Wednesday, April 30, 2025

Today's news and jokes

("'When somebody said there was a kangaroo of course I didn’t believe it, and nobody believed it. But I’m looking at him,' Macon County Sheriff... said")











This







Johnson: "Do not believe the lies the Democrat Party has said. We had their ads taken down. They were running ads around the country in swing districts trying to convince people Republicans are going to 'gut Medicaid.' It's just simply not true & that's why their ads & billboards had to come down"

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— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) April 29, 2025 at 7:43 AM
(The Hill's write-up.)





SCOOP: The Antisemitism Awareness Act — up for vote in Senate committee tomorrow — now has a religious liberty clause to protect ‘Jews killed Jesus’ statements by Christian conservatives. New added language in the bill clarifies First Amendment protections. More ⬇️ forward.com/fast-forward...

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— Jacob Kornbluh (@jacobkornbluh.bsky.social) April 29, 2025 at 2:21 PM
(I haven't seen any other news articles about this)









(Just wait for the dockworkers to strike to protest modern technology)







("communications director for Councilmember Traci Park, attributes the lack of ongoing burglaries in the Palisades to the high level of neighborhood security. The California National Guard staffs around-the-clock entry and exit checkpoints with assistance from the California Highway Patrol. The LAPD regularly patrols the community. Checkpoints in Altadena, on the other hand, were lifted at the end of January.")









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— Second Ave. Sagas (@2avesag.as) April 29, 2025 at 7:49 PM




your child will toil valiantly in the factory. it will be masculine. it will restore our national character. it will make america great again. oh my child? my child will run a lucrative rightwing podcast

— Jake Grumbach (@jakemgrumbach.bsky.social) April 29, 2025 at 11:47 AM








Is the consensus among mainstream journalists that the White House slandering a man they delivered into slavery using a crudely manipulated photo in the president’s grasp in the Oval Office is just not a very newsworthy event?

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— southpaw (@nycsouthpaw.bsky.social) April 19, 2025 at 1:47 PM


This is one of the worst interviews I’ve ever seen. Moran keeps trying to move on from a point Trump is CLEARLY WRONG ON and just says “agree to disagree.” Do your fucking job!

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— Hamilton Nolan (@hamiltonnolan.bsky.social) April 29, 2025 at 6:36 PM


extremely amusing that this book is going to drop in may, which will be the first month where america's shelves are empty. no food or consumer products to buy - but yeah, sure, you could read about how the last president was bad

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— robert j bennett, smiling politely (@robertjbennett.bsky.social) April 28, 2025 at 6:25 AM








chinese companies will sell you a fully featured EV for around $20k, while the american equivalent is the most bare bones offering you’ve seen in decades

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— Paris Marx (@parismarx.com) April 24, 2025 at 7:48 PM
(Looks charming, tho)







I love these silicon valley bros that think ChatGPT has achieved some kind of sentience and therefore might have rights. Like dudes, you don't even think poor people deserve rights, let's try to achieve that before giving person-hood to the autocomplete algorithm.

— Existential Comics (@existentialcomics.com) April 27, 2025 at 2:24 PM




"i'm enthusiastically in favor of people being sent off to a gulag so long as I don't have to explain that to anyone at a dinner party" is a larger (and more bipartisan) demographic than we sometimes pretend

— Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò (@olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social) April 28, 2025 at 8:24 AM


These are the guys playing with cheats and demanding everyone respects them for this.

— Militant Nerd (@militantnerd.bsky.social) April 28, 2025 at 7:28 AM


















(What happened to that trading card-like company?)







A lot of updates here. Reddit is issuing "formal legal demands" against the researchers who ran this experiment. The university is investigating how the research was done, and the researchers say they are not going to publish their findings: www.404media.co/reddit-issui...

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— Jason Koebler (@jasonkoebler.bsky.social) April 29, 2025 at 6:54 AM






























a life hack is if you have five fouls, a tech, and a flagrant, you can still play

— Ashtyn Butuso (@ashtynbutuso.bsky.social) April 28, 2025 at 8:51 PM










I'd had enough of the armchair debate about whether 100 guys could take down a gorilla, so I went to the experts. Here is what actual primatologists and wildlife conservationists (including @nakedprimate.bsky.social and @marspidermonkey.bsky.social) said when I wasted their time with this question:

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— Pornhub’s Gore Vidal (@milesklee.bsky.social) April 29, 2025 at 2:54 PM

I love truly devoted educators because you can ask them the stupidest thing imaginable and still learn something cool www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...

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— Pornhub’s Gore Vidal (@milesklee.bsky.social) April 29, 2025 at 3:00 PM
















(Mention Tiger Schulmann’s Karate to a millennial from the New York–New Jersey area and witness a blast of nostalgia. Saturday-morning cartoons in the 1990s and 2000s were flooded with his ads: Kids intimidate bullies and kick monsters out of bedroom windows. A Tina Turner sound-alike wails, “Whoa Tiiiiiger! Yeah, yeah, yeah! Tiiiiiger!” A pitchman exhorts parents to call 1-800-52-TIGER. But behind the pressed white uniforms and kids’ birthday parties, Tiger Schulmann’s Karate was once a Wild West of broken bones and bruised egos, fortunes made and reputations squandered, where many of the hits were below the black belt. Schulmann invited the wrath of prosecutors and police, aggrieved former senseis, and keyboard ninjas who called him a “scumbag” and “scam artist.”)































officially licensed evangelion DANGER boxer briefs

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— kate bush’s husband (@airbagged.bsky.social) March 27, 2025 at 5:17 AM
("Get in the boxers, Shinji")







constantly thinking about this ominous sticky note drawing i saw in a boba shop

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— brian david gilbert (@briamgilbert.bsky.social) March 27, 2025 at 10:26 PM
















@an.orange.01 My dog fell into the water by accident and...#dog #fpy #🐶 ♬ Western Music: Arizona Dreaming - Piero Piccioni




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