Wednesday, February 25, 2026

Today's news and jokes

(Speaking of, I recently tried watching The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes--wow, what happened there? Too easy to simply follow the formula of the first movie with a slightly less triumphant ending?)





So the crypto company in business with the Trump family might be funneling $1.7 billion to Iran. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/23/t...

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— Noah Shachtman (@noahshachtman.bsky.social) February 23, 2026 at 9:50 AM


"A three-year-old energy company with less than five employees is one of the top contenders for a $25 billion contract from Trump’s massive trade deal with Japan." www.politico.com/news/2026/02...

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— Noah Shachtman (@noahshachtman.bsky.social) February 23, 2026 at 5:05 AM




Kyle Connor, Jake Guentzel, Jackson LaCombe, Brock Nelson and Jake Oettinger did not travel with the team to the White House. Full story: www.nytimes.com/athletic/706...

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— The Athletic (@theathletic.com) February 24, 2026 at 1:02 PM
Four from Minnesota, I believe





Calling my shot. "Persian-Indo-Pacific" is becoming a new buzzword to help China hawk elites save face.

— Starfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast (@irhottakes.bsky.social) February 24, 2026 at 3:47 PM








dems usually fuck up by pushing stuff that's good policy and bad politics, kind of refreshing to see them fuck up in the exact opposite way for once

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— Dave Infante (@dinfontay.com) February 24, 2026 at 11:25 AM


Haven't seen it on Bluesky yet: a nice paper is making the rounds, estimating that the cost of housing permits in LA can explain 1/3 of the gap between construction costs and housing prices. That is: LA's terribly slow housing permitting is extremely costly!

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— Zak Yudhishthu (@zyudhishthu.bsky.social) February 24, 2026 at 6:06 AM








pentagon trying to force Anthropic to make killbots and threading to crush them unless they comply is among the most dangerous things this admin is doing. HOWEVER it’s hilarious that Elon is practically begging to make antiwoke Skynet and the WH is like “no haha Claude is better”

— Joey Politano๐Ÿณ️‍๐ŸŒˆ (@josephpolitano.bsky.social) February 24, 2026 at 2:47 PM
















UPDATE: Vancouver Lenny Zhou has apologized for a video he posted on WeChat where he said without evidence that multiple opposition councillors were drug users and dealers

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— Justin McElroy ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฆ (@jmcelroy.bsky.social) February 24, 2026 at 3:34 PM
In a video targeted at Chinese speakers







okay what the fuck was the BBC doing with that broadcast? because at this point it could be mistaken for intentional… variety.com/2026/film/aw...

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— Corey Atad (@coreyatad.com) February 24, 2026 at 3:36 PM
















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my local park is full of hundreds of snow sculptures and someone has been adding museum labels

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— kelly (@kickinson.bsky.social) February 24, 2026 at 11:42 AM








douglas adams was our most accurate futurist

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— Amy Hoy (@amyhoy.bsky.social) February 15, 2026 at 2:10 PM
























@tatianalesme anything for balls #dog #puppy #shihtzu #fyp ♬ original sound - Tatiana




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