β‘ Current Dispatches from Fark (50)
- Photoshop this jumper [Photoshop]
- Day 1,718 of WW3: Ukraine strikes Oryol factory with Neptune missile, along with Saratov Oil Refinery in mass attack on Russian regions. Boom, big bada boom. This is your Saturday Ukraine thread [News]
- A man taking a smoke break outside O'Hare airport had a tiny orange kitten unexpectedly approach him. With his flight due, he ordered a pet carrier and kitten formula through DoorDash before paying $150 to bring the kitten aboard. Welcome to Caturday [Caturday]
- Angry neighbor complains that 11-year-old autistic boy running around chasing bubbles is a "public nuisance." Now ordered to pay $8 million for harassment [Fail]
- "'Texas turned blue and Tesla blew'" [Amusing]
- Fox Corp completes its acquisition of Roku just in time for the holiday shopping season so you can get deals on replacing your Roku [Sad]
- Another "1-in-1,000 year flood event" becomes more of an annual one thanks to climate change [Followup]
- Japan protests Russian takeover of tobacco companies in Russia. On the one hand, you have to question why anyone would be doing business in Russia at all any more, but on the other hand, they're selling them cancer sticks [Followup]
- Man robbed, assaulted and then hit by car. Should have stayed in bed huh? [Scary]
- Rare pod of Pilot Whales spotted off Newport Beach, CA; the whales vowed to never fly a Learjet to Tampa [Misc]
- If a stranger hands your kids magic mushroom gummies for Halloween, say "Thank you" because drugs are expensive [Dumbass]
- Suspect taken into custody after slow-speed LAPD chase ends in shooting, because they're not putting up with OJ's kind of crap any more [Scary]
- Pot luck dinners at Good News International Church a bit disappointing this past few years [Sad]
- Today, in Not a Drag Queen, we bring you . . . Megan Markle's father [Followup]
- Moral of the story: If your friend says he can dodge a bullet, don't test that theory [Dumbass]
- Photoshop this pleasing wall [Photoshop]
- Very sad news about monty666, known to many of his friends as Lyle Scout. I'm so sorry, everyone γ·7; [Sad]
- Resembling your brother? Cops can shoot you for that [Obvious]
- The cheap silver jewelry you got isn't heavy because of the silver [Sick]
- Hey guys - science says we should take a 'Me Day' off from work and spend it playing video games [Giggity]
- 81-year-old man tortured with hot syrup, as renegade Canadians begin to exact their revenge [Scary]
- $11.4M shipment of Nvidia cargo stolen in California heist. Police hope to recover all three video cards soon [Interesting]
- Experts say by using the rest room before your flight, you give up the opportunity to piss on other passengers [Strange]
- On this day in history, in 1528, the Spanish explorer Cabeza de Vaca landed in Texas, and his subsequent experiences validated "The Lone Star State" as both the area's slogan and Yelp review [Vintage]
- Do any of you actually wipe down your walls when you clean? [Survey]
- Photoshop this buccaneer [Photoshop]
- Three charged in scheme to use AI to impersonate CEOs and attorneys to steal $129 million. Authorities were no doubt tipped off by the humanity, empathy, and kindness of the AI pretending to be a CEO [Interesting]
- 1200 lb. surgeon? That's one fat doctor... OHHHH I misread that [Cool]
- UK Christmas about to be upended by tube strikes, ending hopes of families simply haaaaaaaaaaaving a wonderful Christmastime [Awkward]
- The Merriam-Webster word of the day for November 6 is 'Quondam' as in: "When she asked me if it was safe, I said I had a quondam" [Interesting]
- The FAA will phase out its use of floppy discs by 2028, if this dispatch I've just taken receipt of by carrier pigeon is to be believed [Repeat]
- Not quite as interesting as the annual "What did we stick up our butts this year" list, but still peak Florida with "What did we find on the side of the road?" [Florida]
- On this day in history, in 1917, Russia was revolting [Vintage]
- "I know you're drunk; I'm not worried about that. I'm worried about the car crushing you," the firefighter said as he planned how to free Powell [Fail]
- Chinese propaganda, rum, 1980s popular fiction authors, and European satellite technology are all on the Fark Weird News Quiz, Oct. 30 - Dec. 5 Puffer Edition [Weird]
- Once again, if popup messages on your computer tell you to buy gold bars and hand them over to shady people in a parking lot somewhere, they're probably not on the up-and-up [Sad]
- The world's fastest and most pointless production car just broke 310 mph on a public road, which should be emormously useful on today's highways [Silly]
- Fark NotNewsletter: So how was your week? [FarkBlog]
- Over 3000 live tarantulas found stuffed into socks in airline baggage. At least one expert believes the original number was far higher but that they all crawled out into other baggage where they were transported to your house. To breed [Scary]
- Florida's Council on American-Islamic Relations suspends operations after Boots designates them as a terrorist organization along with antifa [Florida]
- Grocery store chain Albertsons faces $900 million penalty for failing to stop opioid misuse in Washington State, a cost which will no doubt drive them back into selling drugs [Interesting]
- Woman fired up 200 boobies at Roman fort so the world can admire their full glory [Boobies]
- More parents are declining vitamin K shots for newborns, putting more babies at risk of having disappointing raves [Sick]
- Teens aren't getting enough exercise. Someone should make a TikTok about that [Obvious]
- γΈ5; You're as cold as ice γΈ6; and so are your pet guinea pigs [Sick]
- Photoshop these hedges [Photoshop]
- Alberta school battling infestation of fleas. And they don't even have kitty litter boxes in the washrooms [Weird]
- Arizona high school janitor accused of trading vapes for nude photos. You think he's just some untouchable peasant? But he looks through your letters. He looks through your lockers. He is the eyes and ears of this institution, friends [Dumbass]
- Day 1,717 of WW3: Zelensky says "every power plant [...] has been damaged" as he seeks help from Latin America; and U.S.' orctogenarian president blathers about "very big deal" involving "all of Europe". This is your Friday russo-Ukrainian War thread [News]
- Said no one ever [Creepy]
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Saturday, November 7, 2026
- • Photoshop this pleasing wall [Photoshop]
- • Very sad news about monty666, known to many of his friends as Lyle Scout. I'm so sorry, everyone γ·7; [Sad]
- • Resembling your brother? Cops can shoot you for that [Obvious]
- • Today, in Not a Drag Queen, we bring you . . . Megan Markle's father [Followup]
Friday, November 6, 2026
Thursday, November 5, 2026
- • Photoshop this balancing act [Photoshop]
- • Game platform rendered unusable by flood of low-quality AI-generated garbage. Replace "game platform" with "all of society" and it's more accurate [Obvious]
- • Pope comments on midterm results [Silly]
- • Nude schoolteacher arrested for walking naked along a public street in August. "Police said he has admitted to the allegation but said he can't remember why he did it" [Weird]
Wednesday, November 4, 2026
- • Photoshop this safety check [Photoshop]
- • Chaos Day is upon us. Will there be massive voter fraud? Will the gestapo crack skulls at polling centers? Or will America finally get its act together, and vote blue? This is your Election Day thread [Live]
- • ICE is now detaining Ukrainian truckers in the US [Asinine]
- • Greenpeace is dropping rocks in the ocean [Interesting]
Tuesday, November 3, 2026
- • On this day in history, in 1948, the Chicago Tribune decided to run with a 'Dewey Defeats Truman' headline [Vintage]
- • Apparently, being caught in a car with a stash of drugs and a lamb on the back seat eating French Fries is not an automatic jail term [Strange]
- • Yet another way to use an umbrella [Boobies]
- • A Little Lead Poisoning Wasn't on the Halloween Candy List [Murica]
Monday, November 2, 2026
- • Photoshop these competitors [Photoshop]
- • Hey November, what sort of month are you going to be? [News]
- • Now that old AutoZone that someone got murdered in is that Spirit Halloween someone got murdered in. Nature is healing [Scary]
- • Kevin O'Leary's proposed Canadian Data center will throw off 18 gigawatts of excess heat, or roughly the equivalent of 23 Hiroshima-sized bombs every day. Good thing they got an exemption from filing an environmental impact statement [Scary]