Tuesday, November 4, 2025

Today's news and jokes









Ukrainian computer game-style drone attack system goes ‘viral’ www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

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— Eliot Higgins (@eliothiggins.bsky.social) November 2, 2025 at 11:00 PM
("The system, which launched more than a year ago, rewards soldiers who achieve strikes with points that can be exchanged to buy more weapons in an “Amazon-for-war” online store called Brave1 filled with more than 100 different drones, autonomous vehicles and other drone war material")







With large portraits of himself, 24-karat golden adornments and a triumphal arch, President Trump is asserting his power through what might be called an imperial aesthetic, or visual cues designed to project personal command and grandeur.

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— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost.com) November 3, 2025 at 11:00 AM


He's "fixated" on a topic but whenever you bring it up he "pivots" to another topic. We may be working from different definitions of the word "fixated". Overall this piece is surprisingly vitriolic for a no-byline official "editorial board" thing

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— Christina Holland (@mortalwombat.info) November 3, 2025 at 8:42 AM
(It's an editorial attributed to the WaPo's editorial board)

!!!!! pagesix.com/2025/11/03/e...

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— Noah Shachtman (@noahshachtman.bsky.social) November 3, 2025 at 7:12 AM


thank you for all the support; the statement from our union is now live here with some more reporting. now that this is public I can confirm that the majority of today’s layoffs were women of color. there are no longer any Black women working at Teen Vogue.

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— Lex McMenamin (they/them) (@leximcmenamin.com) November 3, 2025 at 3:25 PM








Some true shenanigans: Rep. Chuy Garcia reportedly ending reelection campaign just before candidate filing closes in Illinois and leaving his chief of staff, Patty Garcia, as the only Democrat on the ballot in this safely blue House seat.

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— The Downballot (@the-downballot.com) November 3, 2025 at 3:38 PM
("his chief of staff... filed petitions ahead of 5 p.m. on Monday, the deadline for filing")







Interesting. www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

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— Orin Kerr (@orinkerr.bsky.social) November 3, 2025 at 4:43 PM
(Force buyers to pay a subscription fee and steal more of their data.)







(This too)







Meanwhile, NBC's very, very expensive NBA game brought in 2.16M viewers last Tuesday (including 25,000 people who watched via DVR) and a 0.45 demo On the same night in 2024, NBC's THE VOICE averaged 5.2M/0.38 while THE IRRATIONAL had 4.1M/0.30 DWTS in 2024 had 5.1M and a 0.74 A18-49

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— TVMoJoe (@tvmojoe.bsky.social) November 3, 2025 at 12:39 PM








(Can't remember what the deleted Kalshi post that the xecond tweet was responding to was about.)















The use of five substitutes has had no positive impact, and probably some bad impact www.nytimes.com/athletic/676...

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— Michael Cox (@zonal-marking.bsky.social) November 2, 2025 at 4:41 AM
(The article suggests it's leading to more injuries and also reducing the quality of play because the game has enabled too many players to play at full speed for too much of the game)







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Is Progressive going to tape an in-season backup commercial with Kyler to replace the Jacoby one?

— Bill Barnwell (@billbarnwell.com) November 3, 2025 at 7:23 PM








(The article indicates they're such pros that one of them actually had two other balls in his pocket in case he felt pressured to throw the ball back onto the field)















shoutout to tumblr user kleinergeist for this post which is going straight into my powerpoint for Grendel day in my monster class this week

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— Miles, knitting screaming agony werewolf (@queermedieval.bsky.social) September 14, 2025 at 7:41 AM








@inmanalexia Fantastic performance from both fronts #cincinnatibengals #whodeynation #cincinnati #nflfootball #nflfootball ♬ original sound - Alexia Inman








@freddieandbruno Normal dog: fight back Fred: act dead😂 #frenchie #frenchbulldog #dogmom #dogsoftiktok #frenchiesoftiktok ♬ Funny and Unusual Scene of 3 Minutes - HarmonicoHCO








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Tank

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