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John August

@johnaugust

Screenwriter, mostly. Also Highland and Scriptnotes.

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Select a letter — or two if it’s about transforming one into the other. Then tap the song you want to use.

The only trick is selecting the letter(s) first.

06.03.2026 06:46 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

The “shield” is intolerable here as well.

“Parents tried to shield their children from water. Instead they died of dehydration.”

That’s what the @nytimes.com headline here says. Both “shield” and “instead” appallingly reinforce anti-vax attitudes and frames.

04.03.2026 14:18 👍 1241 🔁 323 💬 26 📌 7

This game is a banger. I am
enjoying the inherent ridiculousness of trying to win a word game by replacing my
entire deck with wildcards.

01.03.2026 15:18 👍 9 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0

But seriously: If this merger happens, there are going to be so many brilliant marketing and distribution people laid off. Start a new division! Make money!

27.02.2026 15:56 👍 21 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Netflix Walks With A Cool $2.8 Billion Breakup Fee: Who Gets What In New Paramount-WBD Merger Proposal Netflix will walks away with a hefty $2.8 billion breakup fee as Warner Bros. Discovery shifts to Paramount and M&A drama accelerates.

Hilarious thing to do with $2.8 billion: start a theatrical distribution business. deadline.com/2026/02/netf...

27.02.2026 15:51 👍 49 🔁 11 💬 4 📌 1

v early in Mamdani’s term in office but hard to escape conclusion that he’s causing a lot of snowfall

22.02.2026 16:31 👍 2209 🔁 220 💬 59 📌 22

Working on it! The game is done, but we can’t get it approved by Google.

19.02.2026 00:09 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Birdigo, our acclaimed Wordle-meets-Balatro game, is out today on the App Store! No ads. Just pudgy birds. @gameteam6.com apps.apple.com/us/app/birdi...

18.02.2026 16:38 👍 18 🔁 6 💬 2 📌 3

Melrose and La Brea is just a river right now.

16.02.2026 19:53 👍 984 🔁 313 💬 68 📌 106

We should send it out wider. I’ll DM you a link.

16.02.2026 18:04 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Scriptnotes book by John August and Craig Mazin

Scriptnotes book by John August and Craig Mazin

Done. This might be my new favourite book on writing. Maybe only tied with @stephenking.bsky.social’s. Very honest, very straightforward, and very practical. It’s about the job and not about dreaming of the job title. Thanks @johnaugust.bsky.social and @clmazin.bsky.social

15.02.2026 10:16 👍 23 🔁 2 💬 4 📌 0

Did you read the bonus chapter? We cover a fair amount of that.

16.02.2026 06:19 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Just played a(nother) fun game of Swoop with our family, thanks to @johnaugust.bsky.social mentioning it on Scriptnotes.

It’s a quick, easy card game, ages 7+ (officially) for 3-8 players, though you can expand up to 12 if you buy an extra deck. It’s a little like Uno. Recommended.

14.02.2026 01:59 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

The concept of “lying under oath” is up for grabs right now. All the Trump SCOTUS judges did it about Roe. Kennedy did it to get his post. If one of these fuckers isn’t prosecuted it will be crystal clear that there are zero repercussions for doing so, and everyone will lie forever.

13.02.2026 18:37 👍 1331 🔁 362 💬 31 📌 5
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#170. Gamblers and You Hi everyone, It's been a weird one!!! Just bleak news stories wall to wall (including the impending lack of news stories being written and reported for The Washington Post thanks to hundreds of layof...

"Gambling should be something you have to hide from your wife and children. It should not be an activity that Kevin Hart begs you to do at every commercial break.” www.thatsmarvelousnewsletter.com/170-gamblers... @joshgondelman.bsky.social

11.02.2026 22:45 👍 119 🔁 11 💬 0 📌 0

No son, they are not "magically delicious." The workers made them delicious. This is a slogan meant to mystify the social conditions of labor

11.02.2026 01:46 👍 20611 🔁 4613 💬 110 📌 65

I use Safari — except for Roll20, for which we needed to use a Chrome plugin

09.02.2026 03:26 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

We were watching for the bushes to dance the whole time

09.02.2026 03:26 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

turns out when Bezos suggested "democracy dies in darkness" it was a goal, not a slogan

04.02.2026 15:27 👍 1052 🔁 294 💬 20 📌 15
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Melania ‘Doc’ Director Found in Creepy Epstein Files Photos Brett Ratner, who was accused of sexual misconduct by six women in 2017, was photographed with the late sex trafficker.

Melania director Brett Ratner was pictured cozying up to Jeffrey Epstein in newly released photos published by the Department of Justice.

31.01.2026 17:20 👍 501 🔁 186 💬 38 📌 45

Hooray! We checked with the UK publisher, and apparently the delay was just physically getting books to the right warehouses. Glad it finally happened!

16.01.2026 02:08 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Sorry and hooray! Any consolation, the notes you took for yourself probably lodged in your brain better.

26.12.2025 17:24 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Birdigo is *50%* off during the Steam Winter Sale, now until Jan 5th! store.steampowered.com/app/3264170/

This Wordle-meets-Balatro cozy word game was created by @johnaugust.bsky.social & @toboggan.work and plays great on a Steam Deck ❄️

18.12.2025 18:05 👍 1 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0

I grew up in Boulder. My Scout Explorer post met in this exact building at NCAR, home to the most science-y science nerds in the Rockies. What a stupid timeline we’re in.

17.12.2025 19:30 👍 15 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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@johnaugust.bsky.social arrived earlier in the month. Saving to read it over the festive break (and read the bonus chapter too!) looks awesome and so clean inside. Lots of white space!

16.12.2025 16:37 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 0

Hooray!

16.12.2025 17:04 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Rob Reiner was funny and gregarious, just like you’d expect. Michele Reiner always insisted on one conversation at a time around a dinner table so everyone could participate. Such a tragedy. All my sympathy to their family.

15.12.2025 06:44 👍 482 🔁 42 💬 4 📌 1

Fun idea!

14.12.2025 03:52 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

The Scriptnotes book outsold this!

11.12.2025 21:03 👍 52 🔁 1 💬 5 📌 0