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John Cullen
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John Cullen @nellucnhoj.bsky.social · Oct 17
Helloooooo, new followers!

I suppose I should do an intro post.

I john. I comics. Also patreon.

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4 panel comic P1: A little one-eyed robot lies in a bed, tucked under a floral pattern quilt. Two scientists stand in the background, looking confused. The older one on the left, holding a tablet device in his left hand, says "I... I don't understand..." P2: Close up on the scientists, as the older one says "I didn't program them to be capable of sleep, see?" as he hands the tablet over to the younger scientist. The latter looks down at the tablet with a look of bemusement, as he says "HUH. And they even..." P3: The older interjects with "INDEED. I switched them on, and they immediately constructed a bed..." The younger guy raises the tablet for a closer look, with obvious shock on his face. P4: Closeup on the robot, looking utterly snug and content. The older scientist finishes with "...then they just crawled right in. That was two weeks ago." A four panel comic, with each panel being narrow, while filling the height of the page. Each panel shows a serene looking scene, with fluffy clouds filling the skies in each. The first panel starts with a caption box which reads "This too--," while the fourth panel ends on "--shall pass." 16 panel comic, laid out --depending on how you look at it-- either on the outer or inner surface of a cube. I'm doing my best impression of Scott McCloud A page from my comic "Land of NOJ," which was published in The Phoenix. Way too much to describe here. It's basically a kind of choose your own adventure comic, where the reader makes their way along either a red or blue path to try and make it to a good ending. The setup is that a character called Suze is obsessed with games, so she uses a six-sided die to make a decision. The reader also requires a die to make their way through the comic.
nellucnhoj.bsky.social
One thing I dislike about Columbo's '80s-and-onward run is that we actually see him in the police station.

What I like in the classic run is that he never feels like an actual cop. He comes off like some trickster demon cosplaying as one.

The "modern" run removes a lot of that mystique.
November 10, 2025 at 7:50 PM
nellucnhoj.bsky.social
What's a good alternative to Goodreads that isn't just me doing a spreadsheet?
November 10, 2025 at 7:13 PM
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vgdensetsu.bsky.social
Kazuki Motoyama / 本山一城, author of several manga adaptations of Super Mario, has passed away according to his sister. He was 69 years old.
www.instagram.com/p/DPSXpYukhQd/
www.mariowiki.com/Kazuki_Motoy...
6 Mario mangas drawn by Kazuki Motoyama a 2023 photo of Kazuki Motoyama
November 10, 2025 at 6:57 PM
nellucnhoj.bsky.social
6 panel comic P1: An impossibly buff Garfield knockoff (with distressingly visible nipples) towers over Jon, who is cat-sized, and lying on all fours on a table surface. P2: Same, only now Buffield points at Jon with their right hand, and reaches for him with their left. They boom: "HUMAN" P3: Brofield lays their left hand on Jon's back with such force, the latter begins to deform. Masculinifield demands: "I PET YOU. INITIATE THAT SOUND WHICH PLEASES ME SO" P4: Crushing Jon even further, The Garf lowers their head menacingly to stare at their quarry. P5: Closeup on a panicked looking and sweating Jon, as he starts shakily singing the chorus from "Hero" by Chad Kroeger. P6: As Jon continues belting out that absolute tune from off-panel, we go to a closeup of Garry Field, their face dramatically underlit. They let out a satisfied "bueno"
November 10, 2025 at 4:23 PM
nellucnhoj.bsky.social
I downloaded a new file explorer for Windows, and what a difference it makes. The default one is awful.
November 10, 2025 at 3:30 PM
nellucnhoj.bsky.social
just cleared out over 70GB of files from my downloads folder please clap
November 10, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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belgianboolean.bsky.social
Thinkin’ about the monkey in MGS4. I think we’d be friends
November 10, 2025 at 2:07 PM
nellucnhoj.bsky.social
Considering getting my mam a Miyoo Mini+ for Xmas, and just sticking the original Gameboy Tetris on there.
November 10, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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seanohogain.bsky.social
Our poet president ✨☘️

💚Today is Michael D. Higgins’ last day as President of Ireland! I’m so immensely grateful to President Higgins and his time in office. His legacy is one of kindness, joy, inclusion and community.

#michaeldhiggins #presidentofireland #miggildyhiggins
November 10, 2025 at 1:34 PM
nellucnhoj.bsky.social
Sorry, new followers with anon PFPs, but if I check your feed, and it is nothing but American politics, yerrrrrrrrr OUT.
November 10, 2025 at 1:20 PM
nellucnhoj.bsky.social
A closeup of a comic panel drawn in a sketchbook using blue pencil and inks. In the foreground, a stressed looking balding man, sat in a high backed chair. In the back ground, a small cat with a large mouth, yelling WWAOOHHHH
November 10, 2025 at 1:11 PM
nellucnhoj.bsky.social
The art vs the artist's hand
A comic parodying the famous "welcome to Jurassic Park" scene, only the dinosaurs are replaced by horrible hand tree things. Also, the line is changed to "welcome to hell." A photo of my right hand, contorted to match the fucked up hell hand in the comic
November 10, 2025 at 12:25 PM
nellucnhoj.bsky.social
Repost to give an Irish person a jumpscare.
ciaraioch.bsky.social Ciara | Ciaraíoch 🎨 @ciaraioch.bsky.social · 21h
Irish house, winter edition
A very condensation-y window
November 10, 2025 at 11:41 AM
nellucnhoj.bsky.social
Music I'm listening to as I "work"
A photo looking down on a black record player lying on top of a wooden chest of drawers. Laid down flat on top of the player is the cover for the album I'm playing, "Fragments" by Bonobo.
November 10, 2025 at 11:32 AM
Reposted by John Cullen
nellucnhoj.bsky.social
communing with nature

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8 panel comic P1: cartoon me, wearing a red tee and navy blue jeans, sat on a curved wall. In his right hand, he holds a croissant, which he has just taken a chomp out of. In his left, a takeaway coffee. Behind the wall, we see an expanse of grass, and --to the left-- the roots of a tree. P2: a closeup of cartoon me, as he loudly chews. He has a vacantly happy look on his face. P3: Same, but now CM swallows his food, as he notices something off-panel. P4: POV switches to look at what CM is looking at. It's a jackdaw, splooted down on the capstones atop the wall. Their back half slumps over the edge. We can just see a silhouette of CM staring at the jackdaw, who stares back with a wide eye. P5: Closeup of jackdaw's head, as things switch to negative --the jackdaw white, the background black-- as they continue staring. P6: Same POV. We switch back to normal colours. Their eye now closed, the jackdaw does a little nod. P7: We switch to a low angle closeup of CM --underlit-- as he looks on, seemingly confused. P8: Same POV, only now --eyes closed, and a smile on his face-- CM returns the nod.
June 6, 2025 at 3:58 PM
nellucnhoj.bsky.social
Going back to doing relatively tiny comics in a sketchbook to put some much needed oil in the creative gears again.
Close up photo of a comic panel drawn in blue pencil and inks. It depicts a very simple drawing of a duck, swimming on a water surface. Above them, in lower case letters, "d o n k"
November 10, 2025 at 9:42 AM
Reposted by John Cullen
llbroadwell.bsky.social
The only thing I have to say on this Remembrance Sunday is to quote, verbatim, what Harry Patch had to say about the First World War:
"When the war ended, I don't know if I was more relieved that we'd won or that I didn't have to go back. Passchendaele was a disastrous battle—thousands and thousands of young lives were lost. It makes me angry. Earlier this year, I went back to Ypres to shake the hand of Charles Kuentz, Germany's only surviving veteran from the war. It was emotional. He is 107. We've had 87 years to think what war is. To me, it's a licence to go out and murder. Why should the British government call me up and take me out to a battlefield to shoot a man I never knew, whose language I couldn't speak? All those lives lost for a war finished over a table. Now what is the sense in that?" Quotation from the British WWI veteran Harry Patch, in November 2004
November 9, 2025 at 8:25 PM
nellucnhoj.bsky.social
I got a best of Joy Division/New Order CD today, and gave it a listen.

'World of Motion' started playing, and let's just say it quickly got skipped, and will not be getting played again.
First paragraph from the Wikipedia entry for the New Order song, "World in Motion." ""World in Motion..." is a song by English band New Order (performed with the England national football team, credited as ENGLANDneworder). The song is New Order's only number-one song on the UK Singles Chart. It was produced for the England national football team's 1990 FIFA World Cup campaign and features a guest rap by England footballer John Barnes and additional vocals by several members of the English team of 1990 and comedian Keith Allen, who co-wrote the lyrics."
November 9, 2025 at 7:45 PM
nellucnhoj.bsky.social
Yeah, if your movie has this many overly elaborate logos play before it begins, I am just going to watch something on YouTube instead.
rocketgal.bsky.social Claire D @rocketgal.bsky.social · 1d
How many self congratulatory logos is too many?
November 9, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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spacetwinks.bsky.social
the way captain commando says his own name at the end of the game is so good. world's most mild superhero
November 9, 2025 at 6:10 PM
nellucnhoj.bsky.social
This is a good reminder that --as handy as they can be-- you need to be *very* careful about which moderation lists you sub to.

A creator of a list could suddenly turn it into something else entirely, and most of its subscribers would never know.
kim-hu.com Kim Hu @kim-hu.com · 1d
just got added to this blocklist by some guy having a crash out over the cola vid lol
bunch of other artists on there too, so good reminder for y’all to be careful what lists you sub to. personally I unsubbed from most of them except ai mod bc people can’t be trusted/there’s too many troll ones
Anti-Intelligence: Thieves and Charlatans Moderation list by @refreshingtime.bs.. This is a blocklist for Al proponents, propagandists, public users and spreaders, grifters, and apologists. Discussing Al alone, or discussing the actual concept of artificial intelligence as opposed to promoting popular LLM usage, will not land you on this list.
November 9, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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seanseanson.bsky.social
As Ireland's 39th best Mug salesman, I've decided Every Developer special should have its own mug.

sean-seanson-shop.fourthwall.com
November 9, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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kim-hu.com
just got added to this blocklist by some guy having a crash out over the cola vid lol
bunch of other artists on there too, so good reminder for y’all to be careful what lists you sub to. personally I unsubbed from most of them except ai mod bc people can’t be trusted/there’s too many troll ones
Anti-Intelligence: Thieves and Charlatans Moderation list by @refreshingtime.bs.. This is a blocklist for Al proponents, propagandists, public users and spreaders, grifters, and apologists. Discussing Al alone, or discussing the actual concept of artificial intelligence as opposed to promoting popular LLM usage, will not land you on this list.
November 9, 2025 at 2:19 PM
nellucnhoj.bsky.social
Oh. There are actual unironic poppy freaks on here.

Not many, but they exist.
November 9, 2025 at 4:49 PM