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Richie Black

@richieblack.bsky.social
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Writer, AWGIE-winner, dog dad. Scriptwriter for TV / film. Flibbertigibbet, will-'o-the-wisp, clown

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Richie Black @richieblack.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Shout out to some of my fave writing-feedback words: “fairly”, “fun”, “interesting”, “solid”, “promising”, “readable”, “potential”, “ambitious”, “unexpected”, “good luck” #writingcommunity
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Richie Black @richieblack.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
There’s a particular poignancy to Richard Morecroft’s passing, & so many familiar TV faces lately. With few channels, we met the same people at appointed times, week after week. The ritual became a kind of knowing. Streaming gives us infinite choice, but not quite that #ValeRichardMorecroft
abc.net.au
Veteran news anchor Richard Morecroft dies, aged 70
Richard Morecroft was a regular presence on television screens for more than 30 years.
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The Kotzer From The Zack Lagoon @zaaack.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
later dude youtu.be/rOH37W0jPpA
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Vic Berger Presents Jim Bakker's Buckets
YouTube video by Vic Berger
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Richie Black @richieblack.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
ah no, Judith Lucy 😢 One of my absolute heroes. Hope she makes a speedy recovery.
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Richie Black @richieblack.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
back in the office after the long-weekend and singing in the style of The Bangles: 🎵 just another torporific Tuesday, woah-oah 🎶 #writingcommunity
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Richie Black @richieblack.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
we were out on walkies just then and some random bloke told me my doggo was a "bit of a local celebrity" and i was reflexively jelly of her and wondering who her agent is, but we'll work through it #dogsofBluesky
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Richie Black @richieblack.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
consistently wild how the universal order has decreed that it is really easy to send me bills but really hard to pay my invoices #writingcommunity
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Richie Black @richieblack.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
saw Bill Bailey's 'Vaudevillean" on Monday night. He was his usual brilliant self, but he’s the only balding man in the history of the universe who hasn’t benefited from cutting his hair. The cosmic order felt slightly off
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Richie Black @richieblack.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
other people’s eyebrows showing off their range of motion, just rubbing it in to Kristi :( :(
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Richie Black @richieblack.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Wow, finding this out today is quite the revelation for me: my ex was a huge fan of 'Outlander' but found my love of #DoctorWho utterly perplexing. I feel vindicated, if about ten years too late, but hey
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Richie Black @richieblack.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
nothing - not The Remains of the Day, not Hallelujah, not the final scene of Six Feet Under - compares to the melancholy vibes of a greyhound who knows you’re leaving her alone for 45 mins to an hour to go to the shops #RescueGreyhound #DogsOfBluesky
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Richie Black @richieblack.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
finally caught The Apprentice (2024) and my main sense was of two of the best performances of the last decade in service of a story that - for all its glitz and energy - felt flat and banal, which was the point #Trump #FilmBluesky
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Tony Martin @tonymartin.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Yes please. www.youtube.com/watch?v=24sk...
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SCTV: The Greatest Show You've Never Heard Of | First Look | Netflix
YouTube video by Netflix
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Richie Black @richieblack.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
at the pub, gracefully emphasising whose round it is
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Richie Black @richieblack.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
"nobody even noticed". Cool, cool
smh.com.au
Rogue agent or human error? What OpenAI’s Medicare breach means for you
The modern cyber threat is no longer a person in a balaclava. How secure is our data in this new AI age?
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Richie Black @richieblack.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Also available for Fringe festivals, regional award ceremonies and opening nights at your local community theatre
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Richie Black @richieblack.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I think our collective cultural memory has become so severely abbreviated that “olde English” now means anything written before, like, y’know, 2005
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Richie Black @richieblack.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
GoGet have just emailed me some long-weekend spam with the subject “Nothing beats an extra day off”. On a related subject, please go back to employing human copywriters (like me) who understand innuendo #writingcommunity
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Richie Black @richieblack.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
it's one of those banal yet profound moments when, suddenly in the middle of a manuscript - probably somewhere around the 20,000 mark, maybe on a bright Sunday when you can hear everyone else outside in the sunshine - you realise with clarity there's a fckn lot of words in a novel #writingcommunity
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Richie Black @richieblack.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
My phone’s facial recognition sometimes doesn’t recognise me first thing in the morning, which makes me wonder how badly I slept, or whether it knows something I don’t
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Movies Silently @moviessilently.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
“Visually, the series should feel cinematic…” That’s their problem right there. The best British tv is when it was shot without permission in the back of a factory after hours.
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Richie Black @richieblack.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
funny how blood-pressure tests are anxiety-inducing; feels like life being a little too pleased with its own irony
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Richie Black @richieblack.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
AI may be able to go rogue, but it'll never go rogue like a writer's imagination and syntax at 10pm, a couple of glasses of red wine deep, with a deadline approaching #writingcommunity
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Richie Black @richieblack.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
yeh yeh, I know this isn't LinkedIn, but 'If/When', a film I wrote, had a rather nice month or so .. making it into Aesthetica Film Festival, Darwin Int. Film Festival & Canberra Queer Film Festival, & Finalist for the Australian Women’s Film Festival. Lovely that it’s finding audiences #IndieFilm
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Richie Black @richieblack.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
finally caught #Backrooms last night and recognised the space where a retailer i used to be a copywriter for stuck me and the rest of the marketing team #writingcommunity
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Richie Black @richieblack.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
when Elton John goes “Don’t Go Breaking My Heart”, Kiki Dee responds “I couldn’t if I tried”. Is she implying Elton’s heart is actually fairly unbreakable? Is she pre-empting his later “cold, cold heart”? What, exactly, was going on with Elton’s heart? 🧐 #Sundaythoughts
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Richie Black @richieblack.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
personally I can’t wait for the next tech dude to tell us, after working at DeathBotsRUs for 5 years, that he’s quit because he’s realised he just can’t work on the DeathBot anymore #AI
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Richie Black @richieblack.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Let’s normalise specifying whether you reaaaaaally want feedback on your writing from your friends or just a little light crisis management #writingcommunity
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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 10/09/2026
i have no clue how dangerous this stuff really is. maybe it's not at all. but i don't think anyone else knows either, which strikes me as suboptimal, given the people in charge of it are such massive oddballs
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Richie Black @richieblack.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
in the midst of the pre-prep on a feature, it's a bit of slog. I just hope we can get the damn film made and out to festivals before AI kills us all in 10 years. Still, it gives us a deadline 🤞 #IndieFilm
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Richie Black @richieblack.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
interesting, the way the MSM latches onto a serious ongoing issue and gives the masses a jolt. Back to property prices and footy finals in a week tho, phew
smh.com.au
‘Could kill us all’: Anthropic insiders say AI has more than 10% chance of ending humanity – soon
The stunning admissions from three AI researchers prompted calls for urgent government action from both sides of the political divide in Washington, despite Donald Trump’s opposition.
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Richie Black @richieblack.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
have about 20,000 words of an assignment due next week so naturally i'm getting plenty of sleep now so i have enough energy built up to do it all at the last minute #writingcommunity
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Richie Black @richieblack.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
I haven't owned a car in 10 years, since a breakup, and have let my driving lapse. Getting back into it is weird. Apparently it's like riding a bicycle, provided you're not an overthinker like me, and can forget that this bicycle weighs 1.5 tonnes
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Robin Ince @robinince.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
So often what are called “culture wars” are one set of people saying “please can we live without perpetual persecution” and another saying “no, f*** you” but the press considering the latter group have “legitimate concerns” and must be perpetually platformed
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Richie Black @richieblack.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Nostalgia is powerful .. some people want vinyl. Some want measles :(
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Richie Black @richieblack.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
The Logies: Australia’s annual reminder that television is still a thing we all agreed to pretend is glamorous
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The Dobson Family and Colin the Dalek @dobbersw.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Had just enough time to plant these drought-resistant beauties before staring at the eclipse and tonight's meteor shower. See you all in the morning.
A couple of BBC era Triffids outside a very nice house which is sadly not ours.
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Richie Black @richieblack.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
David Lee Roth's "Just Like Paradise" (1988) expresses a curious ambivalence for such an emphatic character. "This must be..." "just like..." I wonder what existential doubt lay behind Dave's qualification. Next: pondering his sensitive portrayal of mental illness in "Goin' Crazy" (1986).
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Richie Black @richieblack.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
As someone who works from home, the census provides me with some helpful reassurance that my existence isn't entirely theoretical #CensusNight
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Richie Black @richieblack.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
"Missed call - unknown number". No i will not be calling you back cos I'm not a thrill-seeker willing to dance on the edge of uncertainty
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Richie Black @richieblack.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Will never stop finding emotional and thematic rewards in those robot demo videos where the robot essentially shits itself onstage and one of its operators has to intervene like an embarrassed parent #AI
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Guardian Australia @australia.theguardian.com · 05/08/2026
Omar Musa wins Miles Franklin literary award for ‘tour de force’ novel Fierceland
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Omar Musa wins Miles Franklin literary award for ‘tour de force’ novel Fierceland
The novelist, poet and rapper won $60,000 for his novel about two siblings who reckon with the legacy of their late father, a palm oil baron in Malaysian Borneo * Fierceland by Omar Musa review – poet and rapper’s second novel pulses with life When Omar Musa found out he had won Australia’s most prestigious prize for fiction, the $60,000 Miles Franklin literary award, he was already on a high. The 42-year-old was on his honeymoon, carefully dodging motorcycles in the Philippines when he got the call. “I just couldn’t believe it,” he told the Guardian, jetlagged and elated after arriving back in Australia three hours earlier. “I’m floating along. Life does lifey things.” Continue reading...
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Richie Black @richieblack.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
I’d totes read the sociological paper on the crossover between people who blithely let their dogs off-leash in the suburbs & people who watch Insta Reels on speaker on public transport. Subtitle: "Micro-indicators of Societal Collapse: An Ethnography of Shared Space"
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Tricia Lockwood @tricialockwood.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
imagine if the bennet sisters had experienced garlic bread
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Richie Black @richieblack.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
a film passes the Béchamel Test when two women talk about something other than men and the conversation is about lasagne #filmtheory
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
It is two years today since this dimwit gave us the most hilarious demonstration of karma in history.
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Richie Black @richieblack.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
undeniable sadness at the prospect of this. Few filmmakers have observed ordinary lives with such compassion, wit and humanity #MikeLeigh #BritishCinema #Film
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Director Mike Leigh likely to retire after his next film due to illness
Film-maker’s drama Tender Loving Care ‘likely’ his final one as he manages myositis, a disease affecting immune system
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Richie Black @richieblack.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
It's interesting how The Goodies felt a bit neglected by the BBC, but in Australia they were an 80s kids’ institution. Thanks to endless ABC repeats, I never saw them as a hairy 70s relic (& barely noticed the adult jokes). Bill, Tim & Graeme were just old pals. Bill Oddie was one of our heroes #RIP
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For he’s a Bill Oddie good fellow: Why this Goody was the best
The Goodies were big news in Australia, despite their intense Englishness. And bearded bad boy Bill was key to their appeal.
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Richie Black @richieblack.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
feels so bleak because the tech is shiny & new, but the underlying logic is ancient: corner something valuable, remove the alternatives, then monetise access. Somewhere a venture capitalist is looking at oxygen #writingcommunity
yahoo.com
AI Companies Are Still Buying Up Old Books by the Pallet – Then Shredding Them
AI companies are bulk-buying used books, scanning them, then destroying the originals to build clean training datasets - and a court ruling made it legal.
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Richie Black @richieblack.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Grievance politics always needs an enemy. Barnaby Joyce finding one in a harmless dog feels less like a weird departure than a logical next step. The man is an innovator #BarnabyJoyce
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‘Sit down!’ Barnaby Joyce went on ABC and shouted at dog
The former deputy prime minister was pugnacious and meandering while sparring with ABC host Sarah Ferguson.
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