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Gareth A Hopkins @grthink.bsky.social · 1h

PHARMACY? Parma ham! This is why I don't come to blusky very often.

Gareth A Hopkins @grthink.bsky.social · 1h

He said to me once "I hate to ask, but are friends electric?" and I said "No, Gary, that's a meat slicer. I can do you some really thin pharmacy ham if you'd like?"

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Gareth A Hopkins @grthink.bsky.social · 1h

Pretty sure Gary has a really old house, it's as likely to be haunted as any other house. He also lives near me, when I worked on the deli at Tesco he used to walk past when he was shopping with his wife.

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Strategic Tape Reserve @strategictaper.bsky.social · 6h

How to promote a tape:

-Sponser a sports arena
-Blast it on a bus
-Steal the good leads from the office
-Call your parents
-Dress in a foam tape costume and spin a sign next to a road
-Blackmail a celebrity into an endorsement
-Fly a plane pulling a banner over a beach
-Coupons in the Sunday paper

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Gareth A Hopkins @grthink.bsky.social · 1d

My Small Talk is the Benjamin Button version of yours. By the end of any event I can just about make little noises.

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Gareth A Hopkins @grthink.bsky.social · 1d

Have ended up as an admin of an Experimental Comics group on Facebook. Three questions have been set up to weed bots and spam out of new members, but the sort of person who wants to join this sort of group is also the type of person who just talks about toast or whatever, being all rAnDoM.

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Gareth A Hopkins @grthink.bsky.social · 1d

But yeah, "Silksoft Mass", "Archean", "The Brackish Plains" and "Eggs As Skulls" (a spinoff from Skulls As Eggs) are all pretty much ready, albeit without any text becasue the bit of my brain that writes anything nice hasn't woken up yet.

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Gareth A Hopkins @grthink.bsky.social · 1d

Thought Bubble is perilously close and I'm locking into the same old panic I do every time which is trying to finish 3 new projects when what I should be doing is concentrating on the two projects I released a month and a half ago, and getting some more of those ready.

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Gareth A Hopkins @grthink.bsky.social · 6d

A drawing of Angron I did for Bill's 16th birthday, which is today

They really do make these chaps complicated to draw, BTW. Just figuring out what was teeth and what was cheek gave me a headache.

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Gareth A Hopkins @grthink.bsky.social · 8d

Yeah he probably has? Feels like he would have been knocking about those counter-cultural peeps in the 70s

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Fraser Geesin @frasergeesin.bsky.social · 11d

Aslan Moore

Find out about more wuth this week's Mindless Ones newsletter. Subscribe! Tell! Etc!
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Gareth A Hopkins @grthink.bsky.social · 11d

Blackout is available for pre-order:
andrewmbaruk.bandcamp.com/album/blackout

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Mindless Ones @mindlessones.bsky.social · 11d

Issue #25 of our newsletter is out now, ft. a new @grthink.bsky.social strip, Aslan Moore, Alien Earth, The Vile Dead, Whizzer and Chips, bloody tesseracts, and Mark (amypoodle)'s headstone.

"In some very real way, everything we write is for-or to-him."

Never is an awfully long time

Mark's headstone. Transcendental geometry. padsaid. The Vile Dead. A Brief History of British Comics 2: WHIZZER AND CHIPS. A Pride of Lions. Alien: Earth.

mindless-ones.ghost.io

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Gareth A Hopkins @grthink.bsky.social · 13d

Oh yeah, that's good actually

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Gareth A Hopkins @grthink.bsky.social · 13d

Anyway, I'm going to see them at their London Farewell gig tomorrow night and I'm really looking forward to it.

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Gareth A Hopkins @grthink.bsky.social · 13d

My teenage daughter on hearing Murder By Death for the first time: "This is what you've been talking about?! Murder by DEATH?! They should rename themselves Murder by FLOWERS! I thought they were Rock Music, not whatever this is!"

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Erika Wittekind @erikalyn.bsky.social · 15d

It's literally a transcript of the press conference.

10/10. No notes.

McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 16d

"It looks like they’re pumping into a horse. You have a little child, a little fragile child, and you get a vat of eighty different vaccines, I guess. Eighty different blends, and they pump it in... So, ideally, a woman won't take Tylenol."
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/the...

They Pump So Much Stuff Into Those Beautiful Little Babies

So I’ve been waiting for this meeting for twenty years, actually. And it’s not that everything’s a hundred percent understood or known, but I think...

www.mcsweeneys.net

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Gareth A Hopkins @grthink.bsky.social · 15d

It's early days yet but I've done the cover for Andrew Mbaruk and Wet Jet Seymour's next project 'Blackout'

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Gareth A Hopkins @grthink.bsky.social · 15d

I'm so sorry to hear this. My condolences.

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Gareth A Hopkins @grthink.bsky.social · 16d

This is what you get when you have a teenage son and you've asked what he wants from the shop

A WhatsApp conversation. My son writes "TEA!!!! I forgot tea". I reply "OK. Please write 'T' on your hand and send me a photo. He sends me a photo of his hand with a letter T written on it.

A follow-up photo from my son, of his hand. The 'T' from the previous photo has been converted into a very crude cartoon penis. I reply "Christ almighty"

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Gareth A Hopkins @grthink.bsky.social · 16d

It's me, I'm the nice one

Nick Bryan @nickbryan.com · 16d

If anyone is feeling nice today, the chance to be backer #69 is now open.

Nick Bryan @nickbryan.com · 18d

Worrywart now funding on Kickstarter, over 80% and with the finish line in sight!

A 32 page standalone action-fantasy story about a rogue prince trying to avoid getting blown up by grenades. With varying levels of success.

www.kickstarter.com/projects/nic...

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Gareth A Hopkins @grthink.bsky.social · 17d

I DO NOT trust that. Looks like it's got a pinkie finger in it.

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Gareth A Hopkins @grthink.bsky.social · 23d

@reporteramber.bsky.social Hi Amber!

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Gareth A Hopkins @grthink.bsky.social · 23d

No worries, I really thought it was great. Apologies for the autocorrect typos (I don't personally recall Kirk's 'assignment')... I thought i'd got them all 🤦‍♂️

Gareth A Hopkins @grthink.bsky.social · 23d

This is a fantastic response to Charlie Kirk's assignation and the continuing fallout- not just from the act itself, but the culture that contributed to it.

Mel Barrett @inbetweenpod.bsky.social · 23d

Welp. I spent the past three days falling down a rabbit hole of alt-right chaos in researching this upcoming episode of The In Between Podcast, but I’m really proud of this one. I hope you’ll listen…like really listen.

I need a shower.
#charliekirk
#inbetweenpodcast
#truecrime

EARLY and AD-FREE The Martyr Machine: Charlie Kirk and the Politics of Stochastic Terrorism | The In Between Podcast with Mel Barrett

www.patreon.com

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