Friday, November 7, 2025

Today's news and jokes







The CNN article





Meta's fraud problem: The social media giant projected 10% of its 2024 revenue would come from ads for scams and banned goods, documents seen by @Reuters show reut.rs/4qJTpdH

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— Reuters (@reuters.com) November 6, 2025 at 3:25 AM
("Much of the fraud came from marketers acting suspiciously enough to be flagged by Meta’s internal warning systems. But the company only bans advertisers if its automated systems predict the marketers are at least 95% certain to be committing fraud, the documents show. If the company is less certain – but still believes the advertiser is a likely scammer – Meta charges higher ad rates as a penalty, according to the documents. ... The documents further note that users who click on scam ads are likely to see more of them because of Meta’s ad-personalization system, which tries to deliver ads based on a user’s interests.")







Rep. Yassamin Ansari has set up a table and this sign outside Speaker Johnson’s office.

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— Sahil Kapur (@sahilkapur.bsky.social) November 6, 2025 at 10:22 AM
(They're responding the election wipeout by destroying travel for the holidays?)







“We should have never given Palpatine that reality TV show where he uses the pretend Force to fire people.”

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— Patrick Chovanec (@prchovanec.bsky.social) November 1, 2025 at 8:50 AM

The key factor that everyone seems to always forget is that Trump was the host of what was once the highest rated show on network TV - a purportedly non-fiction show that portrayed him as a hyper-savvy and hyper-successful businessman.

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— mtsw (@mtsw.bsky.social) November 6, 2025 at 7:16 PM

More amazingly, the third rerun of 2022's STEP INTO THE MOVIES, featuring the two hosts of DWTS, averaged 2.6M viewers Tuesday at 10 p.m.-- doubling what NBC's NBA game did on the network in the hour (1.25M) and nearly tying CBS's NCIS: G'DAY (3M.) The ABC special was also No. 1 at 10 in A18-49

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— TVMoJoe (@tvmojoe.bsky.social) November 6, 2025 at 2:45 PM








NEW: The US Army website for its bases in Bavaria, Germany told its soldiers and employees that it might need to obtain free food from the German government during the US government shutdown. The Army later altered publication to remove a list of food banks, but we have the original text here:

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— 404 Media (@404media.co) November 5, 2025 at 10:03 AM
(Star and Stripes asserts the advide was solely for local naitonal employees they weren't paying) (Sun Tzu is timeless)



The cost of the ongoing deployment of Texas and Illinois Guard troops to Chicago — where they remain blocked by court orders from doing much of anything — is expected to reach $12 million by the end of November.

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— Robert Downen (@robertdownen.bsky.social) November 6, 2025 at 10:31 AM




the government would have had a stronger case if subway bread still had the poisonous yoga mat chemical in it

— Patrick Cosmos (@veryimportant.lawyer) November 6, 2025 at 12:34 PM








And yes, for those wondering, this race did involve a scandal over something called the Taj Mahal of Pickleball.

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— Robert Downen (@robertdownen.bsky.social) November 5, 2025 at 6:51 AM
$3.85 million complex







Doordash stock drops 15%, heads for worst day ever on spending concerns

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— CNBC (@cnbc.com) November 6, 2025 at 9:06 AM
(This article does not mention that no one will have the money for delivery)(or buying food from a restaurant)







When the arse falls out of the high street and people can’t afford stuff, enter the criminals www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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— Max Daly (@maxdaly.bsky.social) November 5, 2025 at 2:21 AM








seeing this irl was so cool, i hope they figure out how to bring it back www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

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— Jason Koebler (@jasonkoebler.bsky.social) November 5, 2025 at 6:33 AM
(The wave wasn't natural, so they just have to figure out how to reinitiate it)







Repugnant mentality







I'll believe it when I see it. www.pcgamer.com/hardware/win...

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— Jason Bergman (@jasonxbergman.bsky.social) November 4, 2025 at 5:24 AM








Broke: play when you want to play. Woke: play every day to keep up your streak. Bespoke: stream yourself playing every day so that your viewers don't lose their viewing streaks.

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— increpare (@increpare.bsky.social) November 5, 2025 at 10:36 AM








"Looking into a mirror that makes you insane" is the sort of story that has been told in countless iterations for centuries and yet here he were

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— steven monacelli (@stevanzetti.bsky.social) November 6, 2025 at 4:58 PM








("Those Viral 'Hot Louvre Suspects' Aren't Actually Behind the Heist")







The new British competitive knitting show hosted by Olympic diver Tom Daley has been denounced by the knitting community of the Shetland islands for its imprecise portrayal of fair isle knitting and negative attitude toward a technique known as steeking

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— Julia Carrie Wong (@joolia.bsky.social) November 5, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Can't tell if this is a parody. "Appropriation" is mentioned







the internet is feeding me drama about Canlis and I'm gobbling it up

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— Jared Pechaček (@vandroidhelsing.bsky.social) November 4, 2025 at 12:29 PM
("Canlis’ $180 per person prix fixe format remains in place. Over the course of several recent visits, the food was overwrought, mystifying and almost entirely unpleasant to eat")







Sugar-free Ketrecel Zero

— 🦃 Pablo Hidalgo 🦃 (@infinata.bsky.social) October 31, 2025 at 6:09 AM








Getting your own NBA jersey is one thing. Seeing someone else wear it for the first time is another. I asked the Knicks if they can recall that moment — some could, some couldn’t. Josh Hart’s story didn’t disappoint lol www.nytimes.com/athletic/677...

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— James L. Edwards III (@jledwardsiii.bsky.social) November 4, 2025 at 5:02 AM








App State is currently doing a drone show but it’s just the Pepsi logo

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— Lucy Rohden (@lucyrohden.bsky.social) November 6, 2025 at 6:20 PM

They also did some football stuff too but I liked it better when it was just the Pepsi logos in different colors

— Lucy Rohden (@lucyrohden.bsky.social) November 6, 2025 at 6:24 PM








Wikipedia















hey i’m at the indian store, does anyone need some uh

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— geet wave advisory (@elsangito.bsky.social) September 20, 2025 at 3:27 PM








Classics of Movie 35

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— Classics of Movie (@classicsofmovie.bsky.social) September 19, 2025 at 12:14 AM








@bridgetgomess Can you pin it? #clipmyhair #hairclip #askingmentoclipourhair ♬ original sound - Bridget Gomes
(She posted several)







@oceanblvd jobs are slowly fading away amc movie theater #jobs #nojobs ♬ Robot - VITOVI








@ishouldbestudyingrnoops And he’s up for adoption at Iowa City Animal Care And Adoption Center (link for more information about him in my bio) #adoptdontshop #iowahawkeyes #iowacity #dogsoftiktok #animalshelter ♬ original sound - Shay




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