This Air BnB has a surprising stance on kitchen utensil theft

My latest cartoon for @newscientist.com p.s. this week I am on a USA/Canada tour with my new book. Details and preorder links at tomgauld.com

Hat tip @clownf1st.bsky.social

There's very good money in being a right-wing hate monger. We really need to be pointing that out a lot more. It's a path to wealth for quite a few people on both sides of the Atlantic in the age of politainment.

You join us live from Danny Dyer’s birthday drinks.

I hope this ishmael finds you whale

Two trials will be repeated endlessly despite always producing the same results: 1) Does UBI work? (yes) 2) Does AI improve productivity? (no)

In the end, it's going to come down to whether you believe it's important that a song, or a poem, or novel, or whatever, was made by another human; whether you believe that's what art *is*, an expression of our shared humanity. If not, well, goodnight and good luck I guess.

The entire establishment right now is like “I’m sorry but only the bigotry we’re actively whipping up from fucking NOTHING can win elections”

Stupid sexy Flanders...

This Weeks Editorial Cartoon: Wax On, Vax Off

There's a terrific page on the Money Saving Expert website where you can find out if you can reduce your car insurance by tweaking your job title. Remarkably if you say you're a ventriloquist your insurance is more than 5× dearer than being a magician. www.moneysavingexpert.com/insurance/ca...

I'll admit, I was skeptical when they said Gemini was just like a bunch of PhDs. But I gotta admit they nailed it.

Posting this again. Not enough electricity left to build affordable homes in 3 west London boroughs, because all capacity has been used by a data centre. #affordablehousingUK www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/repo...

This is a masterpiece. Simply excellent www.instagram.com/reel/DMVGMIC...

My cartoons for this week’s @theguardian.com books #holiday #vacation #reading

🍒 Whoa, what's this?! UFO 50 is available right now on #NintendoSwitch! #UFO50 #IndieWorld

This is such a funny paragraph of a BlueSky-style "well actually" in real life. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Make something. Do it now. Doesn't matter if it's polished or not. Make something because nobody has ever seen the world the way you do, and nobody will again. Make something because art is simply that which is authentically expressed. Let beauty take care of itself www.indiewire.com/criticism/mo...

@demontomatodave.bsky.social The water fun game lives

This is fascinating. Because it’s really good, and meaningless if it’s not real. If you don’t understand that, it’s a bit scary. The people who object to the sound being added to footage in Attenborough shows are the same people getting *something* (what?) from clips like this.

Motherfucking wind farms…

NO MORE MISTER NIGHT SKY.

Access to Wikipedia (& quite possibly the entire concept of wikis in general) is under threat. Support them. Get this signed & shared.

I just verified my age by submitting an essay on King Henry 8th, copy and pasted directly from Encarta

It's apt that corporations/governments divided the internet into SFW and NSFW & are now making it all Safe For Work, because that is the defining frame they want to place on the world--everywhere you go is for Work, not pleasure or art or love or culture. You must always Work for Them, or die.

In a stunning moment of erotic fervour, calculator demands BOOBS.

Next up: Shower smart screens, so you can research, innovate, and meet colleagues in the space you have your best ideas.

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Entirety Of Objectionable Human Behavior Explained To Toddler As Person Acting Silly theonion.com/entiret...

Yeah don't do this. I've used my imagination and had a thought and shared it with the world. You've then typed it into a plagiarism engine and think I'm interested in what it might reply. I want to see your imagination - not outsourcing it to a fucking machine. It's actually kinda offensive.

More Des Fishman pandemic art from 2020 PROTECT OUR NHS #2

I work in Comms and my strength has always been writing, which I love. Everyone in the team uses AI for it now, which I resisted so I'm getting a rep for not wanting to move with the times. I've been gently told to start using it, so I did today. I'm only 37 and it saps my soul.

Here's how you remove Google AI from your mobile devices.

“I am a gardener, look at all these plastic flowers I bought.”

We will use Stomach 3.5 (maybe we should call it 4), which has advanced digestive juices, to regurgitate the entire contents of my dinner, adding missing bile acids and removing any consistency or recognisable edible substance entirely. Then eat that.

The meanest girl at my school was Laura Vavridges.

James Acaster has mastered chat shows like nobody else in comedy. This is a tour de force 15 minutes, Seth Meyers is fighting for his life 🤣 youtu.be/pTbALzICA6c?...

"So take the soothing meds to the people hampered by panic attacks in Room 1A and the booze instead to the people attached to picnic hampers in Room A1"

Landing on that first planet in Metroid Prime and seeing rain drops on your visor when you look up