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@whipsical

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@whipsical
Andra
11 months
Hey writers, you are not alone, you are not behind. Most ppl don’t know where they’ll land right now. Everyone is in the soup. Make friends with your fellow beans. Find a chunk of potato to float on. Infuse yourself with the spices of chaos.
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@whipsical
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5 years
Me on shark tank: “it’s a bib for when you eat super crunchy toast that keeps all the crumbs from getting lost in your bra making your tits itchy for the rest of the day.” Mark Cuban: “...” Other male shark: “...” Finally a messy big titty lady shark: “10 million dollars”.
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@whipsical
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1 year
I just wanna say a special and hearty “you were wrong” to the man who yelled at me, to tears, at someone’s wedding, that minimum room size was impossible. He was fucking wrong. And we were fucking right.
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@whipsical
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3 years
I watched Tick Tick Boom with my parents last night and as a 29 year old writer whose career isn’t where I want it to be it hit a certain way… and then it hit harder today when my dad hugged me as I left and said “learn from the guy in the movie… don’t give up” 😭😭😭
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@whipsical
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10 months
Disney has spent billions in copyright lobbying to make it illegal for us to use Mickey Mouse and Cinderella in any way but they think real human beings are being unreasonable if they don’t want to be reanimated corpses in perpetuity. 🙄
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Colby Day
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Ah yes I would love to be ghoulishly resurrected after my demise by the Walt Disney Corporation
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@whipsical
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1 year
I came up with a sign and also maybe a chant
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@whipsical
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1 year
No show is returning “without writers”. Someone decides & plans what people will talk about on screen. That’s writing. To call it something else is a lie intended to devalue our labor. It’s disrespectful to the writers of these shows. It’s against our strike rules. It’s scabbing.
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@whipsical
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1 year
We fucking did it.
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@whipsical
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10 months
An entire industry full of people are desperately struggling without work and the companies are holding us all hostage over the ability to steal your dead body from your fucking grave.
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Marisa Roffman
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This should horrify *everyone*, actor or not.
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1 year
Thank you @BillNye for joining @WGAWest writers on the picket line today! #WGAStrong #FairContractNow #WGAStrike
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@whipsical
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1 year
We all make mistakes. It’s hard to make them in public. By reversing course, Drew has made amends. I’m grateful to her and proud of her for doing the right thing. Let her actions remind us all that we can always make a new choice 🥰❤️
@LukeBarnett
ʟᴜᴋᴇ ʙᴀʀɴᴇᴛᴛ 👨🏻‍🍼
1 year
People responding to Drew Barrymore making the right decision with “she didn’t do it until she got blowback” are what’s wrong with our country. You make a wrong call, you listen and you correct. That’s not the thing to punish.
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1 year
A huge reason we are on strike is because Netflix and other streaming services have giant loopholes & breaks in their contracts because they used to be “new” and untested and are now old enough to buy a drink.
@FilmUpdates
Film Updates
1 year
In honor of Netflix being founded 26 years ago, what is your favorite series/movie from the platform?
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1 year
We’ve got the people who rate dogs, Zaslav. We’re not going anywhere.
@dog_rates
WeRateDogs
1 year
This is Moca. He just learned some people think unions cause strikes and not the immense greed of corporations that refuse to pay employees a fair share despite owing the entirety of their profits to the labor of working people. 14/10
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1 year
Refusing to cross a picket line is heroic. It is a tangible way to stand up to corporate greed and ensure a fair contract for workers. Including your future self and future earnings. Thanks to all the brave ones so far from PAs to teamsters to stars. I love you.
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@whipsical
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1 year
Before twitter dies, I have one more #WGAStrike call to action: Have you been paying attention to #TreeGate at #NBCUniversal ? Then let me tell you another story that could use some DIRECT SUNLIGHT shone on it: The ballad of #RadfordStudios #NeutralGate #HotStrikeSummer 🧵 1/11
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1 year
Girl why own this choice when you could own anything you want?? Own a vacation house. Own a nonprofit for entertainment workers in need. Own a little farm for injured horses. Own a fucking web series. Whatever you want, just not a struck production!
@DEADLINE
Deadline
1 year
Drew Barrymore On Talk Show Return Amid WGA & SAG-AFTRA Strikes: "I Own This Choice"
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@whipsical
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1 year
The joke isn’t that we’re too snooty for chain restaurants, it’s that its very funny that Carol is a millionaire whose life’s work is helping billionaires steal from the working class, and the reward for that is every day she has to go to work at the worst mall in LA.
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@whipsical
Andra
5 years
Here’s why the idea that if your agent sucks you should just get a better agent is not a viable solution to the problem with agency conflicts of interest, from the perspective of a lower level, super vulnerable writer.
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@whipsical
Andra
11 months
WGA members: If you are in financial need, please apply for the strike fund. Even if you’re not sure you will qualify. If you don’t qualify for strike fund, they will expedite your application for a good and welfare loan which is…
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@whipsical
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1 year
Netflix is already paying success based residuals in Germany and Sweden. These are important because right now, every streaming show writer, from Stranger Things to that show you’ve never heard of, gets the same small payment & no viewership data (1/3)
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David Slack
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Netflix: “We can’t possibly afford to pay you success-based residuals.” Also Netflix:
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1 year
Looks like @mollylevinson s PR firm is hard at work feeding lies to @DEADLINE . This very first statement is not true. We countered their offer. Then instead of responding to our counter, they started leaking lies to the media. We are still waiting for their counter. ⏰
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1 year
Let me tell you about some of the best people I’ve ever met. I didn’t know ANY of them before the strike and I’m so lucky we got thrown together. The Radford Captains, who burned in 100 degree heat on Colfax and flipped the unflippable gate and never fucking flinched:
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1 year
We KNOW that robust picket lines really annoy the studios. They are our best leverage. The board explicitly asking us to come out tomorrow is them saying that we can increase that leverage by showing our unity. We are in a very strong bargaining position right now-
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@whipsical
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11 months
SAG friends- remember how many arbitrary deadlines they set for the WGA? And how all of them were blustering bullshit?? Stay strong. Don’t blink.
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@whipsical
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11 months
Hey SAG! Keep it up! UAW won big and you can too.
@MorePerfectUS
More Perfect Union
11 months
BREAKING: The @UAW has won a massive tentative agreement with Ford. Workers won a 33% raise in wages + COLA, elimination of tiers, the right to strike over closures, improvements for temp workers, better pensions, and more. The historic, creative UAW strike is working.
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@whipsical
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1 year
This is despicable treatment, @FairmontHotels @FairmontMiramar how do you expect people to want to patronize your business when this is how you treat your workers???
@unitehere11
UNITE HERE Local 11
1 year
Today ⁦⁦ @FairmontMiramar ⁩ security officers attacked striking workers at their hotel. Our members won’t give in to bully tactics at the negotiating table or the picket line. #SoCalHotelStrike
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1 year
BEST AND FINAL PICKET!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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@whipsical
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3 years
SINCERITY ALERT One of my fave jokes I wrote for the WGA Awards was about kids this year being so lonely their BFFs are salsa jars. It's weird and specific and based on a kid I love a lot, and when my HERO @ambermruffin read it I just felt so fucking happy to be a writer.
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@whipsical
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1 year
You take two bites of something delicious and then the waiter takes it back and throws it in the garbage so they don’t have to pay the chefs.
@Dexerto
Dexerto
1 year
Netflix is opening up a restaurant in Los Angeles
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@whipsical
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1 year
Today on the picket line I met a 20 year old who drove from Arizona to do her senior project on our strike. The bosses can’t stop us. We are labor through and through already and these kids are coming to join us. Be the kind of person your grandkids will be proud of.
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@whipsical
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1 year
Unfettered Capitalism 101: 1. Kill competitor 2. Worsen product for now trapped customers 3. Turn the trapped customers into the product 4. CEOs profit immensely while majority of the labor force is exploited We need anti trust laws now.
@BiellaColeman
Gabriella "Biella" Coleman
1 year
Well time to retire @Zoom , who is basically wants to use/abuse you to train their AI
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@whipsical
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1 year
To be blunt, the studio CEOs have a lot of ego, and they don’t spend 10 hours in a room with mere plebes if they can help it. They NEED a deal. They know our union siblings have our back and don’t want to cross our line (see latest show “pauses”)-
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@whipsical
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1 year
I’ve spent 5 months picketing one of the studios that “paused” a show this week. Trust me when I say the vibe inside is “holy fuck we really wanted to get away with that, goddamnit, shit!! What now?????” 😂-
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@whipsical
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1 year
To me, min staff size is a matter of worker safety. Showrunners are overworked. Overwork is dangerous. We are not meant to work 24 hours a day until we die. It’s not healthy. The labor movement has fought for work life balance for hundreds of years. Let’s keep fighting.
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@whipsical
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1 year
FUCK THE AMPTP for saying that WORKERS have no clue the toll this takes on our communities. We know. We see it every day. But we also know the toll it takes on all of us to forever submit to shit pay and unsafe working conditions just so a CEO can buy another fucking yacht.
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@whipsical
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1 year
Writers at the top of their field in a billion dollar industry creating some of the biggest hits of our generation are living with overdrawn bank accounts while the billionaires who feed off our work say they’re too poor to pay us. It’s unreal. #WGAStrong
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@whipsical
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10 months
When WGA got our “best and last” offer we flooded the picket lines. A few days later, the photos from those pickets wound up accompanying the many news stories about how we won.
@MattBelloni
Matthew Belloni
10 months
“Best and last” offer going to SAG-AFTRA today. Yes, that’s a studio tactic, but sounds like if there’s no deal today or this weekend, might not be talks next week.
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@whipsical
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9 months
Oh ok so apparently they can do meetings in December
@Phil_Lewis_
philip lewis
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Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav met with Paramount Global CEO Bob Bakish in New York City to reportedly discuss a possible merger
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@whipsical
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1 year
I used to work as a PA at a place that paid me $450 a week and had “bagel fridays”. The better paid people would complain that the bagels were “unhealthy” and I would steal them to take home because it took half my monthly pay to afford a split 1 bedroom apt+utilities in LA.
@BootsRiley
Boots Riley
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To folks commenting that seem to not get it- they were being paid so little by Disney that they RELIED on getting that free lunch so they could have enough to try to make other ends meet.
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@whipsical
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10 months
6 months ago we genuinely didn’t know if SAG would go on strike, let alone that they would meet the moment with such tenacity and bravery. Now that we know we have each others backs. We can do amazing things with that. I’m so proud and happy for @sagaftra
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@whipsical
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1 year
Sign it, @GavinNewsom . It’s the right thing to do for workers rights & the CA economy.
@Variety
Variety
1 year
California Senate Approves Unemployment Pay for Striking Workers
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@whipsical
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10 months
We weren’t just out there to take care of people. We did this because we want to work. Because we have stories to tell. If you valued us when we were holding your hand, hold ours now. Help us move forward. We are not just the backbones of the future. We are the leaders of it.
@Variety
Variety
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'I'm Loud, I Know How to Organize': How Women Became the Backbone of the WGA's Strike Captain Network
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@whipsical
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1 year
One amazing thing about this strike is the INCREDIBLE amount of work our staff is doing in the background. Every bottle of water you drink, every theme picket you attend, every emergency ice pack is touched by the labor of our staff. Thank them when you see them.
@flying_lobster
Bill Wolkoff
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Day 93. At the end of every picket WGA staff brings back vans full of signs and supplies and restocks them. They’ve been doing this for 93 days on top of their other full time jobs which they also do. They keep our pickets stocked and functional. Heroes, every one. #WGAStrong
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1 year
Something cool about picket lines is they are one of the only places in America where you can spend time with your community without spending money. In LA, many of us don't have apts big enough to host gatherings. It's radical to offer people a space to commune for free.
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@whipsical
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1 year
For 88 days, the Radford Radicals have said to so many people, “I promise, we’re working on it.” And we did. We worked really fucking hard, sometimes more quietly than we wanted, and never stopped. We won this battle. And you bet your fucking ass we will win the war.
@flying_lobster
Bill Wolkoff
1 year
Every lot has their unique issues but no one has had to deal with union-busting neutral gate dirty tricks like @whipsical and the Radford crew have. This huge victory is due to Andra's tenacity and I am so happy for her. This is what it means to be union strong!
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@whipsical
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1 year
If Carol wants us to stop making fun of her she could simply fucking quit systematically attempting to drive workers into homelessness while she collects a 3 mil salary. 🤷‍♀️
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@whipsical
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1 year
Picket. Photo/video/news stories about an enormous picket line tomorrow (and days to follow) WILL help tremendously. Our picket lines are open to anyone who wants to support us. Come join us. Locations at
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@whipsical
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1 year
There were over 500 people at Fox today. Hundreds of Showrunners in attendance. That’s the meeting, that’s the headline. We are united.
@t_ruggeri
Tyler Ruggeri
1 year
Some media outlets would have you believe there’s a fracturing among high-level WGA members… Meanwhile the Showrunner Solidarity picket at Fox is several hundred people strong and only an hour in.
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@whipsical
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We’re on a path to victory. I can’t tell you how long it takes. Don’t be discouraged if it’s not all wrapped up in a few hours. This is detail work. Even if talks break off remember, CEOs have shown their hand. They need us. A little more time for a much better deal is worth it.
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@whipsical
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1 year
But like I said, the devil is in the details. The last minute loopholes are where @ItsMeCarolAMPTP loves to get extra shitty and unreasonable. Hopefully the CEOs know better. 🫠 But until then we need to apply MAX LEVERAGE. Which means: -
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@whipsical
Andra
5 years
I am forever grateful for the writers who have made sacrifices during this campaign. And those who have stepped up to read, encourage, and recommend new writers, and those who have taken the time and energy to listen and get informed. Thanks to you, we exist. ❤️💜💙
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@whipsical
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1 year
The DGA already has minimum staffing requirements. Minimum staffing is a standard in many industries. We deserve minimum staffing, it is not an unusual or unreasonable ask, and I’ll fight like hell to get it.
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@whipsical
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10 months
“Last best and final” means nothing until the union says it does. It says the studios need a deal asap because they’ve been hemorrhaging money for 6 months instead of just being reasonable from the beginning. SAG has tremendous power right now. Use it to get what you need.
@DavidAGoodman
David A. Goodman
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Yeah, they said the same thing to the us, but it still took a couple of days to get to the final deal, especially the AI language we could live with.
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1 year
I’m a #WGAStrike lot coordinator at Radford and I want to tell you about my fave time of the day and the playlist I made for it Late in the afternoon, we play old union songs that go SO MUCH HARDER than you think they would and sing and dance along. Here’s some of my faves🧵
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@whipsical
Andra
3 years
Writers are asking how to to prepare for an #IATSE strike on Monday. First of all, #IATSE members will tell you in time (i'll tag some at the end). But here's a philosophy that may help today: Spend all your energy protecting those with less power
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@whipsical
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1 year
The radford captains are hardcore. We work one of the hottest lots in the valley with no natural shade on a loud busy street with multiple faraway neutral gates. But, like desert flowers, these babes bloom in the cracks between the concrete, creating community out of nothing. ❤️‍🔥
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@whipsical
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5 years
The solidarity that has grown since, the overwhelming openness of my fellow writers, the amazing tools the WGA has pulled together, the mixers, those have completely changed the game. I’m still unemployed. Still vulnerable. Still looking. But now, thanks to my union, I exist.
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1 year
I’m so tired of living in a country where we say there’s “no money to pay workers” in industries where the CEOs make millions and own yachts. Somehow there is always money for people who already have too much, but the rest of us court disaster when we’d rather not go hungry.
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@whipsical
Andra
2 years
The way that people reply on this website is ridiculous and defies reading comprehension. How is this person supposed to “do better”????
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@whipsical
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10 months
These workers are literally on strike because they cannot afford to live in the city they work in. They commute hours every day to work for minimum wage. These hotels treat them shamefully. The very least we can do is continue to honor their boycotts!
@WGAWest
Writers Guild of America West
10 months
We support @UNITEHERE11 and call on the American Film Market to do the right thing by honoring workers’ boycott #1u
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@whipsical
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3 years
Just found out the doctor who won't make eye contact with me starts every appointment note with: "This is a pleasant, morbidly obese 28 y.o.female who claims to..." and I just feel like everyone can take a minute and analyze that shit for themselves.
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1 year
Speaking of shade, at RADFORD, where the studio forced us onto the sunniest street w/ zero shade, TOMORROW we're passing out BIG FLOPPY HATS! I can't guarantee fashion, bc they're sourced from neighbors, but they will be at least as shady as the studios behavior 😉😘
@ChrisStephensMD
Chris Stephens
1 year
Quick shoutout to the good people at @UniversalPics for trimming the trees that gave our picket line shade right before a 90+ degree week.
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4 years
@alexa99 Let workers unionize
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1 year
It’s maddening to see abusive leaders continue to rise. Because you know what I’ve seen on the picket line? So many amazing, incredible, kind leaders who absolutely have the potential to run a room, who have innovative ideas, kindness, grace under fire, and amazing stories.
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1 year
AI could never understand how this feels. I’ll be writing forever to capture it. Photos by Brittany Woodside.
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We can never get all of us in one photo, but please look at these cute captains who work so hard every day for a fair contract. They are truly some of the best people I’ve ever met or worked with, many early in their career and very new to the guild!!! 10/10 ppl and writers!
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Andra
1 year
I love David. I love my union. I love labor. I trust my union leadership. I don’t give a shit what anybody leaks to the trades, it literally means nothing to me until I hear from my guild.
@slack2thefuture
David Slack
1 year
In a desperate move, the AMPTP has released their proposals publicly. Not only are these proposals still inadequate, they are an attempt by the bosses to divide our members, hoping we’ll start arguing with each other over which parts we can and can’t live with. Don’t fall for it.
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The AMPTP doesn’t know real risk. They don’t know what it’s like to lose your healthcare, to live in unsafe conditions because you can’t afford to move, to have a sick family member and not know how you will care for them. Fuck y’all rich assholes. You don’t know shit.
@slack2thefuture
David Slack
1 year
While the studios and their new hedge fund besties may assume some modest financial risk, any losses just go on a balance sheet next to the C-suite’s golden parachutes. The workers in this industry, on the other hand, risk a hell of a lot more than that.
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1 year
Hundreds of people came to radford today, but it feels most fitting to share this pic of the people who stayed to the very end, most of whom also came every day even on the Colfax side. Some of our Radford Regulars, at the main gate, ready for a fair deal and nothing less. ✊🥹🥰
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Andra
5 years
Until the AMBA negotiations. Suddenly, ULs, producers, managers, the whole writing industry, woke up to the fact that great writers were struggling to get proper agents.
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100 days in. They are counting on this hurting. But what they didn’t count on is strength in the human spirit to defend what actually matters. They’re motivated by numbers on a spreadsheet. We fight for our future. We will win. For the working class. ✊💖
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1 year
I would’ve said fuck less if I’d know how much press we were gonna fuckin get 😂😂
@WGAWest
Writers Guild of America West
1 year
“Starting Monday, this picket line will be moving to Radford Avenue. We will have an observer here [on Colfax] because this will turn into a neutral gate, and we’re gonna finally be picketing in the fucking shade!” @whipsical #WGAstrike #1u #WGAstrong
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Morale is high in the sense that we refuse to give in. We know what’s at stake. But it’s ok to be tired and sad and scared right now. I am. Im exhausted and I have nightmares and I feel like shit. I’m still dancing. They can’t break me. Lean on each other. Union strong.
@missmaesmith
Mae Smith
1 year
Today I had lunch with a former boss who asked me if writers were getting desperate. I shrugged; most of us have had hiatuses waaaay longer than this. Crazy how the companies have accidentally trained us to be extremely formidable opponents. Morale remains high in Week 7!
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In honor of Adele Lim walking away from CRA, I'm gonna share a story. Because pay gaps happen all the time. And not usually because comical Disney villains in back rooms want to be assholes. They happen because regular, good people don't stop them... THREAD #NotWorthLess
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1 year
Evergreen WGA tweet. We love and support our sister unions. But whatever happens with them, when it comes to our own deal: we know our own issues best, we have enough power on our own, and we have the strength and determination to get what we need.
@bergopolis
Amy Berg
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We are the only ones who can get the deal we need. Period.
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Andra
4 years
Yo @JoeBiden can you please make sure you have an interpreter for the next debate? Would be an awesome way to show how much you care about everyday americans.
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1 year
I talked to an IATSE member yesterday who was feeling depressed with nothing to do during the day. I invited him to join us on the picket line. This is an open invitation. We have food and solidarity and human company and we will welcome you. Details at
@kristinehuntley
Kristine Huntley
1 year
I urge you to come to the picket lines. Now more than ever, it’s important to be out there, but even beyond that, I can honestly say that whenever I’ve felt down, going to the picket lines has without a doubt or an exception, raised my spirits.
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Andra
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I tried 8 anti depressants, talk therapy, TMS therapy, exercise, dieting, anorexia, journaling, meditating, and more. Many of those interventions worsened my mental health & made me sicker. When I finally got ADHD meds they worked in one day. These are life saving medications.
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joanna schroeder
1 year
One of the most effective Rx psychiatric drugs in history has become nearly impossible for many people to get - and yet the FDA appears to be doing nothing to help remedy it. It's a "joke" drug to people who don't have this disability - so people think we can just go without it
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Andra
1 year
They’re fighting for the ability to gut and kill the industry and sell it for parts. We’re fighting for the families and cities we love that depend on these jobs to survive. We’re fighting for what we believe in. They’re fighting for cash. That’s why we will win.
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Joe Henderson
1 year
This is my fear. If they get their way, they'll just destroy our industry, and realize all too late (or have golden parachuted out beforehand). We're not just fighting for us -- but for the very future of entertainment. And we will win. #WGAStrong #UnionStrong
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Andra
1 year
Came back from the picket and my dog had eaten 7 oz of dark chocolate. Please send this goofy baby prayers and send me your stories of dogs being ok after eating chocolate!!!!! (We’re at the vet now but they’re making us wait outside while she throws up 😭)
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Andra
1 year
someone who is good at the economy please help zaslav budget this. my industry is dying.
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Andra
1 year
It took me a long time to realize “write what you know” doesn’t literally mean “write about your life”, but absolutely means “write about what it feels like to be alive”. Great writers experience life, seek joy, face hardship, and then reflect it back to us.
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Ari Friedwoman
1 year
Gently disagree. Living in a capitalist society has convinced us to put our careers before everything. Even if that career is creative, living your life is more important. 24/7 working is never necessary and will not make you happy. So go to the bar and dance. 🖖🏻💜
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Andra
1 year
We want to increase safety & exercise our constitutional right to picket the main gate. Radford Studios has told us they are “neutral” in this fight since they're owned by private equity. So I guess my question is... does this sound "neutral" to you? 11/11
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Andra
1 year
That’s me, baby!!!!
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Angela Treviño
1 year
Meet #WGAStrike Captain @whipsical , writer on @AdamRuins (TruTV). Why she's striking: If working class people can't be TV and movie writers anymore, then only the rich create culture. #WGAStrong
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Andra
5 years
Just found this really cute picture of me with the first pilot I ever wrote. LOOK AT THE HOPE IN THOSE EYES!
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Andra
1 year
Hey #WGAStrike supporters, we’re heading into a hot week. Here’s how I’m preparing and how you can help!! Short 🧵
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Andra
5 years
I JUST FINISHED A DRAFT OF THE PILOT I HAVE BEEN REWRITING FOR MONTHS. Is it good? Not yet. Is it at least on paper? Yes. Are there lizards fucking in it? You bet your ass.
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Andra
1 year
I’m glad Iger finally stepped in his own shit. Here’s something actually disturbing: Disney theme park employee pay has been declining for years. Many of them live in their cars. They installed showers at Disneyland rather than give them a raise. Fuck you Bob.
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Variety
1 year
Disney CEO Bob Iger says the writers and actors going on strike in Hollywood are not being “realistic” with their expectations: "It's very disturbing to me."
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Andra
1 year
Speaking of which, I am looking for work & new reps. I wrote on Adam Ruins Everything & The WGA Awards. I write comedy/dramedy about ppl who fight (whether against their own inner demons or giant murderous robokillers) for a better world. Big heart, some farts.
@daisykpgardner
Daisy Gardner 🌴🥥
1 year
Showrunners: I don’t care who you hire. Taste is subjective. Hire the best, brightest & funniest. Just make sure they are all former lot captains.
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Andra
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Im not SAG so my opinion on your deal isn’t relevant. But I will say, an organizational structure for rank and file members didn’t exist before this year. Watching this membership grow into a genuine understanding of their power has been inspiring to watch. Keep growing that. ✊
@UncoolRockstar
Chelsea Schwartz | SAG-AFTRA Captain
10 months
However you decide to vote on the SAG-AFTRA agreement, know your vote is not a sign of defeat. We’ve now proven that our union can stand up and fight, and as long as we continue to speak up (by voting, by getting involved in the union, etc) we will never be defeated.
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Andra
1 year
This WGA election, I voted for every incumbent. When choosing the 3 others, I highly recommend you vote for captains. They've proven they show up day in and day out, even when it's hard and thankless, and put in the work. Low ego, high impact. That's leadership. ❤️
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Andra
1 year
This is my mayor. This strike has transformed my relationship to local politics. I will remember who knew, as @KonstantineinCA that the working class are the heart of our cities and our country.
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Katy Tur Reports
1 year
"The studios don't vote. The workers who live here...they're the constituents" @hanijkim talks to the mayor of Burbank and @sagaftra member @KonstantineinCA on the picket line.
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Andra
5 years
LLs talk about this quietly together, but it’s really scary to say out loud “I can’t find an agent or a manager who will actually earn their 10%” because some people will just assume you’re a bad writer instead of, well, it has become harder to get a proper fiduciary.
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Andra
3 years
I liked Don't Look Up but, and I realize this is insane, I think I might have liked it better if it was the exact same movie but all of the cast were dinosaurs and it was set 66 million years ago. Like all the dinosaurs still wear suits and are president and stuff.
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Andra
1 year
Variety has tweeted three different versions of that 7 anonymous showrunners article in the last 8 hours. 3 times to amplify 7 anonymous, cowardly voices. More coverage than the THOUSANDS of writers vocally standing up for this proposal on twitter & our picket lines. Fucked.
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Andra
1 year
HEAT: W/o shade, heat in the valley is dangerous. These temp readings show walking surface between 116 and 135 on Colfax vs 86 near the main gate. That's a 30 to 50 degree difference. This is bad for everyone, and especially children & older ppl who come to our picket. 8/
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Andra
1 year
Last night I sat around a table with fellow captains I wouldn’t know if not for the WGA, drunk, laughing and crying about how weird and maddening this time is, and how, despite that, what we mostly feel is how deeply we love and are willing to fight each other. That’s Historic 🥰
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Andra
1 year
Every afternoon at radford the kids ride by after being picked up from school and go wild for us. Screaming, honking, they love it. This little one made their own sign. The people are with us.
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Andra
1 year
Hey y’all!!! We’re planning a big celebration of finally solving GateGate for this Wednesday at the Radford gate!! If you’d like to sponsor a food truck or bring something special to the picket my DMs are open!
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