Lauri Donahue
@lauridonahue.bsky.social
Screenwriter
Entertainment/tech/IP attorney
Former Sr. Counsel, Motion Picture Association
Occasional journalist
History nerd
Lauri's List of screenwriting fellowships, labs, etc.: https://tinyurl.com/spmfzxfh
Website/blog: https://lauridonahue.com
Entertainment/tech/IP attorney
Former Sr. Counsel, Motion Picture Association
Occasional journalist
History nerd
Lauri's List of screenwriting fellowships, labs, etc.: https://tinyurl.com/spmfzxfh
Website/blog: https://lauridonahue.com
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Lauri Donahue
@lauridonahue.bsky.social
· Dec 31
Here's my calendar of 160+ of the most worthwhile screenwriting fellowships, labs, grants, contests, and other opportunities, updated for 2025.
33 are new to the list this year.
96 are FREE.
lauridonahue.com/resources/a-...
#screenwriting #scriptsky
33 are new to the list this year.
96 are FREE.
lauridonahue.com/resources/a-...
#screenwriting #scriptsky
Roofman was fun and lovely and had a great poster… so what went wrong?
I think this is exactly right--an appealing, well-made middle-of-the-road movie with two likable and recognizable stars.
The one fall film released so far that feels like it could have been a bigger hit in another time was Roofman.
November 14, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Roofman was fun and lovely and had a great poster… so what went wrong?
Reposted by Lauri Donahue
Yesterday Ukraine blew up the Novorossiysk oil refinery, which is still burning furiously. Today Russia has been forced to suspend all exports - 2.2 million barrels a day.
That sound you now hear is the Russian economy burning.
That sound you now hear is the Russian economy burning.
November 14, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Yesterday Ukraine blew up the Novorossiysk oil refinery, which is still burning furiously. Today Russia has been forced to suspend all exports - 2.2 million barrels a day.
That sound you now hear is the Russian economy burning.
That sound you now hear is the Russian economy burning.
Reposted by Lauri Donahue
There's a lot we have not visualized in a useful way.
One of the big ones is the SHIFT in govt employment from "people who cure cancer" and "people who make sure your Social Security comes on time" and "people who care for veterans" to "people who kidnap your neighbors."
One of the big ones is the SHIFT in govt employment from "people who cure cancer" and "people who make sure your Social Security comes on time" and "people who care for veterans" to "people who kidnap your neighbors."
The fascist's unemployment solution: hiring some people to terrorize and cage others
www.huffpost.com/entry/us-hir...
www.huffpost.com/entry/us-hir...
U.S. Hires 50,000 Federal Workers Under Trump, Boosting Immigration Roles
The bulk of the new hires, reported first by Reuters, work at Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
www.huffpost.com
November 14, 2025 at 1:20 PM
There's a lot we have not visualized in a useful way.
One of the big ones is the SHIFT in govt employment from "people who cure cancer" and "people who make sure your Social Security comes on time" and "people who care for veterans" to "people who kidnap your neighbors."
One of the big ones is the SHIFT in govt employment from "people who cure cancer" and "people who make sure your Social Security comes on time" and "people who care for veterans" to "people who kidnap your neighbors."
Good list!
Check out the latest installment of The Black List Gift Guide: Subscriptions Edition only on our Substack: blcklst.substack.com/p/the-black-...
November 14, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Good list!
Reposted by Lauri Donahue
Interesting paper and thesis: how cultural diversity drives innovation.
How Cultural Diversity Drives Innovation - Marginal REVOLUTION
John Stuart Mill once wrote: It is hardly possible to overrate the value…of placing human beings in contact with persons dissimilar to themselves, and with modes of thought and action unlike those wit...
marginalrevolution.com
November 14, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Interesting paper and thesis: how cultural diversity drives innovation.
Reposted by Lauri Donahue
Meta is using your Whatsapp messages and Facebook & Instagram DMs to train its generative AI. If you want to object, you can do so here www.facebook.com/privacy/genai
How Meta uses information for generative AI models
Learn how Meta uses information for generative artificial intelligence, generative AI models.
www.facebook.com
November 14, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Meta is using your Whatsapp messages and Facebook & Instagram DMs to train its generative AI. If you want to object, you can do so here www.facebook.com/privacy/genai
Reposted by Lauri Donahue
HOLY SCOOP: FBI Director Kash Patel Waived Polygraph Security Screening for Dan Bongino, Two Other Senior Staff @williamturton.bsky.social @chrisbing.bsky.social
FBI Director Kash Patel Waived Polygraph Security Screening for Dan Bongino, Two Other Senior Staff
As the FBI’s deputy director, Bongino receives some of the country’s most sensitive secrets, including the President’s Daily Brief. His ascent to that position without passing a standard bureau backgr...
www.propublica.org
November 14, 2025 at 4:32 PM
HOLY SCOOP: FBI Director Kash Patel Waived Polygraph Security Screening for Dan Bongino, Two Other Senior Staff @williamturton.bsky.social @chrisbing.bsky.social
Reposted by Lauri Donahue
If you thought sending horrific, racist texts was enough to get you shunned from political service, think again! trib.al/v2wPrV0
November 14, 2025 at 3:52 PM
If you thought sending horrific, racist texts was enough to get you shunned from political service, think again! trib.al/v2wPrV0
Reposted by Lauri Donahue
'I should suffer the misery of devils, were I to make a whore of my soul by swearing allegiance to one whose character is that of a sottish, stupid, stubborn, worthless, brutish man' -- Tom Paine via the great Jill Lepore
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...)
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...)
What Was the American Revolution For?
Amid plans to mark the nation’s semiquincentennial, many are asking whether or not the people really do rule, and whether the law is still king.
www.newyorker.com
November 14, 2025 at 3:54 PM
'I should suffer the misery of devils, were I to make a whore of my soul by swearing allegiance to one whose character is that of a sottish, stupid, stubborn, worthless, brutish man' -- Tom Paine via the great Jill Lepore
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...)
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...)
Reposted by Lauri Donahue
I appreciate this is pure sales pitch from the vid makers, but damn, making a house out of giant legos looks like big kid fun! 😅👍
youtu.be/ZHUeOW9wsr0?...
youtu.be/ZHUeOW9wsr0?...
Man Builds CHEAP HOUSE in Just 6 DAYS | Start to Finish Full construction process
YouTube video by AKLA GELEN
youtu.be
November 14, 2025 at 3:47 PM
I appreciate this is pure sales pitch from the vid makers, but damn, making a house out of giant legos looks like big kid fun! 😅👍
youtu.be/ZHUeOW9wsr0?...
youtu.be/ZHUeOW9wsr0?...
www.nytimes.com
November 14, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Reposted by Lauri Donahue
The senselessness of “six seven” makes it seem like brain rot—but it’s more than that, Joshua Rothman argues. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/lscy7H
Is “Six Seven” Really Brain Rot?
The viral phrase is easy to dismiss, but its ubiquity suggests something crucial about human nature.
newyorkermag.visitlink.me
November 14, 2025 at 3:30 PM
The senselessness of “six seven” makes it seem like brain rot—but it’s more than that, Joshua Rothman argues. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/lscy7H
The goddess of bling...?
#FrescoFriday - Fresco from the Constantine ceiling painting depicting a woman with a nimbus and a jewel case. From a Roman palace in Augusta Treverorum, discovered underneath the Trier Cathedral. Dated ca. AD 310.
Cathedral Museum (Museum am Dom), Trier, Germany.
Cathedral Museum (Museum am Dom), Trier, Germany.
November 14, 2025 at 3:41 PM
The goddess of bling...?
Reposted by Lauri Donahue
Morrisons finest and my favourite! ❤️🐇
November 14, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Morrisons finest and my favourite! ❤️🐇
Reposted by Lauri Donahue
A pet therapy program in Italy utilizes people's pets to comfort them while undergoing chemotherapy. Elliot, a very handsome cat, is just one example. Bravo Italia!
November 14, 2025 at 3:32 PM
A pet therapy program in Italy utilizes people's pets to comfort them while undergoing chemotherapy. Elliot, a very handsome cat, is just one example. Bravo Italia!
First MTG starts sounding sane and now this...? 🧐
Tucker Carlson "points to Crooks’ repeated praise for fringe-right influencers, his fixation on 'Deep State traitors,' and posts describing Trump as 'the only one fighting for us,' a pattern Carlson says directly contradicts the early media framing that Crooks was politically 'unclear.'"
Tucker Carlson: Trump Shooter Was a Trump-Backing Radical — and the FBI Covered It Up
Tucker Carlson now claims the Trump-era FBI misled the public about the Butler shooting, accusing Trump’s own security officials of concealing key facts.
www.mediaite.com
November 14, 2025 at 3:37 PM
First MTG starts sounding sane and now this...? 🧐
Reposted by Lauri Donahue
The natural outgrowth of anti-vaxxer and anti-science hysteria.
A Growing Number of People Refuse to Vaccinate Their Pets. They Have a Mind-Boggling Reason Why.
No rabies shot for you, Baxter.
slate.com
November 14, 2025 at 3:04 PM
The natural outgrowth of anti-vaxxer and anti-science hysteria.
Reposted by Lauri Donahue
the cool thing about ai is that if its a bubble we will go into a recession and there wont be any jobs, but if its not a bubble we will go into a recession and there wont be any jobs
November 14, 2025 at 2:47 PM
the cool thing about ai is that if its a bubble we will go into a recession and there wont be any jobs, but if its not a bubble we will go into a recession and there wont be any jobs
Reposted by Lauri Donahue
'Renewable energy is now much cheaper than fossil fuels.'
The energy transition is often painted as a jobs killer, but the evidence says otherwise, explains the @smithschool.ox.ac.uk’s Prof Sam Fankhauser ⬇️
#OxfordClimate #COP30
The energy transition is often painted as a jobs killer, but the evidence says otherwise, explains the @smithschool.ox.ac.uk’s Prof Sam Fankhauser ⬇️
#OxfordClimate #COP30
Renewable energy is reshaping the global economy – new report
The energy transition is often painted as a jobs killer, but the evidence says otherwise.
theconversation.com
November 14, 2025 at 2:52 PM
'Renewable energy is now much cheaper than fossil fuels.'
The energy transition is often painted as a jobs killer, but the evidence says otherwise, explains the @smithschool.ox.ac.uk’s Prof Sam Fankhauser ⬇️
#OxfordClimate #COP30
The energy transition is often painted as a jobs killer, but the evidence says otherwise, explains the @smithschool.ox.ac.uk’s Prof Sam Fankhauser ⬇️
#OxfordClimate #COP30
Jake Blues suddenly develops a Southern accent when he tells a nun that she's "up the creek" instead of "up shit's creek."
"Walter Sobchak's "This is what happens when you fuck a stranger in the ass!" rant from The Big Lebowski becomes "This is what happens when you find a stranger in the Alps!") 🤣
"Walter Sobchak's "This is what happens when you fuck a stranger in the ass!" rant from The Big Lebowski becomes "This is what happens when you find a stranger in the Alps!") 🤣
In today's free What's Alan Watching? newsletter, The Pitt goes uncensored on basic cable, Poker Face attempts a huge change, Alien: Earth gets renewed, Pluribus, and more. Read! Subscribe! Share! Find a stranger in the Alps! www.whatsalanwatching.com/no-s-given-a...
No &!*#'s given away
'The Pitt' goes uncensored on basic cable, plus a surprising 'Poker Face' development, 'Pluribus,' 'Alien: Earth' news, and more
www.whatsalanwatching.com
November 14, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Jake Blues suddenly develops a Southern accent when he tells a nun that she's "up the creek" instead of "up shit's creek."
"Walter Sobchak's "This is what happens when you fuck a stranger in the ass!" rant from The Big Lebowski becomes "This is what happens when you find a stranger in the Alps!") 🤣
"Walter Sobchak's "This is what happens when you fuck a stranger in the ass!" rant from The Big Lebowski becomes "This is what happens when you find a stranger in the Alps!") 🤣
Reposted by Lauri Donahue
bluesky mods have fucking lost it
patton oswalt has been suspended from bluesky for saying that megyn kelly should be fed to a woodchipper for justifying the sexual abuse of minors
November 14, 2025 at 2:45 PM
bluesky mods have fucking lost it
This is interesting!
Unfortunately, I find it distracting to listen to music while I'm working...
And if I'm driving or exercising or doing chores, I'd rather listen to a book or podcast...
www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/20...
Unfortunately, I find it distracting to listen to music while I'm working...
And if I'm driving or exercising or doing chores, I'd rather listen to a book or podcast...
www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/20...
Listening to music most days could guard against dementia, study suggests
A new study finds that regularly listening to music or playing a musical instrument may help older adults protect against cognitive decline.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 14, 2025 at 2:37 PM
This is interesting!
Unfortunately, I find it distracting to listen to music while I'm working...
And if I'm driving or exercising or doing chores, I'd rather listen to a book or podcast...
www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/20...
Unfortunately, I find it distracting to listen to music while I'm working...
And if I'm driving or exercising or doing chores, I'd rather listen to a book or podcast...
www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/20...
