Sunday, May 11, 2025

Today's news and jokes

U Arizona emergency alert texts have been slowly providing a terse account of how a swarm of bees is taking over campus this morning. 9:57 "Police are responding to a swarm of bees at speech and hearing." 10:43 "The area that should be avoided has expanded to James E. Rogers Way."

— Brandon Bishop (@brandontbishop.bsky.social) May 10, 2025 at 11:22 AM


11:52 "No further updates. Avoid the area." Suspenseful.

— Brandon Bishop (@brandontbishop.bsky.social) May 10, 2025 at 11:54 AM












If you watch Fox News please let me know when the hosts there pick up and start parroting the “insurrection is happening” line because we’ll be able to set a clock from that to the start of martial law.

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— Hamilton Nolan (@hamiltonnolan.bsky.social) May 10, 2025 at 4:15 PM
















A write-up



“A review of Hegseth’s thesis by The Daily Princetonian, in consultation with three experts on plagiarism, found eight instances of uncredited material, sham paraphrasing, and verbatim copying.”

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— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) May 10, 2025 at 5:09 PM








Elizabeth Holmes is in prison for defrauding investors through her blood-testing company, Theranos. Her partner, Billy Evans, is now trying to raise money for a company that describes itself as “the future of diagnostics.” nyti.ms/3FbtZm9

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— The New York Times (@nytimes.com) May 10, 2025 at 9:47 AM
("A photo provided to potential investors of the start-up’s prototype bears more than a passing physical resemblance to Theranos’s infamous blood-testing machine...The marketing documents provided with the photo say there is 'no regulatory oversight — U.S.D.A. confirmed in writing.' It’s not clear what the company means by that")







("The three teenagers were also involved in disturbances together at a Florida high school")















Totally wild to compare the pitch counts achievable throwing underhand to overhand







(The celebration is at 1:17--the audio is the announcers trying to figure out what happened)







@v1ryse She was looking out for me 😭😭 idk how i feel about this #koreanbeautystandards #asian #05 ♬ Acnino - secnature








@peslka Sending prayers to Bangkok and Myanmar 🕊️🙏🏻 #nyepi #nyepibali #bali #nyepi2025 #dayofsilence #balinesenewyear #indonesia #travel ♬ DIM - Yves








@starholedesigns There's a mouse driving that mouse droid! WonderCon 2025# #chopper #chopperdroid #droidsmithsunion #wondercon #wondercon2025 ♬ mouse driving a mouse droid - STARHOLEDESIGNS








@lexiefreeman02

Apartment hunting in NYC like

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