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Nicholas David Brandt

@ndbrandt.bsky.social
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Writer. Husband. Rescue dog dad. INFP Chaotic good Seeker of truth and BBA beers. Ally. Buffalo Bills, Buffalo Sabres, NY Mets fan. EST. WNY; CURR. SoCal

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American Cinematheque @amcinematheque.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
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John Cusack @johncusack.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
As AI, deepfakes etc. become ubiquitous, people who may have stopped reading newspapers are going to get tired of trying to figure out what's real and go back to reliable sources of information that they don't have to second-guess. Outlets that don't paywall will be first in line for those eyes.
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CAKE @thebandcake.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 27/01/2026
Trump officials have ordered national parks to remove dozens of signs and displays related to climate change, environmental protection and settlers’ mistreatment of Native Americans.
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More history exhibits pulled from national parks, including Grand Canyon
A new wave of takedown orders from Trump officials targets signs about climate and Native Americans at several national parks, including Big Bend and Glacier.
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Cully Hamner @cullyhamner.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
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Nicholas David Brandt @ndbrandt.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
Be a good person — treat people with kindness and empathy. Be a good writer — put your characters THROUGH IT.
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Nicholas David Brandt @ndbrandt.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
In case an agent finds me here, I've been favorably compared to Sir Terry Pratchett. A large chunk of high-functioning, introvert me wants to vomit at announcing this publicly, but in the immortal words of Prince, "You've got the horn so why don't you blow it?"
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Nicholas David Brandt @ndbrandt.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
For those playing along at home, got my first pass on my three queries for literary representation. It's a gut punch. I know my worth, and I know there's someone out there who will also see it, I'm just not sure how to find them. Writers, please share your wins so I can buoy myself vicariously.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 12/01/2026
Protesters Urged Not To Give Trump Administration Pretext For What It Already Doing theonion.com/protesters-urged-not-t…
Protesters Urged Not To Give Trump Administration Pretext For What It Already Doing
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Nicholas David Brandt @ndbrandt.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
I have the Sabres/Ducks game on. My wife vines out to the living room. “Is this Heated Rivalry?” “…yes.”
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Nicholas David Brandt @ndbrandt.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
There are people who see 1984 as a cautionary tale and those who see it as a playbook.
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Nicholas David Brandt @ndbrandt.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
Find someone who looks at you like Josh looks at Mitch. Go Bills!
Buffalo Bills QB1 and great human being Josh Allen smiles as Mitch Trubitsky comes off the field.
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Nicholas David Brandt @ndbrandt.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
NGL, a little emotional to watch this last game at Rich Stadium/The Ralph. Core memories with friends and family there. GO BILLS! Can we wear the Red Helmets throughout the playoffs?
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Nicholas David Brandt @ndbrandt.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
Whatever time we spent in grade school and high school learning about checks and balances and separation of power sure seems like a waste now.
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Nicholas David Brandt @ndbrandt.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
So… um… does FIFA get their peace prize back?
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Nicholas David Brandt @ndbrandt.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
Did the world get meaner when. VHS tapes went out of fashion and we were not constantly reminded to be kind? (Rewind) Here’s hoping 2026 is a kinder year.
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Nicholas David Brandt @ndbrandt.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
May our 2026 be as hot as this Sabres 10 game win streak.
Screen shot. Buffalo Sabres have won 10 straight games!
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Nicholas David Brandt @ndbrandt.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
Dry January… but humor.
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Nicholas David Brandt @ndbrandt.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
Most of the world sucks these days. This Sabres winning streak has been a little rainbow in the gloom. www.nhl.com/news/buffalo...
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Sabres defeat Blues, extend winning streak to 9 | NHL.com
Benson breaks tie in 3rd for Buffalo, which is on longest run since 2018
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Nicholas David Brandt @ndbrandt.bsky.social · 28/12/2025
post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't nirvana, soundgarden, pearl jam, or alice in chains.
Picture of Lowest of the Low’s debut album entitled Shakespeare My Butt.
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Nicholas David Brandt @ndbrandt.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
Longtime radical leftist scum. How can you grow up reading comics, Bradbury, and King and not be?
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Nicholas David Brandt @ndbrandt.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
11+ hour day of traveling made better by my gifted compression socks. Why yes, I do have a large birthday coming up. Why do you ask?
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Nicholas David Brandt @ndbrandt.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
I have a soft spot in my heart for kind/weird people. This might be because I’m kind/weird.
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Nicholas David Brandt @ndbrandt.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
Finally, a little something nice for your feed.
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Nicholas David Brandt @ndbrandt.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
I'm always so excited when I see that someone's followed me. It's a bit of a letdown when it turns out to be a bot.
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Nicholas David Brandt @ndbrandt.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars nor Trek), LOTR, or Marvel. #moviesky #filmsky
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a man with a mustache is talking on a red telephone and says i 'm always home
Alt: Phillip Seymour Hoffman as Lester Bangs talking on a red telephone and says, “I’m always home. I’m uncool. “
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Nicholas David Brandt @ndbrandt.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
Scream/Se7en/Sliding Doors advanced screenings in college. Had no idea what I was in for. The Matrix advanced screening on the Warner Bros lot. Was sad that I had to wait months to see it again. Son in Law, because I told my date I'd put my arm around her when the Goo Goo Dolls song came on.
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Nicholas David Brandt @ndbrandt.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
This is my favorite of Mr. Wendig's apple reviews. All of them are worth your time, but this one is the sauce.
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Nicholas David Brandt @ndbrandt.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
The hardest writing I do is querying. (And I have what I think to be a good query for at least a couple of my books.) Generally, I'd rather write another book than send out queries, but that's left me with a handful of finished books and no agent to help me get them out into the world.
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Nicholas David Brandt @ndbrandt.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
California AB-412 would force AI companies to be transparent about what data they’ve taken to build their models. You can sign the petition here: actionnetwork.org/petitions/le...
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Let’s Be Clear: Artists & Creators Must Have Transparency NOW!
Every single day we don’t have transparency, the value of copyright loses ground and the harms inflicted to creative industries grow. California has always been on the forefront of policies that can ...
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Nicholas David Brandt @ndbrandt.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
Did they use Channing Tatum as the model for Josh Allen?
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Nicholas David Brandt @ndbrandt.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
I’ve discovered a new way to accidentally cause chaos at the Thanksgiving table. “My favorite Star Trek series is Deep Space Nine.” Say it at your own peril.
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Nicholas David Brandt @ndbrandt.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
I’m thankful for all of the people who have made me feel loved and seen. As you read this, I hope you also feel loved and seen.
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Matt Wallace @mattfnwallace.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
Always worth taking a moment to remind you if you’re pirating authors’ book you’re a shitty person. You can rail that our profession isn’t a profession all you want. You can paint yourself as an online revolutionary liberating ideas. It’s all bullshit. You’re just a shitty person who hates writers.
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Nicholas David Brandt @ndbrandt.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
I wish there was an author/agent matchmaking situation that wasn’t a scam.
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Nicholas David Brandt @ndbrandt.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
A friend of mine said I need to get back to the me that wouldn't take "no" for an answer. So I guess I need to invent a past me that didn't take "no" for an answer.
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JoGo @mywitsend.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
Zohran Mamdani just put every knee-bending institution to shame.
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Nicholas David Brandt @ndbrandt.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
Josh Allen deserves better coaches.
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Seanan McGuire @seananmcguire.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
I promise you, trans people have existed throughout human history. We have the records; we have the stories; and shameful as it is to use this as a marker, we have the slurs. Humans are GREAT at slurs, but we usually develop them because they have targets. If the slurs exist, so do the people.
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Nicholas David Brandt @ndbrandt.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
Um. What?
Ad posted in actual corkboard in the wild that reads: Drive for Waymo. And all the chads have been pulled.
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Nicholas David Brandt @ndbrandt.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Throwback Thursday to that time I co-directed Linda Hamilton in a feature I co-wrote. She was an absolute gem of a person.
Black and white picture of Nicholas David Brandt and most excellent actor Linda Hamilton. She is smiling. He's just happy to be in the room.
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Nicholas David Brandt @ndbrandt.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
I don’t know who first coined this phrase* but I love it and want to adopt it— I am not a gatekeeper. I’m a gateway. *If you know the original source, please let me know.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 16/11/2025
i want to put this in front of conservative pundits who defended this raid bsky.app/profile/raws...
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Nicholas David Brandt @ndbrandt.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
My strength and self-control were tested to their brink, but I somehow managed to not roll down my window and yell out, “Oh yeah!”
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Eric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
Running gag goes meta as Johnson says he knows nothing about Trump knowing nothing
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Nicholas David Brandt @ndbrandt.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
I still regularly converse with my creative writing college professor. A great writer and person, I still learn from him and I think he gets a little positivity from me. When I told him I was in revision, he shared some of his thoughts on narrative beats--
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Nicholas David Brandt @ndbrandt.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
So many great resources from an amazing person and writer. If you have the chance, take one of his workshops for even more insights into the art and practice of writing.
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Nicholas David Brandt @ndbrandt.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
When I was a kid, my younger sister Kristin, my cousin Leslie, and I would walk around the block at Leslie’s house in North Tonawanda and make up stories/adventures. I think it might be the first bit of “writing” I ever did.
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Nicholas David Brandt @ndbrandt.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
Me: How you doing? Co-Worker: Same shit, different day. Me: And that's why we wipe. I don't know that I've ever heard this as a response before, but I was pretty proud of it. So sharing....
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