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Ricky Manning

@froonium.bsky.social

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TV (mostly sci-fi) writer/producer (Farscape, ST:TNG, &c.); consultant; instructor @ UCLA Extension & ifs filmschule köln. WGA+WGC. He/his. Avatar by Arne Ratermanis.

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Ricky Manning @froonium.bsky.social · Sep 13

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

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Ricky Manning @froonium.bsky.social · 5h

BRIT BAKING SHOW, BAYBEEEEE

Ricky Manning @froonium.bsky.social · 6h

Noice! Congrats! (Although I keep looking at it and going THAT'S THE WRONG SHIRT even though I know how utterly impracticable it would've been to do the RIGHT shirt...)

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Ricky Manning @froonium.bsky.social · 6h

This is the way. bsky.app/profile/froo...

Ricky Manning @froonium.bsky.social · Jun 4

The samurai on my desk has been joined by three characters I've written for, newly rediscovered as I excavate the archives of the Musée de Froon.

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Sean Carroll @seanmcarroll.bsky.social · 14h

Tragedy is when I am criticized on social media. Comedy is when you are dismembered with a bone saw and die.

Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 1d

With receipts!

www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/o...

‘Amoral, evil’: vitriolic backlash builds against comics who played Riyadh festival

Murder by bone-saw, lashings for rape victims, punishment amputation, jail for satirists … these are the Saudi human rights abuses fuelling the fury being directed at the likes of Louis CK, Dave Chapp...

www.theguardian.com

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Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 14h

Just me?

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 1d

there’s this weird idea a lot of people seem to have about how all of us writers and artists must secretly want to use AI and are merely resisting temptation for ethical reasons, and like, no, it’s not hard for me to resist drinking the bowl of Piss With Glass In It actually

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 3d

I will never vote for this man. I'm just going to say that right now

LGBTQ Nation @lgbtqnation.com · 3d

Gavin Newsom vetoes gender education bill, declines to sign other trans protections - buff.ly/MTUAV85

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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 3d

I can not in good conscience recommend anyone do this job. I only do it because I am unfit for all other work.

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Ricky Manning @froonium.bsky.social · 3d

They really should've italicized "Malignant" there...

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Esther Schindler @estherschindler.bsky.social · 4d

I just saw someone use the abbreviation “AI;DR” and I’ll be laughing for a while.

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Reacher from the Jack Lagoon @daltondeschain.com · 8d

AI actress Tilly Norwood has tragically passed away while filming her first movie with director A Hologram of John Landis

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Ricky Manning @froonium.bsky.social · 5d

I know this isn't a popular opinion, but my favorite Taylor Swift is George Lazenby.

Ricky Manning @froonium.bsky.social · 5d

A bum steer

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Mo Ryan @moryan.bsky.social · 5d

If you’ve read this far, I would really like you to support the great people who have a resource table at Broadview ICE with information, first aid, supplies, food, and water. They are doing great work and are there 24 7 for protesters. A QR code for the stuff they need is in this image.

A flyer that says we are the heroes we have been waiting for, the resistance requires angels, please scan for the wish list. And then there is a QR code below.

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Ricky Manning @froonium.bsky.social · 5d

Sauce: froonium.com?p=9740#more-...

RIP Andrew Prowse

We lost Andrew Prowse in December 2018… and I still don’t have coherent words… so please allow me to ramble a bit with a few random thoughts and memories.

froonium.com

Ricky Manning @froonium.bsky.social · 5d

Shoutout also to Andrew Prowse (RIP), Farscape director and associate producer and absolute top Aussie bloke, also rumored to be a visual inspiration for one of the "Why So Difficult" knuckleheads. (Not sure who was the visual inspiration for the other one. It's a mystery.)

Two frowning dudes in not-quite-matching blue jumpers in the Farscape writers' room. The scruffy bearded bloke is Andrew Prowse; the standing dork, c'est moi.

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Ricky Manning @froonium.bsky.social · 5d

Also from that ep (but with different dialog):
bsky.app/profile/froo...

Ricky Manning @froonium.bsky.social · Mar 21

The Dominar is not amused.

Farscape: Rygel and Scorpius at a bar. Rygel speech balloon: "How dare you associate me with that orange loser grifter? Frelling outrageous!" Scorpius speech balloon: "I agree. You should sue."

Ricky Manning @froonium.bsky.social · 5d

Don't think I've ever heard Gardiner's Holst! Will have to check it out.

Ricky Manning @froonium.bsky.social · 5d

Prokofiev and Boult here. Yours?

Ricky Manning @froonium.bsky.social · 5d

Shoutout to Matt Ford, the mad Aussie writer of that ep. #OiOiOi ❤️🇦🇺

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Ricky Manning @froonium.bsky.social · 5d

You do now! SCAPERS, ASSEMBLE!

Ricky Manning @froonium.bsky.social · 5d

Gotcha covered

Farscape's Sko and Wa, blue alien knuckleheads, saying "Why so difficult?" (That's Ben Mendelsohn on the left, btw)

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Ricky Manning @froonium.bsky.social · 6d

Welcome (back) and enjoy!

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Ricky Manning @froonium.bsky.social · 6d

you're The One

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Steve Mullis @stevemullis.net · 8d

With Chicago in the ICE crosshairs right now, here are some independent and nonprofit media orgs to read, follow and support.

Unraveled: @unraveledpress.com

Block Club Chicago: @blockclubchi.bsky.social

Chicago Reader: @chicagoreader.com

The TRiiBE: @thetriibe.com

WBEZ: @wbez.org

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