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Cutaway Comics @cutawaycomics.bsky.social · 3h

Have you seen our latest project? SHARE AND ENJOY is a must for all Douglas Adams fans. So what are you waiting for? Grab your towel and head over to kickstarter! www.kickstarter.com/projects/roo...

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SHARE & ENJOY. A definitively inaccurate Douglas Adams story

A definitively inaccurate graphic novel celebrating the life of the absurdly talented and much missed Hitchhikers creator Douglas Adams

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Small Robots @smolrobots.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

JRR Tolkien: You paint that picture of the key scene from the Two Towers where Frodo and Sam fight Gollum? Donato Giancola: Sure did, Ron, real fuckin' sexy just like you asked. JRRT: What.

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jess m. ☕🍂 @jametc.bsky.social · 16h

Something AI is responsible for that doesn't get enough talk: How, when it scrapes a website to illegally steal everything on it, it uses up a ton of its bandwidth allotment, crashing it or racking up massive fees for site owners.

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Scott Gray @scott1gray.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Just backed a new graphic novel: "SHARE & ENJOY. A definitively inaccurate Douglas Adams story" drawn by Martin Geraghty. Check it out, it looks fantastic! #DouglasAdams @garethothevworp.bsky.social @cutawaycomics.bsky.social www.kickstarter.com/projects/roo...

Art by Martin Geraghty. An alien looks up Douglas Adams on the Hitchhikers' Guide to the Galaxy.

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Sean Mason @seanmason87.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I've seen preview pages and the script for this. It is going to be well worth your time and money.

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Cutaway Comics @cutawaycomics.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

New kickstarter! SHARE AND ENJOY is our definitively innacurate graphic novel about Douglas Adams. With words by @markauthor.bsky.social and art by Martin Geragthy, this is a must for all Douglas Adams and Hitchhikers fans! www.kickstarter.com/projects/roo...

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SHARE & ENJOY. A definitively inaccurate Douglas Adams story

A definitively inaccurate graphic novel celebrating the life of the absurdly talented and much missed Hitchhikers creator Douglas Adams

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Sean Mason @seanmason87.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Seeing Digger compared to Kubrick (Dr. Strangelove in particular) but there is a good dose of Gilliam in its DNA too. I enjoyed it. I see why people won't. 2026 has been a year of angry, unsubtle big swing movies.

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Sean Mason @seanmason87.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

No. I don't want to use the machine that is overly complex and doesn't scan my discount. I want you, the person behind the till to just take my order. Automation is not efficiency.

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Baz Greenland @bazgreenland.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

With the release of #DoctorWho #Christmas Specials on all online book retailers, I wanted to do a daily celebration of all the writers who contributed essays to the book amzn.eu/d/0f2azANv @seanmason87.bsky.social, wrote a beautiful piece about 2011 special, The Doctor, the Widow and the Wardrobe

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Edy Hurst @edyhurst.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Thanks for all the support guys, just doing my job!

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Joanne Harris @joannechocolat.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Lots of pieces in the print media recently about the decline of reading in children. Here's a little thread on ways to help your kids get reading again:

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Sean Mason @seanmason87.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Been a while since I've done this level of day drinking. Tomorrow is going to be bad isn't it?

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J.A. Prentice @japrenticewrites.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Somehow this makes both more and less sense.

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Sean Mason @seanmason87.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Solid pair of hands to direct. Kinberg has had some big misses but plenty of hits. Sounds like lessons learned too: the next trilogy needs a cohesive plan. These are all very safe choices and more likely to get a greenlight. Might even incorporate some elements from the various abandoned projects...

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Jonny Morris @jonnymorris.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Somehow Strange New Worlds has become quantum entangled with Doctor Who two years ago, transmitting the message "Space baby" into the past in order to avert a terrible disaster.

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Sean Mason @seanmason87.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Anyway, now its time to install and boot up Silent Hill Townfall. Something relaxing.

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Sean Mason @seanmason87.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Turns out this was the pre cursor to an anxiety attack. So that was fun.

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Sean Mason @seanmason87.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Feel like my body has been in fight or flight mode for 12 hours. That's bad, right?

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Sean Mason @seanmason87.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I'll be in the Bubble Boy Hall with @cutawaycomics.bsky.social. Come say hello (and also buy comics).

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Sean Mason @seanmason87.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Found the last episode of 70Up incredibly moving. The final episode reflecting on the process, acknowledging how Michael Apted was changed and challenged by the process as much as the participants. A profound reflection on what it is to live a life. And what an extraordinary project.

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Joanne Harris @joannechocolat.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Much as we love bookshops, they need more than love to keep going. A bookshop can be the centre of a whole community. Bookshops support authors; organize events. A thriving bookshop teaches the next generation that literacy matters. So don't just love your bookshop: actually buy books there.

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Willard Foxton @willardfoxton.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I think it's absolutely mad that today there's a *national news story* about 400 oil platform workers losing their jobs, and the government being blamed. 25% of the UK TV industry lost their jobs in the last 4 years and we never hear a peep about it! Some jobs are 'real jobs' I guess.

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Sean Mason @seanmason87.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Just read Chortle's rightly damning review of that AI generated sitcom. Everything in it sounds like hell. A thorough argument for exactly why gatekeepers are good actually. Though lets not with the "maybe AI could be useful in animating a show or something" trying to be fair. Nope. Don't do that.

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Sean Mason @seanmason87.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

My god, if Verticals are the future of drama then... fuck me. I'm going to live in a cave. They make look Days Of Our Lives look like prestige TV. What the fuck are we doing to our culture?

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Sean Mason @seanmason87.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

We run a TV Comedy Writing and Performance module at our University creating multicam sitcom. It probably won't run next year though it remains very popular with students. That makes me sad. It's a skill we will lose to time. www.comedy.co.uk/tv/features/...

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The studio sitcom isn't dated - it's been withdrawn from sale - British Comedy Guide

Audiences still love narrative comedy played to a live room, so why have broadcasters stopped making it? The case for bringing the studio audience sitcom back.

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the pickwicker man @pickwick.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

One of the faultlines in society is between people who think we should prioritise making sure everyone who's eligible for something gets it, and people who think we should prioritise making sure that nobody who isn't eligible for something gets it

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Sean Mason @seanmason87.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

SNLUK works so much better with a UK host than a big name Hollywood star. With a UK host it has its own voice and plays to its strengths. (The Hollywood ones are good too, but it is so much stronger when there is less translation between idea and host's cultural grasp)

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Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Wrote something about SNL:UK and what I learned by going to see it being made… joelmorris.substack.com/p/live-from-...

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Live from London, it’s SATURDAY NIGHT!

What seeing this week’s episode of SNL UK taught me about comedy.

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Sacha Coward @sachacoward.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

The unironic existence of the euphemisms 'grape' and 'sewer slide' are such an indictment of the mirror world we've built.

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Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Replacing television and film with Whatever All This Is has gone so well. The bright future that the disrupters came up with (a version of having a very big hard drive of indifferent content you can’t navigate and don’t value) has worked about as well as it did for music. We’re all so much poorer.

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Colin Smith @colinsmith.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I haven’t been to the George Lucas museum. America’s too far away for my pocket & far too fash, sadly, for both my conscience & my wellbeing. But whatever the museum holds, I know only wankers - that’s thee, the Wall Steet Journal - believe illustration isn’t art. Into the sea with the WSJ.

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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 18/09/2026

What on earth is happening?

This had become the new normal. RNLI crew members had been forced to take their permits off their cars after their tyres have been repeatedly slashed. Most of them have been pilloried at the school gates or turned away from local pubs. One man who worked in search and rescue had been beaten unconscious and hospitalised, recognised for TV interviews he had done.

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Hannah Harlow @hhharlow.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

The message booksellers are getting for Q4 is December is going to be (another) shitshow. Paper and ink shortages, printer back-ups, warehouse back-ups/staffing shortages, carrier delays. Order up now, we’re being told. Who knows what stock will be available later.

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Sean Mason @seanmason87.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Both Clacton and Piddington sound like made up English places but are both tediously real.

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Michael Ruocco @michaeljruocco.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Sometimes I browse through heritage auctions and I find the occasional odd gem, but today I stumbled upon the mother-load: these ridiculous grocery store ads promoting the release of The Jungle Book, and each one has me absolutely reeling. Sharing them here so you too can share in my bewildered joy

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Sean Mason @seanmason87.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

So... I have an idea, inspired by @petetrainor.fyi's call for more comics community spaces in his wonderful Drawn To Extinction... a monthly meet up in Manchester for comics writers, artists, colourists, letterers, editors... pints, chat, maybe networking, deadline accountability...

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Bethany Black @bethanyblack.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Thinking about Peter Parker: The Spectacular Spider-Man #308 again. Where Spider-Man finds out Sandman’s dying and takes him to the beach to sit with him when the end comes so he’s not alone. One of the most beautiful, heartbreaking moments in comics.

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Sean Mason @seanmason87.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

So... 25 years later. The best movie about 9/11 is still Spielberg's War of The Worlds.

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Sean Mason @seanmason87.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Enjoyed Pressure. A solid World War 2 drama. Wish I'd seen the original stage version.

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Destination Venus sells comics in Harrogate! @destinationvenus.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

We've had a few folks take us up on our offer to help them with shipping and stuff for @thoughtbubbleuk.bsky.social, but we can do more. We're 5 minutes from the venue - use us as a shipping address, hit us up with questions about the town, whatever, just message us and we'll do what we can to help.

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Sean Mason @seanmason87.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

But they did a special last year that was pretty much spot on. Just... do more of that? Or another miniseries like The Muppets Mayhem following different groups of Muppets?

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Sean Mason @seanmason87.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I go to the cinema a lot. Like, a lot. And I watch a generally very wide selection of films. But I haven't seen a *single* Practical Magic 2 trailer in cinemas.

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Sean Mason @seanmason87.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

The BBC is just fucked, isn't it?

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Sean Mason @seanmason87.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

And a pleasant evening at the cinema was had.

Poster for the anniversary re-release of Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home.

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Ben Williams @wenbbilliams.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

If you wanted to make Doctor Who during the hiatus, least you could do is try and do it as a live action fan film. Sure, you might not be able to act. You might have no money. You may literally just be playing with action figures. And you'd STILL more artistic than AI. And I'd respect you.

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