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Adam Farrer

@adamjfarrer.bsky.social

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Essayist, Editor @ The Real Story, Winner NorthBound Book Award for COLD FISH SOUP (Saraband, 2022). BROKEN BISCUITS (HarperNorth, 2025) MD ANT https://linktr.ee/adamjfarrer

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Adam Farrer @adamjfarrer.bsky.social · Nov 16

Everyone’s introducing themselves, so I'll join in.

I’m an award-winning writer of personal essays living in the north of England. Here are my books (I will talk about them a lot). This is my massive dog (I will talk about her a lot). I’m a pretty harmless presence really.

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Adam Farrer @adamjfarrer.bsky.social · 10h

A guy just said “Sick Crocs, mate!” to me and asked where I got them. I said “Internet.” He said “Brilliant. I’m going on the internet.” I said “Great. And thanks for the compliment.” He said “Sick Crocs.” then walked off.

I don’t have many conversations with men but is this how they usually go?

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Elizabeth Boyle @thecelticist.bsky.social · 11h

Reminds me of this excellent sign that I saw at the Tubman African American Museum in Macon, Georgia.

Piano, which once belonged to Little Richard, with a sign on it saying "Do not attempt to play Little Richard's piano. He will know."

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Adam Farrer @adamjfarrer.bsky.social · 11h

Someone once told me to never ask you this question. Possibly Wes Brown.

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Adam Farrer @adamjfarrer.bsky.social · 12h

Something similar just happened for me, learning about Grant-Lee Philips in Manchester on Saturday from Songkick, a service I apparently signed up for.

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Adam Farrer @adamjfarrer.bsky.social · 12h

Full disclosure, it's not a recent photo.

Adam Farrer @adamjfarrer.bsky.social · 12h

Someone asked me what I looked like without a beard, so I sent them this photo of me dressed as Jiminy Cricket and posing with John Craven.

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 17h

Badenoch and Co see education only as a means to a massive income in some soul destroying career.

Devoid of imagination and the power of knowledge they view life entirely through the prism of the CV.

My advice always is to study what interests you and the rest will follow

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Sooz Kempner @soozuk.bsky.social · 15h

"Putin's communists" like that's...a thing. A capitalist authoritarian is a capitalist authoritarian. Unless it's in Russia. THEN it's just communism.

I'm glad Zack is terrifying the establishment. People are just angry enough to not buy in to Voldemort mock-ups on Newsnight.

PS it's "principles".

Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 1d

I'm never actually going to need to write another comment piece again am I?

The right wing shit rags are just going to keep recruiting for us.

Folks - want a better country?

Join.greenparty.org.uk

The party even more dangerous than Starmers labour - UK's answer to Putin's communists

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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 15h

I'm giving away this signed 1st edition h/b of my new novel (it has a tiny jacket rip which means I wouldn't sell it) to one person who reposts this.

You might like it if you like:
Folkloric creatures
Old records
Intricate psychedelic stories
The idea of circular time

All shares much-appreciated.

Joe McLaren's fabulous cover for Everything Will Swallow You

A close up of the small tear on this first edition of Everything Will Swallow You

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Adam Farrer @adamjfarrer.bsky.social · 16h

Literally two. Despite Ghost, I never expected a potter's wheel to be so sexy.

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Adam Farrer @adamjfarrer.bsky.social · 16h

Fair. I redefined bare minimum at uni. I was so close to being thrown off my course for being distracted by drink and girlfriends and only got through it because I was studying sculpture and doing so in Barnsley, which I applied to because I was told 'they'll accept anyone'.

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Richard Smyth @rsmythfreelance.bsky.social · 16h

What should I talk about at this, gang? Hullo birds, hullo sky? The history of eco-fascism? The joys of freelancing, har har har? The problems with nature writing (but bear in mind we've only got a couple of hours)? Coffee photography?

Richard Smyth @rsmythfreelance.bsky.social · 8d

I am to be let out, and poked until I speak. My first talk in AGES - please do come along, if you're in the north-east. Books, birds, all that sort of thing. www.nhsn.org.uk/events/richa...

Richard Smyth: A Nature Writer at Large

An evening with nature writer Richard Smyth in the NHSN Council RoomRichard Smyth is one of the UK's busiest nature writers. His most recent book, The Jay, the Beech and the Limpetshell: Finding Wild ...

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Andy Miller @iammilliam.bsky.social · 19h

Just the latest way in which technology is enabling people who don’t actually like reading to diminish the cultural relevance of those who do.

The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 1d

Abridging has always been in vogue. Now, apps like Blinkist take entire books and crunch them down to a series of what are called Blinks—which amount to around 2,000 words. “Is that what books are coming to, a handy social lubricant?” Anthony Lane asks.

Can You Read a Book in a Quarter of an Hour?

Phone apps now offer to boil down entire books into micro-synopses. What they leave out is revealing.

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Orla Owen @orlaowenwriting.bsky.social · 1d

SO excited for this and so happy for @ronanhession.bsky.social @ofmooseandmen.bsky.social

May the whole world read Leonard and Hungry Paul 💛👏👏💛

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Bluemoose Books @ofmooseandmen.bsky.social · 1d

Julia Roberts, Leonard and Hungry Paul narrator

'Leonard and Hungry Paul is such a magical book. I am delighted to be a tiny part of this novel becoming a television series.'

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Leonard and Hungry Paul cast and Director on telling a story about kindness, friendship, and the quiet heroism of everyday life -

The feel-good series stars Alex Lawther, Laurie Kynaston and Jamie-Lee O’Donnell, with Julia Roberts as narrator

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Eddie Robson @eddierobson.bsky.social · 1d

There's something very "Ford Prefect" about a process that arrives at "Harper Collins" as a sensible name for a pornbot

Jane @localnotail.bsky.social · 1d

Ah but do you get pornbots like Jonn?

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Guardiaoscura @guardiaoscura.bsky.social · 1d

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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 2d

4 panel comic

Panel 1:
A Purple person is standing holding a clipboard. A Blue Person sits at a laptop.
Blue Person: Woohoo. I’m the CEO of a social media platform.

Panel 2:
Purple person: We should hire a PR person to interact with the public
Blue Person begins to type on laptop and says: Nope. Gonna do all that myself

Panel 3:
Purple person looks concerned and says: Really…but…

Panel 4:
Purple person: You’re such a whiny little fucking baby

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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 1d

I agree with every word Zelda Williams says. And this at the end from OpenAI makes me want to go full Ned Ludd. Creators can’t have a blanket opt-out on copyright infringement of their work and have to fill out a form appealing to OpenAI’s mercy every time? Fuck off into the sun

OpenAI told the Guardian that content owners can flag copyright infringement using a “copyright disputes form” but that individual artists or studios cannot have a blanket opt-out. Varun Shetty, OpenAI’s head of media partnerships, said: “We’ll work with rights holders to block characters from Sora at their request and respond to takedown requests.”

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Ricardo Autobahn @ricardoautobahn.co.uk · 2d

This is the maddest tour I've ever seen in my life. It seems like he's doing more gigs than there are days in the year.

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DAVE! (like "Them!" but Dave) @daveexmachina.bsky.social · 2d

normal person: i just want a place to hang out with my friends
tech weirdo: and shitheads
np: no just my friends
tw: but what about hearing alternative views on race and gender?
np: we just want to hang out and goof around
tw: so where do the shitheads fit in then
np: no shitheads
tw: not following

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Adam Farrer @adamjfarrer.bsky.social · 2d

Didn’t he die a watery death?

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Rhodri Marsden @rhodri.biz · 2d

A text from my mum. The general population appear to be losing their minds

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John Self @john-self.bsky.social · 2d

Best titles of autobiographies?

Starting with:

- Vic Reeves, Me: Moir
- Dennis Waterman, Reminder (thanks @whenisbirths.bsky.social)
- AA Gill, Pour Me
- Gene Simmons, Kiss and Make-Up
- Julian Clary, A Young Man's Passage

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Adam Farrer @adamjfarrer.bsky.social · 2d

Me: Moir is perfection. I've always been fond of this.

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Adam Farrer @adamjfarrer.bsky.social · 2d

Truly. The end credits theme especially.