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2026-02-13
**SILICON ROUNDABOUT** — In a move being hailed as “deeply philosophical,” “mildly concerning,” and “a clear sign the sprint planning meeting has finally broken them,” software developers across the nation have begun insisting that the true progress of modern technology is not measured in features shipped, but in the sheer variety of new and inventive bugs introduced during the attempt.
Further Notices
2026-02-12
Є така дивна емоція, яку сучасні смартфони вміють викликати стабільніше, ніж будь-які повідомлення від колишніх: відчуття, ніби тебе одночасно обікрали, нав’язали підписку і попросили за це подякувати.
2026-02-12
**ЛЮДИ, район Невідомості.** У селі з промовистою назвою «Люди» місцева влада урочисто та без зайвого ажіотажу підтвердила те, про що здогадувалися всі, хто бодай раз намагався сюди додзвонитися: **людей у «Людях» немає**. Втім, посадовці наголосили, що це «не проблема», а радше «оптимізація присутності» й «сучасний підхід до демографії».
2026-02-12
In what marketing analysts are calling “the most expensive plea to stop being called a toaster with opinions,” the Daleks purchased a reportedly $100 million Super Bowl ad slot Sunday night to inform Earth that they are *not* robots—despite their unmistakably metallic appearance, their fondness for yelling, and the fact that they spend most of their time gliding around like an aggressive office printer.
2026-02-12
LONDON—In what clinicians are calling “a wildly unhelpful but deeply satisfying development,” a growing number of people have begun coping with executive dysfunction by imagining it not as a neurological traffic jam, but as an actual board of executives: middle-aged men in ill-fitting suits convening in the brain’s conference room to do absolutely nothing while collecting compensation packages large enough to purchase several small islands and at least one artisanal standing desk.
2026-02-12
**НІДЕ, НІКОЛИ.** Світова спільнота з полегшенням зітхнула і негайно продовжила не реагувати після того, як «Абсолютно Нічого» було офіційно визнано найбільшою не проблемою сучасності. Історичне оголошення пролунало в рамках не конференції, яка не проводилася, на яку ніхто не прийшов, і де ніхто не виступив із не промовою, яку ніхто не аплодував.
2026-02-12
In a bold pivot from vintage, analog terror to modern, process-driven misery, Samara Morgan—the long-haired, well-documented ring-emergence specialist—has officially adopted Scrum, sources confirm. The move replaces her iconic “seven days” phone call curse with a more contemporary notification: “You have **8 points in my sprint**.”
2026-02-12
WASHINGTON, D.C. — In what regulators describe as “a landmark moment for modern medicine” and everyone else describes as “the first time a wellness gadget has been allowed to cosplay as a prescription,” Flow Neuroscience’s transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) device has reportedly been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to treat depression—officially ushering in a new era where the most important part of mental health care is remembering to charge your forehead.
2026-02-11
SEATTLE—In what experts are calling “the most generous corporate initiative ever launched unintentionally,” a new Steam update reportedly introduced a bug that allowed users to add any paid game to their library for free, transforming the platform’s famously frictionless storefront into something even more efficient: a digital cornucopia where money was simply an optional cosmetic.
2026-02-10
**CIVIC SENSE, The Wibble** — In an alarming break from international norms, the small-to-medium-sized country of **Actuallystan** has reportedly become the **largest economy on Earth** and simultaneously recorded the **happiest population**, after pursuing the radical fiscal strategy known to economists as: *“making life not terrible.”*
2026-02-10
**GENEVA, EARTH** — In an unprecedented display of international coordination, every country on the planet convened this week at the inaugural **World’s War Forum** to “innovate,” “synergise,” and “strategically ideate” brand-new wars—only to conclude, after several days of PowerPoints and catered lunches, that **all wars are absolutely pointless**, and to unanimously vote to stop doing them entirely, forever.
2026-02-10
**SAN FRANCISCO, CA** — In a bold step forward for cartography, gaming, and the delicate art of pretending you “go outside sometimes,” an indie developer has unveiled a new location-guessing game that replaces the entire planet Earth with the only places modern humans can reliably navigate: famous open-world video games.
2026-02-10
**BLOCKTON, SURVIVAL REALM** — In what experts are calling “the most aggressive use of triangles since high school trigonometry,” a community game server has been plunged into crisis following reports that a player identified as **“TheMainPoint123”** has been **constructing pyramids at an industrial scale** across the map, including—according to distressed locals—directly outside player bases, at spawn, in the ocean, and apparently **within striking distance of the build height limit itself**.
2026-02-10
**LARKSPUR HEIGHTS** — What began as a joyful evening of self-affirmation, iced coffee, and browsing “Top 1,000 Girl Names” lists quickly escalated into a full-scale social crisis Tuesday after local trans woman **Maya** (formerly “using her old name only when the barista legally required it”) became so thrilled about choosing her new name that she briefly selected what witnesses are calling “the absolute worst name ever created by the human mouth.”
2026-02-10
CAIRO—In a discovery already being described by experts as “either the biggest leap forward in archaeology or the most ambitious attempt to avoid admitting anyone ever carried anything heavy,” a new study claims the Egyptian pyramids were not built block by block at all, but instead carved directly out of bedrock—while the leftover stone was painstakingly ground down into desert sand.
2026-02-10
**WESTMINSTER, TUESDAY** — In a move experts are describing as “either a radical simplification of governance or the logical endpoint of modern bureaucracy,” the government today unveiled its latest flagship policy platform: **Null**.
2026-02-09
In what experts are calling “the most technically permissible act of psychological warfare since someone replaced all the village doors with trapdoors,” a player known as **NoQuestionsAsked1717** has allegedly transformed a previously normal, functioning game server into a punctuation-themed performance art piece.
2026-02-07
LONDON—In a move officials describe as “bold,” “modern,” and “technically speaking, a bit of a dare,” the Government today announced it will be replacing the current 12-month calendar with a 13-month model designed to “simplify time,” “boost national output,” and “stop people pretending they know when Easter is.”
2026-02-04
In what officials are calling “a necessary investment in vibes,” the Republic of Absolutely-Not-Compensating-For-Anything has unveiled a colossal 11-kilometer-tall pyramid made entirely of reinforced concrete, a structure so large it is reportedly visible from space, visible from the ground, and—according to early reports—visible from inside the human psyche if you stare at it long enough.
2026-02-03
**SCOOPINGTON, TUESDAY** — In a bold display of calendar-based denial, the nation has once again attempted to classify ice cream as a “summer treat,” only to immediately consume it in every other season with the grim determination of people who refuse to be told what their teeth should feel.