Andrea Mann
@andreamann.bsky.social
British screenwriter, occasional musician, landlocked yacht rock-lover. She/her. www.andreamann.com
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Andrea Mann
@andreamann.bsky.social
· Oct 17
*waves in Bluesky* Hello folks! I'm Andrea. I'm a screenwriter, I love cats AND dogs, and I've got several films currently in the works, including this one:
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This is Clio. She did not study for the test today. Also does not know how to read. 12/10 (IG: paspastotoro)
October 8, 2025 at 4:45 PM
This is Clio. She did not study for the test today. Also does not know how to read. 12/10 (IG: paspastotoro)
Some great advice here (as always) from Carole 👇 #scriptsky
This year’s “Thanksgiving” post isn’t for the grateful writers — it’s for the ones feeling stuck, bitter, and anything *but* thankful. If that’s you, here are a few tips for surviving family dinners, the industry slowdown, and the pressure to fake positivity.
The Gratitude Hangover — Carole Kirschner
Every Thanksgiving my family and I get invited to what can only be described as a spectacular Thanksgiving extravaganza. It’s hosted by one of my best friends and is less dinner party and more...
www.carolekirschner.com
November 25, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Some great advice here (as always) from Carole 👇 #scriptsky
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Here are my top 10 dogs carrying big sticks!
November 25, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Here are my top 10 dogs carrying big sticks!
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Once again, with feeling:
AI IS NOT FUCKING INEVITABLE
AI IS NOT FUCKING INEVITABLE
AI will reshape publishing jobs, from editorial and production to marketing, sales and operations. The question is not whether this happens, but who shapes these changes, says Bec Evans 👇 #BookSky
Knowledge is power
ebx.sh
November 25, 2025 at 11:07 AM
Once again, with feeling:
AI IS NOT FUCKING INEVITABLE
AI IS NOT FUCKING INEVITABLE
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In a comedy writers room you have to know SO MUCH about what white men ages 36-65 think is PEAK COMEDY that I’m not surprised by this list at all. You must understand the Spaceballs references, you must pretend you are not afraid when you’re shown Sam Kinison’s angry shark eyes.
The movie listed at #1 is so incredibly misplaced that it calls into question the veracity of the entire list. It belongs on the list, yes, but SO MUCH further down. An absolute, credibility-wrecking flub. Boo, @variety.com! Boo!
variety.com/lists/best-c...
variety.com/lists/best-c...
The 100 Best Comedy Movies of All Time
Variety's list of the 100 best comedy movies of all time includes 'Annie Hall,' 'Pretty Woman,' 'Waiting for Guffman' and 'Young Frankenstein.'
variety.com
November 25, 2025 at 7:31 AM
In a comedy writers room you have to know SO MUCH about what white men ages 36-65 think is PEAK COMEDY that I’m not surprised by this list at all. You must understand the Spaceballs references, you must pretend you are not afraid when you’re shown Sam Kinison’s angry shark eyes.
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Share a ‘90s movie you think deserves more love
November 25, 2025 at 7:50 AM
Share a ‘90s movie you think deserves more love
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Again, I get it. WRITING is in fact the key to success as a writer. PLEASE continue to writer your specs! Write everything you can when you can. But remember if you're a budding writing right now, a lost lower level, current or pre WGA these are unprecedented times. YOU aren't the problem.
November 24, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Again, I get it. WRITING is in fact the key to success as a writer. PLEASE continue to writer your specs! Write everything you can when you can. But remember if you're a budding writing right now, a lost lower level, current or pre WGA these are unprecedented times. YOU aren't the problem.
Do a vulgar roast… use forbidden words
November 24, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Do a vulgar roast… use forbidden words
Heartwarming: The worst people you know are fighting
PUNCHBOWL: “.. GOP members messaged us over the weekend saying that they, too, are considering retiring in the middle of the term. Here’s one particularly exercised senior House Republican:
@punchbowlnews.bsky.social
@punchbowlnews.bsky.social
November 24, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Heartwarming: The worst people you know are fighting
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He's like a splendid cautionary Greek myth; the wealthiest man ever but all he really wants is to be funny, and yet he's been cursed with an singularly abject wit dearth.
Everything about this might be the saddest thing I’ve ever seen
November 24, 2025 at 4:18 PM
He's like a splendid cautionary Greek myth; the wealthiest man ever but all he really wants is to be funny, and yet he's been cursed with an singularly abject wit dearth.
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This is something that @andrewhickey.500songs.com sometimes talks about that I absolutely freaking love. "Please Please Me" began as Lennon's attempt to write a Roy Orbison song, and if you slow it way down and sing it to yourself you can still absolutely hear it.
They teach people to write songs this way!
Lake Street Dive’s “You Go Down Smooth” started as a college class exercise in rewriting “Got to Get You Into My Life.”
The two songs aren’t the same, but are built from the same parts, like those Lego sets w/ alternate instructions.
Lake Street Dive’s “You Go Down Smooth” started as a college class exercise in rewriting “Got to Get You Into My Life.”
The two songs aren’t the same, but are built from the same parts, like those Lego sets w/ alternate instructions.
November 24, 2025 at 3:29 PM
This is something that @andrewhickey.500songs.com sometimes talks about that I absolutely freaking love. "Please Please Me" began as Lennon's attempt to write a Roy Orbison song, and if you slow it way down and sing it to yourself you can still absolutely hear it.
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respect truth in advertising
January 26, 2025 at 2:11 AM
respect truth in advertising
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Columbo in his first episode looks like a dog that's just come back from the groomer
October 14, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Columbo in his first episode looks like a dog that's just come back from the groomer
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Fond 90s Pub Memories: A bloke with a bumfluff moustache cockily putting "STUD" as his name on the pool blackboard, and a girl walking up after him and adding "ENT" on the end.
November 24, 2025 at 7:41 AM
Fond 90s Pub Memories: A bloke with a bumfluff moustache cockily putting "STUD" as his name on the pool blackboard, and a girl walking up after him and adding "ENT" on the end.
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“we need to be nicer to men” bro they didn’t let women have their own credit cards til 50 years ago
November 23, 2025 at 10:39 PM
“we need to be nicer to men” bro they didn’t let women have their own credit cards til 50 years ago
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I don't understand how anyone can watch how blatantly Grok is manipulated to answer the way ownership desires it to and then act like the other LLM chatbots couldn't possibly be similarly but less obviously compromised to produce responses in whatever way corporate interests and priorities dictate.
November 23, 2025 at 7:13 PM
I don't understand how anyone can watch how blatantly Grok is manipulated to answer the way ownership desires it to and then act like the other LLM chatbots couldn't possibly be similarly but less obviously compromised to produce responses in whatever way corporate interests and priorities dictate.
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Meta halted internal research that purportedly showed (young) people who stopped using Facebook became less depressed and anxious, according to an unredacted legal filing released on Friday. www.cnbc.com/2025/11/23/m...
Meta halted internal research suggesting social media harm, court filing alleges
Meta is alleged to have halted internal research suggesting social media harm, according to court documents.
www.cnbc.com
November 24, 2025 at 12:31 AM
Meta halted internal research that purportedly showed (young) people who stopped using Facebook became less depressed and anxious, according to an unredacted legal filing released on Friday. www.cnbc.com/2025/11/23/m...
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Tomorrow is a month away from Xmas Eve. Please have a look to see if you have any children's clothes, books, toys, etc that are no longer needed & donate them to your local charity shop ASAP. The demand for these items is now, not after Xmas. People are skint but still want to make Xmas special. ❤️
November 23, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Tomorrow is a month away from Xmas Eve. Please have a look to see if you have any children's clothes, books, toys, etc that are no longer needed & donate them to your local charity shop ASAP. The demand for these items is now, not after Xmas. People are skint but still want to make Xmas special. ❤️
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“THE NON-ARTIST FIXATION ON HYPERREALISM AS THE PINNACLE OF ART IS CLEARLY PART OF THE REASON SO MANY ADULTS THINK THEY CANNOT DRAW OR CONSIDER THEMSELVES TO BE FAILURES, KAWAII, FOLK ART, DOODLES, OR OTHER EASIER ENTRY POINTS ARE CONSIDERED CHILDISH, WHICH IS WHY JAPANESE DRAWING BOOKS ARE BETTER…”
November 21, 2025 at 9:24 PM
“THE NON-ARTIST FIXATION ON HYPERREALISM AS THE PINNACLE OF ART IS CLEARLY PART OF THE REASON SO MANY ADULTS THINK THEY CANNOT DRAW OR CONSIDER THEMSELVES TO BE FAILURES, KAWAII, FOLK ART, DOODLES, OR OTHER EASIER ENTRY POINTS ARE CONSIDERED CHILDISH, WHICH IS WHY JAPANESE DRAWING BOOKS ARE BETTER…”
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Not only is the Govt analysis plain wrong - hardly analysis, in fact - but the straw man opponent of "would like to just wish it away" is positively insulting. No-one is wishing away the emboldened racism, we want it properly addressed, and not like this (Mahmood & Co could get off X for a start)
November 21, 2025 at 9:33 AM
Not only is the Govt analysis plain wrong - hardly analysis, in fact - but the straw man opponent of "would like to just wish it away" is positively insulting. No-one is wishing away the emboldened racism, we want it properly addressed, and not like this (Mahmood & Co could get off X for a start)
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What many politicians don't realise - or want to understand - is that many of the "highly-skilled" immigrants whose labour they crave were raised by the same asylum seekers and refugees they openly despise. They take the racist political rhetoric personally, and act accordingly. Why wouldn't they?
"Record numbers of overseas-trained doctors are quitting the UK, leaving the NHS at risk of huge gaps in its workforce, with hostility towards migrants blamed for the exodus...the NHS is so heavily reliant on doctors from elsewhere – 42% of its entire medical workforce qualified overseas."
All those people, including current government, who falsely claim migrants are to blame for failings with the NHS, along with infrastructure in general, are in for one hell of a shock with how much worse things will get with Labour's anti-immigration policies.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
November 21, 2025 at 10:04 AM
What many politicians don't realise - or want to understand - is that many of the "highly-skilled" immigrants whose labour they crave were raised by the same asylum seekers and refugees they openly despise. They take the racist political rhetoric personally, and act accordingly. Why wouldn't they?
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psst, no one is struggling with this - we are trying to create singular things that resonate with a huge audience or resonate hugely with a specific audience. We "struggle" with how tech and VC funding has broken almost every creative economy we have. So thanks but no thanks
November 19, 2025 at 11:54 PM
psst, no one is struggling with this - we are trying to create singular things that resonate with a huge audience or resonate hugely with a specific audience. We "struggle" with how tech and VC funding has broken almost every creative economy we have. So thanks but no thanks
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