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a compass wouldn't help at all User #361,946
Drop something SKELETAL
08.10.2025 15:37 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0It's great, isn't it?! 😁
08.10.2025 15:08 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Cheers!
08.10.2025 14:52 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0Thanks 🙂
08.10.2025 13:13 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Verrry busy!
08.10.2025 11:07 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0"We used to ring up our GP and get an appointment on the same day," says Kemi Badenoch. She does not add: we're all looking for the guy who did this!
08.10.2025 10:29 — 👍 309 🔁 59 💬 20 📌 13Morning
08.10.2025 09:23 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
All I do is kiss you, through the bars of a rhyme
open.spotify.com/track/0PNt5W...
Wednesday
08.10.2025 07:17 — 👍 18 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0David is slightly unfair. There is a clear difference here.
Conservatives and Reform plan to forcibly expel large numbers of people who are legal, permanent residents of migrant origin. The BNP proposal is voluntary.
When you order a ventriloquist dummy from Temu.
07.10.2025 17:28 — 👍 87 🔁 12 💬 5 📌 0
Almost full moon as seen from my bedroom window just now
Waning gibbous 99.4%
#Selenophile
Came across this line, and feel *totally* seen:
'She tried to look picturesque but only succeeded in being untidy' 😳
07.10.2025 15:46 — 👍 7 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
Panel 1 A figure stands at a lectern "This image illustrates my theory that, presented with a sufficient quantity of intricate formulae, overcomplicated diagrams and impenetrable acronyms, an audience will agree with almost anything." The screen is completely packed with such things Panel 2,3,4,5. Four audience members say enthusiastically: "My thoughts exactly!", "Hear, hear!", "I quite agree!" and "Excellent point!"
My latest cartoon for @newscientist.com
p.s. My new book of science cartoons 'Physics for Cats' is out this week. Details at www.tomgauld.com
Er, yes, onerous!
07.10.2025 11:59 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Yep!
07.10.2025 11:52 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Fairly, I've a lot of reading to get through
07.10.2025 11:49 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Hi there, I'm fine thanks
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Tuesday
07.10.2025 07:43 — 👍 41 🔁 8 💬 2 📌 0
Picture of a paperback edition of A Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
This week's homework
#OscarWilde
#OU
#Books📚
#LivingMyBestLife💙
#Joy
By now most folks know that the most commonly map projection (Mercator) distorts the size of landmasses. The further away from the equator, the larger a country appears on the map. HT @geoallday
06.10.2025 15:22 — 👍 92 🔁 26 💬 4 📌 4Afternoon Swampy! 🙂💙👋🏼
06.10.2025 15:24 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0You're not really sorry, are you?! 😉
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Rectangular stained glass artwork featuring four grouped blue blossoms on long stems surrounded by a border in blue with thick black led lines creating rectangles
Deborah Lowe, Contemporary stained glass artist, UK #WomensArt
06.10.2025 11:34 — 👍 572 🔁 94 💬 0 📌 5
A text from my mum. The general population appear to be losing their minds
06.10.2025 10:39 — 👍 870 🔁 231 💬 56 📌 49
Title: One door leads to freedom, the others to certain death. You may ask one question. Image: Three guards with shields and speard stand in front of three doors. One guard sits at a folding table working at a typewriter, his shield and spear leaning against the wall. Caption: One guard always tells the truth, one always tells lies, and the third always tells an entrancing story that blends reportage with imagination in an attempt to reach a deeper authenticity by moving beyond the narrow categories of fact and fiction.
A riddle for @theguardian.com books page.
p.s. My new book 'Physics for Cats' is out this week in bookshops and online. Details at www.tomgauld.com
KITCHENWARE COMPANY BOSS: So, did you come up with a name for that revolving food tray, Susan?
SUSAN: No, couldn't be arsed.
