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Manu Cornet
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Cartoonist; writer; feminist. Occasional attempts at being funny. Equally kind to CEOs and janitors. https://ma.nu
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goomics.net/231 (re-post)
A series of 100 portraits of women Google employees along with a summary of their main achievements. At the bottom, a label reads "Women in tech — Rocking Google since 1998."
October 23, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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Panel 1: Milo is sitting at his desk, using his laptop. Milo: "Oooh-kaaay, all documents saved. Aaaand File... Quit." A speech bubble from the computer replies. It shows a modal dialog box: "Are you sure you want to quit? [Stay][Leave]" Panel 2: Milo looks at the reader and grins. "Milo: some people bring their attachment issues to software development."
October 21, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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"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."
October 17, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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goomics.net/387
Panel 1: We see two trees, and a yellow hammock is set up between them. A man is lying down in the hammock. He says "Sometimes when I'm resting, I think about the countless people actively working to make things better, especially in software." Panel 2: We see the man in his hammock, slightly zoomed in. He has a happy expression and seems relaxed. He says "For example, every minute people are making changes that will improve the Linux software running on billions of devices." Panel 3: The man is still smiling and counting on his fingers. "The company that makes my wireless router is making it better protected from new attacks." "Developers of my favorite phone app are preparing a cool new version." Panel 4: The man rises up slightly from his lying down position and raises his index finger: "Oh, and don't forget the thousands of Google employees ensuring that every day their search results are getting slightly shittier."
August 29, 2025 at 8:32 PM
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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."
August 26, 2025 at 10:45 PM
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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."
July 18, 2025 at 1:55 PM
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A photo montage with 9 faces: Akayesu, Hitler, Karadzic, Milosevic, Mladic, Netanyahu, Pinochet, Pot, Putin.
July 18, 2025 at 3:34 AM
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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.
July 17, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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"0 days since they've ever seen anything like it"
July 10, 2025 at 12:58 AM
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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!
July 2, 2025 at 8:59 AM
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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.
June 12, 2025 at 12:40 AM
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goomics.net/385
Panel 1: An old Google logo, a blue G and "Don't be evil". Panel 2: A slightly newer Google logo, a white "g" on a blue background and "Don't be evil". Panel 3: A recent Google logo, a multicolored G and "Do the right thing". Panel 4: The newest Google logo, a multicolored G but with blurry color boundaries. The "Do the right thing" label is also blurred and unreadable.
May 27, 2025 at 8:53 PM
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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.
May 27, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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Reported.
May 24, 2025 at 4:00 AM
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bonkersworld.net/neo-deportat...
The cartoon shows Benjamin Netanyahu in his usual suit, looking at the reader. He says: "We need to speed up the evacuation of Gaza. So we're going to use some trains. We got a bunch of old ones for cheap that Germany didn't want."
May 19, 2025 at 7:13 PM
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Looks good to me.
A fabricated screenshot showing how Amazon could show the impact of tariffs.
April 29, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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Re-run from 2022 :-)
The cartoon shows Elon Musk juggling with three large spheres. One contains dollar bills, another contains a crowd of small blue birds, the last one is the Earth. Musk says "So much fun!".
April 26, 2025 at 10:54 PM
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Image courtesy of www.instagram.com/dav_le_dessi...
An artist "starter pack". It contains a pencil and some blank paper, and has mentions like "So easy!!", "ages: 2 and way up", and "eraser not included because you don't need it to start!" as well as a "AI forbidden" logo.
April 21, 2025 at 1:41 AM
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goomics.net/384
Panel 1: Sergey Brin, wearing a blue t-shirt, says: "Folks, I know the last few years have been hard. The 60- and 80-hour work weeks have been taxing. People's health were affected, families were damaged, marriages were broken." In a smaller font: "At least, mine was." Panel 2: The same Sergey Brin raises his fist and says "But today, I am proud of your team. Today, we have something to make the world better. Something robust and durable." Panel 3: Sergey Brin again: "Today we have Google Stadia."
March 11, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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bonkersworld.net/trumping-peace
The drawing shows a portrait of Donald Trump on a green background, wearing his usual blue suit and red necktie, saying "Give me the Nobel peace prize or I nuke Sweden".
March 3, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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Freshly released podcast episode with an interview of yours truly :-) newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/the-man-be...
A screenshot of the video for this podcast.
February 28, 2025 at 11:19 PM
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twittoons.com/85
The cartoon shows a hand holding a letter and an opened envelope. The letter reads: "Dear Earthling, Within 48 hours, please produce concrete evidence of your existence's usefulness over the past week, or kindly use the enclosed. Regards." — a handgun is taped to the bottom half of the paper.
February 24, 2025 at 10:16 PM
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goomics.net/383
Panel 1: we see Sundar Pichai, Mark Zuckerberg, and Elon Musk, against a blue background. Pichai says "You mustn't regulate A.I.". Zuckerberg says "Give the technology a chance!". Musk says "For the good of Humanity". Panel 2: a guy with a big nose wearing a red shirt is typing in front of a computer screen, again a green background. He says "Y'all! A.I. is awesome!! I trained it to recognize all ads and automatically hide them!". Panel 3: we see Pichai, Zuckerberg, and Musk again. Pichai says "We have to regulate A.I.". Zuckerberg says "It might go too far and become evil". Musk says "For the good of humanity".
February 18, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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bonkersworld.net/hardcore-sam
The cartoon is a drawing of the "Uncle Sam" character pointing a finger at the reader and frowning. He is wearing a hat with the Tesla logo. In a speech bubble, he says "EXTREMELY HARDCORE or I don't want you."
February 5, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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Rinse and repeat. Back at Twitter in 2022:

twittoons.com/47
The cartoon shows a scene similar to "Matrix", with two hands being presented to the viewer. On the left, a blue pill labelled "fly away". On the right, a red pill labelled "burn out slaving away for a sociopathic clown". Off-screen, a speech bubble reads "Hmmm that's a tough one..."
February 5, 2025 at 4:00 PM