Chris "Human Cryptid" Mole
@chrismole.bsky.social
Writer (Brigantia, The Black Rubric), letterer (The Phoenix), musician (Powerhouse), raconteur, bisexual. He/him. Avatar by @frogapples_🍎!
Website: www.chrismole.co.uk
Website: www.chrismole.co.uk
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Pinned post time! I'm Chris Mole, a writer, letterer and editor from Sheffield. My works include BRIGANTIA, THE BLACK RUBRIC, a ton of PROFESSOR ELEMENTAL COMICS and the toilet-themed anthology SECRETS OF THE MAJESTIC. Plus I'm a pretty mean guitarist if I say so myself..! 💪
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Phew. This is the best thing I’ve read this week and is absolutely worth your time.
Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani
It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…
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November 8, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Phew. This is the best thing I’ve read this week and is absolutely worth your time.
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Today’s creative landscape can be difficult to navigate to find reliable artists who don’t use genAI in any part of their process, are trustworthy, and deliver professional quality work for every piece.
At 42 Fold, we aim to make it easy with our incredible roster of artists! 42fold.studio
💙📚🌈
At 42 Fold, we aim to make it easy with our incredible roster of artists! 42fold.studio
💙📚🌈
November 5, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Today’s creative landscape can be difficult to navigate to find reliable artists who don’t use genAI in any part of their process, are trustworthy, and deliver professional quality work for every piece.
At 42 Fold, we aim to make it easy with our incredible roster of artists! 42fold.studio
💙📚🌈
At 42 Fold, we aim to make it easy with our incredible roster of artists! 42fold.studio
💙📚🌈
Frankenstein by Guillermo del Toro is an absolute visual feast, and hits all the tragic notes I'd expect. A very good time at the movies!
October 28, 2025 at 11:36 PM
Frankenstein by Guillermo del Toro is an absolute visual feast, and hits all the tragic notes I'd expect. A very good time at the movies!
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![1
Nurse:
It’s become a real problem in this area
2
Nurse:
We’ve seen the whole community lost to addiction
3
Show a building sign posted:
Westminster ‘X’ Addiction Clinic
With various Westminster people or looking at their phones outside it
Nurse:
Ministers, Spads, Researchers…
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Nurse:
Most mornings we’ll get a call about someone acting strangely
[Nurse on phone taking a call]
Ok - we’ll be right over
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Nurse:
We just have a gentle chat
[Nurses approach a minister –Robert Jenrick? - standing in the Palace of Westminster
Minister:
I understand your concerns…
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Nurse:
Are you OK love?
Minister:
Yes I’m just hearing legitimate concerns from real voters
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Nurse:
That’s a robot, a Nazi and a poorly-disguised Russian
[Show that the people he is talking to are precisely these characters]
Nurse 2:
Give us your phone, love
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Nurse:
At the clinic we put them in a Grass-Touching Pod, with a real voter to talk to
[We see them back at the clinic, holding the minister's head and pushing him into a glass isolation booth with a grass floor. And it is a baffled looking woman, on a chair, ready to talk to him.]
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Minister:
YOU MUST BE WORRIED ABOUT THE COMING CIVIL WAR
[woman looks baffled]
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woman:
I just want a bus service
Minister:
LOOK AT MY FLAG
[produces a St George's flag]
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I remember watching a low quality rip of this song on YouTube in 2006, before a Japanese Studies class at University, and absolutely losing my mind at the 4-minute (and INCREDIBLE) guitar solo duel they added into the middle. Do yourself a favour and listen to it!
(the song is called みかんのうた!)
(the song is called みかんのうた!)
October 16, 2025 at 7:36 AM
I remember watching a low quality rip of this song on YouTube in 2006, before a Japanese Studies class at University, and absolutely losing my mind at the 4-minute (and INCREDIBLE) guitar solo duel they added into the middle. Do yourself a favour and listen to it!
(the song is called みかんのうた!)
(the song is called みかんのうた!)
Okay, yeah, this game is aesthetic as shit 👌✨ #GhostOfYotei
October 12, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Okay, yeah, this game is aesthetic as shit 👌✨ #GhostOfYotei
The Midnight were absolutely phenomenal last night, first sold out crowd of the whole tour in Sheffield too! 💪
October 11, 2025 at 7:58 AM
The Midnight were absolutely phenomenal last night, first sold out crowd of the whole tour in Sheffield too! 💪
I think it's fair to say this is one of maybe two times where I have felt like I'm actually good at games, and I am now very done with this nightmarishly hard game (poison Cogfly spam ftw) 💪💪💪
October 6, 2025 at 4:22 PM
I think it's fair to say this is one of maybe two times where I have felt like I'm actually good at games, and I am now very done with this nightmarishly hard game (poison Cogfly spam ftw) 💪💪💪
Apple did a phenomenal job on my FF Tactics styled portrait way back - strong recommend whenever they're open for commissions!
Final Fantasy Tactics Remake is out!
the original was amazing so I recommend it!
anyway here are my favorite FF tactics Portraits I've done -w-
the original was amazing so I recommend it!
anyway here are my favorite FF tactics Portraits I've done -w-
October 3, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Apple did a phenomenal job on my FF Tactics styled portrait way back - strong recommend whenever they're open for commissions!
I know I'm late to the party, but - Longlegs 😬 Really enjoyed that, utterly mental Nic Cage and all!
October 2, 2025 at 7:53 PM
I know I'm late to the party, but - Longlegs 😬 Really enjoyed that, utterly mental Nic Cage and all!
No official Shocktober this year, but we're marking the start of Spooky Season with the original RINGU (which I don't think I've actually watched before!)
October 1, 2025 at 6:20 PM
No official Shocktober this year, but we're marking the start of Spooky Season with the original RINGU (which I don't think I've actually watched before!)
Why the fuck am I playing this game again
September 30, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Why the fuck am I playing this game again
Okay but this made me almost tear up because it's nearly ten years since I went there and I miss Pittsburgh so much 😭 youtu.be/h2lw0LSWYlA?...
Pittsburgh - the most surprisingly wonderful city in America.
YouTube video by Attaché
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September 27, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Okay but this made me almost tear up because it's nearly ten years since I went there and I miss Pittsburgh so much 😭 youtu.be/h2lw0LSWYlA?...
I have never in my life felt the desire to flame a game developer, not once.
These flea minigames in Silksong are pushing me to the absolute brink. This is actual sadism and I am ENRAGED.
These flea minigames in Silksong are pushing me to the absolute brink. This is actual sadism and I am ENRAGED.
September 27, 2025 at 1:28 PM
I have never in my life felt the desire to flame a game developer, not once.
These flea minigames in Silksong are pushing me to the absolute brink. This is actual sadism and I am ENRAGED.
These flea minigames in Silksong are pushing me to the absolute brink. This is actual sadism and I am ENRAGED.
We put the first episode of Goodness Gracious Me on for a comfort watch and got to the "going for an English" sketch, at which point I said "wait, hold on... is that waiter @neilnewbon.bsky.social?"
LO AND BEHOLD 🤯
LO AND BEHOLD 🤯
September 23, 2025 at 6:19 PM
We put the first episode of Goodness Gracious Me on for a comfort watch and got to the "going for an English" sketch, at which point I said "wait, hold on... is that waiter @neilnewbon.bsky.social?"
LO AND BEHOLD 🤯
LO AND BEHOLD 🤯
First full (ish) practice in almost 10 years with the Northern Oak crew last night and it's amazing how quickly things come back to you! #Reunited
September 23, 2025 at 1:40 PM
First full (ish) practice in almost 10 years with the Northern Oak crew last night and it's amazing how quickly things come back to you! #Reunited
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Reminds me of a line in The Blackberry movie, of all places, that "good enough" is the enemy of humanity.
And a good reminder that the Luddites were badasses who didn't oppose technology out of some misguided attempt to hold back progress, but because they actually *cared* about the end product.
And a good reminder that the Luddites were badasses who didn't oppose technology out of some misguided attempt to hold back progress, but because they actually *cared* about the end product.
September 18, 2025 at 7:41 AM
Reminds me of a line in The Blackberry movie, of all places, that "good enough" is the enemy of humanity.
And a good reminder that the Luddites were badasses who didn't oppose technology out of some misguided attempt to hold back progress, but because they actually *cared* about the end product.
And a good reminder that the Luddites were badasses who didn't oppose technology out of some misguided attempt to hold back progress, but because they actually *cared* about the end product.
This is genuinely the best news I've had all week/month/possibly year: deadline.com/2025/09/the-...
‘The Muppet Show’ Returns With Disney+ Special Produced By Seth Rogen & Guest Star Sabrina Carpenter; Will Serve As Backdoor Pilot
'The Muppet Show' returns with a Disney+ special produced by Seth Rogen and guest star Sabrina Carpenter. It will serve as a backdoor pilot.
deadline.com
September 18, 2025 at 7:36 AM
This is genuinely the best news I've had all week/month/possibly year: deadline.com/2025/09/the-...
God, the world is a shit and depressing place today isn't it? Going to go back to ignoring the news for the sake of my mental health 🥲
September 14, 2025 at 10:19 AM
God, the world is a shit and depressing place today isn't it? Going to go back to ignoring the news for the sake of my mental health 🥲
Today I took a load of home-baked goods into the office for a fundraising bakesale/tombola as part of the Citizen's Advice fundraising we're doing - pistachio rocky road, chocolate orange brownies and orange & lemon loaf cake. Sold out of all of them, got rave reviews, and in total we raised £540!
September 9, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Today I took a load of home-baked goods into the office for a fundraising bakesale/tombola as part of the Citizen's Advice fundraising we're doing - pistachio rocky road, chocolate orange brownies and orange & lemon loaf cake. Sold out of all of them, got rave reviews, and in total we raised £540!
Following on from this... would creators pay £30 for a table for a full Saturday of exhibiting in Sheffield city centre? Thinking free entry (so people have more money to spend on comics...) 🤔
Once again getting the itch to organise a Sheffield comics festival... if I give myself a year and aim for next September that's enough time, right? Right??
September 3, 2025 at 9:44 AM
Following on from this... would creators pay £30 for a table for a full Saturday of exhibiting in Sheffield city centre? Thinking free entry (so people have more money to spend on comics...) 🤔
Please allow me to contribute "my little man's reaction to me coming home after almost 3 weeks in India" earlier this year to this ❤️
September 3, 2025 at 6:19 AM
Please allow me to contribute "my little man's reaction to me coming home after almost 3 weeks in India" earlier this year to this ❤️