Sorry.) live-the-wrap.pantheonsite.io/doge-staffer...

During our analysis of RedNote, we found that the app requests some very sensitive permissions, including location information, even when the app is not running in the foreground. This permission is not requested by other similar apps such as TikTok, Facebook, or Instagram.

This is the way.

This is just the beginning.

“The president is openly violating the law & Constitution on a daily basis”- @brendannyhan.bsky.social messaging-custom-newsletters.nytimes.com/dynamic/rend... “We’re talking about the idea of whether the president has to follow the law at all. I never thought I’d have to say [that] about the US.”

There's so much news out there about AI and the sky falling. Here's an interesting piece via @techcrunch.com today - techcrunch.com/2025/02/03/m...

Tariffs are taxes. "Trump insists that tariffs are paid for by foreign countries. In fact, its is importers — American companies — that pay tariffs, and the money goes to U.S. Treasury. Those companies, in turn, typically pass their higher costs on to their customers in the form of higher prices."

Thousands of datasets from Data.gov have disappeared since Trumps inauguration. Whats going on? Deleted datasets "disproportionately" come from the Department of Energy, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) mashable.com/article/gove...

You can't make this stuff up.

So far the videos & ads leading up to the FireAid concert have had airplanes, an ice rink, and a neighborhood & person on fire. All triggering today. 😭 Not helping.

RIP Dick Button. dnyuz.com/2025/01/30/d...

Real leaders take responsibility. You gut aviation safety and tell workers they're out of jobs in critical roles, accidents will happen. That's why the safety programs were created in the first place. This is clearly not a single-fault situation, but blaming it on something else is not leadership.

They bought it. Now they're breaking it.

The entertainment industry built Los Angeles. To rebuild Los Angeles, we need a thriving entertainment industry providing good union jobs at every level — right here in LA. Please add your name. #StayinLA

This whole "getting back to normal" thing isn't working quite yet. I can do it for an hour or two at a time, but then I just can't any more. Gotta hold space for... space.

Missing - Eaton Fire Resident - Kevin Devine. Last seen Jan. 7 night in a car at 926 Boston St. in Altadena. Gray Dodge Charger. He is 5'10" with blue eyes Contact 248-578-2975 with any information.

Just a reminder that like other major disasters, this is a collective grief period in Southern California and for those with family or homes here. People grieve differently. Some people will have very real PTSD. Give everyone grace. Be gentle and generous. 💙

Haven't had the time to post much - been giving most attention to evac prep & checking on friends. And can't really say I'm 100% safe since our zone is next to a warning zone, but so far, still home in LA, although the giant flakes of soot on the porch sure doesn't feel like it. Very surreal.

UCLA Report: 14.3% of Lead Actors in Top Streaming Shows Have a Disability; Disability Belongs™ Highlights Most Have Nonapparent Disabilities - www.respectability.org/2024/12/ucla...

Number of people who go bankrupt every year because of medical bills or illness-related work loss: Australia 0 Canada 0 Denmark 0 Finland 0 France 0 Germany 0 Iceland 0 Ireland 0 Italy 0 Japan 0 Netherlands 0 Norway 0 Portugal 0 Spain 0 Sweden 0 UK 0 United States 530,000 There’s a lesson there.

This has always been my worst fear about climate change: the worse it gets, the more geopolitical chaos it causes; the more geopolitical chaos there is, the harder it is to cooperate to fight climate change. theconversation.com/a-doom-loop-...

Know people who can nominate for Academy Awards or other important film awards? Make sure they're aware of this list of women, nonbinary, and transgender people eligible. Courtesy WIF / Reframe. womeninfilm.org/wp-content/u...