Super Punch: Today's news and jokes

Saturday, February 24, 2024

Today's news and jokes

Got a cute new sticker for my Stanley®️ cup! pic.twitter.com/VSbSPONRRm
— Helen (of Tor) (@h313n_0f_t0r) February 19, 2024

July 2022 https://t.co/RaGx55mxTe https://t.co/XfMwLY3ajg pic.twitter.com/bTyhRHlnd2
— southpaw (@nycsouthpaw) February 24, 2024

article from December 2022 https://t.co/yzfdpiYfoE pic.twitter.com/ndrxRGZgqf
— Rachel Cohen (@rmc031) February 24, 2024

Joe Biden again defeats the balloon incursion menacehttps://t.co/iFZR8eTy0q
— Aaron Fritschner (@Fritschner) February 23, 2024

One of our most popular T shirt designs ever, a year old but still relevant! 🎈 pic.twitter.com/T9IKwbjVik
— Tyler Rogoway (@Aviation_Intel) February 24, 2024

Here are four versions of that NYT headline, w/ @nyt_diff's timestamps.

There are lots of conclusions to be drawn here, not the least of which is that, oftentimes, editors should just leave something (like the first headline) alone.

It was fine! https://t.co/vIkGUVpnW0 https://t.co/iYMJvsnauu pic.twitter.com/59xmU2AqyS
— Bill Grueskin (@BGrueskin) February 22, 2024

After a magician says he was hired by a ballot access consultant who worked for Dean Phillips to create a fake Biden robocall that discouraged NH voters from participating in the Dem primary, Phillips blames the DNC in part https://t.co/aWLEW2Jv9Q https://t.co/9h8mwhpWei
— Meryl Kornfield (@MerylKornfield) February 23, 2024

if taylor swift doesnt start dating a journalist soon this entire industry is going to collapse
— jen rice (@jen_rice_) February 23, 2024

If people think Vice mgmt’s incompetence is exaggerated: At one point they were seemingly spending 90% of the snack budget on milk. Every time our union committee met my NY coworkers would talk about how much milk there was. Around this time they just stopped paying for PACER
— Paul Blest (@pblest) February 23, 2024

And they didn’t even stream it, which is everything you need to know about both the moralism and intelligence of the people running it. https://t.co/qjW8m0gWxL
— foster kamer. (@weareyourfek) February 23, 2024

(Here's a thread about saving articles as pdfs, btw.)

in honor of the vice website shuttering here are my favorite two paragraphs in any article everhttps://t.co/7jmsYdGIcM pic.twitter.com/B9aM1l71rH
— north (@north0fnorth) February 23, 2024

I've been obsessed with the Tiktokers who do megaviral satire videos about going barefoot.... it's so GOOD https://t.co/KWTIpzErKI
— Katie Notopoulos (@katienotopoulos) February 22, 2024

("People think we're rage-baiting for attention. But really, we're rage-baiting because we're grinding to get money")

Crying this is literally that michael scott image😭 https://t.co/LQUtBMnM5s
— Andrew Ngmi (@hide0usk0jima) February 23, 2024

it's been long enough for me to admit publicly that when i left Gizmodo in 2022 I changed my Slack username to "SIackbot" and G/O Media failed to detect or delete it for months pic.twitter.com/DhMsOD0SZ9
— catturd2.bsky.social (@thetomzone) February 23, 2024

people on tiktok are using broccoli to apply fake freckles pic.twitter.com/GhpKwalm5p
— Rachel Karten (@milkkarten) February 22, 2024

Great, but don't forget the red pandas have been there all along, staying out of politics, just quietly doing their job. https://t.co/YsIxNtPRmk pic.twitter.com/IYRTRaI69N
— Dan Friedman (@dfriedman33) February 22, 2024

I'm convinced I never saw a red panda until well after 2000, and suspicious it indicates time travel/alternate universe

MC Escher space where you feel like you still need to swipe through the turnstiles even though you just did
— hames (@hame_ish) February 21, 2024

NEWS: Jac Collinsworth out as the voice of Notre Dame on NBC, The Athletic has learned.

* Who replaces him?
* How NBC now looks at Noah Eagle and Todd Blacklege
* Full details in story.https://t.co/DG4oGf00p3
— Andrew Marchand (@AndrewMarchand) February 22, 2024

Always seems farcical when NBC's Sunday night football program cuts to him