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Kim Shumway
@kimshum.bsky.social
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TV writer-human. My kingdom for a hallway set. Formerly EP on PARTNER TRACK, THE 100, pilots (rip). Currently developing.
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The Leverage cast seeing the Louvre heist and collectively posting, "Not it," is the whimsy we deserve.
A Gina Bellman tweet showing a picture of her wearing a red beret and toasting with red wine with accompanying text: "I absolutely- definitely- positively was not in Paris yesterday #LouvreHeist" IG post from Beth Riesgraf showing a picture of the jewels stolen from the Louvre with the text: "Parker replied, 'No comment' @leverageredemption"
October 21, 2025 at 1:03 AM
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Oh, look, a new MIT study shows that LLM use rots your brain. Quelle surprise.

Your Brain on ChatGPT: "the LLM group's participants performed worse than their counterparts in the Brain-only group at all levels: neural, linguistic, scoring." arxiv.org/pdf/2506.08872
Figure from the front page of the MIT study, "Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task." Text reads: "Figure 1. The dynamic Direct Transfer Function (dDTF) EEG analysis of Alpha Band for groups: LLM, Search Engine, Brain-only, including p-values to show significance from moderately significant (*) to highly significant (***)."
June 17, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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A message from the streets of Los Angeles…
A picture of a message written in chalk on the sidewalk that says,”you’re worthy”
June 12, 2025 at 11:53 PM
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Happy holidays from Baby Yoda!
A Baby Yoda holiday cookie made from gleefully decapitating an angel cookie.
December 25, 2024 at 1:27 AM
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Absolutely the fuck *not*. Is there a bitcoin bros block list yet?
Notifications tab showing that “Bitcoin trader mark” just followed me.
November 16, 2024 at 12:33 AM
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Cards Against Humanity is simultaneously trolling, getting out the vote, and educating people about our garbage privacy rules and campaign finance laws. Hilariously.

Also, there's a way folks can make Elon pay them $47 in there, too, and CAH promises to sue him again if he doesn't. Respect.
Against a blue background, the FAQ reads: "What’s happening? Cards Against Humanity is exploiting a legal loophole to pay America’s blue-leaning non-voters to (1) apologize for not voting last time, (2) walk us through a step-by-step plan of how they’d vote this time, and (3) post “Donald Trump is a human toilet” on social media. This whole thing should probably be illegal—so quick, give us your money before they change the law! How do you know who didn’t vote? We formed a Super PAC and bought the personal voting records of every American citizen from a data broker we found on the internet. It’s pretty fucked up." Against a white background, a section of the FAQ reads: "Who qualifies to get paid? Any eligible voter who didn’t vote last time qualifies. But only blue-leaning people in swing states will get a BIG payment. How do you know who’s “blue leaning”? We got your partisan lean from the same data broker who sold us your voting history. You wouldn’t believe how easy it was for us to get this stuff. So fucked up!" Against a red background, a section of the FAQ reads: "This rules. Can I give you more than $7.99? If you agree with us that this is a pretty good idea, you can donate as much as you want during checkout for your 2024 Election Pack. Literally no limit, because we’re a Super PAC. This is the kind of crazy shit that happens when the Supreme Court rules that “money is speech” and corporations can spend unlimited amounts of cash influencing elections. If you want to make a very large donation, please email us and we'll work it out."
October 10, 2024 at 5:35 PM
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Remember when we were all signing up for new place after new place after the hellsite went full Nazi bar? Mastodon, Spoutible, hell, does Hive even still *exist*?

Anyway, this is delightful. Good self-promotion, Bsky!
A badge giving my user number and certifying that I'm a Bluesky elder, which I'm not sure is a compliment...
September 17, 2024 at 1:16 AM
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Here’s the 90-day search chart for “Project 2025.” The BET Awards took place on June 30, 2024. That giant spike? That’s just after June 30th.

Taraji did that. *Legend*.
Google trends chart for project 2025 searches that shows a gigantic spike after June 30, 2024.
July 23, 2024 at 11:45 PM
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One of the obvious, predictable abuses of AI image tech: fake nudes that exploit women and girls. Here researchers are finding that teens suffer abuse *even when their peers know the images are fake*.

www.wsj.com/tech/persona...
Screenshot of WSJ article headline: AI Fake Nudes Are Now a Frightening Reality for Teens
June 1, 2024 at 5:44 PM
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Brilliant time catching up with our TV City regulars tonight! Happy one-year strikeversary, writer friends!
May 3, 2024 at 3:38 AM
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Movie magic, y'all! Which so often just means, "crew guy does a thing just outside frame." Classic. Love it.
Messi the dog sits in a theater seat while a heroic crew guy lies below his seat, holding up a pair of fake paws for him to "clap."
March 11, 2024 at 10:25 PM
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Fascinating @zitron.bsky.social piece. "AI" is just funneling VC money to the biggest tech firms.

www.wheresyoured.at/sam-altman-f...
"During the imaginary panic of Sam Altman's ouster from OpenAI last year, Semafor reported that Microsoft's $10 billion investment was largely made up of credits for their Azure cloud computing platform. In essence, Microsoft "invested" $10 billion in money that OpenAI had to spend on Microsoft's services, meaning that OpenAI would have to use Microsoft's "Azure" cloud computing service to run ChatGPT. When Google invested $2 billion in OpenAI competitor Anthropic, it did so in tranches — $500 million up front and an additional $1.5 billion over a non-specific period of time. Coincidentally, this funding round took place only a few months after Anthropic signed a multi-year deal with Google Cloud worth $3 billion, locking them into Google's compute platform in the process. Amazon also invested $4 billion in Anthropic, who agreed to a "long-term commitment" to provide Amazon Web Services (Amazon's competitor to Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud) with early access to their models..."
February 27, 2024 at 12:53 AM
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Anyone remember this? Courtesy of 1993! (My love started young.)

Still works!
A TNG USS Enterprise D holiday ornament from a million years ago.
December 11, 2023 at 8:40 PM
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Momentous WGA news tonight. All the gratitude and respect to David Young, who did so much for the Guild. Every writer owes him a debt.

And congratulations to @ellenstutzman.bsky.social! Well-deserved!
An email from the WGA board announcing that David Young is stepping aside as Executive Director, to be replaced by Ellen Stutzman
November 4, 2023 at 12:46 AM
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Well, looks like it’s time to retire these!

Welcome news for many reasons, but on an aesthetic one… dude, my WGA Captain hat is no longer black. Wtf, sun. I look forward to resuming life in a cave, as is only right and proper.
Three baseball caps: a black WGA Captain hat, a blue WGA TV City hat, and a navy TV City hat commemorating our preferred method of inconveniencing asshole drivers
September 27, 2023 at 6:36 PM
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The update is perfect! (And also, hell yes to this lesson on writer power.)
The fake Carol Twitter account posts about what THR left out of the interview: an answer about how much power writers really have
September 26, 2023 at 6:06 PM
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The little lot that nobody cares about on the cover of the LA times!
A picture of the cover of today’s Los Angeles Times with the headline, “WGA, Studios reach tentative deal”
September 25, 2023 at 3:07 PM
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The reporter who wrote the story about how the studios are waiting for writers to lose their housing just *savaging* those same studios at 3am on Twitter. But I’m sure everything is fine.

Also, bless fake-Carol, they never miss.
Tweet from Dominic Patten that reads, “When you have to insist you are united, even as you bad mouth each other privately & look for someone to blame, you really are telling everyone - "we are in big trouble"”
September 9, 2023 at 6:29 PM
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Today’s strike sign!
WGA strike sign reading, “Live long and pay us.”
September 6, 2023 at 5:38 PM
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YES. They should air the whole thing. Pay *all* those writers a broadcast rerun residual. Intro a wider audience to Star Trek: Strange New Worlds.

Granted, I would’ve preferred they not force us all into a strike that gutted their fall season, but that ship has sailed, at least this is fun.
A tweet from The Hollywood Reporter announcing that Star Trek: Strange New Worlds will air on CBS in the fall
August 24, 2023 at 7:36 PM
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Here’s the letter from the fake-Carol Twitter account!
Satirical letter from the fake-Carol Lombardini Twitter account
August 23, 2023 at 7:06 PM
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SAG-AFTRA’s Frances Fisher doing a dramatic reading of Fake-Carol’s letter to the AMPTP on the line at Television City!
Frances Fisher reading into a bullhorn
August 23, 2023 at 7:02 PM
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For those who haven’t gotten it yet!
August 23, 2023 at 6:33 AM
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Is there an Extraordinary Service to the Guild award? Can we nominate the fake-Carol Twitter account?
August 18, 2023 at 6:53 PM
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It’s been a full-court press in the trades on behalf of the studios the past few days, but this is just absurd. We should make significant concessions… why? In exchange for what?

https://variety.com/2023/biz/news/wga-response-studios-not-quick-strike-1235697413/
A quote from Variety indicating the studios were looking for “significant concessions” as if that’s a reasonable expectation.
August 16, 2023 at 12:42 AM