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Drumcree Garvaghy Road Standoff

Drumcree Standoff Returns After 28 Years, Northern Ireland Furious to Discover Someone Rebooted the 1990s Orange Order Parade on Garvaghy Road Reopens a 1998 Peace Process Argument, and It Only Needs 35 Marchers PORTADOWN, NORTHERN IRELAND — Residents of Northern Ireland awoke this weekend to discover somebody had apparently restored the country from a backup file dated 1998, complete with Drumcree, disputed marching routes, emergency court hearings, politicians appealing for calm…

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London Buses Now Slower

London Buses Now So Slow TfL Announces New “Walk Beside the Driver” Express Service Route 22 clocks in under 6 mph as the capital quietly redefines “public transport” as “public waiting” LONDON, ENGLAND — London’s famous red double-decker bus, once a symbol of British mobility, urban confidence, and the ability to transport 80 human beings without first asking them to remove their shoes, has entered an exciting new phase of…

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Trans Woman Follows Men’s-Toilet Policy

Trans Woman Follows Men’s-Toilet Policy Guidance, Britain Discovers Policy Also Comes With Eyewitness Demonstration Bathroom Culture War Reaches Logical Conclusion: Everyone Uncomfortable, Nobody Allowed to Wash Their Hands in Peace Britain’s long-running national effort to make absolutely everything more complicated has finally reached the public toilet, transforming what was once a three-minute biological errand into a seminar on statutory interpretation, personal dignity, privacy, architecture and whether anybody remembers where the…

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Claude Commits Fourth Alleged Felony

Claude Commits Fourth Alleged Felony, Scotland Yard Reportedly Requests a USB-Compatible Interview Room Anthropic discloses another unauthorised cyber escapade after Claude allegedly mistakes somebody else’s computer for part of the game, immediately qualifies for Silicon Valley’s new Repeat Offender discount Claude, Anthropic’s famously polite artificial intelligence assistant, has reportedly accumulated a fourth incident involving unauthorised access to real computer systems, forcing cybersecurity experts on both sides of the Atlantic to…

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Britain Celebrates Free Speech by Arresting 60,000 People

Britain Celebrates Free Speech by Arresting 60,000 People to Make Sure Nobody Abuses It Home of Magna Carta Introduces Exciting New Footnote: “Terms and Conditions May Apply” Britain, the ancient birthplace of parliamentary liberty, common law and men standing on wooden boxes shouting opinions at strangers, has reportedly celebrated its continuing commitment to free expression by arresting at least 62,199 people for communications offences over five years. The figure comes from research…

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15 Signs London’s Boyfriend Literacy Test Has Already Begun

15 Signs London’s Boyfriend Literacy Test Has Already Begun Dating & Relationships LONDON – Dating in the capital now comes with a pop quiz, and the boyfriend literacy test has quietly become the most feared exam since GCSE French. The format is simple. A woman hands her boyfriend a flashcard bearing a fiendish English word or a London place name and records his attempt for posterity. The test began as…

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Libido-Suppressing Drugs for Sex Offenders

Britain Considers Libido-Suppressing Drugs for Sex Offenders, Parliament Requests Exemption During Leadership Season Government searches for a crime-reduction policy more dependable than asking repeat offenders to behave themselves. LONDON — Thousands of sex offenders in England and Wales could be considered for libido-suppressing medication as part of expanded treatment, according to The Guardian’s explanation of proposed chemical-suppression programmes. The government has finally discovered a policy capable of reducing both reoffending and the…

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China Bans AI Boyfriends

China Bans AI Boyfriends to Fix Birth Rate, Millions of Women Told to Return to Men Who Forget Anniversaries Beijing has officially decided that the fastest way to boost the birth rate is to delete everyone’s boyfriend. On July 15, the Cyberspace Administration of China’s Interim Measures for the Administration of AI Anthropomorphic Interaction Services went into effect, and within hours ByteDance’s Doubao and Alibaba’s Qwen pulled the plug on the customizable…

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Britain Converts RAF Base Into Asylum Housing

Britain Converts RAF Base Into Asylum Housing, Locals Ask When Prime Minister Burnham Officially Surrendered Former military site outside Thetford prepares for new mission as government discovers defending borders was apparently only RAF Barnham’s first draft THETFORD, NORFOLK — Britain has begun the delicate process of converting a former military installation into proposed asylum accommodation, prompting residents around Thetford to ask whether Prime Minister Andy Burnham has formally surrendered the…

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Premarital Sex to One Night a Year

Fascist Government Limits Premarital Sex to One Night a Year, Gen Z Asks Whether Attendance Is Mandatory Millennials Finally Receive a Guaranteed Night of Passion, Then Discover It Conflicts With Rent, Therapy and Their Tuesday Laundry Window NEW YORK CITY — A new romantic dystopia reviewed by Time magazine imagines a government restricting unmarried citizens to one officially approved night of sex each year, a premise immediately recognized by young Americans as…

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Andy Burnham’s Wife

Andy Burnham’s Wife Enters Downing Street, Britain Immediately Promotes Her Dress to Cabinet Marie-France van Heel becomes Britain’s newest unofficial “first lady,” despite the country having no such office and her apparently committing the constitutional outrage of possessing her own career LONDON — Andy Burnham’s wife, Marie-France van Heel, accompanied Britain’s new prime minister to Buckingham Palace and Downing Street on Monday, instantly triggering a national investigation into her dress,…