Paul Gunning
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Burning bridges to light my way.
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Strikes me that the finest cultural advice you could give to any voting population right now would be "Treat your politicians like plumbers."
Both professions make a living from handling shit, and the better they handle it, the happier you are. But -
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Both professions make a living from handling shit, and the better they handle it, the happier you are. But -
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November 26, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Strikes me that the finest cultural advice you could give to any voting population right now would be "Treat your politicians like plumbers."
Both professions make a living from handling shit, and the better they handle it, the happier you are. But -
1/x
Both professions make a living from handling shit, and the better they handle it, the happier you are. But -
1/x
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My cartoon for this week's @newscientist.com
November 26, 2025 at 1:01 PM
My cartoon for this week's @newscientist.com
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Honestly think the easiest value to society you can add as a bloke is to stand up for women you don't know.
November 20, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Honestly think the easiest value to society you can add as a bloke is to stand up for women you don't know.
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Sometimes it's not about happiness. Sometimes it's just about not letting a low mood spiral into something worse, & hanging on til bedtime.
November 20, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Sometimes it's not about happiness. Sometimes it's just about not letting a low mood spiral into something worse, & hanging on til bedtime.
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If I were suddenly, and through no fault of my own, a multi-billionaire, how would *I* convice people that I wasn't an asshole?
I would quietly spend money solving other people's problems until I was no longer a billionaire.
I would quietly spend money solving other people's problems until I was no longer a billionaire.
November 20, 2025 at 6:12 PM
If I were suddenly, and through no fault of my own, a multi-billionaire, how would *I* convice people that I wasn't an asshole?
I would quietly spend money solving other people's problems until I was no longer a billionaire.
I would quietly spend money solving other people's problems until I was no longer a billionaire.
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i fucking hate these people so much. "i spent the time working, reading and thinking" so you want a train. you want the bus. get on fucking public transit you absolute coward. or are you afraid of being next to god forbid someone poorer than you??
November 19, 2025 at 9:56 PM
i fucking hate these people so much. "i spent the time working, reading and thinking" so you want a train. you want the bus. get on fucking public transit you absolute coward. or are you afraid of being next to god forbid someone poorer than you??
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Newsom aside, this is good on Trump/MAGA.
November 19, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Newsom aside, this is good on Trump/MAGA.
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the times I have done this - which are few, because you really need to be a good, proper friend to do it - are the things I feel proudest of probably in all the time I've spent online.
'I love you, I agree with you, it's not coming over how you hope which is so unfair. let's get icecream today?'
'I love you, I agree with you, it's not coming over how you hope which is so unfair. let's get icecream today?'
a piece of advice I didn't put in here but I really wish to offer:
if you see a friend 'posting through' some kind of horrible online pile-on event, reach out privately and say the words 'I love you and please stop posting. let's have a phonecall & see each other in person, shall I pop over?'
if you see a friend 'posting through' some kind of horrible online pile-on event, reach out privately and say the words 'I love you and please stop posting. let's have a phonecall & see each other in person, shall I pop over?'
November 19, 2025 at 4:41 PM
the times I have done this - which are few, because you really need to be a good, proper friend to do it - are the things I feel proudest of probably in all the time I've spent online.
'I love you, I agree with you, it's not coming over how you hope which is so unfair. let's get icecream today?'
'I love you, I agree with you, it's not coming over how you hope which is so unfair. let's get icecream today?'
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So much of the world’s knowledge hasn’t been digitised… and no chance the world’s tacit knowledge will be codified… yet so much nonsense is built on algorithmic analysis.
November 18, 2025 at 9:25 PM
So much of the world’s knowledge hasn’t been digitised… and no chance the world’s tacit knowledge will be codified… yet so much nonsense is built on algorithmic analysis.
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Every time I hear a politician say that an issue is “dividing” this country they always then come down on the side of the right wing view of it. Just once I’d love to hear someone say “this issue is divisive, which is why I’m making the argument that kindness and compassion is important”
November 16, 2025 at 9:58 AM
Every time I hear a politician say that an issue is “dividing” this country they always then come down on the side of the right wing view of it. Just once I’d love to hear someone say “this issue is divisive, which is why I’m making the argument that kindness and compassion is important”
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Love to bike to work through the middle of the vehicular manslaughter arms race
![4-panel vertical comic. (1) 100 Years Ago [two people standing next to bicycle with small car nearby] PERSON 1: It’s too dangerous riding a bike with these cars around. I should get a car, too. (2) 50 Years Ago [two people between smaller car and bigger car] PERSON 2 with short hair: Small cars are less safe in collisions with larger vehicles, so I should get a bigger one. (3) Today [two people between big car and even bigger car] PERSON 1: Everyone has huge SUVs now. If I don’t get the biggest one, I’m putting my family at risk. (4) Soon [two people next to large armored car with spiked clubs attached] PERSON 2: If I don’t install more whirling spike clubs, I’ll be destroyed by all the other drivers who...](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreiby6can6k76yzfmv2czxs4pu2l7zie7bqbrpswi7h3ifmiadkuqvu@jpeg)
November 14, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Love to bike to work through the middle of the vehicular manslaughter arms race
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The absolute balls on the person who designed eight digits, ran out of ideas and just flipped the 6 upside down and thought we wouldn't notice.
November 14, 2025 at 12:56 PM
The absolute balls on the person who designed eight digits, ran out of ideas and just flipped the 6 upside down and thought we wouldn't notice.
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"Don't scold people who are trying to help" yeah the thing is, if you're trying to help me push my car out of the mud by standing on the shoulder telling me you know better than to run off the road and also my car pollutes the air, I am not obligated to thank you for your assistance.
November 13, 2025 at 5:26 PM
"Don't scold people who are trying to help" yeah the thing is, if you're trying to help me push my car out of the mud by standing on the shoulder telling me you know better than to run off the road and also my car pollutes the air, I am not obligated to thank you for your assistance.
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daily reminder of that quote that the ruling class have forgotten that we have unions, laws, and democracy that prevents them being murdered in front of their families by an angry mob of people with pitchforks and molotovs
Important to understand the Epstein stuff and the fascism and the corruption are, in a lot of ways, really all the same story from different angles: powerful men who can and do abuse vulnerable people around them because they can, and because systems of elite accountability catastrophically failed
November 12, 2025 at 10:16 PM
daily reminder of that quote that the ruling class have forgotten that we have unions, laws, and democracy that prevents them being murdered in front of their families by an angry mob of people with pitchforks and molotovs
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Out on December 9, available to preorder fromNewCon Press now. Do you believe in miracles?
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November 12, 2025 at 11:31 AM
Out on December 9, available to preorder fromNewCon Press now. Do you believe in miracles?
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Considering there is a detailed YouTube tutorial on how to correctly do every single task on earth, you would think we would be living in a golden age of human competence. However I am starting to worry that this is not the case
November 8, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Considering there is a detailed YouTube tutorial on how to correctly do every single task on earth, you would think we would be living in a golden age of human competence. However I am starting to worry that this is not the case
Something which I thought retirement had put in the rear view mirror.
Give me a deadline and I'll knock out a 5 hour task in 2 hours.
Give me 2 weeks for a 5 hour task, and I'll knock it out in the last 2 hours, and be miserable the entire 2 weeks
Give me 2 weeks for a 5 hour task, and I'll knock it out in the last 2 hours, and be miserable the entire 2 weeks
November 8, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Something which I thought retirement had put in the rear view mirror.
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“Within shotgun range of Jesus” is absolutely a country song and I refuse to believe otherwise
Interesting that you reckon he'll be within shotgun range of Jesus?
November 4, 2025 at 11:53 AM
“Within shotgun range of Jesus” is absolutely a country song and I refuse to believe otherwise
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I dimly recall a woman who wrote in the Post years ago about actually leaving NYC for Florida over some [blank] or other and I remember thinking after reading it well whatever we did to drive her away we should definitely be doing way more of
November 4, 2025 at 6:43 PM
I dimly recall a woman who wrote in the Post years ago about actually leaving NYC for Florida over some [blank] or other and I remember thinking after reading it well whatever we did to drive her away we should definitely be doing way more of
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Wait. Welcome to Derry isn't set in actual Derry?! That seems like a completely missed opportunity. Having said that, the first person Pennywise the Clown came across would have asked what primary school he went to and, having given the wrong answer, he'd have been fucked to bits with a claw hammer.
November 3, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Wait. Welcome to Derry isn't set in actual Derry?! That seems like a completely missed opportunity. Having said that, the first person Pennywise the Clown came across would have asked what primary school he went to and, having given the wrong answer, he'd have been fucked to bits with a claw hammer.
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The numbers of Americans in the replies here screaming "but how do British people defend themselves?!"
Well, mostly by almost entirely removing guns from public ownership. And they're going to hate this, but it works!
Well, mostly by almost entirely removing guns from public ownership. And they're going to hate this, but it works!
November 3, 2025 at 7:15 AM
The numbers of Americans in the replies here screaming "but how do British people defend themselves?!"
Well, mostly by almost entirely removing guns from public ownership. And they're going to hate this, but it works!
Well, mostly by almost entirely removing guns from public ownership. And they're going to hate this, but it works!
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Persactly so. I think he is is completely right. As a child, Stephen Hawking asked me where I got my knowledge of black holes and I told him Doctor Who and Space: 1999. He told me to keep watching them. I think about that and having no prejudice about what inspires passionate curiosity a lot.
November 2, 2025 at 8:19 PM
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Well, they’re not petty any more.
Louvre jewellery heist carried out by petty criminals, Paris prosecutor says
The Paris prosecutor says four suspects arrested so far are "clearly local people", not organised crime professionals.
www.bbc.com
November 2, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Well, they’re not petty any more.