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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 4h

Welp, here it is: maybe the funniest thing we've ever done, in its entirety.

The Onion Investigates: Jeffrey Epstein

YouTube video by The Onion

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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 23h

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 5h

i feel like everything bari weiss does is treated like she's a network exec in 1973 when she's really just a LARPer at the helm of a particularly irrelevant brand while TV news is dying.

max tani @maxtani.bsky.social · 5h

New: Bari Weiss booked Hillary Clinton, Mike Pompeo, and Antony Blinken for a roundtable on Gaza, her first major move at CBS.

Notably on a CBS call today in which the panel was floated, one producer also repeatedly emphasized the need to hear from Palestinians in Gaza (Weiss did not respond).

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The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 7h

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

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Jay Thurber Show @jaythurber.bsky.social · 5h

OP sharing some real quality opinions over at reddit dot com

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 6h

we're maybe a week away from burr posting an ai video of george carlin saying he wouldve gone if he could

Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 14h

always double down

Bill Burr Keeps Cycling Through Excuses For Doing The Riyadh Comedy Festival | Defector

By default, Bill Burr exists in a state of his ass being chapped, but clearly it’s been feeling more chapped than usual. The comedian has continued to address his decision to perform at the Riyadh Com...

defector.com

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Jay Thurber Show @jaythurber.bsky.social · 7h

"AI is a very complex hammer that doesn't understand what it's doing, or what nails are. But we're letting it add new shelves to the library of human knowledge." — @kurzgesagt.org

www.youtube.com/watch?v=_zfN...

AI Slop Is Destroying The Internet

YouTube video by Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell

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Jay Thurber Show @jaythurber.bsky.social · 9h

@bencollins.bsky.social

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Jay Thurber Show @jaythurber.bsky.social · 10h

Haven't we suffered enough?

Jay Thurber Show @jaythurber.bsky.social · 10h

I'm a broken record, I know, but:

Countries that build walls and close their external borders to keep "foreign invaders" out next close their internal borders to keep their own "undesirables" from leaving.

It's as reliable as the sun rising in the east.

Berny Belvedere @bernybelvedere.bsky.social · 13h

Doing politics the right way is when the far-right regime in power memorializes a fallen influencer by terrorizing an academic that the influencer's McCarthyist organization once baselessly singled out for abuse.

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 10h

Next month, voters will head to the polls for a contest that could have huge implications for the future of fair elections in the Keystone State — which means for the next presidential election, too. www.democracydocket.com/analysis/why...

Why Anti-Voting Activists Are Using the Pennsylvania Supreme Court Election to Spread Disinformation

Read about the fight for democracy from activists, elected officials, legal experts and others.

www.democracydocket.com

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Jay Thurber Show @jaythurber.bsky.social · 10h

It's hard times befallen the soul survivors.

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Jay Thurber Show @jaythurber.bsky.social · 11h

Not a cult

Peter Sagal @petersagal.bsky.social · 11h

"He works from an office dubbed the “Freedom Suite” on one end of a hallway on the deputy attorney general’s fourth floor, which visitors have described as being decorated with oversize photos of Trump and a small cup of holy water on the wall."

www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Inside the Justice Department Where the President Calls the Shots

The president has executed a wholesale transformation of the Justice Department, taking control in ways he could have only dreamed of in his first term.

www.wsj.com

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Jay Thurber Show @jaythurber.bsky.social · 12h

Hey, Laura Ingraham, why the long face?

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 1d

“They’re all Antifa now”

Laura Ingraham screenshot that reads: THEY'RE ALL ANTIFA
NGL
NOW
DEMS MELT UNDER PRESSURE
THE ANGLE ALERT

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emily moonlight @threnody.bsky.social · 14h

just watched a dozen people ask microsoft copilot experts their most pressing questions and those questions were 90% “how do i turn it off?” and “when i turn it off, is it really off or is it spying on me?”

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Rob Manuel @robmanuelyeah.bsky.social · 17h

At 2:30am I woke up thinking I must write a cartoon called "Art Garfunkel's Fart Carbuncle" and submit it to Viz and of course I'm never going to. But yeah, Art has built this carbuncle and filled it with farts, and is trying to lure Paul Simon as punishment for erasing him from the 83 reunion LP.

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Brian McFadden @mcfadden.bsky.social · 12h

The only rich comedian I want to hear from is Rich Hall's Sniglets. patreon.com/BrianMcFadden

(panel 1 - A poster for a fictitious comedy festival.)
Pariah State Comedy Festival
Featuring:
Lord Edge
Dr. Dismembo
Man O'Sphere, the misogynist orb
Dirty Dan and the Skeeze
The Unknown Racist (paper bag Klan hood)
Notes App Apology (Sorry I can't be there! After consultation with my friends and family, I decided that while I desperately wanted to cash that fat check, my fans would find out.)
Public Ineffectual
Steve the Meme
The Kush Man (Jared Kushner smoking a blunt)
A Parrot that knows slurs
A Vague Memory of Someone from the '90s (blurry over retro background)
Debatin' Baby
Female (wearing a niqab)
Fatberg!
Severed Head Fred
A.I. Comedian That's Incapable of Shame

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Jay Thurber Show @jaythurber.bsky.social · 13h

On "Omnibus" a few weeks ago, Ken and John suggested social media as a potential cause. People say things to one other on social media, they said, that would be psychotic if you said them in real life. (The example they used was explaining a joke back to the person who told it.)

Jay Thurber Show @jaythurber.bsky.social · 13h

"Good news, in a decade you'll no longer be the dumbest guy ever elected president."

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Jay Thurber Show @jaythurber.bsky.social · 14h

Then why not say, "Penn Hills police are investigating rumors of a sexual assault. A Giant Eagle spokesperson declined to comment but said one employee has been terminated pending an investigation."

I guess because it's not clickbait then? Look, here we are talking about it.

a man in a plaid shirt is smiling and saying thanks , i hate it

ALT: a man in a plaid shirt is smiling and saying thanks , i hate it

media.tenor.com

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Jay Thurber Show @jaythurber.bsky.social · 14h

Yeah, but the way it's worded almost makes it worse!

Like, is this a health code violation or a criminal act? Did he assault someone or should I be throwing out anything I bought at the store?

a cartoon of a man with braces on his teeth says i think we have a winner

ALT: a cartoon of a man with braces on his teeth says i think we have a winner

media.tenor.com

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Jay Thurber Show @jaythurber.bsky.social · 14h

It's one big tease. Did the guy assault a shopper? A co-worker? Did he poop in the frozen foods? Was he jerking off in the deli case? Was he switching the labels on the cans?

Yeah, there are still a "lot of questions," Lauren Talotta, like what the fuck did I just read?

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Jay Thurber Show @jaythurber.bsky.social · 14h

This is crap even by tee-vee news's standards.

What the hell is this story? Am I missing the part where they actually say what the "disturbing allegations" are? #journamalism

www.wpxi.com/news/local/g...

Giant Eagle employee fired, police investigating alleged incident

There are still a lot of questions about disturbing allegations made against a former Giant Eagle employee regarding an incident that reportedly unfolded inside a store.

www.wpxi.com

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Jay Thurber Show @jaythurber.bsky.social · 14h

it's working great for me!

Jerry Chen @jcsalterego.bsky.social · 16h

have you considered being less popular

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The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · 1d

One of the reasons they're having trouble concocting a Left Wing Terrorism epidemic is basically nobody in this country has ever met a left wing person. You might as well say we're being invaded by the smurfs

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