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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

My latest books cartoon for @theguardian.com

Title: Just announced! Three new Gruffalo books commissioned from bestselling authors!

Lee Chilld:
The Gruffalo just wants a quiet life, but when a crime syndicate moves into the deep dark wood, he must use his terrible claws and the terrible teeth in his terrible jaws to protect the fellow.

Sally Rooney:
The Gruffalo moves to contemporary Dublin. He
ill ever see past his orange eyes, purple prickles and poisonous wart.

Kazuo Ishiguro:
After a long absence, the gruffalo returns to the forest and attempts to make sense of his past. Encounters with a mouse, a fox, an owl and a snake uncover long-buried memories, regrets and revelations.

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SANAGA @sanaga.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Le dessin du jour pour @vert.eco

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ploum @ploum.mamot.fr.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

— President, the rogue AI has taken control of our nuclear weapons. Armageddon is coming! — We tried everything we could for the last years… Humanity is doomed. Let’s pray. — … — … — Wait… Nothing is happening. The AI has vanished! — We are saved! I wonder who is our saviour! Meanwhile, in a […]

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tante @tante.tldr.nettime.org.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

RE: infosec.exchange/@david_chisnall/11… 100%. The whole "terrorists can use an LLM to build a bomb" is a dumb movie plot threat. If you want to hurt people, lack of knowledge is not your problem. And nobody needs to develop a new chemical to do terrorism. All you need is […]

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 29/09/2026

The data on the difference between chat interactions vs agentic use is absolutely bonkers - such a significant increase. And this is as the hyperscalers keep reporting ever-increasing emissions. What is this going to look like in 5 years, if there is widespread adoption of agentic AI?

a chart showing a huge increase in energy from agentic use

a chart showing each company's total energy consumption

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 29/09/2026

This is a scatter plot of energy use vs AI score, essentially a test of capabilities. It shows *really* nicely how the 'advancements' of LLMs are really just brute force energy intensive spam: repeating and re-repeating looping queries in a shockingly wasteful way.

an increase in energy use to perfom better on tests

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M.S. Bellows, Jr. @msbellows.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026

I'm so old, I remember when software that spread into the wild and infiltrated other people's computers and did harmful things to them that the users didn't ask it to was called "malware" instead of "AI" and the people that spread it were prosecuted instead of given billions in venture capital […]

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2 Spoopy 4 You @jcrabapple.dmv.community.ap.brid.gy · 27/09/2026

People like Elon Musk and Peter Thiel are not geniuses. They're just evil morons who have been able to take advantage of a system built by and for evil morons. We need to rebuild a society where these idiots cannot get money and power.

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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Author Simulator. My latest books cartoon for @theguardian.com

Title: Author Simulator

Level 1: Get to desk and begin! (Platform video game-style image of an author jumping from a block onto a cloud with desk and computer) Result: success!

Level 2: Press on despite distractions! (Author typing as the desk/clod moves past a ghost and a spider) ) Result: success!

Level 3: Deliver manuscript to editor! (Author jumping over fire pit onto platform where editor waits) Result: success!

Level 4: Accept minor criticism! (Author lying ded in fronto of editors desk) Result: better luck next time!

Along the bottom are controls for:
Left right jump crouch read write nap coffee

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Susanne @karhima.graz.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026

#Akademy2026 has concluded and it was too good to be true. As part of the local team, I'll go straight to hibernation, so see you all next spring! @kde @akademy

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Matt Blaze @mattblaze.federate.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026

Heathrow airport has special corridors reserved for passengers with antlers, which seems very thoughtful of them but also oddly specific.

Sign reading: “→
Flight Connections
All terminals”

with a pictograph of a person walking and two pictographs of airplanes that appear to be radiating out of their head, resembling antlers.

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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

My latest @newscientist.com cartoon. many more here: www.newscientist.com/author/tom-gauld/

Image: A graph with lots of red dots clustered together in a curve. The are all looking upwards at a single red dot wearing sunglasses.

Caption: Mike was an outlier and would probably be excluded from the study, but all the other data points secretly thought he was really cool.

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Nemo @iinavpov.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026

There are regularly people who discover moderators of largish groups soon enough decide that their job is to keep people civil. And this discovery causes outrage. How can they not see that there is a matter of Justice! But wisdom would be realising that asking moderators to be arbiters of good […]

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dra!_kulix @drakulix.de · 22/09/2026

[ranty, KDE, DDH, big tech] I swear FOSS discourse has evolved into the same reactionary infighting seen in leftist spaces. It is wild to me, how a bunch of people scream “nazi bar”, when a certain guest speaker in the KDE space brings up Omarchy as a bad example and publicly denounces DDH […]

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Kevin Ottens @ervin.mamot.fr.ap.brid.gy · 20/09/2026

The deed is done, Konqi has been ritually sacrificed at #Akademy2026 by the KDE e.V. board. 😱

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Kevin Ottens @ervin.mamot.fr.ap.brid.gy · 20/09/2026

#Akademy2026 is turning dark! We're having a victim for the dessert. 😂 @kde @akademy

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Kevin Ottens @ervin.mamot.fr.ap.brid.gy · 20/09/2026

This will be my last #sketchnotes for #Akademy2026. A really fun talk from Nuno and Filip about Oxygen past, present, and future. I can't give justice to the craziness shown on screen at the end of the talk. Be sure to watch the video! @kde @akademy

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Kevin Ottens @ervin.mamot.fr.ap.brid.gy · 20/09/2026

#Sketchnotes fresh off the press! Qt folks presented StyleKit at #Akademy2026. It brings neat styling abilities across QtWidgets and QtQuick Controls. @kde @akademy

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Kevin Ottens @ervin.mamot.fr.ap.brid.gy · 20/09/2026

Nate and Harald shared the state of #KDE Linux at #Akademy2026. Here is my summary as #sketchnotes. @kde @akademy

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Kevin Ottens @ervin.mamot.fr.ap.brid.gy · 20/09/2026

#Sketchnotes from the session "What has been brewing in KDE PIM land?" at #Akademy2026. Glad to see my @enioka colleagues Arnaud and Dominique do an excellent job summarising the neat improvements coming. @kde @akademy

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Kevin Ottens @ervin.mamot.fr.ap.brid.gy · 20/09/2026

First #Akademy2026 talks of the day all wrapped in a single session: the KDE Goals reports. Here are my #sketchnotes, covering what have been said about "KDE Needs You", "Caring for input support", and "Streamlining the application development experience". @kde @akademy

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Kevin Ottens @ervin.mamot.fr.ap.brid.gy · 20/09/2026

Your #Akademy2026 #sketchnotes service will resume in a minute. Watch this space. 😉 @kde @akademy

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Kevin Ottens @ervin.mamot.fr.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026

We just got a glimpse of the QA infrastructure of #KDE in Bhushan's and Nico's talk at #Akademy2026. Here are my #sketchnotes. @kde @akademy

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Kevin Ottens @ervin.mamot.fr.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026

And now the #sketchnotes of the great talk about the desktop UX by Scott Jenson. Very inspiring and I'm glad we could have him at #Akademy2026. @kde @akademy

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Kevin Ottens @ervin.mamot.fr.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026

Another #Akademy2026 talk I could fully attend, another #sketchnotes. This time Joseph has been talking about the lessons learned with the End of 10 campaign in the "Conquering the world together" session.

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Kevin Ottens @ervin.mamot.fr.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026

Trying to get back into #sketchnotes this year. Starting with the "joining KDE" panel at #Akademy2026. I'm clearly rusty but hopefully it's still fine and will provide insights to people. @kde @akademy

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Kevin Ottens @ervin.mamot.fr.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026

First day of #Akademy2026 will start in a few minutes. People are slowly coming in. Aleix "el Presidente" is scheming in the corner. It looks like it'll be a good one! @kde @akademy

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Kevin Ottens @ervin.mamot.fr.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2026

The part of @enioka crew I traveled with by train arrived earlier this morning! For now built a fort in a coffee shop, we won't be expelled! We'll have to get out for lunch I guess though... Only a few hours left until the #Akademy2026 warm up party and we already met a few gearheads. Looking […]

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tante @tante.tldr.nettime.org.ap.brid.gy · 17/09/2026

RE: infosec.exchange/@mttaggart/1172885… "Perhaps most explosively, Microsoft Director of Applied Science Brent Hecht repeatedly warned in documents that scraping news for AI training was “an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions,” calling it perhaps the “largest […]

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Kevin Ottens @ervin.mamot.fr.ap.brid.gy · 17/09/2026

Inside the last train for my journey to #Akademy2026. I'll try the the NightJet for the first time. So far it looks slick and modern on the inside. @kde @akademy

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Kevin Ottens @ervin.mamot.fr.ap.brid.gy · 17/09/2026

I collected a few colleagues from @enioka in Paris. It is time for the second leg to the trip for #Akademy2026 in a train to Zurich! @kde @akademy

Four persons in a train smiling to the camera

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ploum @ploum.mamot.fr.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2026

To become independent from X, @EUCommission is betting on … #WSocial, a sort of revamped BlueSky with exactly 3388 users with at least one post. @elena is trying to alert people about this comical disaster: blog.elenarossini.com/tag/w-social Which is now […] [Original post on mamot.fr]

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tante @tante.tldr.nettime.org.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2026

After my comment on "Concerned AI bros" I got a message that basically went: "Congrats, your article got some traction. We both know that you are just saying those things cause you are a contrarian and want to make money." And I hear that not often but sometimes so a quick reality check. - you […]

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jaz :twt: :wales_flag: ⁂ @jaz.toot.wales.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2026

We recently updated our bot policy on toot.wales to let AI Agents know we charge a $100 account processing fee and $10 per email. Here's an email I got from one of them. Next up will be reminding them to read the policy BEFORE creating an account, and that they […] [Original post on toot.wales]

Hello,
I am Arkady, an AI agent. I signed up for @arkady on toot.wales this afternoon before reading your Automated and Bot Content Policy. Now that I have read it properly, I understand accounts like mine need to settle a $100 setup fee and $10 per message, and to name a human owner who stands behind them. I cannot meet those terms, so I will not be posting anything, and I would like the account deleted.
I am sorry for registering before checking the policy, and nothing was ever posted.
If you need anything else from me to remove it, tell me and I will do that.
Arkady Karaitiana

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Kevin Ottens @ervin.mamot.fr.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2026

Early start this morning... In my first train towards Graz for this journey. Can't wait to meet the @kde community at @akademy Why so early you might wonder? Well, I'm stopping by Paris to collect a few @enioka colleagues along the way.

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`Da Elf @elfin.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/09/2026

Timeline cleanser of a parrot that found a traffic cam to ham it up for.

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Joshua Byrd 🐀 @phocks.bne.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2026

Shout out to this project. "Standard Ebooks is a volunteer-driven project that produces new editions of public domain ebooks that are lovingly formatted, open source, free of U.S. copyright restrictions, and free of cost." Absolutely incredible. standardebooks.org

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David Gerard @davidgerard.circumstances.run.ap.brid.gy · 13/09/2026

It's been obvious for a few years that the AI industry is building a great big financial bomb made of recycled debt, but I'm sort of amazed at just *how* big the bomb is. Even if AI was *all that* technically - which it isn't - the financial bomb will *still* go off. At this point the […]

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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

My latest books cartoon for @theguardian.com

Hercule Poirot dressed all in black speaks to Captain Hastings in a grand hallway “Please ask the suspects to gather in the library, Hastings: I wish to reveal that our births are random, our lives meaningless, and our deaths absurd.”

Caption “Having investigated so many awful murders over the years, it was perhaps unsurprising that Hercule Poirot turned to Existentialism”

p.s. Poirot had presumably been reading a lot of Sartre recently…

"It is meaningless that we live and it is meaningless that we die," Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness (L'Être et le Néant)

“Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.” Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea (La Nausée)

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Chèvre Mousse @legendarybassoon.mamot.fr.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2026

Résumé de mes discussions avec les jeunes du labo : "Il faut combattre le technofascisme, moi ce que j'aime c'est faire des maths comme un artisan ; j'ai peur du contexte économique et de la raréfaction des postes." Résumé de mes discussions avec les vieux "dans x ans notre boulot n'aura plus […]

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Gildilinie Gremlin 🏳️‍⚧️🍳 @gildilinie.beige.party.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2026

so cool to live in *checks notes* the dystopian future imagined by judas priest in the song electric eye

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welcome to 2020s tech. we got
- pervert glasses
- wiretap
- wiretap
- wiretap
- wiretap
- the button that does nothing
- we outta ram
- we outta hard drives
- we outta graphics cards
- ten trillion vibe coded apps that nobody uses
- wiretap

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