Jon Walls

The world's most notorious custard-pie thrower is dead. What an obituary. He got Bernard-Henri Lévy seven times.

Inevitably when @tomcalver.bsky.social writes “it’s tempting to blame youth” for lack of pride, the comments are all old folk whinging. Everything Tom points out as being good for UK (education, footballers, artists, NHS, BBC) is a right wing target. They’ll never admit the damage they’ve done.

My latest books cartoon for @theguardian.com

I try not to overdo this bit but ... my man is begging for it. Let's go.

When the washing machine triggers your oven tray to make some hot beats 🔥

This is a composite of the Moon, Mars, and Earth I made. The Moon and Earth are from Artemis II, and Mars is from the Psyche mission. Each image was taken *in the last six weeks*

This could be an entire genre. “It was a bad day at work, you deserve a vintage Bananarama t-shirt”

TIL! I would have got the names of the cast *completely* wrong.

Ironically the cranky tone of this piece is perfectly in keeping with a supposed age of 86. (I am childishly pleased to have been identified as in my 30s not my 50s but would no doubt join in the humbugging if it had been otherwise) www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Happy St Andrew’s Day fellow Scotch.

I know nothing about Dr Who, but, for Londoners, the phrase "Going For Dinner With Billie Piper" is the absolute best way to remember the order of the vertical streets running east to west in Soho (Greek, Frith, Dean, Wardour, Berwick, Poland) and has saved many a late night out

This insane person is deep in megalomania to point of questioning the Nuremberg trials. A deep resentment of paying taxes and being subject to rule of law. This is who the government wants in charge of our health care data, embedded into our governance. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

I don’t know about you, but I’m still sort of processing that the US president stood up in the UN and declared that London is about to be under Sharia law, and the response has been “actually, that won’t happen” rather than “Jesus, that is insane.”

Venn diagram

the ending of this explainer might surprise you

Can’t get more Simon Jenkins in @theguardian.com than admiring the aesthetics of Donald Trump. Gold encrusted Oval Office (and toilet seats), oversized tie, blatantly fake tan, heavily plastic-surgeoned female entourage, taste in underage girls, and McDonalds diet: a true eye for natural beauty.

Etymology of the day: spiders were once known as ‘attercops’, or ‘poison-heads’, because it was believed most spiders were venomous. The ‘cop’ element became the ‘cob’ in ‘cobweb’.

As I get older and I remember all of the people I lost along the way I think to myself, maybe a career as a tour guide wasn’t for me

Arranging for my tombstone to provide suggestions of similar humans you might like

They say genius is 1% inspiration, 99% perspiration. This smells like the most intelligent bus I've ever been on.

Middle age: walking round my birth city muttering ‘well, they’ve changed all this’ any time I see a bar that is called something different from what it was in 1988.

@aiannucci.bsky.social introduces us to the word “fissiparous”. Could Trump, Musk, Farage, Badenoch all be said to be indulging in one huge, elongated “fissi fit”?

Walking along the banks of the Thames and I've just stumbled on the opening and closing shot of an unwritten rockumentary.

Important thread on language! How we instinctively do understand types and degrees of behaviour. Off the cuff theory: politics is learning that you have to vote for prats and pricks, while hard right/left politics is supporting twats and cunts by denying any “mistakes” were ever deliberate.

Have just arrived in Glasgow on Avanti West Coast. Smooth journey. But not in the station, no, we’re currently parked over the Clyde and “delayed”. It’s like they don’t want to arrive on time on principle.

Magnum Cart. The singular of Magna Carta.

Starmer didn’t bother to show up. Loser. “Hearing from the Labour party chair, Ellie Reeves, that “traditionally prime ministers don’t campaign in byelections” felt like just another way of falling back on weird conventions that no one normal has ever heard of” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

DEUT Black and white version of this view looking from Canary Wharf Docklands Light Railway station looking back at Heron Quays station. The vantage point is on board the Stratford DLR, shooting through the glass at the back of the train. #photography #railway

HI BLUESKY HERE IS A PHOTO I MADE

My latest @newscientist.com cartoon

when in rome

If Disney did a film about a pet rock, they’d still find a way to kill off one of the parents.

Making the biggest mistake of your life; call that a magnum oopus

Will the detective investigating your murder be sad?

Really happy with this photo of an orange-tip butterfly on a bluebell in our garden. One for the computer screen background. Had to lie down on the grass to get the best shot and got bitten by ants as a result 😆

This tickled me the other day. Peregrine Falcons have been nesting in tower of Glasgow University for years. They are known as Bonnie and Clyde and have staff cards! Probably lose them less often than l do. Think it was @GraemeK73 in the other place who brought this to my attention.

Biggest commitment to a 3 second joke I've ever seen

you can't spell "tariffs" without "FFS"

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Top notch news for a Friday arstechnica.com/science/2025...

I have tariffed the penguins that are on Heard Island and which you were probably assuming did not export goods forgive me they were taking advantage of us so cunning and so cold