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The US playing against China's giant centers looks like the forced-perspective stuff from the Lord of the Rings

this a scene from The Odyssey pic.twitter.com/S0O65Ia6NO

— correlation (@nosyone4) September 4, 2026

These photos of Caitlin Clark and Paige Bueckers with Zhang Ziyu 🤯#FIBAWWC | @FIBAWWC pic.twitter.com/LrroJT97Pl

— FIBA Basketball (@FIBA) September 4, 2026

(I wish Apple would add USMNT/USWNT to the Apple sports app)

Americans at a hunting camp in Mozambique narrowly escaped an attack by insurgents

I hear rumors that Islamic State Mozambique almost kidnapped three Americans, but a helicopter was able to rescue them in the middle of a battle in Niassa. IS attacked a hunter camp in the wildlife reserve, where a year ago they staged a similar operation. #Mozambique

— Paweł Wójcik 🦋 (@SaladinAlDronni) September 3, 2026

The hunting camp is partly owned by Ghana's national soccer team coach. DailyMail:

the camp had been burned but there were no confirmed fatalities. The source said the three Americans had been out hunting when the attack occurred, and that staff had fled

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The State Department had warned its citizens not to travel to the Niassa Special Reserve for any reason, adding that terrorists had targeted upscale hunting lodges in and near the area and taken hostages.

Last year, in a similar attack in the Niassa Reserve, a tourist camp was destroyed and six people including four rangers were killed during skirmishes.

New video game Humble Bundle featuring "Narrative Masterpieces"

Starts at three games for $7, Steam scores displayed, including the 99% for Wednesdays. 

Also, the building games bundle expires in a few hours.

Today's news and jokes

Ever since I posted about LA's vestigial water fountains, I can't stop finding others... The front plaza of this medical bldg at 4323 Riverside is shoddy and kind of a hazard. Then I read the plaque. It used to be a "stream" in honor of Chuck Jones' 85th birthday, gifted by WB.

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— LA Dork (@ladork.bsky.social) September 2, 2026 at 5:01 PM

The Dolly Parton newspaper comic strip that didn’t happen (art roundup)

The Dolly Parton Comic Strip That Didn’t Happen www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/20...

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— The Daily Cartoonist (@dailycartoonist.bsky.social) August 28, 2026 at 8:06 AM

Tamsyn Muir's next book is not the next Locked Tomb novel

It's an expanded edition of her novella "Princess Floralinda and the Forty-Flight Tower." (I enjoyed the book/audiobook.)