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Offbeat Fridays – The thread where offbeat headlines become front page news
Tildes is a very serious site, where we discuss very serious matters like bubbles.ai, transgender and world economic forum. Tags culled from the highest voted topics from the last seven days, if anyone was befuddled.
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!
Rock on: Beloved missing rock from Squamish, B.C., found miles away — in California
Kazakh court jails 3 Belgian football fans who dressed up as Borat
Politico – Ferdinand Knapp – 22nd January 2026
Mystery Prototaxites tower fossils may represent a newly discovered kind of life | Scientific American
First please click and see what a Prototaxite looks like. Then come back and read my highly selective quoting.
Idk about that Matthew. I feel like people are willing to try.
Who said anything about shoving it in?!
Gently!
Aren't we all?
Carbo loading, Cooper, and a lot of patience.