Wednesday, August 12, 2026

Today's news and jokes

Best wishes to everyone about to risk it all 🫑

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— abby (sports) (@stabbyabby.bsky.social) August 11, 2026 at 4:23 PM


TMZ stays evil and unethical. The article says AOC and her ex split up YEARS ago, but they’re framing it as something that just happened to capitalize on the sexist outrage over her freezing her eggs. They know the vast majority of people won’t read the article.

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— Kat Tenbarge (@kattenbarge.bsky.social) August 11, 2026 at 4:12 PM


Enormous Master Mold custom figure




Tuesday, August 11, 2026

Jason Statham shows off a deluxe Jason Statham doll

The best update I've seen on the Little League scandal

is at Sports Illustrated

Sounds like Little League told Tulsa and the Texas judge to pound sand, there will be no game.  

And sounds like the Texas judge made his finding solely on the basis that Tulsa would be harmed if they didn't get to play--meanwhile, the other team burned all its pitching on the basis of Little League's ruling and belief no game against Tulsa would be played:


Today's news and jokes

I would be very interested to see if there are any references to the "Dobby's grave forced a cable to be moved" story from earlier than this year bsky.app/profile/dsqu...

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— Dan Davies (@dsquareddigest.bsky.social) August 10, 2026 at 8:03 AM


a redditor did some deep diving, and agrees that there doesn't appear to be any evidence that this happened, including the interview the guy allegedly gave BBC which sparked all the "calls": old.reddit.com/r/ukpolitics...

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— pdsc (@gucc.us) August 10, 2026 at 8:11 AM


For some reason people lose all critical judgment when interpreting jokes made by infrastructure people at conferences or on a podcast. This just isn't what happened.

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— Dan Davies (@dsquareddigest.bsky.social) August 10, 2026 at 1:39 AM


Really conflicted by this story because I am very much against disinformation (it's nothing to do with the grave, a guy made a joke about it at a conference) but on the other hand, anything that radicalises people against Harry Potter adults is a good thing.

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— Jack Tindale (@jacktindale.bsky.social) August 10, 2026 at 5:11 AM


Related:

Bluesky is saved

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— Cartridge Games (@cartridgegames.bsky.social) August 10, 2026 at 10:18 AM


"one of the worst designs in hotel history. The elevators rattle uncontrollably, shaking the occupants like a martini all the way up"

"A stay at the decrepit tomb of what was once the Vegas Strip's coolest hotel"

Good logo for "Books are weapons"

I’m reading a book published in 1944 and this logo is so unbelievably tough. I’d absolutely wear a shirt with this exact design.

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— Benjamin Hoffman (@bhh.bsky.social) August 7, 2026 at 4:50 PM


I made a clear backed copy of the image for you. Should go straight onto a custom printed shirt.

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— Dread Pirate Sex Badger (@badgercult.bsky.social) August 8, 2026 at 3:39 PM


Actually, @djinnandtonic.bsky.social has a t-shirt with a variation of this design: wideawakes.army/listing/4390...

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— Tobias Harris (@tobiasharris.bsky.social) August 8, 2026 at 3:37 AM