Friday, February 20, 2026

Today's news and jokes

("The 33-year-old suspect is accused of stealing several valuable Buddhist items, including two 12-inch Buddha statues, from a senior officer’s home")













Three ICE agents accidentally shot themselves in the leg during routine training exercises within two days last year.

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— Newsweek (@newsweek.com) February 18, 2026 at 5:55 AM
("Two former senior ICE officials told Newsweek that accidental discharges were not uncommon and often involved experienced agents rather than new hires")







If you are somehow finding the occasion to get barred from the premises of your wife’s work on the other side of the country for sexual misconduct, what must be going on in your own anesthesiology offices? www.nytimes.com/2026/02/19/b...

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— southpaw (@nycsouthpaw.bsky.social) February 19, 2026 at 9:00 PM
("an anesthesiologist in Portland, Ore., who frequently visited his wife’s Washington offices...One of the incidents, during working hours on the morning of Dec. 18, was recorded on office security cameras")



Texas Congressman’s Aide Told Co-Worker of Affair Before Killing Herself www.nytimes.com/2026/02/18/u...

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— Mike Forsythe 傅才德 (@pekingmikenyt.bsky.social) February 19, 2026 at 4:15 AM
(The other Republican trying to unseat him is "a hard-line gun-rights advocate and YouTuber known as the 'AK guy'"O







A write-up



Grok is doxing a porn performer, after she spent years keeping this information private. Disgusting, abusive, deliberately harmful little product Elon's got there www.404media.co/grok-doxing-...

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— Sam Cole (@samleecole.bsky.social) February 19, 2026 at 8:04 AM
























Not saying I think about the structural problems with A Song of Ice and Fire too much, but the other day I had a dream that 'The Winds of Winter' came out, and that it had an entirely new set of POV characters: historians trying to piece together how the war *really* ended a thousand years later.

— Stephen Bush (@stephenkb.bsky.social) February 17, 2026 at 3:35 PM








I met Khary Payton, Drebins’ voice actor at a con and someone had asked about how it was working on MGS4, if there was any standout moments to him he remembered. He then began to describe being given Laughing Octopus’s backstory and genuinely thought he was being pranked.

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— zckry (@impactzack.bsky.social) February 14, 2026 at 5:06 AM








This is the final drop! πŸ“£ Collect these limited-edition Black History Month library cards at the West Oakland Branch ONLY! In celebration of the 60th anniversary of the Black Panther Party, we're re-releasing a limited number of these three Black Panther inspired library card designs one last time.

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— Oakland Public Library (@oaklibrary.bsky.social) February 15, 2026 at 12:15 PM
















this man is desaturated

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— CJ Fogler (@cjzero.bsky.social) February 17, 2026 at 9:32 PM








Never forget the anniversary of King Taejong falling off his horse!

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— Sam Ottewill-Soulsby (@samottewillsoulsby.bsky.social) February 8, 2026 at 1:01 AM
Wikipedia







“Wow that’s based,” typed 45 year old in pajama pants, expressionless

— warrior cop (@wyattprivilege.bsky.social) February 7, 2026 at 1:48 PM
















@thetelegraph

πŸ”΄ Russia unveils spinning cables tank to swat away Ukrainian drones A device which uses whirling cables to swat drones out of the sky has been unveiled as Russia’s latest unconventional weapon in its war with Ukraine. The machine, powered by a motor inside an armoured vehicle, features four rotating discs, each fitted with around nine or 10 spaghetti-like steel cables. A prototype version, mounted on a multi-purpose unmanned ground vehicle (UGV), known as a Courier, was shown on Russian state television’s War Correspondents programme. Read the full story at the linked article πŸ”— #Russia #news

♬ original sound - The Telegraph








@amandaandkennyy

♬ BAD BUNNY INSTRUMENTAL - BV?








@deidracali Replying to @Figment a beagle being a beagle at AKC Meet the Breeds 2026 πŸ˜‚ @American Kennel Club #akc #dogs #beagle #dogtok ♬ original sound - CHAR




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