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Jim Picariello
@jimpicariello.bsky.social
Public speaker on cults & mind control.

Screenwriter/Director of Award-winning short films • Nicholl QF • Coverfly Top 20 in Family • Optioned • Blah blah blah…

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The Cult of Us - A Dark Rom-Com inspired by some real fucked-up shit. Coveryfly Top 1% screenplay.

It's about a celibate spiritualist and his wildly promiscuous roommate who fall in love as they race to save each other from their respective cults.

In development. #scriptsky #coverfly
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Can't tell if the Democrats are the Washington Generals or the New York Nationals.
November 11, 2025 at 1:50 PM
My dark comedy, half-hour, semi-finalist pilot, LOVE PSYCHO, has been chosen by @austinfilmfest.bsky.social for a live reading, this Friday 9am at the The Hideout Theatre!!! (more info below)
October 21, 2025 at 2:24 AM
My dark comedy, half-hour TV pilot script LOVE PSYCHO is a Semifinalist at the wicked-awesome Austin Film Festival @austinfilmfest.bsky.social screenwriting competition!

See you all soon!! #AFF2025
October 16, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Having a great time at the #TIFF50 Toronto International Film Festival industry conference!

Who else is here!
September 5, 2025 at 8:11 PM
If he's going to try to (ineffectively) distract us from the Epstein files, by opening up all of MLKs documents, maybe he'll get desperate and come clean with UFO stuff! I'm not even a UAP guy, but of course it would be cool to know.
an ufo is flying in the night sky above a forest .
ALT: an ufo is flying in the night sky above a forest .
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July 21, 2025 at 9:50 PM
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When I was little, the U.S. military came to our home at gunpoint and took me and my family away. We were imprisoned for years in barbed wire camps simply because we were Japanese American. I have spent my life telling that story, hoping it would never be repeated.
July 21, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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We need Colbert’s bold and frank commentary now as much as ever, and we need to stop corporations like CBS from cowing to political intimidation of this administration. Add your name to the petition to demand they reverse their decision and keep Colbert on air! sign.moveon.org/petitions/co...
Keep Colbert on Air!
We need Colbert’s bold and frank commentary now as much as ever, and we need to stop corporations like CBS from cowing to political intimidation of this administration. Add your name to the petition t...
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July 19, 2025 at 2:33 PM
When we used to play in the street, how did we first learn to yell, "CAR!!"?
June 21, 2025 at 12:24 AM
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June 20, 2025 at 1:29 AM
Just when you thought things couldn't get weirder, here come the vampires!
Artificial blood that could work for all blood types in trials
Artificial blood could reduce preventable deaths in settings where limited supply costs millions of lives in low-income countries.
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June 6, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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May 27, 2025 at 8:38 AM
The Cult of Us - A Dark Rom-Com inspired by some real fucked-up shit. Coveryfly Top 1% screenplay.

It's about a celibate spiritualist and his wildly promiscuous roommate who fall in love as they race to save each other from their respective cults.

In development. #scriptsky #coverfly
May 7, 2025 at 6:05 PM
With Coverfly, Nicholl, and everything else in flux, am I supposed to start using Stage 32?

It took me 8 years to get them to stop emailing me!
May 7, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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When A President Isn’t A Criminal Propped Up By A Corrupt Supreme Court…
May 4, 2025 at 11:25 AM
I start every morning reading Heather Cox Richardson's daily news report, whose perspective as a historian is invaluable. As far as I'm concerned it's mandatory reading and today's is especially relevant. (@hcrichardson.bsky.social)
April 29, 2025
President Franklin Delano Roosevelt popularized the idea that the first 100 days of a presidency established an administration’s direction.
open.substack.com
April 30, 2025 at 12:09 PM
Well now, that's just nitpicking.
100 DAYS...of lying, grifting, lawbreaking, division, incompetence, ignorance, illegal deportations, self-aggrandizement, vulgarity, self-pity, cruelty, ignoring the Supreme Court & due process while attacking: the Media, Universities, Law Firms, the Courts & Journalists.

1362 Days to go...
April 29, 2025 at 9:35 PM
This authoritarian state thing is going faster than I predicted. They're doing a great job for a bunch of morons.
April 22, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Holy crap!
He is gonna accidentally kill the pope or set fire to the sistine chapel or something
JD Vance heads to Rome - could he meet Pope Francis?
April 21, 2025 at 3:15 PM
#lastofus Ep. 2

What?
April 21, 2025 at 2:51 AM
Ugh! Every frickin year, the #Cannes announcements tank my ever-so important IMDb score 🤬. Your's too?
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April 15, 2025 at 2:22 AM
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Where is our humanity?
April 6, 2025 at 9:26 PM
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As the dust starts to settle on The Nicholl/The Black List situation, I took a deep dive with an update on the update ;)
#screenwriting
#scriptsky
The Nicholl: An Update on an Update!
YouTube video by Lee Jessup
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April 1, 2025 at 9:22 PM
That's what happens when you put a bunch of boobs in charge. I'll have to keep abreast of this story.
Hooters files for bankruptcy | CNN Business
Hooters — the restaurant chain first known for its orange-clad, all-female wait staff and then its chicken wings — filed for bankruptcy, the company announced Monday. But the decades-old brand said i...
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April 1, 2025 at 2:19 AM
And yet, nothing surprises me anymore.
wired.com WIRED @wired.com · Mar 27
WIRED has found four new Venmo accounts that appear to be associated with Trump officials who were in an infamous Signal chat. One made a payment with a note consisting solely of an eggplant emoji.
Even More Venmo Accounts Tied to Trump Officials in Signal Group Chat Left Data Public
WIRED has found four new Venmo accounts that appear to be associated with Trump officials who were in an infamous Signal chat. One made a payment with a note consisting solely of an eggplant emoji.
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March 28, 2025 at 1:40 AM