Saturday, December 6, 2025

Today's news and jokes

like, it's an abject failure in that no peace prize should look like the hands of the damned dragging earth into the abyss but it's an incredible success at a memorable visual it looks so cursed. I need one. do they give them to people who aren't evil?

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— Jared Pechaček (@vandroidhelsing.bsky.social) December 5, 2025 at 3:41 PM


This is the most horrific trophy I’ve ever seen. It looks like a cursed object found in a desert crypt.

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— Angus Main (@angusmain.bsky.social) December 5, 2025 at 9:38 AM
The Drag Me to Hell trophy

Person who actually deserves a trophy is the artist who made the FIFA peace prize trophy look like everyone in the entire world holding their head in their hands out of secondhand embarrassment

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— Pwnallthethings (@pwnallthethings.bsky.social) December 5, 2025 at 11:38 AM


I'm sure Vladimir can't wait

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— Eliot Higgins (@eliothiggins.bsky.social) December 5, 2025 at 11:58 AM




The Nobel Prize committee should announce the World Cup winner tomorrow

— derek guy (@dieworkwear.bsky.social) December 5, 2025 at 8:29 PM






The mother of Karoline Leavitt’s nephew was reportedly engaged in a nasty years-long custody battle with the White House press secretary’s brother before she was detained by Immigration and Customs enforcement last month. trib.al/QrdO7XA

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— The New Republic (@newrepublic.com) December 5, 2025 at 3:15 PM








If so, it is quite possible that the suspect reached this belief by consuming media produced by the current Director and Deputy Director of the FBI.

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— Connor Ewing (@cmewing.bsky.social) December 5, 2025 at 12:31 PM


So he had two reasons to take ivermectin

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— Tim Price (@timprice.bsky.social) December 5, 2025 at 2:23 PM


The Blaze claimed they "adhered to professional journalistic standards" in the now-retracted pipe bomber story. But they did not appear to have ever contacted the woman they accused of a major crime, before or after publication, which is the most basic journalistic standard that exists.

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— Jacqueline Sweet (@jsweetli.bsky.social) December 5, 2025 at 5:32 AM
(Did someone encourage them to publish the story to try to derail the actual investigation?)







www.punchlistmag.com/p/trump-s-ne...

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— Christopher Hawthorne (@hawthorne.bsky.social) December 5, 2025 at 10:17 AM








("72 dead vultures were found littering the baseball fields (sounds ike they're presuming it's bird flu))



The way anti-vaxxers and conservatives have carelessly thrown away children’s lives has unironically made me feel we should reclaim the “pro-life” label and start yelling at these people for killing kids

— Kat Tenbarge (@kattenbarge.bsky.social) December 5, 2025 at 10:29 AM








Soon, CNN will run live odds on world events where its viewers can gamble on them in real time on their smartphones. One recent Kalshi betting market that allowed people to bet on whether Palestinians in Gaza would suffer mass starvation.

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— Truthout (@truthout.org) December 5, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Over at Polymarket: "Gaza mass population relocation in 2025?"







It may sound radical, but if one guy has so much wealth and power that he can use the large newspaper he owns to publicly threaten to ruin a service we all rely on, presumably as a bargaining tactic to get lower rates, we probably need to tax that guy until he can't do that anymore.

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— Mr Targeted Harassment (@jarjarfan69.bsky.social) December 4, 2025 at 7:19 AM








(Would a publicly-traded company be able to justify the expense of a Mars mission...)







(She insists their romantic relationship began after she left USC Law.)







Interesting failure of a 3D printed air induction elbow that softened and collapsed in the heat of an engine bay, starving the engine of air, leading to a crash. Failure temperatures of the material when tested were about half of what was expected. www.bbc.com/news/article...

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— Scott Lowe (@tropicostation.bsky.social) December 4, 2025 at 4:58 PM








The warning for an M5.9 earthquake near Dayton, NV this morning was an incorrect alert issued by the USGS ShakeAlert program. None of the stations in the Nevada Seismological Laboratory network detected any large earthquakes in Nevada this morning.

— Nevada Seismological Laboratory (@nvseismolab.bsky.social) December 4, 2025 at 9:27 AM








Calling it now that she'll eventually end up at CBS www.wsj.com/business/med...

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— Parker Molloy (@parkermolloy.com) December 5, 2025 at 12:52 PM








Best thing about trailers is people have largely finished their popcorn by the time the movie starts







Kudos for these women for standing up and doing the right thing but they're trying to ban trans women from e-sports now? Absolutely ridiculous.

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— Cailín Walsh 🍀 (@cailin.dev) December 5, 2025 at 2:59 PM
("Twitch streamer Jiggledeath, who recently announced that she was going to be captain for the U.K.'s team in the DBD Women's World Cup, announced she will withdraw...That same day, Squish, the captain for Team Canada in the tournament, announced that her team will be withdrawing")







(Can't tell if this is a joke, are there so few games you'd keep playing?)







The worst soda is Dr. Enuf, the sister soda to Mountain Dew that Tri-City Beverage didn’t sell to Pepsi and that tastes like 7-Up with a twist of the way a bottle of vitamins smells, and I would drink it every day of my life if it were available here. It’s incredibly caffeinated

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— Mags Online (@mags.colvett.online) September 14, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Discovered after reading this







("With Metro certifying the revised environmental impact report, various state agencies and the Los Angeles City Council will consider whether to approve the gondola project. The council is unlikely to take up the project until late next year, after it receives a study evaluating traffic around Dodger Stadium and options to relieve it.")







("Paying students to play sports is against state interscholastic rules. But....mother, who abused drugs, shopped him from school to school, demanding up to $72,000 a year")







booooooooo

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— Cara (@cc-is-me.bsky.social) December 5, 2025 at 4:30 PM


JMU’s AD begging the students to stop throwing snowballs.

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— Sickos Committee (@sickoscommittee.org) December 5, 2025 at 5:03 PM








@formulafangrl This is Perry! This is what happens when you are so loved as a Marshal that when DRS is going away, you are able to secure a DRS sign from the Las Vegas Grand Prix. Now I have to ship it back to Texas for her!!! #drs #formula1 #formulafangirl #f1 ♬ original sound - Formula Fangirl








@landrey12hammer ik he feels cool. @luke mcneel #intramuralsports #universityofoklahoma #oubasketball #womensbasketball #ou ♬ Wii sports theme - maidaskibidiohio








@ybbatreece not this look again…. He’s looking at me like “you better start diving mama” #dogsoftiktok ♬ Another Day in Paradise - aino!








@millain__

I really thought this would help

♬ original sound - Millain








@elle_ej03 The concentration on her face to NOT shake even though I told her to, all because she knows I’m safe from it 🤦‍♀️🤣 #belgianmalinois #dogwash #girldog #fyp #humour ♬ On the Toot - Mark Fabian & Alexander Smith & George King & RK Masters




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