A Christmas cartoon from my new book of science cartoons PHYSICS FOR CATS. In good bookshops and online now: www.tomgauld.com/comic-books-v2

"So I guess we'll tell them you had nobody to go with!" "Just drive, Dave." "Sometimes you're just no fun, Tommy." "You gotta stop calling me that, Dave. I'm a fucking saint." "Not with a mouth like that you ain't, Tommy."

Anyone telling you their way is the best/only way to do something, especially in a creative pursuit, is lying to you. Take inspiration. Take heed. Digest what they did. But in the end, don’t forget to follow your own path. If everyone’s trying to be the same as everyone else, we all lose.

Well done ebay. Your jump to AI mania has produced descriptions which manage to spend two paragraphs telling us nothing useful about the item for sale, such as whether it works...

After I woke Lara up by whispering "pusskat" a few times, she demanded fuss

Let’s switch off the light to bring back the night. #StargazersUnite #LightPollutionAwareness #SaveTheNight #DarkSky

M will not keep still for long enough for a decent photo, so here's a blurry chirpy tabby who keeps coming for cheek and shoulder rubs.

Can we have a simple blocklist for anthrophobic edgelords?

Check Engine xkcd.com/3096/

what’s that shining in the sky? it’s jupiter. the big boy of the solar system who protects us from asteroids

A bird in my garden is now mimicking the "pip-boop" noise the postie's parcel scanner makes!

As everyone is remembering the auroral display from a year ago, some stills from a timelapse I took then. From my garden with town light pollution to the north, yet still amazing.

Spectral colors of meteors based on elemental composition

Have a bit of Welsh coastline for a sunny Friday #aberystwyth

Lego absolutely nailed that late 80s early 90s aesthetic. 1990 Control Center 1 (front) and 1994 Serial Interface. The 9v train controller of the same era shares this styling too. See Alt text for tech details

Wir fahr'n fahr'n fahr'n auf der Autobahn... #lego #kraftwerk

Sorting through a job lot of Lego from ebay and came across this flag. Whoever put the sticker on back in the '70s knew what was coming...

Lara has found sunlight.

Secondly the lower half of Orion. That purple fuzz left of centre is part of M42, the Orion Nebula.

A couple of quick photos from my horribly light-polluted front garden. First the Pleiades and the Moon

Waiting for news of a random 40k player being added to "that" groupchat, and suggesting better tactics than those being discussed. "NO! I tried that in a match last week and my Guards got wiped out by 'nids, you need more artillery and a couple of Knights".

This cat is not normally a lap cat. I think she's trying to claim ownership of a human from the other two.

This is a very odd case. BBC laying it on thick about how remote the area is though. For the record, half of the West Midlands seems to be up there during school holidays or summer weekends! The valley sees regular traffic year round, it's home and workplace for a good number.

Rotary Tool xkcd.com/3047

Organisations which say "can't" when they mean "won't". Stop hiding behind weasel words and refusing to admit that you could, but you're not going to.

My headrest is purring