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My latest cartoon for New Scientist.

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My latest cartoon for New Scientist.

Many more here: www.newscientist.com/author/tom-gauld/

Random writing thought: the best stories are often the ones that only you could have written — but…

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Random writing thought: the best stories are often the ones that only you could have written — but also the ones that you could only write at this one moment.

I couldn’t write All the Birds in the Sky from scratch now if I tried. But the me of 2013 couldn’t have written The Prodigal Mother either.

It all started with a mouse

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For the public domain, time stopped in 1998, when the Sonny Bono Copyright Act froze copyright expirations for 20 years. In 2019, time started again, with a massive crop of works from 1923 returning to the public domain, free for all to use and adapt:

https://web.law.duke.edu/cspd/publicdomainday/2019/

No one is better at conveying the power of the public domain than Jennifer Jenkins and James Boyle, who run the Duke Center for the Study of the Public Domain. For years l...

From the Variety article:

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“It all started with a mouse,” that’s what they like to say, over and over again, like it’s somehow impressive.  You know what else started with a mouse?  A hell of a lot of hantavirus, that’s what.  You have mice, you generally call an exterminator, that’s all I’m saying.  But it won’t do you a lot of good, because the mice will get in anyway.  Or get out. Can’t keep mice in cages forever.  That’s not what mice were made for.

Still, they tried like hell, didn’t they?  They chan...

Happy New Year!

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Happy New Year!

butyoutoldmeiwasfunny:

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I was thinking about this film out of the blue today! I worked on a live action adaptation of this…

roseillith:

MILLENNIUM ACTRESS (2001) dir. SATOSHI KON

I was thinking about this film out of the blue today! I worked on a live action adaptation of this back in the day.  Such a great film! 

One of the best books I’ve ever read.

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One of the best books I’ve ever read.

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One of the funniest things about enemies-to-lovers ships is how they’re almost always obsessed with…

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One of the funniest things about enemies-to-lovers ships is how they’re almost always obsessed with each other. Like if a character actively chooses to interact with another character over and over again instead of simply ignoring them? Throw darts at it all you want, but you still printed out a picture of them to hang on your wall

“Throw darts at it all you want, but you still printed out a picture of them to hang on your wall.” - This is a raw line.