Saturday, November 22, 2025

Today's news and jokes







America 2025.

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— Don Moynihan (@donmoyn.bsky.social) November 21, 2025 at 5:44 AM

One of the themes of our new police state is the sheer lack of professionalism. They can't do the basics, and when challenged, double down. A dysfunctional organizational culture deeply suspicious of the society they are tasked with controlling. bsky.app/profile/radl...

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— Don Moynihan (@donmoyn.bsky.social) November 21, 2025 at 9:13 AM
CNN's write-up--it's apparently on video















I spoke with people role-playing ICE raids in video games to help educate people on their rights and what to do in real-life situations. Tonight, they're holding an event in Fortnite www.wired.com/story/activi...

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— megan farokhmanesh (@megannicolett.bsky.social) November 21, 2025 at 2:16 PM
GTA and Fortnite







We spent a year investigating billionaires for @washingtonpost.com. We found: the wealthiest 100 Americans gave $1.1 billion to influence the 2024 elections — 140x more than they did in 2000. And almost all of that giving boosted Republicans. washingtonpost.com/politics/int...

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— ence morse (@ence.bsky.social) November 21, 2025 at 6:56 AM








Lost its place as best crime currency







Ars







Here is my read of the "peace plan" and how Kirill Dmitriev played the American media to force this thing into being -- with an incompetent White House scrambling to make it seem like this was somehow coordinated and well-planned. open.substack.com/pub/macspaun...

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— Michael Weiss (@michaeldweiss.bsky.social) November 21, 2025 at 9:58 AM








Like clockwork. ⏰ asia.nikkei.com/politics/int...

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— Carl Quintanilla (@carlquintanilla.bsky.social) November 20, 2025 at 2:03 PM








New meme format just dropped:

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— Thanks, I Hate It (@thanksihateit603.bsky.social) November 21, 2025 at 1:10 PM
He got a red hot star to appear on his television show







("Can Japan’s tourism industry survive China tensions?")







This interview is a snapshot into where tech companies are with online harassment right now. They know how to end it, but they decided not to spend the money. They’re prioritizing growth (and profit) above all else. And they’re blaming YOU for logging on to the platform they designed to be unsafe.

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— Nicole Bedera (@nbedera.bsky.social) November 21, 2025 at 8:56 AM

Roblox CEO makes an utter fool of himself in a car-crash interview over child safety https://kotaku.com/roblox-new-york-times-interview-baszucki-2000646174

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— Kotaku (@kotaku.com) November 21, 2025 at 7:54 AM

the thing about the roblox interview is that he's more or less just saying out loud what every social media & gacha CEO has been doing for the last 10+ years. selling kids gambling with the minimal legally allowed guardrails is hot profits rn

— Aura/Moom (@moomanibe.bsky.social) November 21, 2025 at 12:13 PM








Yep I get these too

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— dan sinker (@dansinker.com) November 20, 2025 at 9:26 AM

Yeah, these are super weird. I’ve gotten four or five now, and the over-the-top-ness of the praise is wild. Also a tell, since any human who had met writers would know that we mostly think our own work is pretty bad and suspect that people who say they don’t have an agenda.

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— Adam Rogers (@jetjocko.bsky.social) November 20, 2025 at 8:50 AM








(I got the impression a professor with misleadingly-impressive-sounding credentials was promoting a bunch of nonsense)







OK, this is super cool. www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

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— Noah Shachtman (@noahshachtman.bsky.social) November 20, 2025 at 10:40 AM
("spreading earthmoss...moss spores encased in a structure known as a sporangium were the most resilient and were able to germinate after exposure to UVC radiation levels that exceeded 100,000 joules per square metre")







He said "Amen" straight into the drop Lmao Pope Leo threw a rave for an archbishop's 75th birthday this is kind of incredible

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— David✶🇬🇹 (@vuc.bsky.social) November 20, 2025 at 8:22 AM








INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — NCAA won't allow athletes or athletic department staff to bet on pro sports amid betting scandals.

— Phil Lewis (@phillewis.bsky.social) November 21, 2025 at 2:07 PM
They rescinded the rule that was just enacted allowing gambling















Eminem coming to Hitman as an elusive target news.xbox.com/en-us/2025/1...

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— Wario64 (@wario64.bsky.social) November 20, 2025 at 10:24 AM








("The editor [] has made two big moves since taking the helm of Vanity Fair in June. He decided to put only male actors on the cover of the magazine’s annual Hollywood issue, and he hired the scandal-plagued journalist Olivia Nuzzi as its West Coast editor")







a reminder that the four hobbits of LotR are Bertie Wooster, Jeeves, and two uppest-class failsons nathangoldwag.wordpress.com/2024/05/31/t...

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— zaratustra (@zaratustra.bsky.social) October 10, 2025 at 2:56 AM








To have and to hold, to honor and cherish, to explain how the hotel shower works if you're the first one to use it

— Scotty Ray (@theterminizer.bsky.social) June 24, 2024 at 5:00 PM








Skeletons shouldn't play each other as instruments

— josh (oldfriend99) (@oldfriend99.bsky.social) October 11, 2025 at 12:14 PM








How To Use the Internet (1995): a 23-year-old Cory Doctorow shows off Usenet, the Internet Underground Music Archive, Justin's Links from the Underground, and more to the CBC https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

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— Waxy.org (@waxy.org) November 21, 2025 at 3:30 PM








@vegas

Wait how do I bet on the Housekeeping Olympics?

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@vegas

Mopping for gold at the Housekeeping Olympics

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@elleerose114

im so sad hes so cute

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