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Film/TV Director: FROM (MGM+), TWO SENTENCE HORROR STORIES (The CW), MURDOCH MYSTERIES (CBC), BLOOD & WATER (OMNI). Appreciator of comics (both kinds). Based in Los Angeles/Toronto. jenniferliao.com

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Jenn Liao's New Nightmare @averagejenn.bsky.social · Nov 13

I'm a film & TV director, notably on episodes of FROM (MGM+) and TWO SENTENCE HORROR STORIES (The CW). I have 12 TV episodes and 4 feature-length projects under my belt and I really hope that isn't the end of it, so if you know of shows hiring, please let them know I welcome their consideration!

A Black man in a brown t-shirt standing on a rural road pointing a gun, a horrified look on his face, from the TV show FROM.

A bald middle-aged man and an elderly woman with a shock of white hair, both wearing suits, lean in to stare malevolently at a biracial woman in her 30s with curly hair, from the feature film END OF DAYS, INC.

Two ballet dancers, a young man and a young woman, mid-routine in elegant costumes, as a crowd looks on and string musicians play behind them, in the early 1900s, from the TV show MURDOCH MYSTERIES.

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Jenn Liao's New Nightmare @averagejenn.bsky.social · 19h

My god, he was so young.

Jenn Liao's New Nightmare @averagejenn.bsky.social · 1d

This is the very first I'm hearing of his show, and what a nice surprise to see Jenn Lyon leading a series... Loved her on CLAWS.

Bleeding Cool @bleedingcool.com · 1d

Check out the official trailer for NBC and Jeff Astrof & Liz Astrof's cheerleading mockumentary series Stumble, starring Jenn Lyon and premiering on Nov. 7th. / #Stumble #StumbleNBC #cheerleading

Here's the trailer for NBC and Jeff Astrof & Liz Astrof's cheerleading mockumentary Stumble, starring Jenn Lyon and premiering on Nov. 7th.

dlvr.it

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feminist next door @emrazz.bsky.social · 2d

Here’s what every woman knows and what many American women are compartmentalizing:

Men will do 10% of whatever they want to do to you in front of others. This is why the cardinal rule is to never be caught alone.

Now apply this to what you’ve seen ICE do to women while you’re watching.

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David Sirota @davidsirota.com · 1d

This is some of the best political news I've seen in a very long time.

There's a clear a way to end the Citizens United precedent by changing state incorporation laws - and now luminaries in both parties are forcing a vote on it in the 2026 election.

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Kurt Busiek @kurtbusiek.bsky.social · 1d

Books should not be categorized by genre but by style. Or maybe both.

When I find a writer I like, I want to be able to find more books that read like that, not more books with the same kind of settings and subjects.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 2d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 1d

Four decades wrongfully incarcerated isn’t punishment enough for these sadistic fucks.

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Burglary, carrying a firearm without a license, drug trafficking—break the law, you will face the consequences.

Having a single conviction vacated when you have a laundry list of criminal charges will not stop ICE’s enforcement of the federal immigration laws.

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April Wolfe @aprilwolfe.bsky.social · 1d

Short story collections should be way more popular and marketed better for the short-attention present.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 2d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Jenn Liao's New Nightmare @averagejenn.bsky.social · 1d

I won't elaborate on what I hope becomes of Sam Altman, but I do believe if we band together and work hard enough, we can make HIS job the one that becomes obsolete.

Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 2d

don't worry, Sam Altman is confident that his efforts to eliminate vast numbers of jobs will all just sort of work out for the unemployed, eventually, possibly after they starve to death, which is technically a form of having it work out

futurism.com/artificial-i...

Sam Altman Says If Jobs Gets Wiped Out, Maybe They Weren't Even "Real Work" to Start With

Worried that AI will destroy work? Well, Sam Altman asks if you've considered what a farmer from half a century ago thinks of your job, first.

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Jenn Liao's New Nightmare @averagejenn.bsky.social · 1d

This administration issued a directive earlier this year since I presume they knew the original law was not widely followed and rarely enforced:
www.visaverge.com/greencard/gr...

Green card holders must carry ID under new US directive

A new U.S. rule, in effect since April 11, 2025, requires all green card holders to always carry their original Permanent Resident Card. Strict enforcement under President Trump’s directive means fail...

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Jenn Liao's New Nightmare @averagejenn.bsky.social · 1d

I remember this letter now and I've had my wallet lost/stolen twice in the years I was a green card holder, so I'm glad I instead made the decision to keep my card in a safe place instead. Nowadays, I'd choose to carry it with me and have been considering carrying my passport with me out of caution.

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Jenn Liao's New Nightmare @averagejenn.bsky.social · 1d

You caught me, I haven't looked at the paperwork that came with my green card since I got here.

I'd ask, then, how people of colour stopped by ICE can prove they're citizens, but considering they've indiscriminately been detaining citizens too. I guess I know the answer.

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Jenn Liao's New Nightmare @averagejenn.bsky.social · 1d

(Though I imagine nowadays it's the very first piece of advice they give.)

Jenn Liao's New Nightmare @averagejenn.bsky.social · 1d

That is not advice anyone I know with a green card (including myself), largely Canadians, was given by anyone. I am surprised to discover it's some kind of antiquated law they can take advantage of. Do you now carry your passport with you?

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Lauren Shippen @laurenshippen.com · 1d

there are a lot of things in TWO THOUSAND AND LATE that are directly inspired by my life. this episode probably has the biggest one: Awesome Chicken

jk, it's this huge rant that Harper gives about how we've learned all the wrong lessons from the last 5 years + it's totally screwed up our priorities

A screenshot from a script to Two Thousand and Late:
HARPER: I blame a lot of different people for a lot of ways that things have been totally and irretrievably fucked up these last few years, but I don't blame anyone for that. If anything...I don't know, Mac, it feels like that's the last time that human beings were collectively giving a shit. We were all so scared and more separate than we'd ever been but we knew- we knew that everyone was trying their best to help those who were sick, to figure out a vaccine, all of it. (then) And we were scared together. We mourned together. We celebrated the people who were putting their lives on the line to try and help people like Chuck, even when they knew it was hopeless. Hell, even our fucking government coughed up some of that money they've been spending on bombs and corporate bail-outs and fucking trillion dollar jets and they actually gave it to people who were struggling and then- then-
MAC: It all went to shit.
HARPER: It all went to shit! Everyone lost their goddamn minds and decided that actually, it wasn't really that bad in the first place and we all over-reacted and that the real problem was too little AI clogging up our life and too much civil liberty for people who have never bothered anybody!

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Jenn Liao's New Nightmare @averagejenn.bsky.social · 2d

You'll have to report back!

Jenn Liao's New Nightmare @averagejenn.bsky.social · 2d

As a lifelong Goreyhead, I must snag one of those!

Jenn Liao's New Nightmare @averagejenn.bsky.social · 2d

In Harris Dickinson's Reddit AMA, he names Lynne Ramsay, Andrea Arnold, & Joanna Hogg as three of his biggest filmmaking influences multiple times, Halina Reijn as another, and recommends VAGABOND (Agnes Varda), ROCKS (Sarah Gavron), ALI & AVA (Clio Barnard). I regret to inform you he might be cool.

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Ahmed Raafat @theahmedraafat.bsky.social · 2d

The “Sunday Strips” from Who Are The Power Pals #2 was so much fun to do, would do a whole issue in that format!

TPB comes out end of this month, if you’ve missed the single issues now is your chance!

W: @duanemurray.bsky.social
A: me!
L: @robjoneswrites.bsky.social
From @darkhorse.com!

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Jenn Liao's New Nightmare @averagejenn.bsky.social · 2d

A beauty!

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Jenn Liao's New Nightmare @averagejenn.bsky.social · 2d

Hopefully I can get to one this year! I'm not nearly as prolific a reader as you are, but I haven't been doing too badly on my goal for the year.

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Jenn Liao's New Nightmare @averagejenn.bsky.social · 2d

Great, thank you! They're going on the list.

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Jenn Liao's New Nightmare @averagejenn.bsky.social · 2d

Wow! Is there a good entry point to her work you'd recommend?

Jenn Liao's New Nightmare @averagejenn.bsky.social · 3d

Please let us know if you hear back!

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Ify Nwadiwe @ifycomedy.com · 3d

I think we really should stop using antifa and just fully say anti-fascist and get them saying they are against anti fascism. Using antifa is giving them some distance and I genuinely think some of their base don’t even know that’s what it stands for.

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Andrew Perfors @perfors.net · 4d

Heartbreaking reading, but this Reddit thread gives a sense of the relentlessness of the horror inflicted by ICE, and the damage being done to so many innocent people that doesn't make the news.

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