Rupert

A 34-year-old as a politician: My god he's like a baby. It's like they just elected an infant to be their mayor.

A 34-year-old as an athlete: You have to admire the bravery of him attempting that dunk, knowing full well the grim reaper is right behind him.

Remember, remember the fifth of November,
Cuthbert, Dibble, and Grubb

Fired after one day on the building site. My brick glue was ‘runny’ and ‘not called that’ and my wall icing ‘uneven’ and ‘not called that’.

Anyway, we need some joy, so here's the Egyptian foreign minister being given a Lego Pyramid by the Danish foreign minister.

London is a matter of taste, that's all. Have you noticed people talking a lot of shit about London lately?

I have, perhaps unwisely, written about London... ferguscraig.substack.com/p/london-is-...

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

Schéma de 3 cercles avec les points communs entre un professeur de philosophie, les Backstreet Boys et un enfant de 4 ans « dis-moi pourquoi) Source inconnue

Bonjourrrr

the Coldplay song Yellow is about cooking with turmeric

I like how you can use emojis to zoom in on a pig
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View of Delft, 1661. Sunlight splashes through soft clouds onto weathered hardness of brick & stone. Breathtaking. Vermeer, born OTD 1632.

Drawing of a sort of hemispherical blob with a face and lots of little legs.

They said I shouldn’t do it. They said there was no point.

But I’ve done it. I’ve proved them wrong.

I’ve reinvented the wheel and it’s FUCKING AWESOME

Sincere post: it is one of the greatest joys of my adult life to be able to see the magic of the holidays renewed through the eyes of a younger generation. Hunting for eggs on Easter, Trick or Treating on Halloween, hiding under the covers so the Night Turkey doesn't peck your penis off, Santa Claus

I heard there was a statue tall
That sneered at folk and commanded all
But you don't really care for symbols do ya
It goes like this the feet the fist
The head that fell the aim that missed
The long lost king whose name was Ozymandias
Ozymandias
Ozymandias
Ozymandias
Ozymaaaaandias

Once upon a desert sandy
As through winds the trav'ling man he
Spied the face of Ozymandy
Lying, simply lying there
Suddenly there was some writing
Pon the plinth that he was sighting
That the sand and time were blighting
Quoth the statue, "Now despair"

- What have you come as?

- A Werewolf.

- But… they're your normal clothes.

- It's not a full moon.

"You'll like this... not #axolotl, but you'll like it."
One of mine from the current Private Eye.

[repeating myself louder in the haunted house attraction] did the dracula throw water on anyone else’s pants??

When he says “hit it, Joe”, I don’t think first time viewers are going to be prepared for just how hard Joe hits it.

Reminds me very much of this

I’ve just been to the world’s worst planetarium.

One star.

having to give up the empty seat next to you on a packed train is the same vibe as equality feels like oppression when you're the privileged demographic

Truly incredible! Even some of the best acts on the show often have at least some hint of how they might be done, but this is really at another level. Just pure magic!

I think I've worked out the trick to this one - he is an actual wizard!

YouTube video by Laurent Piron Laurent Piron FOOLS Penn and Teller with FISM grand prix act « Paper Ball » S11E15

If, like me, you're a bit of a magic fan - and I'm sure some of you are - you've got to see Laurent Piron's jaw-dropping appearance on Fool Us. Good grief. It's like *actual* magic.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=DxAg...

Also, if you don't care about magic at all, still check it out. It's beautiful.

Flint pebble that fell out of a wall in Linton, Cambridgeshire and I picked up bc I thought it looked like the world's largest rodent. I added the eye with a fine liner pen

A photo of a mother and baby capybara nestling together affectionately

I found a capybara pebble🤎

hey guys sharing some tough personal news. i went to the doc a few days ago with chills spilling up my back and the tests came back today showing that the groove is in the heart now. they're recommending two separate procedures but i'm just doing the first, i couldn't ask for another.

painting of a giant anteater running in a floral forest

giant anteater