Sunday, December 21, 2025

Today's news and jokes



My man is like a vendor in an RPG.

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— Sickos Committee (@sickoscommittee.org) December 20, 2025 at 9:50 AM








I think it's important not to misunderstand what these social media platforms are. They are not public arenas where we bravely take on reactionary forces in honorable combat. They are apps that expose you to stress and thereby simulate the feeling of having done something useful

— Ian Boudreau (@ianboudreau.com) December 15, 2025 at 1:41 PM


I just am fundamentally repulsed by the kind of liberalism/leftism which is defined by a sneering dislike of the subsets of things in society that are new, make money, or are popular

— ellie lockhart (she/they) (@eleanor.lockhart.contact) December 19, 2025 at 8:42 AM

When I lived in NYC, every time I mentioned that I volunteer for NYC Pride I would have to brace myself for a sneering conversation about "corporate pride" and needling me on if I've considered the Queer Liberation March And yet over 1 mil attend NYC Pride so someone has to be showing up

— Rachel Hallie (@dazedrachel.bsky.social) December 19, 2025 at 1:05 PM


the source problem with what feels like the majority of things in America is: there's a nontrivial percentage of people who are obsessively aggrieved with things to the point of mental illness, they have nothing going on in their lives and no community that would moderate their behavior at all

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— good hyuck, babe! (@markpopham.bsky.social) December 19, 2025 at 10:03 AM








Looks like they're right. Data Set 1 / Photo 468, the image from yesterday's Epstein files release that included photos of Trump in a drawer, was removed.

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— Matt Novak (@paleofuture.bsky.social) December 20, 2025 at 9:38 AM




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— Brian Box Brown (@boxbrown.bsky.social) December 19, 2025 at 6:33 PM


The Epstein file is the only thing Trump has ever taken his name off of

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— Senator Ron Wyden (@wyden.senate.gov) December 19, 2025 at 3:20 PM


















The atomic ensemble time scale at the NIST Boulder campus has failed.

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— Steve Herman (@newsguy.bsky.social) December 20, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Hacker News discussion FWIW, official site







Passenger sitting in stalled Waymo at Masonic and Geary due to traffic lights being out. Approximately 130,000 San Francisco customers are without power after an outage impacted a large swath of the city on Saturday. 🎥 Gillian Mohney / SFGATE

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— SFGATE (@sfgate.com) December 20, 2025 at 7:32 PM








I've already been hearing faculty discussion adapting to this policy by basically writing stripped down syllabi that include *only* the required boilerplate and nothing else, with things like course themes, reading schedules and such kept in separate documents to avoid the university owning them.

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— "Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux (@bretdevereaux.bsky.social) December 19, 2025 at 7:01 PM

Part of the issue here is faculty develop their own courses - it takes a lot of time and effort to do so - but if the university owns the syllabi they could fire me but keep all of that work and have someone else to teach the course *I* built. Replacing TT with adjuncts the obvious application.

— "Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux (@bretdevereaux.bsky.social) December 19, 2025 at 7:03 PM

My syllabi as they exist *now* are to a significant degree plug-and-play: every assignment, every reading spelled out, on a day-by-day schedule. I built that and it is part of 'my product' that I bring to the university. I do not get paid separately for course preparation/creation.

— "Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux (@bretdevereaux.bsky.social) December 19, 2025 at 7:05 PM








And OF COURSE the creators of Pluribus have kicked off some kind of alternate reality game with the most recent episode of the official podcast www.reddit.com/r/pluribustv/s...

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— Kathryn Yu (@kathrynyu.com) December 20, 2025 at 9:54 AM

Pluribus ARG solved! Walkthrough here (spoilers, obvs): docs.google.com/document/d/1Q...

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— Kathryn Yu (@kathrynyu.com) December 20, 2025 at 7:49 PM








The analysis only bsky can bring you

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— CJ Fogler (@cjzero.bsky.social) December 20, 2025 at 9:47 AM








IT IS NEITHER THAT COLD NOR THAT WINDY IN CHICAGO TODAY HOLY SHIT TOM BRADY. ALSO IT IS NOT CALLED THE WINDY CITY BECAUSE OF THE WIND TOM BRADY READ A BOOK

— Maggie Hendricks (@maggiehendricks.bsky.social) December 20, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Kinda







the zoom out was 🤌

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— Douglas Reyes-Ceron (@dreyesceron.bsky.social) December 20, 2025 at 4:50 PM








I think more manosphere influencers should get into professional boxing

— Ian Boudreau (@ianboudreau.com) December 20, 2025 at 11:06 AM
If you missed it















@nemmy82

i was so excited 😔 dont go to the hot wheels monster trucks show in Lincoln Ne

♬ I'm Not In Love - 10cc








@mnnguyen2 pls what’s wrong with her😂😂 #funny #friend #fyp #justagirl #crying ♬ Original Sound - Unknown








@chlo_leblanc His greed sickens me #cat #catfail #catlover ♬ original sound - bizmike_official








@lisaleyba

Bye bye stairs Luna has a new wedge pillow to slide down 😂

♬ Stupid thief's stealthy steps [Comedy-style drama accompaniment] (991302) - SoLaTiDo








@beau.the.labracadabrador #labracadabrador #labrador #dog #funnydog ♬ original sound - OptiFit




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