John Gary
@johngary.bsky.social
journeyman screenwriter, WGAw
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John Gary
@johngary.bsky.social
· Jul 3
If your first date isn't a go-fast boat to Havana for mojitos, what's even the point.
comin for a visit
Landed in Burbank, California, United States. Apx. flt. time 47 min.
December 9, 2025 at 10:43 PM
comin for a visit
I really don’t understand why people have such a hard on for “natural immunity.” My guy, do you know how many people died from diseases when we relied on natural immunity??? It was a lot!
A study on 1.7 million people in Hong Kong shows superior hybrid immunity to Covid in people who got vaccinated before infection vs. people who got infected first. "Our findings are a direct rebuttal to arguments for natural immunity," the authors write. doi.org/10.1016/j.va...
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December 8, 2025 at 6:05 AM
I really don’t understand why people have such a hard on for “natural immunity.” My guy, do you know how many people died from diseases when we relied on natural immunity??? It was a lot!
The literal point of Aardman is the texture and feeling of filming real things?
Aardman Animations will ’embrace AI’ while also being ‘cautious’, says Nick Park
Aardman Animations will ’embrace AI’ while also being ‘cautious’, says Nick Park
Aardman Animations will ’embrace AI’ while also being ‘cautious’, says Nick Park
www.independent.co.uk
December 8, 2025 at 1:17 AM
The literal point of Aardman is the texture and feeling of filming real things?
Reposted by John Gary
This was just sent to me by an LAUSD parent. A 4th grader was assigned to design a book cover for Pippi Longstocking using Adobe for Education. Here is what the AI tool generated:
December 5, 2025 at 9:49 PM
This was just sent to me by an LAUSD parent. A 4th grader was assigned to design a book cover for Pippi Longstocking using Adobe for Education. Here is what the AI tool generated:
This is the first time I've ever felt like maybe he won't run in 2028.
Trump: "When you look at football in the US, soccer -- we seem to never call it that, because we have a little bit of a conflict with another thing that's called football. But when you think about it, shouldn't it really be called football? We have to come up with another name for the NFL stuff."
December 5, 2025 at 6:48 PM
This is the first time I've ever felt like maybe he won't run in 2028.
No jury would convict me, especially if my trial were in LA County
December 4, 2025 at 11:43 PM
No jury would convict me, especially if my trial were in LA County
how big a loss did the Department of Defense post last year
🚨SCOOP: Amazon is preparing to sever ties with USPS and expand its shipping network as a true coast-to-coast rival.
It could cost USPS more than *$6 billion* a year in lost revenue, and lead Amazon to dominate yet another facet of the economy.
USPS posted a *$9 billion* loss in 2025.
It could cost USPS more than *$6 billion* a year in lost revenue, and lead Amazon to dominate yet another facet of the economy.
USPS posted a *$9 billion* loss in 2025.
Amazon explores cutting ties with USPS, building its own delivery network
Amazon looks into expanding its nationwide delivery network and giving up its longstanding partnership with the U.S. Postal Service.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 4, 2025 at 8:08 PM
how big a loss did the Department of Defense post last year
🎶I don't wanna wait... for our lives to be over...🎶
🚨 BREAKING - New Star Trek: #StarfleetAcademy Poster!
The first season of the new #StarTrek live-action series premieres January 15th on Paramount+
🖖 Will YOU be watching?
The first season of the new #StarTrek live-action series premieres January 15th on Paramount+
🖖 Will YOU be watching?
December 4, 2025 at 5:55 PM
🎶I don't wanna wait... for our lives to be over...🎶
Putting a $10,000 hedge on “John Gary hung out with Epstein” right before I go on Pablo Torres Finds Out.
The co-founder of Kalshi says: " The long-term vision is to financialize everything and create a tradable asset out of any difference in opinion."
December 4, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Putting a $10,000 hedge on “John Gary hung out with Epstein” right before I go on Pablo Torres Finds Out.
Nah I think autocorrect/predict did most of the work here—which would make a lot of mysteries clear!
Honestly, the wildest thing abt Nuzzi’s book, to me, is that she wrote a whole book on her phone.
Between autocorrect errors and my own fat fingers, I used the delete key no fewer than 100 times for this 50-word post.
How do you write a BOOK under those conditions (guess you don’t?)?
Between autocorrect errors and my own fat fingers, I used the delete key no fewer than 100 times for this 50-word post.
How do you write a BOOK under those conditions (guess you don’t?)?
December 3, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Nah I think autocorrect/predict did most of the work here—which would make a lot of mysteries clear!
Thirty years later, we have gained zero jobs at the TV level and lost jobs at the feature level. The greatest act of love you can do for someone is to make them keep their day job.
FWIW, when I was a young writer 30 years ago, the NFL comparison was the standard one. Every writer used it. Just under 2k jobs, a little lower, a little higher, all the way to even the cable boom. It's why you could never recommend the career to someone you actually liked or cared for.
December 2, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Thirty years later, we have gained zero jobs at the TV level and lost jobs at the feature level. The greatest act of love you can do for someone is to make them keep their day job.
Reposted by John Gary
FWIW, when I was a young writer 30 years ago, the NFL comparison was the standard one. Every writer used it. Just under 2k jobs, a little lower, a little higher, all the way to even the cable boom. It's why you could never recommend the career to someone you actually liked or cared for.
December 2, 2025 at 9:18 PM
FWIW, when I was a young writer 30 years ago, the NFL comparison was the standard one. Every writer used it. Just under 2k jobs, a little lower, a little higher, all the way to even the cable boom. It's why you could never recommend the career to someone you actually liked or cared for.
It is pretty damning that the right are so bad at social media that Elon had to spend forty-four billion dollars in order to give them a place where they could talk to each other.
The real question is not "Why is Bluesky so left-coded," the real question is "Why can't the right exist in a social media environment without algorithmic assistance, where people can ignore them"
December 2, 2025 at 3:25 PM
It is pretty damning that the right are so bad at social media that Elon had to spend forty-four billion dollars in order to give them a place where they could talk to each other.
Happy to see @jimjarmuschhair.bsky.social on bsky!
December 2, 2025 at 5:21 AM
Happy to see @jimjarmuschhair.bsky.social on bsky!
Almost exactly one year ago, my son’s best friend died in an e-bike accident. It has left a hole in our community that we try to fill with memorial gardens, services, gatherings, plaques, pictures, reminiscences, dinners, scholarships… but it is deeper than all that. It is deeper than the world.
December 2, 2025 at 3:08 AM
Almost exactly one year ago, my son’s best friend died in an e-bike accident. It has left a hole in our community that we try to fill with memorial gardens, services, gatherings, plaques, pictures, reminiscences, dinners, scholarships… but it is deeper than all that. It is deeper than the world.
And that man was Nate Silver!
6 years ago today: A man in Wuhan, China starts feeling ill, becoming the first confirmed case of COVID-19
December 1, 2025 at 6:09 AM
And that man was Nate Silver!
“It’s the economy, stupid!” she shouts as the cruise missile breaks through the cloud cover overhead, the fins adjusting one last time to target the late-model Subraru in the Buc-ee’s parking lot where she’s zooming from.
Klobuchar: "If they don't want to do anything about people's costs and their grocery bills and their healthcare, and pummel them with these punishing Trump tariffs, then we will simply have to beat them in the midterms."
November 30, 2025 at 6:35 PM
“It’s the economy, stupid!” she shouts as the cruise missile breaks through the cloud cover overhead, the fins adjusting one last time to target the late-model Subraru in the Buc-ee’s parking lot where she’s zooming from.
Am I surprised to learn that Ryan Lizza does not understand the definition of "catch and kill" in the context of journalism? I am not.
November 27, 2025 at 2:48 AM
Am I surprised to learn that Ryan Lizza does not understand the definition of "catch and kill" in the context of journalism? I am not.
I am really hoping the 4k preserves the VistaVision ratio but not holding my breath.
after seeing One Battle After another three times in large formats—1x IMAX, 2x VistaVision—cropping those perfect squarish images seemed like sacrilege, and I thought I might never watch it again. Then I see one clip of Benicio del Toro on social and I’m like, maybeI’ll stream it tonight.
November 15, 2025 at 3:32 PM
I am really hoping the 4k preserves the VistaVision ratio but not holding my breath.
It is more complex than this. Capital’s goal is to diminish or eliminate worker power, because worker power costs them money. Workers are their biggest expense. Shutting down one profitable location doesn’t hurt at all if it stops all workers from gaining more power.
Mamdani's line that billionaires spent more to oppose his candidacy than he proposed to tax them really says it all.
Like a company that shuts down a profitable location as soon as it unionizes. The principle of maintaining control is more important.
Like a company that shuts down a profitable location as soon as it unionizes. The principle of maintaining control is more important.
November 8, 2025 at 5:39 PM
It is more complex than this. Capital’s goal is to diminish or eliminate worker power, because worker power costs them money. Workers are their biggest expense. Shutting down one profitable location doesn’t hurt at all if it stops all workers from gaining more power.
are we six days away from invading poland
November 7, 2025 at 8:30 PM
are we six days away from invading poland
yes but see if the computer can measure the size of your forehead and the distance between your eyes and the also length of your earlobes, it can accurately determine just how racist we all are
bro are you fucking kidding me
November 6, 2025 at 7:28 PM
yes but see if the computer can measure the size of your forehead and the distance between your eyes and the also length of your earlobes, it can accurately determine just how racist we all are
Part of the point of the movie is the higher up you get in the chain of command, the less smart and serious the people become, culminating in a president who is competent as a person but 100% out of his depth as he makes a decision whether or not to immolate the planet.
Watching nuclear war drama A House of Dynamite, and by far the most jarring aspect is that the US executive staff are portrayed as competent, sober adults.
October 26, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Part of the point of the movie is the higher up you get in the chain of command, the less smart and serious the people become, culminating in a president who is competent as a person but 100% out of his depth as he makes a decision whether or not to immolate the planet.
One of my core theories is that some sectors of the economy became so overheated and made some people so much money that everyone with an MBA now believes that every business should achieve similar returns.
Microsoft has Xbox chasing 30% profits, leading to consoles and subscription price increases, thousands of layoffs, canceled games, and closed studios. Will this setup lead to Xbox's inevitable demise?
youtu.be/zsA0tCtAhXo
youtu.be/zsA0tCtAhXo
Microsoft is Chasing 30% Profits from Games, Will This Ruin Xbox?
YouTube video by Game Sandwich
youtu.be
October 23, 2025 at 4:56 PM
One of my core theories is that some sectors of the economy became so overheated and made some people so much money that everyone with an MBA now believes that every business should achieve similar returns.
I don't understand why you need to connect to the internet to make things hot or cold.
The AWS outage bricked people's $2,700 smartbeds, leaving them in a reclining position or with the heat up. People were unable to use them, basically. A GitHub repo exists that lets people operate their beds without reliance on the normal infrastructure
www.404media.co/the-aws-outa...
www.404media.co/the-aws-outa...
The AWS Outage Bricked People’s $2,700 Smartbeds
When Amazon Web Services went offline, people lost control of their cloud-connected smart beds, getting stuck in reclined positions or roasting with the heat turned all the way up.
www.404media.co
October 22, 2025 at 7:15 PM
I don't understand why you need to connect to the internet to make things hot or cold.