Saturday, October 18, 2025

Today's news and jokes

"Aaron Rodgers snaps at Steelers teammate after touchdown celebration goes too far"





The city of LA and the LAPD are asking the court to lift the injunction that prevents the dept from assaulting and arresting journalists ahead of tomorrow’s No Kings protests due to officer and public safety risks.

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— Joey Scott (@joeyneverjoe.bsky.social) October 17, 2025 at 7:50 AM
("Council members have become increasingly vocal about their frustrations with the city attorney’s office. Two months ago, they voiced alarm that an outside law firm billed the city $1.8 million in just two weeks — double the amount authorized by the council. They have also grown exasperated over the rising cost of legal payouts, which have consumed a steadily larger portion of the city budget. After Feldstein Soto’s motion was reported by LAist, several City Council members publicly distanced themselves from her and condemned her decision.")







California labor leader charged over blocking ICE agents sees felony cut to misdemeanor. Latest from @brittnymejia.bsky.social As we've reported before, the U.S. Atty. in L.A. has struggled to get felony indictments in similar cases related to protests. www.latimes.com/california/s...

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— James Queally (@jqwritesstuff.bsky.social) October 17, 2025 at 3:37 PM








Breaking News: Marc Benioff, the Salesforce CEO, apologized for saying President Trump should send the National Guard to San Francisco.

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— The New York Times (@nytimes.com) October 17, 2025 at 1:52 PM


also this is happening www.yahoo.com/entertainmen...

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— mklinger421.bsky.social (@mklinger421.bsky.social) October 17, 2025 at 4:55 PM








Yesterday the feds charged voting machine vendor Smartmatic w/ violating Foreign Corrupt Practices Act for bribery/moneylaundering to win contracts. Previously they charged only company execs. Charging a company is rare. I spoke w/ former fed who says this may be political and explains what it means

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— Kim Zetter (@kimzetter.bsky.social) October 17, 2025 at 6:57 AM

Last Feb, Trump paused all enforcement of FCPA and ordered AG Pam Bondi to review all current cases being investigated/prosecuted under it. Any cases allowed to continue after this had to be authorized by AG. Smartmatic has sued Trump allies who falsely accused the company of vote-rigging in 2020...

— Kim Zetter (@kimzetter.bsky.social) October 17, 2025 at 7:08 AM








But did we get another statement from the ADL telling us that the antisemitism is not really antisemitic?

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— Jack Murphy (@jackmurphyrgr.bsky.social) October 17, 2025 at 10:31 AM

After failing to explain why Border Patrol posted a video using offensive terms for Jews—even as it was celebrated by antisemitic accounts—the agency has finally responded. “We deleted the post and will update with different music. End of story. Now focus on the violent criminal illegal aliens.”

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— Mother Jones (@motherjones.com) October 17, 2025 at 8:56 AM








The US Navy is holding living witnesses to Trump and Hegseth’s murders captive in one of its vessels. apnews.com/article/vene...

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— southpaw (@nycsouthpaw.bsky.social) October 17, 2025 at 9:47 AM


Congratulations to the new commander of SOUTHCOM, Admiral George Santos.

— Andy Craig (@andycraig.bsky.social) October 17, 2025 at 3:35 PM








TikTok is obsessed with "cheating" and this is the logical end result. A paid facial recognition tool that scans Tinder and pulls a bunch of info about a person www.404media.co/viral-cheate...

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— Jason Koebler (@jasonkoebler.bsky.social) October 16, 2025 at 7:30 AM

Many of the videos marketing this are like, boyfriends confronting their girlfriend who is "cheating" on them and the ensuing argument... These go wildly viral regularly, have seen many with 5+ million views. Of course the entire thing is completely fake. For example: www.tiktok.com/@ragebaitlev...

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— Jason Koebler (@jasonkoebler.bsky.social) October 16, 2025 at 7:33 AM
Going to need to update privacy and likeness laws for the 21st century.







Ugly end to Kryptos saga. Two people found the solution to the last encrypted portion of famed Kryptos sculpture at CIA headquarters. They found it in Smithsonian archive. They contacted artist who made sculpture, who is preparing to auction off solution; he threatened to sue them if they reveal it

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— Kim Zetter (@kimzetter.bsky.social) October 16, 2025 at 7:02 AM








(Always strange when people retweet anything claiming to articulate a Twitter policy)







Unfair flips, more then anything, proves that if you trap people in a room with nothing but a machine that shocks them for no reason, within 3 days they will have found 15 fun new little games and activities you can play just with this machine.

— JuniperTheory (@bimbo.city) October 15, 2025 at 6:27 AM










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— Classical Studies Memes for Hellenistic Teens (@csmfht.bsky.social) October 9, 2025 at 4:25 PM








jared leto makes his living as a contract killer for movie franchises

— Joe Wintergreen (@joewintergreen.com) October 15, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Did they really make a Tron movie with zero new designs (aside from a frisbee with dumber shape)? Or did no one see the movie, so the cool new designs never got publicized? The toy guys didn't step in and explain that Leto's look was a non-starter? (Among other things, Alien Romulus also desperately needed cool new designs)







My 2 year old when I tell him he can’t wear one of his 3 Gravedigger shirts to a nice restaurant

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— Mina Kimes (@minakimes.bsky.social) October 16, 2025 at 7:33 AM








Someone in the crowd: “Go Cubs!” Pope Leo XIV: “Han perdido! They lost!”

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— Razzball (@razzball.bsky.social) October 15, 2025 at 9:47 AM








bible baseball, screenshot, apple II (1983) www.mobygames.com/game/143414/...

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— videogame history (@vghistory.bsky.social) August 26, 2025 at 6:09 AM








whenever I see someone angry about video games om the internet

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— Keano Raubun (@keano.bsky.social) August 27, 2025 at 12:39 PM








The positively pink HG Mass-Produced Ruka's Custom Zaku - from the plastic model building show Mass-Produced Ruka - was previously teased in Hobby Japan magazine, and now confirmed for a P-Bandai March 2026 release in Japan. I kind of love it! 🩷💙

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— gundampixel (@gundampixel.bsky.social) August 27, 2025 at 5:05 PM








@heyitstracy67 My sweet Saucy in her volleyball debut!!! @JR @averis spam🌸 #creatorsearchinsights #granddaughter #volleyball #firstgame #basketball ♬ original sound - 🦋 Hey, It’s Tracy❌








@nbcolympics This training regimen is insane! #training #ski #workout (via @Olympics ♬ original sound - NBC Olympics & Paralympics








@elizabethweekes It’s safe to say he’s pretty tramatized 😂😭 #doglife #americanterrier #pitbullmom ♬ original sound - SpongeBob background music




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