Tuesday, April 15, 2025

Today's news and jokes



















Columbia’s cave-in, Cuomo’s polling, the top-to-bottom corruption of Adams’ mayoralty: a good post earlier talked about the collapse of civic virtue in the U.S., but it’s worth suggesting that there’s something lacking regarding civic virtue and civil society in New York _specifically_.

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— Greg Greene (he/him/his) (@greene.haus) April 14, 2025 at 5:55 PM
(The first time I read about the 1993 riots...)











("[E]very teaching unit ... must be reformed by admitting a critical mass of students who will provide viewpoint diversity.") ("In a related development, nine major research universities and three university associations sued the Trump administration on Monday to restore $400 million in funding that the Energy Department said it was slashing last week") (Also, this.)











Boris Epshteyn—indicted Trump election conspirator and not actually a member of the government—is personally negotiating Trump's Big Law shakedowns, per WSJ

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— Joshua J. Friedman (@joshuajfriedman.com) April 14, 2025 at 5:39 AM
("if the president is making these deals in his personal capacity, it creates a qualitatively different kind of controversy")

















("the store had become famous in recent months thanks to rappers and influencers mentioning them on social media")







Man Pleads Guilty to Submitting False Tax Returns Tied to $13M CryptoPunks Sales. According to court filings, Wilcox sold 62 Punks in 2021 for $7.4 million, and another 35 in 2022 for nearly $4.9 million but said he had sold none. Could be jailed - interesting test case decrypt.co/314654/man-p...

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— Joe Tidy BBC News (@joetidy.bsky.social) April 14, 2025 at 11:16 AM

Astounding nugget here too: In dollar terms, the CryptoPunks collection is down 85.7% from that all-time high. Just last week, a CryptoPunks holder sold their NFT for $6 million, incurring a $10 million loss on the trade. Wowzers.

— Joe Tidy BBC News (@joetidy.bsky.social) April 14, 2025 at 11:16 AM








(Supposedly people were feeling this in Woodland Hills, which seems like a strong warning their house is built on sand and they should move)







































* U.S. Vice President JD Vance drops the trophy, as he and President Donald Trump (not pictured) meet the Ohio State University 2025 College Football National Champions, at the White House, in Washington, D.C. @reuters.com

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— Carl Quintanilla (@carlquintanilla.bsky.social) April 14, 2025 at 2:32 PM










(They should be tiktoking the competition)







Well, you don't see this every day. (Best part is the ump signaling safe after Vientos got pegged by the ball.)

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— Roger Cormier (@yayroger.bsky.social) April 14, 2025 at 6:27 PM
















Ken Griffey Jr took this photo

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— The Magical Merchant (@thetillshow.bsky.social) April 14, 2025 at 5:14 PM
(The scene in Interview With the Vampire when Louis's photography is critiqued)















This panel tells us a lot about how the Science Saru adaption is following the incidental goofiness of the Shirow manga! The Oshii adaption made it a very cool heavy metal ninja landing. A superhuman leap from the ground but in the manga the slum roof was more dilapidated than the Major anticipated

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— HokutoAndy (@hokutoandy.bsky.social) April 14, 2025 at 7:42 AM








(I used to work at Universal, the annual Xmas show was so great)







@newsworld077 #news #breakingnews #fypใƒ„ #tik ♬ original sound - g h y d vh








@sarcasticplastic excuse me #robot #deliveryrobot #georgiatech #ribboncutting #funny #food #delivery ♬ Funny - Gold-Tiger








@jtstjtst11 ๐Ÿ˜‚Walking in my neighborhood this morning and saw the cutest little baby Sandhill crane!๐Ÿซถ๐Ÿป Omg, I can’t even take all this cuteness! #sandhillcrane #sandhillcranes #birdsoftiktok #birds #birdwatching #birdlover #birdtok #birdsofprey #tampa #tampabay #tampaflorida #tampafl #floridalife #floridacheck ♬ Don't 4get to Smile - 45ACIDBABIES








@dailymotivation733 His favorite hobby ๐Ÿ˜… #fyp #foryoupage #jackieandshadow #shadowandjackie #bigbearlake #bigbearcalifornia #california #eagles #sticks #funnyvideo ♬ Funny - Gold-Tiger








@von.jakoba Are you my mama? #mama #imprint #emu #birdsoftiktok #germanshepherd #dogsoftiktok #farmtok ♬ Love Is Beautifully Painful (Ghost Duet Version) - Darkrose




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