Ricky Manning
@froonium.bsky.social
TV (mostly sci-fi) writer/producer (Farscape, ST:TNG, &c.); consultant; instructor @ UCLA Extension & ifs filmschule köln. WGA+WGC. He/his. Avatar by Arne Ratermanis.
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Ricky Manning
@froonium.bsky.social
· Sep 13
At long last, video! Here's Foxy, my ratchety old (19 and a half!) cat asking for and receiving a cheek rub.
We're done; this one wins.
“First you get down on your knees,
Fiddle with your rosaries,
Bow your head with great respect and,
Genuflect genuflect genuflect…”
Fiddle with your rosaries,
Bow your head with great respect and,
Genuflect genuflect genuflect…”
I don't care if it rains or freezes
Long as I got my plastic Jesus
Sitting on the dash board of my car
Long as I got my plastic Jesus
Sitting on the dash board of my car
November 23, 2025 at 6:24 AM
We're done; this one wins.
I'll tip my hat to the new constitution
Take a bow for the new revolution
Smile and grin at the change all around
Pick up my guitar and play
Just like yesterday
Then I'll get on my knees and pray
We don't get fooled again
Take a bow for the new revolution
Smile and grin at the change all around
Pick up my guitar and play
Just like yesterday
Then I'll get on my knees and pray
We don't get fooled again
November 23, 2025 at 3:50 AM
I'll tip my hat to the new constitution
Take a bow for the new revolution
Smile and grin at the change all around
Pick up my guitar and play
Just like yesterday
Then I'll get on my knees and pray
We don't get fooled again
Take a bow for the new revolution
Smile and grin at the change all around
Pick up my guitar and play
Just like yesterday
Then I'll get on my knees and pray
We don't get fooled again
I didn't realize the new season of Daredevil had dropped today.
November 21, 2025 at 11:02 PM
I didn't realize the new season of Daredevil had dropped today.
Murderbought! Foxy, age 20-2/3 but still serving as Media Inspector here at Casa Froon, approves two arrivals from the most excellent, great service, humanitarian-cause-supporting worldbuildersmarket.com : a @marthawells.com (with signed bookplate) and a @nnedi.bsky.social (limited edition deluxe)!
November 20, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Murderbought! Foxy, age 20-2/3 but still serving as Media Inspector here at Casa Froon, approves two arrivals from the most excellent, great service, humanitarian-cause-supporting worldbuildersmarket.com : a @marthawells.com (with signed bookplate) and a @nnedi.bsky.social (limited edition deluxe)!
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Periodic PSA, the only currently licensed Murderbot merch is at Worldbuilders Market, where it's sold as part of a charity fundraiser. You may want to sign up for their new product notices because they should have a new Murderbot thing coming up: worldbuildersmarket.com/collections/...
Martha Wells
Worldbuilders Market is the official online shop of Worldbuilders, a geek-centered nonprofit supporting humanitarian efforts worldwide. We carry a wide variety of officially licensed merchandise from ...
worldbuildersmarket.com
November 20, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Periodic PSA, the only currently licensed Murderbot merch is at Worldbuilders Market, where it's sold as part of a charity fundraiser. You may want to sign up for their new product notices because they should have a new Murderbot thing coming up: worldbuildersmarket.com/collections/...
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🎵 Schools out for Summers 🎵
November 20, 2025 at 1:06 AM
🎵 Schools out for Summers 🎵
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Tiny trees, big inspiration! 🌳✨
The Kofu Kai Annual Bonsai Display returns to Bowers Museum November 14–16, filling John M. Lee Court with living works of art.
The Kofu Kai Annual Bonsai Display returns to Bowers Museum November 14–16, filling John M. Lee Court with living works of art.
November 14, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Tiny trees, big inspiration! 🌳✨
The Kofu Kai Annual Bonsai Display returns to Bowers Museum November 14–16, filling John M. Lee Court with living works of art.
The Kofu Kai Annual Bonsai Display returns to Bowers Museum November 14–16, filling John M. Lee Court with living works of art.
Post a bird to support @sbworkersunited.org and warn your followers not to buy Starbucks for the duration of the strike.
November 14, 2025 at 7:16 AM
Post a bird to support @sbworkersunited.org and warn your followers not to buy Starbucks for the duration of the strike.
#Bonsai at the Bowers! Orange County folk (and LA folk willing to schlep down to Santa Ana in the rain): Kofu Kai's annual show is this Friday, Saturday, and Sunday at the Bowers Museum. FREE! Cheryl's got two trees on display: a quince and a cascading jade. www.bowers.org/index.php/pr...
Kofu Kai Annual Bonsai Display 2025
FRIDAY THROUGH SUNDAY | NOVEMBER 14 - 16 10 AM – 4 PM | JOHN M. LEE COURT | BONSAI DISPLAY Did you know that bonsai trees are not typically ancient, don't have to be expensive, and can be created...
www.bowers.org
November 14, 2025 at 6:56 AM
#Bonsai at the Bowers! Orange County folk (and LA folk willing to schlep down to Santa Ana in the rain): Kofu Kai's annual show is this Friday, Saturday, and Sunday at the Bowers Museum. FREE! Cheryl's got two trees on display: a quince and a cascading jade. www.bowers.org/index.php/pr...
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Wicked (2024)
November 13, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Wicked (2024)
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The strike is not about whether or not you approve of Starbucks coffee. It's about the workers, who like all workers deserve equitable treatment and fair pay. That is the issue. Why bring up your personal feelings about the coffee? Nobody in this conversation cares. Start another thread about it.
November 13, 2025 at 1:56 PM
The strike is not about whether or not you approve of Starbucks coffee. It's about the workers, who like all workers deserve equitable treatment and fair pay. That is the issue. Why bring up your personal feelings about the coffee? Nobody in this conversation cares. Start another thread about it.
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ANYWAY! My 2023 book -- about systemic, institutionalized, longstanding patterns of misconduct, abuse, predation, and the enabling and even the celebration of same by the powerful -- was titled Burn It Down 🔥🔥🔥🔥 just sayin' bookshop.org/p/books/burn...
November 13, 2025 at 2:32 AM
ANYWAY! My 2023 book -- about systemic, institutionalized, longstanding patterns of misconduct, abuse, predation, and the enabling and even the celebration of same by the powerful -- was titled Burn It Down 🔥🔥🔥🔥 just sayin' bookshop.org/p/books/burn...
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🚨Deadloch heads: S2 of the Aussie crime satire/drama (it's good!) arrives on Amazon Prime March 20. Many chaotic Aussie weirdos return/debut. But HEADS UP they have added a Hemsworth (Luke)! This is not a drill! Kudos to the hair & costume team for this whole deal. www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/st...
November 11, 2025 at 9:11 PM
🚨Deadloch heads: S2 of the Aussie crime satire/drama (it's good!) arrives on Amazon Prime March 20. Many chaotic Aussie weirdos return/debut. But HEADS UP they have added a Hemsworth (Luke)! This is not a drill! Kudos to the hair & costume team for this whole deal. www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/st...
MY NAME IS JOHN CRICHTON
AN ASTRONAUT
AN ASTRONAUT
November 8, 2025 at 11:44 PM
MY NAME IS JOHN CRICHTON
AN ASTRONAUT
AN ASTRONAUT
39 Years Ago Today: An episode of FAME I co-wrote with Hans Beimler -- our second produced TV script! -- got a "Close Up" in TV GUIDE magazine. Not bad for a little show running near-invisibly in syndication (and a troubled script that went to "Third Blue" [i.e., multiple rewrites/revisions)... 🧵
![TV GUIDE [logo]
America s Television Magazine
Vol. 34 No. 45 / November 8, 1986 / Issue #1754
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BROADCAST
Syndicated Fame
Sun., ABC Disney Movie
Sun.,NBC Valerie
Mon.,PBS Story of English
Wed.,PBS Live from Lincoln Center
Thurs.,PBS Mystery!
Fri., NBC A-Team
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This week: seven regular series try something out of the ordinary. Each in its own way succeeds.
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Apart from PBS, Fame serves up an all-singing, all-dancing, hey-kids-Iet's-put-on-a-show show. The show they put on is rather reminiscent of ''42nd Street''--and really very well done. . . .
* * *
(5) FAME-- Drama; 60 min.
"All Talking, All Singing, All Dancing.'' See the Close-up on A-70.
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close
up
FAME
3:30 PM (WGN)
8 PM (5)
9:30 PM (WGN)
[Photo (captioned "Gene Anthony Ray and Elisa Heinsohn"): A young Black man and young white woman in fancy 1930s outfits strike a dance pose.]
GOLDDIGGERS OF 1986
It's time to "put on a show'' as the "Fame'' regulars portray characters in a 1930s Busby Berkeley musical with Jesse (Jesse Borrego) as the harried director; Ian (Michael Cerveris) as the struggling songwriter; and Jillian (Elisa Heinsohn) as the naive chorine thrust into the spotlight when the Ieading Iady gets Iaryngitis on opening night. Miltie: Robert Romanus. Leroy: Gene Anthony Ray. Reggie: Carrie Hamilton. Lou: Dick Miller. Nicole: Nia Peeples. Danny: Carlo Imperator. Christopher: Billy Hufsey. Lydia: Debbie Allen. (60 min.)](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ot3nzcyg5dqlrs27gvdqhouv/bafkreihah3fubqcysxtwtj7va7ke7it5kxzuml5a5i2iqznzadkzzfibcy@jpeg)
November 8, 2025 at 8:37 PM
39 Years Ago Today: An episode of FAME I co-wrote with Hans Beimler -- our second produced TV script! -- got a "Close Up" in TV GUIDE magazine. Not bad for a little show running near-invisibly in syndication (and a troubled script that went to "Third Blue" [i.e., multiple rewrites/revisions)... 🧵
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This perfectly encapsulates how I feel living in the US. The republican party is an insane death cult, the democratic party is 3 corporations in a trench coat, and the "socialists" are just the completely normal left-wing capitalists you'd find in any of 2 dozen European nations.
Europeans recognize Zohran Mamdani’s supposedly radical policies as ‘normal’
Critics of New York City’s mayor-elect have said his pledges of free bus service and universal childcare are unrealistic, but in Europe it’s a given
www.theguardian.com
November 8, 2025 at 5:18 AM
This perfectly encapsulates how I feel living in the US. The republican party is an insane death cult, the democratic party is 3 corporations in a trench coat, and the "socialists" are just the completely normal left-wing capitalists you'd find in any of 2 dozen European nations.
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It was a rejection of the entire administration and Dems should see this as a signal to become an actual opposition party. On everything. You don't stop the shutdown. You don't approve another appointee. You do nothing at all. The voters saved you, not the other way around. LEARN TO LEAD.
On a call with reporters, DNC chair Ken Martin responds to JD Vance claiming Dems only won big last night because races were in blue states.
"Well that's bullshit. We won in red counties, blue counties, purple counties," Martin says. And it was all "a rejection of Trump."
"Well that's bullshit. We won in red counties, blue counties, purple counties," Martin says. And it was all "a rejection of Trump."
November 5, 2025 at 8:42 PM
It was a rejection of the entire administration and Dems should see this as a signal to become an actual opposition party. On everything. You don't stop the shutdown. You don't approve another appointee. You do nothing at all. The voters saved you, not the other way around. LEARN TO LEAD.
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anyway I love trans people and I love this decisive, unambiguous win for the “shut the fuck up about trans people, you freaks” caucus
November 5, 2025 at 11:33 PM
anyway I love trans people and I love this decisive, unambiguous win for the “shut the fuck up about trans people, you freaks” caucus
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Don't cross a picket line.
BREAKING: After months of stonewalling by Starbucks, unionized baristas just voted 92% to authorize a ULP strike unless Starbucks finalizes fair contracts & stops union busting.
If forced, our baristas will strike in dozens of cities on November 13 – the company's busiest sales day of the year.
If forced, our baristas will strike in dozens of cities on November 13 – the company's busiest sales day of the year.
Starbucks unionized workers say they'll strike on Nov. 13 if coffee giant doesn't finalize contract
Union members say they are ready to strike on the chain's Red Cup Day if Starbucks doesn't finalize a contract with their union by then.
www.cbsnews.com
November 5, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Don't cross a picket line.
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Pilot had a massive ad spread in a jp newspaper with "make AI jealous" and "write what AI can't touch" written on it
Anyway I think everyone should own a Pilot kakuno pen
Anyway I think everyone should own a Pilot kakuno pen
November 5, 2025 at 4:42 AM
Pilot had a massive ad spread in a jp newspaper with "make AI jealous" and "write what AI can't touch" written on it
Anyway I think everyone should own a Pilot kakuno pen
Anyway I think everyone should own a Pilot kakuno pen
Today, we are all bitch. Our job is bitch.
ooooh honey I'm that same bitch
I’m just enough of a bitch to enjoy this too much
November 5, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Today, we are all bitch. Our job is bitch.
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Mamdani going so hard for trans right and winning is some juicy proof that every dem that abandoned us didn’t do it for politically advantageous reasons. They did it because they’re transphobes and they will lose for it
November 5, 2025 at 5:33 AM
Mamdani going so hard for trans right and winning is some juicy proof that every dem that abandoned us didn’t do it for politically advantageous reasons. They did it because they’re transphobes and they will lose for it
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Our message to Andrew Cuomo was loud & clear in June.
It’s louder & clearer tonight.
It’s louder & clearer tonight.
November 5, 2025 at 5:10 AM
Our message to Andrew Cuomo was loud & clear in June.
It’s louder & clearer tonight.
It’s louder & clearer tonight.