Franklin Leonard

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The Black List founder. Film & TV producer. Politics & Football person. Vanity Fair contributing editor.

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This is on Thursday. Sign up here. http://blcklst.com/wordbyword

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We just enabled account sign-ups again, so any outstanding invite codes can now be used to create an account. Thanks for your patience!

We will temporarily be pausing Bluesky sign-ups while our team continues to resolve the existing performance issues. We’ll keep you updated when invite codes will resume functionality. We’re excited to welcome more users to our beta soon!

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I like that the three working theories for why Twitter broke are: 1.) Twitter is DDoSing itself because Elon is an idiot. 2.) Twitter is losing servers after the company ignored bills because Elon is an idiot. 3.) Twitter hopes to force people to pay because Elon is an idiot.

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The plan? Buy a website for $44 billion and then let everyone use it for only 10 minutes a day.

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For anyone wondering what the scale of new users looks like today, one cool view of this data is "Hourly Unique Posters". i.e. How many unique users post in a given hour? Before the Big Invite Drop this peaked around 2k. Last week it was 4k. Today it was 15k. Nearly a 4x in new posting activity.

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TIRED: Killing your service’s third-party apps WIRED: Killing your service’s first-party apps

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I will never get over this.

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The Strike Talk podcast has been excellent and Week 8's is even more so. From Billy Ray’s opening to Danielle Sanchez-Witzel's recent showrunning experience, it's all essential info (+ the super smart @franklinleonard.bsky.social , @johnaugust.bsky.social & Yahlin Chang https://t.co/Srxn0Mw0cZ

‎Deadline Strike Talk: Week Eight on Apple Podcastst.co ‎Show Deadline Strike Talk, Ep Week Eight - Jun 23, 2023

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Best parallel I can think of is if we tried to invade Canada because we thought Vancouver was basically ours, the entire US military got tied up in the forest, then Blackwater turned on us and started heading towards DC overnight, except Blackwater was financed by Rachael Ray.

“Hello yes, Wendy’s. I would like to do a crime. Yes I know this is a Wendy’s. I just said that. Is crime on your menu? You sure? Okay, no crime. I’ll just take a burger, some fries. You know? Make that two burgers. And a Frosty. One last time, can i do some crime? But I’m the President!”

My oh my there are tapes.

In honor of the end of the European football and American men’s basketball seasons, let’s put my timeline in shambles American men’s basketball needs a promotion and relegation pyramid like global club football, and we’re just subsidizing billionaires and getting worse entertainment by not doing so

Put it in the early skeet hall of fame.

You misspelled "incarcerations".

A young man on the subway yells that he has no food, nothing to drink. Never threatens anyone directly. Commits no violence And someone sneaks up from behind and chokes the life out of him for 15 minutes https://nypost.com/2023/05/02/shocking-video-shows-vagrant-being-choked-to-death-on-nyc-subway/

Shocking video shows NYC subway passenger putting unhinged man in...nypost.com Troubling video footage captures the moment a 30-year-old is knocked out by a wannabe hero straphanger and held in a chokehold until he dies on the F train.

Chelsea 2022-2023 Thomas Tuchel - 1.67 ppg Graham Potter - 1.27 ppg Frank Lampard - 0.16 ppg Not for nothing, 1.67 ppg across 34 matches would put you on 57 points sitting fifth.

Taking it back to the 2019 Black List cover today.

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No. I’m trolling as long as possible until a critical mass of earnest journalists join that forces me to code switch 😂

You heard the man, we need someone famous to skeet something newsworthy so he can say “skeet” on air! @aoc.bsky.social We’re all counting on you!

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👋 We're changing up the What's Hot feed! We've decided to not show some types of content in the feed (e.g. sexually explicit images). This content is allowed on the app, but since What's Hot has become the landing point for all of our new users, we're updating this simple placeholder algorithm.

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Just a PSA: You can access this app in a browser at https://staging.bsky.app

As we go into the final day of negotiations before the contract expires, let’s all hope that the studios don’t force writers to strike in order to get some small piece of what they deserve for being the literal authors of the industry’s financial success.

Real ones know.

Wait, they’re really called skeets?

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Here are some more delightful friends to follow: * @docdre.bsky.social * @franklinleonard.bsky.social * @tvaziri.bsky.social * @quintabrunson.bsky.social * @molly.wiki

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I think ostracizing fascists is good, actually. They used to wear hoods for a reason

Might as well stay on brand and start with a football tourism post.

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New Graph Update! New Feature: DeepLinks! Users: 17k -> 20k Connections: 124k -> 166k Interactions: 230k -> 326k The supercluster is starting to divide on interest/identity boundaries. Shoutout to the 🏳️‍⚧️ cluster, I'd be there if not for this project. Check out @jay.bsky.team 's cluster bsky.jazco.dev

::taps mic:: This thing on?

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