02/02/2020 is the first time in our lifetimes the whole date is a palindrome across the world - to celebrate
#PalindromeDay
here’s a list of 11 of my faves x
This just came through from Monday and broke my heart.
After my show an 11y/o worked out his age in days (4208) and it was THE SAME as his date of birth (4/2/08) 🤯
Can you retweet if you think that’s pretty flipping cool so he knows he’s far from alone. 💙
When we found out we couldn’t be together in person my mum made a Christmas cake of our three different houses and sent me and my brother our sections in the post 😭😭😭
If you’re worried that you’ve lost faith in your own abilities during all this, I just ordered some stamps from Royal Mail’s website and they delivered them via UPS?
Okay as well as 02/02/2020 being
#PalindromeDay
I’ve just found out it’s the 33rd day of the year with 333 days to go and that makes me a very happy maths boy indeed 💙
People telling me my poem made them cry has now made me cry and I’m really missing Greenbelt/people in general but so grateful for everyone making an effort to connect in-between. It feels hard to be certain of anything at the moment but there’s still a lot of good out there x
'When This is Over' recorded for
@greenbelt
wild at home Sunday communion this year. My poem about hugging still feels relevant 6 months on - here I am performing it in a field in Kettering!
10 years ago 17-year-old me went to a poetry open mic night for the first time and performed a poem I’d written about prime numbers. This year I’m touring the UK With a Stand-up/Poetry/Maths show that sold out at the Edinburgh Fringe !
#10YearChallenge
#BringOnTheNext10Years
Some people have asked to see the words for my poem on The Last Supper from yesterday’s
@BBCRadio2
program - it was such a wonderful show to be a part of! 💙
To celebrate yesterday’s release of ‘So Viele Leute’ here’s a list of 10 of my favourite German words:
1) Squirrel = Eichhörnchen
(an Oak-Croissant!) 🐿=🌳🥐
2) Glove = Handschuh
(A hand-shoe!) 🧤=👋🏻👞
3) lightbulb = Glühbirne
(A glowing pear!) 💡=✨🍐
Thanks for the love on the 21 seconds video! I’m not sure what I can do in my career to top the fact that actual members of so solid crew saw me in the video, oh yes... 😍💙
The date is 3.14 over in America, so to celebrate
#PiDay
here's a surprisingly accurate Jay-Z Maths crossover complete with 81-digit pi solo. You're welcome 💙 x
Tonight was very much my core demographic, by which I mean some teachers, some greenbelters, some rap battle fans, a family who saw me on TED 5 years ago, a couple of guys who looked lost, someone from Berlin, my aunt and my nana and I’m so grateful for every last one of ya 💙💙
Why am I running the
@LondonMarathon
dressed as a falafel on a spoon?
In 🇩🇪:
🧆= Falafel
🥄= Löffel
🏃🏼♂️ = Laufer
🧆🥄🏃🏼♂️= Falafellöffellaufer !
You can sponsor me here 🙏🏼:
I’m very excited to announce I’m taking my sell-out Edinburgh Show ‘I am 10,000’ on tour all around the UK in spring. Hope to see you there!
“His poetry is a masterpiece, both in rhythm and content” ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Wee Review
🎟:
@bechillcomedian
I painted our hallway a design based on prime numbers coming out of where the clock was going to go where the names of the colours spell out ‘prime’ !
Part of doing this show has been celebrating being more comfortable in who I am - I used to not like looking at pictures of myself or feel like I had to put on a wacky grin for the camera etc, but I’m honestly happier in my skin now than I think I’ve ever been, and I love these x
Good luck to everyone getting GCSE results today! Just remember anyone over the age of 20 doesn’t understand what the numbers mean or whether it’s better to get a high score or a low one so you’re probably fine either way x
#gcseresultsday2019
#GCSEResults2019
Ready to go!
My start time is 10:30 - you can track me in the app under 23469 or Harry Rae, or look out for me in person/on TV !
🧆🥄🏃🏼♂️
#RunFalafelRun
#Falafell
öffelläufer
#WeRunTogether
I've been taking commissions and a mum/teacher asked me to write something for her kids to remind them they were more than just their grades, which she then said I could share given current context. (Interests include Star wars and German so they seem pretty cool to me!)
#ALevels
I am 10,000 - Official trailer!
To celebrate my return to maths and poetry this trailer matches the first 52 digits of Pi* - catch me at
#EdFringe
11:40am, 1st-24th August:
*I missed one digit out, if you can tell me which at the show you get a prize x
A poem for all the gigs/festivals/weddings/birthday parties we’ve put on hold. This will be the first thing I read when I’m allowed on stage in front of people again. We’ll get there x
Today I got to speak in a Quaker school, run a maths poetry workshop and perform a new poem about trying to find hope in amongst despair. It will be the last day for a while I get to do any of those things but I’ll hold on to this feeling as long as I need to. 💙
Also I don’t know who’s in charge of maths but I’m gonna try and unofficially coin the term “Dougie Day” for this phenomenon - mine’s when I’m 53! (when’s yours?)
Hey so my wife tried to add me to the car insurance (just passed my test don’t worry about it) and they flat out refused because they don’t believe my job is real - any tips?
When it’s not fame or greed that drives you, but you do it for the love,
Remember - just like any other fuel -
That still needs topping up.
If you are tired, or low, or losing heart, + need to switch the pace,
Do something to remind yourself
Why you loved it in the first place.
Writing a personalised poem for someone's 59th birthday (!) and I've just realised anyone born in '59 will turn 61 this year and anyone born in '61 will turn 59 this year and that makes me very happy indeed.
#TwinPrimes
#CombineToBecomeTwiceWhat60CouldEverBe
Today I did a session with students and they were told to prepare questions in advance. One boy wanted to ask what my favourite colour was and he was told that was too simple so instead he made a probability graph on what it might be based on what t-shirts I’d worn in my videos.
Fave audience member of today - (possibly German) man waited until the end to tell me that because converting miles to kilometres uses 5 and 8 from the Fibonacci sequence it is close to the golden ratio.
He then said “when you tell normal people these things they don’t care.” 😂
Tried to pull out of a gig because was uncomfortable sharing a bill with the headliner only to be emailed back to say they had pulled out first because they were uncomfortable with it being run by a church (!) so I feel like everyone’s a winner here... 🤷🏼♂️
I’ve written a new poem about the last supper for At The Foot Of The Cross which has just started on
@BBCRadio2
- 15 minutes in and a choir singing Blinded By Your Grace followed by a lush poem by
@JayHulmePoet
has had me in tears twice...
Sat backstage about to do my final show of the run. Got lots of friends in today. Feeling so unbelievably grateful to be allowed to do this. Now excuse me while I go and dance to mos def behind a curtain for 5 minutes then play the best damn show of my life x
Kristen Bell has written her first children's book 'The World Needs More Purple People' about a purple person, who looks for similarities before differences.
My mum sent me these in the post and said they were going to be a Christmas present but instead can be a ‘sorry things got cancelled’ present and already today is better than yesterday 💙
I’ve landed in Canada! Managed to tick both ‘business’ and ‘personal’ on the landing declaration card so got taken through to a secondary immigration room for further questioning, but got through when the customs officer googled me and excitedly asked if I did rap battles. 🇨🇦❤️
Thank you
@PremierBattle
(and
@Shuffle_T
!).
I cannot state enough how LOVELY everyone was. Wasn’t sure how it would feel after so long away but from the moment I arrived people made me feel like I had never left. Felt good on stage so will see how it looks on cam.
Much love x
I’ve had a bit of a wobble recently but I’ve never felt more sure that I’m doing what I want to be doing as I was tonight so I’m gonna hold on to that for now. Thanks everyone who came x
I’m not sure where to begin - 10 years ago I jumped up on an open mic stage to do a poem at greenbeltfestival and this year we had over 1000 people queueing up in the rain for the…
History is more than
Statues taken down
History is more than
That which lays around
History is more than
Waiting to be found
History is
What we’re making now
#AmWriting