In case you needed even more motivation to vote in the Midterm elections... #AccountabilityIsComing

COMING SOON: AI + Guy™

drew elphaba on the plane ride back home

This Cyber Monday, let’s show billionaires there’s a cost to caving in. Skip Target, Amazon & Home Depot—and shop small, local, community-owned instead. Share why you’re not buying with #WeAintBuyingIt and tag the companies. If you can, donate your savings to local food justice.

Let me give some insight on this, as a producer in the dub industry who worked with major streamers, who's witnessed first-hand where this push for AI is coming from. tl;dr: Only CEOs want this. Tell them how much you hate it. Be loud, email, call, @, post. You will kill this. 🧵⬇️

when someone tells me not to use em dashes because AI uses em dashes

I heard there was a secret verse That David used to make AI worse But you don't really want to pub that, do ya

The sands are hot tonight. #grogart

In related news, a bunch of transphobes have been trying to start an argument with me for the last couple of days and why would I engage in that when I could do pretty much anything else instead?

🧡 Have a cozy Caturday 🧡

A friend of mine who’s a barista, and also trans, had to deal with a customer who was enraged, and apparently incredulous, that Trump winning didn’t mean she had every right to misgender her. “Trump won! We don’t have to put up with people like that anymore!” The police were called.

Digger is still my gold standard for comics. Absolutely amazing.

Kahless tells us to breathe life into that which we love. Celebrate the things you hold dear, share them with others, and let no one stifle the breath of things you cherish.

Gleeful Denise

The House and Senate are both investigating Pete’s war crimes

A White House website with a dedicated Lügenpresse tab marks a pretty bleak moment in US history.

What I'm doing now, but without panicking about my income the next month, which would mean fewer spoons wasted on panic and guilt & indecisiveness & more on comics and stories & actually having multiple comics update more than once a week Ahh~the dream

My cartoon for this week’s New Scientist. p.s. I have a new book of science cartoons: www.tomgauld.com/comic-books-v2

Both the NSFW and SFW art community really ought to set aside their differences for once and make noise over this nonsense. Otherwise, we'd have to use (God forbid) "fake money" to pay for art. 🙄

I feel very fortunate that, as the universe keeps reminding me, I am bad at relatable comics. So at least when my stuff finally biffs off to oblivion, it won't be due to being jokes about contemporary concerns, but rather due to an honest and forthright lack of quality. Good morning!

Its not hard to make the choice to be kind. And being kind is *always* a choice in the same way some people choose to be evil, either outright or otherwise. So choose to be kind — not nice — but truly kind for those who need it. Even if you dont know them. And definitely in spite of those who wont.

It's Day 28 of #Crowvember. To quote the famous bird scholar, "If it's shiny, it's miney."

Gnomes (1/2)

No one will stop me from defending our freedoms.

Prof. Goldsmith: "The DOD Manual is clear because the law here is clear: 'Persons who have been incapacitated by . . . shipwreck are in a helpless state, and it would be dishonorable and inhumane to make them the object of attack.'” If someone is drowning, it is wrong to push their head underwater.

The Doctor is right and correct

Look at these men. They are ashamed of themselves as they should be. They are standing here while the president calls their professional colleague a “stupid person.” I don’t care if you think you’ll lose access. You need to speak up. Decent Americans are tired of this and disgusted with all of you.

I showed my scientific illustration students this example a few weeks ago. Told them they may yet have jobs. Their confidence grew a bit, they seemed reassured.

I was at an internal meeting to talk about all the great things the company was doing with generative AI that opened with a “that’s too many fingers” version of a network cable. The entire time the chat was roasting the image. The winner was “CAT-gpt”

This PEANUTS comic strip was published #OTD on November 28, 1997.

In the long term this is what will kill what's left of America's miniscule credibility in MENA: US-backed ceasefires are when the Arab ceases and Israel continues to fire. And this is not a Trump problem, but a bipartisan problem. This "ceasefire" was achieved by the previous president.

Spoke with a source who told me the call volume is so high, a call center for both Mastercard & Visa is bringing out pizza and ice cream so agents don’t quite amid the rush. Long waits are causing dropped calls. What you’re doing is working. Call MC & Visa.

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Would it kill somebody to say “Nancy is not stupid.” It pains me to see the WH press corps just accept the abuse. Sends the wrong image to Americans and the world IMHO.

I feel much safer today knowing that we deported a Babson College student back to a country where she hasn't lived since childhood. She wasn't even flying internationally. She was flying to Texas.

My special Thanksgiving toon for CALÓ News. Please share, and support CALÓ News at calonews.com/donate and get my 2026 Cartoon Calendar at laloalcaraz.com .

Happy Don't Buy Anything Day.

🥧 (a Thanksgiving comic)

Discworld QOTD, from Interesting Times “‘Am I alone in thinking, by the way, that it doesn’t add to the status of the University to have an ape on the faculty?’ ‘Yes,’ said Ridcully flatly. ‘You are. We’ve got the only librarian who can rip off your arm with his leg. People respect that.’”

Guillotines

Couch! Couch! Couch! Couch!

Hey @bsky.app @safety.bsky.app @support.bsky.team please unsuspend Goran immediately. Goran is a great person, a great artist, and the whole anti-Palestine thing youre on is one of those "Ford funding Hitler" disasters you remember being shocked and dismayed by when you learned of in middle school.

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I guess the thing I do want to say is this: if you are sick of the flattening of our media landscape, but not paying for media that feeds you, you are contributing to the problem. That is the reality of our time and our capitalist society. And starving the artists won’t get us out of capitalism.