Sunday, May 3, 2026

Today's news and jokes

Amazon also has an ewok and a wookiee





FWIW







("The new footage does not clearly show a muzzle flash from Mr. Allen’s gun either....But other details — including dust in the ceiling lights, the officers’ reactions and an audio analysis — are more conclusive that the gunman fired at the Secret Service officer,")







(Didn't watch the clip, let me know if it's persuasive)







("requesting $100 million...The federal government has set aside $1 billion for Olympics security spending, including for local and state law enforcement, but has given few details about when and how it will distribute those funds")







Once upon a time, years of training and competition were required to rise to the top of classical music. But as Jeffrey Arlo Brown reports, the under-qualified ultra-wealthy are skipping to the front of the line, wads of cash in hand.

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— The Baffler (@thebaffler.com) May 1, 2026 at 10:19 AM
("In November, ... the former president of the Trump Kennedy Center, awkwardly led the National Symphony Orchestra in a rendition of the national anthem. It was an advertisement for the since-closed Center’s fundraising initiative that would allow wealthy donors to take the baton in exchange for large donations.")







The team at Musk’s Twitter—where I haven’t posted recently—is apparently going through years-old posts looking for reasons to ban me. What they’ve come up with so far is a photo of a scarf that I took myself and what looks like a meme I don’t remember posting. Curious if this is happening to others?

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— southpaw (@nycsouthpaw.bsky.social) May 2, 2026 at 10:41 AM

Update: It does seem to be a pretty good spear phishing attempt—domain just created today. Unfortunately for them, I was more interested in making stupid content about it than stupidly remembering and providing my password.

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— southpaw (@nycsouthpaw.bsky.social) May 2, 2026 at 11:35 AM








Stakes are high for the next Final Fantasy XIV expansion, Evercold, which looks to win back players after the disappointing Dawntrail. In FY2025, FFXIV was responsible for more than 50% of Square Enix's profit! New column from Fanfest in Anaheim last week: www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

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— Jason Schreier (@jasonschreier.bsky.social) May 1, 2026 at 10:20 AM
















For one day a year everyone pretends that horse racing isn’t an interest reserved for society’s scuzziest lowlifes

— Patrick Monahan (@pattymo.com) May 3, 2025 at 8:26 AM




Great White throwing the jockey and flipping over.

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— JM =^) (@jm539581.bsky.social) May 2, 2026 at 4:49 PM








("Photos included in the filing show a cooler containing “copious amounts of marijuana in all forms imaginable” ...As a highly decorated war hero and successful businessman, Mr. Holt does not give in to this sort of coercion")















(I don't understand why the NBA doesn't impose harsher punishments on clear intent to injure plays--this was a player realizing his team had lost trying to cripple players advancing to the next series)















































"Daddy, I lost my tooth right now" "I know"

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— JM =^) (@jm539581.bsky.social) May 2, 2026 at 7:08 PM








Celts trainer, delay of game























































@ashley_mincy I look out my kitchen window earlier and think I’m seeing the neighbors German Shepard walking down the road with a small fuzzy puppy in tow. WRONG. Turns out it’s a wild boar piglet and they’re BESTIES 🤞🏻😂👯‍♂️@Shelby Lynn took the video from our porch!! #fyp #animals #besties #oddcouple #germanshepherd ♬ You've Got a Friend in Me - From "Toy Story"/Soundtrack Version - Randy Newman




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