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N. H. Cohen • (she/her) @nhcohen.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

No kings! Only sleigh queens 💅🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

Two folks, a mom and kiddo, one in mask, with T-shirts “unapologetically pro-democracy” and MeidasTouch on black shirt

Three folks, a mom & dad and kiddo, in black MeidasTouch shirts at a rally

A “1776” bronze monument of settlers and protesters seated around at no-Kings rally

No Kings rally in downtown Leesburg with protests signs

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N. H. Cohen • (she/her) @nhcohen.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

Oh hey!! Hi! I’ve been off for a bit, but would like to mention— I’m incredibly honored to be an #AFF32 Finalist for my Black Mirror Teleplay spec Newer Model! I’ll be in Austin next week, hope to see some #Filmsky #Scriptsky folk there! :)

Laurels for Script Competition Finalist at Austin Film Fest 2025

Text: Black Mirror: Newer Model. Logline: Fearing her tech-genius husband will replace her with a younger woman, a fragile mother becomes obsessed with preserving her youth by any means possible. “the Substance meets Stepford Wives,” with a twist.

Drama Teleplay Spec Finalists:

Black Mirror: Newer Model by Nic Cohen

The White Lotus: Call to Prayer by Jeffrey Schick

Yellowjackets: Thicker than Water by Cynthia He

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N. H. Cohen • (she/her) @nhcohen.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

What an honor to be among the TV drama teleplay specs as a Semifinalist at AFF! Only five of us and the finals still to be announced. 😅 Thrilled to see so many other pals on the SF & Second Rounder list! 💪👏 #AFF #Scriptsky #Filmsky #Scriptsky+ #AustinFilmFest

Austin Film Fest 2025 Semifinalist Laurels 2025 image

AFF website text:

DRAMA TELEPLAY SPEC

BLACK MIRROR: NEWER MODEL by Nic Cohen

Bridgerton: Look Back, Don’t Stare by Haley Rice

Slow Horses “Ghosts of Berlin” by Anthony Philips

The White Lotus: Call to Prayer by Jeffrey Schick

Yellowjackets: Thicker than Water by Cynthia He

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N. H. Cohen • (she/her) @nhcohen.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

Someone better tell Ben that lion prides are matriarchal and female lions do 90% of the hunting and leadership. Lions also scavenge. Oh wait, he doesn’t believe in “science,” “facts” or “the truth.”

Website from Lion Recovery Fund with image of a female Lion and cub and the text “Like elephants, lion prides are matriarchal. Making up the core of a pride, female lions execute decisions and coordination in order to ensure the survival of their pride. The lionesses, well-renowned for their hunting, have to rely on synchronized efforts to catch their prey as most of their prey is small and can outrun them. Lionesses are the primary hunters, whereas male lions only contribute to less than 10% of hunts. With the pressure of having to secure food for the entire pride, lionesses coordinate to ambush their prey, usually by pursuing and pushing it into the rest of the pride.”

Kenya Wild Parks Website and text: The Truth Behind the “King”
Despite their noble image, lions are opportunists. They are formidable hunters, no doubt, capable of taking down large prey such as zebras, wildebeests, and even buffalo. But hunting requires energy, coordination, and risk. Injuries sustained during hunts can be fatal. Therefore, when the chance arises to feast without exerting effort—or risk—lions are more than happy to accept it.

Contrary to popular belief, scavenging is not a fallback behavior or a sign of weakness. It’s a smart survival strategy, especially in the wild, where energy conservation can be the difference between life and death.

Lions vs. Hyenas: The Real Scavengers?
Hyenas have long been tagged as “nature’s primary scavengers,” often portrayed in media as cowardly freeloaders who feed off the hard work of other predators. However, this stereotype doesn’t tell the whole story. Studies and field observations reveal that hyenas are actually excellent hunters in their own right. They are capable of coordinated pack hunts, and in many cases, they make their own kills more frequently than they scavenge.

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N. H. Cohen • (she/her) @nhcohen.bsky.social · 21/09/2025

Hozier with my kiddo was incredible! The magical voice of wizard king live! He was political in the best way— the rising numbers of money spent on war and deaths was during “Eat your young.” He wore a daisy for peace and was a uniter. (Free Palestine). Shows the power of art to change the world.

Happy mom in glasses with kiddo smiling with peace sign fingers in restaurant before concert

Hozier concert dark, tons of people, a screen above him reads: Lockheed Martin share price going up and up and 2010

Hozier on stage with band big lighted sign says Global Military Spending 2020 and $1,713,282,765,974 going up and up

Hozier playing guitar and singing on stage with a close up of him in denim jacket with daisy pin for peace

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N. H. Cohen • (she/her) @nhcohen.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

Amazing news! My dark comedy pilot MOTIVATED was just selected by Filmmatic Comedy Screenplay Awards via FilmFreeway.com! MOTIVATED: A wannabe motivational speaker in a downward spiral takes her last stab at stardom and unintentionally inspires a lonely serial killer to chase his dreams.

filmfreeway.com

Film Festivals, Screenplay Contests, Submissions

Enter the world's best film festivals and screenplay contests. FilmFreeway makes it easy to discover, submit and get tickets to thousands of events.

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N. H. Cohen • (she/her) @nhcohen.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

North Korea did it better. Imagine failing at fascist dictator in front of the world— to the sound of a wonky grocery cart

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N. H. Cohen • (she/her) @nhcohen.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

Hey, some nice news: My sci-fi feature Artemis One is a Drama Semifinalist at Filmmatic Screenplay Awards. Has anyone gone to their Sundance networking event? Is it worth the trip? #scriptsky #scriptsky+ #filmsky #screenwriting

Some generic laurels generated by Film Freeway (which feels a little sketch but I’m rolling with it)

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N. H. Cohen • (she/her) @nhcohen.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

Help your local pollinators this summer! 🐝🦋🌸 Love this idea for wildflowers: take a spice shaker of native seeds on your walk to spread on bare patches. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

theguardian.com

Insects are dying: here are 25 easy and effective ways you can help protect them

From turning out the lights to letting leaves rot, these small steps can create big changes at home or in the wild

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

once again I must tap my own sign

@clairewillett

honestly the best marketing scheme in history is men successfully getting away with calling women the "more emotional" gender for like, EONS, because they've successfully rebranded anger as Not An Emotion

6:00 PM • Aug 12, 2020

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N. H. Cohen • (she/her) @nhcohen.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

Maybe selling-out space to one unstable fascist billionaire wasn’t a good idea after all? He can go full Bond villain & hold the world hostage.

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N. H. Cohen • (she/her) @nhcohen.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

For some reason this comes to mind today 🌝

Meme: actor Alan Tudyk from Firefly making 2 plastic dinosaurs fight and words: curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal

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N. H. Cohen • (she/her) @nhcohen.bsky.social · 04/07/2023

This rolling pin was brought over from Russia by my hubs great-grandmother. She was 16 and fleeing persecution of the Jews; her remaining family was killed. Now her great-great grandkids make blueberry pie each July 4th and honor the women who came before. Immigrants made America great, not hate.

A hand-hewn rolling pin on rolled out dough next to a delicious looking blueberry pie in progress

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N. H. Cohen • (she/her) @nhcohen.bsky.social · 04/07/2023

My son just asked if Frankenstein is a zombie and now I’m having an existential crisis 🤯

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N. H. Cohen • (she/her) @nhcohen.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

If anything could ever get me to buy a pair of crocs, it’s the rainbow 🌈 Happy Pride!

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Dylan Faden Fan Club @thornsperfected.bsky.social · 24/06/2023

Reskeet to save someone’s fucking life

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🌙NoxuArts - Commission status: OPEN! @notyournyx.bsky.social · 06/11/2024

Always 💖 Don't make me tap the sign

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Adam Sternbergh @sternbergh.bsky.social · 07/11/2024

one drum I will always bang: culture—books, art, music, drama—is not a distraction or diversion. It is, I’d argue, a more important and enduring product of human society than political shifts. MOBY DICK was written in 1851 and is a more essential human event than anything related to Millard Fillmore

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Michelle Ma @michellema.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

Each time you ask an AI chatbot a question, it sends a request to a data center and strains an increasingly scarce resource: water. A 🧵on our investigation into how the data centers that power AI are increasingly being built in highly water-stressed places: www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

bloomberg.com

The AI Boom Is Draining Water From the Areas That Need It Most

A Bloomberg News analysis finds that roughly two thirds of new data centers built or in development in the US since 2022 are in places with high levels of water stress.

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Abigail Larson @abigaillarson.com · 09/03/2024

weekend vibe

"After Breakfast" by Elin Kleopatra Danielson-Gambogi 1890

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N. H. Cohen • (she/her) @nhcohen.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

AI lies. AI said someone else wrote my script and won a prize for it. Who do I complain to? Who corrects it? 1/3 #filmsky #scriptsky+

An AI search result that says “He also received the Silver Prize for his screenplay Always We Begin Again in the same contest. (A lie)

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N. H. Cohen • (she/her) @nhcohen.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

My post-CineStory ritual: tacos in the hotel room, silent and still on that writing retreat high. What a place, what a community 🙂‍↔️ #CineStory #filmsky+

Some delicious looking tacos, chips and a beer, immunity drink, and mask facials and bath bombs cause you may have retreated too hard 😅

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N. H. Cohen • (she/her) @nhcohen.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

My “window seat” into L.A. 🌝 (Aisle 17, never again)

There’s no window there. Just the solid taupe wall of the plane.
They sold a window seat with no window

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N. H. Cohen • (she/her) @nhcohen.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

Holy Cow! Thank you, Santa Barbara Screenplay Awards, for this amazing feedback on my dark comedy pilot MOTIVATED. R. Jackson, wherever you are, I owe you a drink! 🍹 #scriptsky+ #filmsky #scriptsky #screenwriters

Final Comments

This pilot episode is a bold, high-wire act—threading needle-fine irony through the
bloated balloon of self-help culture while crafting a disturbing character study. Its genre-
bending mix of black comedy and psychological thriller is both inventive and
commercially appealing. The tonal control is outstanding, the characters memorably off-
kilter, and the writing consistently sharp. With minor tightening, this concept could easily
sustain a serialized season or limited series. The juxtaposition of Seelie’s hopeful
narcissism with Neil’s moral collapse delivers not only laughs but genuine suspense,
holding a mirror up to the culture of performative authenticity. With continued care and
tonal discipline, this could be a breakout property

Motivated

TV Script · Comedy · 34 Pages

A wannabe motivational speaker in a downward spiral takes her last stab at stardom and unwittingly inspires a sweet serial killer to chase his dreams. (a dark comedy à la BARRY)

Nic Cohen

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N. H. Cohen • (she/her) @nhcohen.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

Congrats, Tardigrade, you icon of cute resilience! “Its victory might show we are drawn to tiny but resilient animals in times of global political turmoil. When we feel small and powerless, the mighty, microscopic tardigrades give us hope.” 1/2 Per www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

theguardian.com

It’s heroic, hardy and less than a millimetre long: meet the 2025 invertebrate of the year | Patrick Barkham

Guardian readers around the world voted in the this year’s contest, but which creature won, asks natural history writer Patrick Barkham

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Elise Schuenke @troubledminnesotan.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

Little gentle reminder to all the human creatives out there 💪

Panel 1: character crying at a desk
Text: this IS hard

Panel 2: character is now drawing determinedly
Text: but I can do it

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🎃 Killy Witches 👻 @tillybridges.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

trans tuesdays will be back April 22! here’s a super important one you may have missed: CIS PEOPLE GET GENDER AFFIRMING HEALTHCARE TOO because you need to understand the willful ignorance and utter hypocrisy of denying it to trans people

tillystranstuesdays.com

CIS PEOPLE GET GENDER AFFIRMING HEALTHCARE TOO - Tilly's Trans Tuesdays

Welcome to #TransTuesday! I’ve talked so many times about how trans people and cis people really aren’t all that different, but there’s one way most cis people never realize that may just blow your mi...

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N. H. Cohen • (she/her) @nhcohen.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

A lesson in patience: A producer read my AFF finalist script 3 years ago. Loved it, but it already had producers attached. She called me today because it stuck with her. Now wants to come on board with financing! 😵 Don’t write anyone off, you just never know. #filmsky #scriptsky

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Julie Taylor @snarkymimi.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

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N. H. Cohen • (she/her) @nhcohen.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

So cool that Google not only knows Gemini lies, but it also knows it lies to children. Gemini is used in schools.

From Gemini FAQ: “Remember to use your best judgement
Gemini is not a doctor, lawyer, or a professional. It can help you learn how things work, but don’t rely on it for advice. If you need help or something doesn't seem right, talk to a trusted adult.”

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N. H. Cohen • (she/her) @nhcohen.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

Please consider signing the HRC petition on removing Trans leaders from Stonewall. Only 7k away from 100,000 names! act.hrc.org/page/166189/... #TransRights #Trans #pride #HRC

We're 7,276 away from our goal of 100,000 actions! Help us reach 100,000 actions for LGBTQ+ equality in Trump's first 100 days.

92,724 have signed.

Take action: No STONEWALL without trans and queer people.

The National Park Service has removed "transgender" and "TQ+" from LGBTQ+ mentions and content on the Stonewall National Monument webpage. This is our history. We must protect it.

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N. H. Cohen • (she/her) @nhcohen.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

Coverfly & contests can feel like a gambit, but for LA outsiders they’re also a chance* at access. Every opportunity of mine came from a contest, writing lab, or Coverfly industry reads. Led me to my mgr, paid work & legit prod. on my 3 spec features. YMMV *results not guaranteed #scriptsky

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N. H. Cohen • (she/her) @nhcohen.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Considering the VAST number of kids with ADHD, learning challenges, physical disabilities & food allergies that have 504 plans to allow them equal access to education and inclusion—- they’re about to get some VERY angry soccer moms & dads in white suburbia who didn’t realize they too were DEI

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N. H. Cohen • (she/her) @nhcohen.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

A brilliant piece in @theguardian.com on a father of AI on the difference between people & AI. Calculation vs. judgment. AI should never create stories of the human experience or do anything beyond forms of calculation because it has no judgment or perspective. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Text from The Guardian:
“For Weizenbaum, judgment involves choices that are guided by values. These values are acquired through the course of our life experience and are necessarily qualitative: they cannot be captured in code. Calculation, by contrast, is quantitative. It uses a technical calculus to arrive at a decision. Computers are only capable of calculation, not judgment. This is because they are not human, which is to say, they do not have a human history – they were not born to mothers, they did not have a childhood, they do not inhabit human bodies or possess a human psyche with a human unconscious – and so do not have the basis from which to form values.

And that would be fine, if we confined computers to tasks that only required calculation. But thanks in large part to a successful ideological campaign waged by what he called the “artificial intelligentsia”, people increasingly saw humans and computers as interchangeable. As a result, computers had been given authority over matters in which they had no competence. (It would be a “monstrous obscenity”, Weizenbaum wrote, to let a computer perform the functions of a judge in a legal setting or a psychiatrist in a clinical one.)”

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American Library Association @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

The U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights has announced that it is arbitrarily dismissing student and parent complaints arising out of public schools’ documented acts of censorship and discrimination. Our response: Book bans are real. Full statement ➡️ www.ala.org/news/2025/01...

Book Bans Are Real. American Library Association

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N. H. Cohen • (she/her) @nhcohen.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

Just renewed my nonbinary kiddo’s passport in July, and I just ran to check— Thank goodness we chose X. It’s good for 10 years, hopefully it will be safe then? What cold-hearted cruelty to issue this order that only does harm. Performative hate & so incredibly vile. WWJD? Definitely not this.

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N. H. Cohen • (she/her) @nhcohen.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

I believe in this absolutely! There are no “rules,” only anecdotal experiences in multiplicity. Find your champions. Find the producers who click w/ you & your work. Keep writing. Defy any conventional wisdom. Be a unicorn. 🦄 (I was) #scriptsky #scriptsky+

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martyfive @martyfive.bsky.social · 21/10/2024

hi! my name’s marty! i recently quit my second job, so i’m looking for a new one and taking art commissions! i draw pretty much anything, but mostly people and their environment, illustrations and book covers. i’d be happy to find my audience here and draw something for you! ✉️: info@martyfive.com