My goal with this video is to support you in having a Thanksgiving that does not explode into confrontation or distance. If you want a deeper breakdown of what to avoid and what to do instead click here: stevenhassan.substack.com/p/5-phrases-... @jimpicariello.bsky.social

My dark comedy, half-hour, semi-finalist pilot, LOVE PSYCHO, has been chosen by @austinfilmfest.bsky.social for a live reading, this Friday 9am at the The Hideout Theatre!!! (more info below)

My dark comedy, half-hour TV pilot script LOVE PSYCHO is a Semifinalist at the wicked-awesome Austin Film Festival @austinfilmfest.bsky.social screenwriting competition! See you all soon!! #AFF2025

Having a great time at the #TIFF50 Toronto International Film Festival industry conference! Who else is here!

If he's going to try to (ineffectively) distract us from the Epstein files, by opening up all of MLKs documents, maybe he'll get desperate and come clean with UFO stuff! I'm not even a UAP guy, but of course it would be cool to know.

When I was little, the U.S. military came to our home at gunpoint and took me and my family away. We were imprisoned for years in barbed wire camps simply because we were Japanese American. I have spent my life telling that story, hoping it would never be repeated.

I can't tell you how happy this makes me.

We need Colbert’s bold and frank commentary now as much as ever, and we need to stop corporations like CBS from cowing to political intimidation of this administration. Add your name to the petition to demand they reverse their decision and keep Colbert on air! sign.moveon.org/petitions/co...

When we used to play in the street, how did we first learn to yell, "CAR!!"?

Just when you thought things couldn't get weirder, here come the vampires!

The Cult of Us - A Dark Rom-Com inspired by some real fucked-up shit. Coveryfly Top 1% screenplay. It's about a celibate spiritualist and his wildly promiscuous roommate who fall in love as they race to save each other from their respective cults. In development. #scriptsky #coverfly

With Coverfly, Nicholl, and everything else in flux, am I supposed to start using Stage 32? It took me 8 years to get them to stop emailing me!

When A President Isn’t A Criminal Propped Up By A Corrupt Supreme Court…

I start every morning reading Heather Cox Richardson's daily news report, whose perspective as a historian is invaluable. As far as I'm concerned it's mandatory reading and today's is especially relevant. (@hcrichardson.bsky.social)

Well now, that's just nitpicking.

This authoritarian state thing is going faster than I predicted. They're doing a great job for a bunch of morons.

Holy crap!

#lastofus Ep. 2 What?

Ugh! Every frickin year, the #Cannes announcements tank my ever-so important IMDb score 🤬. Your's too?

Where is our humanity?

As the dust starts to settle on The Nicholl/The Black List situation, I took a deep dive with an update on the update ;) #screenwriting #scriptsky

That's what happens when you put a bunch of boobs in charge. I'll have to keep abreast of this story.

And yet, nothing surprises me anymore.

RIP Nicholl Fellowship 🪦😭 Easy access to the highest regarded screenplay competition is over.

I think the bots are proliferating. Either that or left-wing quasi-political folks are just mass-following people. Relatively speaking, I'm barely political here. I want to talk screenplays and filmmaking, people!!!

If federal workers aren’t allowed to work from home then Donold shouldn’t be allowed to work from Mar-A-Lago.

Facts! (I'm not trying to be hip by saying "facts". They're facts.)

I'm making a feature film! What are your favorite directing and production resources? I love @everyshotapainting.bsky.social. Your suggestions don't have to have a Bluesky account. Thanks!

Deleting my #Amazon account today! Has anyone else done it or about to do it too?

Stressed about our future? Well, as a personal silver lining, I can look forward to 2026 when I can order from Denny's 55+ menu! 🤯🕺🏽😭

My wife and I are traveling to Portugal at the end of April. What are the odds that Europe won't let in Americans by then? I say 50:50.

Does anyone else suddenly realize, from time to time, that you're humming the same song, that plays in the back of your mind, without realizing it? Mine is Bingo Was His Name-O.

JFK, Malcolm X, RFK, Martin Luther King... I'm not suggesting, encouraging, or hoping for anything. But how are every single one of them alive? People have been erased for less.

When The Onion is truer than the news.

Anyone else nerding it out watching the #SagAwards?

I'm looking for my 1000th person to follow. Screenwriters and filmmakers, who is your favorite person on Bluesky? I want to follow them!

Screenwriters, this is the medicine we all need nowadays.

Highly recommend!

Imagine being rich enough to do anything you want and choosing to take food and medicine from starving children to give yourself even more money.

Nerding it up watching the #WritersGuildAwards live!

Doing taxes on CashApp. Some job options to choose from: Cruise director Air traffic controller Bricklayer Linguist Midwife Prostheticist Tourism assistant Woodturner!!!! And many more oddly, super-specific ones. But not a single art, writing, film, journalist, or any other creative career choice!

THE CULT OF US Dark rom-com feature: A celibate spiritualist and his wildly promiscuous roommate fall in love as they try to save each other from their respective cults. Inspired by true, fucked-up events. (Nicholl QF)

Feeling helpless? Little things like can make a difference.

I follow screenwriters, some directors, and a few others from the industry. So then, why is Bluesky suggesting that I follow everyone in the universe except for screenwriters? My algorithm should be pretty straightforward.

Well, with the world in chaos, I share with you a moment of calm in Maine.

Does “Golden Age” refer to a time when planes keep crashing, eggs cost $10–15 a dozen, the U.S. is being booed and protested by all our allies, workers are losing their jobs, and Americans’ personal data is being rummaged through by unelected oligarchs and their strange crew of 20-something incels?