James Slainmann
@slainmann.bsky.social
TV Writer, #PowerForce, WGAW, film composer
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LA. UCLA/Bruins
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm8343279/
https://linktr.ee/Slainmann
LA. UCLA/Bruins
"Closure, closure..."
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The Group Arrives In Mexico & Tandy Sings Them A Song | Season 4 Ep. 4 | THE LAST MAN ON EARTH
YouTube video by FOX
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August 27, 2025 at 6:35 PM
"Closure, closure..."
www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIgu...
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June 22, 2025 at 10:47 PM
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"At the end of the day, your integrity is all you have. Guard it carefully."
Solid commencent speech from Jerome Powell:
"Our great universities are the envy of the world...I urge you to take none of this for granted...In 50 years, you will want to know that you have done whatever it takes to preserve and strengthen our democracy..."
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"Our great universities are the envy of the world...I urge you to take none of this for granted...In 50 years, you will want to know that you have done whatever it takes to preserve and strengthen our democracy..."
www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/s...
Baccalaureate remarks by Chair Powell at the Princeton University Baccalaureate Ceremony
Thank you, President Eisgruber, for the opportunity to speak here today. Congratulations to the Princeton University class of 2025 on the tremendous achievemen
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May 27, 2025 at 8:33 PM
"At the end of the day, your integrity is all you have. Guard it carefully."
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Now this is a proper headline
‘SINNERS’ overperformed official estimates and actually opened to $48M domestically.
Biggest opening for an original film this decade.
Read our review: bit.ly/SinnersDF
Biggest opening for an original film this decade.
Read our review: bit.ly/SinnersDF
April 21, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Now this is a proper headline
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Reminder: the First Amendment protects everyone who resides in our country. It doesn't matter if you have a green card or a visa or if you're undocumented. The Supreme Court has repeatedly affirmed that any person residing in the United States, regardless of status, is entitled to 1A protections.
March 27, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Reminder: the First Amendment protects everyone who resides in our country. It doesn't matter if you have a green card or a visa or if you're undocumented. The Supreme Court has repeatedly affirmed that any person residing in the United States, regardless of status, is entitled to 1A protections.
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Skywriting over the lot!
March 4, 2025 at 5:39 AM
Skywriting over the lot!
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Ursula le Guin, on the accusation that fantasy is an escape from reality
![[“Fantasy is escapist, and that is its glory. If a soldier is imprisoned by the enemy, don’t we consider it his duty to escape? The moneylenders, the know-nothings, the authoritarians have us all in prison; if we value the freedom of the mind and soul, if we’re partisans of liberty, then it’s our plain duty to escape, and to take as many people with us as we can.”]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:hppum4l25hcczzffastsicpq/bafkreihuubdwcftfkvvlnepoaf6pfxqulryfp7ydrydi5fe2pflwz63wgm@jpeg)
February 23, 2025 at 11:44 PM
Ursula le Guin, on the accusation that fantasy is an escape from reality
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DS9 Sisko
a man is holding a glass in his hand and pointing at the camera .
ALT: a man is holding a glass in his hand and pointing at the camera .
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February 18, 2025 at 7:25 PM
DS9 Sisko
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Sometimes you have to harmonize to keep from crying. 😓🎶 Original song by @agiftfromtodd.bsky.social
February 6, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Sometimes you have to harmonize to keep from crying. 😓🎶 Original song by @agiftfromtodd.bsky.social
"As the internet continues to enshittify, maybe what we really need is to start trusting each other and our own collective sense of what is true and good." Nothing beats instinct.
You Can’t Post Your Way Out of Fascism
Authoritarians and tech CEOs now share the same goal: to keep us locked in an eternal doomscroll instead of organizing against them, Janus Rose writes.
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February 6, 2025 at 2:25 AM
"As the internet continues to enshittify, maybe what we really need is to start trusting each other and our own collective sense of what is true and good." Nothing beats instinct.
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History does repeat itself
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February 5, 2025 at 3:21 AM
History does repeat itself
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"Some of the very best moments that came our way on Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul were group efforts. When it’s really working well, you don’t remember who came up with what, you just feel this shared sense of accomplishment." www.writtenby.com/guild-indust... #WrittenBy
A Career Spent Breaking Good
Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul Creator Vince Gilligan to receive 2025 Paddy Chayefsky Laurel Award for television writing achievement.
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January 28, 2025 at 9:01 PM
"Some of the very best moments that came our way on Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul were group efforts. When it’s really working well, you don’t remember who came up with what, you just feel this shared sense of accomplishment." www.writtenby.com/guild-indust... #WrittenBy
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Arizona AG Kris Mayes who is suing over Donald Trump’s executive order to ban birthright citizenship:
"This is bizarre. This a bizarre attempt to undermine 150 years of jurisprudence and the 14th Amendment to the United States Constitution."
Nailed it!
"This is bizarre. This a bizarre attempt to undermine 150 years of jurisprudence and the 14th Amendment to the United States Constitution."
Nailed it!
January 21, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Arizona AG Kris Mayes who is suing over Donald Trump’s executive order to ban birthright citizenship:
"This is bizarre. This a bizarre attempt to undermine 150 years of jurisprudence and the 14th Amendment to the United States Constitution."
Nailed it!
"This is bizarre. This a bizarre attempt to undermine 150 years of jurisprudence and the 14th Amendment to the United States Constitution."
Nailed it!
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"In times of dread, artists must never remain silent. This is precisely the time when artists go to work. There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no room for fear. We speak, we write, we do language. That's how civilizations heal."
Tony Morrison
#photography
#ir
#bnw
#artists
#art
Tony Morrison
#photography
#ir
#bnw
#artists
#art
January 21, 2025 at 12:53 PM
"In times of dread, artists must never remain silent. This is precisely the time when artists go to work. There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no room for fear. We speak, we write, we do language. That's how civilizations heal."
Tony Morrison
#photography
#ir
#bnw
#artists
#art
Tony Morrison
#photography
#ir
#bnw
#artists
#art
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Book of Eli. When the history is written about genre on this era, this one will be noted as an all time banger and future cinephiles will wonder aloud how it wasn't a much, much bigger deal. One of the best post-apocalyptic movies ever made without the words George Miller attached to it.
January 15, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Book of Eli. When the history is written about genre on this era, this one will be noted as an all time banger and future cinephiles will wonder aloud how it wasn't a much, much bigger deal. One of the best post-apocalyptic movies ever made without the words George Miller attached to it.
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We’ve been watching the Watch Duty team do absolutely *unbelievable* technical work all week (they’re members of our Fast Forward open source program), handling a surge of millions of people trying to see where the fires are in real time. There are still people who do such good on the internet.
Sending love to everyone in LA 💙 +Kudos to Watch Duty on their incredible work supporting those affected by the devastating LA fires.
Watch Duty App Creator Says He'll Never Pull an OpenAI
Gizmodo spoke with the creator of the app that provides vital alerts about evacuations.
gizmodo.com
January 10, 2025 at 12:08 AM
We’ve been watching the Watch Duty team do absolutely *unbelievable* technical work all week (they’re members of our Fast Forward open source program), handling a surge of millions of people trying to see where the fires are in real time. There are still people who do such good on the internet.
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The Motion Picture and Television Fund offers a variety of services that can provide emotional and financial relief to industry members and their families during times of need. Services include counseling services, supportive services and community resources, and financial assistance. mptf.com
January 11, 2025 at 1:09 AM
The Motion Picture and Television Fund offers a variety of services that can provide emotional and financial relief to industry members and their families during times of need. Services include counseling services, supportive services and community resources, and financial assistance. mptf.com
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These extraordinary photos of the LA fires have been shared widely on social media, often without crediting the photographer.
These are all the work of Ethan Swope, an LA-based photojournalist working for AP.
You can follow his remarkable reporting here👇
www.instagram.com/ethanswopeph...
These are all the work of Ethan Swope, an LA-based photojournalist working for AP.
You can follow his remarkable reporting here👇
www.instagram.com/ethanswopeph...
January 9, 2025 at 12:44 PM
These extraordinary photos of the LA fires have been shared widely on social media, often without crediting the photographer.
These are all the work of Ethan Swope, an LA-based photojournalist working for AP.
You can follow his remarkable reporting here👇
www.instagram.com/ethanswopeph...
These are all the work of Ethan Swope, an LA-based photojournalist working for AP.
You can follow his remarkable reporting here👇
www.instagram.com/ethanswopeph...
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With Los Angeles under a state of emergency due to multiple wildfires, the Guild will be delaying the announcement of the Writers Guild Awards nominees until Monday, January 13, 2025. variety.com/2025/film/ne...
WGA Awards Nominations Postponed Until Jan. 13 Amid L.A. Fires
The WGA Awards nominations have been postponed until Monday, Jan. 13.
variety.com
January 9, 2025 at 12:49 AM
With Los Angeles under a state of emergency due to multiple wildfires, the Guild will be delaying the announcement of the Writers Guild Awards nominees until Monday, January 13, 2025. variety.com/2025/film/ne...