Ashleigh Powell

screenwriter. climate feminist. pie enthusiast.

[Ashleigh Powell @SecretEnemyAsh]

https://t.co/ybeMiaydLK

[James @ScriptsByJames]

HOLY SHIT. Look at the second row. This is SAG-AFTRA’s proposal vs what the studios countered with.

“New Media Revenue Sharing.”

“Rejected.” No counter. Nothing.

Studios just told actors “fuck you.”

They really don’t give a shit about any of us. And what’s why we’re striking.

[James @ScriptsByJames]

Thread to the whole thing if you wanna read.

Dawg… DAWG. I’ve never seen some disrespect like this.

[Julie Bush @julie_bush]

this writer gets it. incredible article https://t.co/AD7Y6tXSiq

[Ryan Kennedy @TheRyanK]

Writers strike, Russian Coup
Putin and Prigozhin too
DGA takes a vote
Actors try to stay afloat
Crappy sub, bolt on door
Jim Cameron knows the ocean floor!
We didn’t start the fire --

[Amy Thurlow @athurlow]

🧵🧵🧵Time. Here’s why the WGA Strike has a lot to do with IATSE. We have seen already how negotiations and labor as a whole is inter connected. The AMPTP’s strategy here is multi-pronged.

[David Guggenheim @DBGuggenheim]

With a new Indiana Jones among us, a friendly reminder that Spielberg made Raiders cause he wasn’t allowed to tackle an IP (007). Message: produce original stories cause otherwise all we’re gonna get are remakes, reboots and rehashes.

[Climate Dad @ClimateDad77]

Everyone I know is working & saving for a future that science is pretty clearly showing will never exist.

[Lauren Wilford @lauren_wilford]

my main relationship/marriage advice is to engineer a life where the two of you have leisurely conversations regularly. Like, 5-10 hours a week of good conversation. This is how you make sure you’re changing in tandem rather than growing apart

[CALL TO ACTIVISM @CalltoActivism]

This is crazy.

“For 13 thousand dollars, Englishman Brendon Grimshaw bought a tiny uninhabited island in the Seychelles and moved there forever. When Grimshaw was under forty, he quit his job as a newspaper editor and started a new life.

By this time, no human had set foot on the island for 50 years. As befits a real Robinson, Brendon found himself a companion from among the natives. His name was René Lafortin. Together with Rene, Brendon began to equip his new home. While René came to the island only occasionally, Brendon lived on it for decades by himself, never leaving.

For 39 years, Grimshaw and Lafortin planted 16 thousand trees with their own hands and built almost 5 kilometers of paths. In 2007, Rene Lafortin died, and Brendon was left all alone on the island.

He was 81 years old. He attracted 2,000 new bird species to the island and introduced more than a hundred giant tortoises, which in the rest of the world (including the Seychelles) were already on the verge of extinction. Thanks to Grimshaw's efforts, the once deserted island now hosts two-thirds of the Seychelles' fauna. An abandoned piece of land has turned into a real paradise.

A few years ago, the prince of Saudi Arabia offered Brendon Grimshaw $50 million for the island, but he refused. “I don’t want the island to become a favorite vacation spot for the rich. Better let it be a national park that everyone can enjoy.”

And he achieved just that. In 2008 the island was indeed declared a national park.”

[one dozen bats at a keyboard @PanasonicDX4500]

“You can use the N95 mask you bought for the pandemic to filter out the wildfire smoke engulfing the entire Northeast” is a neat little sentence that lets you know we’re in the fun part of the century that future historians are going to talk about a lot.

[Carol Lombardini @ItsMeCarolAMPTP]

the WGA recently put out a letter claiming my strategy is to divide the unions by settling with the DGA to force a bad deal on the writers. I want to be very clear: the AMPTP hates ALL artists and unions equally, the DGA has just historically been willing to do what we tell them

[Brian Krassenstein @krassenstein]

As a parent of young children I’ve never lost sleep over:

- The possibility that my kid could read an inappropriate book in the school library.

- Schools teaching my kid to be gay.

- Target selling rainbow / pride clothes to my kids

I have, however, lost many nights of sleep over the possibility of a mass shooting at a school.

Am I crazy or are the culture wars just baloney to try and create wedge issues for politicians who have no real ideas?

[IATSE // #IASolidarity @IATSE]

BREAKING 🔔 SAG-AFTRA, Teamsters, IATSE, Writers Guild Issue Joint Statement in Solidarity with Directors Guild of America (DGA) 🎬

https://t.co/GQBXkVpCer