Wednesday, May 28, 2025

Today's news and jokes

Honestly, some of my favorite TV moments are when live-to-tape TV shows have to meet the constraints of the format During the 2007-08 writer's strike, Conan O'Brien forced his guests to navigate a maze before their interview, because they couldn't write jokes and they needed something else to do

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— Phil Salvador (@philsalv.bsky.social) May 24, 2025 at 10:12 PM






What a terrible name for a starship.

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— Pablo Hidalgo (@infinata.bsky.social) May 27, 2025 at 5:34 PM












All scams, all the time. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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— John Sipher (@johnsipher.bsky.social) May 27, 2025 at 6:45 PM


SCOOP: Less than 3 weeks before Trump pardoned Paul Walczak, his mother, Elizabeth Fago, attended a $1M/head fundraiser with Trump at Mar-a-Lago for MAGA Inc. Walczak's pardon application emphasized Fago's financial support for Trump, & her connection to a plot to publicize Ashley Biden's diary.

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— Ken Vogel (@kenvogel.bsky.social) May 27, 2025 at 8:01 AM
("It came just in the nick of time for [him], sparing him from having to pay nearly $4.4 million in restitution")

The crazy thing about Trump randomly pardoning relatively small-time, unrelated criminals is it adds just another level of gambling to making decisions in one's day-to-day life

— Cai (@annenotation.bsky.social) May 27, 2025 at 7:03 AM


Wild story. If I read it right, it alleges: Hegseth’s personal lawyer, overseeing DoD leak investigation (!), told WH an illegal NSA wiretap on Dan Caldwell phone (!!) was used, but that this wasn’t in fact true (!!!). The lawyer then denied he’d said this. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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— Shashank Joshi (@shashj.bsky.social) May 27, 2025 at 8:19 AM
("the illegal wiretap claim and [senior adviser]’s denials fueled a breakdown in trust between the Pentagon and the White House, where the Trump advisers tracking the investigation have privately suggested they no longer have any idea about who or what to believe")

BREAKING: Trump's executive order targeting WilmerHale is unconstitutional, Judge Richard Leon — a GWB appointee — finds. "The Founding Fathers knew this!" storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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— Chris Geidner (@chrisgeidner.bsky.social) May 27, 2025 at 1:52 PM








"You need to have constant bodyguard physical security at all times or else organized crime syndicates will kidnap you to steal your money in untraceable ways" is the world that the crypto evangelists dream of creating.

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— mtsw (@mtsw.bsky.social) May 27, 2025 at 10:50 AM








Armed Forces of the Philippines chief Gen. Romeo Brawner Jr. reaffirms the military’s commitment to the Constitution and the chain of command, saying there will be no coup d’état under his leadership. (📷 FILE PHOTO)

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— Bianca Dava (@biancadavalee.bsky.social) May 27, 2025 at 5:39 PM








If you've thought honeycrisp apples have gotten worse recently, you're not wrong! Here's a good look at why.

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— Matthew Reichbach (@fbihop.press) May 22, 2025 at 11:05 AM
("'Really a variety cannot be successful unless it’s grown commercially in Washington,' [he] says. 'We sent trees out, they tested it, and I had more than one grower call me and say, "'That’s the worst tree I’ve ever tried to grow here. I’m pulling all the trees out.'" Not only is the fruit a poor fit for the state’s climate, which is much warmer than Minnesota, but it’s also prone to several physiological and storage disorders")







linkedin very rarely has jokes, but when it has them they're pretty good

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— zaratustra (@zaratustra.bsky.social) May 25, 2025 at 8:41 AM








There are whole movies that don’t have the twists and turns of this paragraph.

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— Tim Carvell (@timcarvell.bsky.social) May 26, 2025 at 1:14 PM

Source: www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

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— Klint Finley (@klintron.com) May 26, 2025 at 3:40 PM








Bow to the master







I would pay a large sum of money out of my own pocket to watch the non-NFL flag football team vs. the NFL flag football team in a qualifier to see who represents the US

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— Bill Barnwell (@billbarnwell.com) May 26, 2025 at 11:07 AM
















("The concept did not seem far-fetched as most Syrians, he said, 'live on top of an archaeological site, next door to an archaeological site, or a stone’s throw away from an archaeological site.'")







This is fascinating!! www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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— Mike Forsythe 傅才德 (@pekingmikenyt.bsky.social) April 20, 2025 at 1:33 PM
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death river, commodore 16, plus/4 (1986) plus4world.powweb.com/software/Dea...

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— videogame history (@vghistory.bsky.social) January 20, 2025 at 3:04 AM








There's a terrific Most Dangerous Game episode where a hunter traps David Banner on an island and David tries not to Hulk out because the hunter wants to hunt the Hulk, not David.

— Bill Chambers (@flmfrkcentral.bsky.social) April 20, 2025 at 10:16 AM
(My favorite Hulk issues were the "Stay Angry" storyline drawn by Steve Dillon where the Hulk keeps waking up to realize Banner has intentionally gotten him into a comically dangerous situation)







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