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Martin Stiff @martinstiff.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I've bought tickets to see the new Ghosts movie! At a drive-through cinema! In West Horsley Place - where they film the show! Should be a fun night.

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Martin Stiff @martinstiff.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

There is some conversion software you can buy but it’s pricey and I’d use it so rarely it’s not worth having. Luckily they also sent me a PDF so I’ll have to just reverse engineer it from that.

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Martin Stiff @martinstiff.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

A client sent me an old Quark file this week and I had absolutely no way of opening it. That’s showbiz, I guess.

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Martin Stiff @martinstiff.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I still maintain that Indesign does something similar somewhere but no one has found it yet…

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Martin Stiff @martinstiff.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I remember when Titan migrated to Indesign (in 2006 maybe?) and we all had lessons in it. I felt like they’d have to prise Quark out of my cold dead hands, but then they said you could control PSD layers in Indesign and I was a convert.

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Martin Stiff @martinstiff.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Watching Carrie. So, I knew schools in the US had lockdown drills (my kids school here does, too,) but are they really that intense..?! With gunshot FX and actors with fake guns breaking into classrooms?!

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Martin Stiff @martinstiff.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I've no idea if it's true but someone once told me Jeffrey Archer wrote his novels by first writing the whole plot as a sentence. Then two sentences. Then a paragraph, then 5000 words, then 10,000 and so on, ballooning outwards from a single point. Always stayed with me for some reason.

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Martin Stiff @martinstiff.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The electric snakes in Doc Savage: Man of Bronze. I used to go to bed every night and see them at the foot of my bed - until I worked out it was the filament from my bedside lamp momentarily burned into my retina as I turned it off.

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Martin Stiff @martinstiff.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Some great photos of good dogs here: www.theguardian.com/artanddesign... Sadly, mine didn’t make the cut.

Small white dog sitting on a sofa in a Christmas reindeer outfit. The dog doesn’t look happy about it.

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Angry People in Local Newspapers @apiln.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

We don’t do the Daily Mail, but as a public service, here is someone with far too much money being attacked by an owl.

Princess Beatrice's friend Alice Naylor-Leyland is attacked by rogue owl during chaotic photoshoot.

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Martin Stiff @martinstiff.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I’ve had four experiences in the last two weeks of companies that I pay money to increasing their costs while simultaneously reducing their benefits. WTF is going on at the moment?!

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Andy Mackenzie @andymack.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Good morning. 'Batman's aff his Nut' by Robert Florence.

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Martin Stiff @martinstiff.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Oh hey, the gig I bought tickets for six months ago and then sold four days ago has just been cancelled. Who, may I ask, receives the refund?!

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Martin Stiff @martinstiff.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I'm no conspiracy theorist, but if Trump was a Putin plant, put in to destabilise the west, I'm not sure what else he'd do other than exactly what he has. www.theguardian.com/business/liv...

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Diesel hits £2 a litre for first time; eurozone inflation rate surges to 3.8% – business live

Rolling coverage of the latest economic and financial news

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Martin Stiff @martinstiff.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I had a parents evening at my youngest's secondary school the other week and there were loads of AI posters and even AI 'art' on the walls. I asked him and he said all the kids take the piss out of them because they look so rubbish.

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Martin Stiff @martinstiff.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Really enjoying Silent Hill Townfall but the town is so beautifully realised it is having the weird effect of making me want to buy a holiday home there.

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Martin Stiff @martinstiff.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Lanterns is a weirrrd tv show. It’s so ramshackle it’s almost like they’re making it up as they go along.

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Martin Stiff @martinstiff.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This is great news! If you’ve not read the original run of Alias you absolutely should as it’s just the best comics.

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Martin Stiff @martinstiff.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

What I like most about the tech industry is how easy it makes life…

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Martin Stiff @martinstiff.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Just learnt that Virginmedia is doing away with all their email addresses, meaning the one I’ve had for 25 years will become defunct unless I pay £65/year to some new company they’re outsourcing to. So that’s going to be fun to extrapolate from my life.

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Martin Stiff @martinstiff.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Yeah, I’m self-employed too, so she sees me faffing about and keeping my own hours. Thankfully my wife has a proper job with long hours so she gets some idea of a regular work ethic!

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Martin Stiff @martinstiff.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Yeah, my daughter is on a degree at Manchester Met and they really take the ‘full time’ part of the course pretty loosely. It’s going to come as a shock when she gets a full time job!

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Martin Stiff @martinstiff.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Just watched the first episode of S2 of The Paper and, as is often the way with sitcoms, it seems to have really found its feet this time around. Some proper laughs in there.

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Martin Stiff @martinstiff.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Thanks, man! I’ve had a few dream jobs in my time - a book about Spielberg, one on Lynch and one about Douglas Adams. Now I can cross 2000 AD off the list too.

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Martin Stiff @martinstiff.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Thanks! It was so much fun to work on.

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Martin Stiff @martinstiff.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Well well! Look what's been announced. It was an absolute pleasure and honour to design this book for 2000 AD. I'm a long time reader of the comic (I picked up my first prog in the early 80s) and it was a real trip down memory lane pulling it all together with @mysterypickles.bsky.social. Buy it!

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David Lynch's Worlds @davidlynchsworlds.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

A friend of mine heard the news about a possible #TwinPeaks video game and said, “What a coincidence. Look what I worked on today. Feel free to share the link.” Have fun, everyone! fineartsforgerydepartment.com

fineartsforgerydepartment.com

A DAMN FINE ADVENTURE

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Martin Stiff @martinstiff.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

People blaming the gov for not putting a cap on political donations but I’m not sure how these massive payments (and make no mistake: they are payments - for future services) from dodgy crypto investors will play with the public. They may well prove to be a bit of a poisoned chalice for Reform.

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Martin Stiff @martinstiff.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

There's a bit in the song As Above on Phoebe Bridgers' new album that makes the hair stand up on my arms and my breath catch every time I hear it. Amazing.

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Martin Stiff @martinstiff.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

If you’ll just allow me a brief Jeremy Clarkson-style rant: the road works around my way at the moment are FUCKING ridiculous. They’ve had all the summer holidays to dig up the roads they dug up just before the summer holidays again, but no - they wait until the schools have gone back.

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Martin Stiff @martinstiff.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

There’s definitely a selection of movies from that period which are so ingrained in my psyche I rarely watch them anymore, but when I do they blow me away.

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Martin Stiff @martinstiff.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Just caught the end of Titanic on TV. I’ve not seen it for years and years but let me tell you, that film absolutely holds up. That last hour is breathtaking. Cameron is a goddamn master.

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Martin Stiff @martinstiff.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Just finished volume one of Powers 25, by @brianmbendis.bsky.social and @oeming.bsky.social and enjoyed it so much I’m going to do another full reread of the entire series. I can’t think of many long-running comics that have been so consistently brilliant. Long may it continue!

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Martin Stiff @martinstiff.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Oof, it was awful. I don’t often - if ever - bail out on a movie but I just couldn’t get through it. Such a shame as the source material is great.

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Martin Stiff @martinstiff.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

All of this is obviously dreadful but it is objectively hilarious how it puts British fans of Trump and Milei who also claim to be ‘patriots’ into an incredibly awkward position. Yes, I’m looking at you, Farage. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...

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President Javier Milei says ‘winds of change’ support Argentina’s claim to Falkland Islands

President cites Donald Trump’s suggestion that he might reconsider US support for British sovereignty, and threatens swifter sanctions on British oil interests

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Martin Stiff @martinstiff.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

I think I have a bit of hyperacusis - I'm hyper sensitive to weird sounds. I often find myself pacing the house trying to locate a noise no one else can hear, or lie awake at night because someone is having a party four streets away. Living here would literally finish me.

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Martin Stiff @martinstiff.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Ha! It'd be cheaper to book a flight and go and get a copy myself.

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Martin Stiff @martinstiff.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Man alive, there's a book I'd like to order from the US and the delivery cost is more than the book. I'm not blaming the shop but that's ridiculous.

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Martin Stiff @martinstiff.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

The Fairfield Halls near me in Croydon seems to reenacting the end of Watchmen.

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The Artbook Collector @theartbookguy.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

New review! Call of Duty Black Ops Zombies: The Art of Treyarch is a huge volume of artwork and development insights made with care for the series and fans. It's an incredible book that you will want to revisit as much as the games! Full review - www.artbookcollector.com/post/book-re...

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Book Review - Call of Duty Black Ops Zombies: The Art of Treyarch

Book review for Call of Duty Black Ops Zombies: The Art of Treyarch. Get in-depth thoughts on this look at the beloved Zombies mode through artwork and insights.

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Martin Stiff @martinstiff.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Finally caught Undertone and crikey, it’s the scariest film I’ve seen for a while! I love a spooky podcast so it was right up my alley.

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Martin Stiff @martinstiff.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Maybe people will pivot back to print media! (Narrator: they didn’t).

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Martin Stiff @martinstiff.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

A few years ago I saw him play in Croydon and he looked as surprised as everyone else that he was in Croydon.

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Martin Stiff @martinstiff.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Yuck. Humidity is about 500% out there - it's basically like being underwater.

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Martin Stiff @martinstiff.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

It’s my first time here. It’s an absolutely beautiful place - and we have the best view of the seafront from our apartment!

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Martin Stiff @martinstiff.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

We’re currently on holiday in Tenby and our apartment overlooks the bit of the beach where they allow dogs and I am delighted. I’m saying hello to all those guys.

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