iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Mike Rampton @mikerampton.bsky.social · 20h

I am spending a book token on FRANKENSTEIN REX, out today, by the great @adamroberts.bsky.social. It answers the question "What if Frankenstein's monster were king of the world?" and I'm predicting there's at least one month-ruining pun (that'll have you in stitches, etc) in there, because it's him.

The cover of FRANKENSTEIN REX by Adam Roberts

143 0

Reposted by Mike Rampton

Joel @itsjoels.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

What’s your favourite meme? This one does it for me.

It’s the Slipknot one. A regular looking gentleman is in the middle talking to one of Slipknot to his left. Another one of Slipknot has a mask on that makes him look sad. The normal looking guy has “my mum talking for twenty minutes” written in front of him. The regular Slipknot has “some person we bumped into at the shops” written in front of them. The sad one has “me” written in front of them.

1314226 0

Mike Rampton @mikerampton.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

"I am making a list of species based on whether or not it has penis bones." "It's got baculae?" "Where? I loved him in Quantum Leap!"

000 0

Reposted by Mike Rampton

Morgan Johnson @poormojo.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

No joke. I think this is the most important video I have ever seen about mobile games. This guy breaks down how this game psychologically profiles you, and makes the game harder or easier in order to show you ads

185142945832 1

Mike Rampton @mikerampton.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

By Grabthar's hammer, what a good joke this nearly was

000 0

Mike Rampton @mikerampton.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

"There's no reason we shouldn't spend the day doing Alan Rickman impressions, is there?" "BECAUSE IT'S DULL, YOU TWIT" "Okay, it was just an idea, etc

100 0

Mike Rampton @mikerampton.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

The ante-ante-antepenultimate issue of my excellent but strikingly under-read monthly newsletter is out. interestingskull.beehiiv.com/p/quite-diff...

interestingskull.beehiiv.com

Quite difficult peelers

And some good jokes, including bilingual fun in video form!

000 0

Mike Rampton @mikerampton.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I made a Hollywood-quality film on location in (mostly) France. I am available, always, for work.

010 0

Mike Rampton @mikerampton.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Two of my books are on Spotify in audio form. I think this means I am a pop star now. open.spotify.com/author/7z4h5...

Reposted by Mike Rampton

Benjamin @benjaminschneider.ch · 01/10/2026

just came across this incredible picture of Terry Pratchett

8467631582 0

Mike Rampton @mikerampton.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

"I ate a bunch of durum wheat, and then I did a poo." "Freekeh?" "No, I don't think doing a poo after eating is at all unusual."

020 0

Mike Rampton @mikerampton.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

A friend was wearing a blue and white striped top and a beret, had a string of onions around his neck and carried souvenirs from the Basilica of Notre-Dame de Fourvière. “Why are you dressed like that?” I said. "I've been to Lyon, see?” he said. "I don't understand," I said. "That's in Essex.”

140 0

Mike Rampton @mikerampton.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I've been chatting to a body piercer. He says he knows how to make a penis weight, but he won't tell me until tomorrow.

091 0

Mike Rampton @mikerampton.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

"There are certain shades of beige which have become the global norm for working with nuclear material." "ISO taupes?" "Those are something to do with nuclear material, yes."

050 0

Mike Rampton @mikerampton.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

It's a great joke, I enjoyed it. I watched the Athens vs Crete football match with one of his friends actually.

000 0

Reposted by Mike Rampton

ceej @ceej.online · 30/10/2024

Apple Computer? From Richard Scarry’s Busytown?

754661 0

Mike Rampton @mikerampton.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

"My Lord, I am upset about a lady. Prithee, I hath spent the afternoon crying in a skip." "Dumpster?" "No, alas, she dumpst me. We only dateth briefly, but I gotteth overexcited I supposeth."

030 0

Mike Rampton @mikerampton.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

No, I can't see a poem with them in being successful

010 0

Mike Rampton @mikerampton.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

If you change one bird to a grebe you get a half-rhyme, but a grebe is a mad-looking bird and suggests one of his daughters is going through a goth phase.

100 0

Mike Rampton @mikerampton.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I don't mind this Test joke, but at the same time, it's just not cricket.

020 0

Mike Rampton @mikerampton.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

"I reckon you're too thick to know the word for a metrical foot used in poetry." "Iamb?" "Yes you are."

020 0

Mike Rampton @mikerampton.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Amazing! Enormous congratulations. I read about Buffy's Swearing Keyboard in Kerrang I think - I'm guessong Octoberish of that year - and then wee-weed thousands of hours away on nonsense.

071 0

Mike Rampton @mikerampton.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

There is an incredible idea in this which is free to anyone who can do anything with it. Millions await! interestingskull.beehiiv.com/p/poor-perfo...

interestingskull.beehiiv.com

Poor performance

A Hollywood-ready idea and some whoppin' laughs

001 0

Mike Rampton @mikerampton.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

My really good monthly newsletter goes out tomorrow. It only has a paltry 80 subscribers despite this being issue 45. That is really, really rubbish! Wow! That's depressing! It's a shame because the newsletter is extraordinarily funny and excellent. interestingskull.beehiiv.com

interestingskull.beehiiv.com

Home | Interesting Skull

Jokes and freelancing insights (mainly jokes) from author and journalist Mike Rampton

000 0

Mike Rampton @mikerampton.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

"I'm taking my sister's kid to the south of France." "Nice?" "No, nephew. We're going to stay in an unimaginably fancy house there." "Toulouse?" "Even fancier than that. Three! Might celebrate with a drink." "Cannes?" "No, a bottle of wine I reckon." etc

050 0

Reposted by Mike Rampton

Roland Pierik @roleo.eurosky.social · 08/09/2026

The number of cases of cervical cancer reported in Scotland among women given the HPV vaccine at 12-13 years of age is now zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. www.bbc.com/news/article...

bbc.com

No cervical cancer cases in fully HPV-vaccinated women in Scotland

A study published by Public Health Scotland finds that the HPV vaccine is "highly effective".

6461332286 0

Mike Rampton @mikerampton.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

"I am the famous tough-guy actor Mr Marvin. I fancy doing a bunch of drugs shaped like a piece of clothing, here in a village in Bedfordshire, near Wrestlingworth." "Cockayne Hatley?" "I'd love one, thanks. I'll have that here in Tadlow. Lovely."

000 0

Mike Rampton @mikerampton.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

"I thought about a celebrated vaudeville-adjacent comedian while at Glastonbury." "W.C. Fields?" "No, I was near the Pyramid Stage as I thought about Fatty Arbuckle."

010 0

Mike Rampton @mikerampton.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

The audiobook of the very cool STEM-tastic book I wrote with the University of Cambridge, There's No Such Thing As A Silly Question, is out today, read by proper actors with good voices. Get it wherever you get your audiobooks! It's good stuff!

The cover of University of Cambridge: There's No Such Thing As A Silly Question in audio form, showing a boy asking a huge speech bubble filled with fun illustrations of animals, volcanoes, planets, fossils, cheese and more. Written by Mike Rampton, illustrated by Guilherme Karsten, read by Dhruv Ravi and Louiza Patikas, except Louiza's name is misspelled (which I've just spotted and sent an email about).

031 0

Mike Rampton @mikerampton.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

The summer's run away from me. Here is a two-week-late version of my strikingly under-read monthly newsletter. Please subscribe to it. interestingskull.beehiiv.com/p/carly-rae-...

interestingskull.beehiiv.com

Carly Rae Doneaplop, that's a very low jink

What month is it? Oh dear oh dear oh dear

010 0

Mike Rampton @mikerampton.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

"One of the Traveling Wilburys stole part of my drum kit, so I am planning to punch him." "Floor tom?" "No, I'm going to deck Roy Orbison for nicking my snare."

020 0

Mike Rampton @mikerampton.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Thanks. I've been working really hard recently and feel like my material is suffering.

000 0

Mike Rampton @mikerampton.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

"I'm reading a book by a notoriously cruel man, then going to see my favourite soul singer in a special French tent made for and named after her." "Marquee de Sade?" "No, after reading Niccolo Machiavelli's The Prince I'm off to Le Big Top Du Anita Baker."

000 0

Mike Rampton @mikerampton.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

I asked David Bowie to describe where I should look to find Czechoslovakia on a map produced in the 1920s. He said: Actually, work the punchline to this out yourself, it'll be more rewarding that way.

000 0

Mike Rampton @mikerampton.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

That's incredible. Enormously well done to him!

110 0

Mike Rampton @mikerampton.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

I'm told this joke is challenging. No. It's easy. Speaker 1 had the impression the people he met on his trip were very frank. Speaker 2 wondered if Brno, in the south of Czechia, was the place he'd visited. Speaker 1 recalled the boxer Frank Bruno's "Know what I mean?" catchphrase. It's hilarious.

010 0

Mike Rampton @mikerampton.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

"People in the Czech city I visited seemed very forthright. Know what I mean?" "Frank Brno impression?" "No, I was just using the phrase 'know what I mean?' in enquiry as to whether you knew what I meant about my experiences with the outspoken, brazen people of Ostrava."

101 0

Reposted by Mike Rampton

Adam Roberts @adamroberts.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

"We were playing a game with our kids when my wife told me that the eighteenth-century's greatest composer actually followed an Indian religion!" "Haydn? Sikh?" "An unusual occasion to discover that Mozart was Hindu, yes."

0193 0

Mike Rampton @mikerampton.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

“I saw an Olympic shot-putter in the airport earlier.” “Heathrow?” “No, he carried his suitcases in a way that demonstrated his strength though.”

120 0

Mike Rampton @mikerampton.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

This also, maddeningly, stops the useful thing it's had for years of sorting emails into promotions, updates etc. Absolutely infuriating.

000 0

Reposted by Mike Rampton

Adam Christopher @adamchristopher.me · 06/08/2026

People wanting a free, and AI-free, alternative to Google Docs for writing (because holy moly you should NOT be using Google Docs for anything), go to Ellipsus: ellipsus.com

ellipsus.com

Ellipsus | Collaborative writing software

Write, edit, and collaborate on any device. Ellipsus is a principled alternative to Google Docs—built for writers, by writers. Sign up for free.

19044 0

Mike Rampton @mikerampton.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

I don't like to boast about my glamorous lifestyle, but I'm about to have an endoscopy.

110 0

Mike Rampton @mikerampton.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

I'm self-conscious about my emetophobia. I hate when people bring it up. I SAID, I HATE WHEN

110 0

Mike Rampton @mikerampton.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

It's all contextual. Gulf by Robert Westall has "shit" in it, but even though I was at the age where I'd take great delight in the scandal of that, it wasn't fun or funny, it was at a really upsetting moment that "poo" would have seemed ridiculous in.

000 0

Mike Rampton @mikerampton.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

I can't think of any more. I'm metally deficient.

000 0