Tuesday, October 27, 2026

Today's news and jokes

(Apparently a photo of a police officer threatening the photographer. AI translation: "How can a Brazilian just go take any random photo and simply drop a Pulitzer-worthy semiotics bomb")





("Jordan attacks militants in Syria in retaliation for last week’s church attack") (This one, too)

("The AI-generated voice carries a live conversation with the caller, and doesn’t clarify it’s not a real person unless prompted")(Last line of the article says "homelessness in Raman’s district dropped by 49% this year")



("left a $272,000-a-year job advising Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass this year. Months later, he was helping her out in a different way: running Unidos Con Karen Bass")



("The plan [Raman] outlined has three parts: repair and modernization of the utility system, public City Council appearances by LADWP officials to explain rates, and an audit with City Controller Kenneth Mejia that would examine executive pay")





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Politico wrote up Zohran playing basketball with the uncovering-a-big-scandal tone the same day the NYTimes wrote up "credible allegation that The President of the United States raped a woman" as a political strategy story. Broken media in a nutshell

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— mtsw (@mtsw.bsky.social) October 26, 2026 at 3:54 PM
("academy staff was preparing the gym for a health and wellness event the next morning that meant setting up 1,000 chairs when the mayor’s security team called to say Mamdani and his friends were coming. According to one of them, the chairs had to be moved to accommodate the mayor’s game. The other person said setting up the chairs had to be postponed to the morning hours"











if james talarico's campaign sends me another fundraising text i am gonna impeach the dude before he gets elected

— Noah Shachtman (@noahshachtman.bsky.social) October 25, 2026 at 1:34 PM








































































(I don't know if it's only visible to people with voting rights, but there's a proposed community note that's pretty funny) (I haven't seen the movie, so can't vouch)











(“And then I thought to myself, has anything like really scary happened at like a college gathering in the state of Utah recently?” [he asked]. “Like, do we think we should be amplifying reasons for why people hate my guts as a university? I don’t know.”)



Disney's done an incredible job assembling talent that's boring, unpleasant, and expensive











(He's 24, and played professionally, and went to college in Lithuania)























Every time I noticed him he was doing something bad



































Moriarty











@garythebulldog2 Wait until u see his face! I just can’t say no to him 😭#garythebulldog2 #garythebulldog #britishbulldog #cuteface #hamislife ♬ original sound - Gary








@terrystantrums So good at making friends #shihtzusoftiktok #dogsoftiktok #dogtok ♬ C.B.Rhumba by Sage Guyton and Jeremy Wakefield - SpongeRadio








@_caliehs_ You can’t… #shihtzu #shihtzusoftiktok #dog #dogsoftiktok #1mviews ♬ Iris - Goo Goo Dolls




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