Day: October 24, 2025
High schools Friday: Telstar girls soccer wins prelim
High schools Friday: Telstar girls soccer wins prelim
Roblox Halloween Spotlight Happy guide
Happy is a survival horror simulation by Panik and has received two quests as a part of Roblox’s Halloween Spotlight event.
Who is Seattle Storm’s new Head Coach? Noelle Quinn Replacement’s link with Memphis Grizzlies explored
The Seattle Storm will have a new head coach for the 2026 WNBA season, as Sonia Raman was named the team’s new head coach, replacing Noelle Quinn.
Mamdani Says Rivals Are Pushing Hate as Mayor’s Race Enters Last Stretch
Zohran Mamdani’s opponents, Andrew Cuomo and Curtis Sliwa, denied accusations that they are stoking Islamophobia with their rhetoric and actions.
“Where do I sleep?”: American tourist baffled by Japanese room with no bed learns what a ryokan is
An American tourist’s confusion over a missing bed in her Japanese hotel room has ignited both mockery and sympathy online. TikTok creator Autumn Anderson (@somethingicanholdonto) was traveling abroad in Japan when she shared a video of the elegant, beachfront ryokan that seemed to be missing a bedroom. “Where is the bedroom?” she asked, apparently unaware that traditional Japanese inns use futons laid out on tatami floors instead of permanent beds. The post from Oct. 12, 2025, went viral on TikTok, racking up over 20 million views. While some commenters helped out and explained that traditional Japanese sleeping arrangements involve removable futons, others ridiculed Autumn for being ignorant of the country’s culture. Plenty of westerners in the comments confidently and inaccurately told her to look for a “Murphy bed.” @somethingicanholdonto/TikTok “The amount of people saying there’s a Murphy bed is frying me. 💀.” @cheesie. omelette/TikTok Why some Western tourists still struggle with ryokan traditions In the video, Autumn pointed out a traditional multi-purpose Japanese-style tatami room with woven mats on the floor, along with a table and chairs. She continued the tour, revealing a small sitting room overlooking the beach, along with the bathroom and shower, before concluding, “There’s no bed, where do I sleep?” “Do I sleep on here?” she asked, referring to the table. “What? I’m so confused.” In an email to the Daily Dot, Autumn wrote: “My video was meant to share my surprise and curiosity about the cultural differences in Japan, especially how hotel rooms are designed. I wasn’t criticizing it I was genuinely fascinated because it’s so different from what I’m used to in the U. S.” In a follow-up video, Autumn explained that she was confused because she intended to book a Western-style room. Rooms in traditional Japanese inns called ryokans are centered around a multipurpose space with tatami mats on the floor. These rooms, or washitsu, are where hotel staff lay out futon bedding in the evening for guests to sleep on. @somethingicanholdonto Someone help me with this?? Where is the bed?! #メロ秋投稿キャンペーン #japan #helpme #whereisthebed #japanese ♬ original sound AUTUMN “One of my favorite parts of traveling is learning how other countries do things, and this was just one of those moments,” she added. “I think some people took it as me being an uneducated American who doesn’t research before traveling, but that’s not the case at all. I always do my homework I just like to share my genuine reactions when I discover something new. To me, that’s what makes travel interesting: seeing things with fresh eyes and learning from the experience.” Intercultural confusion stirred up mixed reactions Commenters roasted Autumn for failing to read up on the country’s customs before arriving as a guest. Other people reacting to the post shared helpful information or admitted they’d have been just as confused. “Gurl, u went to Japan without knowing how they sleep? 😳” @b. adaz. z/TikTok “Do people not research a country before visiting?? What.” @poorinternetconnection/TikTok “I’m not sure why people are being so mean and rude. I would have no idea either. It wouldn’t occur to me to research another country and find out if their hotel rooms have beds.” @danarumbold/TikTok “Sometimes, I’m embarrassed to be a part of the human population originating from the United States.” @mikep111444/TikTok “It’s a traditional Japanese style room. There’s futons somewhere in there that the staff will make up while you’re at dinner. You must be at a ryokan.” @luisgpiercing/TikTok The internet is chaotic-but we’ll break it down for you in one daily email. Sign up for the Daily Dot’s newsletter here. Sign up to receive the Daily Dot’s Internet Insider newsletter for urgent news from the frontline of online. The post “Where do I sleep?”: American tourist baffled by Japanese room with no bed learns what a ryokan is appeared first on The Daily Dot.
Trump just sent a sinister message with ‘appalling’ ballroom design: Nobel laureate
Economist Paul Krugman said President Donald Trump’s removal of a whole White House wing is typical Trumpian style: an “act of vandalism” being paid for by large corporate donors mostly tech and crypto companies seeking to buy Trump’s favor.“I am sure there will be a Trump meme-coin dispenser installed on every table,” Krugman said. But the vandalism is a symbol of an even bigger destruction, warned the Nobel laureate. Trump’s demolition of the White House “isn’t a remodeling or building an addition, it’s a teardown.” And he added it’s a “highly visual metaphor for the way MAGA is tearing down almost everything good about our country.”“Masked government agents are snatching people off the street. The National Guard has been sent into major cities on the obviously false pretext that these cities are in chaos. The U. S. military is essentially murdering people on the high seas. Huge tariffs are, in addition to their economic costs, undermining a system of alliances former presidents spent generations building,” Krugman said. “Green energy is being eviscerated, vindictive prosecutions are the norm, and many millions are on course to lose their health insurance.”So why does Krugman talk about Trump’s “appalling design sense”?“.[B]ecause tackiness and tyranny go hand in hand,” he said. “Yes, Trump has terrible taste and probably would even if he didn’t have power and, thanks to that power, wealth. But the grotesqueness of his White House renovations is structural as well as personal. For the excess and ugliness serve a political purpose: to humiliate and intimidate. The tawdry grandiosity serves not only to glorify Trump’s fragile ego, but also to send the message that resistance is futile.”“. And that ballroom’s hideousness is an equally good metaphor for all the political ugliness that lies in our future,” Krugman said. “. The ballroom is a sign, not just of Trump’s personal vulgarity, but of the collapse of small-r republican norms. Trump is turning the people’s house into a palace fit for a despot partly because that’s his taste, but also to show everyone that he can. L’etat, c’est moi (I am the state).”Spying Trump’s handiwork, Krugman said he now finds himself “frequently thinking of how the Roman Republic degenerated into a dictatorship.”“What happened? Modern historians of the Roman Republic and the Roman Empire mostly agree upon one explanation for the Republic’s collapse namely that the enormous loot from Rome’s conquests created a class of incredibly wealthy oligarchs who were too wealthy and powerful to be constrained by republican norms, institutions and laws.”“The modern parallels are obvious,” said Krugman, who posted a photo of Jeff Bezos’s $250 million yacht, with its large pool, jacuzzi and personal “beach club.”Read Krugman’s full essay on his Substack here.
Federal monitors to descend on 2 blue states as Trump DOJ pursues ‘election integrity’
President Donald Trump’s Justice Department is planning to send federal election monitors to California and New Jersey next month after receiving requests from state Republican officials. The Justice Department said it would send monitors to Passaic County, New Jersey, as well as to Los Angeles, Orange, Kern, Riverside and Fresno counties in California. Federal authorities claim they want to “ensure transparency, ballot security, and compliance with federal law.”“Transparency at the polls translates into faith in the electoral process, and this Department of Justice is committed to upholding the highest standards of election integrity,” Attorney General Pam Bondi told The Associated Press in a statement. The Guardian called the move efforts the “latest salvo” in Republicans’ “preoccupation with election integrity after Donald Trump spent years refusing to accept the results of the 2020 election and falsely railing against mail-in voting as rife with fraud. Democrats fear the new administration will attempt to gain an upper hand in next year’s midterms with similarly unfounded allegations of fraud,” the report noted.“In recent elections, we have received reports of irregularities in these counties that we fear will undermine either the willingness of voters to participate in the election or their confidence in the announced results of the election,” wrote California Republican chair Corrin Rankin. The two states both have elections with broader ramifications. California voters will decide on a Democratic-backed constitutional amendment that would authorize the use of new congressional district maps for the 2026 through 2030 election cycles. The measure was a direct response to Texas’s mid-cycle redistricting, which was aimed at bolstering Republican control of the House. The California measure aims to counterbalance that by redistricting five GOP-held districts to be more favorable to Democrats. New Jersey voters, meanwhile, will cast ballots for governor, lieutenant governor, and all 80 seats in the state’s General Assembly.
Young pilot rescued after small plane plunges into marsh in St. Augustine
ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. (WSVN) A young pilot is lucky to be alive after her plane came crashing down into a marsh in St. Augustine,.
Xbox fully surrenders the console wars: ‘Halo is on PlayStation going forward,’ a fact that just doesn’t seem real
Xbox fully surrenders the console wars: ‘Halo is on PlayStation going forward,’ a fact that just doesn’t seem real
Apple, Google, Amazon, Microsoft & Meta are all donors to Trump’s White House ballroom project
The White House is in the midst of a major renovation, and some of the biggest names in tech are helping to foot the bill.