Sunday, August 30, 2026

Today's news and jokes

@thetimes At 9.20 on Wednesday morning, 900 children were halfway through the early shift at Tribhuvan Trishuli secondary school, a three-storey complex in the Trishuli valley of north-central Nepal.⁠ ⁠ Another 700 were on their way on foot and by bus, when the principal, Rajendra Dadabi, received a panicked call from a friend in Betrawati, five miles upstream. “He said the village was gone: taken by the river,” said Dadabi. “He told me to run.”⁠ ⁠ The 47-year-old English teacher took a moment to consider the threat. He remembered that the school buses, each carrying 80 children, were en route.⁠ ⁠ “I got through to all the drivers but one and told them to turn back. Then I saw the bus I hadn’t been able to contact coming across the bridge. By now, the water was in the school grounds — it was so fast — so I told him to turn around. It got to the other side just as the bridge collapsed.”⁠ ⁠ Dadabi’s quick thinking saved the lives of 1,643 children and all but one member of the teaching staff. #nepal #nepalfloods #floods ♬ original sound - The Times and Sunday Times














("The attack marked the latest threat to the rule of Abdourahamane Tiani, who seized power in a 2023 ​coup. Tiani had pledged to improve security in the Sahel nation, a major uranium producer...Troops in this area have sustained heavy casualties in battles with the regional Islamic State affiliate, and analysts and security sources say frustration with the government is mounting within frontline units")







Mystery solved: the Freedom Fuel Network was able to charge so little for gas because it stiffed its supplier and refused to pay for it

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— Catherine Rampell (@crampell.bsky.social) August 29, 2026 at 9:54 AM








(She was moving massive amounts of opiods to top atheletes in NFL, MLB, NBA, and her downfall began when a player's wife got flagged for having a suspicious number of pain prescriptions and learned her husband was getting prescriptions in her name)



















































(Basically, in all the years, there were two occasions where someone threw an item in apparent annoyance at Corso's pick, narrowly missing hitting a member of the cast. "Nowadays, College GameDay begins and ends with a Pat McAfee pep talk that usually ends with him picking the home team to thunderous cheers from the crowd. It doesn’t really carry the same weight or drama as Corso’s picks did")























The college paper's write-up of the wild game. (“I’m a short, athletic quarterback and I feel like that’s just kind of the stereotype, but I take it, and I run with it”)























I once worked a concert series featuring Kenny G where he would leave the stage and dramatically appear in the mezzanine midway through--was amusingly awkward waiting next to him in the hallway















"Adjust the slider until the symbol is barely visible" Nah man, I'm going to adjust the slider until the symbol is VERY visible.

— GP (@mousefountain.bsky.social) August 8, 2026 at 3:08 PM










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— max dithered 🌌 (@sneptech.bsky.social) August 5, 2026 at 2:37 AM








Jet Force Gemini (Nintendo 64, Rare, 1999)

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— Timeproof Games (@timeproof.games) August 7, 2026 at 7:49 AM
(This game had a great feature where player two could just control a firing reticule and provide supplemental gunfire)















@korealaska

Happy birthday, Chanel 🫡🇲🇽

♬ original sound - Matt




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