Tuesday, September 2, 2025
Today's news and jokes
Updated UNC depth chart for tonight’s game. Can’t believe they’re tipping off TCU that they’re using a right tackle.
— David Hale (@adavidhalejoint.bsky.social) September 1, 2025 at 2:37 PM
[image or embed]
Ironically, UNC back-up QB Max Johnson is 24 years old, the same age as Jordon Hudson, Bill Belichick's girlfriend
— Brett McMurphy (@Brett_McMurphy) September 2, 2025
Coincidentally, Bill Belichick was 41 when Jordon Hudson was 7. pic.twitter.com/EvmdsbqBG1
— Mike Beauvais (@MikeBeauvais) September 2, 2025
At this rate the TCU players should do a TD celebration where they recreate the Bill & Jordon beach pose!
— RedditCFB (@RedditCFB) September 2, 2025
Belichick's postgame press conference decorated like a baby shower - balloon arch and all lmao
— Mitchell Northam (@northam67.bsky.social) September 1, 2025 at 8:53 PM
[image or embed]
Every American sportsfan debating Belichick's overratedness can heal America. (Ever looked at the rival quarterbacks in his division during his years of success and thought about that impact on his margin of victory?)
Concussion prevention device
@docdocsolve 🚀Now launching: TopSpin 360🚀 🏈“For every 1 pound increase in neck strength there is a 5% decrease in concussion risk.” This device is used by top level football, hockey, volleyball, and rugby teams. 💥There are an estimated 3.8 Million sports concussions/year in the U.S. Build the neck strength they’re missing! 💪🏼You can’t prevent all hits, but you CAN prepare your body for them. 🧠This device dramatically reduces risk of concussion. Don’t worry- you just train with it, you don’t wear it during a game 😂. To stop the whiplash effect, this device strengthens the neck muscles and stabilizes the neck and spine! Your brain will thank you. 🙌🏼You can now train with the @TopSpin360 at our office by going through our Concussion Prevention Program! #concussion #concussionrecovery #headinjury #footballtiktok #chiropractic ♬ 20 Anymore - Swimming Paul
How to increase the articulation on a Marvel Legends Psylocke
マーベルレジェンド向け
— otaka (@bucky_spike) August 2, 2025
✅股関節の可動域拡張カスタム
インスタで大好評だったのでこちらでもご紹介💁
これをするだけで、通常より脚を閉じることができるので
女性キャラは、より女性らしい美しい立ち姿をすることができるおすすめのカスタムです
1️⃣太もものジョイントを外す
🔻… pic.twitter.com/KalTsN5VCr
Monday, September 1, 2025
Damaged box S.H.Figuarts Aragorn is $25 off
at Entertainment Earth ("The cloth cloak has wires inside so that it can be posed freely. Aragorn comes with 3x pairs of interchangeable hands, Interchangeable face part, sword, dagger, quiver, blanket, cloth cloak").
Micro Galaxy Squadron Shin Hati's Starfighter down to $6.79
at Amazon (if you see the listed coupon). Saesee Tiin with starfighter is $7.27 after coupon. And Phantom II with Kanan and Chopper is $14.99.
Today's news and jokes
("Shortly after boarding, [a passenger] says she began to feel unwell and initially blamed it on the temperature in the plane. However, she claims the situation spiralled as travellers and cabin crew also became sick with staff going into 'full panic mode'.")@dailymailuk This is the dramatic moment firefighters in full hazmat gear boarded a British Airways flight from London after it made an emergency landing in Italy. Melanie Wells, 61, was on the flight which had set off from London Gatwick with her 19-year-old daughter Imogen for an eight-day luxury break in Egypt. Shortly after boarding, Melanie says she began to feel unwell and initially blamed it on the temperature in the plane. However, she claims the situation spiralled as travellers and cabin crew also became sick with staff going into 'full panic mode'. The aircraft was forced to divert to Venice where emergency services rushed to the tarmac with hazmat teams boarding in breathing apparatus and scanning equipment. #flight #britishairways #hazmatsuit #emergency #news ♬ original sound - Daily Mail UK
A write up of the recently completed Pursuit scavenger hunt in San Francisco
Boone Ashworth for Wired:
On a Wednesday night in August, hundreds of people gathered in the lobby of Apple Cinemas in central San Francisco. To gain admission to the event, attendees had to say a secret code word to the crew working the door: three giggling children wearing oversize “SECURITY” caps.
...
This was the grand finale of Pursuit, a citywide scavenger hunt that took place for several weeks throughout San Francisco.
...
This is the second citywide Pursuit game; the first was held in the summer of 2024, and 300 people showed up for the finale. The scavenger hunt is funded in part by FranciscoSan.org, a grant initiative started by an anonymous benefactor that has allotted $100,000 to fund local efforts to “make the city and county of San Francisco more whimsical through eventures [sic] and installations.” The rest of the funding came from the organizers, a group of 20 or so friends.
Sunday, August 31, 2025
Today's news and jokes
Just announced at Destination @DisneyD23: Patrick Warburton as Mayor Winddancer and Yvette Nicole Brown as EMT Otter and Bearoness Bear in #Zootopia2, in theaters November 26. #DestinationD23 pic.twitter.com/oa79kOlgKR
— Disney Animation (@DisneyAnimation) August 30, 2025
Voiced by Patrick Warburton, early reports say his performance in ‘ZOOTOPIA 2’ … soars
— Scott Gustin (@ScottGustin) August 30, 2025
The theme of Destination D23 so far: Patrick Warburton pic.twitter.com/JmTsVZMdK0
— Alex Farnworth (@AlexFarnworth) August 31, 2025
Emperor Kuzco is here at Kuzcotopia Night at Typhoon Lagoon as part of #DestinationD23. pic.twitter.com/esRVnBf4OW
— Scott Gustin (@ScottGustin) August 31, 2025
Terrible, terrible story about China's One Child Policy
Tian Mingjian incident is the most insane story about One Child Policy I know. A PLA Beijing Garrison sharpshooter learned that the «birth control officer» forcefully aborted his son on the 7th month, killing his wife. Result: 24+ people shot. CCP reaction: lies and ass-covering. https://t.co/Dm1IJSlPf1 pic.twitter.com/m0Q4IQwdcK
— Teortaxes▶️ (DeepSeek 推特🐋铁粉 2023 – ∞) (@teortaxesTex) August 27, 2025
Wikipedia. This book, I believe.
Trent Reznor performing in the 80's synthpop group Slam Bamboo
Wiki entry with publicity photo. And here, starting at 1:30 he's intercveiwed about his band Exotic Birds:
Via.
Saturday, August 30, 2025
The Tokyo Metro has an escape room-style event based on the game Exit 8
The event, officially titled Exit 8: Tokyo Metro Escape Game, transforms the city’s subway network into a terrifying, puzzle-filled labyrinth. To participate, players must purchase a dedicated game kit, which contains the clues and tools needed to crack the mysteries. Each player is expected to buy their own kit, though families can opt for a special mode where parents share hints and solutions with children.
Once registered through the Escape.ID portal, participants use their smartphones to follow prompts, solve riddles and track progress. The experience unfolds across multiple stations, taking between three and five hours to complete.
New Humble Bundle is the "Top Content from the D&D Community" bundle
"Forged in partnership with the Dungeon Masters Guild and authorized by Wizards of the Coast, this legendary collection spills over with challenging adventures, groundbreaking rule expansions, and must-have player options."
Today's news and jokes
Frito Lay truck crash in Crescent City, California. pic.twitter.com/YmCbGdoGEw
— Shawn Garrett (@ShawnGarrett) August 28, 2025
("One of California's most perilous roads lived up to its reputation this week...Curt Cooter, who runs Cooter’s Towing out of Brookings, Oregon, was driving his usual route around noon Tuesday when he came upon the wreck")Source - California Highway Patrol: https://t.co/RCLEMbcRzU
— Shawn Garrett (@ShawnGarrett) August 29, 2025
Poster by Daniel Clowes for the Telluride Film Festival
The festival starts today, and here’s the amazing Daniel Clowes poster for it:
— Ken Parille (@kenparille.bsky.social) August 29, 2025 at 1:24 PM
[image or embed]
High-res, on sale.
Rick the Door Technician cosplay
this is the first time someone's cosplayed a UI I worked on, thank you rick the door technician my year is made #dragoncon
— Jordan DeVries🔜Dragon Con (@jordandevries.com) August 29, 2025 at 4:43 PM
[image or embed]
The boss battle--his dialog is great:
His Wiki page. Intended as a funny release valve after a big fight.
Friday, August 29, 2025
Lexie Hull has two black eyes?
that is so metal
— CJ Fogler (@cjzero.bsky.social) August 29, 2025 at 8:08 PM
[image or embed]
@lexiehulll Replying to @Tres Leches ♬ Welp, Didn't Expect That - Yu-Peng Chen & HOYO-MiX
Nasty collision between Lexie Hull and Gabby Williams. Lexie Hull headed to the locker room 👀👀👀 pic.twitter.com/uiAoWwazWP
— AK (@Sudharsan_AK10) August 26, 2025
Speaking of Indiana:
NEW CAITLIN CLARK GIF HAS DROPPED! https://t.co/zHf1CjqHAw pic.twitter.com/nL01eUd1P4
— Oh No He Didn't (@ohnohedidnt24) August 30, 2025
New video game Humble Bundle featuring puzzle games
Titles include A Monster's Expedition and A Good Snowman is Hard to Build.
There’s a new picture-book version of “Hansel and Gretel,” written by Stephen King, with illustrations by Maurice Sendak, but...
Per this review by Mac Barnett and Jon Klassen, it's disappointing.
Sendak died in 2012; the book uses his designs for a 1997 staging of Engelbert Humperdinck’s opera.
...
On these spreads, the book really stops working like a picture book and becomes something less interesting. Sendak’s art is mere ornament, a decoration for a narrative that’s occurring only in prose. It feels like King had a story he wanted to tell but there was no art to match it, so it just got stuck under a tree proscenium
Lots of images from the book at the link, and their newsletter suggests books about Sendak’s theater designs.
(Here's the Amazon preorder for the new book, and for "Drawing the Curtain: Maurice Sendak’s Designs for Opera and Ballet.")
Today's news and jokes
lost a tiny screw so im sending the roomba in with a giant fucking magnet. pic.twitter.com/0PqyikuDXc
— limpkin (@acealeam) August 25, 2025
The Li'l Diana comic strips from Absolute Wonder Woman volume 1
I need DC to do a full on Lil Diana book in the Absolute universe with Kelly Thompson & Dustin Nguyen
— Nicholas (@NicholasJLevi) April 23, 2025
These short stories are adorable pic.twitter.com/PLmLwAI1RS
Terrific comic, and now in the Hoopla app. (And at Amazon)
Bonus fan art:
Absolute Wonder Woman
— Lenkia (@ohvalkyrie.bsky.social) July 22, 2025 at 11:50 PM
[image or embed]
Creating scenic urban bases for wargaming miniatures using bits of sprue, and a wonderful wargaming castle from 1976
Here is a picture of TSR’s newly opened Dungeon Hobby Shop in early 1976. Dave Sutherland’s three-level dungeon helped usher in customers. Here is Mary Hendryx with it, showing the same group of adventurers in nine vignettes as they fought their way down. They slowly got… pic.twitter.com/AnHHEeG8B5
— YoDanno #DragonlanceDragonlance (@YoDanno) August 23, 2025
Thursday, August 28, 2025
Always fun to see new artwork by Olly Moss
A Life Well Wasted 9 will be released one week from today. Here’s the poster design by Olly Moss. Screenprints will be on sale from 9/4 through 9/11 on the ALWW website. Still ad-free! Come back next week.
— Robert Ashley (@robertashley.bsky.social) August 28, 2025 at 10:16 AM
[image or embed]
New Humble Bundle featuring 3D-printable miniatures
Starts at $1 for a variety of miniatures inocluding a frost giant, werewolf, tavern set, and catapult.
Today's news and jokes
Two people fighting Washington's largest active wildfire were arrested by federal law enforcement, the Seattle Times reports
— philip lewis (@Phil_Lewis_) August 28, 2025
"It is unusual for federal border agents to make arrests during the fighting of an active fire, especially in a remote area"https://t.co/x2LVHetQs5
Obsessed with them wearing the reflective vests over the camouflage https://t.co/si4xZFNKPm
— Gillian Branstetter (@GBBranstetter) August 27, 2025
Scabs, in addition to everyhting elseNational Guard soldiers called into service for President Trump's law enforcement surge in D.C. have been assigned to spread mulch at federal monuments. Normally the Park Service does that, but the administration laid off the workers. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
— Brad Heath (@bradheath.bsky.social) August 27, 2025 at 4:51 AM
[image or embed]
This photo, too.Here's what the third day of elementary school looked like in Mount Pleasant, Washington DC.
— Corey Frayer (@csfrayer.bsky.social) August 27, 2025 at 1:22 PM
[image or embed]
Governing badly enough to remind us why they had to invent grand juries in the twelfth century
— Ted Underwood (@tedunderwood.me) August 27, 2025 at 6:30 AM
[image or embed]
Free 3DPrintable Sisters of the Ordo Mediare wargaming miniatures
Sisters of the Ordo Mediare based on art by @ironlily.bsky.social I'm a huge fan of their work, I hope they're not too upset that I had to sacrifice historical accuracy for scale FREE! on Cults3D⤵️ cults3d.com/en/users/JLu... -------------------------------- #ttrpg #miniatures #3dprint #cults3d
— JLUNA3D (@jluna3d.bsky.social) August 24, 2025 at 5:50 PM
[image or embed]
Tart, Veteran of the Ordo Mediare. Based on art by @ironlily.bsky.social FREE on Cults3D⤵️ cults3d.com/en/3d-model/... 5th in a line a of 7 minis for a nice little squad or unit -------------------------------- #ttrpg #miniatures #3dprint #cults3d
— JLUNA3D (@jluna3d.bsky.social) August 19, 2025 at 4:58 PM
[image or embed]
Direct link (which has some exotic, NSFW models)
BTW, speaking of 3D printers, FWIW.
Wednesday, August 27, 2025
Study indicates that cutting ships' sulfur emissions dramatically reduced lightning over shipping lanes
For decades, ship emissions steadily rose as increasing global trade drove higher ship traffic. Then, in 2020, new international regulations cut ships’ sulfur emissions by 77%. Our newly published research shows how lightning over shipping lanes dropped by half almost overnight after the regulations went into effect.
Hacker news discussion FWIW.
The daily deals include 70% off 3.75: Katie Sackhoff as a Mandalorian; also, here are some cool new preorders for more exotic figures
$4.80 and one of the deals of the day.
Also, here are a few new preorders that caught my eye:
Youngblood and Die Hard by Loosecollector
Poison Witch Zhang Qin (Calligraphy Skin)
Free download of unreleased tracks for Deus Ex: Mankind Divided
Deus Ex Mankind Divided composer @sonicmayhem has released a new collection of his unreleased #DeusEx music titled "Fragments of the Machine [Data Archive Vol.1]"
— Deus Ex Hub (@DeusExHub) August 25, 2025
The collection contains tracks created in 2015/2016 for Deus Ex: Mankind Divided, Some are unmixed, unmastered, and… pic.twitter.com/kHuRtPsbMe
Link
Today's news and jokes
i went to a phone store and there was an iphone to keep the door open
— dimden (@dimden.dev) August 25, 2025 at 9:48 AM
[image or embed]
Lego version of Fujin the wind god
#LEGO
— n.a.b.e_mocs (@Saki05kun) August 26, 2025
レゴで風神を作りました。ポージングは俵屋宗達の風神雷神図屏風を参考にしました。
迫力のある顔がお気に入りです。リプにテクニック載せます。 pic.twitter.com/EWqMhvXWyx
The inspiration
Playstation excavator game with special peripheral
men only want one thing
— Sean Seanson (@seanseanson.bsky.social) August 26, 2025 at 12:05 PM
[image or embed]
grant me the power not to blow it all on the power shovel controller bundle
— Sean Seanson (@seanseanson.bsky.social) August 26, 2025 at 12:14 PM
[image or embed]
Tuesday, August 26, 2025
Indiana Jones and the rest of of college football's best names of the 2025 season
Great list, including King Large:
Speaking of names, a fun article about inappropriate names in spy thrillers:
Let me illustrate. The Italian composer Giacomo Puccini’s 1904 opera “Madama Butterfly,” which gets rightful flak for its bumbling Orientalism, is almost as hilariously clueless about the United States. The villain’s name is Benjamin Franklin Pinkerton — the modern-day equivalent would be something like “Ronald Reagan Microsoft.”
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)