Sunday, September 14, 2025

Today's news and jokes

nothing is wrong. there is no problem. but you can’t help but think that man outside the trolley window appears to have a lot on his mind.

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— illumi (@vinnievinson.bsky.social) December 26, 2023 at 10:59 AM






Romania detects another Russian drone incursion. “at 18.23, F 16 aircraft detected a drone in national airspace, which they tracked until approximately 20 km SW of Chilia Veche, when it disappeared from the radar…a Russian drone crashed in Chilia” adevarul.ro/stiri-intern...

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— Shashank Joshi (@shashj.bsky.social) September 13, 2025 at 10:00 AM








("Labor union support helped secure passage after amendments requiring union hiring on certain projects, despite local community resistance. The bill will head to Gov. Gavin Newsom in October")









Today people went around my neighborhood in north east London spray painting St George’s crosses onto people’s homes. Many of these houses have non British people living in them. This is getting very dark, very quick.

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— Peter Geoghegan (@petergeoghegan.bsky.social) September 13, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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Reporters talking with everyone who has ever met the shooter asking if the shooter knew any trans people. Healthy society we have here for sure.

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— Katelyn Burns (@katelynburns.com) September 13, 2025 at 1:31 PM


"But 4chan said he was a confirmed groyper" 4chan lies about everything, it's literally just what they do

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— Drew Harwell (@drewharwell.com) September 12, 2025 at 1:55 PM


Ashley Rindsberg and Fox News are furious at Wikipedia editors for “attacking” Charlie Kirk by... listing the viewpoints he prominently and publicly advocated

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— Molly White (@molly.wiki) September 13, 2025 at 7:18 AM


"We have to cancel kristallnacht 2.0 because the guy was one of the people we were grooming to take part in it" is a heck of a twist to be sure

— Hbomberguy (@hbomberguy.bsky.social) September 13, 2025 at 1:57 AM
(They're still trying) (Presumably moves like this are an attempt to seize the chance to settle old scores)



a question I often find myself asking these days: "are these the moves of a movement that feels that it's winning or one desperately afraid that it's about to lose everything?"

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— Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò (@olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social) September 13, 2025 at 4:07 PM




[EMPATHY] - You should say something. This is important. 1. “My heart goes out to his family” 2. [Drama - Easy 8] Blow everyone’s minds with an epic and inspiring quote FAIL “Rest easy brother, we have the watch, I’ll see you in Valhalla”

— Tom Ley (@toley.bsky.social) September 13, 2025 at 10:14 AM




Yes but then again: Jim Crow was a minstrel character, California was named for a mythical island in a hit book, Lenin took the title of his breakthrough pamphlet from a polyamorous romance novel, and the American revolutionaries couldn’t stop quoting and stealing lines from a 1713 play about Cato

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— Jonathan M. Katz (@katz.theracket.news) September 13, 2025 at 11:22 AM
Cato



Some real Gilded Age stuff going on: Trump says Union Pacific's president urged him to send troops into Memphis, St. Louis, and Chicago, which are all important interchange points between UP and Norfolk Southern, the railroad UP is attempting to buy out

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— Star:Line Chicago (@starlinechicago.bsky.social) September 12, 2025 at 8:47 AM
"Union Pacific Railroad confirmed Friday"



There's a lot of room through legislation and liability to beat back the 21st century idea, driven by everything-goes assault-weapon marketing, that guns are fun and good for self-expression and self-actualization, and I'd expect crimes with hunting rifles and revolvers to drop off if that happened

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— Tom Scocca (@tomscocca.bsky.social) September 13, 2025 at 9:42 AM
Simply allowing lawsuits...















Named Diella







This bot is temporarily suspending its service for a minimum of two weeks in protest of the recent wave of unjustified bans.

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— Random gachapon! ランダム・ガチャポン (@randomgacha.bsky.social) September 11, 2025 at 7:58 PM








Bad Bunny, one of the biggest musical artists in the world, said he avoided the US in his tour because he thought ICE would set up ouside his shows.

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— Matthew Reichbach (@fbihop.press) September 11, 2025 at 10:51 AM








From November 2024, "Patrick Beverley claims Clippers owner Steve Ballmer neglected charitable side deal in 2019 contract"







Currently having a very surreal, very American experience of flipping around to college football games and they’re all… injuries. Two stretcher-related ones so far in the Arkansas v. Ole Miss game and the Notre Dame v. Texas A&M one

— Jake Lahut (@jakelahut.writes.news) September 13, 2025 at 7:01 PM








Someone at UCLA should be fired for approving that payment--was that tax money?







Never seen the first down line chase the runner before, couldn't keep up

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— CJ Fogler (@cjzero.bsky.social) September 12, 2025 at 10:14 PM
















gonna be honest I have permanently lost a small amount of respect for the University of Oregon that they did not bring their giant floating inflatable duck to sit outside Northwestern's lake stadium

— Rodger Sherman (@rodger.bsky.social) September 13, 2025 at 9:35 AM
















@aero.tagg Not quite the same as Google next door with their fancy all you can eat free meals everyday. But they don’t send stuff to Mars. #nasa #space #engineering ♬ un homme et une femme - 💌








@hammermontaner Subway series! #nyc #yankees #mets #4thofjuly #subwayseries #baseball #queens ♬ Star Spangled (Bass Boosted) - SNC








@coryinthegalaxy They are making them fight now???? #disney #disneyland #disneyadult #starwars #starwarsfan #starwarstiktok #galaxysedge #droids ♬ Duel of the Fates (From "Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace") - Robert Ziegler








@goodboyralphh throwback to when I was scared of my dog ❤️🤣 he’s still the moochiest moo of the moos though!! #dogmomlife #cutestdog #judge #moody #dog ♬ original sound - Moochie Moo




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