Monday, January 19, 2026

Today's news and jokes

@hilltop2255 This was just so fun and random. Does anyone know how many buildings they oversee at once? I have so many questions!? #buenosaires #recoleta #palermohollywood #argentinatravel #visitbuenosaires ♬ MONACO - Bad Bunny






The Nobel Peace Prize becoming so prestigious that wars are fought over a head of state coveting it is some real monkey paw stuff for Alfred Nobel.

— Andy Craig (@andycraig.bsky.social) January 19, 2026 at 12:47 AM


ahh a nice night out at the movies. now time to check my phone and see what our mad pedophile king and his evil scheming viziers are up to

— leon (@leyawn.bsky.social) January 18, 2026 at 10:47 PM










this is what it has come to for Mexican restaurants in the Twin Cities

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— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) January 18, 2026 at 6:12 PM




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— Nick (@sregorn.bsky.social) January 18, 2026 at 4:06 PM


It’s ironic that they’re like “if we do ethnic cleansing we’ll have a high trust neighborly society” and then Minneapolis is literally doing high trust neighborly society and they’re like nooooo

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— Jake Grumbach (@jakemgrumbach.bsky.social) January 18, 2026 at 10:24 AM


hard not to notice that as trump's polls crater and gop gets crushed in election after election, news orgs are not racing around hiring progressive commenters and boasting about how they're reaching out to real americans by following the will of the volk.

— Noah Berlatsky (@nberlat.bsky.social) January 17, 2026 at 9:58 PM








("Israel far-right ministers reject US-backed postwar Gaza panel")







The South Carolina measles outbreak is growing at an astounding speed More than 500 people are in a 21-day quarantine and about 200 are "actively infected." The largest outbreak currently in the U.S. has spread to at least three other states

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— Phil Lewis (@phillewis.bsky.social) January 17, 2026 at 7:33 AM








Some verrrrrrry familiar faces popping up in Eric Adams' alleged rug pull. apnews.com/article/eric...

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— Noah Shachtman (@noahshachtman.bsky.social) January 16, 2026 at 7:05 AM
("previously owned a college dorm in Brooklyn, which drew complaints from students of filthy conditions and neglect. After defaulting on his mortgage, ... was able to turn the troubled property into a city-financed homeless shelter.")

Eric Adams paid Dr. Phil's son $500K -- while appearing all the time on poppa's TV shows. A coincidence, surely.

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— Noah Shachtman (@noahshachtman.bsky.social) January 17, 2026 at 4:17 PM
("NBC New York noticed roughly $600,000 in 2025 Eric Adams campaign payments made to LLCs with no apparent websites or traceable CEOs")









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— Corey They Them Brickley (@coreybrickley.bsky.social) January 16, 2026 at 7:25 AM








Crypto holder loses $283 million to scammer impersonating wallet support January 10, 2026 https://www.web3isgoinggreat.com/?id=trezor-support-scam

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— web3 is going just great (@web3isgoinggreat.com) January 17, 2026 at 8:34 AM
A write-up







Newsom’s social media team: fuck these conservatives Newsom himself when he talks to a conservative: actually you guys are right

— Kat Tenbarge (@kattenbarge.bsky.social) January 16, 2026 at 8:32 AM








Iran has killed all connections to the outside. But in the early morning the regular internet works briefly. In that time, @hackimi.bsky.social sent me a letter about what it's like being a developer without the internet as the government tries to squash everyone: insertcredit.com/feature/a-ga...

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— Brandon Sheffield (@brandon.insertcredit.com) January 16, 2026 at 11:38 AM

And specifically as a game developer, since all outside communication is squashed, internally-hosted f2p games are exploding because they're all that's available, even as the currency devalues by dramatically. Keeping those servers running without outside internet is quite a task.

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— Brandon Sheffield (@brandon.insertcredit.com) January 16, 2026 at 11:44 AM








I'm not that Nicole Carpenter aftermath.site/nicole-carpent...

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— Aftermath (@aftermath.site) January 15, 2026 at 2:40 PM

A correction request on a story Nicole didn't write opened up a mystery of strange bylines and oddly-written stories. aftermath.site/nicole-carpent...

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— Aftermath (@aftermath.site) January 15, 2026 at 2:40 PM








Man begins construction on Skynet from the film Do Not Build the Skynet

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— KaL (@kaly.blackskycomra.de) January 16, 2026 at 4:51 AM








PSA: if you get a message from an account on Tiktok claiming to be me, it’s not me. There are a slew of impersonator accounts running some kind of scam, and Tiktok won’t take them down no matter how much I report them 😕

— Molly White (@molly.wiki) January 17, 2026 at 6:18 PM








Every show I’ve seen a commercial for during this game feels like a parody of a CBS show

— Chicken Puppet 🏳️‍⚧️ (@chickenpuppet.online) January 17, 2026 at 3:41 PM








They're embarrassed NOW? A "growing" sense of embarrassment?? NOW???

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— Gregory Hays (@aristofontes.bsky.social) January 18, 2026 at 6:43 AM
(Article (rightly) suggests they're worried the games themselves might actually be a disaster)









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— Ollie Connolly (@ollieconnolly.bsky.social) January 18, 2026 at 3:11 PM


I said

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— Mina Kimes (@minakimes.bsky.social) January 18, 2026 at 4:00 PM
















@pheeweeshee 눈물이 나고 싶어 shibaal…shout out to Jinu from Saja Boys. #asian #bts #jinu #hair #perm ♬ original sound - ellie








@fantasy.galaxy.guides This is the best thing to happen to this mall #escondidolibrary #northcountymall #abercrombie #ambercrombie #abercrombieandfitch ♬ original sound - furys*
Temporary the last time I checked







@glass.city.mike

New job loading 😭😭😭

♬ Vibes of the Island - Bounce
(The toilet 10 seconds in)







@r00t3_ This ACTUALLY has to be the worst acting I have ever seen in my entire life. I could do better acting if I recorded my own movie on my iphone. Who allowed this??😭Tubi needs to be stopped💔#fyp #tubi #yeah #foryoupage #tubimovies ♬ original sound - EWR✈️
Top comment is from the Tubi account: "this is what artistic freedom looks like"







@viclovinnnn Never trust a good looking snow bank #snow #fyp #viral #fail @emzzzyyyyy ♬ Big Guy - from "The SpongeBob Movie: Search for SquarePants” - Ice Spice




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