Adam Farrer
@adamjfarrer.bsky.social
Essayist, Editor @ The Real Story, Winner NorthBound Book Award for COLD FISH SOUP (Saraband, 2022). BROKEN BISCUITS (HarperNorth, 2025) MD ANT
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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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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.
linktr.ee/adamjfarrer
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Time to get your Cliff Richard 2026 calendars.
And if you'd like a little preview, this is the thread for you.
Straight away, the cover pulls you in. He's so young and trendy!
And if you'd like a little preview, this is the thread for you.
Straight away, the cover pulls you in. He's so young and trendy!
November 25, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Time to get your Cliff Richard 2026 calendars.
And if you'd like a little preview, this is the thread for you.
Straight away, the cover pulls you in. He's so young and trendy!
And if you'd like a little preview, this is the thread for you.
Straight away, the cover pulls you in. He's so young and trendy!
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Somebody posted an old photo in a Facebook local group and asked if anyone could clean it up. Well-meaning people turned to #AI. Lots of responders seemed happy with the results, but this is how you destroy historical records.
November 25, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Somebody posted an old photo in a Facebook local group and asked if anyone could clean it up. Well-meaning people turned to #AI. Lots of responders seemed happy with the results, but this is how you destroy historical records.
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![[Scene is a MEDIEVAL PLAGUE PIT with all the bodies inside it. On the edge of it is a young peasant woman, in a sack cloth dress, covered in boils. She is lounging glamorously next to the pit. Her boyfriend is standing a few feet away, photographing her with an anachronistic mobile phone]
GIRL:
OK so I'll sit here...
With my hair like this…
Rubbing my cyst with the corpse's hand.
[She produces a whithered severed hand and starts rubbing it on her face.]
[We are treated to a revolting close up of her rubbing the severed hand on her disgusting massive cyst.]
[Her boyfriend takes a photo of her.]
SNAP
GIRL:
OK, now write this:
"Hanging out at the burial pit, rubbing my sebaceous cyst with a severed corpse hand from
#BurtsGraverobbers…”
And then: #selfcare, #metime, #BurtsGraverobbers…
... nails emoji, heart emoji, cyst emoji.
BOYFRIEND:
Um...
Should we really be promoting this?
I mean… does rubbing a corpse's hand on a cyst actually work?
GIRL:
Look, Burt's done research, OK?
And he's paying us four groats.
BOYFRIEND:
Hmm.
[Boyfriend dutifully taps out the post on his phone]
TAP TAP TAP
BOYFRIEND:
Cyst emoji?
GIRL:
Just use a fried egg.
[Ends]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4m3we4apbjayclzcnhwe3pfp/bafkreifyvq2vzehtutrj7ild2dd7kkljmkbcby7yompicekbbpa2bqpluq@jpeg)
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Once again, with feeling:
AI IS NOT FUCKING INEVITABLE
AI IS NOT FUCKING INEVITABLE
AI will reshape publishing jobs, from editorial and production to marketing, sales and operations. The question is not whether this happens, but who shapes these changes, says Bec Evans 👇 #BookSky
Knowledge is power
ebx.sh
November 25, 2025 at 11:07 AM
Once again, with feeling:
AI IS NOT FUCKING INEVITABLE
AI IS NOT FUCKING INEVITABLE
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I have always been terrified and mesmerised by Udo Kier. 🧛♀️
Once, in a gay bar in Palm Springs, I turned around and he was just standing there, holding a drink. I checked in the bar mirror to see if he had a reflection. He saw me checking and smiled. It was perfect.
Once, in a gay bar in Palm Springs, I turned around and he was just standing there, holding a drink. I checked in the bar mirror to see if he had a reflection. He saw me checking and smiled. It was perfect.
November 25, 2025 at 8:26 AM
I have always been terrified and mesmerised by Udo Kier. 🧛♀️
Once, in a gay bar in Palm Springs, I turned around and he was just standing there, holding a drink. I checked in the bar mirror to see if he had a reflection. He saw me checking and smiled. It was perfect.
Once, in a gay bar in Palm Springs, I turned around and he was just standing there, holding a drink. I checked in the bar mirror to see if he had a reflection. He saw me checking and smiled. It was perfect.
It's a sobering moment as a writer when you learn that Poop and Learn by Willy Wiper is outselling not only your book but those of most of the authors you know.
November 25, 2025 at 9:02 AM
It's a sobering moment as a writer when you learn that Poop and Learn by Willy Wiper is outselling not only your book but those of most of the authors you know.
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God, those look like @ symbols, as if it’s her social media. RIP Thora Hird, you would have loved Twitter
November 24, 2025 at 4:08 PM
God, those look like @ symbols, as if it’s her social media. RIP Thora Hird, you would have loved Twitter
Hird is the wird.
November 24, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Hird is the wird.
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Come hear from David Hartley and 'The Subtle Art of Short Fiction' along with brilliant authors from the #NorthernFictionAlliance @blackwellsmcr.bsky.social Thu 4th Dec!
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November 24, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Come hear from David Hartley and 'The Subtle Art of Short Fiction' along with brilliant authors from the #NorthernFictionAlliance @blackwellsmcr.bsky.social Thu 4th Dec!
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/northern-f...
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/northern-f...
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Can't spell whatever without hate
November 24, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Can't spell whatever without hate
You can buy someone both of my books for Christmas if you like. I won't mind.
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November 24, 2025 at 1:57 PM
You can buy someone both of my books for Christmas if you like. I won't mind.
www.amazon.co.uk/stores/Adam-...
www.amazon.co.uk/stores/Adam-...
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Everything about this might be the saddest thing I’ve ever seen
November 24, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Everything about this might be the saddest thing I’ve ever seen
Be careful with geolocation parking apps. I just got a £100 fine because I was in a hurry and didn't realise that, when I was paying, my app had picked up the location of a car park down the road and not the one I was in.
November 24, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Be careful with geolocation parking apps. I just got a £100 fine because I was in a hurry and didn't realise that, when I was paying, my app had picked up the location of a car park down the road and not the one I was in.
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November 22, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Someone told my mum about Furries and she didn’t believe they were real, so messaged me to verify. It felt oddly like the opposite of telling someone that Santa doesn’t exist.
November 22, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Someone told my mum about Furries and she didn’t believe they were real, so messaged me to verify. It felt oddly like the opposite of telling someone that Santa doesn’t exist.
Popped into Manchester yesterday and these were the images that persisted for me.
1. A Freddo tragedy.
2. THIS PAINTING.
3. Everywhere that was once cool now looking like this.
1. A Freddo tragedy.
2. THIS PAINTING.
3. Everywhere that was once cool now looking like this.
November 22, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Popped into Manchester yesterday and these were the images that persisted for me.
1. A Freddo tragedy.
2. THIS PAINTING.
3. Everywhere that was once cool now looking like this.
1. A Freddo tragedy.
2. THIS PAINTING.
3. Everywhere that was once cool now looking like this.
This was the choice in my hotel room.
November 22, 2025 at 8:04 AM
This was the choice in my hotel room.
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There was a cat guarding the beach this morning
November 21, 2025 at 2:03 PM
There was a cat guarding the beach this morning
Last night I dreamt of being at the bingo. It was brilliant and I hope that tonight you dream of it too.
November 22, 2025 at 7:55 AM
Last night I dreamt of being at the bingo. It was brilliant and I hope that tonight you dream of it too.
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hey guys i made a seasonal meme
November 22, 2025 at 5:41 AM
hey guys i made a seasonal meme
Last night I gave a talk in this later packed room about writing stories that confront embarrassing experiences. Proud of myself for finding a way to monetise a life of fucking things up.
November 21, 2025 at 7:53 AM
Last night I gave a talk in this later packed room about writing stories that confront embarrassing experiences. Proud of myself for finding a way to monetise a life of fucking things up.
Just realised that the physical edition of this magazine is the first time I’ve had a print ad for my book. And it features a quote from @jenniegauthor.bsky.social too. 🎷🎷🎷
November 20, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Just realised that the physical edition of this magazine is the first time I’ve had a print ad for my book. And it features a quote from @jenniegauthor.bsky.social too. 🎷🎷🎷
If you’d asked anyone I went to high school with to name the kid least likely to write an article for a magazine called MAN that has a footballer on the front, they’d have likely said me. Or just sworn and thrown things at you because it was that kind of school.
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November 20, 2025 at 3:12 PM
If you’d asked anyone I went to high school with to name the kid least likely to write an article for a magazine called MAN that has a footballer on the front, they’d have likely said me. Or just sworn and thrown things at you because it was that kind of school.
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