Rob Forman
@robsforman.bsky.social
🏳️🌈✡️🧑🏻💻📺🎥🎮 Writer of pilots. TV staffs. Features. #SpiderMan2PS5. Principal Writer on unannounced video game. WGAW Board of Directors member. Fmr Co-Chair WGAW LGBTQ+ Committee. “Out Loud List” 2021. Amateur protein baker. Opinions my own. (he/him)
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Rob Forman
@robsforman.bsky.social
· Nov 17
Never introduced myself way back when!
I write for TV (many unproduced pilots & mini rooms, iZombie, Army Wives), Features (soon!), and Video Games (Spider-Man 2, unannounced Star Wars game).
Board member of WGA West. Former Co-Chair LGBTQ+ Writers Committee.
Husband. Dog dad. Amateur baker.
Hi!
I write for TV (many unproduced pilots & mini rooms, iZombie, Army Wives), Features (soon!), and Video Games (Spider-Man 2, unannounced Star Wars game).
Board member of WGA West. Former Co-Chair LGBTQ+ Writers Committee.
Husband. Dog dad. Amateur baker.
Hi!
WGAW Writers!
Voting for BOD & Officers starts today (you’ll get an email from Votenet Solutions ~10am PT) and closes 9/23/25 @ 12pm PT.
I’m running for re-election to the Board. If you missed Candidates Night last night, here’s a version of my speech (edited to fit BlueSky limit).
In solidarity.
Voting for BOD & Officers starts today (you’ll get an email from Votenet Solutions ~10am PT) and closes 9/23/25 @ 12pm PT.
I’m running for re-election to the Board. If you missed Candidates Night last night, here’s a version of my speech (edited to fit BlueSky limit).
In solidarity.
September 4, 2025 at 4:15 PM
WGAW Writers!
Voting for BOD & Officers starts today (you’ll get an email from Votenet Solutions ~10am PT) and closes 9/23/25 @ 12pm PT.
I’m running for re-election to the Board. If you missed Candidates Night last night, here’s a version of my speech (edited to fit BlueSky limit).
In solidarity.
Voting for BOD & Officers starts today (you’ll get an email from Votenet Solutions ~10am PT) and closes 9/23/25 @ 12pm PT.
I’m running for re-election to the Board. If you missed Candidates Night last night, here’s a version of my speech (edited to fit BlueSky limit).
In solidarity.
If this, uh, service doesn’t — in the words of a mentor who gave me my start with a freelance episode and then promotion from writers assistant to staff writer — “beat you to death with your own dream,” then it can’t be called “showrunner.” I don’t make the rules!
The fucking audacity.
The fucking audacity.
Showrunner, an Amazon-backed AI streaming service, launches Thursday, letting users paying $10-$40/mo. to create their own animated shows or build on others' IP (Lucia Moses/Business Insider)
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July 30, 2025 at 7:37 PM
If this, uh, service doesn’t — in the words of a mentor who gave me my start with a freelance episode and then promotion from writers assistant to staff writer — “beat you to death with your own dream,” then it can’t be called “showrunner.” I don’t make the rules!
The fucking audacity.
The fucking audacity.
Celebrating a huge win today.
In 2022, the @writersguildwest health plan added infertility benefits that, due to the need for a medical diagnosis, wound up being inaccessible to many LGBTQ+ and single WGAW members.
In 2022, the @writersguildwest health plan added infertility benefits that, due to the need for a medical diagnosis, wound up being inaccessible to many LGBTQ+ and single WGAW members.
July 29, 2025 at 11:11 PM
Celebrating a huge win today.
In 2022, the @writersguildwest health plan added infertility benefits that, due to the need for a medical diagnosis, wound up being inaccessible to many LGBTQ+ and single WGAW members.
In 2022, the @writersguildwest health plan added infertility benefits that, due to the need for a medical diagnosis, wound up being inaccessible to many LGBTQ+ and single WGAW members.
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Supposedly after pretending it was about money they're just openly talking in meetings about how they'll trash contracts and fire comedians for the absolutely unprescedented act of... making fun of the president on a late night talk show.
Dictator shit.
Dictator shit.
July 27, 2025 at 2:45 AM
Supposedly after pretending it was about money they're just openly talking in meetings about how they'll trash contracts and fire comedians for the absolutely unprescedented act of... making fun of the president on a late night talk show.
Dictator shit.
Dictator shit.
Mostly off of social media these days (because this is the bad place), but somehow it’s WGAW election season again.
Members, please read my platform at the link. It’s been an honor to serve this membership. I’d be thrilled if you would endorse me for reelection!
elections.wga.org/2025/rob-for...
Members, please read my platform at the link. It’s been an honor to serve this membership. I’d be thrilled if you would endorse me for reelection!
elections.wga.org/2025/rob-for...
July 23, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Mostly off of social media these days (because this is the bad place), but somehow it’s WGAW election season again.
Members, please read my platform at the link. It’s been an honor to serve this membership. I’d be thrilled if you would endorse me for reelection!
elections.wga.org/2025/rob-for...
Members, please read my platform at the link. It’s been an honor to serve this membership. I’d be thrilled if you would endorse me for reelection!
elections.wga.org/2025/rob-for...
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Alt text included!
July 18, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Alt text included!
Booking flights now requires me to select my gender, Male or Female, and honestly this travel app yelling at me to choose a gender makes me want to use he/they pronouns more - because I’ve been evaluating my gender identity (TBH, I feel he/him ~95% of the time), but also to say fuck you to this shit
July 17, 2025 at 5:05 AM
Booking flights now requires me to select my gender, Male or Female, and honestly this travel app yelling at me to choose a gender makes me want to use he/they pronouns more - because I’ve been evaluating my gender identity (TBH, I feel he/him ~95% of the time), but also to say fuck you to this shit
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Has there ever been a NYT opinion piece admonishing right wingers to stop snubbing their non-conservative/straight/cis/etc family?
Why is it *always* on the left to accept right wingers?
Why is it *always* on the left to accept right wingers?
Wild that right-wing families somehow aren’t to blame for their longstanding and systematic snubbing of queer and lefty children.
July 14, 2025 at 1:43 AM
Has there ever been a NYT opinion piece admonishing right wingers to stop snubbing their non-conservative/straight/cis/etc family?
Why is it *always* on the left to accept right wingers?
Why is it *always* on the left to accept right wingers?
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This is exactly right. Also, during the Biden administration, the owners of the tech sector experienced the beginning of meaningful anti-monopoly regulations from the federal government.
They went fascist to crack down on worker power and destroy regulations. Classic move!
They went fascist to crack down on worker power and destroy regulations. Classic move!
i think the big middle event between george floyd protests and covid that accelerated this hard right turn in elite circles was tech employees using slack to stage walk-outs and force concessions from management. tech bosses got a first whiff of organized labor's power and started reading mein kampf
Only in America could a white man with a current net worth of $2 billion see himself as part of a victimized group. 🤦♂️
July 13, 2025 at 10:00 PM
This is exactly right. Also, during the Biden administration, the owners of the tech sector experienced the beginning of meaningful anti-monopoly regulations from the federal government.
They went fascist to crack down on worker power and destroy regulations. Classic move!
They went fascist to crack down on worker power and destroy regulations. Classic move!
Drove by the federal building in West Los Angeles… on a quiet, overcast Sunday morning… and there are still armed forces guarding it like it’s a FOB in a war zone.
What a pathetic, fascistic waste of taxpayer dollars.
What a pathetic, fascistic waste of taxpayer dollars.
July 13, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Drove by the federal building in West Los Angeles… on a quiet, overcast Sunday morning… and there are still armed forces guarding it like it’s a FOB in a war zone.
What a pathetic, fascistic waste of taxpayer dollars.
What a pathetic, fascistic waste of taxpayer dollars.
The clearly AI-powered dubbing on @wowpresentsplus.bsky.social’s newly released international Drag Races seasons (All Stars France and Brazil S2) would be terrible enough. But the app doesn’t give subscribers an option to choose the original language audio and subtitles! Don’t force this 💩 on us.
July 11, 2025 at 2:52 AM
The clearly AI-powered dubbing on @wowpresentsplus.bsky.social’s newly released international Drag Races seasons (All Stars France and Brazil S2) would be terrible enough. But the app doesn’t give subscribers an option to choose the original language audio and subtitles! Don’t force this 💩 on us.
I choose to celebrate us.
July 4, 2025 at 8:41 PM
I choose to celebrate us.
New headshots courtesy of my wildly talented writer-director friend Jeff Perreca (who is not on BlueSky, unfortunately!)
June 23, 2025 at 8:21 PM
New headshots courtesy of my wildly talented writer-director friend Jeff Perreca (who is not on BlueSky, unfortunately!)
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Collective action is a right. Protest is a right.
David Huerta, SEIU California President, was injured + detained for standing with workers.
The WGAW stands with him—and with all unions defending our rights. #FreeDavidHuerta #Solidarity #WGAStrong
David Huerta, SEIU California President, was injured + detained for standing with workers.
The WGAW stands with him—and with all unions defending our rights. #FreeDavidHuerta #Solidarity #WGAStrong
June 8, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Collective action is a right. Protest is a right.
David Huerta, SEIU California President, was injured + detained for standing with workers.
The WGAW stands with him—and with all unions defending our rights. #FreeDavidHuerta #Solidarity #WGAStrong
David Huerta, SEIU California President, was injured + detained for standing with workers.
The WGAW stands with him—and with all unions defending our rights. #FreeDavidHuerta #Solidarity #WGAStrong
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We've reached the point in our descent into fascism where the Jewish governor's house getting firebombed on Passover by a guy trying to bash his head in with a sledgehammer is overshadowed by the story of the President saying he wants to build foreign gulags for US citizens.
April 15, 2025 at 12:09 AM
We've reached the point in our descent into fascism where the Jewish governor's house getting firebombed on Passover by a guy trying to bash his head in with a sledgehammer is overshadowed by the story of the President saying he wants to build foreign gulags for US citizens.
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Calm down, folks, it was just an attempted assassination of a Jewish Democratic governor and his family on the first night of Passover, it’s not like somebody spray painted a dick on a Cybertruck.
April 14, 2025 at 2:24 AM
Calm down, folks, it was just an attempted assassination of a Jewish Democratic governor and his family on the first night of Passover, it’s not like somebody spray painted a dick on a Cybertruck.
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I’ve been posting liberal-politics-invading-gymbro-space videos on TT. The funniest thing just unintentionally happened on my profile…
April 7, 2025 at 6:59 PM
I’ve been posting liberal-politics-invading-gymbro-space videos on TT. The funniest thing just unintentionally happened on my profile…
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71% of Jews voted for Kamala Harris. Why? Because Jews can smell fascism a mile away & know that fascism never works out well for us.
Trump’s administration includes straight up antisemites. They keep trying to elect antisemite Holocaust-deniers in Europe. 🧵
Trump’s administration includes straight up antisemites. They keep trying to elect antisemite Holocaust-deniers in Europe. 🧵
Trump’s Jewish Cover Story
The administration claims to be protecting Jews while advancing an agenda that most Jews oppose.
www.theatlantic.com
April 6, 2025 at 4:57 PM
71% of Jews voted for Kamala Harris. Why? Because Jews can smell fascism a mile away & know that fascism never works out well for us.
Trump’s administration includes straight up antisemites. They keep trying to elect antisemite Holocaust-deniers in Europe. 🧵
Trump’s administration includes straight up antisemites. They keep trying to elect antisemite Holocaust-deniers in Europe. 🧵
This is crazy.
ALSO I’m now wondering, based on our ages, if Pete was in the Multi-Linear Calculus class I took at Princeton University when I was a junior in the local public high school and had passed out of all our math courses (hi! I became a writer!)
I mean, he absolutely wasn’t, but.
ALSO I’m now wondering, based on our ages, if Pete was in the Multi-Linear Calculus class I took at Princeton University when I was a junior in the local public high school and had passed out of all our math courses (hi! I became a writer!)
I mean, he absolutely wasn’t, but.
Donald Trump is not in the process of destroying the US government.
Russia is in the process of overthrowing the United States.
Russia is in the process of overthrowing the United States.
March 29, 2025 at 3:49 AM
This is crazy.
ALSO I’m now wondering, based on our ages, if Pete was in the Multi-Linear Calculus class I took at Princeton University when I was a junior in the local public high school and had passed out of all our math courses (hi! I became a writer!)
I mean, he absolutely wasn’t, but.
ALSO I’m now wondering, based on our ages, if Pete was in the Multi-Linear Calculus class I took at Princeton University when I was a junior in the local public high school and had passed out of all our math courses (hi! I became a writer!)
I mean, he absolutely wasn’t, but.
Beginning to smell a lot like stagflation… 🫠
Goldman's Q1 estimates in recent weeks have gone from 1.8% ..
.. to 1.6%
.. to 1.3%
.. to 1.0%
.. to 0.6%.
.. to 1.6%
.. to 1.3%
.. to 1.0%
.. to 0.6%.
GOLDMAN cuts its Q1 GDP estimate almost in half from yesterday’s. 🇺🇸
March 29, 2025 at 2:14 AM
Beginning to smell a lot like stagflation… 🫠
“Bloodless, if the left allows it to be.” - Heritage Foundation President
The worst thing the federal government has done to unions in my lifetime happened last night. The second worst thing was three weeks ago.
The labor movement will either protect ourselves right now or be smashed. That's all there is to it.
www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/they-are-g...
The labor movement will either protect ourselves right now or be smashed. That's all there is to it.
www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/they-are-g...
They Are Going to Take Everything If We Don't Stop Them
The government is going to destroy unions if we don't fight now.
www.hamiltonnolan.com
March 29, 2025 at 2:08 AM
“Bloodless, if the left allows it to be.” - Heritage Foundation President
Super great we’re working on that universal safety net so that people can surv- oh dang
i think these people are in the grip of a genuine delusion www.nbcchicago.com/news/busines...
Bill Gates: Within 10 years, AI will replace many doctors and teachers—humans won't be needed ‘for most things'
Over the next decade, advances in artificial intelligence will mean that humans will no longer be needed "for most things" in the world, says Bill Gates.
www.nbcchicago.com
March 28, 2025 at 1:37 AM
Super great we’re working on that universal safety net so that people can surv- oh dang
I don’t believe in gatekeeping or purity tests, but also if you generate AI slop in the style of Studio Ghibli, you clearly don’t understand or respect anything that Miyazaki was going for, and you should be barred from ever watching or referencing his works. He called AI “an insult to life itself.”
March 28, 2025 at 1:21 AM
I don’t believe in gatekeeping or purity tests, but also if you generate AI slop in the style of Studio Ghibli, you clearly don’t understand or respect anything that Miyazaki was going for, and you should be barred from ever watching or referencing his works. He called AI “an insult to life itself.”