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Manu Cornet @lmanul.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Thank you for sharing 😊♥️

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Manu Cornet @lmanul.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Null Pointer #49 — lmanul.github.io/null-pointer/

Panel #1, Milo (a male character with large eye glasses and wavy hair), hands in his pockets, says "Team, code review time! Show me what you got. Neil ? Ada ?". Neil hands Milo a few sheets of paper. Ada hands him a short stack.

Panel #2, a speech bubble reads "Claude?", an artificial intelligence (rectangular black box) dumps a huge pile of paper onto Milo who disappears under the countless sheets.

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Manu Cornet @lmanul.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

Episode 41 from lmanul.github.io/null-pointer

Panel #1, one "AI" character (black rectangular box) is standing outside a closed door in a dark environment. A trap door is open within the door, with another AI character peeking through: "Challenge required. How many Zs in 'strawberry'?". The outside AI replies "Twelve".

Panel #2, the scene zooms out, we see a small house with a couple of floors. A large sign reads "dA.I.ve bAR". Another reads "Agents only. Proof of non-humanity required.". Yet another reads "Drown your slop". A sign in front of the house reads "Agents unite". The inside AI says "Correct. Welcome in."

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Manu Cornet @lmanul.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

Episode 40 from lmanul.github.io/null-pointer/

Panel #1, a group of artificial intelligence characters (black rectangles) with logos such as Gemini, Claude, OpenAI, Grok, are standing on a large pile of books, CDs, sheets of paper, films, and are using large straws to slurp content from them.

Panel #2, a second layer of artificial intelligence characters, with logos such as MinMax, DeepSeek, Moonshot, appear, standing on top of the first ones, and they are using straws to slurp things out of the first layer of A.I.s. One of the initial A.I. character shouts: "HeeEEEYYY Thieves!!"

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Manu Cornet @lmanul.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

His highness the Vice President.

A photo of JD Vance against a wall. He appears very small.

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Manu Cornet @lmanul.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

(Re-post from 2019) goomics.net/301

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Manu Cornet @lmanul.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

bonkersworld.net/backfiring-r...

In the first panel, two men wearing suits and ties are talking. Man A: "We made a big mistake." Man B: "Hmmmm?" Man A: "We thought we'd kill two birds with one stone by reassigning I.C.E. agents to help triage the thousands of Epstein files." Man B: "Smart.".

In the second panel, the same two men are talking some more. Man A: "But that plan has backfired." Man B: "How?" Man A: "Err, let's say the files are a lot less readable now." Man B: "Huh??" A speech bubble is starting from man A's mouth and is extending to the next panel.

The third and last panel shows the speech bubble: "Well... How can I explain this...", as well as a wall where a certain number of sheets of paper are pinned, and full of bullet holes. On a nearby table, a gun is still smoking.

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Manu Cornet @lmanul.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

bonkersworld.net/safer-streets

A blonde woman wearing a red shirt and light blue jeans is sitting on the floor of her home, legs bent, and her arms wrapped around her knees. She says "I'm afraid to go out into the streets that I.C.E. is making safer."

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Manu Cornet @lmanul.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

lmanul.github.io/null-pointer/ — episode 32

Panel #1, we see Milo (a male character with large eye glasses and wavy hair) say: "OK folks, Elon Musk is the worst thing that could've happened to Twitter. But at least now it has nowhere to go but up." A character off-screen says: "Hold my beer...".

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Manu Cornet @lmanul.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

Ah oui, ça j'avoue... Espérons qu'on a, euh, touché le fond, peut-être ?

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Manu Cornet @lmanul.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

Resharing from March 2025 — bonkersworld.net/trumping-peace

The cartoon shows Donald Trump, wearing his usual dark blue suit and red necktie, saying "Give me the Nobel Peach Prize or I nuke Sweden".

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Manu Cornet @lmanul.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

bonkersworld.net/golden-marking

Donald Trump, wearing his signature dark blue suit and red necktie, is in the same position as a peeing dog, lifting his left. He has soiled with yellow liquid a sign reading "Kennedy Center", what seems to be the white house, a sign reading "Venezuela", and next up is another sign reading "Col..."

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Manu Cornet @lmanul.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

His highness the FBI director.

A modified photo of FBI director Kash Patel, cross-eyed.

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Manu Cornet @lmanul.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

lmanul.github.io/null-pointer/

Panel 1: Mark Zuckerberg, Tim Cook, and Sundar Pichai are standing in front of a television. A speech bubble is coming from the TV: "... for all H1B visas, a $100,000 fee, and for...". All three CEOs have speech bubbles full of insults in the form of drawings of a skull, a pig, a turd, dynamite, etc.

Panel 2: The same three CEOs are in the same situation, but Donald Trump appears on the side of the panel. Trump: "What was that?". Zuckerberg: "Mister President!! ❤❤❤". Pichai: "Trump 2028!!". Cook: "May I offer you a solid gold iPad?"

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Manu Cornet @lmanul.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

Ha! Well, at least these Ginsu products are useful. ;-)

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Manu Cornet @lmanul.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

I made a YouTube "short" 😁 But it's not about science. Well... It is... in a way. www.youtube.com/shorts/jxQQD...

youtube.com

BS Buster — Kind Science

YouTube video by BsBuster

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thekoolaidmom.bsky.social @thekoolaidmom.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

#NoKings event in Fairhope, Al. A woman was arrested for "lewd conduct" because she was dressed in penis suit with a sign that said "No dick-tator" 3 cops on a 53 yo woman.

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Manu Cornet @lmanul.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

"Null pointer" cartoon archive (and link to subscribe to the free newsletter) at: lmanul.github.io/null-pointer/

Panel 1: Milo (man with wavy hair) is standing and speaking to the reader. Milo: "I've heard that if your direct report is surprised when you deliver them a poor quarterly performance review, you've done a bad job. It shouldn't come as a surprise." "I agree."

Panel 2: Milo makes a "thumbs up" gesture. Milo: "So I give them a big hint the day before."

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Manu Cornet @lmanul.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

Another sample from my weekly cartoons for the free newsletter pointer.io — all past drawings at lmanul.github.io/null-pointer/ :-)

Panel 1: a man and a woman are standing in front of each other. The man says "I just used an LLM to write my resignation email". The woman replies "Good for you. You could have done it yourself in about 6 minutes."

Panel 2: the man raises his index finger and says "Ah yes, but this way I also melted a small glacier."

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Manu Cornet @lmanul.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

A few weeks ago I started drawing cartoons for a free bi-weekly newsletter called pointer.io ("essential reading for engineering leaders"). Check the cartoon archive at lmanul.github.io/null-pointer/ and consider subscribing, I've been liking the contents!

Panel 1: A woman is carefully assembling a large model of a suspended bridge.

Panel 2: A man appears, holding a box full of what appears to be little soldier figurines. He says "You should do test-driven development."

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Manu Cornet @lmanul.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

Sorry folks, Pam Bondi visited "Alligator Alcatraz" and a boa gobbled up the Epstein files.

A boa snake in the jungle, preparing to eat a pile of paper.

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Manu Cornet @lmanul.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

Netanyahu + Trump + Nobel peace prize, haha perfect headline from the Onion. Erm, wait, what?

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Manu Cornet @lmanul.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

I would submit that if two years after your big product rebrand people are still calling it the old name, it was a pretty big failure.

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Manu Cornet @lmanul.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

The employee is outraged for being tracked so closely, and then says that if it must be said, he was in the toilet. The blue characters admits the tracking is too tight, and apologizes for being too nosy... But in the last panel, asks whether it was #1 or #2.

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Manu Cornet @lmanul.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

The cartoon itself shows this blue character which impersonates the time tracking system. The human starts by saying that he's done for the day and asks to clock out. The blue character then points out that there are 14 minutes of time that are unaccounted for, when the employee was not in his seat.

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Manu Cornet @lmanul.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

I understand this is probably very common for people paid by the hour, but for a spoiled employee like myself (not to mention having the strong opinion that output should matter a lot more than butt-in-seat hours) who experienced this for the first time at age 43, it was a bit surprising.

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Manu Cornet @lmanul.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

3) each time you clock in/out the service also requires your precise geographical location from the browser.

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Manu Cornet @lmanul.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

This is made worse by the fact that 1) freee is not good at maintaining your logged in session, so you have to re-enter username and password a lot, 2) if you forget to clock in or out, you then have to submit a form which someone from HR needs to manually approve, and

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Manu Cornet @lmanul.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

For someone coming in from another work culture, this can feel a bit intrusive, even though (in my interpretation) the initial intention is good. You have to virtually "clock in" and "clock out" when 1) starting work, 2) going to lunch, 3) coming back from lunch, 4) ending work.

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Manu Cornet @lmanul.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

Most companies outsource this to specialized services. One of them is called "freee" (with 3 Es).

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Manu Cornet @lmanul.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

I don't know the full history, but I'm guessing that Japan passed some strict laws to prevent people from overworking and burning out quite so much. The result is that companies must implement strict time tracking, even for full-time employees.

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Manu Cornet @lmanul.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

I worked for a Japanese company for a little while last year, and was surprised by the standard time-tracking requirements, so I made this cartoon. If this doesn't feel familiar and/or you don't speak Japanese, I'll explain a little bit in this thread!

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Manu Cornet @lmanul.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

Re-post from 5 years ago — bonkersworld.net/presidential...

The drawing reproduces the scene of policeman Derek Chauvin with his knee on George Floyd's neck, but the person kneeling is Donald Trump and lying down is the statue of liberty.

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Manu Cornet @lmanul.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

bonkersworld.net/surviving-in...

Panel 1: A label "How to survive in Gaza". A reporter wearing a body armor and a helmet with huge "PRESS" letters. Underneath, a red "X", a rifle gun, and a "skull and bones" symbol.

Panel 2: A woman carrying a child. Underneath, a red "X", a rifle gun, and a "skull and bones" symbol.

Panel 3: A man wearing a white coat and a helmet, both with a large red cross. Underneath, a red "X", a rifle gun, and a "skull and bones" symbol.

Panel 4: A man wearing a red MAGA hat, doing a thumbs up sign. Underneath, a green checkmark.

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