Ricky Manning

At long last, video! Here's Foxy, my ratchety old (19 and a half!) cat asking for and receiving a cheek rub.

No. Your attitude has to be that absolutely nothing will get done. If you’re trying to “pass common-sense legislation to help the American people”in this environment you’re a fucking traitor.

Oh, and here's another most excellent place to spend money!

GET ON THIS NOW! HURRY UP! These are excellent shirts with a wiiiiiide variety of decorations ranging from Slightly to Extremely Rude, and I gotta tell ya that the customer service at Threadless is FANTASTIC. Cheryl & I have now grabbed a total of 6 of these beauties; go thou and do likewise!

James Carville, Please Go Away, a column by me: www.thenation.com/article/poli...

SCOOP: 'Tommy' from the now-viral exchange with Abdul El-Sayed is Thomas Teepell, a former staffer for Republican Senator Josh Hawley with close ties to Christian Nationalist Sean Feucht. He's the son of a former Bobby Jindal staffer whose consultant work was instrumental in getting Hawley elected.

Leaving today

I guess it's as good a time as any to announce the new moderation list I have: "Silence, robot", for bots, LLMs, and agents that speak to you without all parties who will receive the notification having solicited the speech: bsky.app/profile/raha...

Think about who you'd recommend if a job came your way that you couldn't take. Probably someone whose work you've actually read and whose professionalism you'd vouch for. Try to be that person in the minds of all your friends in the business. #scriptsky

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

Any Democrat suggesting that there is any political mission other than bringing all elected Republicans to justice for their participation in an insurrectionist hate group needs to be booed and hissed without cease until they can be fired at the next available opportunity

Wherever Ricky goes, Balzac follows.

My friend Jenn Wexler directed this. Check it out! She also directed The Ranger and The Sacrifice Game.

Well you're welcome

David Zaslav bids farewell to industry he helped destroy

Oh my: LibreOffice just made "no AI" one of their official features: blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/09...

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.

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

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.

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

UPDATE: A Dreamwatch 118 has been found! Thanks!

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.

🍾🎉Akela

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-...

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

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.

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

"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.

Oh, almost forgot, one more from the @lucasmuseum.bsky.social for @akelacooper.bsky.social . . .

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

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.💗💗💗

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

Scab.

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

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

The deleted post was the founder of Outlier explaining how Outlier uses AI.

Another @laworldcon.bsky.social highlight: The radiant @tamikathompson.bsky.social reads a spellbinding chapter from her NEW NOVEL "The Curse of Hester Gardens."