Tuesday, September 16, 2025

Today's news and jokes



@chinaminutes Chinese soldiers are slowly returning home from Beijing’s military parade and their identical parade-cap tan lines are really hard to miss 🥹😂 The September 3 parade marked the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II, with China showcasing troops, aircraft and equipment in Tiananmen Square before world leaders. • • • #tan #tanlines #soldier #soldiercominghome #wholesome ♬ original sound - China Minutes








20 fuckin 25

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— Jake Lahut (@jakelahut.writes.news) September 15, 2025 at 12:27 PM










BREAKING NEWS: Two suspects are in custody after an incendiary device was found under a vehicle belonging to KSTU, a local TV station known as Fox 13 News Utah. The incendiary device “had been lit but failed to function as designed,” according to court records obtained by CNN affiliate KUTV.

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— CNN (@cnn.com) September 15, 2025 at 7:37 AM








TFW you are definitely not worried what CEOs will say about tariffs on analyst calls on.ft.com/4pGgopF

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— Katie Martin (@katie0martin.ft.com) September 15, 2025 at 5:59 AM
("In recent earnings reports, companies revealed that they had increased prices or planned to so to offset the cost of tariffs, which for some has run into the hundreds of millions of dollars.")



exhibit 183193 in "nobody running big corporations has a single fucking clue about selling things" betty crocker shrank their cake boxes instead of raising prices and now a huge % of recipes that use them no longer work. meaning there's no point in buying a mix at all.

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— Amy Hoy (@amyhoy.bsky.social) September 14, 2025 at 2:14 PM




No because amiibo now literally costs the same amount as what I can feed myself with for an entire week, two if I really stretch it

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— Hayes Madsen (@solfleet.bsky.social) September 15, 2025 at 9:11 AM




Farmers in deep-red Pennsylvania are struggling to find workers. They're pushing lawmakers to move faster on a farm labor solution, even as Trump cracks down on immigration. “We need people to do the jobs Americans are too spoiled to do," said one farmer and three-time Trump voter.

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— Politico (@politico.com) September 15, 2025 at 5:16 AM


















("JLR sits at the top of a pyramid of suppliers, many of whom are highly dependent on the carmaker because it is their main customer.")



Gucci, Balenciaga and Alexander McQueen private data ransomed by hackers. The stolen data includes names, email addresses, phone numbers, addresses and the total amount spent in the luxury stores around the world. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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— Joe Tidy BBC News (@joetidy.bsky.social) September 15, 2025 at 6:45 AM








This is the first new technology for the general market that has made me genuinely fearful that it could usher in what could be described as a dystopia

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— Matthew Parkinson-Bennett (@matthewpb.bsky.social) September 15, 2025 at 6:12 AM

The idea that the instant you meet somebody their glasses scan your face, search the internet and pull up all the available details of your life is just so awful. It’s not just gross, it will be also be extremely useful to scammers.

— Matthew Parkinson-Bennett (@matthewpb.bsky.social) September 15, 2025 at 6:14 AM








An Egyptian doctor has been sentenced to six months in a US federal prison for smuggling 590 freshly looted artefacts into New York, including gold funerary amulets and wooden tomb models. buff.ly/NObn40G

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— The Art Newspaper (@theartnewspaper.bsky.social) September 11, 2025 at 8:20 AM
("Authorities said that the packages, when opened, released the smell of wet earth and spilled sand, suggesting the objects had been very recently excavated")







I wish I could remember where -- a Tiktok perhaps? an X post? -- where someone made a prediction that the Savanah Bananas would be canceled soon, and I wish I could remember and link them to give them credit defector.com/the-official...

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— Katie Notopoulos (@katienotopoulos.bsky.social) September 15, 2025 at 2:20 PM
















Oh, wow. Her fill-ins were fantastic, and now she's full-on taking over the strip. Congrats, @cashbrowns.bsky.social! www.comicsbeat.com/caroline-cas...

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— Jason Bergman (@jasonxbergman.bsky.social) September 15, 2025 at 1:29 PM
(That first year or whatever was special)







Wirecutter: We're picking the best boxed mac and cheese! Me: Ok, I'm interested. Wirecutter: Here are our six favorites. Me: You are cowards.

— Drew Weing (@drewweing.bsky.social) September 6, 2025 at 1:04 PM








just teen things® i showed this to my son and said "hey joby look what i bought" and he reflexively said "mustaaaaaard" and then he looked at the label and noticed that it is, in fact, "mustaaaaaard". got 'im!!!

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— Cabel Sasser (@cabel.panic.com) September 7, 2025 at 1:25 PM








Honestly a great reminder of how we take the visual coherence of sports television direction and camerawork for granted to see a rare instance where they completely fuck it up

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— mtsw (@mtsw.bsky.social) September 13, 2025 at 9:45 PM


















TIL River Phoenix was born “River Bottom.”

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— Oscar Goff (@theoscargoff.bsky.social) July 17, 2025 at 6:16 PM
















@court.odonnell Grateful to be here, but I can only do an English breaky so many days in a row 🥲😂 #rugbyworldcup ♬ original sound - CJ_Bdz 😎💯








@draftkings

I’d cry if this happened to me 😭 (Via @b_girard15, _clementz/IG)

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@wienerdogadorable He’s just trying his best🥹😍 • 📸 dedikatedlifestyle via TikTok • #dachshund #dachshundsofinstagram #dachshunds #dachshundlove #dachshunddaily #dachshundlife #doxiesofinstagram #thedoxieworld #doxiepuppy #doxieworld #doxieofinstagram #doxielovers #doxies #featuremydoxie #doxiemix #doxiepoo #ilovemydoxie #doxiesrule #funny #cute #furbaby #dog #dogs #dogsofinsta ♬ original sound - Wiener Dog Adorable




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