Tuesday, April 22, 2025

Today's news and jokes

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Witnesses are recounting the mayhem that unfolded on the Sunshine Coast. Two sisters have told of how their mother and a man raced to help when the carjacked SUV rolled on Steve Irwin Way, only to find the gun-wielding car thief emerging from the wreck. #7NEWS

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"The Dominican Republic dismantled a group of National Police officers who allegedly stole almost one million rounds of police ammunition and sold it on the black market..."

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— Jake Hanrahan (@hanrahan.tv) April 20, 2025 at 3:57 AM
(From last month: "Authorities in the Dominican Republic said Tuesday that they seized 36,000 cartridges, 23 firearms and more than two dozen rifle and pistol chargers from a Miami shipment destined for Haiti.")



“Restore more doctrinaire leadership” about THE ACTUAL PAPACY is really a gorgeous combination of the Times’ hick condescension toward religion and its reflexive belief that right-wing politics is the only true and authentic politics

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— Tom Scocca (@tomscocca.bsky.social) April 21, 2025 at 4:41 AM
(The article includes the phrase, but doesn't explain what it means, or make an effort to tie it to anyone actually in the running. It does include this helpful passage: "Francis and Mr. Trump rose to global prominence during the same decade of rapid political and societal change. Both leveraged their personal charisma to flex their power in transformative ways. But the pontiff and the president had little in common.")



In the past month, JD Vance got snubbed by all of Greenland, broke the College Football Playoff trophy, and killed the Pope.

— Bill Chambers (@flmfrkcentral.bsky.social) April 21, 2025 at 9:27 AM




We must increase the birth rate in order to feed RFK Jr's bottomless appetite for more child sacrifices

— Ned Resnikoff (@resnikoff.bsky.social) April 21, 2025 at 9:08 AM
("Medication records from pharmacy chains, lab testing and genomics data from patients treated by the Department of Veterans Affairs and Indian Health Service, claims from private insurers and data from smartwatches and fitness trackers will all be linked together...In addition, a new disease registry is being launched to track Americans with autism, which will be integrated into the data...Between 10 and 20 outside groups of researchers will be given grant funding and access to the records")







It begins

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— Anne-Marie W. Clark (@amwclark.bsky.social) April 20, 2025 at 9:02 PM
("Boeing’s order book had 130 planes scheduled for deliver to Chinese companies at the end of March for both commercial airlines and leasing firms")



There’ll be a lot of eyebrows not raised over this.

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— OisΓ­n McGann (@oisinmcgann.bsky.social) April 21, 2025 at 4:07 AM




Walmart has also updated the new amiibo pricing ($10 increase): Street Fighter amiibo from $29.99 to $39.99 Zelda amiibo from $19.99 to $29.99 Walmart buff.ly/BWTVdL3 GameStop buff.ly/QSvhL0Y

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— Wario64 (@wario64.bsky.social) April 21, 2025 at 8:05 AM
(I thought they were shockingly overpriced at $20...)















young men don’t need a “left Joe Rogan” they need sports betting regulation

— Lex McMenamin (they/them) (@leximcmenamin.com) April 20, 2025 at 5:16 PM








NEW: Bezos-backed EV startup Slate Auto dropped a few versions of its electric truck in CA over the weekend, ahead of a formal reveal Thursday. Sources told me Slate has privately touted the truck's 'Transformer'-like shapeshifting ability. More at @techcrunch.com techcrunch.com/2025/04/21/b...

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— Sean O’Kane (@seanokane.bsky.social) April 21, 2025 at 11:35 AM










The best part about Andor’s Coruscant scenes is that, in-universe, at any moment Jar Jar Binks could walk into the room

— Tom (@tbestig.bsky.social) April 17, 2025 at 8:21 PM
































The most difficult decision I've ever had to make

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— Jason Rabinowitz (@airlineflyer.net) March 22, 2025 at 7:52 AM
















The jackpot SNES rental was Zombies Ate My Neighbors with all the passwords filled in at the end of the instruction manual.

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— Oscar Goff (@theoscargoff.bsky.social) March 22, 2025 at 4:49 PM
















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