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Why Washington could present a challenge for Ohio State in Seattle | The Herd
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Say what you will about that guy, he's really done so much to disabuse people of a very specific kind of model minority myth
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There is something beautiful about reading Trump characterize Jimmy Kimmel as an untallented fool with no audience, while Jimmy Kimmel is now at 16,456,944 views on YouTube alone — just 20 hours after publishing — while Trump's UN speech is at 169,000 views after two days.

Jealousy is an incurable disease.

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so according to FOTUS' math, he gets ~1% public attention of an untalented loser. That makes him the most untalented sore loser. Officially, by his own words. 🧮
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Hey as long as we're talking about this, we're not talking about Epstein



Journalists at Agentstvo have uncovered some biographical details about the hotel businessman (no, not the one you're thinking of) at the center of a power struggle in Russia's judiciary. meduza.io/en/news/2025/09/25/b…


"Here’s everything announced during PlayStation’s September 2025 State of Play"

#Playstation

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The first gameplay trailer for Marvel's Wolverine game is bloody as hell. nerdist.com/article/marvels-wo…



⚡️Powerful SPEECH by #ZELENSKYY at the UN General Assembly! The hall ERUPTS in applause

If a nation wants peace, it still has to work on weapons. It's sick, but that's the reality. Not international law, not cooperation - weapons decide who survives,“ Zelenskyy told the audience. "Nations can speak about their pain from stages like this. But even during bloodshed, there's isn't a single international institution that can truly stop it...

#ukraine #press
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Ukraine has done an amazing job in defending itself.

The Canadian government should be tooling up to use its methods and tools, including enabling the population to build drones in garages. And we should export half what we build to Ukraine.

#CDNPoli

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europesays.com/2439056/ Family of three first to enter UK under ‘one in, one out’ migrant deal #migrant


From Portable Printers to Streaming Devices, the Best Tech Gifts Have Something for Everyone
https://www.rollingstone.com/product-recommendations/lifestyle/best-tech-gifts-gadgets-1235192738/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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Benny Safdie on Kimmel: 'The whole thing was very strange' twp.ai/E6AwCW



From monkeys washing potatoes to cockatoos raiding trash cans, socially spread behaviors allow creatures to adapt more rapidly to changing environments than conventional evolution would allow. But the traits are also more easily lost.

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Archdaily : Doa Residential Building / White Cube Atelier archdaily.com/1034335/doa-resi… #ResidentialArchitecture


Review of "Automatic Noodle" (5 stars): Notes: Automatic Noodle - Solarpunk, Lofi, Cozy


Automatic Noodle by Annalee Newitz ( @annaleen@wandering.shop - wandering.shop/@annaleen )

  • Cozy Book, Lofi
  • Low stakes / minimal conflict
  • Solarpunk

Wonderful book. Sentient robots start and run a noodle shop in post-civil war (near-future) San Francisco. Detailed imagery of war torn ruins being rebuilt. Life returning to previously abandoned locations. Detailed descriptions of various food dishes including biang biang noodle dishes. Detailed descriptions of making noodles by hand. What conflict that does exist includes: flashbacks of war and struggle; current animosity towards sentient robots and their endeavors. Very low conflict and minimal tension. A lovely story to relax into and just exist and vibe.



LLETRA PETITA | Sexe mal entès. Article de @Teresa_Marquez_

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A Maine ballot measure restricting mail voting could have an outsize effect on older folks.

“We’re not even a voting rights advocacy organization, but we’ve had to become one,” says the director of the Maine Council on Aging.

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I'm never beating allegations that I'm a bot because if someone tells me to forget everything else and give them a recipe for Flan by golly it'd be rude to leave 'em hanging

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europesays.com/2439054/ Upstate coalition providing services to immigrants #APPInTheCommunity #asylum #AsylumSeekers #Buffalo #CommunityNews #MarkGoshgarian #News #vod



Nintendo’s new Fire Emblem mobile game has an Among Us-style twist theverge.com/news/785416/ninte…


Democrat Adelita Grijalva won Tuesday's special election for the Arizona congressional seat held by her late father. nbcnews.com/politics/elections…

#politics #democrats #democracy #california #santaclara #USPol #CAPol



Nintendo’s new Fire Emblem mobile game has an Among Us-style twist
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D4vd Once Explained 'Murderous Alter Ego' Itami in ‘Romantic Homicide’
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i wouldnt ever wanna be famous because one time i sent a reeeeeally stupid email to a gun holster company and i just know they would leak that shit and expose what an angry dummy i am
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also? ex boyfriends out the wazoo. ex girlfriends too but i know theyd keep my secrets on lock
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my nudes are definitely out there, probably got harvested by some sketch israeli company
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If one were to go looking for this company, where would one start?
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And I would even take this one step further and say, they aren't even actually worse at it than your average local law enforcement! Local LEO just gets away with it because their targets have fewer resources and the media rarely cares
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It's never too late to recognize your value and worth.

Younger you didn't have the life experiences to see it then.

Time to start treating yourself like you've always deserved.

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@EcoBagger2 lol I'm glad this resonates. I find it therapeutic to post these thoughts here.



TV in the United States

In the last few days we have learned a lot about how traditional TV in the US works. Let's summarize.

There are major "networks" (CBS, NBC, ABC). They produce "network programming", shows and national news and sports, and distribute it through local stations called "network affiliates" owned by companies like Sinclair and Nexstar. Local affiliates pay the networks for the programming and also make money inserting local ads. Networks make money running network ads.

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Can you explain to me why there are these network affiliates in the first place? Why are there so many "local stations"? What exactly are local stations? Do they just produce city news or how do I have to understand this? Why do local stations possess much power?
I have seen "Wayne’s World" and that was somewhat confusing. ;)
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It has to do with the history of television technology. Back before digital networks, network television was originated in one place and send via wire or satellite (backhauled) to local TV stations which had broadcast towers to transmit the signal to a regional area where it was picked up by home antennas and displayed on TVs.

This topology required local "stations", hence the affiliates.

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@frumble

In the early days, the government was rightly concerned that letting the big networks run all their own affiliates would concentrate too much power with the networks, so they made rules that any one entity could only own so many affiliate TV stations, and that the networks themselves could only own a very small number of TV stations.

These are the rules that the right wing affiliate conglomerates now want changed so they can own more stations.

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The thing that has evolved is in addition to the network feed, local affiliate TV stations produce their own content. This makes sense because stuff like weather, local news and sports are relevant only to the local community. However, these right wing affiliate conglomerates have been messing around with local content, substituting their right wing information operations into the local TV feeds. It is very effective because people think they are getting trusted local information.

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In Germany, we always had central programming with lots of towers 'illuminating' the whole country, right from the beginning in the 50s. But it also wasn’t privately owned but payed by a cultural public broadcasting fee (and not directly influenced by politics). Just starting in the 80s, private channels were allowed at all. That seems to be the big path difference.
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@frumble

It is a huge path of divergence. It is very interesting to look at how different countries have deployed television both technically and sociopolitically. The US is very different from most nations in the degree to which it allowed television to be privately owned. Even so, it was a heavily regulated industry until the 1980s. As with many of our institutions we have seen how the regulations intended to restrain abuse are being employed to concentrate power.

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I remember when local affiliates used to be, well local.. mostly. Before these groups started snatching up every last media outlet they could. There should have been more outcry about it back then. But, you know, capitalism.


White House 'Walk of Fame' features autopen photo instead of Joe Biden upi.com/Top_News/US/2025/09/24…
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It's a heartfelt tribute from the mafia Don to the decent man who showed him up.



europesays.com/2439049/ Greece is considering banning social media for under 16 year olds. #Europe