Friday, May 2, 2025

Today's news and jokes

this is such a good metaphor for where America is at right now

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— Boone Ashworth (@boone.bsky.social) May 1, 2025 at 10:02 AM














("The program — called Army of Drones bonus — rewards soldiers with points if they upload videos proving their drones have hit Russian targets. It will soon be integrated with a new online marketplace called Brave 1 Market, which will allow troops to convert those points into new equipment for their units. 'Brave 1 Market will be like Amazon for the military'")







OK the guy who is saying everybody is sad and has no friends, remind me, what was his company supposed to be about?

— Tom Scocca (@tomscocca.bsky.social) May 1, 2025 at 4:30 PM
















Great piece on a psychotic snark subreddit about a young woman on TikTok with cancer (the Redditors were trying to prove that she didn't have cancer) One of the most obsessed critics on Reddit criticizing the young cancer patient is a 53-year-old woman. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/01/n...

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— Aric Toler (@aric.bsky.social) May 1, 2025 at 9:41 AM
("Six months later, SydTowleSnark had more than 1,000 members, a relatively small group but one with an active core."...“Does something feel off to you about Syd Towle’s cancer story?” the subreddit asked. The group’s rules included “Be respectful to each other” and “No defending Syd.”)







a small Texas county found a way to make money off migrants: arrest them for trespassing, make them post bail to get out of jail, turn them over to ICE, collect forfeited bail money. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/01/u...

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— Steven Rich (@datab.ae) May 1, 2025 at 6:37 AM








This is a really big deal in New York. The state senate has reversed itself -- and gone against all precedents -- and allowed billionaire Mets owner Steve Cohen's casino project to move forward, over the objection of the local senator. www.politico.com/newsletters/...

— Noah Shachtman (@noahshachtman.bsky.social) April 29, 2025 at 2:41 PM








If anything they actively work to obfuscate & erase whatever talent they have. At Kotaku, for instance, we’ve lost most front-page bylines in recent years and were outright told we couldn’t do our own individual, personal lists of the year’s best games with our names in headlines, among other things

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— Carolyn Petit (@carolynmichelle.bsky.social) May 1, 2025 at 9:27 AM
































(The Fortnite Galactic Battle cinematic trailer is fun)







Fred VanVleet impatiently waiting for his turn in the press conference room

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— Danielle Lerner (@danielle-lerner.bsky.social) April 30, 2025 at 7:54 PM


























Hoopla Digital — free with a library card — now has comic strips. More than 100 newspaper strips are available digitally + the complete PEANUTS. They also have manga, comics, and graphic novels — all free to "borrow." A treasure trove. www.hoopladigital.com/bingepass/co... #Comics #Manga #BookSky

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— Will McKinley (@willmckinley.bsky.social) April 24, 2025 at 6:10 PM
























If y’all just wanna read the book, you can find it for free on The Internet Archive archive.org/details/runa...

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— Ivonne (@servoisnaked.bsky.social) March 29, 2025 at 9:02 AM








(Don't remember seeing this before--love when he sneaks in easter eggs)







I will always think of this @hausofdecline.bsky.social comic.

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— Mark Primiano (@doctor1hundred.bsky.social) March 31, 2025 at 6:38 PM
TIL Sandler missed one















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