hey world, let me reiterate, this is a dark time in showbiz: a time that screams for voices of calm, clarity and understanding amid the confusion. sadly, you get us! LISTEN! RATE! REVIEW! SUBSCRIBE! #screenwriting #screenwriter #tv #tvwriting #tvwriter #writer

I guess at least we don’t have to hear centrists shit on progressives all summer

Look, if I have to choose between two guys who are going to disappoint me I’d rather vote for the guy promising blow me than the guy promising to kick me in the nuts 🤷‍♀️

The NYT piece on Scorsese says the “entertainment industry’s stance (on AI) has recently softened to a remarkable degree” But let’s be clear - the only ones to soften are the industry’s upper class, to curry favor with the elites who sign the checks. Working class artists continue to hold the line.

There is nothing Hollywood hates more than a screenwriter that just wants to be a screenwriter.

If this many writers are getting caught using AI imagine how many aren’t

Is this thing on? 🎤 Can anyone recommend journalists/outlets covering indie (scripted) media? Open to podcasts, blogs, and other suggestions… I’m working on a project that has announcement coming up and I would love to make connections that might help raise the profile in tandem with that

Pitch: Baldur’s Gate 3 virtual reality version that makes you see 5 normal people sitting around a table rolling dice

Nearly 50,000 people on the California side of Lake Tahoe are about to lose the bulk of their electricity supply,not because of infrastructure failure or mismanagement, but because Big Tech wants the grid. NV Energy, the Nevada utility that has supplied most of Lake Tahoe’s electricity for decades,

I was told there would be a social contract

Allies who think our existence is up for debate are not our allies

Who else was expecting the director of Sentimental Journey would quote James Baldwin while overtly pleading with politicians to consider the welfare of children worldwide, while the director of the ‘radical’ One Battle After Another would just say he deserved the awards and some movie nerd trivia?

Weakest year since covid tbh

Let the NPH thing be a reminder that the divide is and has always been class. Only the wealthy can afford to be apolitical

Back from (self-imposed) social media exile to share an update. 10 years ago, a friend and I created a web series called 2Kawaii4Comfort. We had a great time, but we were never able to raise the funds to finish it. But it’s found a new life on TikTok, enough that we’re producing an animated finale!

The lionization of Gavin Newsom feels like if the whole fellowship died and Boromir had to take the ring to Mordor

This is a smaller number than our weekly picketer count on the Disney strike line and smaller than some of our single heaviest days out there. Grim.

in 2024 there were 1651 working screenwriters. For reference, in 2024 there were 1696 players in the NFL.

The real Best Picture winner in our hearts...

2024 Top 12 (with the caveat that I have not seen I’m Still Here)

Susan Collins, who can be counted on for saying she's "very disappointed," says she will vote for Tulsi Gabbard.

Yup. Microsoft automatically switched me to the $99.99/year version with Spicy Autocomplete. You have to go all the way through "cancel subscription" to be presented these options and get the $69.99/year one you actually chose.

In the wake of the fires, LA production is hurting even more than before. People can’t afford to live here if there isn’t work here. Sign our petition at the link in bio STAYinLA.org and share #STAYinLA widely. (And thank you to hireyoungprofessionals.com for designing our campaign!)

I've seen people dismiss the Pornhub bans, sometimes couching their dismissal in an anti-porn stance. What I don't think they realize is that the people pushing this stuff conflate porn with LGBTQ people and sex education and are part of Project 2025 mashable.com/article/free...

union friends, the WGA has some families of guild staff that are impacted by the fires. chris, who ran our picket lines: gofund.me/38d63ae5 michael, who works in legal: gofund.me/1f3de78f parents of kym who works in our theater operations: gofund.me/a6a01a16

The Guild has launched a Writers Guild Member Fund with the ECF to provide grants for writers who have lost their home or been displaced by the wildfires. If you can support this effort, please consider donating. #WGAStrong give.entertainmentcommunity.org/site/Donatio...

At least 11 librarians in LA lost their homes in the LA Fires. A thread of their gofundmes:

They’re banning TikTok not because it harvests data, the same way US social media does, but because they can’t influence it’s algorithm with congressional hearings or government contracts the way they do every other tech giant. That’s it.

All of LA County getting a new evacuation alert on day three of this

There is a persistent myth that if you work in entertainment - if you've done something people have absolutely heard of or enjoyed - that you must be rich. Actors, writers, producers: rich. The sad truth is most of Hollywood is working class. So when you see a Go Fund Me, there's a reason it exists

Was LAFD defunded by $17.5 million? YES Some council offices and the mayor are now trying to cover for their disastrous budget by claiming that they approved new LAFD contracts, which happened 6 months AFTER they approved the FY24-25 budget, leading to services and 58 LAFD positions cut

To those not in LA, these fires are hitting an already breaking community. Many people being forced to evacuate were already stretched extremely thin due to the collapse of our industry. It’s not just celebrities. Please help however you can.

Screenwriting community: Dustin Paddock, who moderates the beloved script-coord list for support staffers, lost his home in the Eaton Fire. If you’d like to donate to help: Venmo = @Dustin-Paddock-1 Last 4 digits of phone: 7228 Resharing from a mutual friend.

with the LA fire apocalypse going on, important to remember what our mayor and city council thought it was more important to spend money on than fire prevention: cops to beat you!

For history’s sake, record of a late stage capitalism life arc

Failing to prosecute the architects of J6 from 1/21/2021 on is the prologue to this coming Trump term. That he won legitimately in 2024 is in no small part to the absolute abdication of responsibility on this by Biden's admin. If you don't govern like democracy is at stake voters won't vote like it.

It’s funny when a centibillionaire donates 1m to the inauguration. It’s like the median American donating a couple dollars. It means nothing to the centibillionaire. But it impresses Trump, who is a fake rich person.

Ted Chiang (Arrival) said about AI super-intelligence: it’s already here, but not how you think. Our idea of “The Singularity” is a machine created by humans that we will lose control over and will act to ensure its own survival. But that technology was invented centuries ago. It’s a corporation.

And if you're interested in helping my film, I have three days left of my campaign and I'm far from my goal. It won't stop me from making it if I don't reach it. I'm determined to succeed against this system. END igg.me/at/crochetanddepression

Hi 👋 I’ve fully abandoned the other place and would love to start reconnecting with writers + other creative people here!