Neil Blackman
@n3il4real.bsky.social
Writer. Movie stuff. Music junk. Suck at Video Games. Mental Health. Still chasing the highs of discovering AOL and finding the lows of everything since.
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Neil Blackman
@n3il4real.bsky.social
· Sep 5
Loaded - Horror Short
YouTube video by Roundsquare21
youtu.be
A collaboration between me and @roundsquare21.bsky.social hope y'all enjoy! #shortfilm #horror #nobudgetfilmmaking
Nala wanted her picture taken.
December 8, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Nala wanted her picture taken.
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For my book I thought a lot about this position, which really does rest on a presumption, nurtured by first world, usually male perspectives that have been shaped by habituation to empowerment, that for something to count as victory it has to be total & complete; anything else is “failure.” +
And the most important aspect of that study is: WHY DID THEY FAIL? If we lose sight of the overwhelming fact that *everything the Luddites did FAILED* we are missing the most important lessons we can learn. Anyone calling for a "neo-Luddite" movement may as well want a "neo-phlogiston" movement.
Luddites, frame-breakers, Captain Swing rioters, women amassing in Manchester streets to demand potatoes (e.g. 1812)— all these were organized countermovements to a gathering universal commodification, c. 1750-1840. For that reason they call out now for our closest & most sympathetic form of study
December 7, 2025 at 7:03 PM
For my book I thought a lot about this position, which really does rest on a presumption, nurtured by first world, usually male perspectives that have been shaped by habituation to empowerment, that for something to count as victory it has to be total & complete; anything else is “failure.” +
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This Chrismas, please give to poor-ass chickens and her babies who come to the door, despite being fed already. Spoiler: shoes were put on and another round of feed distributed. Status on writing? unknown.
December 7, 2025 at 3:09 PM
This Chrismas, please give to poor-ass chickens and her babies who come to the door, despite being fed already. Spoiler: shoes were put on and another round of feed distributed. Status on writing? unknown.
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May as well do ye olde end of the year recap thread now...
December 5, 2025 at 10:54 PM
May as well do ye olde end of the year recap thread now...
I feel like so much of what I read on here takes away, but this is restorative; a gift. I needed so many different parts of this essay.
Happy to have an essay from my forthcoming collection up @literaryhub.bsky.social today! "The time a library lends, I suspect, is a little like love: the more it gives away, the more comes back to it in kind."
On the Infinite Lives of the Library
One might say that a library’s most abundant resource—what it lends most freely—is not books and information but time. Time to think, breathe, be, and become. Last spring, in exchange for my servic…
lithub.com
December 4, 2025 at 4:04 PM
I feel like so much of what I read on here takes away, but this is restorative; a gift. I needed so many different parts of this essay.
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Look at this gorgeous list and these gorgeous books. You all know this started a year ago with a grumpy wine skeet and a half baked idea of mine!?? Look at what we made!!!
My gratitude is so deep this morning.
lithub.com/100-notable-...
My gratitude is so deep this morning.
lithub.com/100-notable-...
100 Notable Small Press Books of 2025
The idea of 100 Notable Small Press Books was born November 2024, after The New York Times’s annual 100 Notable Books list featured eighty-two books from the Big Five publishing houses (Pengu…
lithub.com
December 1, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Look at this gorgeous list and these gorgeous books. You all know this started a year ago with a grumpy wine skeet and a half baked idea of mine!?? Look at what we made!!!
My gratitude is so deep this morning.
lithub.com/100-notable-...
My gratitude is so deep this morning.
lithub.com/100-notable-...
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I know I shared this yesterday already, but it took me a week to write so I'm sharing it again. It answers the question that I've been asked as a well known inventor of an information literacy model -- what does information literacy with ai look like open.substack.com/pub/mikecaul...
SIFT for AI: Introduction and Pedagogy
Once I thought more deeply about what people had been asking for it made a lot of sense
open.substack.com
November 23, 2025 at 2:11 PM
I know I shared this yesterday already, but it took me a week to write so I'm sharing it again. It answers the question that I've been asked as a well known inventor of an information literacy model -- what does information literacy with ai look like open.substack.com/pub/mikecaul...
"History will not be kind to..." is the most toothless and pointless comment I can imagine. If there is no consequences or justice in the moments where these people are acting then what the fuck does it matter? History doesn't care. History is fallible and history has to keep being relearned.
November 18, 2025 at 4:30 PM
"History will not be kind to..." is the most toothless and pointless comment I can imagine. If there is no consequences or justice in the moments where these people are acting then what the fuck does it matter? History doesn't care. History is fallible and history has to keep being relearned.
The first batch of babies now have their own babies. The roosters can finally crow without sounding strangled. I ain't wrote shit. #from4to23chickens
November 16, 2025 at 5:35 PM
The first batch of babies now have their own babies. The roosters can finally crow without sounding strangled. I ain't wrote shit. #from4to23chickens
"all fires have to burn alive to live"
What is a song lyric that changed your life?
"Hearts are broken every day."
"Hearts are broken every day."
What is a song lyric that changed your life?
"No one can find the rewind button, girl, so cradle your head in your hands and breathe"
"No one can find the rewind button, girl, so cradle your head in your hands and breathe"
November 11, 2025 at 11:35 PM
"all fires have to burn alive to live"
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Congratulations to the 2025 recipient of the Volvo Prize, @naomioreskes.bsky.social! Naomi's work addresses vital issues such as why we need to trust science; a topic that becomes even more important with every new day.
Read more here: www.environment-prize.com/laureates/na...
Read more here: www.environment-prize.com/laureates/na...
Why we should trust scientists
Many of the world's biggest problems require asking questions of scientists -- but why should we believe what they say? Historian of science Naomi Oreskes thinks deeply about our relationship to belie...
www.ted.com
November 2, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Congratulations to the 2025 recipient of the Volvo Prize, @naomioreskes.bsky.social! Naomi's work addresses vital issues such as why we need to trust science; a topic that becomes even more important with every new day.
Read more here: www.environment-prize.com/laureates/na...
Read more here: www.environment-prize.com/laureates/na...
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Welcome to the 2025 Donation Drive
Check out the new sticker/shirt design by Jason Willis and learn how you can donate on the site!
razorcake.org/2025-donatio...
Check out the new sticker/shirt design by Jason Willis and learn how you can donate on the site!
razorcake.org/2025-donatio...
November 2, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Welcome to the 2025 Donation Drive
Check out the new sticker/shirt design by Jason Willis and learn how you can donate on the site!
razorcake.org/2025-donatio...
Check out the new sticker/shirt design by Jason Willis and learn how you can donate on the site!
razorcake.org/2025-donatio...
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happy #smallpoemsunday! 💜
feel free to participate by posting small poems you wrote, +/or small poems you love by somebody else :)
here’s one I love for the first weekend of the month, by Jane Cooper~
feel free to participate by posting small poems you wrote, +/or small poems you love by somebody else :)
here’s one I love for the first weekend of the month, by Jane Cooper~
November 2, 2025 at 2:51 PM
happy #smallpoemsunday! 💜
feel free to participate by posting small poems you wrote, +/or small poems you love by somebody else :)
here’s one I love for the first weekend of the month, by Jane Cooper~
feel free to participate by posting small poems you wrote, +/or small poems you love by somebody else :)
here’s one I love for the first weekend of the month, by Jane Cooper~
Found a cool podcast interviewing lower budget indie horror filmmakers.
Interview w/Jason Goldberg, writer of Stay Out of the Attic
open.spotify.com
October 26, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Found a cool podcast interviewing lower budget indie horror filmmakers.
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Hello Bluesky! We have 12 days to help fund my indie comic book and could use a little push! It’s funny and QUEER! If you have anything to give, please consider backing our kickstarter! We need a little over $18k!! Sharing is also caring! 🙇🏾♀️
www.kickstarter.com/projects/com...
www.kickstarter.com/projects/com...
October 12, 2025 at 1:25 AM
Hello Bluesky! We have 12 days to help fund my indie comic book and could use a little push! It’s funny and QUEER! If you have anything to give, please consider backing our kickstarter! We need a little over $18k!! Sharing is also caring! 🙇🏾♀️
www.kickstarter.com/projects/com...
www.kickstarter.com/projects/com...
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The Comic Shop (Workplace Comedy) | Episode 2 “Ratz City”
YouTube video by Awkward Virgo TV
youtu.be
September 5, 2025 at 10:44 PM
Is nobody gonna talk about Dean Koontz's hair? #koontzshair
September 6, 2025 at 1:02 AM
Is nobody gonna talk about Dean Koontz's hair? #koontzshair
A collaboration between me and @roundsquare21.bsky.social hope y'all enjoy! #shortfilm #horror #nobudgetfilmmaking
Loaded - Horror Short
YouTube video by Roundsquare21
youtu.be
September 5, 2025 at 6:39 PM
A collaboration between me and @roundsquare21.bsky.social hope y'all enjoy! #shortfilm #horror #nobudgetfilmmaking
Bedtime for Chickens #freerange or #freestrange
September 4, 2025 at 11:36 PM
Bedtime for Chickens #freerange or #freestrange
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Yeah here’s an essay I wrote about Crimson Peak, what I see in @realgdt.bsky.social’s work and how tragedy is the most misunderstood dramatic form in our day & age, back in 2015 medium.com/@somebadidea...
September 3, 2025 at 1:02 AM
Yeah here’s an essay I wrote about Crimson Peak, what I see in @realgdt.bsky.social’s work and how tragedy is the most misunderstood dramatic form in our day & age, back in 2015 medium.com/@somebadidea...
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THE COMIC SHOP | A Workplace Comedy - PILOT
YouTube video by Awkward Virgo TV
youtu.be
August 27, 2025 at 4:07 PM
@alfreds-mad-world.bsky.social finally saw one in the wild again after many years. I guess they do compilation issues now instead of new content? It's still cool to see it back in the grocery store, especially in an area that needs some "Mad"ness.
August 23, 2025 at 2:23 PM
@alfreds-mad-world.bsky.social finally saw one in the wild again after many years. I guess they do compilation issues now instead of new content? It's still cool to see it back in the grocery store, especially in an area that needs some "Mad"ness.