Every SUV has room for family. The new Jeep Grand Wagoneer has room to make a family.
That’s the central idea behind a new campaign for the 2026 edition of the Jeep SUV that stars Iliza Shlesinger, pitching that very idea to the Jeep marketing team.
To quote from a social media post put out by Sequoia Park Zoo in California, on October 18:
It was an eventful morning at Sequoia Park Zoo!
Staff conducting the Redwood Sky Walk daily inspection spotted a wild American black bear within the Zoo facility. Emergency procedures were implemented immediately, and the facility deployed a rapid response to assess and resolve the situation.
The wild bear did not appear aggressive and was observed interacting with [resident bears] Tule, Ishŭng, and Kunabulilh through their habitat fencing. At no point did the wild bear enter any animal habitats and, after a brief exploration of the enrichment items around the night house, the bear was safely coaxed back into the woods through a service gate.
Overall, he was a very polite visitor. He stayed on the boardwalk path, kept two feet on the ground and didn’t try to climb over the railings! (But seriously. When we say "wildlife welcome", this isn't exactly what we have in mind.
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Columbia Sportswear has come up with a limited-edition jacket that carries a cheekily worded ‘Last Will and Outerwear Testament’ stitched into the lining. Some excerpts:
This jacket, fleece-lined and suspiciously indestructible, has weathered more storms than I have made bad decisions. It's kept me warm through blizzards, sideways sleet, and one very poor choice involving night skiing. It's been my shield, my second skin, and once, my pillow in a poorly planned camping situation.
Now it's time for it to carry on without me.
To the new owner: may you wear it well, and continue to repel storms, carry your trail mix, and survive your bad decisions as it once did mine.
Please remember: the jacket is waterproof, but it's not idiot-proof. If you end up in a snowbank, that's on you.
As part of this solemn transfer, you must speak of my ski skills only in vague, heroic terms - "they had style" will suffice. This is not just outerwear. It's a legacy. It's weathered storms, witnessed wipeouts, and survived après-ski decisions that should've been fatal. Treat it with the reverence it absolutely demands.
Do not dry clean. Do not dishonor me.
As explained in this BBC report:
A woman with Parkinson's disease who played a clarinet while undergoing brain stimulation said she was "delighted" with how it went.
Denise Bacon, 65, from Crowborough in East Sussex, experienced instant improvement in her finger movements as the electrical current was delivered to her brain, doctors at King's College Hospital said.
The retired speech and language therapist underwent deep brain stimulation (DBS) after suffering symptoms of Parkinson's.
She was diagnosed with the disease in 2014 and it has affected her ability to walk, swim, dance and play her clarinet.
During a four-hour operation at King's College Hospital, Keyoumars Ashkan, a professor of neurosurgery, performed DBS to help relieve symptoms while Ms Bacon stayed awake.
DBS is a surgical procedure using electrodes implanted in the brain and is suitable for some patients with disorders such as Parkinson's.
Ms Bacon was given a local anaesthetic to numb her scalp and skull and had immediate improvement in her fingers on the operating table, allowing her to play the clarinet easily.
From South Korea: a woman who tried to kill a cockroach using a lighter and aerosol spray — a technique she said she learned from YouTube — started a fire that led to the death of one other woman who lived in her building. As reported by the BBC:
One of the woman's neighbours died after falling to the ground in a failed attempt to escape through a window.
The woman, who is in her 20s, told police that she tried to torch the cockroach with a lighter and a flammable spray, adding that she had used the method before. But on Monday, items in her home caught fire.
The building houses commercial shops on its first floor and 32 residential units from its second to fifth floor.
Eight other residents suffered from smoke inhalation because of the fire.
Blasting cockroaches - with blowtorches or homemade flamethrowers - has emerged as a novel way of getting rid of house pests, made popular by videos on social media.
I’ll let the press release from Kohler explain:
Kohler Co. today announced the launch of Kohler Health, a bold new venture redefining the future of digital health and wellness.
At the center of this launch is Dekoda, Kohler Health's first breakthrough product. This modern, innovative product attaches effortlessly to the toilet bowl, blending unobtrusively into any bathroom. Powered by advanced optical sensors and validated machine-learning algorithms, Dekoda delivers valuable insights into your health and wellness. Data flows to the personalized Kohler Health app, giving users continuous, private awareness of key health and wellness indicators—right on their phone. Features like fingerprint authentication and end-to-end encryption are designed for user privacy and security.
Dekoda is designed to integrate effortlessly into daily life. It decodes hydration, gut health, and the detection of blood in the toilet bowl discreetly and without disruption. By establishing personal baselines and tracking trends over time, it empowers individuals to make data-driven decisions and build healthier habits.
Availability: Dekoda retails for $599 and is available now for pre-order at www.kohlerhealth.com, shipping to customers starting October 21, 2025.
Here’s one particularly quoteworthy line:
By turning the bathroom into a connected, data-informed health and wellness hub, Kohler Health empowers individuals to turn ordinary routines into proactive, personalized experiences.
Also worth noting is this clarification on the product website:
Dekoda’s sensors see down into your toilet and nowhere else.
Lastly, here’s a quoteworthy passage from one review:
Kohler must have been straining to find appropriate lifestyle photos to include with the publicity materials, because a lot of the images are hilarious images of fit-looking men and women drinking water and staring off into space contemplatively. Probably thinking about gas.
To quote from a report out of Spain:
Linked to witchcraft and the occult, the City Council of Terrassa in Barcelona has issued a rather curious municipal order to prevent macabre rituals.
From October 1st until November 1st, residents of Terrassa are prohibited from adopting black cats from animal shelters. This is a preventive measure. The council has enacted this ban following recommendations from animal shelters and protection agencies. Although there have been no formal complaints of sacrifices or macabre mistreatment, there has been a noticeable increase in requests for black cats around Halloween in recent years.
A pro-nuclear energy coalition is promoting their cause via skincare treatment. To quote one of the creative minds behind the campaign:
Nuclear facials, as absurd as they might sound now, help people connect the dots between their skin health and clean nuclear energy.
This is what one reviewer had to say:
Wherever you stand on nuclear energy, there’s no denying it’s one of those ‘wait - what?!’ ideas that gets bonus points for audacity -- and in this skincare obsessed age, you can’t go too far wrong by appealing to our vanity.
To quote from the product description on the website of shapewear brand, Skims:
Our most daring panty yet. Hand-made in a super sheer, stretch mesh, this string thong features a mix of curly and straight faux hair in twelve different shade variations. Complete with elastic side straps. Fits true to size.
And these are some excerpts from the NY Post report of the launch:
Kim Kardashian doesn’t beat around the bush — she slaps a price tag on it.
As pop culture’s premier provocateur, the Skims bigwig, 44, is now peddling panties spangled with synthetic pubic hair in a variety of colors, lengths and textures.
And the fuzzy, buzzy undies — officially the Ultimate Bush micro string thong — have sent the fur flying online.
Critics of the controversial underclothes have threatened Kim K with fashion jail time due to their startling look, while fans of the $32 underpants — which have already sold out since debuting Tuesday — hail her a marketing “genius.”
It’s the era of lady-crotch commodification.
As style savants like Doja Cat and Julia Fox lead the charge in bringing back the “full bush” — showcasing their downstairs hairs on red carpets and runways, prompting everyday women to follow suit in their bikini bathing suits — it only makes sense for Kardashian to make dollars off of the craze.
From Brazil: Kraft Heinz has a limited edition offering dubbed ‘Mayo Halloween’— a jet-black mayonnaise made with black garlic.
Some quoteworthy excerpts from a piece on the GQ website about the subreddit r/CumBiggerLoads:
Both porn and a growing interest in self-optimization are leading men on a quest for enhanced ejaculations.
Some of the most important discoveries in medicine came from brave people experimenting on themselves. Jonas Salk tested his polio vaccine on himself and his family. Isaac Newton poked a blunt needle into his own eye socket to understand how we see light. And using their own bodies as test subjects, the Redditors on r/CumBiggerLoads have determined that a combination of zinc, pygeum, L-citrulline, and lecithin is the “holy grail of cum.”
Most nutmaxxers get off on the sight of their own large loads and their partners’ reaction to them. Facials are a big part of their life. “More volume means more of a visual spectacle,” says Marcus, the prolific r/CumBiggerLoads poster.
Link to full article:
Meet the Nutmaxxers Obsessed With Shooting Bigger Loads
It’s a 90 second film for Canada-based Greenfield Nature Meat that was shot the hard way (a single, unbroken shot with live music and no CGI) to make the point that they produce their meat the hard way (without resorting to shortcuts). To quote:
The Hard Way was shot with no shortcuts on location outside of Montréal, Canada, in a single take, at golden hour, with all music and sound captured live in camera. Even the ‘supers’ were hand-painted on wooden boards. Thomas Soto of Les Enfants, an award-winning young filmmaker already recognized by the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television, handled direction. From the very beginning, the team prioritized authenticity over perfection. They would not rely on any production shortcuts. No fixing things in post. No hidden cuts. Just hard work. And lots of rehearsal.
From Australia: dog food brand Lyka makes its case via a new spot that it describes as “a tongue-in-cheek horror movie that brings to life every dog owner’s worst nightmare – a sloppy, totally un-pick-able doggie doo doo”.
From Peter Bradshaw’s tribute in The Guardian:
The millpond calm of her face, its beauty, its gentleness, its openness and unworldliness became even more heart stopping when she laughed or cried – and generations of moviegoers felt their own crush on Diane Keaton escalate into something more. She was more than America’s sweetheart: Keaton was the sophisticated, sweet-natured, unaffectedly sensual woman with whom America was unrequitedly in love. Diane Keaton was out of America’s league.
The high-water mark of Diane Keaton’s late period of gentler romance was in Meyers’s Something’s Gotta Give in 2003, when she finds herself being courted by two men: Jack Nicholson, the ageing roué notorious for dating younger women and humbled by a non-fatal heart attack, and by Keanu Reeves, the impossibly dishy doctor whom Keaton meets because of Nicholson’s heart scare.
For a female star to be adored by these two amazing movie galacticos is a difficult look to pull off and really Keaton was the only candidate: even in middle age she has that innocence and unaffected charm – and if the focus in her performance is fuzzy, it only added to her appeal. The thought of Hollywood without Diane Keaton is unbearably sad.
And here’s her, freaking out, at the doctor’s, in Baby Boom (1987).
Technically, it’s a campaign from Burberry to promote its outerwear. It’s titled ‘It’s Always Burberry Weather: Postcards from London’. But it’s the presence of Colman that elevates it beyond the ordinary. The actress oozes her irresistible charm, donning the roles of a tour guide, a chip shop worker, and a cricket enthusiast.
Spot 1: Fish and Chips
Spot 2: Tour Guide
Spot 3: Cricket
To quote from an AP News report:
Police in Ohio went in pursuit of a runaway inflatable pumpkin that proved difficult to grasp after receiving calls of a giant orange object rolling down the street. Body camera footage shows officers pursuing the inflatable pumpkin Tuesday night.
And this, from a post by the local police department:
We received several requests to release the body cam from this morning’s unusual pumpkin pursuit.
Officers can confirm that Cinderella’s carriage did, in fact, turn back into a pumpkin just after midnight in Parma Heights.
This is how one of the creatives behind the dressing-inspired dress summed it up:
We normally use fashion to express ourselves.
So nothing better than a Heinz ketchup dress to express the irrational love for Heinz.
A new spot for Burger King weaves together footage of adorable toddlers, eager to get a taste of what their parents are having.
NYC-based Olga Basha jeans follows up its ‘mystery label’ spot from earlier this year with a new 2 minute film that is, well, not for someone who is squeamish.
To quote:
Indian civil servants, often referred to as “Babus”, collectively widely perceived as the self-serving collective known as the “babudom” at all levels of government and government-linked organisations, marked by the very low Government effectiveness index by the self-preserving hierarchies of tax-payers-paid government servants with the colonial exploitative mentality of lording over the tax-payers the babus are paid to serve. Though the good people in the system exist (even their goodness is questionable if they do not self-preservingly blow the whistle despite knowing the corruption), yet the Babus blatantly violate the conflict of interest by enabling, collaborating and complying with the corrupt politician dynasties and groups and breed the corruption and cronyism to maximising the corrupt spoils for themselves by the deliberate introducing illegal bribe-inducing procedural delays hindering the effective governance and public service delivery. They thrive beyond the elected term of corrupt political collaborators though the culture of self-preserving and risk aversion. They are ought to uphold, but have the ill repute of being the reverse of the good citizen, who violate the professional ethics lacking the voice of conscience, through their deliberate proactive hindrance to the customer service to the citizens they bring down the national productivity slowing down the development of nation.[1] [2][3] [4]
Indian civil servants, could be employed by the national, state or local government, PSU or elected officials at any level, they are easily recognised by the same attitude of entitlement, propensity for corruption and impunity with arrogance when questioned or held accountable.
Wednesday’s Thing is the star of a new spot for the snack brand, in partnership with Netflix.
Ford is launching its new Ranger Hybrid across Europe with a campaign that pitches its power, alongside some delightful absurdity.
After moving to Denmark, I never expected to be on set in the middle of Copenhagen Zoo, surrounded by kangaroos, with an actor saying, ‘So you want me to steal the Kangaroo?’. But there’s a first time for everything.
That’s from one of the creative minds behind the promotional film for this year’s Down Under Film Festival in Copenhagen, and it sure packs in a ton of fanciful ideas that many Europeans have, or so we’re told, about what someone from Australia might look or speak like.
PS: There’s also this ‘public service announcement’ put out by the festival organisers on social media:
Crocs optional. Kangaroos not required.
