Thursday, September 25, 2025

Today's news and jokes







FWIW







Super Typhoon Ragasa, a T10 (highest possible typhoon warning) is wrecking Hong Kong at the moment. This is video from the Ocean Park Fullerton Hotel.

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— Jane Ng (@janeng.com) September 23, 2025 at 9:36 PM

According to the South China Morning Post the hotel said other than cleaning up the lobby, service was otherwise unaffected and guests could continue to check in. 😆 true Hong Kong spirit right there www.scmp.com/news/hong-ko...

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— Jane Ng (@janeng.com) September 23, 2025 at 10:26 PM


(Cars tied down)







So just to be clear: The US is propping up Argentina’s economy, and now Argentina can eliminate its export taxes, so it can sell tons of soybeans to China, so China isn’t forced to buy soybeans from the US, so the US can pay subsidies to keep our farmers solvent. www.reuters.com/world/china/...

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— Bill Grueskin (@bgrueskin.bsky.social) September 24, 2025 at 6:37 PM








Tom Barrack’s admission that Israel attacked Tunisia this month by targeting the Global Sumud Flotilla (with drone) is especially relevant, given the group’s claims that 15+ drones have been harassing it over the past night:

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— Monica Marks (@monicamarks.bsky.social) September 23, 2025 at 11:37 PM
A write-up



CNN







Turns out Jessica Chastain is not happy Apple has "paused" release of her new show THE SAVANT after the Kirk killing. @ericvb.bsky.social has details, up now at @vulture.com www.vulture.com/article/jess...

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— TVMoJoe (@tvmojoe.bsky.social) September 24, 2025 at 9:02 AM
(Cosmo's article frome 2019: "You’ve never heard of her, but somewhere in America, a top secret investigator known as the Savant is infiltrating online hate groups to take down the most violent men in the country. Cosmopolitan goes undercover as she races to get ahead of the next large-scale attack.")







Can't help but notice that the media breathlessly reporting on the messages that shooters write on their bullets seems to have been followed by a surge of shooters writing messages on bullets

— Ari Drennen (@aridrennen.bsky.social) September 24, 2025 at 10:51 AM








(Thread continues)







So @jimmykimmel.com's first words back tonight--"As I was saying..."-- were an homage to Tonight Show host Jack Paar, who used those words when he returned after walking out on his show in a censorship dispute with NBC. From 65 years ago: www.youtube.com/watch?v=wrhQ...

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— TVMoJoe (@tvmojoe.bsky.social) September 23, 2025 at 10:01 PM
(The monologue)







(CEO of Y Combinator)







One amazing thinks about @ichotiner.bsky.social is that he makes use of civility dynamics. People in power tend to think that their authority and the respect they command mean that as long as someone talks to them civilly, they can make an ass of themselves and their foibles will get cleaned up.

— Courtney Milan (@courtneymilan.com) September 23, 2025 at 12:50 PM

The kind of people who do “Oh Shit, a Chotiner Interview” kind of interviews are exactly the kind of people who think they’re good people who will get kid glove treatment.

— Courtney Milan (@courtneymilan.com) September 23, 2025 at 12:55 PM

I didn’t add this because I was running late for an appointment but this is just such peak civility brain. “Yes, Henry Kissinger killed countless souls, but he did come to my Star Wars book party, and said kind and intellectual things.”

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— Courtney Milan (@courtneymilan.com) September 23, 2025 at 2:34 PM
(Excerpts from a longer thread)







The China Vehicle Collision Repair Technical and Research Center posted this video of their new battery ejection system for EVs for when they experience thermal runaway, and I cannot stop laughing. Good luck whoever is to my right! #cars

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— Dave Rahardja (@drahardja.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy) September 23, 2025 at 6:31 PM
(From April, "China to tighten EV battery rules to reduce fire and explosion risks")







people are going to think you're using hyperbole, rather referencing a real things that has happened multiple times. Quadro tracker, Alpha 6, etc.

— William B. Fuckley (@opinionhaver.bsky.social) September 22, 2025 at 4:00 PM
("Around 1,000 [Quadro Trackers] were sold to police departments and school districts around the United States on the basis that it could detect hidden drugs, explosives, weapons and lost golf balls") (The Alpha 6 is a hand-held device composed of a swivelling antenna mounted via a hinge to a plastic handset. Promotional literature claims that the device "is programmed to oscillate at the same frequency as that of the substance to be located." It is said to be powered by static electricity generated within the user's body "when breathing occurs".)







I appreciated this Winnipeg roofer’s outdoor ads.

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— Pablo Hidalgo (@infinata.bsky.social) September 23, 2025 at 5:26 PM
















The Alien Earth subreddit is the angriest place on earth.

— Choire (@choire.bsky.social) September 24, 2025 at 6:42 PM
(I'm only on the third episode and find the Prodigy CEO boring)







Silent hill f has the best booth gals

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— Brandon Sheffield (@brandon.insertcredit.com) September 24, 2025 at 7:24 PM








Remembering Jim Henson on what today would have been his 89th birthday.

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— Disney Prime Video + (@disneyprimevideo.bsky.social) September 24, 2025 at 6:07 AM
(Kinda suprised Disney permits this account to exist)







holy shit is this fire emblem mobile game bad

— Giovanni Colantonio (@marioprime.bsky.social) September 24, 2025 at 5:37 PM

there are only 3 characters on a team, including yourself, so if one person gets killed, only two people can be the bad guy: you, who did not do it, or the only other person who is alive lmfao

— Giovanni Colantonio (@marioprime.bsky.social) September 24, 2025 at 5:39 PM

is this a prank. am i alive. where am i

— Giovanni Colantonio (@marioprime.bsky.social) September 24, 2025 at 6:03 PM








Downtown 1968. Yeah, this tracks. Those of us who grew up in LA up thru the 1970s recall not being able to make out buildings or mountains just blocks away on bad smog days & you'd cough just by inhaling a deep breath. I've never smoked but I'm sure my lungs think otherwise. 😆

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— LA Dork (@ladork.bsky.social) July 25, 2025 at 10:50 AM










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— Kenny Logins (@kennylogins.bsky.social) July 22, 2025 at 5:57 AM








(answering work cell) Bill Wonka.

— Mike Schuster (@mcs212.bsky.social) July 22, 2025 at 4:43 AM








I suspect many American institutions--law firms, universities, the news media, the Republican Party--were more susceptible to authoritarian takeover than was expected because they were already so dependent on the largess of billionaires. If you depend on oligarchy, you can't fight for democracy.

— Max Berger (@maxberger.bsky.social) July 25, 2025 at 11:56 AM








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@hanselspencer Our dog is broken, he literally sprints away from us when he has to go on walks #rescuedog #shelterdog #armsofanangel #dramaticdog ♬ suara asli - Turatana








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