Mastodawn

Welcome to 2026. Your average morning headlines:
- That TV show you love is cancelled
- That celebrity you like is, unfortunately, a transphobe
- Record storm and/or heatwave somewhere in the world
- Computers are worse & more costly than even one day before
- Cat photos tho

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Ken McLeod 21h ago

@vampiress You forgot:
- Insects jeopardize your life

A few days ago in the US, it was an outbreak of screwworms. Yesterday it was lone star ticks. Today, 24 million bees were accidentally released into a neighborhood. That is a lot of bees.

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Third spruce tree on the left 21h ago

@_the_cloud @vampiress

Not the bees!

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🇺🇦 haxadecimal 🚫👑

@tezoatlipoca @_the_cloud @vampiress
Well, Mr. President, it's the bees and spiders again... they stole my food stamps and sold 'em to the rats! I try to go down to my car fo' to honk the horn fo' hep but the snakes has gotten it for the cockaroaches. I go back upstairs but the spiders has jammed the police lock! I ain't been inside fo' a week, and I know dat my wife is sleepin' with the bees!
– Firesign Theatre, _I Think We're All Bozos on This Bus_