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Niiiick Howling @friction.bsky.social · 14h

Like a werewolf but a kinda dumb Golden Retriever, think Mr. Peanut-butter but less star power.

Niiiick Howling @friction.bsky.social · 17h

Once as teens my brother and I went with my dad to visit a parishioner in hospital. Dad was making much over the good food & service the parishioner was getting and he asked the nurse if he could stay there too. The nurse told him “Of course! And I’ll make sure you get lots of enemas!”

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Niiiick Howling @friction.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Happiness is floor to ceiling bookshelves. Wore my The Death Penalty Kills people shirt out today. Proponents of state sanctioned killing imagine removing contagion maybe, just desserts, or righteous punishment. I cannot but see the torment of people unable to resist a system that overpowers them.

A man takes a selfie with partially assembled shelves and he’s wearing a gray shirt that reads “The death penalty kills people.”

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Niiiick Howling @friction.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

So was catching up with friends yesterday and one's dad received an 88lb wheel of Parmesan cheese (for his 80th bday) from a restauranteur friend who heard they wanted to try making pasta in the wheel of cheese. But they have nowhere to put the thing, so it's being stored in a spare bathroom.

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Niiiick Howling @friction.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I hate it. My sister's cat Ponce was their first family pet in CO. Chatter in the sibs thread is he's got date with destiny at 11 Mountain Time tomorrow morning. Been a fixture of all my visits out there. Rangy old man, makes me think of Cohen the Barbarian, or Grandpa from Mongrels.

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Niiiick Howling @friction.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Sunflowers and real mature pokeweed. Delta 400, Pen F.

Stark black and white diptych of a sunflower a fence and the sky in the background

Black and white photo of pokeweed in dappled sun, the berries shining.

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Niiiick Howling @friction.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Looked back over prose I wrote 2-3 years ago and none of it is finished but I’m liking it. That’s pretty cool. I ought to get behind the mule, etc etc.

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Niiiick Howling @friction.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I had just recently seen the Tom Holland lip sync to Umbrella and asked my sister about it. She said she probably watches it once a week and it’s practically part of her office orientation.

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Niiiick Howling @friction.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

i did it, i developed two rolls of film, LIFO baby

two rolls of film, the far in focus, the near blurred, suspended in plastic sheeting

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

the Heroic Protector Fantasy is rarely of real use to women, it's just wish fulfillment about male posturing and it frequently exacerbates violence it's also much easier to imagine yourself kicking the ass of an obviously villainous stranger than to to actually intervene where you have influence

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Niiiick Howling @friction.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Male violence threatens more women than it protects.

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Niiiick Howling @friction.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Yeah I’m doing this and I am so excited

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Niiiick Howling @friction.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

My friend Zack posted his son’s drawing of a smiling face and an arrow pointing to a sad face - the boy is upset with him. Reminds me of Robert Hayden’s Poem

Poem by Robert Hayden

Sundays too my father got up early
and put his clothes on in the blueblack cold,
then with cracked hands that ached
from labor in the weekday weather made
banked fires blaze. No one ever thanked him.

I'd wake and hear the cold splintering, breaking.
When the rooms were warm, he'd call,
and slowly I would rise and dress,
fearing the chronic angers of that house,

Speaking indifferently to him,
who had driven out the cold
and polished my good shoes as well.
What did I know, what did I know
of love's austere and lonely offices?

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Niiiick Howling @friction.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Me: Sits on couch, starts nattering Mox: Pushes toes under my thigh for warmth Me: “I live to serve” Mox: “I know.”

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Niiiick Howling @friction.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Touring a 30 year old album from my adolescence. I about cried. I was giddy. I shouted my heart out.

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Tamara Keel [Scary Remix] @tamslick.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

See also…

Saving Private Ryan aging meme captioned “When you turn on the classic rock station to hear some Zeppelin and it’s playing Linkin Park.”

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Niiiick Howling @friction.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Last year here I just missed The Dead Deads. Today I walked up on Stabbing Westward closing out their 30th anniv of Wither Blister Burn + Peel tour. Wouldacouldashoulda worn ear pro but good goddamn these fellas put on a show. Hell of a lucky break, and great to chill with @piperbomb.bsky.social

Blurry photo of a concert, two men streaked by motion on stage

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Niiiick Howling @friction.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

@piperbomb.bsky.social is a no shit lucky charm cat - we were walking around Madison and fucking STABBING WESTWARD is playing! We’re in the venue right goddamn meow

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Niiiick Howling @friction.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Long day yesterday at the inaugural CapTimes IdeaFest Photojournalism Summit opening event. Delighted to help my friend in small ways as the event took off. Saw some familiar faces, met some new folks, and got to meet a pal from On Here in person!

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Niiiick Howling @friction.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Can confirm …it was last night.

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Eric Raglin @ericraglin1992.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Anonymous donors have sponsored three additional scholarships, so five out of the ten slots are completely free. The other five are $100 for a one-month course. If you're a newish horror writer on a budget, this opportunity is great for you!

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Niiiick Howling @friction.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Happy Birthday to my mate, Derek. He got me into this career and into this artform. I moved to Indy because he lived here and joined OkCupid because he was using it. I joined a day after @pikkabird.bsky.social did so it’s kinda hard to overstate how much friendship with him has shaped my life.

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Niiiick Howling @friction.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Getting spam emails about “biblical drink” and I guess the people yearn for magic. Or wine, wine’s biblical ain’t it?

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Niiiick Howling @friction.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

My uncle, my aunt, my dad, and their cousins. Pretty tight crop of the 4x5.

In a black and white photo, five women and two men, middle aged or elder, stand in a line together. Clearly there's some family resemblance.

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Niiiick Howling @friction.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Me: Procrastinating Mox: Playing Graveyard Keeper Me: Posting a photo, agonizing over alt-text Mox: “Bout to go write me some Chick Tracts.” Me: Baleful gaze Mox: “What? I’m gonna build a desk so I can write me some pamphlets.”

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Niiiick Howling @friction.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Reade, OM-1 Voigtlander 25mm f.95

A man in a hoodie with a hat on sits on a 2 door coupe, one leg crossed over a knee, phone in one hand, cigarette in the other.

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Niiiick Howling @friction.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Hell yeah. Draft away. It’s gonna be baaaaaaaad. And it’s going to serve you more than asking the plagiarism chatbot to do it for you.

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Niiiick Howling @friction.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Told the volunteer coordinator about my dad taking on a different long time preacher’s wish he’d started saying “You get to love” instead of “You have to love.” That this is the energy I try to bring to hospital advocacy, I get to show up for people and listen to them, believe them, be present.

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Niiiick Howling @friction.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Tonight attending an optional in person training “Reclaiming the Narrative: Survivor Stories, Agency, & Community Responsibility.” I appreciate the work the folks in this org put into educating and training their volunteers.

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Niiiick Howling @friction.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

So I’ve kept a 5 reel Patterson tank with distilled water and Fotoflo for…long enough to grow a slime mold in it. Didn’t realize that was possible. Noted.

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Niiiick Howling @friction.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

sometimes you close the darkslide fast enough that you can still shoot that frame. Frankenstein 200 out of my beloved Rocinante custom 4x5

a sheet of film held before a light, the edge of the sheet is blackened, overexposed. the rest of the image is a group of people in front of a body of water, braced by trees

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Niiiick Howling @friction.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

And a big bit of film to boot, that’s 6x9!

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Niiiick Howling @friction.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Saw Resident Evil start to finish. Mox looks over “are they usually this funny?” It was fantastic. Then we had a potty break and watched Coyote Vs Acme, also very good. Good day with my darling.

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Niiiick Howling @friction.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

We got to the theater an hour early on accident. Got waved on and took our seats because…we didn’t know we were early. So we just watched the last 15 minutes of the movie and need to take a lap to get seated to see the rest of it at the scheduled time. Today’s going hilarious.

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Niiiick Howling @friction.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

also me: *gets pupils dilated at eye doc’s*

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Niiiick Howling @friction.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Me: I ought to cleannup & develop some film also me: I must see Resident Evil in the theater today

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Niiiick Howling @friction.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

For all his flaws my Dad had no truck with biblical literalism, creationism, dispensationalism, or even, I think, god as someone who needed humans to do any damn thing at all.

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Niiiick Howling @friction.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Dreamed I crashed somewhere after an ill advised at this age party. Dream woke and started slapdash developing an increment of film and realized I didn’t have stop or fix with me and did a bunch of comedic running around and the negative turned out looking Ok but then I wasn’t sure if I should fix

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Niiiick Howling @friction.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

using my car’s hud for karaoke lyrics

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Zed @behindthebluemotel.com · 16/09/2026

Now this is the stuff I like to see

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Niiiick Howling @friction.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Live. I cringe up at Lightning Crashes but fuck me I love Throwing Copper otherwise. Secret Samadhi, love it. Mental Jewelry, love it. The Distance to Here…ok I love some of it.

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Niiiick Howling @friction.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I’ve been a bit of a vocalizer for a while, gibbering, my mom lovingly called it “expressive jargon.” Since coming out as pansexual I’ve found myself literally singing more often. I don’t think I do it with much skill, but it’s joyful, and, crucially, for my own sake.

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Niiiick Howling @friction.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Let’s do a favorite tweet. yeah? This one super helpful.

Saladin Ahmed V @saladinahmed
as someone with a brain that hates its owner I found this useful
surprisedentistry
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i've started replacing "i want to die" with "i feel overwhelmed" in my internal monologue, which is usually more accurate and more productive
8:52 AM • Mar 4, 2021 • Twitter for iPhone
416 Retweets
17 Quote Tweets
1,489 Likes
①

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Niiiick Howling @friction.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Harold is an oatmeal raisin Ruth is a mint chocolate, chocolate chip Shayna is a monster Hack is a stale Hardee’s Clarissa is a Cliffbar (peanutbutter) left in a half inch of bourbon in paper hotel coffee cup Bors imitates something ungodly from crumbl, possibly made of sand, sap, lichen, & clay

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Niiiick Howling @friction.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Oh yeah, the minty soap is a great cooler after cuttin grass. Brrrrr

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