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Nick Black
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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/
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Nick Black @fuzzynick.bsky.social · Aug 27
My odd, sweet, sad, funny, dark, bright ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐-reviewed book of short stories, POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE www.amazon.co.uk/Positive-Neg... or £5 from me (UK)/cheap as can elsewhere.

Please PM me for more info. #books #booksky 📚💙 #amwriting #shortstories #flashfiction
fuzzynick.bsky.social Nick Black @fuzzynick.bsky.social · Nov 12
"Flashes sparking from the electrodes!... bursting with life." "This is how you do flash fiction." "... A fine collection that will get you thinking and stay with you...Get it! Get it! Get it!" - Amazon reviews for 'POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE' amazon.co.uk/Positive-Neg...
Positive and Negative: Amazon.co.uk: Black, Nick: 9781915247124: Books
Buy Positive and Negative by Black, Nick (ISBN: 9781915247124) from Amazon's Book Store. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders.
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mojomagazine.bsky.social
Keep on rockin': As Neil Young enters his eighth decade, MOJO selects his ten greatest ever records.
Neil Young’s Greatest Albums Ranked
www.mojo4music.com
November 11, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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criterionchannl.bsky.social
Evening viewing recommendation? Watch Barbara Stanwyck and Gary Cooper make sparks BALL OF FIRE (1941) — Howard Hawks's snappy screwball take on the Snow White tale.
November 11, 2025 at 12:35 AM
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codfather.bsky.social
😂
November 10, 2025 at 10:14 PM
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www.johnbleasdale.com
In Diamonds Are Forever the new James Bond (Sean Connery) who was also the old James Bond started the film seeking to avenge the death of the wife the last new James Bond (George Lazenby) had married and who had been killed. Later another James Bond (Roger Moore) killed her murderer. We were fine.
willardfoxton.bsky.social Willard Foxton @willardfoxton.bsky.social · 11h
James Bond’s death in No Time to Die is causing a nightmare for the next film. Writers are stuck because Bond “was blown to pieces.”

Anthony Horowitz, author of three 007 novels, says:

“You can't have him wake up in shower and saying it was all a dream."

radaronline.com/p/james-bond...
November 11, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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tobyontv.bsky.social
‘I once planned to sue the bbc for suggesting I encouraged an insurrection the time I encouraged an insurrection on live tv’
Bob Mortimer on Wilty
November 10, 2025 at 4:25 PM
fuzzynick.bsky.social
Starmer should sue X.
November 11, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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lianabrooks.bsky.social
There has been a mistake in the universe. I said I wanted a break, not "I want something to break."

*looks pointedly at universe*
November 10, 2025 at 12:00 PM
fuzzynick.bsky.social
Tate Britain's Lee Miller exhibition is fascinating - Surrealism, erotica, fashion, World War 2, the camps, the aftermath, and threading it all together, Miller herself, BLAZINGLY, heroically talented, courageous, inspiring.

Don't miss it.

www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tat...

#LeeMiller #photography
Lee Miller's photograph of the Great Pyramid, showing the shadow it casts over so much neighbouring land. Lee Miller, 1932 self portrait
November 11, 2025 at 11:47 AM
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vinylgeek.bsky.social
47 Today

Kate Bush
LionHeart

#katebush
#OTD
#vinyl
November 10, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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fuzzynick.bsky.social
In a better world, you'd all know this. @fulltimehobby.bsky.social
Album cover for the Saxophones' "TO BE A CLOUD". It lists the songs against a brown background and a photo shows the married couple who are the Saxophones swimming in what looks to be a lake.
January 29, 2025 at 7:47 PM
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rpatrickbooks.bsky.social
Fantastic new @tcmtv.bsky.social video of @eddiemuller.bsky.social and @danadelany.bsky.social considering the career of Barbara Stanwyck through her costumes, including several designed by Edith Head. Thanks to the archivists preserving this wardrobe artistry! www.youtube.com/watch?v=luKN...
Looking Back at Barbara Stanwyck’s Career (Clip) | The Stuff That Dreams Are Made Of | TCM
YouTube video by Turner Classic Movies
www.youtube.com
November 9, 2025 at 6:07 PM
fuzzynick.bsky.social
Managing two libraries, I already see how few men borrow/read books for themselves. This kind of crap won't help.
williammeikle.com William Meikle @williammeikle.com · 2d
I've been reading in public all my life purely for the pleasure of reading and long before The Independent existed... they can fuck off with this kind of pearl-clutching, mocking, attempt to make me feel bad about it.
Self-righteous wankery from the Independent newspaper about how reading in public is supposedly a performative act. Philistines are everywhere!
November 10, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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jessicaelgot.bsky.social
Maybe Keir should demand the heads of major US news networks any time they imply Britain is on the brink of civil war or that we live under sharia law. Or does it not work both ways?
November 10, 2025 at 11:29 AM
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modinmetro.bsky.social
Hornsey Town Hall, designed by Reginald Uren, was officially opened OTD in 1935. It was one of a number of suburban town halls opened in London in the 30s, and its design was influenced by Dutch architect Willem Dudok, Read more on this building here www.modernism-in-metroland.co.uk/blog/hornsey...
A black and white photograph of Hornsey Town Hall, with its entrance staircase tower
November 4, 2025 at 10:50 AM
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modinmetro.bsky.social
Cholmeley Lodge, Highgate

1935

Guy Morgan and Partners

www.modernism-in-metroland.co.uk/speculative-...
A colour photograph of the curving facade of Cholmeley Lodge
November 10, 2025 at 10:45 AM
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motherslug.bsky.social
My latest review for Uncut!
November 9, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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emilyblake.bsky.social
Y'all. Pluribis is so good. Vince Gilligan, you bastard.
November 8, 2025 at 4:12 AM
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regretteruane.bsky.social
Was really struck by what a lovely inspiring exercise this is, like a primary school version of Mary Oliver’s Instructions for living a life
Pay attention.
Be astonished.
Tell about it
Page from a 1960s primary school English textbook with a lovely cartoonish illustration of a red haired white girl in blue shirt looking at a cockatoo on a black perch. It is in the centre bottom and takes up about a third of the page, above is black serif text which reads Have you ever noticed? Every day we "see" things without really looking at them at all. On the way to and from school look at just one thing that you have often passed but never looked at very closely - it may be a street lamp, a small plant in a hedgerow, someone's front gate, the wall and windows of an ofice building, the balcony of a house, an object in a shop window. You are a secret service agent, and exact knowledge of this object is your password. Your life depends on it. Learn it by heart, and then describe it to the fellow agent who has to test you by your knowledge.
November 10, 2025 at 9:35 AM
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afterdinnerconversation.com
Just as a heads up, we are currently reading submissions from late August, 2025...
November 9, 2025 at 3:34 AM
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social
To celebrate the publication of the 3rd already #BestSelling and #MostGifted 🎁 womensart book #ReframingWomenPrintmakers
Sundays are all about your favourite women printmakers!...
bookshop.org/beta-search?...
November 9, 2025 at 5:13 AM
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mobydickatsea.bsky.social
Yet is there hope. Time and tide flow wide.
November 9, 2025 at 5:47 AM
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theguardian.com
The man who shot Al Capone: Jun Fujita’s Chicago – in pictures
The man who shot Al Capone: Jun Fujita’s Chicago – in pictures
Disasters, riots, gangsters and construction … early 20th-century Chicago is seen here through the lens of the pioneering Japanese-American photojournalist, poet and artist Jun Fujita
www.theguardian.com
November 9, 2025 at 7:33 AM
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fuzzynick.bsky.social
Still the best Frankenstein film I've seen since Karloff and Whale's, recommended by @andrewmale.bsky.social over at the old place.
Poster for the 1969 Hammer Horror film 'FRANKENSTEIN MUST BE DESTROYED'
November 8, 2025 at 9:57 AM
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emilyrinkema.bsky.social
For those who don't know, I have a small business called (ho-dee-ay). We make a "game" without rules for people living with dementia and those who love and care for them. If you have a loved one with dementia, check it out (coupon code DementiaLove for discount!). hodeeay.com ❤️
November 8, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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fuzzynick.bsky.social
Off to an ex of my wife's piano recital in Hampstead tomorrow night so, since this story set there and I never need much of an excuse to wheel stories back out for potential new readers to see..

I very much hope you enjoy it. Please say if so!

#amwriting #shortstory #flashfiction #booksky
fuzzynick.bsky.social Nick Black @fuzzynick.bsky.social · Jul 17
{What happened}"After a rather lovely evening, involving foaming pints and burning-hot buttery crêpes from the stand outside..."

'STRETCH' by @fuzzynick.bsky.social Nick Black

www.bloodhoneylit.com/fiction/stre...

#amwriting #booksky 📚💙 #writers #authors #shortstories @bloodhoneylit.bsky.social
November 7, 2025 at 3:36 PM