Adele
@theartofcharts.bsky.social
Into screenwriting. I write thrillers, often with migration and borders in the mix. 2024 Nicholl Finalist with NO GHOSTS TONIGHT. 2023 Page finalist with DUST ON DIRT.
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Adele
@theartofcharts.bsky.social
· Nov 12
Feed based off the screenwriters list I'm compiling (basically adding people as I spot them) - this'll pick up screenwriters photos of cute cats etc. that aren't tagged #scriptsky (and all posts from people on the list)
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If the government really intends to seize jewellery and other valuables from refugees,
either
- it is staggeringly ignorant of the historical precedents
or
- it's aware of the precedents, and thinks, yeah, we'll have some of that.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
either
- it is staggeringly ignorant of the historical precedents
or
- it's aware of the precedents, and thinks, yeah, we'll have some of that.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
No 10 tells Labour MPs it expects support for tough new asylum policies
Some backbenchers already opposing planned immigration crackdown seen as ‘economically and culturally illiterate’
www.theguardian.com
November 15, 2025 at 11:41 AM
If the government really intends to seize jewellery and other valuables from refugees,
either
- it is staggeringly ignorant of the historical precedents
or
- it's aware of the precedents, and thinks, yeah, we'll have some of that.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
either
- it is staggeringly ignorant of the historical precedents
or
- it's aware of the precedents, and thinks, yeah, we'll have some of that.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Meet Bubba Saulsbury, son of Odessa oil industry magnate Dick Saulsbury. Also friend to Kash Patel and JD Vance. This is who the Epstein felatio email is rumored to be referring to. Not Bill Clinton.
November 15, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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In order to implement the "Sweden Plan" most places will need:
To stamp out empathy
To demonise & scapegoat vulnerable people
To frame "freedom" as a Hobbesian state of nature entirely without governance for the common good
This is what happens when the far-right are allowed to dominate.
To stamp out empathy
To demonise & scapegoat vulnerable people
To frame "freedom" as a Hobbesian state of nature entirely without governance for the common good
This is what happens when the far-right are allowed to dominate.
In order to implement the “Sweden Plan” (which is code for doing nothing much, and not what happened in Sweden) most places will need:
More body bags.
More crematoriums.
Lots of pre-filled “do not resuscitate” and “do not transfer to hospital” forms.
A population too distracted to care.
More body bags.
More crematoriums.
Lots of pre-filled “do not resuscitate” and “do not transfer to hospital” forms.
A population too distracted to care.
November 15, 2025 at 11:48 AM
In order to implement the "Sweden Plan" most places will need:
To stamp out empathy
To demonise & scapegoat vulnerable people
To frame "freedom" as a Hobbesian state of nature entirely without governance for the common good
This is what happens when the far-right are allowed to dominate.
To stamp out empathy
To demonise & scapegoat vulnerable people
To frame "freedom" as a Hobbesian state of nature entirely without governance for the common good
This is what happens when the far-right are allowed to dominate.
There are lots of ways into my oubliette, but one of the most common is shitting on migrants - including economic migrants like me - but especially asylum seekers and refugees (see example below).
Let him gibber mindlessly in the void.
Let him gibber mindlessly in the void.
November 15, 2025 at 10:49 AM
There are lots of ways into my oubliette, but one of the most common is shitting on migrants - including economic migrants like me - but especially asylum seekers and refugees (see example below).
Let him gibber mindlessly in the void.
Let him gibber mindlessly in the void.
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What is truly pathetic about Labour is that this is all they have got. They have failed so spectacularly already, despite a whacking great majority, to even attempt to govern positively that all they have is punching down on marginalised groups and saying "oh but Reform will be worse".
November 15, 2025 at 7:48 AM
What is truly pathetic about Labour is that this is all they have got. They have failed so spectacularly already, despite a whacking great majority, to even attempt to govern positively that all they have is punching down on marginalised groups and saying "oh but Reform will be worse".
Effects of Covid on the brain among children.
November 15, 2025 at 12:12 AM
Effects of Covid on the brain among children.
More of a #FunPageFriday than a #FirstPageFriday. A villain's first look at his potential victims from FAR AS THE CROW FLIES, the script I've been working on lately.
#scriptsky.
#scriptsky.
November 14, 2025 at 1:28 PM
More of a #FunPageFriday than a #FirstPageFriday. A villain's first look at his potential victims from FAR AS THE CROW FLIES, the script I've been working on lately.
#scriptsky.
#scriptsky.
And tbh - people who can move often should move.
Part of why the U.S. is in the mess it's in is because of this notion of 'U.S. exceptionalism' that keeps them from collectively learning from experience elsewhere.
Their small diaspora (relative to pop size) helps maintain that.
Part of why the U.S. is in the mess it's in is because of this notion of 'U.S. exceptionalism' that keeps them from collectively learning from experience elsewhere.
Their small diaspora (relative to pop size) helps maintain that.
America thinks it has an immigration problem. It’s about to have an emigration problem.
I have family and friends in this age range who have already left…
I have family and friends in this age range who have already left…
"In 2025, 40% of women aged 15 to 44 say they would move abroad permanently if they had the opportunity. The current figure is four times higher than the 10% who shared this desire in 2014, when it was generally in line with other age and gender groups."
November 13, 2025 at 10:55 PM
And tbh - people who can move often should move.
Part of why the U.S. is in the mess it's in is because of this notion of 'U.S. exceptionalism' that keeps them from collectively learning from experience elsewhere.
Their small diaspora (relative to pop size) helps maintain that.
Part of why the U.S. is in the mess it's in is because of this notion of 'U.S. exceptionalism' that keeps them from collectively learning from experience elsewhere.
Their small diaspora (relative to pop size) helps maintain that.
I'll bite. #scriptsky
The initial scene between Spike and Drusilla in BtVS.
Spike's playing it cool, trying to impress the 'big noise' around these parts when Drusilla (who's clearly not all there) walks in - and...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=mIrl...
The initial scene between Spike and Drusilla in BtVS.
Spike's playing it cool, trying to impress the 'big noise' around these parts when Drusilla (who's clearly not all there) walks in - and...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=mIrl...
November 13, 2025 at 10:44 PM
I'll bite. #scriptsky
The initial scene between Spike and Drusilla in BtVS.
Spike's playing it cool, trying to impress the 'big noise' around these parts when Drusilla (who's clearly not all there) walks in - and...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=mIrl...
The initial scene between Spike and Drusilla in BtVS.
Spike's playing it cool, trying to impress the 'big noise' around these parts when Drusilla (who's clearly not all there) walks in - and...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=mIrl...
Reposted by Adele
The point of work isn’t to occupy a specific space.
It’s to get stuff done.
If you can get stuff done at home, and want to work at home, you should be allowed to work at home.
Employers that recognize that, and can manage WFH, can hire and retain the best teams.
It’s to get stuff done.
If you can get stuff done at home, and want to work at home, you should be allowed to work at home.
Employers that recognize that, and can manage WFH, can hire and retain the best teams.
The pandemic is long over, but the fight inside the Democratic National Committee over a full-time return to its office has just begun. Thumbs-down emojis flowed onscreen as Washington-area employees learned they would have to show up five days a week, a move their union called “callous.”
The D.N.C. Ordered Workers Back to the Office. Its Union Isn’t Pleased.
Thumbs-down emojis flowed onscreen as Washington-area employees learned they would have to show up five days a week. Their union called the move “callous.”
nyti.ms
November 13, 2025 at 9:09 AM
The point of work isn’t to occupy a specific space.
It’s to get stuff done.
If you can get stuff done at home, and want to work at home, you should be allowed to work at home.
Employers that recognize that, and can manage WFH, can hire and retain the best teams.
It’s to get stuff done.
If you can get stuff done at home, and want to work at home, you should be allowed to work at home.
Employers that recognize that, and can manage WFH, can hire and retain the best teams.
Good advice.
Meanwhile, from a @pipelineartists.bsky.social
article I got paid (!) to write several years back: "A Few Things Coaching Baseball Taught Me About Writing":
#Scriptsky
article I got paid (!) to write several years back: "A Few Things Coaching Baseball Taught Me About Writing":
#Scriptsky
November 13, 2025 at 5:31 AM
Good advice.
Good. Though the eight who opposed should be ashamed of themselves.
Sarah Game used to be in One Nation, which tells you all you need to know about her.
Sarah Game used to be in One Nation, which tells you all you need to know about her.
Bill to restrict abortions later in pregnancy defeated in South Australia after emotional debate
Amendment would have watered down law to allow abortion only where it would save life of mother or another foetus, or for significant risk of abnormalities
www.theguardian.com
November 13, 2025 at 4:51 AM
Good. Though the eight who opposed should be ashamed of themselves.
Sarah Game used to be in One Nation, which tells you all you need to know about her.
Sarah Game used to be in One Nation, which tells you all you need to know about her.
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#scriptsky heads up! There is an upcoming Q&A with @roadmapwriters.com on the 17th.
Youtube Q&A with Roadmap Writers on Monday, Nov 17th - 5:30 Pst
www.reddit.com
November 13, 2025 at 3:00 AM
#scriptsky heads up! There is an upcoming Q&A with @roadmapwriters.com on the 17th.
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turns out the emails we should have been reading in 2016 were from the NYT
November 12, 2025 at 10:34 PM
turns out the emails we should have been reading in 2016 were from the NYT
I learned something from working on a mostly white, mostly U.S. based union campaign. You can't be in solidarity with people who will throw others under the bus to get goodies.
It's not even that you'll be next (you might be but...)
It's just you can only be complicit.
So, if you're U.S. based...
It's not even that you'll be next (you might be but...)
It's just you can only be complicit.
So, if you're U.S. based...
Democratic leaders have failed us again. It's time to get new leaders.
After yet another capitulation by Chuck Schumer and Senate Democrats, it's clear we need new leadership capable of mounting a serious opposition to Trump's authoritarian regime. We're launching our la...
www.indivisible2026.org
November 12, 2025 at 11:20 PM
I learned something from working on a mostly white, mostly U.S. based union campaign. You can't be in solidarity with people who will throw others under the bus to get goodies.
It's not even that you'll be next (you might be but...)
It's just you can only be complicit.
So, if you're U.S. based...
It's not even that you'll be next (you might be but...)
It's just you can only be complicit.
So, if you're U.S. based...
Have embarked on an adaptation, which is a new thing for me.
I'm definitely making changes (no good at leaving well alone I guess). Any tips, suggestions, pitfalls to avoid? (Rights won't be an issue - it's close to being in the public domain).
#scriptsky
I'm definitely making changes (no good at leaving well alone I guess). Any tips, suggestions, pitfalls to avoid? (Rights won't be an issue - it's close to being in the public domain).
#scriptsky
November 12, 2025 at 11:06 AM
Have embarked on an adaptation, which is a new thing for me.
I'm definitely making changes (no good at leaving well alone I guess). Any tips, suggestions, pitfalls to avoid? (Rights won't be an issue - it's close to being in the public domain).
#scriptsky
I'm definitely making changes (no good at leaving well alone I guess). Any tips, suggestions, pitfalls to avoid? (Rights won't be an issue - it's close to being in the public domain).
#scriptsky
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@gailmyerscough.co.uk's stuff is great - check out the amazing brutalist buildings Xmas cards, I just bought some.
Hey Bluesky, my better half @gailmyerscough.co.uk has had a heck of a lot to deal with this year. She’s also a bit down because she hasn’t sold much recently. Please visit her site www.gailmyerscough.co.uk and have a look at her amazing designs. Thank you for reading, much appreciated xx
Gail Myerscough | Surface Pattern Designer & Illustrator | Manchester
Discover a world of bold and colourful prints, homewares and stationery by Gail Myerscough, a surface pattern designer and illustrator. Designed in Manchester, made in the UK.
www.gailmyerscough.co.uk
November 12, 2025 at 10:45 AM
@gailmyerscough.co.uk's stuff is great - check out the amazing brutalist buildings Xmas cards, I just bought some.
LongCovid is not a disease you want to give or get - and the more often you get Covid, the worse your odds get.
And the collective delusion that 'it's just a cold' these days won't protect you - that's as useless as a Schumer-supporting Democratic senator. They won't protect you either.
And the collective delusion that 'it's just a cold' these days won't protect you - that's as useless as a Schumer-supporting Democratic senator. They won't protect you either.
So I try not to give too many gory details about life with long covid, but I also think it’s important to give a clear picture of what can happen to anyone.
Over the last yearish, I’ve become allergic to more than 70 foods. Today I lost soy. I’m not how long I can keep eating at all.
Over the last yearish, I’ve become allergic to more than 70 foods. Today I lost soy. I’m not how long I can keep eating at all.
November 12, 2025 at 4:35 AM
LongCovid is not a disease you want to give or get - and the more often you get Covid, the worse your odds get.
And the collective delusion that 'it's just a cold' these days won't protect you - that's as useless as a Schumer-supporting Democratic senator. They won't protect you either.
And the collective delusion that 'it's just a cold' these days won't protect you - that's as useless as a Schumer-supporting Democratic senator. They won't protect you either.
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listen, with US journalism falling off a cliff i’ve seen multiple people touting the BBC for doing good “actual journalism”
and I need you to know they’ve been horribly transphobic and damaging to trans people for YEARS
and they’re about to get even worse
they are not the answer!
and I need you to know they’ve been horribly transphobic and damaging to trans people for YEARS
and they’re about to get even worse
they are not the answer!
The absolute gall of this. Trans people have been loudly decrying the blatant institutionalized transphobia being pumped out of the BBC offices FOR YEARS, and some staff made up bullshit "memo" sends the entire organization crashing within a week because they aren't transphobic ENOUGH.
“It reflected a “cultural problem across the BBC” which treats issues of gender and sexuality as ‘a celebration of British diversity’ rather than a complex and contentious subject.”
Just a second - what exactly is contentious about sexuality and gender identity?
Just a second - what exactly is contentious about sexuality and gender identity?
November 12, 2025 at 3:18 AM
listen, with US journalism falling off a cliff i’ve seen multiple people touting the BBC for doing good “actual journalism”
and I need you to know they’ve been horribly transphobic and damaging to trans people for YEARS
and they’re about to get even worse
they are not the answer!
and I need you to know they’ve been horribly transphobic and damaging to trans people for YEARS
and they’re about to get even worse
they are not the answer!
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Stumbled across @storypeer.com the other day. Looks like a promising peer feedback service for screenwriters.
Anyone know of something similar for prose works (shorts, novels, etc)?
#amwriting #writerslife #writingcommunity
Anyone know of something similar for prose works (shorts, novels, etc)?
#amwriting #writerslife #writingcommunity
November 11, 2025 at 11:45 PM
Stumbled across @storypeer.com the other day. Looks like a promising peer feedback service for screenwriters.
Anyone know of something similar for prose works (shorts, novels, etc)?
#amwriting #writerslife #writingcommunity
Anyone know of something similar for prose works (shorts, novels, etc)?
#amwriting #writerslife #writingcommunity
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This is extremely bizarre. I don’t always agree with Sarah, but I’ve never seen her post anything remotely actionable, in years of following her both here and the old place.
November 11, 2025 at 11:13 PM
This is extremely bizarre. I don’t always agree with Sarah, but I’ve never seen her post anything remotely actionable, in years of following her both here and the old place.
I think (in a bid to prove JCO wrong?) he read some crappy AI synopsis of THE PLAYER OF GAMES by Iain M. Banks.
If he kept reading M. Banks, there's a tiny smidgeon of a possibility that he'd find a way out of the hell that is being so greedy, among sycophants, high on the peak of Mt. Stupidity..
If he kept reading M. Banks, there's a tiny smidgeon of a possibility that he'd find a way out of the hell that is being so greedy, among sycophants, high on the peak of Mt. Stupidity..
in a long life filled with saying stupid shit this is may be the stupidest shit he's ever said
November 11, 2025 at 10:14 PM
I think (in a bid to prove JCO wrong?) he read some crappy AI synopsis of THE PLAYER OF GAMES by Iain M. Banks.
If he kept reading M. Banks, there's a tiny smidgeon of a possibility that he'd find a way out of the hell that is being so greedy, among sycophants, high on the peak of Mt. Stupidity..
If he kept reading M. Banks, there's a tiny smidgeon of a possibility that he'd find a way out of the hell that is being so greedy, among sycophants, high on the peak of Mt. Stupidity..
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cc: Keir Starmer
Democrats seem to think the pivoting to the center makes them most electable but all it does it piss *everyone* off.
Having beliefs/a backbone and being authentic is the best way to win elections. People are fucking sick of croneyism and corporate suck ups and that is why Zohran cruised to victory
Having beliefs/a backbone and being authentic is the best way to win elections. People are fucking sick of croneyism and corporate suck ups and that is why Zohran cruised to victory
November 11, 2025 at 1:09 PM
cc: Keir Starmer
Nods.
Can't make up my mind whether it's trolling or just a monumental lack of self-awareness.
Can't make up my mind whether it's trolling or just a monumental lack of self-awareness.
I have to hand it to them, it's an incredible bit to publicly lose a game of chicken, admit that's what happened, and then spend the next day lecturing everyone about courage and tenacity
November 11, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Nods.
Can't make up my mind whether it's trolling or just a monumental lack of self-awareness.
Can't make up my mind whether it's trolling or just a monumental lack of self-awareness.