Friday, August 14, 2026

Today's news and jokes







One day apart. @theguardian.com @wsj.com www.wsj.com/politics/nat...

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— Carl Quintanilla (@carlquintanilla.bsky.social) August 13, 2026 at 9:03 AM








Between 2016 and today, the US has spent almost $9 trillion on defense. It then ran dangerously low in many advanced munitions fighting a country with no air force and navy--after about two months of combat operations. This is an extraordinary scandal.

— Phillips OBrien (@phillipspobrien.bsky.social) August 11, 2026 at 7:51 AM








SCARED scared

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— Ken Lowery (@kenlowery.bsky.social) August 12, 2026 at 3:15 PM








mosseri promised IG would fix this problem a month ago, literal years after it became a real problem, and I was still able to find endless pages of videos where women are telling these freaks to FUCK OFF on no uncertain terms. mind boggling www.404media.co/meta-ray-ban...

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— Sam Cole (@samleecole.bsky.social) August 12, 2026 at 8:23 AM








While I hate sports gambling this isn't real, it's marketing

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— GPT-Ern Malley (@denam.bsky.social) August 13, 2026 at 11:32 AM

According to Similarweb (the source cited for this data), ~27% of Threads' alleged half a billion monthly active users came from Taiwan (or ~135M people) Taiwan's actual population is ~23 million

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— Luke LeBrun (@lukelebrun.ca) August 13, 2026 at 1:44 PM

14 million souls ended in a single year by Elon Musk's cruelty and stupidity Here are some of the comparisons: Rwandan genocide: 800k dead Cambodian genocide: 3 million dead The Holocaust: 7 million dead

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— e.w. niedermeyer (@niedermeyer.online) August 13, 2026 at 8:22 AM
Not investigating any of these numbers. We know he doesn't like the Culture novels because of the bodily autonomy, so I can only assume he loved the mass death "for the greater good" in Player of Games







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Someone hack this so we can see his wife

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— CJ Fogler (@cjzero.bsky.social) August 12, 2026 at 5:41 PM
















COYOTE V. ACME is the spiritual sequel to WHO FRAMED ROGER RABBIT? I've been wondering if anyone would ever attempt much less nail.

— Walter Chaw (@mangiotto.bsky.social) August 12, 2026 at 10:27 AM








So ABC is airing (modern) classic movies on Sunday nights over the summer, and they're doing pretty well! 31-year-old WHILE YOU WERE SLEEPING notched 2.21M viewers this weekend, edging out NBC's much more costly Sunday Night Baseball game (2.01M)

— Joe Adalian (@tvmojoe.bsky.social) August 11, 2026 at 2:24 PM








i love this building that just got approved by the toronto government to start development thats an 11 story residential apartment building with retail space on the ground floor, with a buddhist temple on the very top

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— zac (@10amlunch.bsky.social) August 3, 2026 at 5:29 PM
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@chelleneff We had 30 minutes, two flattened cardboard boxes, one roll of gray duct tape, two rolls of black duct tape, and 7 people to build a boat that would float us across a pool without getting wet. And we crushed it and won out of 21 teams!! #girlpower ♬ Swan Lake "dance of four swans" - Kohrogi








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Pigeon 1 - Mimi 0 (ig: mimi_jaeva_yorkie)

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