Wednesday, November 12, 2025

Today's news and jokes







It's amazing how China has their media environment on lockdown to the point that you never hear any negative news coming out of that country, short of an undeniable calamity like this of course. www.newsweek.com/hongqi-bridg...

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— Jack Murphy (@jackmurphyrgr.bsky.social) November 11, 2025 at 12:10 PM
("just months after opening to traffic")







("Modi Vows Justice as Police Suspect Terrorism in Deadly New Delhi Blast") ("Pakistan ‘in a State of War’ After Explosion Kills 12 in Capital")







(I became aware of MAGA's bizarre obsession with this story several months ago when I heard a newage arms dealer excitedly talking about it at the opening of a long interview.)







Let this be a lesson to MAGA-style goons: Kansas county agrees to pay $3 million over law enforcement raid on a small-town newspaper apnews.com/article/kans...

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— SpyTalker (@spytalker.bsky.social) November 11, 2025 at 1:15 PM
































A lot of good comment on the story here - but it’s really a complete non-story. No source for anything suggesting the writers at Amazon are in any way stuck. And then a quote from someone not involved in the project.

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— Al (@movietrubs.bsky.social) November 11, 2025 at 3:07 AM
(Remains amazing, disappointing how many "respected" people on Bluesky spread clickbait--the only person quoted in the article is an author who has "never been asked to contribute to the films." The other popular topic yesterday was Blueskyers bemoaning how poorly reading comprehension is taught nowadays.)







CVS is best thought of as a kind of interactive museum exhibit where you can experience everything that has gone badly wrong with American capitalism.

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— large language marge (@mcdonalds.help) November 10, 2025 at 1:06 PM
(Related, a long feature on Ulta.)















Interesting thread! Paet of why Balatro is cool is because it demonstrates that poker is a much more fun "game" once you give players tools to break free of chance as a determining factor - i.e., what makes the game lucrative as a gambling operation. Which I don't think most of its imitators get.

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— William Hughes (@plumberduck.bsky.social) November 10, 2025 at 1:07 PM
(It doesn't feel like gambling at all.)







All of this suddenly makes so much more sense to me

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— Jeremy Parish, imperial aerosol kid (@jparish.bsky.social) November 10, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Also







just seeing this now and has Elkann considered his team hasn't done shit since he became chairman in 2018 he wanted Lewis Hamilton to join this team, what did he expect when he brought him over lol just pure idiocy from him all around www.bbc.com/sport/formul...

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— Douglas Reyes-Ceron (@dreyesceron.bsky.social) November 11, 2025 at 7:38 PM
("chosen heir of his maternal grandfather")















I used to think I wanted to be in the FBI, but I realize now I just wanted to walk around shining my little flashlight on things.

— CynicalTherapist (@cynicaltherapist.bsky.social) July 14, 2025 at 6:51 AM








Mountain Dew Baja Blast Pie: 6/10 We may have Lived Too Más. The aftertaste stayed with me for so long. I love Taco Bell, I love Mountain Dew, and I appreciate their partnership and innovation. this one isn’t for the faint of heart.

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— Mike Golic Jr (@mikegolicjr.bsky.social) November 9, 2025 at 7:35 AM
(Baja Blast soda sucks too)







@davidsuh

These turned out so fun and cute 🥹

♬ original sound - David Suh








@pauldan12345

♬ original sound - malooms_wp








@hustlethemalinois I think Turbo may have slapped the crap out of him for being a snitch 😂 #vetmed #searchandrescue #bedtime ♬ original sound - Hustle_the_Malinois








@kristaupcountry Tough guy. #farm #farmlife #farmanimals #sheep #lamb ♬ Café K.K. (From "Animal Crossing") - Eirene Montclaire




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