The big penny drop moment for me using social media is appreciating that people with any following over the multiple hundreds has good reason to treat almost any interaction with guardedness.
Had a conversation on here yesterday with someone who was clearly literally incapable of understanding 'but do you not understand that the same *person* who sees your reply sees ten others, and this shapes all their responses'.
November 24, 2025 at 4:04 PM
The big penny drop moment for me using social media is appreciating that people with any following over the multiple hundreds has good reason to treat almost any interaction with guardedness.
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If you’d like to get your hand on “one of the most starkly affecting comics you’ll read this year” (Broken Frontier), 5 MORE MINUTES is now available from my online shop:
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hannahberry.bigcartel.com/products
November 21, 2025 at 9:41 AM
If you’d like to get your hand on “one of the most starkly affecting comics you’ll read this year” (Broken Frontier), 5 MORE MINUTES is now available from my online shop:
hannahberry.bigcartel.com/products
hannahberry.bigcartel.com/products
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#Discourse2000 is back! This intro post sets the scene for the 1978 posts with an overview of the different tribes of early #2000AD creators - the professionals, the rebels, the fans and the outsiders - and their visions of what the comic is
freakytrigger.co.uk/wedge/2025/1...
freakytrigger.co.uk/wedge/2025/1...
Dance Our Way Out Of Our Constrictions: INTRO ’78
Previously on Discourse 2000: After successfully helping launch war comic Battle, editor Pat Mills had the opportunity to launch a new kind of boys’ comic at publishers IPC – Action, a title which tur...
freakytrigger.co.uk
November 23, 2025 at 6:26 PM
#Discourse2000 is back! This intro post sets the scene for the 1978 posts with an overview of the different tribes of early #2000AD creators - the professionals, the rebels, the fans and the outsiders - and their visions of what the comic is
freakytrigger.co.uk/wedge/2025/1...
freakytrigger.co.uk/wedge/2025/1...
There was a sweet old man who used to come into our shop who was convinced that Boris Karloff was his uncle. Every day a new story.
“They tried to hang him, you know”
“Who?”
“Uncle Boris. But they couldn’t. He was too tall…!”
“They stole his teeth”
“Did they?”
“They were made of wood!”
“They tried to hang him, you know”
“Who?”
“Uncle Boris. But they couldn’t. He was too tall…!”
“They stole his teeth”
“Did they?”
“They were made of wood!”
November 23, 2025 at 3:40 PM
There was a sweet old man who used to come into our shop who was convinced that Boris Karloff was his uncle. Every day a new story.
“They tried to hang him, you know”
“Who?”
“Uncle Boris. But they couldn’t. He was too tall…!”
“They stole his teeth”
“Did they?”
“They were made of wood!”
“They tried to hang him, you know”
“Who?”
“Uncle Boris. But they couldn’t. He was too tall…!”
“They stole his teeth”
“Did they?”
“They were made of wood!”
When I ran a chain of record shops, I have no regrets about discouraging Christmas music being played.
“Everywhere else is playing this shite, and we’re a fucking record shop!”
“Everywhere else is playing this shite, and we’re a fucking record shop!”
The onslaught of piped in Xmas music is workers rights issue. It was THE thing I complained to management about when I worked @ B&N.
If we had to hear “Baby Shark” everywhere we went for two whole months out of the year we’d throw a fit, right?
And rightfully so.
So tell me, why do we put up with it when the song is “Frosty the Snowman”?
And rightfully so.
So tell me, why do we put up with it when the song is “Frosty the Snowman”?
November 22, 2025 at 8:56 AM
When I ran a chain of record shops, I have no regrets about discouraging Christmas music being played.
“Everywhere else is playing this shite, and we’re a fucking record shop!”
“Everywhere else is playing this shite, and we’re a fucking record shop!”
Reader, it was of interest.
Someone asked to see one of my chimney drawings, so I might as well see if it’s of interest to anyone else :)
Ha - the allure of a chimney. I’ve been promising myself that I’ll revisit them and share at some point. In the meantime I’ve got one on my phone, so here y’go.
November 21, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Reader, it was of interest.
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So honored to have a Bleeding Hearts 1 variant from @shadex6.bsky.social, one of the all time greats. Just look at how much work was put into that -- what a privilege! And that's on top of the perfect main cover from @stipanmorian.bsky.social & another brilliant one from legendary Jae Lee!
November 21, 2025 at 5:13 PM
So honored to have a Bleeding Hearts 1 variant from @shadex6.bsky.social, one of the all time greats. Just look at how much work was put into that -- what a privilege! And that's on top of the perfect main cover from @stipanmorian.bsky.social & another brilliant one from legendary Jae Lee!
November 20, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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I thought this was going to turn into a story needing its own True Crime Netflix series, but no.
This is quite something.
metro.co.uk/2025/11/18/w...
This is quite something.
metro.co.uk/2025/11/18/w...
'We invited a homeless man for dinner - he stayed for 45 years'
The man was only meant to stay for a day.
metro.co.uk
November 18, 2025 at 2:35 PM
I thought this was going to turn into a story needing its own True Crime Netflix series, but no.
This is quite something.
metro.co.uk/2025/11/18/w...
This is quite something.
metro.co.uk/2025/11/18/w...
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They make games and movies like they used to. So many of them. Same with books.
But the mechanisms you learned about them were totally gutted and changed to only amplify shit that's already popular.
It's still there! You're just mostly on your own to find it.
But the mechanisms you learned about them were totally gutted and changed to only amplify shit that's already popular.
It's still there! You're just mostly on your own to find it.
November 19, 2025 at 12:16 PM
They make games and movies like they used to. So many of them. Same with books.
But the mechanisms you learned about them were totally gutted and changed to only amplify shit that's already popular.
It's still there! You're just mostly on your own to find it.
But the mechanisms you learned about them were totally gutted and changed to only amplify shit that's already popular.
It's still there! You're just mostly on your own to find it.
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Fear of A Black Thanet.
November 19, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Fear of A Black Thanet.
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What a fucking beautiful moment.
Troy Parrott. Echos of Robbie Keane's goal against Germany in 2002. What a moment. #COYBIG 🇮🇪
November 16, 2025 at 4:59 PM
What a fucking beautiful moment.
Been working through these slowly and they are fantastic. Unsettling and odd and often, I’m not sure I could say exactly why.
There’s one about a man who has someone leaving flowers outside his door which really bothered me.
There’s one about a man who has someone leaving flowers outside his door which really bothered me.
I just finished the latest episode of Fake Documentary Q, and it may be one of the best yet.
The sheer confidence of the creators doing a haunted house story set during the daytime, and still have it be effective, really shows how great this series is.
The sheer confidence of the creators doing a haunted house story set during the daytime, and still have it be effective, really shows how great this series is.
HELTER SKELTER (English Sub)
YouTube video by フェイクドキュメンタリー「Q」
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November 15, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Been working through these slowly and they are fantastic. Unsettling and odd and often, I’m not sure I could say exactly why.
There’s one about a man who has someone leaving flowers outside his door which really bothered me.
There’s one about a man who has someone leaving flowers outside his door which really bothered me.
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OK I've got enough done to announce that DISCOURSE 2000 will be BACK BACK BACK next weekend covering
DAN DARE
THE VISIBLE MAN
COLONY EARTH
MACH 1 & MACH ZERO
WALTER THE WOBOT
JUDGE DREDD: THE CURSED EARTH
DEATH PLANET
ANT WARS
#2000AD
DAN DARE
THE VISIBLE MAN
COLONY EARTH
MACH 1 & MACH ZERO
WALTER THE WOBOT
JUDGE DREDD: THE CURSED EARTH
DEATH PLANET
ANT WARS
#2000AD
November 15, 2025 at 9:14 PM
OK I've got enough done to announce that DISCOURSE 2000 will be BACK BACK BACK next weekend covering
DAN DARE
THE VISIBLE MAN
COLONY EARTH
MACH 1 & MACH ZERO
WALTER THE WOBOT
JUDGE DREDD: THE CURSED EARTH
DEATH PLANET
ANT WARS
#2000AD
DAN DARE
THE VISIBLE MAN
COLONY EARTH
MACH 1 & MACH ZERO
WALTER THE WOBOT
JUDGE DREDD: THE CURSED EARTH
DEATH PLANET
ANT WARS
#2000AD
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Finally—back to my drawing board. It's been a long, long time I couldn't even set foot into my studio (our late son Mike did the electrical wiring & work; the hole in my soul the size of Mike was just... to... raw). Relieved I still have some drawing chops left.
November 14, 2025 at 10:17 PM
Finally—back to my drawing board. It's been a long, long time I couldn't even set foot into my studio (our late son Mike did the electrical wiring & work; the hole in my soul the size of Mike was just... to... raw). Relieved I still have some drawing chops left.
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You been hit by a smooth hymnal
What's from Chicago, hates Illinois Nazis, and is holy as fuck?
It's the Pope in 1982.
It's the Pope in 1982.
November 13, 2025 at 4:07 AM
You been hit by a smooth hymnal
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60 HOURS LEFT!!!
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November 12, 2025 at 4:31 PM
60 HOURS LEFT!!!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/ora...
www.kickstarter.com/projects/ora...
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Fine, I will write the next James Bond.
INT: SEX CASINO, NIGHT
BOND: Hello I am Bond James Bond my car goes NYOOM
CUT TO: ten minutes of a chase in a sports car
BOND: Also my watch is a special watch that makes ladies blouses see through
EXPLOSION
BOND: This film is for grown ups
INT: SEX CASINO, NIGHT
BOND: Hello I am Bond James Bond my car goes NYOOM
CUT TO: ten minutes of a chase in a sports car
BOND: Also my watch is a special watch that makes ladies blouses see through
EXPLOSION
BOND: This film is for grown ups
November 11, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Fine, I will write the next James Bond.
INT: SEX CASINO, NIGHT
BOND: Hello I am Bond James Bond my car goes NYOOM
CUT TO: ten minutes of a chase in a sports car
BOND: Also my watch is a special watch that makes ladies blouses see through
EXPLOSION
BOND: This film is for grown ups
INT: SEX CASINO, NIGHT
BOND: Hello I am Bond James Bond my car goes NYOOM
CUT TO: ten minutes of a chase in a sports car
BOND: Also my watch is a special watch that makes ladies blouses see through
EXPLOSION
BOND: This film is for grown ups
Am guilty of this. Wrote some crime books and went to a cover designer - was told I had to “follow the market” and, lo, three books with “silhouette figure with back to camera, against a moody background”.
What a rube I was.
What a rube I was.
I am at the fantasy bookstore. There are basically only two book covers nowadays, and that trend started well before gen ai, sadly
November 11, 2025 at 8:54 AM
Am guilty of this. Wrote some crime books and went to a cover designer - was told I had to “follow the market” and, lo, three books with “silhouette figure with back to camera, against a moody background”.
What a rube I was.
What a rube I was.
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Only today you can still pre order Our Soot Stained Heart episode #1!
November 10, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Only today you can still pre order Our Soot Stained Heart episode #1!
“She’s so mean”
They’re all such fucking fannies.
They’re all such fucking fannies.
November 9, 2025 at 5:18 PM
“She’s so mean”
They’re all such fucking fannies.
They’re all such fucking fannies.
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sound on. I’m still laughing
November 8, 2025 at 1:26 PM
sound on. I’m still laughing