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cpuk (trampoline park connoisseur and occasional comic printer)

@comicprintinguk.bsky.social

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Increasingly part-time comic printer (still the best tho). Increasingly full time dad/carer. S-tier trash talker. If you followed for the printing stuff get ready to see a lot about how society fails SEN kids instead. [email protected]

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cpuk (trampoline park connoisseur and occasional comic printer) @comicprintinguk.bsky.social · Oct 20

Oh also I print comic books for a living. And I happen to think I’m rather good at it. You can get a quote here if you have a comic and you’d like to have it printed by someone rather good at that. comicprintinguk.com/get-a-quote/

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cpuk (trampoline park connoisseur and occasional comic printer) @comicprintinguk.bsky.social · 1h

Foreboding with a final act turn into full blown horror is a format he doesn’t use a lot, but always nails. Cujo and Pet Semetary have the same structure.

cpuk (trampoline park connoisseur and occasional comic printer) @comicprintinguk.bsky.social · 1h

Getting to that time of year again where I have to make the hard decisions*

*relisten to the Lovecraft Investigations or Old Gods of Appalachia first.

cpuk (trampoline park connoisseur and occasional comic printer) @comicprintinguk.bsky.social · 1h

30 likes is too early to break containment. I don’t have time for this off the back of a pretty weak joke.

cpuk (trampoline park connoisseur and occasional comic printer) @comicprintinguk.bsky.social · 1h

Same vibe as when you realise there’s not going to be anymore Kinky Friedman or Mojo Nixon. These are all weird but fun uncle characters who you thought you just found a bit funny until the moment comes you’d really like to hear their take.

cpuk (trampoline park connoisseur and occasional comic printer) @comicprintinguk.bsky.social · 2h

Dr. Demento retiring is a cultural moment that we won’t appreciate the gravity of for at least 15 years. There was a moment in Bush 43’s second term when you fully realised the loss of Bill Hicks, and there will be a moment we fully realise this as well.

the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 2h

I won't go on & on about it. But what Dr. Demento put out into the world was special. It connected who knows how many people to music they didn't know they needed. to weird music. to big laffs, which we need. his final show will cost you three bucks, but it's priceless. 3/3 drdemento.com/online.html

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cpuk (trampoline park connoisseur and occasional comic printer) @comicprintinguk.bsky.social · 2h

This is the sort of tailored recommendation that shows a man’s a mensch.

cpuk (trampoline park connoisseur and occasional comic printer) @comicprintinguk.bsky.social · 2h

I like Stephen King’s short story “The Jaunt” a lot, but I think it ought to be classed as a novella really. It’s longer than you think.

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cpuk (trampoline park connoisseur and occasional comic printer) @comicprintinguk.bsky.social · 2h

I’m not saying he’s not a draw. I’m not even saying he shouldn’t be on the roster. I’m merely saying that if you keep him on the roster you are making a very clear statement.

cpuk (trampoline park connoisseur and occasional comic printer) @comicprintinguk.bsky.social · 2h

Cena’s gonna beat Lesnar clean in the middle of the ring with the five moves of doom in his final match. And it’s going to be one of those moments where as a graps fan it’s perfect but as a human being you can’t quite forget that Lesnar is at the heart of the WWE’s ongoing sex trafficking scandal.

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cpuk (trampoline park connoisseur and occasional comic printer) @comicprintinguk.bsky.social · 2h

You coulda been a contender, Nathanium. You coulda been the USA’s Professor John Curtice. Instead of what you are, which is a bum.

cpuk (trampoline park connoisseur and occasional comic printer) @comicprintinguk.bsky.social · 2h

Oh, Nathaniel Silverial, what a fall from grace.

Chris Towers is in Offseason Mode @cptowers.bsky.social · 4h

How it started: How it’s going:

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cpuk (trampoline park connoisseur and occasional comic printer) @comicprintinguk.bsky.social · 3h

They went all in on spots, and it turns out that’s what we all actually wanted from the retirement tour. Cena to beat Dom for the IC so he can retire a grand slammer. And he should do it with the 619.

cpuk (trampoline park connoisseur and occasional comic printer) @comicprintinguk.bsky.social · 4h

Also I know the IWC’s gonna IWC, but seeing wrestling reddit come out in one voice to proclaim the spotfest nostalgia trip MOTY is quite funny.

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cpuk (trampoline park connoisseur and occasional comic printer) @comicprintinguk.bsky.social · 4h

OK, I will admit that I’m a mark. Cena hitting the Sister Abigail was lovely.

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Alison Sampson A-21 MCM London Artist Alley @alisonsampson.bsky.social · 4h

#AIIsASkillIssue there i said it

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Alison Sampson A-21 MCM London Artist Alley @alisonsampson.bsky.social · 4h

We can fetishise our tools now and use them by choice, but technological disruption happens and it is Really important to see it for it is, when it does happen and roll with it. But I just don't see this with AI. Workflow gains nothing. There is no specificity, no care. Literally, a skill issue.

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Alison Sampson A-21 MCM London Artist Alley @alisonsampson.bsky.social · 5h

For example, drafting manually required some extremely precise manual skills, scale rulers, drawing boards, huge drawings, drawing storage and rooms full of people like me scraping them with razor blades doing corrections. It could be fudged and errors could get baked in. Digitally, none of this.

Alison Sampson A-21 MCM London Artist Alley @alisonsampson.bsky.social · 1d

Also, no one who was there when digital drafting came in in the early 90s, who experienced the incredible disruption would say AI is the same. So called AI has not got a killer application.

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cpuk (trampoline park connoisseur and occasional comic printer) @comicprintinguk.bsky.social · 6h

Um… no?

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 7h

bitch what

Onedrive settings. A toggle for using AI to detect and identify faces is set to on. The caption says, you can only turn off this setting 3 times per year.

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cpuk (trampoline park connoisseur and occasional comic printer) @comicprintinguk.bsky.social · 6h

Who rattled his cage?

Reuben Willmott @reubs.bsky.social · 7h

Good old Frazer Brown, still desperately trying to inflate the prices of the #TFTQ sampler comics.
At the money goes to charity this time, but who on earth is going to buy things at those prices. So in effect no money will be going to charity again.
& good luck finding the full Toxie story (photo4)

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cpuk (trampoline park connoisseur and occasional comic printer) @comicprintinguk.bsky.social · 8h

Peter Thiel can’t read, pass it on.

Sexy CHOAM Nomsky costume @samthielman.com · 9h

It’s very funny to see him say this about Ozymandias, maybe the only character in Watchmen who can’t be correctly described as an antihero

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 10h

thiel, man, what the fuck are you talking about

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cpuk (trampoline park connoisseur and occasional comic printer) @comicprintinguk.bsky.social · 9h

Three grand wouldn’t begin to cover what he’s laying out here. So aside from anything else I assume it’s just a money grab.

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cpuk (trampoline park connoisseur and occasional comic printer) @comicprintinguk.bsky.social · 9h

I think if I sat down and worked it out I would make myself sad.

cpuk (trampoline park connoisseur and occasional comic printer) @comicprintinguk.bsky.social · 10h

It’d be so cool if just one allegedly mature democracy could be not in crisis for a bit.

Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 11h

French Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu appointed by Macron for the second time yesterday is already threatening to resign if “conditions are no longer met”. (France Elects)

cpuk (trampoline park connoisseur and occasional comic printer) @comicprintinguk.bsky.social · 10h

It is a truth, universally acknowledged, that a Tilly in possession of a Sunday afternoon must be in want of a trampoline park.

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