Monday, April 28, 2025

Today's news and jokes

@aljazeeraenglish Members of two rival #churches fire thousands of fireworks at each other's building during #Easter celebrations on the #Greek island of #Chios. The aim of the traditional 'rocket war' is to hit the bell in the other church's tower. #news #greece #church #Easter2025 ♬ original sound - Al Jazeera English
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Absolutely wild: UK lawyers who have worked in relation to ICC Gaza investigation warned they are at risk of US sanctions, not only restricting travel there but potentially freezing their financial assets worldwide observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

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— Natalie Sedacca (@nataliesedacca.bsky.social) April 27, 2025 at 12:59 AM








The Drug Enforcement Administration said the arrests occurred as part of a raid at an underground nightclub in Colorado Springs.

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— NPR (@npr.org) April 27, 2025 at 11:11 AM
(ABC summarizing the government's claims)







the deep state exists and it's a network of posters, substackers, influencers, columnists, venture capitalists and politicians who believe the cathedral exists and will kill every single person on medicaid in order to find it

— GOLIKEHELLMACHINE (@golikehellmachine.com) April 27, 2025 at 9:19 PM


There are some eye-opening anecdotes in this story. I knew private Signal chats were big, but the bit about the Harpers Letter people is hilarious. When it came out, I had called out how some in the group were using others as human shields, and that seems clear from this...

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— Mike Masnick (@mmasnick.bsky.social) April 27, 2025 at 9:43 PM


when i say that there was a venture capitalist conspiracy against american democracy i cannot express how literal i am being

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— rev. howard arson (@theophite.bsky.social) April 27, 2025 at 8:46 PM


Hundreds of thousands of people are losing their jobs and hundreds of thousands of more are facing death from preventable disease because Marc Andreessen’s friends group let Chris Rufo convince them witches were spreading the Woke Mind Virus

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— Tom Scocca (@tomscocca.bsky.social) April 28, 2025 at 3:50 AM


Multiple articles have been written about Bluesky being a dangerous echo chamber while the world’s richest and influential men are having their brains cooked in increasingly extremist group chats

— Kat Tenbarge (@kattenbarge.bsky.social) April 28, 2025 at 6:10 AM








don jr. is making jared and hunter biden look like chumps. he's quickly becoming the GOAT of monetizing access to his dad www.politico.com/news/2025/04...

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— Noah Shachtman (@noahshachtman.bsky.social) April 27, 2025 at 7:42 AM








(State senator)







My favorite thing about the Wall Street Journal is that you can read an article about how Meta knowingly allowed a chat bot with licensed celebrity voices to do underage sex roleplay with children and there's an embedded widget to tell you that the company's stock price is up 2.65%

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— Daniel Radosh (@radosh.bsky.social) April 27, 2025 at 1:10 PM


they clipped the audio and put it in the article. oh my god dude

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— josh boerman (@bosh.worstpossible.world) April 27, 2025 at 8:38 AM
("Meta slammed the WSJ testing — led by award-winning tech watchdog reporter ... as 'manipulative,' claiming the results were not indicative of the average user.")















The mods of r/changemyview revealed yesterday that researchers from the University of Zurich had performed an unauthorised experiments where AI bots posed as: - a black man opposed to Black Lives Matter - a person who received substandard care in a foreign hospital - a victim of rape

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— Adrian Hon (@adrianhon.bsky.social) April 27, 2025 at 4:20 AM








(A write-up from the Vatican News)















I got to write about the anti-fascist message of my favorite game of the year (and probably decade). @dogubomb.bsky.social @rawfury.bsky.social

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— Jeffrey Parkin (@ripefly.bsky.social) April 27, 2025 at 7:27 AM








This is your periodic reminder that giant piles of free art are available for use in your next TTRPG or board game project, including commercial use. Here are some resources to get started: www.skeletoncodemachine.com/p/public-dom... (Part 1 of 2) #ttrpg #boardgames 🎲✂️

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— Exeunt Press 💀 (@exeunt.press) April 24, 2025 at 8:21 AM








@bleacherreport How many games will UNC win this season? 🤔👇 (via @carolinacockroach) #collegefootball #football #cfb #nfl ♬ original sound - bleacherreport


The portion of the Bill Belichick interview that aired on CBS this morning where his relationship with Jordon Hudson is discussed is something... she's there and shuts down the question about how they met

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— CJ Fogler (@cjzero.bsky.social) April 27, 2025 at 10:27 AM
("While we don’t know the total number of interruptions, it’s our understanding that CBS decided to include that one specific instance because it wasn’t a one-time thing.") (Has she taken a photo wearing all the rings yet?)























@tingtangwalla Squirrel feeder suction cups trying to set the sofa on fire 😳#firestarter ♬ Smoke - Florida Georgia Line








@lexyhope97

LA, I love you so much

♬ original sound - lex








@maceondeck it was actually great i love not being hot and in crowds #greece #santorini #travel ♬ WHY IS EVERYONE USING THIS - .








@keanuthepompom he’s a finance intern in training #dog #boyfriend #pomeranian #dogsoftiktok #cutedog #cute #cuteanimals #funnydog #funnyanimals #funnyvideo #fyp #keanu ♬ original sound - msjacksonn89








@riveroaksdoodles #creatorsearchinsights #baseball #softball #fyp ♬ Good Day - Nappy Roots
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