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1. Sweden's Armand Duplantis broke his own pole vault world record for the fifteenth time on Thursday with a jump of 6.31 metres

   ~sports Article 98 words

   7 votes

2. Rasmus Dahlin hasn't just improved his own game, he has dragged the entire team and altered the trajectory of the Buffalo Sabres franchise

   ~sports.hockey Video 11:46

   2 votes

3. Comment on Offbeat Fridays – The thread where offbeat headlines become front page news in ~news

   mycketforvirrad (OP)

   16 hours, 51 minutes ago

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   Coin used as bus fare was 2,000‑year‑old currency BBC News – Alex Moss – 8th March 2026

   Coin used as bus fare was 2,000‑year‑old currency

   A coin once used to pay a bus fare in Leeds was created by an ancient civilisation more than 2,000 years ago, researchers have confirmed.

   The rare currency came into the hands of James Edwards in the 1950s, when during his job as a chief cashier for Leeds Transport Company, he would gather fares from bus and tram drivers.

   BBC News – Alex Moss – 8th March 2026

   3 votes

4. Offbeat Fridays – The thread where offbeat headlines become front page news

   ~news Ask

   Tildes is a very serious site, where we discuss very serious matters like global warming, ig nobels.2026 and esoteric ebb. Tags culled from the highest voted topics from the last seven days, if...

   Tildes is a very serious site, where we discuss very serious matters like global warming, ig nobels.2026 and esoteric ebb. Tags culled from the highest voted topics from the last seven days, if anyone was curious.

   But one of my favourite tags happens to be offbeat! Taking its original inspiration from Sir Nils Olav III, this thread is looking for any far-fetched offbeat stories lurking in the newspapers. It may not deserve its own post, but it deserves a wider audience!

   6 votes

5. Cargo Hunters | Official Early Access launch trailer

   ~games Video 1:38,  published Mar 9 2026

   5 votes

6. René Redzepi, the head chef and co-founder of Noma, announced he was resigning from his internationally acclaimed Copenhagen restaurant following allegations that he had physically abused his staff

   ~food

   • restaurants

   Article 351 words

   25 votes

7. FK Bodø/Glimt's fairytale Champions League run continued as Sporting CP were swept aside in the first leg of their last-sixteen tie in Norway

   ~sports.football Article 44 words

   6 votes

8. English language music is losing its stranglehold on the charts – sixteen different languages appeared in Spotify's Global Top 50 last year, more than double the figure from 2020

   ~music Article 144 words

   24 votes

9. Gluttony – Eulogy To Blasphemy (2026)

   ~music

   • metal.death

   Video 4:56,  published Feb 27 2026

   3 votes

10. Midweek Movie Free Talk

    ~movies

    • spoiler

    Ask

    Warning: this post may contain spoilers

    Have you watched any movies recently you want to discuss? Any films you want to recommend or are hyped about? Feel free to discuss anything here.

    Please just try to provide fair warning of spoilers if you can.

    5 votes

11. Researchers in Copenhagen are actively monitoring bat activity and traffic conditions along a road to evaluate how red-spectrum LEDs from street lights affect local wildlife

    ~enviro

    • pollution.light

    Article 423 words,  published Mar 2 2026

    10 votes

12. Finns Teemu and Jatta were crowned champions at the 2026 UK Wife Carrying Race in Dorking, Surrey – won a barrel of beer in Sunday's race

    ~sports Article

    6 votes

13. Overnight explosion at the US embassy in Oslo may have been an act of terrorism, Norway's police have said

    ~society

    • politics.usa

    Article

    9 votes

14. Comment on Why do AI company logos look like buttholes? in ~design

    mycketforvirrad

    5 days, 3 hours ago

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    Previous discussions can be found here.

    Previous discussions can be found here.

    7 votes

15. It's only March, but I'm calling it – Esoteric Ebb is 2026's best RPG and the first worthy successor to Disco Elysium

    ~games

    • spoiler

    Article published Mar 3 2026

    44 votes

16. Felicia – My System (2026)

    ~music

    • pop

    Video 3:16

    5 votes

17. Black Oak County – Kill The Pain (2026)

    ~music

    • rock.hard

    Video 3:35,  published Feb 13 2026

    4 votes

18. Norwegian influencer buys failed property development in Spain to build ‘self-sufficient’ eco-community – Modern Eco Village plans to erect 500 homes, schools and shops

    ~design

    • urban planning
    • architecture

    Article 1840 words,  published Mar 2 2026

    22 votes

19. Finland plans to lift its long-standing ban on having nuclear weapons on its territory – would align the country more closely with NATO's deterrence policy

    ~society

    • politics

    Article

    9 votes

20. Comment on Offbeat Fridays – The thread where offbeat headlines become front page news in ~news

    mycketforvirrad (OP)

    March 6

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    Injured seabird desperately pecks at hospital door for help Associated Press – 16th February 2026

    Injured seabird desperately pecks at hospital door for help

    An injured seabird sought help by pecking at the door of an emergency room at a hospital in Germany until medical staff noticed it and called firefighters to help with its rescue.

    The cormorant, a shiny black waterbird, had a triple fishing hook stuck in its beak when it made its presence known at the glass door of the Klinikum Links der Weser hospital in the northern city of Bremen on Sunday.

    Associated Press – 16th February 2026

    9 votes