Sunday, November 30, 2025

Today's news and jokes

top notch mascottin'

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— CJ Fogler (@cjzero.bsky.social) November 29, 2025 at 12:06 PM




Rob Stone writing "O,H" before Charles Woodson put a stop to that.

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— JM =^) (@jm539581.bsky.social) November 29, 2025 at 2:12 PM
(I caught a few minutes of ESPN's preshow--the director seemed to be going out of his way to choose camera angles that did not show the hijinks the cheerleaders were getting up to behind the (incredibly boring) hosts?)





Amazon, Walmart







Extraordinary WSJ reporting today that unveils the extent to which Trump, Witkoff, Kushner and US business executives are salivating over business deals with Russia while Putin’s forces kidnap Ukranian children and bomb civilians in their apartments. 🎁 www.wsj.com/world/russia...

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— Bill Grueskin (@bgrueskin.bsky.social) November 29, 2025 at 4:42 AM


Read this great WSJ story about how top Trump advisors think chucking Ukraine to the wolves is worth being able to do business with Vlad back-to-back with this great Guardian story about the repercussions of that judgement: www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

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— Nolan Hicks (@ndhapple.bsky.social) November 29, 2025 at 6:51 AM








"Never spread the lie in the headline" should be a hard rule of 21st century journalism. Research shows that repeating lies helps to spread them, and people read headlines more than they read stories.

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— Gil Durán (@gilduran.com) November 29, 2025 at 5:10 PM

Unfortunately, in US journalism it is considered neutral to spread a lie, but it is considered "biased" to call out a lie. So, there is a structural asymmetry that rewards colorful lies with virality.

— Gil Durán (@gilduran.com) November 29, 2025 at 5:16 PM








I do strongly suspect that the pattern of hit jobs, and capitulations, is almost entirely explained by activists on university boards who want to collaborate with Trump against their own researchers and students.

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— Scott L Greer (@scottlgreer.bsky.social) November 28, 2025 at 6:12 PM


This ridiculous sentence is written like a bothsides-ish balancing statement, but it isn’t one. When the mob is in charge, paying the protection money they extort from you is a cost of doing business. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...

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— southpaw (@nycsouthpaw.bsky.social) November 29, 2025 at 6:22 AM
("University leaders have struggled with the appearance of paying off the White House")







Dimon on why JPMorgan Chase is not funding WH Ballroom: We have an issue, which is anything we do, since we do a lot of contracts with governments here and around the world, we have to be very careful how anything is perceived, and also how the next DOJ is going to deal with it.

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— Acyn (@acyn.bsky.social) November 29, 2025 at 11:24 AM
(The comments are from a few weeks ago)







A rare moment of a Republican genuinely giving a damn.

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— The Rude Pundit (@rudepundit.bsky.social) November 29, 2025 at 7:00 AM








They’re burying the weirdest part of this story, which is that this congressman’s twin brother keeps trying and failing to replace him in various jobs and is now hoping to replace him in this one

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— Laura Bassett (@lebassett.bsky.social) November 29, 2025 at 3:03 PM








This story has it all: enshitification, magic and subcutaneous passwords. ""A magician in Missouri had a kooky idea: implant a computer chip into his hand and then do some fun magic tricks with it. Too bad he forgot the password." "Moving away from using the gadget as a magic prop, he later […]

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— BrianKrebs (@briankrebs.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy) November 28, 2025 at 8:50 AM
(He posted about it on Facebook)







Here’s likely reason why latest Apple TV drama was abruptly pulled before premiere

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— 9to5Mac (@9to5mac.com) November 25, 2025 at 9:39 AM
("pulled due to intellectual property concerns")















that playcard is absolutely adorable

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— CJ Fogler (@cjzero.bsky.social) November 29, 2025 at 6:02 PM








Immaculate quarter.

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— Sickos Committee (@sickoscommittee.org) November 29, 2025 at 12:00 PM
























Behold this cool airport poem! 🤣

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— Grigory Lukin ✨️is on sub✨️ (@grigorylukin.bsky.social) October 21, 2025 at 9:40 AM








Me, a sailor in ancient times, sailing my boat into the rocks like an idiot: Uhh a lady made me do it. By singing. Usually I'm really good at this

— Blue sky nice ghost (@rajandelman.bsky.social) October 20, 2025 at 11:30 PM








apparently my sister's elderly mostly blind and deaf pug decided she was going to take a swim in the pool yesterday, because my sister sent the group chat a security cam video of herself using the pool net to scoop her out

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— cait (and adonis) (@cait.bsky.social) October 22, 2025 at 6:22 AM








Brother I can’t brunch any other way

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— Patrick Monahan (@pattymo.com) October 22, 2025 at 5:42 PM








@doovee14 Bob loves his neighbor besties #minidachshund #perrosalchicha #fyp #dogsoftiktok ♬ sonido original - beto_00025




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