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onthedrift

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Lollllllsob

#writing #TomGauld #GirlHelp

Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 1d

Author Simulator. My latest books cartoon for @theguardian.com

Title: Author Simulator

Level 1: Get to desk and begin! (Platform video game-style image of an author jumping from a block onto a cloud with desk and computer) Result: success!

Level 2: Press on despite distractions! (Author typing as the desk/clod moves past a ghost and a spider) ) Result: success!

Level 3: Deliver manuscript to editor! (Author jumping over fire pit onto platform where editor waits) Result: success!

Level 4: Accept minor criticism! (Author lying ded in fronto of editors desk) Result: better luck next time!

Along the bottom are controls for:
Left right jump crouch read write nap coffee

September 27, 2026 at 11:42 PM

The Ghost Monk

@theghostmonk.bsky.social

For @greatdetective.bsky.social
#Poirot #AgathaChristie #tomgauld

Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 17d

My latest books cartoon for @theguardian.com

Hercule Poirot dressed all in black speaks to Captain Hastings in a grand hallway “Please ask the suspects to gather in the library, Hastings: I wish to reveal that our births are random, our lives meaningless, and our deaths absurd.”

Caption “Having investigated so many awful murders over the years, it was perhaps unsurprising that Hercule Poirot turned to Existentialism”

p.s. Poirot had presumably been reading a lot of Sartre recently…

"It is meaningless that we live and it is meaningless that we die," Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness (L'Être et le Néant)

“Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.” Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea (La Nausée)

September 21, 2026 at 2:34 PM

Judey Kalchik

@judeykalchik.threads.net.ap.brid.gy

#book threads

RE: https://www.threads.com/@tomgauld/post/DcsuG1PjAb-

Tom Gauld (@tomgauld) on Threads

My latest books cartoon for the @guardian

www.threads.com

August 31, 2026 at 11:10 AM

Thomas Fricke (he/his)

@thomasfricke.23.social.ap.brid.gy

AI slop has started to infect scientific books

Springer Nature to start issuing expressions of concern for books – Retraction Watch

https://retractionwatch.com/2026/06/22/springer-nature-to-start-issuing-expressions-of-concern-for-books/

#ai #aislop #science #scientificliterature @tomgauld […]

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August 27, 2026 at 7:10 AM

bjkeefe

@bjkeefe.bsky.social

Looks fine now. Did it really get sorted out that quickly? (I assume you mean this feed: x.com/tomgauld)

Tom Gauld (@tomgauld) on X

Cartoonist and Illustrator. My book of science cartoons, PHYSICS FOR CATS, is available now!

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August 18, 2026 at 7:35 PM

Tom Gauld

@tomgauld.bsky.social

It seems like my X/twitter account has been hacked. Please ignore any posts or messages from @tomgauld while I try to sort it out.

August 18, 2026 at 6:52 PM

lronlacy.bsky.social

@lronlacy.bsky.social

#OTD in 2018
‘On the Beach’
Cover of The New Yorker, 6 August 2016
Tom Gauld
#TheNewYorkerCover #TomGauld
🙏 Maria Alves x.com@DEOLINDAMA93701, Aug 6, 2026

August 6, 2026 at 3:15 PM

Rede de Bibliotecas Municipais da Coruña

@bibcoruna.bsky.social

Pssssss, atreveste a compartir con que título experimentaches unha auténtica "buchverlusterleichterung"? Veñaaaaa que hai moitos libros por ler e sempre veñen ben as axudas para non perder o tempo ;)

*viñeta de Tom Gauld @tomgauld

#humorbibliotecario #librosquenonler

July 28, 2026 at 12:24 PM

BornToBeBlueUnderABadSign

@borntobeblueunderabadsign.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy

https://bsky.app/profile/newscientist.com/post/3mqxpq5acqj2

New Scientist @newscientist.com · Jul 19

Tom Gauld's weekly cartoon

Tom Gauld on immersive bat research | New Scientist

Tom Gauld's weekly cartoon

www.newscientist.com

July 21, 2026 at 7:23 AM

Simon Kuestenmacher

@simongerman600.bsky.social

Wonderful cartoon by @tomgauld describes my bookshelf pretty accurately. Give him a follow if you enjoy books or science. Also buy his stuff and find out which category his books will be in your library!

July 5, 2026 at 5:27 PM

Anne Fuller (Sʼaachtlʼéiḵ)

@scoterd.alaskan.social.ap.brid.gy

Grateful for #tomgauld, an erudite cartoonist (and for the IRL scientist who share this with me) #newscientist #grammar #humor

by Tom Gauld for New Scientist this chart is called
SOME GRAMMATICAL VOICES FOR USE IN SCIENTIFIC WRITING
ACTIVE VOICE
Our team collected samples and then we tested them.
PASSIVE VOICE
Samples ere collected and tested.
PASSIVE-AGGRESSIVE VOICE
We did all the collecting and testing. No need to thank us. Just doing our job.
CLICKBAIT VOICE
We collected some samples...You won't believe what happened next!
HAIKU VOICE
Quiet science lab.
Workers arrive with samples.
The testing begins.
CONSPIRACY VOICE
Mysterious “samples” were harvested and covertly “tested” by
so-called scientists.

July 3, 2026 at 12:58 AM

Simon Kuestenmacher

@simongerman600.bsky.social

I have to think of this cartoon by @tomgauld often when I read online comments regarding articles. Pretty sure RHPAC is the most common type of online comment…

June 27, 2026 at 12:30 AM

Martin's Lunch Bag

@martinlunchbag.bsky.social

17/06/2026
#TomGauld
#EdwardGorey

June 17, 2026 at 1:57 PM

Mick Lynch's Fan Club

@moreutterpiffle.bsky.social

This awesome cartoon from the ever marvelous #TomGauld reminded me to let you guys know about this excellent documentary, #FireOfLove

June 11, 2026 at 6:44 PM

Drawn & Quarterly

@dandq.bsky.social

What's the most laughable book this year? Why Physics for Cats by @tomgauld of course. Vote for it in the best humor publication category of the Eisner Awards now!