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Lauri Donahue

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Screenwriter Entertainment/tech/IP attorney Former Sr. Counsel, Motion Picture Association Occasional journalist History nerd Lauri's List of screenwriting fellowships, labs, etc.: https://tinyurl.com/spmfzxfh Website/blog: https://lauridonahue.com

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Lauri Donahue @lauridonahue.bsky.social · Dec 31

Here's my calendar of 160+ of the most worthwhile screenwriting fellowships, labs, grants, contests, and other opportunities, updated for 2025.

33 are new to the list this year.

96 are FREE.

lauridonahue.com/resources/a-...

#screenwriting #scriptsky

Home page for lauridonahue.com. Award-winning scripts and writing services.

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Lauri Donahue @lauridonahue.bsky.social · 1h

Turns out his real name is Vangelis…

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Techmeme @techmeme.com · 6h

The Japanese government says it formally requested that OpenAI refrain from infringing on Japanese IPs, such as anime, calling them "irreplaceable treasures" (Verity Townsend/IGN)

Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

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Lauri Donahue @lauridonahue.bsky.social · 7h

Looking forward to the local tourist attractions in Skiathos…

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#scriptsky #screenwriting

SO much AI-fanboy bullshit here, but this much is true:

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Lauri Donahue @lauridonahue.bsky.social · 8h

Good morning from Skiathos!

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What’s the Hold Up Pod Dan @jacketdan.bsky.social · 1d

He did it again for the 5 year anniversary

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Lauri Donahue @lauridonahue.bsky.social · 8h

You could add it to carrot soup. Or make a mimosa.

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Ezra Levin ❌👑 @ezralevin.bsky.social · 22h

WE HAVE FRIENDS EVERYWHERE! nokings.org

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Cinephilia & Beyond @cinephiliabeyond.org · 19h

Movie poster legend Drew Struzan has passed away at 78. RIP.

www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...

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TechEquity @techequity.bsky.social · 21h

If they found out that the AI used incorrect data, 91% of participants said they’d want the opportunity to make corrections. So will companies and policymakers take note?

Learn more about how Americans feel about AI: techequity.us/2025/10/07/h...

How people really feel about AI—from sea to shining sea - TechEquity Collaborative

Americans are deeply concerned about the lack of guardrails on AI and they want government to do something about it.

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TechEquity @techequity.bsky.social · 21h

Americans want to know when AI is being used on them.

In a survey from @consumerreports.org over 80% of Americans said that they’d want to know how an AI program or algorithm was used to determine whether or not they would be interviewed for a job they had applied for.

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Laurel Gale @laurelgale.bsky.social · 22h

Yesterday, I posted a photo of a great blue heron with some ducks. In this photo, there's absolutely nothing to distract from the heron.

#birds #nature #wildlife

A photo of a great blue heron standing in still, shallow water. The heron is facing left and casting a reflection in the water.

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Thanh Neville, MD, MSHS @thanhneville.medsky.social · 1d

kinda amazing

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Lauri Donahue @lauridonahue.bsky.social · 22h

Yes! I hadn’t seen that before.

Lauri Donahue @lauridonahue.bsky.social · 22h

What an awful story!

Has there ever been a worse cinema disaster?

Myrina, Limnos, Greece

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Lauri Donahue @lauridonahue.bsky.social · 22h

Myrina, Limnos, Greece

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Lauri Donahue @lauridonahue.bsky.social · 22h

Good company name…

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Open Culture @openculture.bsky.social · 1d

Lynda Barry on How the Smartphone Is Endangering Three Ingredients of Creativity: Loneliness, Uncertainty & Boredom

The phone gives us a lot but it takes away three key elements of discovery: loneliness, uncertainty and boredom.

www.openculture.com

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Techmeme @techmeme.com · 1d

A new study of 6,554 children aged 9 to 10 found that social media users scored lower on reading, vocabulary, and memory tests two years later than non-users (Rhitu Chatterjee/NPR)

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The Authors Guild @authorsguild.org · 1d

🚩🚩🚩 It sounds like the plot of a thriller, but clever scams targeting writers are on the rise. We’re here to explain how it’s happening—and how you can stay safe.

We’re also taking questions, which you can submit by preregistering for the event here: authorsguild.org/event/helpin...

Helping Authors Detect Cyber Scams - The Authors Guild

Scams targeting authors have exploded as criminals and disreputable companies seek to exploit the emotions and aspirations of writers. With AI capabilities making the scams smarter and more personaliz...

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NPR @npr.org · 1d

Data from a large, ongoing study of adolescents shows a link between increasing social media use and lower cognition and memory in teens. n.pr/42BJyMB

Kids who use social media score lower on reading and memory tests, a study shows

Data from a large, ongoing study of adolescents shows a link between increasing social media use and lower cognition and memory in teens.

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George Gantsoudes @pedsortho.bsky.social · 2d

Please remember that the disgust people have over Christopher Columbus is not based on some modern, 21st century “woke” ideology, but rather on contemporaneous accounts of atrocities that make many modern genocides appear quaint in comparison.

Below, are the accounts of Bartlomé de las Casas.

But too many of the slaves died in captivity. And so Columbus, desperate to pay back dividends to those who had in-vested, had to make good his promise to fill the ships with gold. In the province of Cicao on Haiti, where he and his men imagined huge gold fields to exist, they ordered all persons fourteen years or older to collect a certain quantity of gold every three months. When they brought it, they were given copper tokens to hang around their necks. Indians found without a copper token had their hands cut off and bled to death.
The Indians had been given an impossible task. The only gold around was bits of dust garnered from the streams. So they fled, were hunted down with dogs, and were killed.

After each six or eight months' work in the mines, which was the time required of each crew to dig enough gold for melting, up to a third of the men died.
While the men were sent many miles away to the mines, the wives remained to work the soil, forced into the excruciating job of digging and making thousands of hills for cassava plants.
Thus husbands and wives were together only once every eight or ten months and when they met they were so exhausted and depressed on both sides... they ceased to pro-create. As for the newly born, they died early because their mothers, overworked and fam-ished, had no milk to nurse them, and for this reason, while I was in Cuba, 7000 children died in three months. Some mothers even drowned their babies from sheer desper-ation.... In this way, husbands died in the mines, wives died at work, and children died from lack of milk ... and in a short time this land which was so great, so powerful and fer-tile... was depopulated... My eyes have seen these acts so foreign to human nature, and now I tremble as I write....

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Lauri Donahue @lauridonahue.bsky.social · 1d

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Pergamon

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Asclepieion of Pergamon