Goldcrest, the smallest bird in Britain. Saw this one with 3-4 others in a tree over the Sherbourne River in Coventry. Rare to see them so close up. In German it is called the gold winter chicken (Wintergoldhaendchen).

Got a mastodon plushie from Santa, so cute and soft!

“The last-minute christmas rush at the bookshop.” - my latest cartoon for @theguardian.com books

I am brimming with holiday spirit

Imagine a social network that can’t be bought, sold, or controlled by a billionaire. A place where communities govern themselves, and your data stays yours. That's Mastodon. Join us in turning that vision into reality. Donate to power people-first social […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

The Christmas Private Eye cover is chef’s kiss…

I love everything about this story. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/dec/07/no-one-knows-where-it-came-from-first-wild-beaver-spotted-in-norfolk-for-400-years

My latest cartoon for @newscientist.com

1. Some good news at last. This week’s column is about the amazing thing a couple of us stumbled into three years ago, which we’ve now developed into a global research programme. It doesn’t change everything, of course, but it could help change quite a lot. + 🧵 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Hey @[email protected] @[email protected] ! I have framed your wonderful paintings you sent me and they look fabulous on our wall. Thank you so much.

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

My cartoon for this week's @newscientist.com

Now for some sports news... (this week's cartoon for @theguardian.com books pages)

i support men celebrating international men's day so we don't have to hear "why don't we have an international men's day???" every fucking year on on international women's day

Alpine view at Innsbruck airport. #innsbruck

My first piece for @theguardian.com on MBS’s visit to the U.S., seven years after Jamal Khashoggi’s murder. Trump’s America is beginning to look like MBS’s Saudi Arabia— which Jamal warned me about. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Hi! Today is my first official day as the Executive Director of Mastodon, replacing @[email protected] as CEO. I joined the Mastodon team more than 5 years ago, mostly working for Mastodon in the evenings on top of a 120% day job. I was the driving force behind the incorporation of the […]

“I was 14… I was 16… this was me when I met Epstein… there are thousands of us… time to let the secrets out of the shadows” Powerful ad from survivors ahead of a vote to tell us where each House rep stands on protecting kids vs protecting pedophiles.

"Modern luxury is the ability to think clearly, sleep deeply, move slowly & live quietly in a society designed to prevent all four."

I just got back from London's best comic shop @goshcomics.bsky.social with the following news: Pics 1&2: Their copies of my new book still come with this tiny zine. Pic 3: I got copies new work by geniuses Sammy Harkham and Linnea Sterte Pic 4: I signed a big pile of my other books

Robot: "What is my purpose?" Human: "You grip things" Robot: "Oh my god" Robot:

It doesn't get any more loud and clear than this. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/13/us-antifa-terrorist-designation

1. The Trump administration has just quietly updated the State Department website to indicate that it may invalidate transgender people's passports. This comes a week after a SCOTUS ruling blocking lower rulings allowing trans people to update them. Subscribe to support our journalism.

[Economics] I don't think it is correct to say we live in a capitalist system. Let's take the UK as an example: Public spending accounts for about 44% of GDP, about £45k per household. That money is either spent directly on wages, materials, facilities etc., or products/services are procured […]

The new #steam devices are quite something I guess! No Meta in sights, no AI bullshit and it runs on Linux! 😁 I have a Steam Deck but it's just a portable Linux PC in your hands, it's pretty awesome

One thing I really enjoy here is what I think of as the fedi-follow-dance. I see post I love. Boost the post. Go to the person's profile, find other posts I love, favorite those posts. Follow the person. Then I see in my feed: :blobpeek: ⭐ Person favorited: ⭐ Person favorited: ⭐ Person […]

Today I learned that all those pointless collective nouns (a murder of crows, a parliament of owls, a pride of lions) which are only ever used in pub quizzes, were made up by one woman 500 years ago. https://www.themarginalian.org/2024/01/04/brian-wildsmith-birds-company-terms/ #til #todayilearned

yes yes Yes YEs YES YES YES!!! PURPLE! RED! ORANGE!! GREEN!!! WOWWWW (It was not this bright naked-eye, but these colours are all totally visible! Incredible!)

Arrived on site at 06:40 this morning. The miners work 12 hour shifts from 7 to 7. They need to be in their PPE and the Start of Shift (SOS) briefing starts at 7. Lateness is not tolerated! They work 7&3, 7&4, which means: - work 7 days from Thursday 7am to […] [Original post on mstdn.social]

The day to remember all the millions of victims of militarism and war, and to recommit to #Peace and against #warmongering. #remembranceday https://www.ppu.org.uk/remembrance-white-poppies

I'm 48 and I've finally made my peace with people pronouncing etc as ek-setera instead of et-setera. It's charming, in fact.

Thank you, fedi, for being a place of peace for me 🖤

Just nice to see an American progressive leader who is unafraid and victorious. Really no more to it than that. What a beautiful fucking sight.

Zohran for President! (Of the World!)

#ukbinchat Absolute scenes this morning. The whole bin schedule changed yesterday. Our normal bin was emptied last Thursday so now it should be recycling bin week. BUT Not only is it normal bin week again but it's a Tuesday. For the few people who put their bin out again, some put both bins […]

When I graduated from college in 2007 (in Singapore) I already had a life traveling internationally, and I was already making money per story / photo essay / travel guide thing that I did. Back when journalism still paid real money. I immediately got a job that moved me, expenses paid, to an […]

Start your weekend with Bohemian Rhapsody played on the ‘Floppotron’ — an assembly of dozens of floppy disc drives, scanners, hard discs and even a dialup modem whose stepper motors, clicks and whistles are tuned here to concert pitch https://youtu.be/ph5OW9p-GHM?si=49NmGLzzsBQtUhn8

This just blew my mind: The sun can't see shadows. Never occurred to me before!

"That's no pumpkin!" My friend Tom has made a Death Star pumpkin. 😍 (Also, Death Star Pumpkins is definitely a great band name.) #halloween

Maldives eliminates mother-to-child transmission of HIV, syphilis, and hepatitis B. No babies were born with HIV or syphilis in 2022–23, and hepatitis B has vanished among children. The WHO is calling it a “triple elimination,” the world’s first of its kind […]

Rachel Reeves admits breaking rules by renting out her house without a licence | Rachel Reeves | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/oct/29/rachel-reeves-admits-breaking-rules-by-renting-out-her-house-without-a-licence I have some sympathy for Reeves as I know from experience […]

I successfully transitioned a desktop and a laptop from windows (they could not upgrade to Windows 10 due to hardware) to #LinuxMint. Yay me! I really like it as an OS: simple, elegant, intuitive. But... I am really struggling with a couple of things. 1. I need (for work) to be able to easily […]

There is a group of a bit over a thousand people in Toronto who get on their bikes every week and deliver food to people who need it. https://www.bikebrigade.ca It is not a big, loud political activist group. It does not get a lot of funding or a lot of press. It has been going for years now […]

The third and final part of our epic 'Lenin, Trotsky, Stalin' Origin Story. We're now at the point of total homicidal breakdown, burying into some of the darkest experiments in human history.

I've yet to be shown the billionaire who has ethically earned all of that money, or has even "earned" it in the first place. Like they've worked a thousand times more than anyone that I know has.

I just did my pre-interview for Quirks and Quarks. I am slightly less excited now, just because the pre-interview made it clear how completely fucking depressing this interview is going to be! I have nothing good to say. I have no concrete actions for people to take. All I have are predictions […]

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