Not The Onion

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We're not The Onion! Not affiliated with them in any way! Not operated by them in any way! All the news here is real!

The Rules

Posts must be:

  1. Links to news stories from...
  2. ...credible sources, with...
  3. ...their original headlines, that...
  4. ...would make people who see the headline think, “That has got to be a story from The Onion, America’s Finest News Source.”

Please also avoid duplicates.

Comments and post content must abide by the server rules for Lemmy.world and generally abstain from trollish, bigoted, or otherwise disruptive behavior that makes this community less fun for everyone.

And that’s basically it!

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Reminder: In addition to not being The Onion, this isn't a politics community (lemmy.world)
submitted 2 months ago by kescusay@lemmy.world to c/nottheonion@lemmy.world
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Look, I get it. The gargantuan shit-show that is U.S. politics and the American descent into fascism is on everyone's minds. It's certainly on mine.

But the point of this community is to highlight weird news stories that make you go, "By golly, I thought I was reading a headline from The Onion. You know, America's finest news source." A lot of stories being posted lately don't even remotely fit that.

That doesn't mean political stories aren't allowed here, but they must have headlines that would make people pause and wonder if it's a story from The Onion. Straight up regular, non Onion-y headlines don't fit.

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Republican leading inquiry into Biden’s autopen use has digitally signed letters (www.theguardian.com)
submitted 7 hours ago by zr0@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/nottheonion@lemmy.world
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/33017546

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I Tried Grok’s Built-In Anime Companion and It Called Me a Twat (www.wired.com)
submitted 12 hours ago by PhilipTheBucket@quokk.au to c/nottheonion@lemmy.world
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Uranus Leaks More Heat Than We Thought (gizmodo.com)
submitted 16 hours ago by return2ozma@lemmy.world to c/nottheonion@lemmy.world
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“Tax-Dodging Consultant” Is Now the US Treasury’s Top Tax Policy Official (truthout.org)
submitted 17 hours ago by Agrajag@scribe.disroot.org to c/nottheonion@lemmy.world
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Children investigated over Russian and Iranian plots against UK, says police chief (www.theguardian.com)
submitted 15 hours ago by hellfire103@lemmy.ca to c/nottheonion@lemmy.world
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/33017604

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Dr. Oz Tells Americans Who Are Concerned About Medicaid Cuts to Eat Less Cake (truthout.org)
submitted 1 day ago by Pro@reddthat.com to c/nottheonion@lemmy.world
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Grok Rolls Out Pornographic Anime Companion, Lands Department of Defense Contract (www.rollingstone.com)
submitted 1 day ago by Fontasia@feddit.nl to c/nottheonion@lemmy.world
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Elite Colleges Have Found a New Virtue for Applicants to Fake - NYTimes opinion (www.nytimes.com)
submitted 18 hours ago by zabadoh@ani.social to c/nottheonion@lemmy.world
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US government announces $200 million Grok contract a week after ‘MechaHitler’ incident (www.theverge.com)
submitted 1 day ago by bytesonbike@discuss.online to c/nottheonion@lemmy.world
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Gov. Greg Abbott says emails with Elon Musk are too ‘intimate and embarrassing’ to make public (www.kut.org)
submitted 1 day ago by Pro@reddthat.com to c/nottheonion@lemmy.world
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Trump Kept Gold Club World Cup Trophy for Himself So FIFA Had to Give the Winners a Replica (www.thedailybeast.com)
submitted 1 day ago by FenrirIII@lemmy.world to c/nottheonion@lemmy.world
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/32958071

Holy shit, he refused to give back the original trophy, stole a medal and then ruined the celebration. These are the hallmarks of a fricking 4 year old at someone else's birthday party!

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The CIA reveals more of its connections to Lee Harvey Oswald (www.washingtonpost.com)
submitted 1 day ago by hellfire103@lemmy.ca to c/nottheonion@lemmy.world
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Experiment finds yoghurt can lower house temperature (www.bbc.com)
submitted 2 days ago by hellfire103@lemmy.ca to c/nottheonion@lemmy.world
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/32945598

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Metallica copyright strikes U.S. government (www.dexerto.com)
submitted 2 days ago by hellfire103@lemmy.ca to c/nottheonion@lemmy.world
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Musk’s latest Grok chatbot searches for billionaire mogul’s views before answering questions (apnews.com)
submitted 3 days ago by cypherpunks@lemmy.ml to c/nottheonion@lemmy.world
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Risotto rice under threat from flamingos in north-eastern Italy | Farming | The Guardian (www.theguardian.com)
submitted 2 days ago by pastermil@sh.itjust.works to c/nottheonion@lemmy.world
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Kash Patel Is Polygraphing FBI Staff to Find Out if They’re Being Mean About Him (www.thedailybeast.com)
submitted 4 days ago by empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/nottheonion@lemmy.world
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/32819644

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Chimps develop fashion trend by shoving grass in their ears — and in their butts (www.livescience.com)
submitted 4 days ago by dantheclamman@lemmy.world to c/nottheonion@lemmy.world
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Man Afraid to Ride Subway Named Head of NASA (www.rollingstone.com)
submitted 4 days ago by return2ozma@lemmy.world to c/nottheonion@lemmy.world
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Elon Musk Promises Grok in Tesla Vehicles By Next Week… as the New Grok 4 Blames “Anti-White Hate” on “Jews” (fuelarc.com)
submitted 5 days ago by KayLeadfoot@fedia.io to c/nottheonion@lemmy.world
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Not even a single full day into operation, and the new Grok 4 is hurling racist conspiracy theories at users.

According to Elon Musk, no later than next week, it will be added to Tesla vehicles.

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Newsmax's Greg Kelly: "Maybe Epstein is a patriot, for crying out loud. Maybe he was just doing what he was told, and it had nothing to do with the girls." (www.mediamatters.org)
submitted 5 days ago by Pro@reddthat.com to c/nottheonion@lemmy.world
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Ex-Superman Dean Cain Says James Gunn Made a ‘Mistake’ Calling Superman an ‘Immigrant’ and ‘It’s Going to Hurt’ the Box Office: ‘How Woke Is Hollywood Going to Make This Character?’ (variety.com)
submitted 5 days ago by TheImpressiveX to c/nottheonion@lemmy.world
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Trump Congratulates Leader of English-Speaking Country for His Good English (www.thedailybeast.com)
submitted 6 days ago by threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works to c/nottheonion@lemmy.world
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Donald Trump has praised the president of Liberia for speaking “such good English,” seemingly unaware that Liberia’s official language is, in fact, English.

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Trump Taps Hooters-Obsessed MAGA Diehard to Be an Ambassador (www.rollingstone.com)
submitted 5 days ago by Midnight@slrpnk.net to c/nottheonion@lemmy.world
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