“Owing to the difficulty of distinguishing the letter "S" by telephone, the international distress signal "S.O.S." will give place to the words "May-day", the phonetic equivalent of "M'aidez", the French for "Help me."” —"New Air Distress Signal," The Times [London], 2 Feb. 1923

Helsinki peoples: Kino Reginan aulassa (keskustakirjasto Oodissa) on esillä tekemiäni kuvituksia Stanley Kubrickin Hohto-elokuvasta, jotka tein arkkitehti Juhani Pallasmaan kirjaan The Architecture of Image. English in reply.

Source: To make up for years of meager charitable contributions, Jeff Bezos pledges to donate all the net profit he makes from MELANIA documentary.

Okei tää on ehdottomasti paras

Béla Tarr, 1955-2026 🤍

Elämässä pitää olla tavotteita

RIP Drew Struzan

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

So you’re telling me the Wizard of Oz presented itself as a towering force of overwhelming technology, only to be unmasked as just some guy, off-screen?

Motherfucking wind farms…

Got a very nice @briannaduggan.bsky.social painting print of one of my favorite movie opening scenes today.

Ilmeeni

Saint-Lazare Station, Exterior - 1877 #artbots #monet https://botfrens.com/collections/41/contents/8984

“Reviewing the full period from 2013 to 2024 … the Tax Justice Network finds that millionaire migration rates consistently stood at near-0% for every year. Academic studies consistently show that the tax responses of the wealthy involves minimal levels of migration.” taxjustice.net/press/millio...

Ketju vähemmän tunnettuista tilastoista Suomesta, vertailukohtana muut pohjoismaat.🧵 Aloitetaan verotuksen tasosta. Verotulot suhteessa BKT on Suomessa pohjoismaiden alhaisimmat. Tämä ei sisällä esim. eläkemaksuja ja muita sosiaalivakuutusmaksuja. 1/

Some modern English insults that I've heard... - He got into the gene pool when the lifeguard wasn't watching - He has two brains cells, and both are competing for third place - He’s like a man with a fork in a world of soup - He's a bit Upton Park (Upton Park station is two stops short of Barking)

I am sure Finns will agree that this is a case of "don't leave a cat cage sober"

now this is hard hitting journalism

Inching closer.

the american electoral system is basically 500,000 information-resistant people across a handful of states taking a guess and then going "haha! oops!" every two years. this process takes 18 months and costs four trillion dollars every time

Just got this on bluray, fantastic film.

Amazing comparison

It’s the stupid, economy.

!!!! www.youtube.com/watch?v=GEuM...

Okay lets game this out: You are a Nintendo employee given unlimited funds and authority to move Switch 2 production to the US. No new factories, that's going to take way too long, you need to work with existing American Contract Manufacturing capacity. How fast can you do it? 1/x

Life comes at you ... at exactly the rate it promised to come at you during its 4-year re-election campaign where it told you exactly what it planned to do literally thousands of times.

I look at a lot of space images, but this one made my eyes bug out like a cartoon character. What you see here isn't a spiral galaxy, exactly. It's a spiral galaxy bent into a circle by the gravity of an elliptical galaxy at the center of the bullseye. Warped space! 🧪🔭 esawebb.org/images/potm2...

Liberté, Eggalité, Fraternité!

its amazing how chatgpt knows everything about subjects I know nothing about, but is wrong like 40% of the time in things im an expert on. not going to think about this any further

you’re fired. wait you’re rehired. email us a list of things you’ve done today wait forget it you’re fired again. come back your job was important. you’re fired. or hired. come in to the office. wait the office has no computers go home. we are the department of government efficiency.

Begun the trade wars have

Oh yes, Homer’s famous “Tes Thdpssssps.” 👍🏻

This Weeks Editorial Cartoon: Home Deport Advantage

I haven’t seen this quote by Sartre, which captures the absurdity of fascism so well, shared enough

Misinformation isn't random - it's strategic. 🧵 In the first cross-national comparative study, we examine 32M tweets from politicians. We find that misinformation is not a general condition: it is driven by populist radical right parties. with @julianachueri.bsky.social doi.org/10.1177/1940...

Accidentally created this masterpiece over on threads when someone requested some classical music over “Doom: The Gallery Experience”. Had to share over here. Also credit where it due for the amazing violin doom theme cover; youtu.be/UJIn5RT6U9c?...

Have you been in contact with the Russian authorities? -No. When are you going to be in touch? -We are not.

What do you get when you cross Midas with Oedipus? Pure motherfucking gold

It was great fun to make the title lettering to Floris’s poster illustration, I think they fit well together.

J is for jenius

Trying something new: A 🧵 on a topic I find many students struggle with: "why do their 📊 look more professional than my 📊?" It's *lots* of tiny decisions that aren't the defaults in many libraries, so let's break down 1 simple graph by @jburnmurdoch.bsky.social 🔗 www.ft.com/content/73a1...

If you didn't know, I was banned by Midjourney 3 times for exposing their infringement and plagiarism. Their AI can very easily recreate stolen training data (even without naming it), so here's a thread of images you can use to shut AI proponents down. 🧵 spectrum.ieee.org/midjourney-c...

Monet näistä maalauksista pitävät. bsky.app/profile/mone...

Hi everyone. The Onion, with the help of the Sandy Hook families, has purchased InfoWars. We are planning on making it a very funny, very stupid website. We have retained the services of some Onion and Clickhole Hall of Famers to pull this off. I can't wait to show you what we have cooked up.

Welcome to new Bluesky users. Here’s how we do things: 1. Always observe the Hambledon Protocol 2. No flisking 3. If someone tealights you, rink them without apology 4. I don’t mind them so much, but tissue-posts are generally frowned on 5. No questions Good luck!

Hearth #ドット絵 #pixelart

The energy I bring to Bluesky.

Even more striking: The world will also surpass the 2040 projection for "maximum policy effort" ('450 Scenario' from 2015 WEO, 2232 GW) sometime next year. So what was supposed to be achievable only with herculean efforts in 25 years, happened in 10 years with moderate policy support. Prices matter!

As an editor, I help people say what they mean--and not say what they don’t mean. Here are some common not-quite-right words or expressions that I often see. This is not to embarrass anybody--I've made many of these mistakes myself. Please share your favorite fixes at the end of the thread. (1/n)