Monday, August 25, 2025

Today's news and jokes

Carmontelle: So how would you like to be portrayed in this once-in-a-lifetime portrait, Mme de la Croix? Playing the harp? Stroking a kitten? Tending to your husband's needs in a wifely manner? Mme de la Croix: Perhaps beneath a tree, having just received a really stressful letter? C: no problem

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— Emily Brand (@emilybrand.bsky.social) July 7, 2025 at 7:21 AM






New ICE recruiting poster.

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— Ron Filipkowski (@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social) August 21, 2025 at 5:03 PM


The president of the United States, wearing a novelty hat that says he’s always right and sitting next to the World Cup trophy he stole, insists that “African American ladies, beautiful ladies” are demanding he invade Chicago with the military.

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— Kevin M. Kruse (@kevinmkruse.bsky.social) August 23, 2025 at 9:33 AM

Every single day the head of a national publication or cable network looks at this batshit insanity and just shrugs.

— Kevin M. Kruse (@kevinmkruse.bsky.social) August 23, 2025 at 9:34 AM








it is so much harder to build from scratch than to rebuild. our ancestors never saw that their dreams were possible. we see merely that they are not indestructible

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— a good and normal boy (@myrrlyn.net) August 22, 2025 at 4:09 PM

(iron man jeff bridges voice) lyndon JOHNSON built this! in ONE TERM! with a bunch of RACISTS!! don’t fucking tell me it can’t be done!!

— a good and normal boy (@myrrlyn.net) August 22, 2025 at 4:24 PM
(Box of scraps) (LBJ's Wikipedia page)



not to sound like a broken record but this is (one of the reasons) why history and literature are a tremendous salve to being a person alive at any one specific moment

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— Cat Manning (@catacalypto.bsky.social) August 22, 2025 at 2:52 PM








Indie comics publisher @fantagraphics.bsky.social is being robbed of millions of dollars' worth of merchandise by the distributor Diamond to pay for the latter's bankruptcy. Fantagraphics is running a sale to help cover these costs - 30% off everything on their website through Mon: Fantagraphics.com

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— Michael Avolio (@michaelavolio.bsky.social) August 22, 2025 at 10:16 AM
Still up when I checked







just rewatched The Last Boy Scout, a movie i cannot analyze objectively because i have loved it since childhood. But goddamn Ebert's review of it is both hard as fuck and prescient.

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— Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) (@iwriteok.bsky.social) August 18, 2025 at 8:31 PM








Folks reasonably assume footage from behind-the-scenes featurettes are "truth", but it is now standard practice for studios to alter footage from "making-of" videos. (These gray screens are actually blue screens on the set of "Superman" (2025).)

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— Todd Vaziri (@tvaziri.com) August 23, 2025 at 11:14 AM








The look Adrian Beltre gives Elvis Andrus 😂 (via Rangers)

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— CJ Fogler (@cjzero.bsky.social) August 23, 2025 at 5:51 PM








@cjzero.bsky.social The Portland broadcast of the Seahawks game has the file names for the commercials visible.

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— Alton Francis (@altron.bsky.social) August 23, 2025 at 2:30 PM








HOW

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— Rodger Sherman (@rodger.bsky.social) August 23, 2025 at 9:43 AM








look at the names of the dudes who caught passes for Nicholls State today

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— Matt Brown (@mattbrown.bsky.social) August 23, 2025 at 12:32 PM
























as a child I thought it was wildly unrealistic that Sims would immediately give up on all their goals and dreams if a single dirty plate was left on the ground but now that I’m an adult I understand that that was the most realistic part of the game

— Janel Comeau 🍁 (@verybadllama.bsky.social) June 23, 2025 at 8:29 PM
























@thriftgodpvssy Yea it’s loud af #cat ♬ 365 - Charli xcx








@xo.saqs Pierre is a tough trainer!🐾😅😂 (Pierre: You better beat me up and down these stairs) Who needs to pay for a trainer when your dog will do it for free (well maybe with lots a treats and lovin) #fyp #funnydogvideos #funnydogsoftiktok #dogsoftiktok #workout #fitnessmotivation #motivation #workoutmotivation #doglover #petsoftiktok #dogworkout #funnymoments #viraldogsoftiktok #viraldog ♬ Lovable and funny animals - ALOHI STYLE




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