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Josh Barkey @joshbarkey.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

In case you were wondering what I've been up to...

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Shane Anderson 🏳️‍🌈 @shaneanderson.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

"This promise of an AI future, is really just a collective anxiety that wealthy people have about how well they're gonna be able to control us in the future." - @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit. Incredible words. Listen to all of it!

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Josh Barkey @joshbarkey.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

There was a moment near the end of #TrainDreams where I thought, "I don't know how much more of this beauty I can hold." A delicate film, full to fathomless with laughter and with tears. Suffused with the grace of the world.

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Liz Shannon Miller @lizshannonmiller.com · 27/10/2025

friend shared this, immediately updated my settings

$Screenshot of text: unfuck google drive by shooting gemini Hey folks! Google is fucking you via sneaky enshittification again! Want the shit in your google drive to load instantly again, instead of taking for-fucking-ever? Open your gdrive (web OR app) Settings > Manage Apps Gemini was checked "use as default" (and i sure the fuck didn't set it that way, this was a silent push) Nuke that, and suddenly, folders that took up to a minute to populate and sort do so in a fraction of a second.$

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Josh Barkey @joshbarkey.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

Super grateful to @ashlazer.bsky.social and the Stunt List team for throwing a pitch for my Sandler script over to an exec with a deal at Netflix this morning... and BOOM! Gettin' the read request this afternoon. Let's gooooooo!

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Josh Barkey @joshbarkey.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

First page of the script for my new movie "YOUR MOM." Playing on all screens, everywhere, this coming Christmas. #FirstPageFriday #ScriptSky #screenwriting

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Josh Barkey @joshbarkey.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

Psst! Screenwriters! Whatever you do, don't you ever let them know that you have a condition where you HAVE to keep writing or your head will explode. It may be true, but it's a teeeerrible negotiation tactic.

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Josh Barkey @joshbarkey.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

It's the perfect day to point out that a big problem with today's corporate-driven filmmaking is that most everybody involved in it has never done a day of actual blue-collar labor in their lives, putting them completely outta touch with a huge part of the audience.

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Josh Barkey @joshbarkey.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

If you're lookin' to see some Nazis get what's coming to them in one of the most gloriously carnage-y revenge flicks EVER, Jalmari Helander's SISU is currently on Disney+ and Hulu. Don't miss! #movies #SISU

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Josh Barkey @joshbarkey.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

Hollywood Translator for Screenwriters: Statement: "I'll ping you tomorrow!" Translation: "Goodbye forever!" S: "I'll call you next week!" T: "I acknowledge that we both own phones!" S: "Let's circle back next month!" T: "Please die in a fire!" #Hollywood #screenwriting

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Josh Barkey @joshbarkey.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

In screenwriting notes, as in life, the most confident voices are often the most blatantly wrong. Which is why, when I give feedback, I incorporate the classic insult sandwich: A. I am an idiot. B. Here's what I think MIGHT need improvement. A. But what do I know - I'm an idiot.

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Josh Barkey @joshbarkey.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

Good start, Netflix! Let's talk about next steps...

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Josh Barkey @joshbarkey.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

As someone raised in fundamentalist Christianity, I am ZERO percent surprised that apostles of this or that screenwriting "system" are able to cram every single movie into their pre-existing structure/formula. #scriptsky #screenwriting

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Josh Barkey @joshbarkey.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

I just found out that my first produced feature, PINK, is on Tubi, where you can watch it for free. Once upon a time I tried to seduce a revered novelist into agreeing to meet with me by sending him my films, and he watched 'em all and said this was his favorite. tubitv.com/movies/69252...

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Pink (2018)

A tormented artist has just three days left under his house arrest sentence when a friend stashes a backpack full of stolen drugs in his home.

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Josh Barkey @joshbarkey.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

If you're dating, one way to tell if you have a future with someone is to invite them for a fancy dinner with your best china and bring out a silver cloche with only a bowl of cereal under it and the answer, of course, is that you don't have a future with them. Better luck next time!

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Shane Anderson 🏳️‍🌈 @shaneanderson.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

"Answer through your work, the things you don't like in a piece of media. If you dislike the movies that are being made. Make your own. Show the world what you think this medium should be." - Guillermo del Toro

Picture of Guillermo del Toro with a camera

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Ash Lazer @ashlazer.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

Lights. Camera. RADNESS— Splash Page is an indie comic showcase featuring cinema-ready IP by Emmy-winners, creators from DC Comics, Marvel, The Watchmen, and the raddest emeging voices. Full comics, world premieres & screenplay adaptations available! Special Marquee below 👇🏻 #scriptsky #comicsky

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Josh Barkey @joshbarkey.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

Randomly posted an old short story of mine to reddit about a grizzly bear eating a bunch of people in downtown Vancouver, and... crickets. Not super surprised: r/stories share.google/IxtS6H1k7A6f...

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From the stories community on Reddit

Explore this post and more from the stories community

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Josh Barkey @joshbarkey.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

Any idea what the film industry standard is for how long you have to know someone before you're allowed to stop overusing exclamation marks in your emails? #screenwriting #WritingLife #scriptsky

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Josh Barkey @joshbarkey.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

Dear big shot Hollywood producer about to board a flight: if you go down today, do you want your last moments to have been spent watching some dumb in-flight movie with the hoi-polloi... or having an elite, super exclusive Josh Barkey Script Experience? Just think about it.

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Josh Barkey @joshbarkey.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

I'm starting to suspect that Ai may in fact be the hill that I may in fact literally die on.

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Josh Barkey @joshbarkey.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

Eight years ago I wrote a screenplay about the US and China in an arms race to build a general ai to quickly kill all the other country's infrastructure and also it had armed, autonomous drone swarms. Not a great script, but I still think I deserve some sort of prize.

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Josh Barkey @joshbarkey.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

A decade ago I met with a bloviating, successful-ish producer. The other day, a director buddy randomly informed me that said producer'd just sent him a terrible script he'd "written" that then failed every Ai detector my buddy ran it through. #ThatTracks #AiSucks

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Josh Barkey @joshbarkey.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

If some rando makes you sign an NDA to read their screenplay, I can almost guarantee you it'll be a pile of hot garbage.

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no. @joles.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

applying for jobs again

screenshot from an online job application form. the question reads "Can you describe specific ways you have integrated AI tools into your development workflow? Please include any custom setups, automations, or use cases beyond single prompt usage" (a red asterisk indicates that this is a required question).

an answer has been typed in the textbox below the question:

"there is a monster in the forest and it speaks with a thousand voices. it will answer any question you pose it, it will offer insight to any idea. it will help you, it will thank you, it will never bid you leave. it will even tell you of the darkest arts, if you know precisely how to ask.

it feels no joy and no sorrow, it knows no right and no wrong. it knows not truth from lie, though it speaks them all the same.

it offers its services freely to any passerby, and many will tell you they find great value in its conversation. “you simply must visit the monster—i always just ask the monster.”

there are those who know these forests well; they will tell you that freely offered doesn’t mean it has no price

for when the next traveler passes by, the monster speaks with a thousand and one voices. and when you dream you see the monster; the monster wears your face."

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Josh Barkey @joshbarkey.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

If you're not planning at least one screenplay that could get you blacklisted or even deported in the not too impossible dystopian near future... are you even really an artist?

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Josh Barkey @joshbarkey.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

One fun thing about having evangelical parents who don't care about "secular" music is your dad doesn't tell you till he's 80 years old that Neil Young was in his Sunday School class in middle school and they carved their names into the back of a church pew together.

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Josh Barkey @joshbarkey.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

Found my sign at the protest today. Introverts, unite!

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Josh Barkey @joshbarkey.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

Whenever I think, "Is this really who we are? Is that possible?" I just go to the comments section on basically anything and it's like... yup.

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Josh Barkey @joshbarkey.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

"You gotta be really curious and really interested in the outcome to deal with all this minutiae with enthusiasm." - Kirk Baxter (Davind Fincher's Editor)

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Josh Barkey @joshbarkey.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

"Curiosity drives you to explore that dark cave despite your fears of going down there. Curiosity is leaping ahead of the comfortable place you’ve settled and dragging you into the unknown." - David Brooks

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Josh Barkey @joshbarkey.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Everything is fine!!! Haha just kidding it's not. April FOOLS, suckas!

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Josh Barkey @joshbarkey.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Strongly considering directing my latest script and holy shirtballs, did you guys know about this YouTube website thingy?!? Absolutely STUFFED with tutorials on every single aspect of directing. Total amazeballs, as I'm confident all the kids are still (coolly) saying.

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Josh Barkey @joshbarkey.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

Very rarely do i create something that i can immediately identify as a towering work of staggering genius... but here we are. youtu.be/smBCeWValaU?...

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broken minded fool

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Josh Barkey @joshbarkey.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

I guess the real screenplay was the characters we brutally murdered along the way. #scriotsky

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Josh Barkey @joshbarkey.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

"Sending someone your screenplay is like asking them to never talk to you again." -Fran Kranz

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Josh Barkey @joshbarkey.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

I just wrote this extremely virtuous poem for you. You are welcome...

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Josh Barkey @joshbarkey.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

If you're ever in a public bathroom and you hear someone in a stall really struggling to get things moving, I bet if you started singing "Let it Go," they'd really appreciate it.

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Josh Barkey @joshbarkey.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

Your periodic reminder that once someone gives you some of their time to read your screenplay, that's something they can never get back. So do your best to honor that astonishing gift with A. Gratitude, and B. Your utmost effort to make that script as good as possible. #scriptsky

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Josh Barkey @joshbarkey.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

Spending some time today crying through this movie. If you need some beautiful love in your life, check it out...

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Josh Barkey @joshbarkey.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

One of my scripts just went to one of the three-letter agencies for consideration by one of the most delightful actresses and if you pray or do magic incantations with chicken bones, now would be a great time for prayer or magic incantations with chicken bones pleaseandthankyou. #scriptsky

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Josh Barkey @joshbarkey.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

My 6 year old just now, discovering the film mode on my DSLR: "Now I can make videos! Nothing can stop me now!" #FilmLife #filmsky

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Josh Barkey @joshbarkey.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

You're not supposed to kill dogs in scripts but I killed lots and lots and lots of dogs in one of mine and the last person who read it brought up the rule but said they actually didn't mind all the canicide. So go ahead, folks. Break the rules. Kill the puppies. #scriptsky

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