Wednesday, April 29, 2026

Today's news and jokes

The Reds have a promotion where fans win free pizza if the team gets 11 strikeouts in a game. They clinched it in the ninth inning on an ABS challenge and it was electric

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— Jomboy Media (Unofficial) (@jomboymedia-mirror.bsky.social) April 28, 2026 at 7:46 PM






How Volodymr Zelenskyy manages to survive in a literal war without a ballroom to keep him safe is just shocking to me.

— Covie (@covie93.bsky.social) April 27, 2026 at 8:55 PM








In the last few weeks, the UAE has a) sounded out the US on a swap line b) pulled billions of dollars out of Pakistan, an ally c) left Opec, where it was one of the biggest members by quota.

— Joseph Cotterill (@jsphctrl.ft.com) April 28, 2026 at 5:34 AM












Russian media report that this year's May 9th parade will feature military personnel from universities, but will exclude cadets, Suvorov military school students, and columns of military equipment. Oh no! What happened?

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— WarTranslated (Dmitri) (@wartranslated.bsky.social) April 28, 2026 at 1:40 PM
("Russia to mark war anniversary with parade, but no equipment")









In a lot of ways, this is THE story of our times. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

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— Noah Shachtman (@noahshachtman.bsky.social) April 28, 2026 at 5:01 AM








In case people didn’t know: This is the leading scholar behind the very first big legal challenge to Obamacare, and is now among the leading theorists supporting Donald Trump’s assault on birthright citizenship as spelled out in the 14th Amendment. There’s probably a throughline there.

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— Cristian Farias (@cristianfarias.com) April 28, 2026 at 6:35 AM
One Battle After Another is a good movie







("Because of the discount built into the deal, an 8.75% rate, the city would receive roughly $4.7 million less per year than it would under the original lease terms")







Apple is shutting down its first store to unionize and preventing workers from transfer rights that are offered to non-union employees www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

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— Michael Sainato (@msainato.bsky.social) April 28, 2026 at 8:22 AM
(The store was in Maryland)







I think I'm in favor of when a reporter assigned to hang out in front of the suspect's house has nothing, so they just talk to a local kid about whatever www.bbc.com/news/article...

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— Christina Holland (@mortalwombat.info) April 28, 2026 at 9:38 AM








1/ Totally fascinating story from NYT on how homeowners associations and private property are spaces for political resistance in China: www.nytimes.com/2026/04/27/w...

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— Emily Feng (@emilyzfeng.bsky.social) April 27, 2026 at 9:27 AM
































#17 at the top of the screen































My secret trick for spelling "embarrassment" is to double every consonant and then click the little squiggly line under the word.

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— Noel Murray (@noelmu.bsky.social) April 27, 2026 at 8:30 AM








Googly eyes might stop seagulls from stealing your lunch. UK researchers stuck googly eyes onto takeout food containers in seagull-infested places and found that they were far less likely to be approached or pecked compared to un-googly-eyed control containers. buff.ly/G5i7JE5 #ShareGoodNewsToo

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— Ada Palmer (@adapalmer.bsky.social) April 25, 2026 at 6:50 AM

You may appreciate that I have attached googly eyes to all of my lab equipment 👀

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— I'm Here Live I'm a Kat (@katsharki3.bsky.social) April 25, 2026 at 11:35 AM








its canon that sheldon cooper and steven hawking are friends, which begs the question... did sheldon ever go to the island

— Cass (@cassmarshall.bsky.social) April 15, 2026 at 7:33 PM








I would love to read an investigation about who the worst player to receive "M-V-P" chants from a home crowd is.

— Josh Gondelman (@joshgondelman.bsky.social) April 15, 2026 at 7:22 PM
(This would be something AI could theoretically achieve, right? Search audio files for the chant, then rank by career plus minus or whatever stat?)







We just had an amazing thrift store find submitted to us. The Kent State Senior Bar Crawl 2015 Shirt. Jeff Huston, someone has your shirt.

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— Sickos Committee (@sickoscommittee.org) April 15, 2026 at 6:44 AM








@brooke_farris Can you touch manatees? No. Can manatees touch you? Absolutely! And this guy was all kinds of touchy grabby! We nicknamed him Rico Suave 🥰😂 📸 @GoPro ##manatees##protectedanimals##manateetiktok##manateehug##snorkelguide ♬ оригинальный звук - Mdj Mdj




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