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Mark Childs
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Durham University Senior Learning Designer. Co-host of Pedagodzilla. DJ on The Thursday Night Show. Posts mainly about comics, cats and kaiju. Chaotic neutral apparently.
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If you see this, post an album cover with a motor vehicle on it.
Junk Yard by The Birthday Party. Art by Ed Roth and Dave Christensen depicts a guy with sharp teeth driving a hot rod and carry a birthday cake. The vehicle is running over a cat, the hood ornament is Rat Fink.
November 8, 2025 at 8:53 PM
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Most played in October according to #Musicolet. Mixture of sets I'm putting together for ttns.uk about different types of Man, different types of Insects and last month's Hitch-Hiker's set for #ALTC
A collection of tunes by bands including Soul Coughing, Black Sabbath, Reg Nullify and His Cataclysmic Combo and Roxy Music.
November 3, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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For the memory of a lifetime ...
The Rekall ad from the movie Total Recall - promising the memory of your ideal vacation.
October 30, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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The only ethical reason for a robot army would be to defend us from people like Musk - I mean, that was the point of this guy
Gort.
October 23, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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And the second half of Friday.
October 21, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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And the first half of Friday.
Part three of the ALTC schedule.
October 21, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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The rest of the 23rd October.
ALTC schedule for 23rd October.
October 21, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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#ALTC online conference schedule - the first post of four. Just tune into ttns.uk to hear it. and click on the discord link to take part in the chat.
Schedule for ALTC 23rd October from midnight onwards. I don't have the time to retype the whole thing for the ALT-text so if you can't read it, just click on ttns.uk and take a gamble. It's all good.
October 21, 2025 at 12:58 PM
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Already exists, made by real human artists
Outrageous Tales from the Old Testament from Knockabout Comics
October 20, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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The dish of the day from The Hitch-Hikers' Guide to the Galaxy. Performed by Peter Davison. A pig who wants to be eaten.
October 13, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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One of the great writers on #Tarot was #Akron - the writer behind the #Giger Tarot. I've had a go at using the deck he created - have a read of the results at tarot117.wordpress.com/2025/09/11/a...
Part of a spread showing cards from the Akron Tarot.
October 11, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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To conserve his reserves,
Schirra
stopped his stabilization rockets and,
drifting,
he sometimes found himself
upside down
without being bothered,
because he was his own planet.
Walter Schirra on board the USS Kearsage after being picked up after splashdown. The Sigma 7 capsule can be seen floating in the background.
October 6, 2025 at 9:32 AM
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Drop something COLOURFUL.
The cover of The Patchwork Girl of Oz
September 27, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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77 years ago - Gardner Fox was bang on.
Peace for the old countries - Final frame. Moon Girl no. 4 Summer 1948 EC Comics. W. Gardner Fox a. Sheldon Moldof
September 18, 2025 at 9:38 PM
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yeah - this is the giveaway
Text says "hands on experience with various operations." More double entendres in an article headlined first hand job - leaving the phrasing of "first-hand job" or "first hand-job" to the reader's interpretation.
September 14, 2025 at 12:14 PM
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this is perfect - a high to end the week on. I've lifted the final out as an image, but the whole thing is such a great take down. And just lays into the whole weakness of the fascist apologist bullshit.
Adam: Yes. Yeah. This is exactly why an innocent man with a different ideology was shot and killed on mainstream TV yesterday because of this hate that you spew. Lurie: Wait, what hate? I I really shouldn't even waste my time here, but now I'm intrigued. What hate? Where's the hate? Adam Adam: Calling other people fascists, racist, uneducated. Lurie: Okay. So, so here we go. Let me just ask you this final question. Is it worse to be a fascist or to be called a fascist for doing fascist things? Actually, I don't even want your answer. We're just going to let you sit with that. Just just let that sit in your spirit to the extent that you still have one that can hear the voice of reason. Is it worse to be a fascist or to be called a fascist for doing fascist things? If you say it's the latter, you are the problem. Because that lack of being willing to take responsibility, that unwillingness to to sit in the discomfort, stand on it. You want to say fascist racist shit stand on it. I have no respect for people who are going to be racist and then try to hide from the repercussions. I love me a proud racer. If you going to be racist on these airways, stand on business. Do that shit and do it right. If you going to be a fascist, don't call up here mad because we identify your fascist behavior as fascism. Stand on business. Handle your shit. Do that and do it with your full chest cuz otherwise you just sound like a bitch. Like you're calling a show where we are not in any way negatively talking about that man. We are talking about the horrors of political violence and you want us to coddle you? God just some weak namby-pamby middling flaccidly limp behaviors. Add them to the block list. This is just - we shouldn't have to do all this.
September 12, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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There's a third option
Person being carried by being slung upside-down over the carrier's back - the mode adopted in "wife-carrying" races.
September 10, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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This was Milton Keynes, but yep.
A robot delivering groceries, or maybe fish and chips, they do that too. Pretty regular thing in Milton Keynes.
September 9, 2025 at 8:35 PM
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New CofC campaign starts next week - this is my character sheet
character sheet for a 1920s investigator with an image of an almost unrecognisable Jon Pertwee.
September 2, 2025 at 10:56 AM
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Well - the first issue standing in for the run I suppose. But these issues definitely the high point of my collection.
Issue 1 of Curtis Magazine (the large format magazine imprint of Marvel comics) Planet of the Apes
August 25, 2025 at 5:44 PM
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Next week the kids and I are starting our second online Call of Cthulhu campaign. First one was huge fun and ran over six evenings. Next up we're off to a punk bar in 1984. This is my character sheet.
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Stats sheet for a CofC campaign. With a photo of Paul Morley appropriated to stand in as an image for my character - a music journalist.
August 13, 2025 at 9:26 AM
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More people are considering AI lovers and we shouldn't judge.
Scene from Red Dwarf: Polymorph. Lister inspects Kryten's vacuum cleaner attachment.
July 22, 2025 at 9:33 PM
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an image of Starmer (Thatcher mark 2) overlain an image of Thatcher and the banner Still Hate Thatcher.
July 16, 2025 at 11:04 AM
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Woo-hoo another award for Pedagodzilla. Top Ten Educational Comedy podcasts - we're in at number 6 www.millionpodcasts.com/educational-...

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A podcasting award from the podcast feed site Million Podcasts for Best Educational Comedy podcast
July 8, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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Pasht - the Egyptian cat goddess
June 7, 2025 at 7:26 PM