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Nils Visser @nilsvisser.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

My bad, I read 'grove' instead of 'grooves'. Kingley Vale, near Chichester in West Sussex consists of multiple groves of scores and scores of ancient yews, it's like a cathedral of trees. Well worth a visit.

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Nils Visser @nilsvisser.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Dunno whether to take this whip here and do a cattleman's crack, an overhead flick, or a side flick, to emphasise my meaning now, good sir.

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Nils Visser @nilsvisser.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Don't you dare take a couple of days off!

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Nils Visser @nilsvisser.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

In Rye today, the Scarecrow telling me he's really Batman.

Dutch Watergeus and English literary creation (Russel Thorndike's Dr Syn, aka the Scarecrow) at the Rye Pirates & Smuggler's Day.

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Nils Visser @nilsvisser.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Delighted that artist Tom Brown has agreed to do the cover for The Flying Dutchman Book 2 GRAVE HAVENS. We’ve agreed not to repeat Liselotte & Peter Haelen lounging about on the ship, the two divergent character progressions have been sufficiently depicted already. Instead, we have a cunning plan…

Four book covers related to The Flying Dutchman series by Nils Visser (dark historical fantasy). Three are complete, one is blank.

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Nils Visser @nilsvisser.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Alea iacta est. No longer writing a trilogy. Malign Shadows, originally intended as book 2, has been cut in half. Got a fitting title and all. Something is still missing though, scratching me head here, I need something else but for the life of me cannot figure out what. Can someone help me out?

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Nils Visser @nilsvisser.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

I had hoped to get away with: They stopped at the Cape of Good Hope for fresh water and then pressed on. Now four chapters and counting! This tale might not fit into a Trilogy, time to look up the proper name for a Fourthology? (Photo Dietmar Temps)

A picture of the Tafelberg at the Cape of Good Hope.

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Nils Visser @nilsvisser.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Jesus wept, and they are puzzled why folk turn to binface. Less of a clown than most of them.

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Nils Visser @nilsvisser.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Writing a chapter called "Xam-xe! Xam-xe!" Anybody care to venture a guess?

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Rae Radford @raeradford.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Yes, that's me! #BookSky

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Nils Visser @nilsvisser.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

I reckon we ought to tell the gammon that Royal Mail delivers mail willy-nilly, never ascertaining if senders or receivers are proper White Britons. It'd be a hoot to watch 'em on street corners hollering angrily at post boxes.

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Nils Visser @nilsvisser.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

And you know, a potential positive sign that his followers have progressed from shouting at random hotels to hollering at a specific bin. An interesting development that might indicate there could just be hope for them yet. Maybe they could progress to muttering at teacups next.

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 10/07/2026

“Cornell researchers found that at the current rate of AI growth, the burgeoning industry could represent 24 to 44 million metric tons of carbon dioxide emissions by 2030, the equivalent of adding five to ten million cars to US roadways.”

futurism.com

The Pollution Being Churned Out by AI Data Centers Is So Severe That It's Almost Incomprehensible

The extent of the pollution being put out by thousands of data centers is shocking. Some developers are exploiting regulatory loopholes.

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Nils Visser @nilsvisser.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Still beavering away on Malign Shadows. The Trilogy now an eight-year project already. Unlike Artificial Crap Prompters, I can't write three books before lunch, so here we are.

The three book covers for the Flying Dutchman Trilogy by Nils Visser, cover art by Tom Brown, last cover uncoloured as of yet because I'm still working on book two.

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Nils Visser @nilsvisser.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

I was six and had just returned from living in the tropics, so thought it was all rather normal....and just got on with it.

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Nils Visser @nilsvisser.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Not on how many coconuts they're carrying?

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Nils Visser @nilsvisser.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Just how far can a Griffin fly in one day?

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MisterJayEm @misterjayem.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Thomas House of Dublin exhibiting the pro-human solidarity that all of us should demonstrate.

SO FOR THE FUTURE (LITERALLY) WE'RE NOT ACCEPTING AI POSTERS OR FLYERS FOR THE PUB.

We're right next to Ireland's biggest Art College, lads. It's not a good look.

WE UNDERSTAND BANDS CAN BE SKINT BUT RELYING ON SOME EARTH KILLING APP FROM SOME PAEDO ISLAND BILLIONAIRE IS NOT THE WAY. WE GOT BY WITHOUT IT AND WE'LL GET BY AGAIN.

IF YOU'RE STUCK WE'LL HELP. (YES IT HAS BEEN USED HERE BEFORE BUT CONSIDER THIS THE START OF THE END OF IT.)

THANKS, HUMANS.

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Nils Visser @nilsvisser.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

As you know, I really admire your earlier work, but the increase of colour really makes it shine dude.

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Nils Visser @nilsvisser.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

One heck of a yarn, based on a contemporary Arthur Pendragon, relayed in that crisp, wry & often hilarious manner that C.J. Stone has mastered over the decades. I much recommend this deep-dive into British counterculture!! Get your copy now and you won't regret a single minute of reading time.

Book ad for C.J. Stone's relaunch of The Trials of Arthur, based on a real-life contemporary Arthur Pendragon.

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Blue Dot in Red State @bluedotin.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Come on now; isn't this the coolest thing you've seen today? Sound on please.

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Nils Visser @nilsvisser.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

I thought she was banging Paris, tbh, but hey, if she also fancied a bit of Troy, who am I to judge? Besides, it's in the Bible apparently, so must be kosher (Oh, the ignorance, the ignorance. These culture war idjits hurt my brain).

Picture posted by some idjit who's upset that someone in a movie set in the Mediterranean isn't blonde with blue eyes. Along with the text: "Biblically accurate Helen on Troy".

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

look how much craftsmanship we've lost in clothing in just a hundred years

A man in the 19th century wearing a chicken suit. It has feathers, a full on tail, and even shoes shaped like chicken feet

A chicken suit currently for sale. It's just a smooth white zip-up onesie with no tail, no chicken feet, and just some flappy thing under the arms and some striped leggings. Pathetic

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Nils Visser @nilsvisser.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Sharing this one again, as a reminder that I got books out there y'all ought to be reading (and reviewing).

An ad I made last summer for a book, 'Rousing the Duvelsbeest'. Picture taken on board of the Nao Victoria when that replica docked at Chatham.

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Tom Coates @tomcoates.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

It’s weird that Helen of Troy being played by a black actress is a problem, but most of the rest of the Mediterranean, Greek and Turkish characters being played by incredibly fair and blond haired people of British, Irish and Scandinavian descent isn’t. And by weird, I mean entirely predictable.

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Nils Visser @nilsvisser.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

I didn't say ALL the UK, but quite frankly will hold all of you responsible until you finally do the sensible thing and retroactively drown the gammonati at birth :-) It's long overdue, but better late than never.

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Nils Visser @nilsvisser.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

Compare that to the UK where the masses joined to sing "Rule xenophobia, bigotry rules the airwaves" in the elections the other day. Cause sheer unadulterated stupidity has done this country sooooooo much good the last decade, innit?

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Nils Visser @nilsvisser.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

You sure you want to know? ;-)

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Nils Visser @nilsvisser.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

Funny sort of day, something odd about it but dunno zackly what.

man standing on the ceiling to pat a muffins on the head

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Nils Visser @nilsvisser.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

We were at Gatwick for 3 minutes to drop some friends off today. They charged us 10 quid. I swear, I've met vultures on the Serengeti less opportunistic than these ghouls. As you say, MPs of any rosettte couldn't care less, as long as they're raking it in all is fine. For me that's an hour's wage.

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Nils Visser @nilsvisser.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

Brighton folk may know the (Stone Age) Whitehawk Woman in Brighton Museum. Her name, btw, was Toksi. I know, because I wrote a story about her, woven around a poem by Jovannah Bar. 'The Sky Stones' has now been added to with an illustration by Eldad Druks (which I personally think is fantabulous)

On the left, a picture of the facial reconstruction of a Stone Age inhabitant of Brighton known as The Whitehawk Woman, on display in Brighton Museum. On the right, an illustration by Eldad Druks for my story 'The Sky Stones' about Toksi, for that was what The Whitehawk Woman was called (I reckon).

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Nils Visser @nilsvisser.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

Apparently 'heretics' is not a correct answer to the question 'what burns well?' on a fire safety course.

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Thomas S Brown @tomsbrown.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

Aaand a mud larking with for the afternoon. This one was inspired by @londonmudlark.bsky.social.

Pencil drawing on toned paper with some white highlights. A witch under a full moon mud larking with a stave on the riverbank. Treasures already found in the foreground.

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Nils Visser @nilsvisser.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

This is their response to the recent by-election loss? To pander to dimwitted racists some more?

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Laura Perry @templemom.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

Every card in my Minoan Tarot deck was inspired by a Minoan artifact or work of art. In this case, a single work of art - the Bull Leaper fresco - inspired two Major Arcana cards. I made this deck the old-fashioned way, with ink on paper. www.minoantarot.com #Minoan #Tarot #TarotSky #Art

The Minoan Bull Leaper fresco from Knossos with two Minoan Tarot cards, each of which depicts a part of the fresco. The fresco shows a large tan-and-white spotted longhorn bull galloping toward the left while three athletes in loincloths and boots perform bull leaping. A white-skinned athlete on the left hangs on the bull's horns. A red-skinned athlete in the center balances upside down on the bull's back. A white-skinned athlete on the right stands facing the bull with arms out, as if they have just landed from a leap. The Minoan Tarot card on the left, 8 Strength, shows the athlete hanging from the bull's horns. The card on the right, 14 Balance, shows the athlete balancing on the bull's back. Both the fresco and the cards have a detailed multicolor border all the way around.

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Nils Visser @nilsvisser.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

Out of consideration for Labour centrists, you know, give them something to mock and attack. God forbid that they expend any energy taking on the Tories and Reform, can't be having that now, can we? It's very kind of him, really.

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Nils Visser @nilsvisser.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

Ah, those are usually the best. Beats formulaic writing at any rate.

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