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Ricky Manning @froonium.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

And a few extremely lucky & grateful Seppos. 💗🇦🇺

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Ricky Manning @froonium.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The bald blue lady, the spiky lobstery blue lady, or some other blue lady?

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Ricky Manning @froonium.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Well, I for one would be totally hooked by a bio that began "Emma LeRae is a serious and professional writer/illustrator as well as a flailing chaos muppet who rants about Farscape."

Farscape's D'Argo, in too tight closeup, eyes closed, mouth open, saying "I am so there!"

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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Abolish ICE. Fire them all. Prosecute their crimes. Start with prosecuting the crimes first and work your way backward if that makes you more comfortable. But we cannot live in a country with this level of elite impunity.

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Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

“GOTTA LEARN AI OR BE LEFT BEHIND.” Good. Fuck off! Leave me behind! Enjoy your artbarf rapture, your janky Temu future. I’ll be back here looking at real birds and writing weird, also real, books.

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Nate Federman @natefederman.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

A showrunner once told me that writing for TV is like going to war. That’s overdramatic, but room-breaking a story can feel a bit like trench warfare. So this week’s #Scriptsky #Screenwriting 🧵 is on the 6 qualities I value most in co-workers when we’re stuck in the trenches together.

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Ricky Manning @froonium.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Weird that there's so many of these I'd love to watch, and even more I'd love to write for!

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Ricky Manning @froonium.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I RODE THE D to yet another terrific little Los Angeles coffeehouse: Café Loft on 6th and Oxford, just a block from the "D" line Wilshire/Western station.

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Ricky Manning @froonium.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Awesome! I'd say it's time to give yourself an incredibly well-deserved raise.

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Writers Guild of America West @wgawest.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Nithya has consistently demonstrated support for writers and our issues and advocated for increased production in Los Angeles, with clear actions and policies. We are proud to support Nithya Raman for Los Angeles Mayor! #nithyaforthecity #nithyaparalaciudad #nithyaraman

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Woman with microphone and endorsement text for Nithya Raman.

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Ricky Manning @froonium.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

UPDATE: A Dreamwatch 118 has been found! Thanks!

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Fascist Dem Tracker @fascistdemtracker.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Just also want to note that trans people and advocates for the unhoused have told people for years that Gavin Newsom is trash. If this is what makes people realize how awful he is, great, but I really hope this is also a wake-up call to listen the first time someone tells you who they really are.

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David Mack @davidmack.pro · 21/09/2026

This is why voters continue to profess contempt for the Democratic Party: because most of its elected and appointed officials are weak, ineffectual, and cowardly in the face of fascism. This is a massive betrayal and failure by the California AG.

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Cartoon Brew @cartoonbrew.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

The first trailer for 'Animation Mavericks: The Forgotten Story of UPA' has arrived, and without a press release or marketing push, it has already drawn more than 40,000 YouTube views in a week. We can't wait to see it when it releases in early 2027. www.cartoonbrew.com/documentary-...

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Ricky Manning @froonium.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

If that's true, he has terrible aim!

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Ken Tremendous @kentremendous.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Trying to conceive of a piece of entertainment I would less like to view. "Birth of a Nation" starring Tilly Norwood?

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Ricky Manning @froonium.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

As it happens, last May, Chris Chibnall & I were two drinks in, and I ran the notion past him, and he threw a Korean fried chicken bite at me.

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Ricky Manning @froonium.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Having written both, I can't imagine it would end well...

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Frank Conniff @frankconniff.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Got two shots at the pharmacy today: the Go Fuck Yourself RFK Jr vaccine, and the Fuck Off RFK Jr You Evil Anti-Science Piece of Shit vaccine. Both very effective.

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Writers Guild of America West @wgawest.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Check out our Worldbuilding 101 Panel where Akela Cooper, Dean Devlin, Kira Snyder, and Zack Stentz discuss the importance and intricacies of worldbuilding for film and television. In science fiction, fantasy, and horror. vist.ly/5ikpt

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Worldbuilding 101

Our panelists Akela Cooper (M3GAN, Star Trek: Strange New Worlds), Dean Devlin (The Librarians: The Next Chapter, Independence Day), Kira Snyder (The Handmai...

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Jill Weinberger @jillybobww.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

"We totally respect your rights, but we just think, w/o any evidence, that it's POSSIBLE that people like you playing sports w/ our children is unfair & unsafe, & JUST TO BE FAIR you should be excluded. But you OBVI should still vote for us b/c we're not actively pledging to eradicate you" is nuts.

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Sam Robotham @hamrobotham.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Reminder that the Widow's Bay pilot script sat around for almost 20 years before it could get made. The only time a script ever really dies is when you give up on it. Congratulations to Katie Dippold on a well deserved win. #Scriptsky

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Ricky Manning @froonium.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

We went to a new museum! (Vader voice: "Impressive. Most impressive.") Astounding variety of artwork. Rockwell! Wyeth! Banksy! Frazetta! Bama! Muybridge! Lange! Oh, and they also had a few Star War thingies. @lucasmuseum.bsky.social

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Ricky Manning @froonium.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

USC Cinema. 1974. The old stables. A dozen Moviolas in one room (with a Steenbeck in an anteroom that we lowly 300-levels weren't allowed to touch), all gnashing away at 2 am. There's nothing in the vending machine except Dr. Pepper. How'd my track get out of sync AGAIN? Yup, those were the days.

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Ricky Manning @froonium.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Autocorrupt at work. Surely they meant "endearing."

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Ricky Manning @froonium.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

You were definitely contributing! and we truly appreciated it!

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Ricky Manning @froonium.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

You can go with Farscape; The Jim Henson Company still owns it, and the company is still owned by the Henson family. Disney owns the Muppets™ and "Bear in the Big Blue House" which the Henson Co. sold to them in 2004.

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Ricky Manning @froonium.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

This lovely cooling towel may have SAVED THE LIFE of this striking WGA writer! Or at least made a few walks on hot days much more tolerable.💗💗💗

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Tamika Thompson @tamikathompson.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

THIS FRIDAY! I'll be joining a live YouTube session with @thepixelproject.bsky.social at 6p PT, Sept. 11th, where I'll read from THE CURSE OF HESTER GARDENS, answer questions, and offer a giveaway of some of my work. WATCH: tinyurl.com/TThompsonR4P

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🇦🇷 Taylor Esposito, multi award winning pro letterer & educator @tayloresposito.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

RT if you've never had a tab of ChatGPT open, period.

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 05/09/2026

Scab.

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Ricky Manning @froonium.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Settling in for Free Jazz Friday at @lacma.org!

Jazz band doing sound checks. Urban Light artwork in b.g.

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SACosby @blacktopkid.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

No writer is my competition. You're all fellow captives to the Madness that dances in our souls... Some writers are assholes tho 🤣

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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

"We need AI to democratize art" I wrote my first spec script at my kitchen table with a bic pen in the hour every morning before I went to work on a natural gas pipeline, based on a screenwriting book I got at the public library. We good

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Ricky Manning @froonium.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Oh, and congratulations on the new gig!

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