(Other horror-themed designs in the slideshow)
Thursday, October 31, 2024
Today's news and jokes
(Source and more pets in costumes) (Speaking of, "Asked the last time he spoke with Trump or his team, Adams made a show of not answering")Oh my God, this photo of a costume from the Fort Greene dog costume contest of Mayor Adams on a Turkish Airlines flight! 🤣🤣🤣 (Photo by Gabrielle Holtermann for Brooklyn Paper)
— Nicholas Kaufmonster (@nicholaskaufmann.bsky.social) October 29, 2024 at 6:15 AM
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99 Tears, the DS game that tells you stories to make you cry
Thinking about 99 Tears, a Nintendo DS 'stress relief' game from 2008 in which you answer a series of questions about yourself and your current mood and it shows you stories it thinks will make you cry.
— Andy Kelly 👽 (@ultrabrilliant.xyz) July 9, 2023 at 4:10 AM
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If I understand it right, the tear sommelier provides you a specialzed lamp and when you're finished with the story you blow it out at the DS's microphone.
Wednesday, October 30, 2024
Girma, who I believe has never scored in her professional career, just scored her third against Argentina
She's clearly being featured in a way she hasn't before, by a coach who recognizes her endless worth:
NAOMI GIRMA’S FIRST GOAL FOR THE USWNT pic.twitter.com/Z0QHOeia8a
— Diaspora United Pod (@DiasporaUtdPod) October 30, 2024
49' | NAOMI GIRMA IS HAVING HERSELF A NIGHT WITH A BRACE!!!
— U.S. Women's National Soccer Team (@USWNT) October 31, 2024
🇺🇸 USA 3-0 ARG 🇦🇷 pic.twitter.com/F5IWleSlm4
(If only the USMNT had untapped talent for the coach to take advantage of)
New Humble Bundle featuring horror video games
Dive into The Dark Pictures Anthology, where every choice could end in a gruesome death. From the chilling cult of The Devil in Me to an ancient Sumerian temple in House of Ashes, take a chilling journey through the darkest corners of human terror. Then, face your fears in the sinister world of Little Nightmares and uncover the dark secrets of the Nowhere in Little Nightmares II. Unlock your nightmares and support a brighter future at Covenant House and Breakthrough T1D with your purchase!
Really eclectic collection of toys by Gong, including Kingdom Come figures, up for preorder
Die-cast Dragonball vehicles, Kingdom Come and Desicable Me figures and more (can I put in a request for a Kingdom Come Green Lantern...):
Today's news and jokes
catholic halloween is crazy like what do you mean you’re the vatican’s anime mascot?? pic.twitter.com/5rR7kZuPWa
— Maria Oswalt (@RehumanizeMaria) October 29, 2024
("Simone Legno, the Italian co-founder of the pop culture brand tokidoki, designed Luce and her 'pilgrim friends' — Fe, Xin, and Sky")ERM bros we have more characters.https://t.co/3CY5FVcveH https://t.co/zkmN9mHBmr pic.twitter.com/LJ7NztX692
— Jaster Arroyx (@PapistCourier) October 28, 2024
Tuesday, October 29, 2024
"PhD student finds lost city in Mexico jungle by accident"
BBC:
“I was on something like page 16 of Google search and found a laser survey done by a Mexican organisation for environmental monitoring,” explains Luke Auld-Thomas, a PhD student at Tulane university in the US.
It was a Lidar survey, a remote sensing technique which fires thousands of laser pulses from a plane and maps objects below using the time the signal takes to return.
But when Mr Auld-Thomas processed the data with methods used by archaeologists, he saw what others had missed - a huge ancient city which may have been home to 30-50,000 people at its peak from 750 to 850 AD.
the team’s findings show just how many undiscovered treasures the area could yet yield.
“We didn’t just find rural areas and smaller settlements,” he said. “We also found a large city with pyramids right next to the area’s only highway, near a town where people have been actively farming among the ruins for years. The government never knew about it, the scientific community never knew about it. That really puts an exclamation point behind the statement that no, we have not found everything, and yes, there’s a lot more to be discovered.”
The Quentin Tarantino movie review podcast is back, and great
They're always so wonderfully enthusiastic, it's great listening, even if I almost always end up unimpressed when I try watching the movies. This week it's Peter Hyam's "Narrow Margin", which doesn't seem to be streaming on any of the subscription services:
Today's news and jokes
squad up, go vote
— Official Team Kamala (@TeamKamala) October 28, 2024
🇺🇸: 7331-5536-6547 pic.twitter.com/DIKdV6QL4b
(First playthrough I found)look ngl i agree. the kamala harris fortnite map is more thoughtfully designed than you’d expect, and its huge https://t.co/eujAlvtWVJ pic.twitter.com/zpxfApSbqs
— Gene Park (@GenePark) October 28, 2024
Monday, October 28, 2024
I can't believe this joke post about hot of the presses Tim Walz coverage is accurate
Dropping the devastating oppo file that Tim Walz’s old GF still thinks about how good he fucks 35 years later
— Gaius (from Tribunate) (@gaius.bsky.social) October 28, 2024 at 6:02 PM
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The Daily Mail has a brand new hard-hitting report.
'But we talked for hours and hours, we stayed in bed, we had
(The article goes into tremendous detail about her disappointment that he didn't propose, and features a swimsuit photo.)
In Germany, "thieves have been blowing up ATMs at a rate of more than one per day in recent years"
CNN:
Germany has become Europe’s prime target for ATM bombings. And with its penchant for cash payments, it’s not hard to see why.The country has more than 51,000 ATMs. In comparison, the Netherlands has around 5,000. The majority of Germany’s 83.3 million citizens have to travel no further than one kilometer to reach their nearest ATM, according to the central bank, Bundesbank.Unlike its European neighbors, who largely transitioned away from cash payments due to the Covid-19 pandemic, cash still plays a significant role in Germany. One half of all transactions in 2023 were made using banknotes and coins, according to Bundesbank....In terms of location, Germany is also an ideal target for cross-border crime: Neighboring the Netherlands and linked by motorways on some of which speed limits don’t apply.
Here's what Jeff Bezos says about Trump visiting Blue Origin the same day of the announcement that the WaPo would not make a presidential endorsement
The background is that, if accurate, the loss of subscribers is stunning:
Presumably because the type of people who pay for a LA Times or Washington Post subscription need to know which of these worlds the paper has decided to exist in:
Here is the part of Bezos's new statement that stood out to me:
NEWS: More than 200,000 subscribers have canceled their digital subscriptions to the Washington Post after the revelation that owner Jeff Bezos blocked an endorsement of VP Harris.
— David Folkenflik (@davidfolkenflik) October 28, 2024
That's about 8 percent of WaPo's subscriber base - a staggering sum
MOREhttps://t.co/nCJhJrmlq0
Far less dramatic than the WaPo number, but I’m told in the week since we reported that the LA Times would not endorse, over 7,000 LAT subscribers canceled and specifically cited editorial content as the reason. The total number of cancelations is significantly higher, I’m told.
— Max Tani (@maxwelltani) October 28, 2024
Presumably because the type of people who pay for a LA Times or Washington Post subscription need to know which of these worlds the paper has decided to exist in:
Really, it's amazing. It's like there's an impermeable wall between them. pic.twitter.com/DeWAqNTBtR
— Orin Kerr (@OrinKerr) October 28, 2024
Here is the part of Bezos's new statement that stood out to me:
By itself, declining to endorse presidential candidates is not enough to move us very far up the trust scale, but it’s a meaningful step in the right direction. I wish we had made the change earlier than we did, in a moment further from the election and the emotions around it. That was inadequate planning, and not some intentional strategy.I would also like to be clear that no quid pro quo of any kind is at work here. Neither campaign nor candidate was consulted or informed at any level or in any way about this decision. It was made entirely internally. Dave Limp, the chief executive of one of my companies, Blue Origin, met with former president Donald Trump on the day of our announcement. I sighed when I found out, because I knew it would provide ammunition to those who would like to frame this as anything other than a principled decision. But the fact is, I didn’t know about the meeting beforehand. Even Limp didn’t know about it in advance; the meeting was scheduled quickly that morning. There is no connection between it and our decision on presidential endorsements, and any suggestion otherwise is false.
No details are provided as to the nature of that meeting (let alone explain why keeping the nature of that meeting secret is helpful for improving society's trust in the Washington Post).
Today's news and jokes
At all times, Jameis seems like he’s shooting a scene he’s rehearsed 100x for a movie that is not being made. https://t.co/ulmaRNMMl8
— David Ubben (@davidubben) October 27, 2024
“Represent the names that are on your helmet..well we don’t got no decal”
— PePe (@CLEMSONPEPE) October 27, 2024
Jameis Winston is so funny lmao 🤣 https://t.co/66jBTZichn
Put those back-to-back Jameis plays in the Hall of Fame so we can preserve it for centuries
— Bill Barnwell (@billbarnwell) October 27, 2024
— Alex 👋 (@Dubs408) October 27, 2024
Sunday, October 27, 2024
Dressing up as the giant Minion at Universal Studios you can see from the 101 freeway, and a bunch of other funny deep-cut costumes
Happy Halloween from The Valley @americanamemes pic.twitter.com/2dRTwd4TDO
— Brandon Tao (@BrandonJTao) October 27, 2024
Mundane Halloween costumes
"Guy sweating bullets because he's been asked to cut a pizza into four equal slices at a lunch with important business contacts he's never met before"https://t.co/EJrJFTjNsn
— Nick Kapur (@nick_kapur) October 27, 2024
"Person standing in line at the security checkpoint of an airport"https://t.co/AFOb1uceBd
— Nick Kapur (@nick_kapur) October 27, 2024
"Woman who only became a Hanshin Tigers fan to please her boyfriend"
— Nick Kapur (@nick_kapur) October 27, 2024
https://t.co/6pxxL8C2M4
(Many more in the thread)"Middle-aged office worker whose much younger boyfriend came to pick her up on his motorbike after work"https://t.co/0KnDR0UDdS
— Nick Kapur (@nick_kapur) October 27, 2024
Looks like U.S. soccer is changing how youth age groups are calculated
Last changed in 2016, I believe. I don't know which system makes more sense, but changes like this massively benefit kids fortunate enough to be born with good ages (and will presumably be extremely disruptive to currently-formed teams).
Lil Hannibal Lechter costume, Coffin-Shaped Little Free Library, Sexy City Escape from Sonic Adventure 2 costume (Halloween roundup)
@mackenziejustice5 Homemade Halloween costumes are the best costumes
♬ original sound - mackenziejustice5
Saturday, October 26, 2024
"Hacker Returns $19.3 Million to Drained US Government Crypto Wallet"
"A government-controlled wallet that had been drained of $20 million on Thursday received most of its funds back Friday, adding another layer of mystery to transactions flagged by blockchain analysts as likely being connected to a high-profile theft."
"Clippers and Rams owners come out against Inglewood people mover, as $2.4-billion project falters"
LAT:
The $2.4-billion elevated rail line that Inglewood Mayor James Butts hoped to have open ahead of the 2028 Olympics is supposed to glide over the city’s downtown and lure tourists.
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Congresswoman Maxine Waters, another early supporter, recently opposed the “boondoggle” saying it wasn’t worth the money.
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“We do not plan to give any land for free,” said ... a senior project manager for [the owners of the Clippers and Rams]. “Why? Because it threatens the future development. It threatens our parking. It threatens everything about these businesses.”
New Humble Bundle featuring the Mutants & Masterminds TTRPG
Starts at $1 for "Astonishing Adventures Assembled" and "Threat Report"
Today's news and jokes
@andreaspoly THE ONLY PERSON HE SHOULD BE MAD AT IS HIMSELF! #comedy #viral #medstudent #medschool ♬ Chopin Nocturne No. 2 Piano Mono - moshimo sound design
Friday, October 25, 2024
A bunch of Super 7 Ultimates are around $15 off at Entertainment Earth
Including the color-changing Lion-O, Cobra soldier with energy whip, and many more (bigger discounts on the larger figures, and my link should give an extra 10% off).
Entertaining review of new movie "Anora"
Sounds terrific (tons of spoilers) (probably my current favorite movie reviewer---like Ebert, makes me want to see the movies reviewed).
New Humble Bundle features the House Flipper and House Flipper VR games
Starts at $5 for House Flipper and House Flipper VR.
From Destructoid's review of the non-VR version:
There’s no shortage of highly-specialized simulator games on Steam, but none of have spoken to me quite like the promise of House Flipper, a first-person sim in which you clean, fix, paint, and furnish rooms for well-meaning clients before earning enough cash to buy and flip homes of your own.That premise probably sounds boring to many of you and, no bullshit, it kind of is: it’s a whole lot of monotonous mouse clicking as you perform repetitive tasks necessary to renovate a home. But for me, that isn’t such a bad thing. This type of “boring” experience can be soothing and gratifying.Going into the game, I fully expected to knock down walls, lay hardwood floors, tile some bathrooms, and put up kitchen cabinets. I can’t say I anticipated mopping up a bloody crime scene.
Today's news and jokes
google Japan is cooking in a way the West couldnt dream of pic.twitter.com/Ng4Gb5pcgs
— near (@nearcyan) October 23, 2024
Thursday, October 24, 2024
Today's news and jokes
(Amazon sells the Thick Mints)They don't want us to know about Thick Mints. They think we can't be trusted with that kind of power.
— David_j_roth (@davidjroth.bsky.social) October 22, 2024 at 4:28 PM
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