Sunday, August 31, 2025

Today's news and jokes











("the movement's ultimate leader, as well as the group's defence minister and the chief of staff, were not said to be among the casualties in Thursday's attack.")







“The Taliban forcibly took over our joint venture oil fields and unreasonably drove our Chinese personnel out of the oil field at gunpoint.” www.npr.org/2025/08/27/n...

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— Emily Feng (@emilyzfeng.bsky.social) August 28, 2025 at 9:01 PM








This firefighter arrived in the US at age 4, has been here for 19 years, was on track to legal status, and was on a crew trying to contain a major blaze (in Washington state, vs Oregon, fwiw.) h/t @joshuajfriedman.com www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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— James Fallows (@jfallows.bsky.social) August 30, 2025 at 11:58 AM




An activist has started using artificial intelligence to identify ICE agents beneath their masks — a use of the technology sparking new political concerns over AI-powered surveillance. Can Washington do anything about it?

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— Politico (@politico.com) August 29, 2025 at 2:10 PM












("The Indian leader bristled. He told Mr. Trump that U.S. involvement had nothing to do with the recent cease-fire. It had been settled directly between India and Pakistan. Mr. Trump largely brushed off Mr. Modi’s comments, but the disagreement — and Mr. Modi’s refusal to engage on the Nobel — has played an outsize role in the souring relationship between the two leaders")























A Trump Defense Department official sued an astrologer, Amy Tripp, a.k.a. Starheal, with whom he had a 15-month-long affair, after she allegedly texted his wife, “He won’t get confirmed. He’s cooked.’

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— New York Magazine (@nymag.com) August 29, 2025 at 5:09 AM
A Reddit thread with unhappy customers







All attention is good attention for the people on Twitter, right?







(This was me for about five hours--I don't understand why they don't post an announcement on their social media or landing page (you had to put in your address and phone number to get a message that there was an outage))







If we, as Americans, lose our cultural memory of buoys, how will our kitschy local seafood restaurants identify their men's rooms? www.nytimes.com/2025/08/24/u...

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— Noel Murray (@noelmu.bsky.social) August 27, 2025 at 1:34 PM








What are they putting in the pumpkin cream flavoring? Lard?

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— Christina Holland (@mortalwombat.info) August 30, 2025 at 1:43 PM








What does Alex Guerrero do with the #Raiders? Tom Brady's longtime body coach joined the franchise as their "wellness coordinator" this offseason. Essentially, he presides over the training staff. I spoke to Guerrero about what that entails 🔗⤵️ www.nytimes.com/athletic/658...

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— Tashan Reed (@tashanreed.bsky.social) August 29, 2025 at 7:48 AM
("Criticism followed — most notably, Boston Magazine ran a piece in 2015 calling [him] a 'glorified snake-oil salesman.' His access to the team facility, reportedly, came to a halt in 2017 when Belichick revoked his access")























I’ve been lucky to work on some huge properties over the course of my career, but the number one thing that I get random messages from people about is this adorable little show I got to help write back in 2018-2019.

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— Eric Stirpe (@stirpicus.bsky.social) August 10, 2025 at 10:36 AM










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— Steven W. Hunt (@ninjinister.bsky.social) August 6, 2025 at 12:11 PM
















My only memory of Pyun’s Captain America is my mom renting it for me when it came out, and I was scared to watch it with anyone else around because I’d read a review that said Cap “spent more time out of costume than in” and I thought that meant he was going to be naked.

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— Wes Black (@wesblk.bsky.social) August 2, 2025 at 2:49 PM








If someone ever asks “Why are you, as a man, wearing another man’s jersey??” just say “because I am in love with him.”

— Ashtyn Butuso (@ashtynbutuso.bsky.social) July 1, 2025 at 7:21 AM








Great news - thanks to Artisan Tiles' unique approach to naming their collections, I will never have to think up a name for a sexy battle wizard ever again

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— Grant Howitt (@gshowitt.bsky.social) July 2, 2025 at 11:23 AM
















Because it makes me giggle: The term for the weird kink in the telephone cord is "tendril perversion". No joke, go look on Wikipedia. The header disambiguates it from tentacle porn. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tendril...

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— MadGastronomer (@madgastronomer.bsky.social) June 30, 2025 at 10:24 PM








@binoo324 Anything for attention am I right? Don't worry, I checked and wiped her eye, but she kept up her act til the vet bill was paid 🎭💸 #diva #chihuahua #sweet #dog ♬ original sound - Binoo




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