Tuesday, May 12, 2026

Today's news and jokes

had to clip arin wright yelling for help as soph zoomed by, first, because it’s funny, but also because it might be the most honest advertisement for this league

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— andré (@andre-carlisle.bsky.social) May 9, 2026 at 7:33 AM






("At least eight")







This is wild: Yomiuri News reports that due to the Iran War, Japan is facing a critical shortage in naphtha, a key material in making potato chip bags, and printing ink. As a result, the snack giant Calbee has announced that they are adopt black-and-white packaging for most key products 🫠 🫠 🫠

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— Alex Ip 葉清霖 (@alexip718.com) May 11, 2026 at 6:49 AM








Ballroom-Class Battleships

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— Pablo Hidalgo (@infinata.bsky.social) May 11, 2026 at 1:52 PM




A lot of attention has been paid to the collapse of traffic to The Daily Wire and Ben Shapiro's YouTube channel. But other ragebait sites are also seeing huge drops in audience. According to The Righting, Outkick, The Federalist and The Blaze are down at least 48%. therighting.com/traffic-repo...

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— Justin Baragona (@justinbaragona.bsky.social) May 11, 2026 at 6:51 AM




The Onion ass headline

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— Mollie Goodfellow (@hansmollman.bsky.social) May 9, 2026 at 2:42 AM








Amazing how little coverage this has had… www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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— Abby Innes (@abbyinnes.bsky.social) May 11, 2026 at 1:19 AM
("for the first time in Wales’s history, the country’s highest-ranking political representative would be from a party committed to securing independence – to breaking away from the United Kingdom")































(In one case, a single site was hit five times in less than a month")















Tonight’s game 5 of the PWHL Walter Cup Playoffs between Minnesota and Montréal at Place Bell has been postponed.

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— PWHL (@thepwhl.com) May 11, 2026 at 1:49 PM
(The league did not disclose the nature of the illness, nor did it reveal how many players were sick. However, the league said, “Medical assessment determined that the symptoms are not consistent with hantavirus”)







Looks like baseball teams cancelling late season games might be coming to a head.

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— Sickos Committee (@sickoscommittee.org) May 11, 2026 at 1:41 PM
("The NCAA has issued what's becoming an annual appeal to Division I baseball coaches to not cancel nonconference midweek games to protect their teams' positioning for the national tournament")























https://gacha.o0o0.jp/gp/archives/48480 『ドラゴンクエスト メダパニでこんらん！モンスターフィギュア』発売。 "Dragon Quest: Confusion from Medapani! Monster Figures" released. #ガチャポン #gachapon

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— Random gashapon! ランダム・ガチャポン (@randomgacha.bsky.social) April 27, 2026 at 6:00 AM








It's so weird doing these IMDB searches for what was huge at the box office during certain dates...like for the year 1980. And the results are like, mostly stuff I haven't heard of

— Eric Kim (김현철) inkskratch.com (@inkskratch.com) April 28, 2026 at 9:19 PM

These were the top 50 at the box office according to IMDB for the year 1980. I've heard of eleven out of these fifty. www.imdb.com/search/title...

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— Eric Kim (김현철) inkskratch.com (@inkskratch.com) April 28, 2026 at 9:26 PM








@funny.bunny9215 Annie the Therapy Dog lays so still while Dr. Fopma does her dentistry ❤️#dentist #dentalassistant #dentalhygienist #dentistryworld #labrador ♬ I Shall Believe - Sheryl Crow








@funny.bunny9215 Annie the Therapy Dog is with her bestie Frankie! Annie was excited to hop up with one of her favorite patients 😊Frankie is saying “what do you from me”?😂#dentist #dentalassistant #dentalhygienist #dentistryworld #labrador ♬ London Bridge - Fergie




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