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A photo of a small fluffy white dog wearing a party hat, with a seriously baked expression. Around its eyes is slightly pink and it has a very satisfied smile. That dog knows what it ate.
“This is an outlandish idea, but I think it’s actually feasible,” he said. “We’ve got to build a giant wall across the channel. This isn’t being talked about much. “I think if you consider that we spent £1bn now for six years trying to deter small boat crossings … We could build a floating wall, that’s mined, across the channel. “Now, that might sound ridiculous and it might even look ridiculous, but if it stops channel boat crossings …” The Dover Strait, the narrowest part of the channel, is the busiest shipping lane in the world.
Photo of a newspaper article about a medieval coffee shop, including quotes from experts such as "Macky Arto" and "Barry Starr". The whole thing is peppered with coffee puns.
A man wearing a black tshirt which says in white text "Ride the D". The letter D is surrounded by a magenta circle, which is the logo for the metro line in question. The man is smirking in a way that suggests he knows what they did there.
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Screenshot of the online version of OP's headline and first paragraph of the article, on the Washington Post's website, dated November 26, 2016.
Screenshot of a table from Wikipedia: Nation World News is listed next to some additional detail that the site was "Accused of plagiarism from 404 Media"
The 3D printed shrek buddha being held by someone, with the caption "WOMAN SPENT FOUR YEARS ACCIDENTALLY PRAYING TO SHREK WHICH SHE THOUGHT WAS "BUDDHA"." At the bottom of the image is a watermark logo for 'COMEDYSLAM'
Screenshot of Google Reverse Image Search listing five examples from 2 years ago of the same image of a hand holding a 3D-printed green shrek buddha figurine, with a white and purple text caption about a filipino woman worshipping the buddha statue for 4 years without realising it's Shrek.
The keen gardener said he was terrified when the armed officers, who did not draw their weapons, arrived outside his home on 3 July. He said the officers were shouting at him to "drop the knife". "I said I didn't have a knife and they told me to drop the knife again," he said. "So I dropped my Japanese hand gardening sickle and a handful of privet that I just cut off the hedge."
The WHAT meme
A ClearChannel advertising screen in the street, showing an X-ray image of a horse skeleton with a long horn. The headline reads "BREAKING NEWS: UNICORN SKELETON DISCOVERED"
An AI generated picture of someone in a pikachu outfit surrounded by police and protesters. Pikachu appears to be floating a few inches from the ground. On either side of the image, two fire engines are spraying water into the air, which is a very ineffective use of water cannon! Over the top in red handwriting is "AI GEN".
A screenshot of an Ecosia search for "Retford duck middle of road". The top two results are facebook posts about ducklings blocking roads in Retford.
A meme in two panels featuring a dog sat at a cartoon computer. Top: the dog looks at the screen and says "Let's see what's happening in the news" Bottom: the dog looks at the viewer with a concerned look, saying "Good Lord"
A screenshot from the FT article: Virgin Money's AI-powered chatbot has reprimanded a customer who used the word "virgin", underlining the pitfalls of rolling out external artificial intelligence tools. In a post last week on social media site LinkedIn, David Birch, a fintech commentator and Virgin Money customer, shared a picture of his online conversation with the bank in which he asked: "I have two ISAs with Virgin Money, how do I merge them?" The bank's customer service tool responded: "Please don't use words like that. I won't be able to continue our chat if you use this language", suggesting it deemed the word "virgin" inappropriate.
Screenshot of a Financial Times headline: Virgin Money chatbot scolds customer who typed 'virgin'
A screenshot of a Twitter / X post from San Miguel Sheriff dated 27 Jan 2020. It shows a picture of a snow-covered road in the USA with a boulder blocking it. The caption reads: "Large boulder the size of a small boulder is completely blocking east-bound lane Highway 145 mm78 at Silverpick Road. Please use caution and watch for emergency vehicles in the area."
A screenshot exerpt from the article: "The case echoes a similar incident in Oregon in October 2024, when police discovered a bag with the same "Definitely Not A Bag Full Of Drugs" note during a traffic stop that uncovered fentanyl, methamphetamine, cash, and a loaded revolver."
Dog on a computer meme. In the top panel it looks at the screen and is captioned "let's see what's happening in the news". In the bottom panel it looks at the viewer looking concerned, with the caption "Good Lord"
A screenshot of an obvious bot account, apparently belonging to 18-year-old anime, tea, and cuddle enthusiast "Eve [bunny emoji] Free OnlyFans". Her bio states states "Find me [arrow emoji] INSERT LINK", suggesting something went wrong when the account was opened and they forgot to add the scammy link.
A screenshot from the article, which reads "The mishap only came to light when the military was called to ask when they would collect their mines from an IKEA warehouse."
A screenshot of the opening sentence of the article, which reads: "In the heart of Surrey, England, archaeologists uncovered a shaft that seemed to be more than a mere remnant of Roman occupation."
A newspaper cutting displaying the headline "China may be using sea to hide its submarines"
An extract from the article: "She claimed that she had forgotten it was in her bag, after telling customs officers that she did not have any prohibited items with her. But police later discovered she had searched online for an answer to the question: “Can I have a gun in my suitcase?” and set a calendar reminder to herself to “put gun in suitcase”."
A screenshot from the article, which reads: There are bears at Lake Arrowhead and in the San Bernardino Mountains, which is a forested range about 60 miles northeast of Los Angeles, but they don’t wear costumes.