Thursday, October 9, 2025

Today's news and jokes

@abc7la The #palmtrees that line the streets of #BeverlyHills ♬ original sound - ABC7LA






NEW: Since October 2023, the IDF Spokesperson's Unit has released dozens of 3D animations illustrating alleged Hamas, Hezbollah, and Iranian sites The style is now unmistakable: satellite zoom-ins, black & white wireframes, and red-textured houses - a new visual language of war

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— Jack Sapoch (@jacksapoch.bsky.social) October 8, 2025 at 9:58 AM

We traced over 30 unique assets to Washington-based 3D creator Ian Hubert, who makes bespoke models created for his sci-fi project Dynamo Dream, available to his Patreon subscribers. Scans of parking lots, antennas, and pipes were repurposed as Hamas and Iranian military sites

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— Jack Sapoch (@jacksapoch.bsky.social) October 8, 2025 at 9:58 AM

Others assets came from scans made by the Scottish Maritime Museum of their boat-building workshop which was downloaded (via @sketchfab.bsky.social) and reimagined by the IDF adornments for underground missile factories.

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— Jack Sapoch (@jacksapoch.bsky.social) October 8, 2025 at 9:58 AM
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New @cen4infores.bsky.social investigation: Sanctions, shell companies and Russian state-backed money laundering. Here’s how Ilan Shor and the Kremlin are laundering tens of billions of dollars around the world. www.info-res.org/reports/a7-a...

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— Elise Thomas (@elisethomas.bsky.social) October 6, 2025 at 1:09 AM








Cops misled journalists about using a powerful surveillance tool to track a woman across state lines because she had an abortion, then tried to cover it up when we found out the truth. Huge story from @jasonkoebler.bsky.social and @josephcox.bsky.social this morning: www.404media.co/police-said-...

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— Sam Cole (@samleecole.bsky.social) October 7, 2025 at 6:38 AM

Police said that "family" was worried about her. But the only family member mentioned in the court records is her partner, who was arrested for abusing her and threatening her at gunpoint the day she took the pills, after which she left. He is the one who called the cops

— Jason Koebler (@jasonkoebler.bsky.social) October 7, 2025 at 6:12 AM








genuinely think they are feeding him AI videos

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— jamelle (@jamellebouie.net) October 8, 2025 at 2:03 PM


Can’t wait to see who they imagined up as the “founder” of antifa

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— Hayes Madsen (@solfleet.bsky.social) October 8, 2025 at 2:17 PM


Um, ICE just coldly shot an unarmed PRIEST in the head w a pepper ball when he (and everyone around him) clearly posed no threat. For the crime of … complaining about government policy. Core 1A speech. With cameras rolling, they’re sniping priests for sport.

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— John Pfaff (@johnpfaff.bsky.social) October 7, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Fox's write-up







Reuters photographer Jonathan Ernst noticed that Bondi flipped open a file during the Senate hearing and he zoomed in. Inside were her crib notes for attacking the senators. The GOP now practicing Cliff's Notes Fascism In other words, under oath Bondi was purely a performance.

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— Denise Wheeler (@denisedwheeler.bsky.social) October 7, 2025 at 3:47 PM


amazing fact check from yesterday's senate oversight hearing

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— Keri Blakinger (@keribla.bsky.social) October 8, 2025 at 8:57 AM




this wormy "i ain't left nor right i just love the world's greatest navy dur-hur" schtick is exactly why bud light cozied up to zach bryan in early 2024 as they tried to recover from the damage of the bud light fiasco: www.fingers.email/p/mapping-bu...

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— Dave Infante (@dinfontay.com) October 8, 2025 at 8:18 AM
("Bud Light Introduces the ‘Bud Light Quittin’ Time Tour Experience’, Giving Fans The Chance To Play Pool with GRAMMY Award-Winning Country Artist Zach Bryan")



Some advertising you just can't buy

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— Gillian Branstetter (@gbbranstetter.bsky.social) October 6, 2025 at 1:57 PM








So this is funny. The administration just issued a rule slashing foreign agricultural worker wages. And to justify it, in a public filing, Trump's Labor Department alleges that Trump's immigration enforcement has devastated the Ag workforce and caused a "risk of supply shock-induced food shortages."

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— David Dayen (@ddayen.bsky.social) October 8, 2025 at 6:11 AM
("In documents filed to the Federal Register earlier this month, the Department of Labor warned of a "current and imminent labor shortage" on American farms that "presents a sufficient risk of supply shock-induced food shortages.")







“Voters aren’t hearing” in part because many are tuned into their parasocial relationships and tuned out of other comms channels that are typically used by old school politicians. I’ve discussed this with several MPs and MEPs and this will be a topic at the 2026 Cambridge Disinformation Summit.

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— Alan Jagolinzer (@jagolinzer.bsky.social) October 7, 2025 at 1:41 AM








the city of los angeles burned in january in part because of a man who couldn’t stop generating images of burning cities on ChatGPT, and then after he lit the fire he asked if the fire he started was his fault

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— niki grayson (@nikigrayson.com) October 8, 2025 at 10:05 AM








The thing that no AI company has officially communicated to anyone is that the minute there's decent enough agentic AI — an AI using apps for you — you will never be able to buy anything of any value online ever again. Unless, of course, you use their agentic AI...

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— Ryan Broderick (@ryanhatesthis.bsky.social) October 6, 2025 at 1:10 PM




Contest! How many inaccuracies can you spot in the AI-generated image of Oakland City Hall that was sent to media in a press release from the mayor's office today? Send us your list and you could win some Oaklandside merch. oaklandside.org/2025/10/06/o...

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— Darwin BondGraham (@darwinbondgraham.bsky.social) October 6, 2025 at 4:54 PM




riveted by this disneyland concept art. the powerfully intense oil painting filter, the huge amount of sharpening, the hand-drawn "artist concept only", and a boat full of people looking at everything BUT the actual new thing (Rapunzel's Tower)

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— Cabel Sasser (@cabel.panic.com) October 6, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Blair witch victim in the back







The head coach reserving the fun job for himself







Amazon have removed the guns from their Bond posters, giving the tantalising impression that Sean Connery and Pierce Brosnan think you’re a wanker.

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— Rufus jones (@rufeydoof.bsky.social) October 3, 2025 at 4:26 AM


Thought the first post had to be a joke...















@ellawrobel clearly we all cared more than he did #hamster #rat #fyp ♬ Ode to Joy- Symphony No.9 in D Minor 'choral' - Lorne Balfe & Russell Emanuel & Steve Kofsky








@aliriley5 The best use of @Angel City FC medical equipment 💕💕💕@NWSL @SoccerGirl #pregnant #soccertiktok #ultrasound ♬ original sound - Ali Riley








@leoandlexy

Wish I could say this is the first time he’s done this. Leo learned this trick pretty early!!

♬ original sound - Leo and Lexy








@dustinlynnelliott50 #jobsitehumor #bulldog #pitbullsoftiktok #lovedogs #jobsite ♬ The Home Depot Beat - The Home Depot




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