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."

Episode 41 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!!"

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

Panel 1: two men are chatting. They are both wearing primary-colored clothes and sunglasses. One of them is smoking a cigar. Left guy: "8 years ago we refused to work with the military with project Maven. Today we have zero qualms. How do we rationalize that?"

Panel 2: right guy says "Oh." "That's a tough one."

Panel 3: right guy says "How about: demands from the military are now a lot more reasonable, and A.I. models a lot less capable?". Right guy: "Ok that oughta do it."

goomics.net/388

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

His highness the Vice President.

Panel 1: Sundar Pichai (Google CEO) and a female employee are discussing. Sundar: "In response to a recent petition, we hereby pledge NEVER to help the US military develop a weapons system...". Woman: "YAY!"

Panel 2: Sundar: "... that is autonomous and could fire without a human operator...". Woman: "Errrrr..."

Panel 3: Sundar: "... to kill American citizens...". Woman: "Ok, nevermind." (leaves). Sundar: "... more than once per second..."

Panel 4: Sundar (raising his index finger): "... unless they ask us REALLY nicely."

(Re-post) goomics.net/250

The cartoon has a single panel. An officer is seen from the back, extending both his arms on either side to separate a mother and her daughter, who are both crying. On the right-hand side, you can see prison cells with a United States flag. On the back of the officer's black body armor, you can read "Customs & Border Protection", and underneath: "Powered by Google" (colorful Google logo).

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

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.

bonkersworld.net/backfiring-r...

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."

bonkersworld.net/safer-streets

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...".

Panel #2: An artificial intelligence (rectangular black box) labelled "Grok" and bearing the Grok logo, appears and raises its hand saying "... I will now provide unsolicited answers to random threads." Milo says: "Okay scratch that."

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

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

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".

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

A woman is sitting on the floor of a tiny prison cell. Guarding the cell is a heavily armed guard, his body armor reads "ICE". On top of the drawing, two signs are pointing to each person. Each sign reads "Committed a crime", and "Convicted of a crime", with checkbox for each statement. For the woman, both checkboxes are empty. For the ICE guard, both checkboxes are ticked.

bonkersworld.net/inside-out

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..."

bonkersworld.net/golden-marking

The image is Manu's 2026 new year card. We see Manu seemingly swimming in mid-air, among the clouds. Four colored balloons read 'Manu Cornet', 'Wishes you', 'A lighter-than-air', '2026'. Also floating in the sky are Manu's daughter Sophie, on a snowboard, some cartoon pages and drawing tools, a book, a gaming controller, a bowl of noodles, a fictional representation of a carbon atom, a backpack, a bird, and a Zeppelin that reads 'This card is 100% A.I.-free'.

Happy 2026 😊

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

His highness the FBI director.

The s

bonkersworld.net/clear-sight

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?"

lmanul.github.io/null-pointer/

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

BS Buster — Kind Science YouTube video by BsBuster

I made a YouTube "short" 😁 But it's not about science. Well... It is... in a way.

www.youtube.com/shorts/jxQQD...

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."

goomics.net/231 (re-post)

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."

#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.

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."

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

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."

goomics.net/387

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."

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

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."

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!

A photo montage with 9 faces: Akayesu, Hitler, Karadzic, Milosevic, Mladic, Netanyahu, Pinochet, Pot, Putin.

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

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

"0 days since they've ever seen anything like it"

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