Loving today's news that the mysterious "fedora man" outside the Louvre heist was actually a 15-year-old museum visitor who dresses like a 1940s French detective all the time, just because. apnews.com/article/louv...

With Indiana's close win today and Northwestern's loss last night, we've seen a passing of the torch: The FBS record for most all-time losses has been passed from the Hoosiers (715) to the Wildcats (716).

The idea of drawing the binding of Isaac but they’re all labubus just came to me so if this post gets 20 likes I’ll do it

Sometimes it's not clear, so I'll clarify it: Even if these are drug boats, simply blowing them up is illegal. And if they aren't drug boats, holy shit it's illegal.

Unprecedented corruption - not just monetizing the presidency by selling branded products, but selling those products directly to government employees and having the Department of Homeland Security promote them to the media

That's not how this works. That's not how any of this works.

A family friend was telling us about what her husband shared about his experience in Broadview before he was deported back to Mexico. She's been sharing to friends and family because she's just in disbelief & horror what her husband told her. She wasn't able to talk to him until he was in Mexico.

The inaugural FIFA Physics Prize goes to Neymar for defying the laws of physics with his flopping

On this day, 156 years ago, college football was born. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move. 🏈🎂

Capitalism for thee, when your business fails, but if my business might fail, socialism for me, and support it with a government bailout.

why is this mayoral election different than all other mayoral elections? in all other mayoral elections, we get to see andrew cuomo lose but once. but in this mayoral elections, we get to see him lose *twice*.

It's time! Registration for the 2026 NSC is now open to qualified teams. Register your qualified team by filling out this form: forms.gle/VZ31RkXCmpEC...

Mmmm... Baloney... And it comes pre-cooked from the heat of the asphalt!

Aren't Nobel prizes in sciences usually awarded for work done decades ago? John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret and John M. Martinis did the experiments that won then the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1984 and 1985.

I don't know if somebody actually told Trump that there were "zero zoning conditions" or if he just imagined that, but to a developer, that's probably almost orgasmic to think about. (And also completely not relevent to a historical site like the White House, I'd think.)

Misty Copeland took one last spin on her pointe shoes Wednesday, as she retired after a trailblazing career in which she became an ambassador for diversity in an overwhelmingly white art form. n.pr/3JcRkWM

Yesss Give it back / Take it back #NativeSky #IndigiSky

14 hours later, the tournament is over. Long day. Congrats to Alberta A for winning the ACF Fall, and to Helen of Boise State who powered through the last three rounds solo after the rest of her team left because it became so late.

Happy Quizbowl Saturday! Good luck to all teams competing in the ACF Fall today, especially Boise State!

Even in countries with kings, they're planning a #NoKings demonstration?

Leo spitting fire.

Omg, the solution to CIA's Kryptos being discovered by someone becoming a subject matter expert, going on location, and finding the plaintext sitting in a vault several miles away is the absolute *perfect* ending to Kryptos. You couldn't write it. Just absolutely A+ www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/s...

Trump's mechanism to pay the troops during the shutdown is by far the most illegal budgetary action he's taken as POTUS, potentially setting the stage to break everything. It's also needless because Congress would easily pass a troop pay bill if Johnson were willing to gavel in. Long thread.

Positive Idaho content, for once.

The DoD’s weekly payroll is roughly $3.7 billion.

Didn't people get upset when Biden encouraged social media sites to take down posts?

I've been watching too much college football. It took me too long to understand the connection between these schools. Ivies? No, not MIT. Maybe it used to be? Maybe one school from each of the 13 colonies? Maybe USC is South Carolina? But that doesn't explain AZ.

today an IRL prestige cleric used an IRL magic item (not kidding) to upcast Turn Evil (not kidding) IRL on ICE and reality is so borked that it actually worked

Tee Pup alert 🐶

An excellent thread explaining the significance of Fr. Dowling's Eucharistic Procession, and being turned away.

Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”

> It is 2025 BC. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis > It is 2025 AD. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis

UW A beat Tulane in a one game tie breaker to win the Northwest Collegiate Novice. Complete stats: hsquizbowl.org/db/tournamen... #quizbowl

New from me at Cato: I go through the numerous and massive First Amendment and academic-freedom violations of Trump's proffered "compact" with universities and then talk about the mechanism by which it would be enforced, by way of what I describe as a "retroactive push-button guillotine."

From 2025 league MVP to Finals MVP 🏆 A'ja Wilson averaged 28.5 PTS, 11.8 REB, and 2 BLK against the Mercury and is named Finals MVP for the 2nd time in her career #WelcometotheW | WNBA Finals | YouTube TV

the Portland Protests, annotated

I think this was one of the plagues that the Lord visited upon the Egyptians. Let my people go.

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Look at all those Boise State or former Boise State QBs on this list. Mad Dog, and both of his backup QBs from the past two years.

For the record, literally zero people believe in unitary executive theory. Some people believe in unitary Republican executive theory but that’s absolutely not the same thing.

If you haven't met our newest staff member yet ...

Pierre the parachuting beaver is ready for Boise State’s homecoming 🦫🔷🔶

Physics Nobel announcement tomorrow. If you know and dislike a famous physicist, this is the day of the year to call them up in the middle of the night, wait 10 seconds, and then do you best Swedish Chef impression...

Solidarity, brothers and sisters

Maddux Jeter Madsen with a 1-yard TD run for Boise State... and they take the lead after making the point after attempt

MADDOG LETS GOOOOO

my wife is a Cal fan and apparently this week they’re putting a “59” on their football helmets to honor the 59 Nobel laureates tied to Cal in order to flex on Duke this is maybe my favorite dunk anyone has ever done on Duke

There's a really great MinutePhysics video about the aesthetics- and physics-based reasons for the number of wind turbine blades: youtu.be/pgqkti7yePk

i looked at the methodology for this and it is a. sex addiction counseling group in texas did a surveymonkey and extrapolated the results to the entire us population which is the sort of research design that earns you an ff on an intro methods class (the extra f is for extra effort), and b. p-hacked