Get these motherfucking Nazis out of our motherfucking country!

I feel like this one may make some of us (esp the gamers amongst us) feel seen... #scriptsky

Well worth a read #scriptsky And I'm not even a *tiny* bit surprised to hear the good news that the Reddit moderators dropped a grand piano made of concrete on that AI-scraping-asshat's head.

Pressure works.

"Scrap" not "water down", and boot Mahmood out of position and onto the backbenchers, if not remove the whip, while he is at it. You cannot water down Labour's current hostile and xenophobic anti-immigration/anti-asylum policies. They are too far towards the extreme right for tweaks to mean anything

The book coop is fucking cool

Still playing with openings for the new thing about vampires in the Home Office (and the impossibility of distinguishing them from the regular employees). #FirstPageFriday #scriptsky

I know it's been said before. But if you wanna land an agent, your screenplay has to be bulletproof. So after you read this, go buy a gun. Tack your script to the wall, step back, and pump a couple of rounds into it. If there are no holes when you're done, your script is ready #scriptsky

Take Sam up on this! Lucky enough to have read this one and it's a gripping timely 'edge of your seat' script. Gets out of the gate fast and just doesn't let up - and has plenty of food for thought too. #scriptsky

Theresa May's awfulness as Prime Minister has always been severely underpriced compared to those who came before and after her. Not least by herself, given the patronising air and complete lack of self-awareness portrayed in these remarks. Hostile environment, Windrush, Lancaster House, Grenfell...

And Shitter, the antisocial media platform that nobody calls "X" in normal conversation, has been doing this and there's no opting out last I've heard.

Instagram has gone even more feral and is allowing your images to be remixed by strangers using AI to do whatever the hell they like, unless you actively opt out. The opt out procedure looks a bit different in Australia than the U.S.-based instructions I've seen. These ones matched what I saw.

As ICE captures spike across the US, re-upping this story about Habeas Flight Watch, an activist-built tool to help you know when an ICE flight is headed to your city. Can help legal teams/community members triage habeas filings, flight observations, etc. gillianbrockell.com/habeas-fligh...

Immigrants don't kill our culture The government does

One for #ScriptskyUK You need to be in University of Manchester's screenwriting programme or a recent alum to be eligible via this route. "Current MA Screenwriting students and graduates from the past five years (those graduating during or since 2021) are eligible for consideration."

I met Antony Johnston a couple of years ago through Shore. He had a lot of great advice, both in terms of my script and what to try next - and a huge range in terms of experience with different kinds of writing - it was a real privilege to meet with him.

Feature Contest judge Antony Johnston has built an incredible career across film, books, graphic novels, and videogames. As an award-winning writer, New York Times bestselling author, and the creator of ATOMIC BLONDE, he could be reading your screenplay. #scriptsky https://ow.ly/xMnu50ZlQkw

Abolish the Home Office

Not helped by the rhetoric of this government, thinking of Starmer calling people opposed to his anti-rights agenda "extremists", but this has noticeably gotten worse. Teh threats are pretty much daily, and not just nasty comments on social media. news.sky.com/story/staff-...

This should be obvious. But if you're a (U.S.) citizen and you work closely with / employ someone undocumented, please don't announce that on social media. Your identity is likely easier to infer than you think, and you're risking someone else. If you have done that, delete, don't double down.

ICE is engaged in a very large escalation nationwide, with the agency claiming to be hitting record arrest numbers amid the return of quotas. This has gotten very little attention from the media because ICE learned lessons from the chaotic disasters of Kristi Noem’s tenure. Keep a watch.

In rape culture, everything a woman says means yes and nothing she says means no. This seems to assert that though she said not to come over, said no repeatedly, struggled against Platner, an ambiguous prior comment constituted irrevocable consent. Not a shocking breach not to include it.

This happens because you* didn’t apply what you learned when COVID-19 started. Flattening the curve by taking simple precautions like wearing a mask*. And every winter people die waiting. *you = people that are trying to resurrect 2019 version of normal.

The main difference AI has made to my life is having to faff about figuring out how to turn that shit off in applications where - even if I had decided to outsource my brain - it'd be completely redundant.

Just realised that Platner reminds me of that 'purple revolution' dude who thought - having just left Maga - that he was the ideal person to be a leader, with a platform revolving entirely around his needs (with everyone else's being 'divisive'). I mean - he's likely much worse than that but...

Cutting PIP for ADHD, autism anxiety etc is the perfect example of government policies looking to grab headlines while actually costing more. PIP helps support many people to work. Cutting it means they risk being unable to, that means more costs in the long term. 1/ inews.co.uk/news/politic...

It was a fuck up with enormous, national consequences. Not only did the Democratic Party declare itself Nazi-agnostic, but it may *actually* end up losing us the Senate, the very thing supporters insisted any criticism of Platner would do. This is a major league fuck up, and was 100% avoidable.

Even if it *were* still about immigration and the southern border, ICE should still be abolished. What they're doing to white U.S. citizens now is what they've been doing all along to other people. This is from 2008 www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/blog/kicking...

And this is how you do it :)

Apparently Platner's hiring a professional rape apologist.

to most of the #scriptsky readers, this is preaching to a choir .. but as it is one of the best "talking", it's worth a read

Well worth a read #scriptsky You can love two things is powerful advice worth heeding IMO.

Essential reading from Solnit on Platner - but this also absolutely nails the behaviour of the U.K. Labour Party, with its constant pandering to an imagined '[white] working class with legitimate concerns about migration' - when really they're just indulging their own prejudices.

I mean this seems pretty simple. Staying on Twitter became an ethical issue for the average user. The ones who left largely were the ones who cared.

The Green Man Trust refugee training is such a great initiative. We need a bit more positive news right now. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

Abusers sabotage their own agenda and betray those who share it while placing the burden on victims to come forward and be punished, blamed, shamed, disbelieved, or not come forward and suffer in silence and let an abuser hold power. Abusers demonstrate radical selfishness.

Who would ever have thought that the nice man with the Nazi tattoo would be credibly accused of rape? (eyeroll) Some of us are really tired of this shit.

Actually, raping someone makes you a rapist. And saying this in a country where less than 2% of rapists serve jail time makes you a rape apologist.

Unless you've been living under a rock, you know that rape is common and rape conviction rates are rare as hens' teeth. Rape apologists are a big old part of the problem. Toss this one in your oubliette, there to make mealy-mouthed excuses for monsters forever more.

Fantastic news! #SaferAir for kids with allergies. Demand safer air! www.clinicallyvulnerable.org/post/allergy...

This fucking guy. What's the bet AI hallucinated this 'God's noble experiment' bullshit?

Putting this down in the 'stupidest thing said today' category. Though I suspect she's more disingenuous than stupid. Also in the 'pray you don't actually get what you just asked for' box. Trust me Suella - you don't want repayment.

My grandma always had sort of one-sided nemesis status with Barbara Bush because she felt like her grandmotherly affect kept people from realizing she was evil and she was always sort of like, I see you bitch

If you want to sign on as a concerned (Australian) citizen, you can do so here. #auspol

Buy this book because mark Zuckerberg doesn't want you to read it

If you're in the Australian Writers' Guild (there's a few of us around), check your email. There's an open letter to sign on to re. the latest government attempt to use our work to bribe AI grifters to trash our environment with data centres that we don't want. #auspol #scriptsky

I swear we accept this because of our history of slavery Nothing about this should be ok 😔

Been dusting off DUST ON DIRT, so thought I'd share again. It's a worrying thing when the serial-killing sadistic Border Patrol officers who stalk my heroine feel like they come from a kinder, gentler time. Though there was plenty of cruelty then too. #FirstPageFriday #scriptsky