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Mindless Ones
@mindlessones.bsky.social
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Weekly broadcasts on art, magic and politics from a group of old lads with good taste.
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POST: The Mindless Ones are at Thought Bubble again this year. Here's all the info you need on where to find them and what they'll be flogging!

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Maps, legends Cont
November 15, 2025 at 11:44 AM
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Matinee idol @danwhite.bsky.social is a real author these days, so he gets his table right beside ours at no. 29, 2000AD Hall, where he'll be selling collected editions of Cindy and Biscuit alongside Secret Oranges, which collects some of his early wotks.
November 14, 2025 at 10:29 PM
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Hench empress @pauljonmilne.bsky.social is back with what's sure to be another belter of a book. This one's called Suture and that's all I know except that ot looks class.
Suture - not "Suture Future" like I thought.
November 14, 2025 at 10:22 PM
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Handsome Dan Cox will be at the table peddling his Doom Patrol zines, complete with individually collaged covers.
Doomed Patrols
November 14, 2025 at 10:19 PM
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Yer @haggissloth.bsky.social and Tam Rolland will be debuting the first issue of Reliable Witness at the table.

The mythology of Glasgow as the starting point for a modern horror story. You heard it here first.
November 14, 2025 at 10:17 PM
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Big massive genius @frasergeesin.bsky.social will be there with the latest issue of Pricks, the one comic to capture the feel of our rotten world.
Pricks 5, by Fraser Geesin and Laurie Rowan. Trust me, you're better off not knowing.
November 14, 2025 at 10:11 PM
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Fancy speaking words into our faces or buying comics from the boyce?

Come to Thought Bubble in Harrogate, where we'll be tabling at B30-31, 2000AD Hall all weekend!
A map of 2000AD Hall at Thought Bubble, where you can find the Mindless on Saturday and Sunday.
November 14, 2025 at 10:05 PM
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If you want to touch heads and/or buy comics, the Mindless Ones will be at Thought Bubble in Harrogate next weekend, tables B30-31, 2000AD Hall!

More details to follow. There will be Pricks.
A hand emerges from a floor covered in rubbish. But who and what is the hand connected to? Pricks #5, by Fraser Geesin and Laurie Rowan.
November 9, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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Forgot about the Beezer but then you do, don't you? Great ITEM about this unloved Brit comic in our latest episode!
A page from The Beezer. It promises "laughs all round" but we'll never know.
October 19, 2025 at 9:26 AM
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Sad this frankly fucking astonishing @frasergeesin.bsky.social image didn't appear in the version that went out to people's inboxes.

We'll have a word with the typsetting department!
The hive of gammon worms, faces warmed by the glow of old box TVs tuned in to borrowed glory.
October 12, 2025 at 7:45 AM
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MINDLESS CLASSIC: Here, mind that time Ad Mindless went spelunking down The Batcaves and confronted the vast otherness of the aeons?

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A diagram of the Batcave. It's deeper than you think.
September 20, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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ATTACK OF THE POD PEOPLE: The second series of The Savage Beast starts here, with @danwhite.bsky.social and @matcolegate.bsky.social's exploration of the most monstrous of art forms... ACTING!!

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September 20, 2025 at 8:56 PM
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"Argent a cross gules. The heraldic language is precise. Gules means red, from a crimson dye made by crushing mites scraped off oak bark. Argent is silver, not white. No signifier of purity or innocence, but the colour of coin."

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Screenshot of an ad for a HuffPost UK article titled "My Kids Are Asking About All the England Flags. What Should I Tell Them?"
September 1, 2025 at 8:33 AM
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MINDLESS CLASSIC: In a guest post for his Mindless brethren, Rory Olcayto aka Brother Yawn reflected on the work of Moebius,"master of spatial representation in comic-book art."

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In the foreground: buildings that look like yachst, strangers who wave and lean, trees, the beach! In the background: birdlike gliders, clouds, islands, a sense of ease across the water.
August 12, 2025 at 8:19 AM
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This edition features guest art from @pauljonmilne.bsky.social, full image in the newsletter!

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A buff lad in a snazzy supersuit sits at a table with a drink in his hand. He says: "Was listenin' to this GREAT band on the way... "'EMBRACE'. "You know 'em?" The other person at the table has been cruelly cropped from this post, but I've left their response in: "The English ones, aye? "Had a live version of their song 'FIREWORKS.'" Finally, a caption: "So then what?"
August 3, 2025 at 11:15 AM
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This edition was ghostwritten by an actual ghost. PLUS: special guest art from @pauljonmilne.bsky.social, full image at the link below!

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A drawing of a man whose hair is crying out for freedom. In this image he is saying "My actions sometimes have... "favourable outcomes"!"
July 20, 2025 at 10:05 AM
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NEW POST: Unable to sleep and half daft with the heat, @nearit.bsky.social decided to write short reviews of Absolute Martian Hunter, Metamorpho, The Return by K.Briggs, Erika Price's Worms and more!

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A panel from Absolute Martian Manhunter 4. A man smokes in what was recently a zone of conflict. Plumes of colour drift like smoke as we see a cross section of life and mind. A panel from Metamorpho #6, immaculate pastiche of Fletcher Hanks: "Metamorpho leaves a last message for the surviving moon people." We see it streaking through the sky: "But war bonds."
July 15, 2025 at 6:35 AM
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MINDLESS CLASSIC: Who was your first Transformer? (aka Haven’t you wasted enough of your life already?)

"Soundwave pisses on optimus prime. he *is* the eighties. also his voice *is* electro. in fact he is electro. and bodypopping."

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Gorgeous big pic of Soundwave off the Transformers in both robot and tape player form. What a fucking guy!
July 5, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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MINDLESS COMMUNICATION: We spoke to @tomhumberstone.com about comics, poetry, colour as storytelling, and his ace Grave Offerings newsletter and all we got was this lovely interview.

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The cover for Introduction to Charts by Tom Humberstone and Chrissy Williams. Arrows. Lines. Boxes. Shakes. Pink purple bluewhiteyellow and red. A pair of ELITE Hackers from the movie Hackers.
June 29, 2025 at 8:53 AM
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MINDLESS CLASSIC: Our @andrewhickey.500songs.com might not have been the first to review Jerusalem, but he was right in there: "The first, and most important, thing to say about Alan Moore’s Jerusalem is that it’s not, for the most part, a difficult book to read."

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A map of The Boroughs from Alan Moore's Jerusalem.
June 24, 2025 at 7:03 AM
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"My thoughts turn to ‘if Mr Tumnus came towards me brandishing an outdated farming tool, I’d chin the prick… unless my hayfever was acting up…’

"It’s not just the milkman though is it?"

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Poster for The Wicker Man
June 22, 2025 at 7:50 AM
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MINDLESS CLASSIC: Back in Christmas 2012, with the threat of redundancy hanging over him like a balloon full of farts, our @nearit.bsky.social turned to Eddie Campbell for his thoughts on The Lovely Horrible Stuff.

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A panel from The Lovely Horrible Stuff by Eddie Campbell. "And the dependence on unseeables ceases to be a terror only after it becomes a way of life." We see Eddie sat talking to his wife: "Our property's all intellectual", "That's what I was afraid of". Another pic from The Lovely Horrible Stuff, this one ft. a hot air balloon with an illustration of a farting man on the side of it.
June 21, 2025 at 9:10 AM
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MINDLESS COMMUNICATION: As script droid for Ferment's Ales of the Unexpected, Craig Collins writes comic that's simultaneously more widely read and less visible than most.

He's a funny fucker too, so evidenced by his spiel about de Gambit!

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An Ales of the Unexpected strip where one man's rage over the inattentiveness of his peers leads to a marketing opportunity. "Jus’ one example is the ubiquity of de contactless payment. One day Gambit is taking an X-Jet through McDonalds drive through (de McRib is back). Garçon leans out wit’ the payment machine an’ the Cajun reaches for th’ Mastercard. But den de muscle memory kicks in –" Gambit from X-Men '97 looking like a saucy boy with tongs and a crop top.
June 15, 2025 at 10:48 AM
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MINDLESS CLASSIC: It's a flashback to a flashback as @danwhite.bsky.social looks at the charged promise and wonky wiring of AZTEK: THE ULTIMATE MAN.

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Pic of Aztek the Ultimate Man doing his superhero bit and thinking "This is too hard." Art by N. Steven Harris, script by Grant Morrison and Marky Mark Millar.
May 27, 2025 at 10:42 AM
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Name: WIKWOODGI

Attribution: The Forest

Purpose: This servitor strengthens the community, bringing people together and providing them with the resources they need.

More #PagainsAgainstAI info here.

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WIKWOODGI, a servitor that: warns outside the community; helps the facts about Generative AI be known; and undermines the story that it is both benign and inevitable.
May 16, 2025 at 5:15 AM