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zz9official.bsky.social @zz9official.bsky.social · 13h

Mostly Harmless 181 has dropped and should be in members inboxes now. If it's not arrived, reach out! If it has, read and enjoy! #ZZ9 #DontPanic #H2G2 #HitchhikersGuide #DouglasAdams #HHGG

cover of Mostly Harmless 181, showing a door labelled "Sector ZZ9 Plural Z Alpha" (in Stalbridge - from the Don't Panic Festival earlier this year)

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Mike Hodder @mikehod.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

31 Days of Literature - Video Game Edition Day 31 The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy on PC (1984…ish) A classic novel, written by Douglas Adams in 1979, based on the 1978 radio sitcom, is a text adventure that follows most of the plot of the first book. Best played on the BBC website.

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Mostly Harmless @whalepetunias.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

As soon as Mr. Prosser realized that he was substantially the loser after all, it was as if a weight lifted itself off his shoulders: this was more like the world as he knew it. He sighed.

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HG2G Scrapbook @hg2g-scrapbook.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Silastic Armorfiends #TertiaryPhaseVinyl

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zz9official.bsky.social @zz9official.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Mostly Harmless issue 180 is out! If you're a member and it's not shown up in your inbox yet, reach out! If you're not a member and you want the next one to show up in your inbox, you can join up for just £10 for 2 years at zz9.org/membership/ #DouglasAdams #HHGG #H2G2

cover of ZZ9's quarterly zine "Mostly Harmless". The cover shows the blue plaque recently unveiled by Dorset Council in Stalbridge in recognition of Douglas.

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Jessica the Bestica 🏳️‍🌈Thought Bubble TM Hall A5 ☕Trying My Best @anireal.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

🪐A crazy adventure for the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Omnibus!🌠 The answer to the universe is... ✨More 🔽✨

Interior book art featuring characters and surreal moments from the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Omnibus.

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zz9official.bsky.social @zz9official.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

If you're not in Stalbridge for the #DontPanicFestival on #TowelDay, we wont judge (we're totally judging you) But you can redeem yourself by catching the awesome events on the livestream from Midday (Stalbridge time) www.dontpanicfestival.org/live-stream

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Live Stream

Welcome to the Don't Panic Festival at Stalbridge come and join us

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HG2G Scrapbook @hg2g-scrapbook.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

17th April 2016 The Frood: The Authorised and Very Official History of Douglas Adams & The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy By @jemroberts.bsky.social Brazil Trade Paperback | Editora Aleph

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zz9official.bsky.social @zz9official.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Dont forget to get your tickets for this weekend's #DontPanicFestival in Stalbridge! (why Stalbridge? Why it's where Douglas started writing Hitchhikers...) www.dontpanicfestival.org

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Don't Panic Festival

Welcome to the Don't Panic Festival at Stalbridge come and join us

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zz9official.bsky.social @zz9official.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

2026 #TowelDay Ambassador, Ed, interviews Deanne Tremlett about the upcoming DontPanic Festival - to be held in Stalbridge on the Towel Day weekend (this coming weekend!) www.youtube.com/watch?v=7fmL... www.dontpanicfestival.org

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Electric Monks podcast: Deanne Tremlett and Don't Panic Festival

YouTube video by Electric Monks

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zz9official.bsky.social @zz9official.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Congratulations to Ed - elected as #TowelDayAmbassador for 2026. Oliver Oak Krimmel is regional ambassador for Europe. Ed has been a regional TDA in the past and runs the Electric Monks podcast (dirkgentlypodcast.wordpress.com). He knows where at least two towels are!

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Christopher Bird @mightygodking.com · 21/04/2026

we all know I have no life, so:

WHAT IF COLUMBO COULD REGENERATE LIKE THE DOCTOR?

1st Columbo: Groucho Marx
2nd Columbo: Danny Kaye
3rd Columbo: Sid Caesar
4th Columbo: Peter Falk (obviously he's the fourth, I mean come on, both in terms of iconicism and timing)
5th Columbo: Jamie Farr
6th Columbo: Judd Hirsch
7th Columbo: Howard Hesseman
8th Columbo: Mandy Patinkin
9th Columbo: Eugene Levy
10th Columbo: Mark Ruffalo
11th Columbo: Adam Brody
12th Columbo: Jason Alexander
13th Columbo: Natasha Lyonne
14th Columbo: Mark Ruffalo again
15th Columbo: Omar Epps

NOT PICTURED: Alan Arkin ("War Columbo"), Whoopi Goldberg ("Fugitive Columbo"), Laura Linney (possible 16th Columbo), Don Adams/Warren Christopher (played first and second Columbos, respectively, in "The Five Columbos" TV special)

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zz9official.bsky.social @zz9official.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

Devin has been a Towel Day Ambassador since 2018. He knows just how serious the job is. Promoting towel usage and being hoopy You could be 2026 Towel Day Ambassador - last days to get your campaign video application in! #toweldayambassador #toweldayambassador2026 #douglasadams #zz9pluralzalpha

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zz9official.bsky.social @zz9official.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Ken has been a Towel Day Ambassador since 2024, promoting froodiness & the importance of having a towel. Will you be ambassador in 2026? Prepare an entry video and share it with us by the 25th to enter! #toweldayambassador #toweldayambassador2026 #douglasadams #zz9pluralzalpha

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zz9official.bsky.social @zz9official.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

Hi folks! MH179 was sent out earlier in the week with details about upcoming #TowelDay activities (incuding #TowelDayAmbassador info), the latest Ian Gibson comic sketches, and a membership price drop! If you're a member and haven't seen it (and it's not in spam), get in touch!

cover of MH179 - shows a fan made Hitchhiker's Guide themed pinball machine

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zz9official.bsky.social @zz9official.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

have you been keeping up with the latest in Illustrated Hitchhiker's?

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zz9official.bsky.social @zz9official.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Have you considered if you have what it takes to be #TowelDayAmbassador in 2026? Yvette (TDA in 2023) thinks you do!

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zz9official.bsky.social @zz9official.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

Happy 74th Birthday, #DouglasAdams. We'll celebrate it in your memory!

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zz9official.bsky.social @zz9official.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

Vale Rob Grant. Co-creator of Red Dwarf (with Rob Grant) and later writing partner with Andrew Marshall (who was the inspiration for Marvin the Paranoid Android)

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zz9official.bsky.social @zz9official.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

ZZ9ers! Sunday 1st Feb is our Reading Slouch. There's a ruined abbey to explore. The Museum of English Rural Life and Reading Museum to learn from. Waterways to stroll alongside (weather permitting). Shops! Pubs! Full details in the recent MH178, or event in ZZ9's facebook group #HHGG #ZZ9PZA

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zz9official.bsky.social @zz9official.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

the latest Mostly Harmless (issue 178) was sent out earlier this week! If you were expecting it, but haven't seen it, let us know! If you aren't a member, but want to be, visit zz9.org/membership #zz9 #DouglasAdams #HitchHikersGuideToTheGalaxy #HHGG #H2G2

cover image of MH178 - Marvin from the promo of the HHGG Live stage show, sitting

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Mostly Harmless @whalepetunias.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

Ford Prefect was extremely grateful, as he strapped himself in, that this was just another Informational Illusion, and that he was therefore completely safe. In real life it wasn't a ship he would have set foot in for all the rice wine in China.

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Mostly Harmless @whalepetunias.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

"You don't understand how important this is," he said. "What? You mean my daughter out there all alone in the Galaxy? You think I don't..." "Can we feel sorry for the Galaxy later?" said Ford.

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HG2G Scrapbook @hg2g-scrapbook.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

1st September 2009 So Long, and Thanks For All the Fish: 30th Anniversary Limited Edition Foreword by Neil Gaiman | UK Paperback | Pan MacMillan

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HG2G Scrapbook @hg2g-scrapbook.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

29th April 2005 BBC1, 10.50pm - Friday Night With Jonathan Ross Martin Freeman promotes The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy www.youtube.com/watch?v=WfAI...

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Martin Freeman - Friday Night With Jonathan Ross 2005

YouTube video by Drum Tracks Direct

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HG2G Scrapbook @hg2g-scrapbook.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

December 2006 Mostly Harmless - Read by Martin Freeman UK Audio Book | 6 CDs | MacMillan Audio Books

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Kenny Brophy @urbanprehistorian.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

A hugely popular and internationally recognised symbol of Britishness, associated with time travel & outlandish speculative fictions. And the TARDIS.

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zz9official.bsky.social @zz9official.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

Kevin Jon Davies writes about the 1994 Illustrated Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy substack.com/home/post/p-...

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Drawing on the Past

Creating "The Illustrated Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy" (1994)

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HG2G Scrapbook @hg2g-scrapbook.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

April 2005 Knitted Marvin

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Mostly Harmless @whalepetunias.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

Yes, given the infinite sideways extension of probability there was, of course, an almost infinite multiplicity of planets Earth, but, when you came down to it, a major pair of shoes wasn't something you could just replace by mucking about in multi-dimensional space/time.

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HG2G Scrapbook @hg2g-scrapbook.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

Movie Spinner Keyring, 2005.

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HG2G Scrapbook @hg2g-scrapbook.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

Marvin Bobblehead Head Knockers | NECA | 2005

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Mostly Harmless @whalepetunias.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

In fact what he was really looking for when he stared distractedly into the sky was any kind of flying saucer at all. The reason he said green was that green was the traditional space livery of the Betelgeuse trading scouts.

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HG2G Scrapbook @hg2g-scrapbook.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

Got excited when I recieved a google alert about a ‘new’ Hitchhiker game being announced. Turns out the article was from 2011 and the mobile app was never finished. But clips exist online, narrated by Simon Jones no less! www.youtube.com/watch?v=QxP8...

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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

YouTube video by Hothead Games

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zz9official.bsky.social @zz9official.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

Greetings froods! The #ZZ9 AGM is on the 8th in Faversham plus Zoom (details in MH177 p18), where we'll be electing the 2026 Committee. Email the secretary for electronic voting if you're attending online. If you want to be ON the ZZ9 committee, reach out too and let's chat!

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zz9official.bsky.social @zz9official.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

Are you over 18 and in the UK? Are you a Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy fan? Pan McMillan and HHGGLive have teamed up to give one lucky winner an amazing package! www.panmacmillan.com/hitchhikers-...

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Win an Out-of-This-World Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Prize Bundle!

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zz9official.bsky.social @zz9official.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

Attention all ZZ9 members (both human and non-human) Our quarterly zine "Mostly Harmless" (issue number 177) should have arrived in your inboxes nearly a week ago. If it's AWOL, please get in touch!

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HG2G Scrapbook @hg2g-scrapbook.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

9th May 2005 Quench Magazine

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zz9official.bsky.social @zz9official.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

What a fantastic fanfilm of Ford and Arthur from the #HitchhikersGuide to the Galaxy- as made by Greig Johnson. www.youtube.com/watch?v=-431... (check out his "Making a working guide..." video for an old-school ZZ9 reference too!) #h2g2 #DouglasAdams

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Ford Prefect shows Arthur Dent The Hitch-Hiker's Guide To The Galaxy

YouTube video by Greig Johnson Making

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zz9official.bsky.social @zz9official.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

In case anyone else is painting on wplace.live, some #HHGG fans are drawing a whale and petunias just north of Taunton in the west country. We're mainly organised through the Heart of Gold server (invite at top of r/HItchhikersGuide).

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Wplace - A massive real-time pixel art canvas on the world map!

Wplace is a collaborative, real-time pixel canvas layered over the world map, where anyone can paint and create art together.

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Arvind Ethan David @arvd.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

There's a story behind this #DirkGently #Pride #LGBTQIA+ #Comic 1-shot. I've never told the story. It involves censorship, love, J.K.Rowling and the BBC. I wonder if it's time I told it? #LoveIsLove

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