A cartoon from my new book, 'Physics for Cats'. Out next week: www.tomgauld.com

She's woven from light and the dry dreams of studio execs' bankers. For the silver screen. She's never known the touch of another because she has no nerve endings in her skin. Nor does she have skin. Nor brain. Virginity is meaningless, especially here. WTF?

No, it's not. I have at least one (and sometimes two) party-related gatherings to attend each evening this week. I'm actually late to one right now.

Cet article me fend le cœur. Je me rend compte que j'ai eu de la chance de passer le début de l'adolescence dans un quartier de Blonay où nous avions des endroits pour nous retrouver et les jardins de voisins très chills... www.lacote.ch/vaud/la-cote...

It's pumpkin month!!

Je repense avec émotion au jour où j'ai dû apprendre à un journaliste dans la vingtaine à faire des trémas au clavier.

I need a lightweight Linux laptop to do office stuff, writing, image editing (and maybe some very occasional and very light video editing too). And I don't know where to start looking. And the prospect makes me tired.

Dans ma chère ville de Nyon, des passionné.e.s créént une maison d'édition associative appelée «Éditions du Radôme Bleu». Iels ont lancé un financement participatif wemakeit.com/projects/edi...

I don't think we'll ever get another sentence which sums up everything the New York Times embodies quite like "Some legal experts have called it a crime to summarily kill civilians".

L'expo Kirchner x Kirchner au @kunstmuseumbern.bsky.social est vraiment très bien. J'ai découvert des tableaux, des litographies et des gravures sur bois que je ne connaissais pas du tout. Fans d'expressionnisme, courez-y. Et gardez un peu d'énergie pour (re)voir les collections permanentes ;-)

Les dimanches de votations, je les passe au musée. Cela m'évite de passer la matinée à stresser et l'après-midi à bougonner. Ça marche moins bien depuis que j'ai les résultats en notification push depuis VoteInfo.

A reporter needs to ask Marco Rubio if embracing this life for this position was worth it. He seems pained and wistful on every image of him that I see. It's really rather remarkable.

Yeah man we should really fight back by staying on X

🎶 They smilin' in your face. All the time. They wanna take your place. 🎶 #RandomSong

This is giving strong Fahrenheit 451 vibes... 😩

Listening to a great series of podcast episodes about 19th century novels. The presenter's pronunciation of "Balzac" is eerily close to "ball sack". Is it childish to be distracted?

A tote sack full of ginseng won’t pay no travelling bills

Now would be a great time to reinvent Blogger, honestly.

“You used to be able to say anything” comedians never been more quiet in their lives

Post a mage! 🪄

J'ai les sinus et les trompes d'Eustache en vrac. J'ai chaud, soif et mal à la gorge. Impossible de rester couché, difficile de dormir. Si c'est un virus, j'ai jamais vu ça. Si c'est les ambroisies et la poussière, j'ai jamais été autant affecté :(

«Ceci n'est pas un flim sur le cyclimse. Merci de votre compréhension.»

I just now realize I have the same initials as him. Ugh.

À l'instant dans le journal de 7h de @franceinter.fr, on défend le polémiste Raphaël Enthoven, qui a récemment sous-entendu que les journalistes de Gaza étaient des agents du Hamas. Pas un mot sur le fait qu'Adèle van Reeth, la compagne de Raphaël Enthoven, est… la directrice de France Inter.

I know there's <waves hands wildly> . . . a LOT going on but perhaps folks have seen this?

I am from Missouri and do politics for my job, and am just now learning of this sit-in to protest attempted RW seat-stealing.

La puissante habileté du renseignement suisse dans les années 1950

How many people ask LLMs for help determining how to vote in (local) elections? If the number is significant, how can campaigns influence the AIs? Please reshare this question. I'd like to have as many answers as possible. Thanks a ton.

How many people ask LLMs for help determining how to vote in (local) elections? If the number is significant, how can campaigns influence the AIs? Please reshare this question. I'd like to have as many answers as possible. Thanks a ton.

The proliferation of slop is so disheartening.

Very cool new fear: getting killed by the US military for no reason with no consequence.

it's giving sale at hobby lobby

Yeah well.

☠️Europe has got to wake up and do better. News and arts depend on advertising. This sector is worth *billions* to Europe's economy, and Google has drained the value from it for years. A fine can't prise open the market. To balk even at that? Speeches about sovereignty are fine words until we act.

Help me spread the word about my friend's Facebook account. She needs it for many wonderful things she contributes to the platform and the world. 😥🫶🤗

I don't know who these people are. Imagine what's weighing on their conscience if they're doing all that Winchester Mystery House type stuff to confuse the ghosts coming after them.

Fascination Street

In the absence of mitochondrial challenges at the airport, healthy boys 🕘 rummage 'round the luggage claims for possum cadavers, 🕙 have fair but vigorous stick fights 'round the duty free shops, 🕚 and impromptu baseball competitions at the gates. Obviously.

«Le dernier gardien d'Ellis Island» de Gaëlle Josse m'a été offert il y a des années par une personne active auprès de migrant∙es. Je l'ai glissé dans mon sac pour un long trajet en train cet été – un peu honteux de ne pas l'avoir lu avant. C'est charmant et très bien! #VendrediLecture #FridayReads

Thursday! What a concept!

In the absence of mitochondrial challenges at the airport, healthy boys 🕘 rummage 'round the luggage claims for possum cadavers, 🕙 have fair but vigorous stick fights 'round the duty free shops, 🕚 and impromptu baseball competitions at the gates. Obviously.

La fac publique c'est juste merveilleux quand on y pense, mais elle est asphyxiée par des politiques qui la prive de moyens (humain, matériel) ça me rend folle de rage pour mes étudiant-es pour mes collègues prof comme administratifs

It's Minnesota State Fair time! It's time for Minnesotan folk art! Here, for example, is Saturn Devouring His Corn, in the seed art category!

Anybody still using tumblr? Tell me yours so I can follow you there

Rocket Man. Also because it was recorded in Hérouville castle. Hihi.

Bafflingly there are still people out there in the world who think being passionate about nature is “kind of weird”. or “a niche interest”. These people have it all wrong. Nature isn’t some quirky sideline to the main business. It IS the main business.

AI agents will make getting your bank account cleaned out by scammers so much quicker and easier 🥰

Another nugget of sadness in the contemporary ocean of grief: another craft we've seen progress for two decades being shat on by proud powerful ignoramuses… 😩

All the people crying "Communism" in the replies to this post...

this British woodlands conservation propaganda for children made me who I am as a person The Animals of Farthing Wood is incredibly effective conservation messaging bc it kills off a LOT of main characters, specifically in ways that are SUPER REALISTIC tragic deaths for suburban woodland creatures 🧵