Thursday, July 23, 2026

Today's news and jokes

@maxpreps He left distance running for this. 💯😂 (via natedrymalski | IG) #viral #funny #blooper #trackandfield #polevault ♬ Charlie's Inferno - That Handsome Devil






NEW: As cyclosporiasis cases jumped, the company linked to the outbreak - Taylor Farms - effectively delayed a recall that mounted in consumer confusion. Gift link for @business www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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— Jessica Nix (@jessicanix.bsky.social) July 21, 2026 at 4:16 PM
(Article makes it sound like the company conspired with the white house to try to place blame on Taco Bell, but Taco Bell posted first)







A Republican member of the West Virginia House has just been charged with enticing a 15-year-old minor through Roblox and Snapchat.

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— Headquarters (@headquartersnews.bsky.social) July 22, 2026 at 3:20 PM
(taught at the middle school where she was a student)







("The scheme started to unravel when a snowstorm in 2024 halted deliveries and operations at the Memphis warehouse. During the stoppage, another Nike employee noticed that the falsified UPS labels were pasted onto cargo that was not meant for UPS")







You do not need to share the bad posts you saw on x. Please we left for a reason. I do not need to see what random white supremacist thinks about the odyssey. Something dumb and racist you say? Crazy!!

— annie (@bbypizza.bsky.social) July 22, 2026 at 8:05 AM
Can't believe how often something shows up in my bluesky feed and I realize it's someone I already blocked on twitter





Sigh. I was actually curious to read this thread, but it seems Ms. Wilson is merely workshopping a pitch to the New York Times for one of its famously nuanced pieces on Los Angeles

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— Christopher Hawthorne (@hawthorne.bsky.social) July 22, 2026 at 6:39 PM
(Didn't read the thread)





something i learned a few years ago is that the odyssey and the iliad were part of a larger cycle of epics about the trojan war but we lost the other six. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epic_Cy...

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— sarah jeong (@sarahjeong.bsky.social) July 22, 2026 at 11:30 AM

it's stuff like that that makes me really worry about the continuity of culture in a time of decreasing literacy and devaluation of knowledge and attribution. but on the other hand, i've also seen the scholarly suggestion somewhere that the lost six might have been kind of mid

— sarah jeong (@sarahjeong.bsky.social) July 22, 2026 at 11:32 AM






Homer noticeably has no idea what chariots are used for

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— Ash Flanagan (@ashflanagan.bsky.social) July 21, 2026 at 10:50 PM

I'm not the first person to come up with this analogy but imagine a mecha anime where the characters use their gundams to travel to the battlefield and then hop out of the cockpit and fistfight because the mangaka couldn't figure out how giant robot battles would work. That's the whole Iliad

— Ash Flanagan (@ashflanagan.bsky.social) July 21, 2026 at 10:52 PM
















Kevin Calabro tells me has decided to step away from Blazers broadcasting and will no longer call games for Portland. The team and its veteran play-by-play man had been in discussions on a new contract, but he called the offers "subprime" and he has decided to move on.

— Joe Freeman (@freemanjoe.bsky.social) July 22, 2026 at 12:11 PM
Subprime







According to what the mics pick up and what the Yankees broadcasters said after this moment, it sounds like MLB told the Yankees that Caballero will no longer be allowed to stand in the box while looking at the ground for more than three seconds, no matter how much time is left on the pitch clock.

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— Noel Murray (@noelmu.bsky.social) July 22, 2026 at 12:26 PM








(Michael B. Jordan is a minority owner of Bournemouth, and Bournemouth has that great jersey I posted a few weeks back)























Apparently, something happened 57 years ago in, like, space or something? I think the best take on it is still probably that of Dinah Hall...

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— Odd This Day (@oddthisday.bsky.social) July 20, 2026 at 3:30 AM








Someone in DC set up a “little free blockbuster” with DVDs inside instead of books lol

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— Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 (@josephpolitano.bsky.social) July 22, 2026 at 6:37 AM








@basilfriendsco Extroverted dogs don‘t just go on walks—they go on meet-and-greets. 🤝✨ If your dog thinks every stranger is just a friend they haven’t greeted yet, The Spotlight is basically their official name tag. Warning: may cause excessive smiling from passersby and slightly longer evening walks. Put your extrovert in the spotlight. Link in bio to customize yours. 🔦 #basilfriends #dogreel #dogmeme #dogmom #collarprojector ♬ original sound - basilfriendsco








@doggy.u We had different goals for that stick 😂 #LabradorRetriever #Spiders #HikingWithDogs #SillyDog #YellowLab ♬ original sound - DOGGY•U








@tjthefrenchie When you try and do something nice with your dog 🐾 #dog #frenchie #frenchbulldog ♬ original sound - Tyra




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