Nick Black
@fuzzynick.bsky.social
Library manager. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️-reviewed short stories collection 'POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE' (Ad Hoc Fiction), available now from me or from your local Amazon: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Positive-Negative-Nick-Black/dp/1915247128/
Pinned
Available now, in time for all your favourite holidays!
Slinky enough to fit any stocking. Positive and Negative enough to light up any shelf.
#booksky 📚💙 #BuyNow #shortstories #flashfiction
Slinky enough to fit any stocking. Positive and Negative enough to light up any shelf.
#booksky 📚💙 #BuyNow #shortstories #flashfiction
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Back to reading this after a little break and it's instantly wonderful, all over again.
If anyone's looking for presents to buy, or to ask for, this a treat for anyone interested in birds, birdsong, writing/language, being alert to the world around, the throb of life.
#booksky 📚💙 #AdamNicolson
If anyone's looking for presents to buy, or to ask for, this a treat for anyone interested in birds, birdsong, writing/language, being alert to the world around, the throb of life.
#booksky 📚💙 #AdamNicolson
November 25, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Back to reading this after a little break and it's instantly wonderful, all over again.
If anyone's looking for presents to buy, or to ask for, this a treat for anyone interested in birds, birdsong, writing/language, being alert to the world around, the throb of life.
#booksky 📚💙 #AdamNicolson
If anyone's looking for presents to buy, or to ask for, this a treat for anyone interested in birds, birdsong, writing/language, being alert to the world around, the throb of life.
#booksky 📚💙 #AdamNicolson
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November 25, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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Cal Lane, Canadian trained welder and metal artist, transforms common tools and also industrial steel products into intricate sculptures #WomensArt
November 26, 2025 at 6:07 AM
Cal Lane, Canadian trained welder and metal artist, transforms common tools and also industrial steel products into intricate sculptures #WomensArt
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Imagine the intensity if super-intense lesbian best-selling author Aggie from #TheBeastInMe were in the same room with super-intense lesbian best-selling author Carol from #Pluribis. (I'd so love an episode, x2, where both characters inexplicably swapped to be in each other's show for that week.)
November 25, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Imagine the intensity if super-intense lesbian best-selling author Aggie from #TheBeastInMe were in the same room with super-intense lesbian best-selling author Carol from #Pluribis. (I'd so love an episode, x2, where both characters inexplicably swapped to be in each other's show for that week.)
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Booking are open: my four week online course on writing your first novel. Starts January:
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Finding Your First Novel: From Chaos to Completion
Help emerging writers transform scattered ideas, fears, fragments, or half-drafts into a coherent creative plan! Over 4 weeks.
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November 25, 2025 at 10:23 AM
Booking are open: my four week online course on writing your first novel. Starts January:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/finding-yo...
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/finding-yo...
November 25, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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As the year comes to an end, I'm reposting some of the comics I made this year, including this ridiculous thing.
November 25, 2025 at 3:19 PM
As the year comes to an end, I'm reposting some of the comics I made this year, including this ridiculous thing.
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Black Christmas (1974)
Directed by Bob Clark
Directed by Bob Clark
November 25, 2025 at 11:31 AM
Black Christmas (1974)
Directed by Bob Clark
Directed by Bob Clark
Back to reading this after a little break and it's instantly wonderful, all over again.
If anyone's looking for presents to buy, or to ask for, this a treat for anyone interested in birds, birdsong, writing/language, being alert to the world around, the throb of life.
#booksky 📚💙 #AdamNicolson
If anyone's looking for presents to buy, or to ask for, this a treat for anyone interested in birds, birdsong, writing/language, being alert to the world around, the throb of life.
#booksky 📚💙 #AdamNicolson
November 25, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Back to reading this after a little break and it's instantly wonderful, all over again.
If anyone's looking for presents to buy, or to ask for, this a treat for anyone interested in birds, birdsong, writing/language, being alert to the world around, the throb of life.
#booksky 📚💙 #AdamNicolson
If anyone's looking for presents to buy, or to ask for, this a treat for anyone interested in birds, birdsong, writing/language, being alert to the world around, the throb of life.
#booksky 📚💙 #AdamNicolson
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Available now, in time for all your favourite holidays!
Slinky enough to fit any stocking. Positive and Negative enough to light up any shelf.
#booksky 📚💙 #BuyNow #shortstories #flashfiction
Slinky enough to fit any stocking. Positive and Negative enough to light up any shelf.
#booksky 📚💙 #BuyNow #shortstories #flashfiction
November 15, 2025 at 9:47 AM
Available now, in time for all your favourite holidays!
Slinky enough to fit any stocking. Positive and Negative enough to light up any shelf.
#booksky 📚💙 #BuyNow #shortstories #flashfiction
Slinky enough to fit any stocking. Positive and Negative enough to light up any shelf.
#booksky 📚💙 #BuyNow #shortstories #flashfiction
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... My brain goes through several dramatic shifts between breakfast and lunchtime... 🫣
Four pivotal ages in your brain's development revealed in new scientific study
Brain scans on thousands of people reveal the dramatic shifts the brain goes through between birth and death.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 25, 2025 at 1:41 PM
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... My brain goes through several dramatic shifts between breakfast and lunchtime... 🫣
Imagine the intensity if super-intense lesbian best-selling author Aggie from #TheBeastInMe were in the same room with super-intense lesbian best-selling author Carol from #Pluribis. (I'd so love an episode, x2, where both characters inexplicably swapped to be in each other's show for that week.)
November 25, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Imagine the intensity if super-intense lesbian best-selling author Aggie from #TheBeastInMe were in the same room with super-intense lesbian best-selling author Carol from #Pluribis. (I'd so love an episode, x2, where both characters inexplicably swapped to be in each other's show for that week.)
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November 24, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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Tina Weymouth — Rob Verhorst, 1980
November 22, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Tina Weymouth — Rob Verhorst, 1980
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All My Precious Madness by Mark Bowles JUST WON best audiobook fiction at The Speakies! This is delightful! So pleased for @markabowles.bsky.social , @spiracleaudiobooks.bsky.social , wonderful reader Paul Hilton. And for us! www.thebookseller.com/british-audi...
Best Audiobook: Fiction Shortlist | The British Audio Awards
The shortlist for the Best Audiobook: Fiction category at The British Audio Awards 2025
www.thebookseller.com
November 24, 2025 at 7:47 PM
All My Precious Madness by Mark Bowles JUST WON best audiobook fiction at The Speakies! This is delightful! So pleased for @markabowles.bsky.social , @spiracleaudiobooks.bsky.social , wonderful reader Paul Hilton. And for us! www.thebookseller.com/british-audi...
November 24, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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"a movie that takes place where you're from"
"a movie that came out the year you were born"
"a movie character that shares your mother's maiden name"
"change a movie title by putting your social security number into it"
"a movie that came out the year you were born"
"a movie character that shares your mother's maiden name"
"change a movie title by putting your social security number into it"
November 23, 2025 at 6:20 PM
"a movie that takes place where you're from"
"a movie that came out the year you were born"
"a movie character that shares your mother's maiden name"
"change a movie title by putting your social security number into it"
"a movie that came out the year you were born"
"a movie character that shares your mother's maiden name"
"change a movie title by putting your social security number into it"
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In reflection, these leaves fallen across a puddle, have found a way back into their parents’ arms.
November 23, 2025 at 10:04 AM
In reflection, these leaves fallen across a puddle, have found a way back into their parents’ arms.
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Another film that I seem to be swimming against the tide of opinion on...
Not entirely sure I got everything it was trying to say, not entirely sure it WAS trying to say anything coherent, but found it compelling and interesting throughout.
#AfterTheHunt #LucaGuadagnino
Not entirely sure I got everything it was trying to say, not entirely sure it WAS trying to say anything coherent, but found it compelling and interesting throughout.
#AfterTheHunt #LucaGuadagnino
November 23, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Another film that I seem to be swimming against the tide of opinion on...
Not entirely sure I got everything it was trying to say, not entirely sure it WAS trying to say anything coherent, but found it compelling and interesting throughout.
#AfterTheHunt #LucaGuadagnino
Not entirely sure I got everything it was trying to say, not entirely sure it WAS trying to say anything coherent, but found it compelling and interesting throughout.
#AfterTheHunt #LucaGuadagnino
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Adam Nicolson on Bird School: what he learned by living among birds in his Sussex woods Listen https://tinyurl.com/ys8ryhaj
November 15, 2025 at 12:45 AM
Adam Nicolson on Bird School: what he learned by living among birds in his Sussex woods Listen https://tinyurl.com/ys8ryhaj
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The thing I've noticed with Radiohead over the years. Every time I see them, there's always one song in particular that anchors the whole experience in my memory. www.patreon.com/posts/so-man...
“So many Gen X parents in attendance with their Gen Z kids – whose existential lot in this new century was somehow foretold by so many Radiohead songs.” | Pete Paphides
Get more from Pete Paphides on Patreon
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November 24, 2025 at 8:42 AM
The thing I've noticed with Radiohead over the years. Every time I see them, there's always one song in particular that anchors the whole experience in my memory. www.patreon.com/posts/so-man...
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I love writing so much oh my god I love creating characters and relationships and whole ass worlds out of nothing but .... WORDS ??? in my mind ????? why do we not talk about how cool that is more often
November 24, 2025 at 5:27 AM
I love writing so much oh my god I love creating characters and relationships and whole ass worlds out of nothing but .... WORDS ??? in my mind ????? why do we not talk about how cool that is more often
'A 1993 Shoegaze, Britpop, and Psychedelia Masterpiece' @pitchfork.com
The Boo Radleys: Giant Steps
Read Zach Schoenfeld’s review of the album.
pitchfork.com
November 23, 2025 at 6:44 PM
'A 1993 Shoegaze, Britpop, and Psychedelia Masterpiece' @pitchfork.com
Another film that I seem to be swimming against the tide of opinion on...
Not entirely sure I got everything it was trying to say, not entirely sure it WAS trying to say anything coherent, but found it compelling and interesting throughout.
#AfterTheHunt #LucaGuadagnino
Not entirely sure I got everything it was trying to say, not entirely sure it WAS trying to say anything coherent, but found it compelling and interesting throughout.
#AfterTheHunt #LucaGuadagnino
November 23, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Another film that I seem to be swimming against the tide of opinion on...
Not entirely sure I got everything it was trying to say, not entirely sure it WAS trying to say anything coherent, but found it compelling and interesting throughout.
#AfterTheHunt #LucaGuadagnino
Not entirely sure I got everything it was trying to say, not entirely sure it WAS trying to say anything coherent, but found it compelling and interesting throughout.
#AfterTheHunt #LucaGuadagnino