Today's news and jokes

he’s getting called lisan al gaib in china now too 😭😭 pic.twitter.com/TuvCDaXPWR

— m ˚⟡˖ ࣪ (@virgosrecords) March 11, 2026

This guy in the row ahead of me on my flight to Austin watched half of ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER and then switched over to Fox News once it got to the Christmas Adventurers part.

— Robert Daniels (@812filmreviews) March 11, 2026

Doja Cat is taking back her criticism of Timothée Chalamet and says her outrage was "virtue signaling" and “I’ve never been to a ballet. I’ve never seen an opera."

“I took it upon myself yesterday to kind of give it to the man because there is a culture based around outrage and… pic.twitter.com/gkjy7QiPz1

— Variety (@Variety) March 12, 2026

Making Pokemon out of garbage (art roundup)

Tama Art University will once again host the Thinking With Pokemon exhibit in Tokyo Midtown Design Hub from 3/26! It features Pokemon sculptures made from every day objects to promote environmental education. Hopefully Trubbish is there. More: www.designhub.jp/exhibitions/...

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— Tokyo Game Life (@tokyogamelife.bsky.social) March 3, 2026 at 1:42 AM

Evangelion x Norton antivirus ad campaign

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3月9日（月）～3月15日（日）までの1週間、池袋駅周辺にて#エヴァンゲリオン コラボの #ノートン 広告が掲出中！

街や駅構内を歩きながら楽しめる展開となっています✨

実際の掲出の様子も公開📸
見かけた方はぜひチェック＆シェアしてください！… pic.twitter.com/Wob028NwxM

— ノートン【公式】 (@NortonJapan) March 11, 2026

Some prizes to win, I think

New Humble Bundle featuring art collections by Alex Ross, Sean Phillips, and Ramona Fradon

Starts at $5 for two books.

Today's news and jokes

me and the other scheming viziers are wearing shoes gifted to us by the king that are way too big. we look ridiculous. the whole court is laughing at us behind our backs. honestly this is a pretty low point for us, the scheming viziers

— leon (@leyawn.bsky.social) March 11, 2026 at 8:18 AM

hmm

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— derek guy (@dieworkwear.bsky.social) March 11, 2026 at 2:03 AM

It gets better. Here's Vance and Rubio in the Oval Office...

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— Drew(bacca) (@cybogoblin.bsky.social) March 11, 2026 at 2:15 AM

The funniest part of the big shoe thing is there’s nothing stopping these (very rich) guys from just buying the same cheap shoes in their own size and telling him they’re the ones he bought them.

— Oscar Goff (@theoscargoff.bsky.social) March 11, 2026 at 6:21 AM

Wondering who may betray him, Trump scans the room for a shoe that fits.

— Felonious Monk (@alexqgb.bsky.social) March 11, 2026 at 8:53 AM

"Pokémon Go is giving delivery robots an inch-perfect view of the world"

MIT:

The problem Coco faces is that it cannot rely on GPS, which can be weak in cities because radio signals bounce off buildings and interfere with each other. “We do deliveries in a lot of dense areas with high-rises and underpasses and freeways, and those are the areas where GPS just never really works,”

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For the last few years, Niantic Spatial has been taking the data collected from players of Pokémon Go and Ingress (Niantic’s previous phone-based AR game, launched in 2013) and building a visual positioning system, technology that tells you where you are based on what you can see. “It turns out that getting Pikachu to realistically run around and getting Coco’s robot to safely and accurately move through the world is actually the same problem,”

Wonderful fanfiction about an episode of Anthony Bourdain's "No Reservations" set in Narnia

Old to the internet, but new to me.