Thursday, October 16, 2025

Today's news and jokes

@a.short.stallion I lovee this glambot @emma @hanna #disneyworld #hollywoodstudios #towerofterror #glambotchallenge #annualpassholder ♬ original sound - Shelby Willis






NEW: Citing ‘serious questions’ and ‘questionable spending,’ Mass. lawmakers move to hold back funding for sheriffs www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/14/m...

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— Samantha Gross (@samanthajgross.bsky.social) October 14, 2025 at 11:00 AM
("State House and Senate budget writers are refusing to fund a request from Massachusetts sheriffs to reimburse them for $162 million in overspending until the state Inspector General can investigate the county sheriffs' finances.")







Another write-up. (From my very quick look, I didn;t see anything indicating they're connected to the defunct Marineland in Los Angeles.)







Screenprinting to keep this live after LC deactivates (assume he's ok with that, if not let me know)

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— Gore Vidal Sassoon (@jimmyjazz1968.bsky.social) October 15, 2025 at 2:05 PM


Long story short, an actual Nazi doxxing ring. Enough people reported them that they went away for like 12 hours and then Elon personally brought them back. The site is dead. If you’re still on there, go lock your account right now

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— Mr. Chau (@srirachachau.bsky.social) October 15, 2025 at 10:39 AM


🧵 A pro-MAGA bot network on X/Twitter that previously aided Trump to secure a 2nd term has just started helping him to retain power. Virginia elections, a tuneup for the 2026 midterms, are increasingly becoming a tight race. And bots are supposed to support 🔴GOP in the 4 weeks left.

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— antibot4navalny | bot blocker | блокировщик ботов (@antibot4navalny.bsky.social) October 15, 2025 at 10:59 AM
FWIW



can’t believe it took you this long to leave that website run by admitted nazis and join this website run by closeted nazis

— nattie winters (@utilitylimb.bsky.social) October 15, 2025 at 11:55 AM








What do I know and I'm not saying it's a magic bullet or anything like that but it sure seems to me that Dems should run hard on the Argentina bailout. Not anywhere near the worst thing Trump has done, but i suspect it's unusually clarifying.

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— Jonathan Bernstein (@jonathanbernstein.bsky.social) October 15, 2025 at 2:44 PM








Politico received an initial tip that a Taylor staffer had a swastika neatly pinned to his cubicle during a zoom call. When confronted, the congressman’s press office pretty implausibly sought to present the situation as a police matter, and Politico went along with that in its headline and lede.

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— southpaw (@nycsouthpaw.bsky.social) October 15, 2025 at 1:41 PM


very funny that JD Vance has so little to do with his time that he goes on podcasts to defend 30-year-old men for saying how much they love Hitler

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— jamelle (@jamellebouie.net) October 15, 2025 at 2:30 PM


The Supreme Court’s majority right wing indicated in oral arguments that they think racism is over on the same day that the vice president defended the “I love Hitler” guy, and that the NYT reported that the current administration plans to accept only white, English-speaking refugees.

— Radley Balko (@radleybalko.bsky.social) October 15, 2025 at 2:56 PM


Every time you see Mike Davis do Mike Davis things, think about Gorsuch reportedly helping land Davis a job at DOJ, then choosing him as a clerk when he was on the 10th Circuit, then choosing him as a clerk when he was on the Supreme Court.

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— Matthew Stiegler (@matthewstiegler.bsky.social) October 15, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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It’s really hard to tell what’s AI and whats real when a bunch of ICE goons kidnapping a giraffe in a thong for singing is just America in 2025

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— Marcus Hutchins (@malwaretech.com) October 15, 2025 at 6:56 PM








When I talk about disordered counterpublics I make the point loyalty trumps accountability for the in-group, and this is a perfect example of that.

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— Eliot Higgins (@eliothiggins.bsky.social) October 15, 2025 at 8:00 AM
















This means three bidders remain for up to three casinos in New York. And one of those bidders owes the Trump Organization $115 million if they win. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/n...

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— Noah Shachtman (@noahshachtman.bsky.social) October 14, 2025 at 8:15 PM








Look for the helpers www.rawstory.com/dr-phil-trump/

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— Paul F. Tompkins (@pftompkins.bsky.social) October 14, 2025 at 1:21 PM
(Relying on this article by Slate. "Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily")







RSS was one of the truly great inventions of the Internet—entirely decentralized sharing to your own personalized feed of the internet—and every company is working hard to kill it.

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— Peter Labuza (@labuzamovies.com) October 14, 2025 at 1:13 PM








this guy is posting fake, ai generated, "historical" footage of disneyland. at first glance it looks great, but it's riddled with problems (if you're me), and none of it is labeled or watermarked. and the comments are effusive. "amazing!" "best footage i've seen!". i truly hate this at a deep level

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— Cabel Sasser (@cabel.panic.com) October 14, 2025 at 1:59 PM


I’m sharing this because I saw the original clip a few days ago and had no idea it was AI… the channel identifying these is great (showtoolsAI) but we’re clearly past the point where there are going to be any easy tells for this stuff going forward

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— James Vincent (@jjvincent.bsky.social) October 14, 2025 at 3:05 PM
That account







Her believability is so bad that I'm not even 100% sure she's as bothered by losing these friends as she says, and any negative feelings were probably balanced out a lot by the excitement of realizing each breakup lecture provides her more fresh material to write about

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— Christina Holland (@mortalwombat.info) October 15, 2025 at 9:36 AM
2025, and bloggers are still racing to give these people the attention they crave

















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— Jens von Bergmann (@jensvb.bsky.social) October 2, 2025 at 9:03 PM
















So I was talking about how dominant Leonard Williams is while taping today and @foxworthshow.bsky.social let me know he posts plant content on TikTok and I felt you all should see this

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— Mina Kimes (@minakimes.bsky.social) October 14, 2025 at 11:27 AM
Has loved plants since middle school















@ella_mej

“Luxury apartments” and the luxury is that you should be thankful you’re not homeless 😂

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@stankyfrankie8 Why am i sobbing at work #fyp ♬ Crying guy meme - PkingslayerOfficial








@adogcalledcarl I should know better by now 😄 #dogsoftiktok #doglover #funnydogs #goldenretriever #wakeup ♬ Western Music: Arizona Dreaming - Piero Piccioni








@tamzintruman #dog #dogsoftiktok #doggo #puppylove #funny ♬ Welp, Didn't Expect That - Yu-Peng Chen & HOYO-MiX




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