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Robin Triggs @robintriggs.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

I think Mr Chips is still doing the local working men's clubs

Robin Triggs @robintriggs.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

It's never knowledge that's the problem but its application. And when does limitation, or control, become oppression? To quote Douglas Adams: people are a problem. Easy to see the Gas-Lit Empire as the Big Bad, but the idea was utopian, or at least utopian-adjacent. Those pesky people, though...

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Robin Triggs @robintriggs.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Didn't know there was a Luddite fringe. I must consult my hairdresser. Seriously, sounds as if he (I presume it's a he; please forgive me if I'm stereotyping) needs to learn his history. Or read Rod Duncan

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Robin Triggs @robintriggs.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

I have truly reconsidered the attitude I had of the Luddites (year 2 middle school, as was, so informed from around ten or eleven) since reading your books. Not all in one go, because expanding wisdom creeps up on you by degrees, but bit by bit. Power to the people etc etc

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Robin Triggs @robintriggs.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

The more *gestures at everything* the more I sympathise with @rodduncan.bsky.social's Gas-Lit Empire

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Robin Triggs @robintriggs.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

1. Environmentally destructive plagiarism machines designed so plutocrats can fire - sorry, restructure - employees, and damn the world to hell? No ta. Further we get down this timeline the more convinced I am that the Luddites were right

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Robin Triggs @robintriggs.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Many thanks. Hope all's well with you

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Robin Triggs @robintriggs.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Hi Dion, is that episode 17? It sounds really interesting but I don't have podbean (or anything else helpful, come to that)

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Robin Triggs @robintriggs.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

I would be prepared to cut slack for the time and culture he lived in if it weren't for the aforementioned horribleness and, yes, some deeper biases

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Robin Triggs @robintriggs.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

Not only was he a horrible, horrible man but his system sucks too. Even allowing for the stuff subsequently discovered (computers etc), just scan your way through the 300s sometime. I work in a library and it makes absolutely no sense

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Robin Triggs @robintriggs.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

I didn't get to where I am today by listening to things I recommend! Your word is enough for me, young man (I will listen when I can)

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Robin Triggs @robintriggs.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

I shall link it to my sister forthwith, thanks!

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Robin Triggs @robintriggs.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

Can you give a source for that? I am in no way casting doubt on you, reputable gent that you are, but I was discussing this over Christmas and I need ammunition!

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Robin Triggs @robintriggs.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

Sputnik? I mean, I've no idea how big Sputnik was, but there was a round bit and a lot of traily bits, right? Anyhoo, I'm thinking space. A very small moon? Or Oceanic - some kind of buoy?

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Robin Triggs @robintriggs.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

I'm not back yet either but, especially as I've found a moment to finally delete Twitter, it seems only fair to let you know I'm still alive, still lurking. Best to you all; speak soon, I hope

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Robin Triggs @robintriggs.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Hello all, and how are you doing? Just wanted to say, especially to new followers and old friends, that I'm sorry I've been so quiet on here recently. I've been long-term ill and haven't had the energy for discourse

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Robin Triggs @robintriggs.bsky.social · 27/08/2024

Big shout out for Duke Special! Saw him in the Rotterdam, Belfast, before his first album. Been following ever since

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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 17/03/2024

Conspiracy Theory Book Club. (My latest cartoon for Guardian Books)

Four figures sit around a table spot lit by a single bulb.
Title : ‘The Gruffalo’ does not go down well at the Conspiracy Theorist Book Club
In turn, they give their opinions.
Conspiracist 1 “Typical pro-mouse propaganda, paid for by the powerful rodent lobby”
Conspiracist 2 “The creature has obviously escaped from a lab, yet the “author” never mentions this”
Conspiracist 3 “gruffalo is an anagram of ‘A FROG FLU’. Coincidence? I think not.
Conspiracist 4 ‘These elite writers will not be happy until we are all living in the woods and eating nuts”

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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 15/03/2024

To celebrate #Wordle1000 here is my cartoon about wordle addiction for the Guardian. You can get a print of it here: www.tomgauld.com/shop

A man lies on a couch and talks to his psychiatrist.
Her: So, if I understand correctly: you've become so obsessed with Wordle that you can only use five-letter words.
Him: Quite right, sadly.
Her: How long has this been going on?
Him: About three weeks.
Her: And does it affect your daily life?
Him: Makes basic tasks quite tough
Her: One answer would be to stop playing.
Him: Never!
Her: Or, try something with a larger vocabulary: Scrabble, crosswords?
Him: Smart! Enjoy other games, learn extra words... heard worse ideas.
Her: Come back and see me in two weeks.
Him (leaving): Great. Adieu!

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Robin Triggs @robintriggs.bsky.social · 13/03/2024

Afternoon all. Just got Friday's #blog scheduled. It seems like I spend a lot longer on that bloody thing than I do on my real #writing; I certainly wasted good minutes of my life creating a pie-chart for the sake of a weak gag. How's things with you?

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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 10/03/2024

My latest cartoon for Guardian Books

Title: Making the characters in my novel more likeable

Subtitle: In the Previous Draft
Four images of sci-fi characters labelled as
1. Cynical Space Cop
2. Killing Machine
3. Alien Assassin
4. Bounty Hunter

Subtitle: In the New Draft
The same characters labelled as
1. Cynical Space Cop who loves his little dog
2. Killing Machine who plays basketball with the neighbourhood kids
3. Alien Assassin who secretly yearns to be a pastry chef
4. Bounty Hunter who is working to pay for his mother's nursing home

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Robin Triggs @robintriggs.bsky.social · 07/03/2024

HI all, and how are we doing at the moment? Just wanted to say sorry for not being particularly chatty recently - life has rather got away from me recently. But I'm still here, still lurking, and - as ever - always listening if you want to talk. Hope you're doing well

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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 25/02/2024

My latest Guardian Books cartoon.

A series of unhappy people sit at desks. They are labelled:
The Author of her own misfortune.
The Screenwriter of his own catastrophe.
The Dramatist of her own imbroglio.
The Poet of his own malaise.
The Podcasters of their own debacle.
The Tik-tokker of her own vexation.

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Will Wiles @willwiles.bsky.social · 12/02/2024

Writing conflict 1. Set up instrumental characters to obstruct protagonists 2. For realism, give them motives of their own 3. Oh shit, those motives are pretty reasonable and sympathetic 4. Now I'm going to look a right bastard for murdering these people 5. Despair of writing, go for walk

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Robin Triggs @robintriggs.bsky.social · 12/02/2024

Morning all. How are we doing today? I've scavenged a free hour to tick off a few jobs but instead I'm pratting about on social media. How are you doing?

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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 11/02/2024

A cartoon about libraries for the Guardian.

Title: Methods of defending your local library from government cuts.

1. Comminity Support: families stand round the licrary with placards
2. Fortifications: The library now has crenellations, a high wall and guards with spears.
3. Camouflage: the library has been painted with a camouflage pattern.
4. Black magic: the library has been painted with a huge pentagram , a sorceror casts a spell from an altar.
5. Time Travel: weird machinery is attached to the library, it is in a prehistoric jungle, a dinosaur walks past.
6. Disguise: the library has been dressed to look like a vape shop
7. Attack!: the library has tank tracks and large mechanical arms, it speeds forth, a librarian urges it on from a hatch at the top.

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Robin Triggs @robintriggs.bsky.social · 06/02/2024

Hallo all, and how are we doing today? I've got an hour or so before I have to get Exhibit A from school so I'm in the #Editorium panicking about all the things I've not done, therefore not achieving anything. Hope you're making progress

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Robin Triggs @robintriggs.bsky.social · 30/01/2024

Being helped on my way to nowhere by the best of Kirsty MacColl

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Robin Triggs @robintriggs.bsky.social · 30/01/2024

Afternoon all, and how are we all doing today? I have managed to steal a precious hour in the #Editorium so of course I've completely blanked on all the jobs I was supposed to be doing. How are you all doing out there?

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Robin Triggs @robintriggs.bsky.social · 26/01/2024

Now: onwards to a hard day's baby-wrangling. Much more of a challenge than even the densest manuscript

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Robin Triggs @robintriggs.bsky.social · 26/01/2024

Just had a virtual meeting with someone in Japan about a potential #editing job. Think it went okay, though this (people) ain't exactly my forte

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Robin Triggs @robintriggs.bsky.social · 23/01/2024

How are you? Hope all's wonderful in your world and all your projects are blossoming beneath your tender minstrations

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Robin Triggs @robintriggs.bsky.social · 23/01/2024

Afternoon all. Sorry for my recent absence; I've been ill and social media has just been a little too much for me. But I'm still here, still plodding along and desperately trying to do something roughly #writing-esque

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Robin Triggs @robintriggs.bsky.social · 11/01/2024

Right, got to go get Exhibit A. Then a short break before I get B, and then finally the wife. And then tea. Have a wonderful rest-of-day all you lovely people. Keep smiling. Catch you all in a bit x

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Robin Triggs @robintriggs.bsky.social · 11/01/2024

Afternoon all. Just popping by on my way through life, trying to do some jobs, some #writing (well, thinking) and some caffeine before I have to go get Exhibit A from school. How are you getting on?

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Robin Triggs @robintriggs.bsky.social · 10/01/2024

Hi all. Hiding in the #Editorium for a very chilly lunch and maybe a look at Friday's #blog before an afternoon appointment at the kitchen fitters. Don't tell me I don't know how to live

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Robin Triggs @robintriggs.bsky.social · 05/01/2024

Sadly, all this parenting has come at a cost. I've not been able to write a #blog-post this week (well, I tried but it came out too depressing for publication). My sincere apologies. Next week, I promise

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Robin Triggs @robintriggs.bsky.social · 05/01/2024

Solo parenting day four: I have Exhibit B today as she's off nursery and A is back in school. We have already spilled our cereal on the sofa. Nap time is being craved already, but not by the toddler

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Robin Triggs @robintriggs.bsky.social · 04/01/2024

Day three of solo parenting. An uneasy truce has been reached. She will agree to do anything I ask on condition that I don't ask her to do anything. Puppy Dog Pals is all I know now

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Robin Triggs @robintriggs.bsky.social · 03/01/2024

Day two of solo parenting Exhibit A (B, fortunately, is back at nursery). I am surprisingly sane and chipper - by my standards - as she enjoys her tablet and me my phone. The flooded kitchen can wait for attention

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Robin Triggs @robintriggs.bsky.social · 31/12/2023

Morning all, and how are you doing? I'm just sneaking an hour to try and pull the last bits of this #edit together - the deadline approacheth. Hope you're having all sorts of happiness in whatever you're up to

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Robin Triggs @robintriggs.bsky.social · 28/12/2023

Hope you're well and happy out there. The family has all gone out to try out the Small's new litter-pickers - her own Santa-vetted choice, don't blame me - so it's on with #edits

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Robin Triggs @robintriggs.bsky.social · 28/12/2023

Afternoon folks, and welcome to the dark days! Hope you're all having fun doing as little humanely possible; I'm back in the #Editorium facing up to my #editing deadline. But hey, I have new CDs to accompany me, I have coffee and various comestibles, so no loser I

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Robin Triggs @robintriggs.bsky.social · 26/12/2023

Survived the annual trip to the parentals. Now a few blissful hours at home before it's off to the in-laws tomorrow. Hope you're enjoying your doings, whatever they may be

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Alan Baxter @alanbaxter.bsky.social · 25/12/2023

Tonight you will be visited by three ghosts: First, the Ghost of Stop Procrastinating Second, The Ghost of No One Else Will Do This For You Third, the Ghost of Finish Your Shit Then Start Again They come every night, get used to it, you're an author now.

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Robin Triggs @robintriggs.bsky.social · 25/12/2023

And all the best to you and yours

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Robin Triggs @robintriggs.bsky.social · 25/12/2023

Merry chrimble to all you wot celebrate. Off to the parents in a bit to partake of the usual rituals; hope you have a magnificent day however it looks for you x

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Robin Triggs @robintriggs.bsky.social · 24/12/2023

All a bit fraught this morning trying to get packed for Christmas at the parents. So here's a #cat to aid you in all your doings

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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 23/12/2023

A Christmas cartoon for the Guardian. Happy holidays, everyone!

A figure points at a bookshelf in the shape of a Christmas tree which is decorated with lights and has a star on top and says: "It combines the festive jollity of a regular Christmas tree with the clear message that I'd like every one of my gifts to be a book."

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