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Japan's "Mundane Halloween" costume contest is back!

Each year website DailyPortalZ holds a contest where people dress up as something super duper ordinary.

Here's a thread of some of my favorites from the 2025 contest!

#MundaneHalloween

the video being projected behind all the performers on stage

lmao david byrne showed the video of the ice agents tripping over themselves while trying to run after a biker on wacker drive during the “life during wartime” segment of his chicago show tonight

tbh you could levee the main criticism towards the fate of ophelia (muddled central comparison that leaves you wondering if she even knows what shes talking about) to the next song on the album, Elizabeth taylor. i dont think anyone does tho bc its such a forgettable track

i mean there was the texas chainsaw massacre match right

can you imagine just sitting down to plan this and not feeling any shame or hesitation. seeing jane goodall on the tv as you’re doing it and how her thing was gorillas and yours is getting ready to deport a guy who’s been wrongly imprisoned since reagan’s first term

On the Gaza flotilla live stream, one by one, boats are intercepted by IDF & blasted with water cannons until comms are jammed & the feed for each boat goes down.

Israel is illegally kidnapping civilians on international waters, & they're preventing the world from witnessing.

Ezra Klein: Charlie Kirk Was Practicing Politics the Right Way

You can dislike much of what Kirk believed and the following statement is still true: Kirk was practicing politics in exactly the right way. He was showing up to campuses and talking with anyone who would talk to him. He was one of the era’s most effective practitioners of persuasion. When the left thought its hold on the hearts and minds of college students was nearly absolute, Kirk showed up again and again to break it. Slowly, then all at once, he did. College-age voters shifted sharply right in the 2024 election. That was not all Kirk’s doing, but he was central in laying the groundwork for it. I did not know Kirk and I am not the right person to eulogize him. But I envied what he built. A taste for disagreement is a virtue in a democracy. Liberalism could use more of his moxie and fearlessness. In the inaugural episode of his podcast, Gov. Gavin Newsom of California hosted Kirk, admitting that his son was a huge fan. What a testament to Kirk’s project.

There are many reasons why political violence should be rejected with few exceptions that don't apply here. There's principle — the pre-political worth of a human being — but if that doesn't grab you, there's also the spectacle of your political opponents being canonized as saints.

counterpoint: these exact same losers say the exact same thing every time anybody talks back or puts a girl in a video game or whatever so i don't think the liberal urge to performatively flinch at the canned backlash is a useful reflex in 2025

Charlie Kirk shot at Utah event

Charlie Kirk has reportedly been shot at an event in Utah:

www.deseret.com/utah/2025/09...

no matter your politics it’s disrespectful to joke about someone’s death. don’t say rudy giuliani died from driving his car into a wall painted to look like a tunnel and all his clothes flew off in the crash and then a sixteen wheeler semi truck ran over his dick and balls. don’t say stuff like that

found this in my screenshots gallery about game remakes last night and I think its a bit relevant

They Became Symbols for Gazan Starvation. But All 12 Suffer from Other Health Problems. A Free Press investigation found that the viral photos lacked important context: The subjects have cystic fibrosis, rickets, or other serious ailments. By Olivia Reingold and Tanya Lukyanova 08.17.25 -Israel and Antisemitism

I’m kind of speechless with this one. I can’t imagine the kind of person who continues to make the argument that it doesn’t count as real starvation if the kids were already sick.

“It felt like I was looking into the face of somebody who had just been tortured,” says Rev. Elizabeth Diop.

More: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

apparently the gunns were gonna be apart of it, but colten got injured. so i think theyre actively rearranging some things to account for it

YouTube video by Jacob Geller Fantasies of Nuremberg

“The Earth does not cry out for vengeance. The Earth just cries”

youtu.be/n9Ay5tzHIBU?...

can we get to 300 they/thems is yhe question

how the hell does she have new york times editorial brain

ethan klein posted his approval of this, which is as good summation as any of all my deep deep problems with this

bad news for Mamdani: i just imagined him shooting at my feet with two revolvers while shouting "dance! dance, ya varmint, dance!!" and then cackling so maniacally that his cowboy hat falls off. When will he go on TV to apologize for doing this

ive been listening to “you must remember this” and i rly love it but the host does this voice so much lol

Here is Mahmoud, addressing the media outside.

STREET FIGHTER 6 REVEAL

I LOVE KENNY OMEGA.

happy pride month, i would show you a pic of a rainbow of flower blooms but some asshole rabbit chomped them all down in one night so now i dont know what to do. will the bee balm come back? should i eat the rabbit? are all of lifes pursuits in vain?