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Lauri Donahue
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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
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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
Home page for lauridonahue.com. Award-winning scripts and writing services.
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Richard Morris @ahistoryinart.bsky.social · 4h
Augusto Giacometti was a member of the Giacometti dynasty of artists and was among the very first painters of the 20thC to venture into non-representational painting. He moved back to figurative painting later in his career. 'Books and Cup,' is from 1940.
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lukelukeluke @lukelukeluke.bsky.social · 4h
Here are some nice mushrooms
A raspberry red coral mushrooms grow grows from the rain soak moss of the forest floor. It’s so young and bright it looks like a red rubber kooshball that’s been dropped. All photos by me
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Monica Carmean @monicacarmean.com · 22h
Amazon prime frog costumes are sold out. Good job, America.
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 10h
How do I block all the AI slop? Also so far ai so just made my life 1000000 times more annoying.
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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 12h
The Ferry - wood engraving by George Mackley, 1951
several boats, a boat house and a large impressive house higher up on the land
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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 12h
George Mackley’s wood engraving The Deserted Farm, 1952
a road crossing a narrow stone bridge, a broken tree, still with leaves, and a larger house by the road side
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Lauri Donahue @lauridonahue.bsky.social · 12h
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New Israeli-Palestinian eatery in Paris aims for peace via food
Israeli, Palestinian and French flags fly together above Sababa, a new restaurant in the 11th district; 'In this very small space, there is room for everyone,' says one volunteer
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Slurmsadako MacKenzie @slurmsmackenzie.bsky.social · 16h
GenAI truly was the worst technology to come along at this moment.

An energy and water guzzler when we most urgently need to take climate action.

A disinformation machine as our journalism fails.

A bias machine as fascism takes root.

A job killer in a cost of living crisis.
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Bria "tries to write a book" Horses @thevoidencore.bsky.social · 5d
The "cognitive decline and brain damage from repeat COVID infections" and "easy to use robot that makes slop and melts your critical thinking skills" is a hell of a combo in a post-fact media ecosystem
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Lauri Donahue @lauridonahue.bsky.social · 13h
“After the AI chatbot made suggestions to Alan about places to visit and routes to take, he checked them on Google to make sure they were legitimate.”

If you have to check the accuracy of everything, what’s the point?
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Matt Owen @mjowen174.bsky.social · 14h
“Travel writing is shit”
AI holiday planning: I found the perfect seaside town for my summer trip
Holiday-makers say AI-powered chatbots really help organise where to go - but some things need double-checking.
www.bbc.co.uk
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The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 3d
The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.
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Dr Paul M @drpaulm.bsky.social · 13h
Shout out to my man Galileo Galilei, the original Atheist Proselyte:

"I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use."

Galileo Galilei, Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina of Lorraine, Regent of Tuscany.
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 1d
Atheist proselytizers are the religious proselytizers I’m most likely to come into contact with and they’re just as annoying as all of the other ones I experience
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franklin1337.bsky.social @franklin1337.bsky.social · 1d
No that’s Posse Kermitatus
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Dr Paul M @drpaulm.bsky.social · 4d
This is my hero
PORTLAND FROG RESPONDS AFTER ICE PEPPER SPRAYED INTO HIS SUIT'S AIRVENT: "I kinda coughed a little, that's about as much as it did to me. Just a little peppermint taste. I've tasted spicier. I'm Mexican what do you expect." A frog suit faces off against fascists
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 14h
Boycotting Israeli films is an ill-conceived means of achieving political change, Gershom Gorenberg argues. It targets “a vital source of artistic dissent rather than policy makers”:
The Reason Not to Boycott Israeli Films
Cinema is a vital source of artistic dissent in a country at war.
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Lauri Donahue @lauridonahue.bsky.social · 15h
The view from my cabin …
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Lauri Donahue @lauridonahue.bsky.social · 15h
Home for the next week…

Star Clipper

#travelsky #cruisesky
Sailing ship Sails with lights Cabin on ship
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 17h
About a month ago, the Trump administration got rid of the de minimis exemption, whereby packages valued under $800 could slide in without import duties. Now there's a backlog as the government can't process all of this paperwork, leading to UPS just destroying packages
Business Insider headline reads: UPS is telling customers that their packages coming to the US are marked for destruction.
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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 1d
"Most companies can’t use Robin Williams’s likeness for commercial gain without permission from his family. But on Sora, strangers have rendered Williams, who died in 2014, as they choose."
Fake videos of dead celebrities are going viral. Many of their families are horrified.
ChatGPT-maker OpenAI’s new tool lets users make realistic AI videos of dead public figures like Kobe Bryant and Michael Jackson. Many have responded with crude and racist memes.
www.washingtonpost.com
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Lauri Donahue @lauridonahue.bsky.social · 1d
En route to Athens…
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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 1d
"But because its work has been obscured by crude accounting and White House maneuvers, it’s impossible to know how much DOGE and its allies actually did cut from the budget — or even what happened to that money."

Seems like we can have a democracy or we can have DOGE, but not both.
Not Even Congress Knows How Much Money DOGE Cut
www.nytimes.com
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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 1d
Dedication in PG Wodehouse’s autobiography, 1957
To Who J. Alastair Frisby Who Told Me I Would Never Have A Book Published And Advised me To Get a job selling jellied eels SUCKS TO YOU, FRISBY
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CNN @cnn.com · 1d
"Big Tech wants to give social media an AI makeover – and so far, it’s a bit of a mess," Lisa Eadicicco writes | Analysis
The next era of social media is coming. And it’s messy so far | CNN Business
A baby running from a T-Rex with Lady Gaga playing in the background. Cats dancing on their hind legs dressed in streetwear. Bodycam footage of police arresting a pile of macaroni and cheese.
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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 1d
Pantogram’s miniature binary typewriter
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tiny typewriter with two keys 0 and 1 the paper in it is covered with 0's and 1's
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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 1d
Cover of L&NER’s Wandering On The Continent booklet, 1937
two hikers on a grassy gnoll, they are looking at a schloss and Max Schrecks house on a distant mountain. WANDERING ON THE CONTINENT WITH THE AID OF YOUTH HOSTELS 1937 No 37 VIA HARWICH, GRIMSBY OR HULL
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Lauri Donahue @lauridonahue.bsky.social · 1d
My Nespresso machine (bought used 9 years ago) finally stopped working this morning…

😭
a man in a suit and tie is holding a coffee mug with the word coffee machine written above him
ALT: a man in a suit and tie is holding a coffee mug with the word coffee machine written above him
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