This is me! I’m the wife! And I was so surprised by and grateful for Team Coco’s kindness and generosity.
Kat Craft
@katcraft.bsky.social
Screenwriter & fiction writer w/low vision. Staff writer on BEST FOOT FORWARD on Apple TV+, writer/creator of KAPPA CRYPTO on Snapchat, writer/director of SHAKY for Audible - due out in 2025. Opinions are my own.
For folks who need an alternative form of ID accepted by many city departments (including the police and Austin Energy) and community organizations:
Enhanced Library Card | Austin Public Library
library.austintexas.gov
New York Mag's Union fighting for fair wages and protection from AI. Pledge to not cross a digital picket line.
READER PLEDGE — New York Mag Union
nymagunion.org
The best part of writing a story featuring feral hogs is all of the ridiculous feral hog footage I'm finding. This will be an ongoing thread.
Wild boar rams through gate
YouTube video by LPE360
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peek / peak is the #1 typo/misspelling I see in student screenplays these days. It hurts me every single time.
eggs will continue to become scarcer and more expensive until there is one multi-trillion dollar egg and then it hatches birthing a new world in which it all happens again
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Here is an interesting adjective quirk that you probably aren’t even aware you are doing. In English, adjectives seem to follow a specific order: opinion - size - age - shape - color - origin - material - purpose - noun
Bad: sucks for me! Good: I will have forgotten the complete existence of this article and study twenty minutes after reading it.
'Men with a diagnosis of ADHD die seven years sooner, on average, than similar people without, while for women the life expectancy gap is almost nine years, the first study of its kind has revealed.' www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Texas health and human services focused on being suspicious of poor people while their own employees are stealing money from food stamp accounts. Article in the Texas tribune: apple.news/Au047BNprQf-...
Neil Gaiman out here pretending his fans don’t know the rules of BDSM.
“The great-grandfather and Mitchell family patriarch was an amputee who used a wheelchair. His son Justin Mitchell had cerebral palsy and needed help to get out of bed. They couldn’t escape on their own…” Please check on your disabled neighbors during emergencies. www.latimes.com/california/s...
Altadena family says disabled father and son were left to burn: 'Nobody was coming'
Anthony Mitchell Sr., an amputee who used a wheelchair, and his son Justin, who had cerebral palsy, died due to slow evacuation efforts during the Altadena fire, relatives said Friday.
latimes.com
#WGA members in Los Angeles: @humanitasprize.bsky.social is boosting GoFundMes for screenwriters who have lost their homes in the current fires. Please DM them a link! #LAFires
This is why I do not repost trending information for at least 24 to 48 hours. It’s almost impossible to know what the fuck is true anymore!
I don't know if the LA fire department is properly funded or not but the claim that the city cut its budget last year — which is circulating widely on the right — is false. As Politico notes, the budget actually INCREASED by $50 million. A portion of the funding was approved in a separate bill.
There are 395 incarcerated firefighters helping combat the wildfires in LA right now. They earn up to $26.90 over a 24-hour shift.
‘Essential’: nearly 400 incarcerated firefighters deployed as LA battles wildfires
The firefighters earn $5.80-$10.24 per day plus $1 an hour when responding to active emergencies, according to CDCR
theguardian.com
If people want to help and are able to donate to help those affected by these LA fires, here are places they can donate: friendsindeedpas.org/donate-to-fr... cpf.salsalabs.org/disasterreli... www.directrelief.org/emergency/ca... www.pledge.to/ccfwildfirer... www.globalgiving.org/projects/cal...
California Fire Relief
In response to fire across California, Direct Relief provides N-95 masks, medicine, and other resources to public agencies and first responders in wildfire-affected communities.
directrelief.org
Humanitas is managing a spreadsheet of LA fire resources here:
Humanitas - Los Angeles Fire Resource List (updating)
docs.google.com
I took this development workshop last year and it is truly amazing – leveled up my one pagers and pitches, and gave me a methodical system for how to do it.