Wednesday, April 1, 2026

Today's news and jokes









For those of you playing along with the AI Bubble/Paramount-WBD merger home game, Big Daddy Oracle surprised 30,000 of its favorite employees this morning with pink slips in order to free up cash because their mounting debt and banks refusal to keep loaning to them: rollingout.com/2026/03/31/o...

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— C. Robert Cargill (@crobertcargill.bsky.social) March 31, 2026 at 2:02 PM
("The company’s stock price is down 25% this year")

GM idles Factory Zero again, lays off 1,300 EV workers for a month

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— Electrek (@electrek.co) March 31, 2026 at 8:42 AM








"ICE agents will be stationed outside graduation events for the nation’s newest Marines to identify whether any of their family members are undocumented, according to the Marine Corps." www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...

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— Social Media Lab (@socialmedialab.ca) March 31, 2026 at 3:08 AM


(not "making arrests" "at the")







Iran attacked and set on fire a massive Kuwaiti oil tanker off Dubai overnight, as Gulf states increasingly suffer the fallout from the war. n.pr/3NRjRDC

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— NPR (@npr.org) March 31, 2026 at 5:26 AM




In all seriousness, a US court blocking Trump's fantasy ballroom at the White House probably increases the likelihood of a US Marines landing on Iranian islands

— Alexander Clarkson (@aphclarkson.bsky.social) March 31, 2026 at 12:59 PM




Now France is denying airspace…

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— Matthew Gertz (@mattgertz.bsky.social) March 31, 2026 at 4:21 AM
(Iceland or Los Angeles?)

One of the lessons from Vietnam is that when they start bombarding you with numbers like these -- ordinance used, targets struck, so many killed and wounded -- there's more we're not being told.

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— Kevin M. Kruse (@kevinmkruse.bsky.social) March 31, 2026 at 6:57 AM
(The quote)







Presumably coincidental someone leaked it so soon after she lost her job









("The airline said it would emphasize French fluency in its search for a successor")















(a number almost double the entire population of the islands...The surplus would normally have been returned to the mainland, but high winds and disruption to the ferry service meant this was not possible.)















I'm sorry is that an eight 247sports.com/college/alab...

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— BUM CHILLUPS AKA SPENCER HALL AKA PRESIDENT FOOTBALL (@edsbs.bsky.social) March 31, 2026 at 9:21 AM
(Weighs 236)







someone go to this Madison Mallards game and get me one (1) captain’s hat please

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— Luke Knox (@lukeknox.me) March 18, 2026 at 4:54 PM








Canadian Humour in the Wild

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— Kliph Nesteroff (@classicshowbiz.bsky.social) March 18, 2026 at 5:53 AM








This is some amazing municipal signage (stolen from a friend elsewhere): You are absolutely forbidden from playing bocce on this lawn bowling court, but here are incredibly detailed driving instructions to a place where you can play bocce.

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— Jesse Sheidlower (@jessesword.com) March 19, 2026 at 6:10 AM








@joanacarval They never leave each other alone #babyandpuppy ♬ FANTASTIC MR FOX - amaramation




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