Reposted by Ken PisaniPhillip Iscove @pmiscove.bsky.social · 1hIf you want to “Babylon” Digger, go for it. It didn’t work for me but you do you, but it’s irresponsible to spend $180 million dollars on this movie and ultimately the price tag is what’s going to hurt auteur filmmaking moving forward. Birdman cost $18 million FWIW. 285
Ken Pisani @kpsmartypants.bsky.social · 1hBiden had a bad debate and our news media decided he was utterly untenable as president. 011
Ken Pisani @kpsmartypants.bsky.social · 04/10/2026But Democrats and regulators are “job killers.” It’s easy to be effective at messaging when your base is willfully ignorant. 110
Reposted by Ken PisaniBen Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Part of why I don't like the AI-or-bust economy is the constant flopsweat of people on the news who say this HAS to work. Quit making everyone so anxious. Goddamn. If this is the next Google then why are you acting like this? I don't remember being told to buy an iPhone at gunpoint. 298116682119
Reposted by Ken PisaniChuck 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. 382860558
Reposted by Ken PisaniKen Tremendous @kentremendous.bsky.social · 04/10/2026This is a sharp closing argument. A real benefit to his party heading into the midterms. 2483169
Reposted by Ken PisaniIndie Book Spotlight @bookspotlight.bsky.social · 03/10/2026‘Be very angry about how the world is being fucked.’ King Guillermo, I adore you. 👑♥️ [Not my video! Saw on Reddit!] 21302491
Reposted by Ken PisaniMark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Anyway, a movie culture without the possibility of insane overpriced whiffs will be a less healthy movie culture, and I'll eat these words the day that I can say that David Ellison has taken at least three big creative gambles, but I'm not holding my breath. x 1568082
Reposted by Ken PisaniSkot Armstrong @skot.bsky.social · 03/10/2026"There were no guidelines. Make up the guidelines. Now there was a great creative moment for me.” Harvey Kurtzman #BOTD on the early days of Mad Magazine 0226
Reposted by Ken Pisanipmamtraveller.bsky.social @pmamtraveller.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Stan Watts - "One night with a Stranger" (1983) 15839138
Reposted by Ken PisaniNate Federman @natefederman.bsky.social · 03/10/2026A 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. 14216
Reposted by Ken PisaniJodie Troutman @longtalljodie.com · 03/10/2026Okay. So here's what I know - I lost my day job. - I hated my day job. - I liked having a lot of money and health insurance. - But a lot of money never made me happier, I just owned more stuff. - I do still need health insurance. - I'm really fucking good at lettering comic books. 171089240
Reposted by Ken PisaniTruthout @truthout.org · 03/10/2026Activists are pressuring Buffalo corporations to kick ICE out of the office building where it is imprisoning children.buff.lyA Growing Movement Is Working to Evict ICE From Its Buffalo Command CenterActivists are pressuring Buffalo corporations to kick ICE out of the office building where it is imprisoning children. 1291115
Ken Pisani @kpsmartypants.bsky.social · 03/10/2026I’m dating a guy I really like, but he’s a billionaire who exploits his workers and turned a once-great newspaper into this nonsense, how do I tell him he’s a terrible person? 000
Reposted by Ken PisaniMark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Yes, just like it’s SOP for the New York Times & CNN to treat both parties as normal pro-democracy parties & stenographize/platform presidents & White House staff. It is a broken model completely unsuited to a political world in which one party has collapsed into far right authoritarianism. 511016
Reposted by Ken PisaniClaire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 30/09/2026“cowboys” here really reminds me of a brilliant post I saw on Twitter that I’ve never stopped thinking about, which is how the manosphere brand of toxic patriarchy isn’t about MEN, it’s about BOYS. everything is a 12-year-old’s fantasy. Pete is playing G.I. Joe on a trillion-dollar budget 1786187
Reposted by Ken PisaniRaider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Hispanics working in the USA 👏🏽 48877532264
Reposted by Ken PisaniRob Bignell, Editor/Author @inventingreality.bsky.social · 02/10/2026#amwriting #writingcommunity #writers #author #writerscommunity inventingrealityediting.com/2...inventingrealityediting.comHow to Get Rid of Word’s Proofreading MarksAmong the most annoying features of Microsoft Word’s Track Changes program is that every time you reopen a file, the corrections show up. To not see the corrections, you have to togg… 061
Reposted by Ken PisaniSanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 02/10/2026You can check your registration at vote.org. Check it today — especially if you live in a red state. 0135
Ken Pisani @kpsmartypants.bsky.social · 01/10/2026For the #Rangers Home Opener "The Defection and Subsequent Resurrection of Nikolai Pushkin" is 1/2 half price on Amazon! www.amazon.com/Defection-Su... #writingcommunity #author #books #publishing #authorlife #bookworm #booklover #writer #book #mustread #indieauthor #bookpromo #writing #MSG #nhl 051
Reposted by Ken PisaniSheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 30/09/2026Chicagoland friends, I have a favor to ask. I have a pro bono client, a Black woman, who is currently facing charges for allegedly pointing a gun at her abusive ex - who admitted to raping her. I would love if there could be a show of support for her at her next few court dates. 9651327
Ken Pisani @kpsmartypants.bsky.social · 01/10/2026This seems cruel and unusual, which would matter if our Constitution meant anything but the administration in power and the Court sworn to uphold it don’t think it does, only their own ambitions. 000
Reposted by Ken PisaniDigital Warrior - Combat Disinfo @digitalwarrior.bsky.social · 30/09/2026ICYMI: I love this for O’Leary. All of these billionaires intent on making our lives worse off should have to defend themselves in court. This is how we can fight back. #DV1 #ProudBlue #Voices4Victory #USDemocracy variety.com/2026/tv/news...variety.com‘Shark Tank’ Star Kevin O’Leary Sued For Claiming Utah Data Center Opposition Has Ties to ChinaKevin O'Leary was sued after claiming data center opposition in Utah had ties to China. 23465212
Ken Pisani @kpsmartypants.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Biden would never survive the morning-after media firestorm but Trump can say whatever vile racist shit pops into his head and they won’t bat an eye. Just an appalling collective failure of journalism from every corner. 000
Ken Pisani @kpsmartypants.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Appalling how quickly our corporate news media just moved on from this story. Massacre at Minab: The School That Became a Grave open.substack.com/pub/dropsite...open.substack.comMassacre at Minab: The School That Became a GraveThe bombing of an Iranian school, killing 120 children, is one of the worst U.S. war crimes since Vietnam. Drop Site spoke to survivors, first responders, parents, and witnesses. This is their story. 000
Reposted by Ken PisaniRebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Time for this classic again. 156164715555
Reposted by Ken PisaniSam Adams @samadams.bsky.social · 30/09/2026it is very cool to have the livelihood of every creative person on earth obliterated by people who don’t understand what art is for 33936143
Reposted by Ken Pisanithe Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Jackie Jackson died two days ago. His death did not get the fanfare that the big celebrities get but I assure you he was no less than any of them: a titan astride the earth. In this thread, a few of the songs he played bass on. You know these songs. You know their bass parts. youtu.be/DKVB_CtU8XQyoutu.bePressure DropYouTube video by Toots & The Maytals - Topic 211061362
Reposted by Ken PisaniDerf Backderf @derfbackderf.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Times have changed and it's much more difficult to cover up these crimes like Ohio State did. Kudos to the Cornell Daily Sun and their student journalists for refusing to let the story go, despite the indifference from administrators and authorities. I've no doubt they got flak and threats. 0778
Reposted by Ken PisaniJohn Cusack @johncusack.bsky.social · 30/09/2026www.google.com/imgres?imgur... Out today today today 17718
Reposted by Ken PisaniJosh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 29/09/2026The funniest thing about the Schmitt rake stomp is that if it'd been a Dem we'd have a week of think pieces about how Dems lack of hoops literacy was alienating them from real America. 412650390
Ken Pisani @kpsmartypants.bsky.social · 29/09/2026It's Opening Day in the #NHL! "The Defection and Subsequent Resurrection of Nikolai Pushkin" is 1/2 half price on Amazon! www.amazon.com/Defection-Su... #writingcommunity #author #books #publishing #authorlife #bookworm #booklover #writer #book #mustread #indieauthor #bookpromo #writing #buffalo 040
Reposted by Ken PisaniAlan Sepinwall @sepinwall.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Free for everyone to read, it's an all-Rod Serling edition of Ask Alan, with plenty of great questions about a guy I've learned a thing or three about while writing a biography of him:whatsalanwatching.comAsk Alan: All-Rod Serling editionTaking your questions about 'The Twilight Zone' creator as we approach the publication of my Serling biography 28017
Reposted by Ken Pisaniryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 29/09/2026Norway has solution to this actually, stay at home parents can get their share of the public daycare subsidy as cash, that way parents are not pushed one way or the other. the problem of course is virtually no one on the center or right actually gives a shit about parents 382474529
Ken Pisani @kpsmartypants.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Exactly. (And TWO Republicans isn’t exactly the cavalry.) 000
Ken Pisani @kpsmartypants.bsky.social · 29/09/2026They appear to have been correct about the consequences. 001
Ken Pisani @kpsmartypants.bsky.social · 29/09/2026“Writing is so unimportant, we stole all the world’s writing to train AI to create a trillion-dollar boondoggle.” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/o...nytimes.comOpinion | I’m a College Professor. Writing Isn’t as Important as We Think.If I do not treat writing as essential for achieving thought, it is not clear why I should force my students to. 020
Reposted by Ken PisaniCoach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 12/09/2026For people just joining us, here's what's happening. AI types sold a bunch of B2B snake oil to C suites who forced it on employees. The promises they made haven't come true and now they're pivoting to a protection racket trying to scare those same idiots who believed the first set of lies 5394108
Ken Pisani @kpsmartypants.bsky.social · 28/09/2026“They were careless people…they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess that they had made.” 122
Reposted by Ken PisaniSarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 23/09/2026New article! On access journalism, AI replacements for people, and Trump's latest attack on freedom of the press: sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/gutting-th...sarahkendzior.substack.comGutting the Fourth EstateThe US media were willing cogs in Trump’s machine. Now he’s tearing it down. 9281123
Reposted by Ken PisaniTrans Moleman, Street Estrogen Junkie @transmoleman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026If I wrote this (the article, not the skeet) and someone decided to kill me over it, I would thank them before they pulled the trigger 061
Ken Pisani @kpsmartypants.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Any time anyone wants to step up to disprove that immunity would be a welcome turn of events. 010
Reposted by Ken PisaniDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Vought is breaking the law but he is not “going rogue.” At his confirmation hearings, Vought told Republicans he would do this and they voted for him anyway. If they want to stop him, they still can via impeachment. They won’t. 7833171109
Reposted by Ken PisaniMatt Hollingsworth @matthollingsworth.com · 25/09/2026A page from Batwoman 7, written by @gregrucka.com, drawn by DaNi, and colored by me. Out now? From DC Comics. #ClipStudioPaint #comics #colors 110223