Monday, August 10, 2026

Today's news and jokes

This movie is the source of Princess Leia's Shadows of the Empire look.

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— Pablo Hidalgo (@infinata.bsky.social) August 5, 2026 at 9:09 PM






("After a company representative falsely claimed at a Jameson Land community meeting in June that it had permission to land drilling equipment, [Greenland Energy’s chair and a big shareholder] said: “Our enthusiasm for the project led us to communicate in a way that created confusion.”)















(When I looked there were no details on the sabotage, but it sounded like simultaneous issues in New York and Philadelphia.)















schrodinger’s wealthy taxpayer, simultaneously not paying his fair share and dodging tax to the point of paying less than anyone else, but also critical to the state’s budget through those taxes he doesn’t pay

— TalysAlankil (@talysalankil.snarktheater.com) August 9, 2026 at 4:41 AM








("Eleven trees have been killed over the past several years by a strong-smelling, unidentified substance. Another 16 were just attacked this year")







Forbes







Why must boring write-ups of the Jason Arday scandal pile on more untruths (he's not in the humanities and not a famous academic, apparently unknown in the social sciences outside of the UK) rather than celebrating the most exaggerated fabulist since Baron Hieronymus Karl Friedrich von Münchhausen?

— Naomi Clark (@metasynthie) 暗悪直美 (@halfrobot.com) August 9, 2026 at 3:56 PM

If you want a non-shitpost take on this whole thing I thought Okundaye's was half-decent www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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— Naomi Clark (@metasynthie) 暗悪直美 (@halfrobot.com) August 9, 2026 at 4:05 PM








(“I stay on the phone with my wife until she starts snoring”)







posted this six years ago on twitter and it went viral but here’s daryl dawkins on don nelson in his memoir

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— LeeAnn Wombat (@jonnyauping.bsky.social) August 9, 2026 at 1:34 PM
















love this kid

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— CJ Fogler (@cjzero.bsky.social) August 8, 2026 at 11:03 AM








bro I'm telling you this hint in red text, lock tf in

— sammy v (@doctorveemd.bsky.social) July 20, 2026 at 9:24 PM








One year one house gave out tiny fun-size scotch tape dispensers. I was weirdly into it!

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— Oscar Goff (@theoscargoff.bsky.social) July 23, 2026 at 11:37 AM








@modernanimalvet are all corgis like this?? #vetmed #vettech #veterinarian ♬ original sound - Modern Animal




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