The depth of the shame of a country this wealthy and abundant allowing its people to go hungry is impossible to measure. The fact that a handful of people could fix this by paying their fair share of taxes while still remaining obscenely wealthy makes it even worse.

"I DON'T NEED YOU TO FUCKING REWRITE WHAT I'VE JUST WRITTEN!"

The four aspects of a great character are the Need, the Want, the Ghost, and the Lie. A Want is their conscious desire. A Need is what they really want but might not know. A Lie is the thing they believe that keeps them from that Need. A Ghost is that spiritual wound that caused the Lie.

The lil french Netflix movie about the louvre heist is going to be excellent.

In social movement studies, we talk about how marches and protests expand the threshold of acceptable risk so that people take more and bigger social risks IN PUBLIC, EN MASSE. This is extremely important for the bourgeois white folks holding signs and building social rapport.

Filmmaker Christopher McQuarrie: “The future belongs to the writer-producer.”

Keep thinking about the absurdity of punishing people, particularly children, for daydreaming.

When I think of A.I. I think of asbestos. To begin with everyone thought Asbestos was amazing, folk used it in everything. Then they started learning it was dangerous, research was done, they stopped using it, thou for some the damage was already done. Stop using A.I and limit the damage it's doing.

Here’s how my 1st ever GENERAL meeting went… Exec: I read Joint Custody; I’m a big fan! Me: Thank you. Exec: How long have you been in LA? Me: 3 years. Exec: You work on The Office - what’s that like? Me: Fun. Exec: My assistant will be in to validate your parking. 🧵1 #Scriptsky #Screenwriting

Capitalists have wanted to colonize our minds since forever — to squash our imaginations because the ability to imagine a better world is what keeps us free. Artificial intelligence sets limits on what we can dream and — ultimately — what we can be.

It is unfathomable to me that we’re all just supposed to be okay with higher energy costs and more air and light pollution, in exchange for a machine that steals personal data and copyrighted material and produces slop and wage theft, and big tech can do this to our society unilaterally.

“I had always believed myself to be pretty sanguine at the thought of my own death—I’d had a good long life, done good work, experienced true love, was generally A+ lucky—but now all I wanted was to get the hell out of there.” A new essay by Ann Patchett.

I've been thinking about this quote a lot lately... “Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them.” ― Frank Herbert, Dune

No one, and I mean NO ONE, in Hollywood is talking about Tilly Norwood except over drinks for a chuckle. Actors are such an important part of the creative process - you want an actor who can surprise you every take, not one whose performance you dial up and down on a laptop. This is an ad campaign.

okay that's pretty good actually

Okay, rough day. Hard to even think of writing. Gonna read this Kazuo Ishiguro quote over and over today and do my best to keep going: “But in the end, stories are about one person saying to another: This is the way it feels to me. Can you understand what I’m saying? Does it feel this way to you?”

One Battle After Another is a heavy favorite for the coveted “Low Effort Halloween costume” award this October. #filmsky #scriptsky #onebattleafteranother

This is really important.

The Cosmopolitan article that inspired the series is right here, and well worth reading. www.cosmopolitan.com/politics/a28...

A bit of James Baldwin today: "I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain"

here's a little something i just write for the @wgawest.bsky.social - my answer to the eternal question "how do i know my script is finished?" #screenwriting #screenwriter #tvwriting #writing www.writtenby.com/career-craft...

Disney/ABC have a responsibility to refuse to participate in corruption. Kimmel must be reinstated. If Disney/ABC agree to this extortion then perhaps creatives + workers should consider collective action to push back. Same w/buying park + cruise tickets if they bow. People have power. Ask Target

"Something that's true of all the narcissists I've known and witnessed is that they're unhappy and they can't recognize that this is an entrenched condition."

theyre trying to do bread and circuses but theyre taking away our bread and circuses

Katherine LaNasa’s Emmy win for HBO’s The Pitt took me back to July, 2008 when I worked with her on Ghost Whisperer, and from there I spiraled down Memory Lane to April, 2000 and the time I encountered the real person her character was based on... #screenwriting #tvwriting #ssrotterdam #queenmary

When America eventually gets out of this, it needs to make business leaders fear to break the law. At minimum Teddy Roosevelt levels, possibly more. Many are apparently operating under the belief that lawbreaking and rights violations are all upside for them, no need to worry about consequences.

I'm a single issue voter, and my issue is "the government shouldn't be fascist."

Calling peoples' employers in a rage because their tributes to Robert Redford weren't horny enough

this is, hands down, the best video I've seen on men's influencer content and it's not close either

People missing an important point about folks getting fired for whatever they said about Charlie Kirk: Americans are being conditioned to be snitches on their fellow citizens who don’t toe a party line on what is “allowed” to be expressed. And employers are going along. It’s the new secret police

I wrote a thing. As someone who survived the 1970s and kept the receipts.

"Healthy debate" = when I criticize you "Cancel culture" = when you criticize me

Not long until this becomes a TV show: Game of Thrones meets Parks and Rec www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

“Freaks and perverts created all the culture worth talking about. That’s how it’s always been. The people who have to go into the most desolate places and wallow in dirt just to find something, anything, that they can hold onto” By @charliejane.bsky.social and cripes I love this book

The real issue isn’t left vs right. It’s not white vs black. It’s not citizen vs immigrant. It’s not gay vs straight. The real issue is that a lot of powerful people have a vested interest — and a lot of money invested — in dividing us, and it’s working.

I’ve witnessed 50 years of politics. I lived through the unrest of the 1960s. We must not fan the flames of violence. That will only drive more hatred, division, and fear. What unites us is bigger than what divides us.

It's not just that we have to save our country from Trumpism. We have to save the entire world from a ravenous, reckless, criminal U.S. government. It's a moral imperative.

Nul de nous n’a l’honneur d’avoir une vie qui soit à lui. Not one of us has the honour of living a life that is only his own. -Victor Hugo

I am old. I’ve been through so many waves of hustle culture. Outside of occasional crunch times, the overwork is always unnecessary, performative nonsense that provides cover for some combination of bad ideas, abusive leadership, disorganization, a total lack of strategy etc etc.

If we survive this fascist treason, we’re going to need serious Nuremberg-like trials. No half-assed Merrick Garland shit. Prominent people need to be clapped in irons.

Can we please stop giving clearly awful people so much power?

I’m fond of the expression, “You can take the train to Crazy Town, but it has to be the local - not the express.” Meaning, if you want to build to crazy shit, you have to carry the audience along with you by a string of logic. Beat by beat, choice by choice. And you can’t force it! 🧵5

America is the Tesla Cybertruck of countries

this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like

Attention, Alberta residents.

What if bureaucrats were hot influencers?

I'll fight till hell freezes over then I'll cut the ice and fight on is exactly who we need to be right now.

JESUS, MARY, AND JOSEPH! This gave me old Google back! It killed the AI results dead!