Sunday, December 8, 2024

Today's news and jokes



There's an obstacle course for owners and pets to walk





Vogue, 2011, on Al-Assad’s wife: “glamorous, young, and very chic—the freshest and most magnetic of first ladies. “She’s a rare combination: a thin, long-limbed beauty with a trained analytic mind who dresses with cunning understatement.” web.archive.org/web/20110329...

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— Bill Grueskin (@bgrueskin.bsky.social) December 7, 2024 at 6:47 PM
(From a 2012 article in the Guardian about the author's disavowal of the Vogue profile: "The title of the Newsweek article is 'Mrs Assad duped me', but it is never clear how")





A"clinical professor of medicine at NYU Langone Health and Fox News Senior Medical Analyst, cautions against calling this new outbreak 'Disease X.'"





The backpack the NYPD says belonged to the UnitedHealthcare CEO shooting suspect reportedly held only two items: a jacket and Monopoly money

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— Phil Lewis (@phillewis.bsky.social) December 7, 2024 at 4:29 PM


obsessed with the absolutely correct idea that a man who’s one known characteristic is killing a man could be milkshake ducked

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— cat (@nolehongo.bsky.social) December 7, 2024 at 10:56 AM






The write-up I saw: "The River Drone fleet is one of the largest-scale experiments in commercial remote-controlled operation in Europe. This fleet is designed and equipped for automated, remote-controlled operation using Seafar remote navigation technology. Each vessel is about 100 meters long and has a deadweight capacity of 3,850 tonnes, and the first hull entered into service in January 2023."











(Australian, parents from South Sudan)





























Saw the next Predator film was once again going back in history and it got me thinking

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— HappyToast (@happytoast.bsky.social) October 23, 2024 at 3:53 AM












@barstoolsports The doggy door 🀣 @I Can’t Even ♬ original sound - Barstool Sports




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