Thursday, September 18, 2025

Today's news and jokes







LA Mayor Karen Bass is requesting a veto on transit-oriented development bill SB 79, which is headed to Gavin Newsom's desk: "While SB 79 allows for local ordinances as an alternative compliance, it does not provide a viable path for a pro-housing city like Los Angeles"

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— Alissa Walker (@awalkerinla.bsky.social) September 17, 2025 at 6:46 PM
They abandoned any effort to recall her when she promised to fight housing tooth and nail?







Surprised California is moving so slowly actually (At least in LA, can get them at CVS)







Via 'Everyone Hates Elon' campaign today: An advertising van displaying a photo of Donald Trump with paedophile Jeffrey Epstein has been "confiscated by police after travelling around Windsor as the President stays with the King at Windsor Castle." (Latter pics are video stills - vid was too big)

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— Josiah Mortimer (@josiah.writes.news) September 17, 2025 at 3:52 AM
A write-up









Incredible detail from Deadline: Jimmy Kimmel Live!, which debuted in 2003, “was born out of the network’s cancellation of Bill Maher‘s Politically Incorrect in 2002 after the…host rebuked accusations that the 9/11 terrorists were ‘cowards.’” deadline.com/2025/09/jimm...

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— Aman Batheja (@amanbatheja.bsky.social) September 17, 2025 at 4:56 PM




Ezra Klein tomorrow: Brendan Carr Is Regulating Media Consolidation The Right Way

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— Dave Infante (@dinfontay.com) September 17, 2025 at 5:32 PM




trump’s numbers are tanking and there is a palpable desire in the electorate for a real alternative and yet the only money in democratic politics is for doing starmerism

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— jamelle (@jamellebouie.net) September 17, 2025 at 8:20 AM
("In an interview, [the group's leader] specifically attacked the American Civil Liberties Union")







("was questioned by the defense about previous comments he made referring to undocumented immigrants as 'scum.'")







LiveAI demo fails on the first prompt at Meta Connect 2025. #Meta #AI #LiveAI

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— Shacknews (@shacknews.com) September 17, 2025 at 5:34 PM
A write-up (the part that worked flawlessly was the female voice complimenting him at the start)















("This outcome was entirely predictable. In fact, in April last year, when The Information’s ... scooped StubHub’s ambitions to go public at a valuation of around $16.5 billion, we wrote that $8 billion would be a more reasonable number based on comparable valuation")







Oh for fucks sake.

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— Josh (@jgee.bsky.social) September 17, 2025 at 4:32 PM
I'm guessing this is from here?















Thread continues







This is going to save the team less than a single minimum salary player a year, essentially chump change for a team who just got a $400+ million cash infusion. www.nytimes.com/athletic/663...

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— Peter Labuza (@labuzamovies.com) September 16, 2025 at 8:25 PM
("An earlier version of this article incorrectly stated that the Minnesota Twins let go of their entire four-person scouting department. The Twins retained one member of its five-member staff...The limiting or elimination of pro scouting departments is becoming a trend across baseball as teams have been relying on video scouting more and more in recent years. Ten months ago, the Chicago Cubs drastically reduced their pro scouting department")







This has gone too far

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— Keri Blakinger (@keribla.bsky.social) September 16, 2025 at 8:35 AM








today in slightly alarming sports news, the pole vaulting identical twins tied at the World Championships

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— Rodger Sherman (@rodger.bsky.social) September 17, 2025 at 10:17 AM
("Born to Fly: Moll twins pole vault their way to NCAA titles and records")







@the.rojos Getting into the Blue Grotto is not for the faint hearted!! #realitybluegrotto #bluegrotto #bluegrottocapri #bluegrottoitaly #travelcouple #travel #traveltiktok #travellife #therojos #bluegrottoreality ♬ original sound - The Rojo’s | Travel 🌍✈️








@nwlch They said to check out the blue grotto in Italy 😀 #fyp #italy #travel @Brielle Lamash ♬ Jet2 Advert - ✈️A7-BBH | MAN 🇬🇧








@dottiethedwarf Dottie’s first day back at physio in two weeks. She was so excited that she began when Dr K was still setting up!! Then zoomed through the excercises like she was trying out for the olympics 😂 Btw, because we’ve had an influx of ignorant comments lately — To clarify, Dottie is a little person in dog form. She wasn’t inbred, or bred to be tiny, she was a natural fluke, born to average-sized, healthy Griffon parents she has an averaged sized littermate! (Twin!). Just like how some human parents have a child with dwarfism—unexpected, but loved and adored greatly? That’s our Dottie. Jumping to “breeding” as the issue shows a misunderstanding of genetics and disability. It’s pretty ignorant to make comments like that about special needs animals—or people. But for some reason, when it’s a dog, people forget their empathy and go straight to their own breeding bias. #dottiethedwarf #griffon #rescuedog #chihuahua #labubu #chihuahuastiktok #chihuahua #cutedogs #pets #dogsofttiktok #dog #dogs #puppy #viral #fyp #foryoupage #cute #funnypets #viralvideo #dogmomlife #funnyreel #doglover #agility #physio #animal #animals ♬ original sound - Sickickmusic








@jaimeinbarcelona “I’ve never seen a cat do that before” - every employee at the vet office 🤣 Orange cats will always find a way #orangecats #catsoftiktok #orangecatbehavior #cat #creatorsearchinsights ♬ DAISIES - Justin Bieber








@dinoandluka

Typical sibiling things 😭

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