#satire

#satire

On an initial glance, a video that's going viral on social media looks like a typical 1990s TV commercial for a children's toy set of a tropical island: there are palm trees, a waterfall, and - wait a minute - there's also a secret massage room, and even an "Orange Man" action figure who looks exactly like Donald Trump and says "don't release the files" in an ominous voice.

Musk's gaming habits have been continually mocked after he 'rage quit' a Path of Exile 2 livestream in April over his clearly poor performance. In an effort to showcase Starlink's Wi-Fi capabilities, Musk livestreamed the video game while aboard his private jet. The broadcast was brief; however, after the game's chat function was inundated with users mocking Musk, both for his poor gaming skills and for "ruining the [US]" through his political actions while he was head of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).

Rumours that a self-professed "trans dolphin" drowned after swimming in Table Rock Lake are too fishy to be true, PinkNews can confirm. Claims that a 29-year-old woman, who purportedly identified as a "trans-dolphin", drowned in the US lake earlier this month, spread like wildfire across social media despite being completely false. The rumours, which primarily spread across Facebook, claimed witnesses saw the woman swim into the lake, which stretches between Missouri and Arkansas, dressed in a "dolphin costume" and a "snorkel fashioned as a blowhole",

Pop superstar Taylor Swift has been falsely accused of a laundry list of absurdities: Doing "satanic rituals" at her shows. Being a government "psyop." But this time, the news about her is true: She's engaged to be married. Swift posted a series of photos on Instagram Aug. 26, showing her engagement to Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce, who is also no stranger to being targeted by misinformation. Even Kelce's father, Ed, has occasionally fallen for false headlines about the couple.

I never felt the influence of Muriel Spark, despite the fact that she was a substantial female figure in British literature. It's a pity, because there was much to learn from her macabre, entirely unsentimental art and its account of the strange violence of living. It was only quite recently, when I came across a new volume of her collected letters (meticulously edited by Dan Gunn), that I first felt confronted by her persona.

Sean "Diddy" Combs and his legal team have reportedly reached out to the Trump administration for a pardon after his conviction on prostitution-related offenses.

I once led a project to completion using only Slack emojis and a positive affirmation that I lifted from somebody's tote bag.

"Before your feminine instinct tells you to destroy this letter." Hearing this opening line decades later left me wondering what the handwritten letter contained.

The use of music in Kyle's short is particularly hilarious - stock, YouTuber-esque music underpins every sad moment with jarringly upbeat vibes, creating a juxtaposition that delivers laughs as well as discomfort.

"A young healthy child well nursed, is, at a year old, a most delicious nourishing and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or broiled," Swift wrote.

The COVID-19 pandemic and shutdown turned many Americans into social media gunslingers, who favored conspiracies and adhered to their own belief systems and individual freedoms, consequentially disregarding reason and facts.