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bta. @briantarnold.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

Netflix, I love so much about what you make and the work you do, but please understand how important it is to make movies and tv, to put movies in theaters, and to release physical media. Film is more than just content.

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bta. @briantarnold.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

There’s nothing better than making movies and television and, ideally, making a living at it. Every single giant merger makes that even harder.

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bta. @briantarnold.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

More media consolidation is terrible for our industry. Warner Brothers is an iconic company, and I hate to see it folded into another behemoth conglomerate. It means less opportunity for every union, every filmmaker, every actor, every screenwriter, and every crew member.

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bta. @briantarnold.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

Share a ‘90s movie you think deserves more love

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bta. @briantarnold.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

I know there’s so much going on, but I can’t believe everyone is ignoring the biggest story of the day. WVU absolutely owned Pitt.

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bta. @briantarnold.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

The thousand yard stare of someone who works at The Grove during the holidays.

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bta. @briantarnold.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

Shoutout to the ADs and PAs of Plur1bus. It’s not easy to get background actors in sync like that.

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bta. @briantarnold.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

Mood. Technicolor Christmas trees and black & white movies.

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bta. @briantarnold.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

I loved loved loved Roofman and I’m so glad it got made. Everyone involved crushed it. Buuuuut it feels like a bleak sign for the industry that it took 7 production companies to get a modestly budgeted movie with huge stars across the finish line, right?

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bta. @briantarnold.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

I thought working from home as a writer with no real set schedule messed up your concept of time, but it's nothing compared to retail. What do you mean I just worked two 8-hour shifts and it's Monday?

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bta. @briantarnold.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

The world is bleak, my country is breaking in half, my industry is falling apart, I'm working 4 jobs to survive, but hey basketball is back!

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bta. @briantarnold.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

We all know True Grit is not the Coen Brothers’ best movie, but what this post presupposes, is maybe it is.

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 10/10/2025

aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage

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bta. @briantarnold.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

It‘s easy to scroll social media and get the impression that everyone is doing better than you. But that’s rarely the full picture. All this to say, it’s not just you. The industry is so, so hard right now. Do what you have to do to stay in the game. Don’t give up. Keep writing. #scriptsky

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bta. @briantarnold.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

After all of that, today I accepted a job… at a book store. And I’m glad to have it. I was laid off from my day job a year ago and have been scraping as a reader for a coverage service.

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bta. @briantarnold.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

A couple years ago, I was on The Black List with a script that’s in development with an amazing producer. After that, I signed on to write & produce two projects with fantastic, talented teams. This year, I pitched a movie with cool IP, a director of a hit film, and a great actor attached to star.

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

Most of the power authoritarians have is freely given. We should not comply with them in advance. Trump is far weaker than he looks. So is the GOP. We should draw them out, drain them at every opportunity, and fight for people’s wellbeing at every turn. We have been sent here to fight for people.

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bta. @briantarnold.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

“I hear the Democrats should be blamed, I hear the Republicans should be blamed. I actually think the president should be blamed if there is a shutdown. I think it would be a tremendously negative mark on the president of the United States.” - Donald Trump, 2013

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bta. @briantarnold.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

Whenever there's an election or proposition, the side running the most ads is inevitably the absolutely wrong side. California, vote #YesOn50

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divine beastmode @gunstreet.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

the post office is a public service. it doesn’t need to make money. public transit doesn’t need to make money. the library doesn’t need to make money. some things exist for the public good and we desperately need lawmakers to stop thinking about them in terms of capitalism. these are not businesses.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

Well, there it is. Sinclair is digging in for a fight, so please help push back -- find stations in your area, watch their local news to see what ads they run, then write those advertisers to tell them you're boycotting as long as they're on a Sinclair station. List here: sbgi.net/tv-stations/

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bta. @briantarnold.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

Not to brag, but I protested at the Disney lot today, so you're welcome.

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

As I told @newrepublic.com, "Once last week, twice today, ICE has picked me up and thrown me on the ground. Honestly, it doesn’t compare to what our neighbors who are trapped inside the Broadview processing facility are going through. They’re committing crimes against humanity there."

newrepublic.com

I’m a Congressional Candidate. I Was Assaulted by ICE.

An interview with Kat Abughazaleh, a 26-year-old Democratic House candidate in Illinois, who was violently thrown to the ground twice at a peaceful protest in Illinois on Friday morning.

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

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

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

I was reliably told celebrating political violence was cause for government reprisal and private sector termination.

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bta. @briantarnold.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

I promise to continue never having gone to Disney Land.

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

the kimmel thing is bad but as long as they arent rounding people up indiscriminately based on race, building concentration camps and talking about eradicating those they deem sexual deviants, i think we’ll be ok

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Writers Guild of America West @wgawest.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

WGA Statement on ABC’s Decision to Pull Jimmy Kimmel Live!

The right to speak our minds and to disagree with each other - to disturb, even - is at the very heart of what it means to be a free people. It is not to be denied. Not by violence, not by the abuse of governmental power, nor by acts of corporate cowardice.
As a Guild, we stand united in opposition to anyone who uses their power and influence to silence the voices of writers, or anyone who speaks in dissent. If free speech applied only to ideas we like, we needn't have bothered to write it into the Constitution. What we have signed on to - painful as it may be at times - is the freeing agreement to disagree.
Shame on those in government who forget this founding truth. As for our employers, our words have made you rich.
Silencing us impoverishes the whole world.
The WA stands with Jimmy Kimmel and his writers.

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bta. @briantarnold.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

Second update. I think I’m a train guy now.

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bta. @briantarnold.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

Boarding a train with a bouquet of flowers because my life is a 1950s movie I guess.

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bta. @briantarnold.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

"It's going to be a hard year to be a WVU fan," he said for the 10th year in a row.

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 04/09/2025

The “problem” with vaccines? They so effective at preventing deaths that they create generations of people that question whether disease was a problem in the first place because they have never experienced the horrors of a world without vaccines.

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Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 04/09/2025

sweet christ on a bird flu biscuit how was he ever confirmed

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It is easy to frame what is happening now through the usual filter of politics, and the White House is eager to do so, making the critique of RFK Jr. just another partisan battle. But I want us to go back and sit with Caroline Kennedy’s letter:

His basement, his garage, and his dorm room were the centers of the action where drugs were available, and he enjoyed showing off how he put baby chickens and mice in the blender to feed his hawks. It was often a perverse scene of despair and violence.

Forget the drugs. Reflect on the pathology, the cruelty, the “perverse scene of despair and violence.” Ms. Kennedy paints a chilling picture. This isn’t a political critique of our HHS secretary; it’s the origin story of a new American psycho. And before you reduce this to name-calling on my part, read the letter again. Then juxtapose the portrait Caroline Kennedy provides with the man today, the enormous power he has to do damage, to inflict suffering and death upon us all, and what he has done thus far. The case is clear: He should never have been let anywhere near public health, healthcare and biomedical science in this country. Congress needs to act. And we need to make them do it. RFK Jr. needs to go. Now.

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bta. @briantarnold.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

WGA Friends! It's election season, and with negotiations coming up again next year (yaaay), it's an important one. Don't forget to vote! I've endorsed some candidates I believe in, which you can see on the official site. If you want to chat about your vote, feel free to reach out! #scriptsky #wga

elections.wga.org

WGAW Candidate

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bta. @briantarnold.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

Paul F Tompkins’s Werner Herzog Trader Joe’s Yelp review isn’t crushing with my family in rural Tennessee like I thought it would.

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bta. @briantarnold.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

Visiting my family, and my nephews said I was like a little kid in a 25 year old body. 25?? Hell yeah.

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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

What do you call mass hysteria but that is the opposite of panicking? Mass wishteria?

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bta. @briantarnold.bsky.social · 23/08/2025

Long Story Short is funny, emotional, and deeply human, three things Raphael Bob-Waksberg seems to be very, very good at.

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bta. @briantarnold.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

Ugh. I put the movie show time in my calendar wrong and got to AMC 20 minutes late. So I only got to see 25 minutes of trailers and ads. :(

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bta. @briantarnold.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

First that come to mind: Babylon (Damien Chazelle) Sunshine (Danny Boyle) Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World (Edgar Wright)

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 07/08/2025

Stephen Colbert is going SCORCHED EARTH right now. To RFK Jr: “Fuck you, you roid-addled nepo carnie! Fuck you, you roadkill-munching Luddite human slim jim!”

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bta. @briantarnold.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

The new season of King of the Hill is pretty excellent. Yep.

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Crimson Mayhem @crimsonmayhem.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

So apparently, it may turn out that The Wizard of Oz at the Las Vegas Sphere wasn’t entirely made in AI and Google threw the VFX crew under the bus by claiming it was all done by artificial intelligence. If true, then fucking yikes.

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bta. @briantarnold.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

I love him so much, and it's pretty mind-blowing how much he saw coming.

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