Wednesday, April 16, 2025

Today's news and jokes















Good reporting here. Student paper gets what the bigs have missed. White House is actually threatening to defund all of bostons major hospitals www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

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— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm.bsky.social) April 15, 2025 at 5:33 AM
(A vision where the only schools and hospitals will be religious ones dodging taxes and simultaneously claiming tax dollar vouchers)







Never thought the question of "are interactive fictions books or games" might end up bankrupting me & my industry. (Analysis of extremely real open questions right now re: if TTRPGs classify as books or "parts and accessories" of games.) www.enworld.org/threads/do-t...

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— Aaron A. Reed (@aaronareed.bsky.social) April 15, 2025 at 9:24 AM








Noticed a bunch of these ornate gold medallions slapped all over the Oval Office. We found em on Alibaba. “High-density Home Decoration Polyurethane Appliques Ornament PU Foam Veneer Accessories” from seller Guangzhou Homemax Decorative Material Limited. sherwood.news/power/shop-t...

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— Jon Keegan (@jonkeegan.com) April 15, 2025 at 2:07 PM
(Read it took quick and thought they were called "venal accessories")







Can’t wait for Trump et al to flip out this 4th of July when NPR reads out the Declaration of Independence and take it as a personal attack.

— Qrsqrt (@qrsqrt.bsky.social) April 14, 2025 at 7:24 PM








most important texts of 21st century fascism: - depression quest (2013) - denis villeneuve's sicario - malcolm gladwell podcast beef tallow episode - gen z boss and a mini

— Maia (@maiamindel.bsky.social) April 15, 2025 at 7:40 AM








wild story about fake experts using AI being propped up by a lazy clickbait press

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— Karl Bode (@karlbode.com) April 14, 2025 at 6:45 AM








The first wave of AI art that didn't understand human anatomy was still the most interesting and felt like it was creating something new







(He and his wife moved into a high-rise, and neighbors aren't thrilled) ("The Acrovista complex is built on the site of the country’s worst human-caused disaster - the collapse of a major department store in 1995 that killed 502 people and injured nearly 1,000 others")







Vatican puts ‘God’s architect’ Antoni Gaudí on path to sainthood

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— The Guardian (@theguardian.com) April 14, 2025 at 1:07 PM

patron saint of blown deadlines, patron saint of blown deadlines, come on

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— Brendan O’Kane (@bokane.org) April 14, 2025 at 9:20 PM








Wow, Blue Prince really opens up once you get the railgun

— pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” (@pixelatedboat.bsky.social) April 14, 2025 at 3:26 PM
























@jen_deleon Watched #Lakers vs #Clippers last night on the jumbotron because the guy sitting in front of me was too tall 🤨 #NBA ♬ original sound - Jen DeLeon








@claire3summerour best believe every tuesday Jason will be in his recliner watching #curseofoakisland #dad #relatable inspo-@kali gibbons @HISTORY ♬ original sound - HISTORY








@amburr087 “What have you done human!” #lol #funnyvideos #dogsoftiktok #attitude ♬ Welp, Didn't Expect That - Yu-Peng Chen & HOYO-MiX








@cindywagon If our dachshund is in my daughter’s room, we can’t touch her 😂#dogsoftiktok #dachshund #fyp ♬ original sound - user3436443699192








@chaoswithkoda The potato scoop #dogdad #miniaussies #husband ♬ Shooting Stars - Bag Raiders




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