My latest cartoon for @newscientist.com p.s. my new book of science cartoons 'Physics for Cats' is out now. Visit www.tomgauld.com for details

I have not ordered take-out in 15 years. I cook everything. There is, however, a reason for that. I'm allergic to milk, so while I could order a pizza without cheese, I simply do not trust that the pizza place's work surfaces are free from cheese since they are adding it to everything else they make

It's another day doing data analysis with the Reuters Institute Digital News Report 2025 ... This is the base formula. It gets a lot more complicated fro here ;)

I have a smart home. Here is how it works: Hey Google, lights on ... Hey Google... Hey Goooogle ... Hi Google ... Hey Google ... lights on. Hey Google Lights on. Hey... Lights on... Hey Google. Lights on!!

I broke ChatGPT ... ;)

Well, that's the last time I will ever buy anything from EA.

Look, newspapers. You are supposed to tell me what the news is. This is not the news. This is you telling your audience that you are about to go to a meeting, during which something may happen for you to write about later.

Vienna 2025: The First Ever WORLD Tram Driver Championships www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qwrh...

Sherlock Holmes should have been a newspaper editor. “Crime is common. Logic is rare. Therefore it is upon the logic rather than upon the crime that you should dwell.” ~Sherlock Holmes

So Google will not longer let you even search for political ads on their platform in the EU Where has the archive of ads from the last 7 years gone?

1958...

If you don't respect your consumers/readers enough to commission or source real art on their behalf, why should they spend with you? I wouldn't go a restaurant if they just plonked a ready meal on the table

I don't see the point of that notification in any situation, considering that readers in the UK cannot do anything about it anyway (even if it did include an answer). This is information that has zero relevance as a news notification.

I came across the video below today about how Disney used to do extremely manipulative release cycles to maximize profits and protect their cinema release cycles: The History of Walt Disney Home Video and the Infamous Disney Vault www.youtube.com/watch?v=CE-C...

Just a casual reminder that generative AI has no idea what it's doing, nor does it understand anything.

Friday night movie snacks... 😋

How people using AI read books...

The very idea that yet another social channel (TikTok) will soon be in the hands of a US tech company makes my skin crawl.

Going back to read the classics again :)

I will never understand how the richest country in the world can have such basic problems. The US society is basically at a 'developing country' level compared to the rest of the western world.

Here in Denmark, the press has been writing many articles about the opposition to farmers putting up solar panels on their fields, and there is a general tone of "we don't want that because they are ugly" ...I would just like to remind you what fossil fuel looks like: www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLfZ...

Have you noticed how the newspapers goes from 'OMG OMG BREAKING NEWS! This is the worst thing ever, here are 14 articles about it" ... and then an hour later it's like it never happened and they have moved on to whatever the next random story is.

For f... sake newspapers: Stop focusing on speculation. It's literally your job as journalists to focus on the facts, not to promote people's speculations. You should never ask "what do you think it is?"

The new ‘Production Gap Report’ is out. Take a deep breath. productiongap.org/2025report/

Did you know that if you decided to watch every episode of M*A*S*H, it would take you 112 hours? ... I bought the full DVD set many years ago, and just out of curiosity, I decided to write a small python script that summed up the lenght of every episode: 112 hours 08 minutes 29 seconds.

True story...

nothing says "we care about your privacy" more than sharing your data with 222 partners

It's official. 40% of the British are nuts ;)

This has been Israel's plan all along ...

Newspaper: Temu is bad, and here are all our articles about why it's not safe to buy there. Also newspaper: (running advertising for Temu)

It's one of these days...

What the actual... I have had a lot of problems with flooding around my house because the drains kept overflowing, so today I had the professionals out to look at it, and it turns out that my internet company shot my fiber internet line directly through the main drain pipe, destroying it... 😯

British motorsport ;) (actually, it's pretty cool: www.youtube.com/watch?v=HmmY... )

UN inquiry finds top Israeli officials incited genocide in Gaza. These two paragraphs... every single Israeli should be utterly ashamed of what its government has become. www.reuters.com/world/middle...

Anyone need some rain? I have extra...

My latest cartoon for @newscientist.com p.s. this week I am on a USA/Canada tour with my new book. Details and preorder links at tomgauld.com

In my latest Baekdal/Plus newsletter, I calculate where the subscription ceiling is. It's both much higher and much lower than where most people think it is. www.baekdal.com/newsletter/w...

I cannot imagine anything less valuable than local newspaper writing astrology articles...

Coal power is showing signs of decline in China 🇨🇳 In the first half of 2025, coal power declined 55 TWh (-1.7%), as growth in solar and wind exceeded demand growth ☀️🍃 This is the first time China has ever seen prolonged falls in coal power outside of a major economic shock.

Bluesky isn’t perfect but at least its owner isn’t demanding violent insurrection in the UK from thousands of miles away

Okay, this is hopeless... I spent all day in the garden yesterday, and when I was finished, I had dinner, and then I fell asleep. That was around 8 PM. It's now 2:45 AM ... I have slept for 6 hours and 45 minutes, and now I can't sleep anymore.

Exactly this!

750 kg moved ... another 750 kg to go...

Do this... (no, seriously, just block it all!)

So what are you doing on a Saturday? Me? ... oh, you know, just shoveling 1.5 ton of stone...

Think about this for a second... If you are a newspaper editor, what is the journalistic justification for this massive difference in the levels of coverage?

Look, newspapers in Denmark. You are Danish newspapers. You are NOT a US newspaper. There is not a single thing anyone in Denmark that can do anything about this. You are completely and totally forgetting who you audience is! ... and you are doing this 'for clicks'. (front page translated)

Note to Danish newspapers: Stop this... there is not a single person in Denmark that knows who Charlie Kirk, nor is there any need for this level of coverage. This is utterly ridicules. We have Danish news sites that are running minute-by-minute live streams about it. No person in Denmark needs that

Seriously. Also today the Daily cites examples of rising instances of political violence and doesn’t even mention that not 3 months ago, Democratic state Rep Melissa Hortman and her husband were murdered inside their own home while Democratic state Sen John Hoffman and his wife were shot in theirs.